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The Demise of the American Empire
We The people are nothing but pawns to the elites who manipulate the whole system and call it the will of the people!
serf
https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/culture-news/292763/angelo-codevilla
Apple and Bill Gates have secured their money, not so much by relocating, but by having become the biggest lobbyists in the country. That is the source of their financial security.
The point of the ruling class is precisely the confusion of public and private power. This is, in fact, this is becoming in fact a corporate state. Which by the way was pioneered by one of my former countrymen by the name of Benito.
So, when you?re talking about the ruling class, you?re positing a continuum between the Silicon Valley oligarchs with their hundred-billion-dollar fortunes and these public employee and NGO types.
I am indeed. That is the meaning of the word party. The Democratic Party is in fact composed of the very people that you are talking about
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There?s always danger inherent in secrecy. And you know secrecy of course is central to intelligence operations. Secrecy most often is used not for the good of the operation, but to safeguard the reputations of those who are running the operations.
The agencies, like all bureaucracies, have always tried to aggrandize themselves, build their reputations, in order to make and spend more money. Get more high-ranking positions. Get more post-retirement positions for their people in the industries that support them. They?ve done exactly what bureaucrats in other agencies have done, neither more nor less.
But the business they?re in, which involves surveillance, is uniquely dangerous, because surveillance is inherently a political weapon. Inherently so. And there is never any lack of appetite for increasing the power of surveillance, and for increasing the reach of surveillance.
serf
https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/culture-news/292763/angelo-codevilla
Apple and Bill Gates have secured their money, not so much by relocating, but by having become the biggest lobbyists in the country. That is the source of their financial security.
The point of the ruling class is precisely the confusion of public and private power. This is, in fact, this is becoming in fact a corporate state. Which by the way was pioneered by one of my former countrymen by the name of Benito.
So, when you?re talking about the ruling class, you?re positing a continuum between the Silicon Valley oligarchs with their hundred-billion-dollar fortunes and these public employee and NGO types.
I am indeed. That is the meaning of the word party. The Democratic Party is in fact composed of the very people that you are talking about
****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
There?s always danger inherent in secrecy. And you know secrecy of course is central to intelligence operations. Secrecy most often is used not for the good of the operation, but to safeguard the reputations of those who are running the operations.
The agencies, like all bureaucracies, have always tried to aggrandize themselves, build their reputations, in order to make and spend more money. Get more high-ranking positions. Get more post-retirement positions for their people in the industries that support them. They?ve done exactly what bureaucrats in other agencies have done, neither more nor less.
But the business they?re in, which involves surveillance, is uniquely dangerous, because surveillance is inherently a political weapon. Inherently so. And there is never any lack of appetite for increasing the power of surveillance, and for increasing the reach of surveillance.