The unflinching support for the EU and its institutions is not about preventing European countries from becoming “Afghanistan.” Not about preventing collapse. Not about the inconvenience of long lines at passport control. It is about promoting an ideology, a specific worldview, a vision for the way the world should work.
When black and brown people are over-policed and arrested and accused of crimes at higher rates than others, and then forced to pay for their freedom before they ever see trial, big bail companies prosper. This pre-incarceration conundrum is devastating to families. One in 9 black children has an incarcerated parent. Families are forced to take on more debt, often in predatory lending schemes created by bail bond insurers.
In Afghanistan, the opium market made a dramatic comeback immediately following the U.S. invasion in October 2001. Not only was the opium trade restored, it surged drastically – rising from a production level of 185 tons under the Taliban (before the production ban) to 3,400 tons in 2002.
This piece was published right before Macron’s win in the French 2017 presidential elections. It nevertheless presents some very interesting predictions for the future of France and the EU, by one of our economically liberal voices (« Liberal » here is used in its true sense, i.e, proponents of free-market policies against Statist control of the economy).
« The more aggressive the Americans are the sooner they will see the final collapse of the dollar as the only way for the victims of American aggression to stop this aggression is to get rid of the dollar. As soon as we and China are through with the dollar, it will be the end of the United States’ military might. »
“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality – judiciously, as you will – we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”– Karl Rove
Well… not quite.
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par Admin · Published 16 avril 2017 · Last modified 17 avril 2017
« The U.S. government spends more on wars (and military occupations) abroad every year than all 50 states combined spend on health, education, welfare, and safety. In fact, the U.S. spends more on its military than the eight highest-ranking nations with big defense budgets combined. The reach of America’s military empire includes close to 800 bases in as many as 160 countries, operated at a cost of more than $156 billion annually. »
« Vaccines are big business. Pharma is a trillion-dollar industry with vaccines accounting for $25 billion in annual sales. CDC’s decision to add a vaccine to the schedule can guarantee its manufacturer millions of customers and billions in revenue with minimal advertising or marketing costs and complete immunity from lawsuits. »
There is a legend according to which capitalism and slavery are mutually exclusive. It is only a legend. The truth is, the lower the wages, the higher the profits.
If Trump wants to « make America great again », the first thing he should do, even before repatriating outsourced jobs, is to eliminate free prison labor. That would yield masses of jobs, probably in the tens of thousands, for everyday Americans.
The disenchantment with European integration is already pervasive in the region. Eurosceptics not only challenge Brussels, they demonstrate their willingness to unite. A new alliance appears to be emerging inside the EU to undermine it, or even destroy it, from within. Other nations inspired by this example are likely to join, spurring the process that can hardly be stopped.
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Documentaire : 97% Owned - D’où viennent les crises économiques ?
Si vous avez décidé qu’une succession de crises dues au système financier existant n’est pas quelque chose que vous avez envie de vivre tout au long de votre vie, ce documentaire vous équipera du savoir nécessaire.
"L'outil de base pour manipuler la réalité est la manipulation des mots. Si vous pouvez contrôler la signification des mots, vous pouvez contrôler les gens qui emploient les mots" - Philip K. Dick
"Une idée fausse ne cesse pas d'être fausse parce qu'elle est à la mode." - G.K. Chesterton
"L'iniquité commise en ce monde ne produit pas ses fruits immédiatement, mais comme la terre, quand la saison en vient, en avançant peu à peu, elle éradique l'homme qui l'a commise... La justice, si elle est détruite, détruira ; préservée, préservera ; elle ne doit donc jamais être violée." - Lois de Manu, 1200 av. J.‑C
"Pour tous les problèmes complexes, il y a une solution simple.
Et elle est toujours fausse." - H. L. Mencken
"Un monde effrayant. La question suivante est... à partir de là, quelle direction devons-nous prendre ?" - Anonyme