04-02-2011, 10:50 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-02-2011, 11:10 AM by Peter Lemkin.)
David Guyatt Wrote:THis is, obviously, why greedy, viscous people always end up in power the world over.
Political power is a constantly paying multi-armed bandit machine.
I'd be hard put spending one billion - even if I spent most of it on charity. 70 Billion!...and those are likely 'liquid' assets....imagine the land and homes and other hidden assets....we're talking 'real' money! Hey Hosni, can you spare a mil?
Being an American stooge surrogate Dictator certainly does have its financial perks!....from Noreiga, to the Shah, to Pinochet, to Mubarrak, to Duvalier, to Marcos, and on and on...it is a license to steal. [and a get out of jail free card for crimes - even mass murder - unless you outlive your usefullness.......or doublecross the godfathers in DC, NY and London.]
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass