A dedicated follower of strife

[BADGE OF HONOR]

Yes, we all know you're just waiting for the anarchy.

[Pope Lecherous]

Yes, we all know you're just waiting for the anarchy.

The collapse will come whether we want it or not.  It won't result in anarchy, just a lot of people suffering.  I don't really wanna see that.  I do however want to see the people eat the powerful alive

[BADGE OF HONOR]

The powerful are going to stay powerful no matter the state of the civilization.

[Pope Lecherous]

The powerful are going to stay powerful no matter the state of the civilization.

Well aren't they lucky!?  It's probably convenient for them that you believe that too.

[Thurnez Isa]

Are saying because the housing bubble burst the collapse of civilization is at hand?

[Cain]

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/26793903/the_big_takeover/print

The global economic crisis isn't about money - it's about power. How Wall Street insiders are using the bailout to stage a revolution

The reality is that the worldwide economic meltdown and the bailout that followed were together a kind of revolution, a coup d'état. They cemented and formalized a political trend that has been snowballing for decades: the gradual takeover of the government by a small class of connected insiders, who used money to control elections, buy influence and systematically weaken financial regulations.

The crisis was the coup de grâce: Given virtually free rein over the economy, these same insiders first wrecked the financial world, then cunningly granted themselves nearly unlimited emergency powers to clean up their own mess. And so the gambling-addict leaders of companies like AIG end up not penniless and in jail, but with an Alien-style death grip on the Treasury and the Federal Reserve — "our partners in the government," as Liddy put it with a shockingly casual matter-of-factness after the most recent bailout.

The mistake most people make in looking at the financial crisis is thinking of it in terms of money, a habit that might lead you to look at the unfolding mess as a huge bonus-killing downer for the Wall Street class. But if you look at it in purely Machiavellian terms, what you see is a colossal power grab that threatens to turn the federal government into a kind of giant Enron — a huge, impenetrable black box filled with self-dealing insiders whose scheme is the securing of individual profits at the expense of an ocean of unwitting involuntary shareholders, previously known as taxpayers.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

The powerful are going to stay powerful no matter the state of the civilization.

Um, yeah.  Let 'em eat cake.  Or words to that effect.

[P3nT4gR4m]

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/26793903/the_big_takeover/print

The global economic crisis isn't about money - it's about power. How Wall Street insiders are using the bailout to stage a revolution

The reality is that the worldwide economic meltdown and the bailout that followed were together a kind of revolution, a coup d'état. They cemented and formalized a political trend that has been snowballing for decades: the gradual takeover of the government by a small class of connected insiders, who used money to control elections, buy influence and systematically weaken financial regulations.

The crisis was the coup de grâce: Given virtually free rein over the economy, these same insiders first wrecked the financial world, then cunningly granted themselves nearly unlimited emergency powers to clean up their own mess. And so the gambling-addict leaders of companies like AIG end up not penniless and in jail, but with an Alien-style death grip on the Treasury and the Federal Reserve — "our partners in the government," as Liddy put it with a shockingly casual matter-of-factness after the most recent bailout.

The mistake most people make in looking at the financial crisis is thinking of it in terms of money, a habit that might lead you to look at the unfolding mess as a huge bonus-killing downer for the Wall Street class. But if you look at it in purely Machiavellian terms, what you see is a colossal power grab that threatens to turn the federal government into a kind of giant Enron — a huge, impenetrable black box filled with self-dealing insiders whose scheme is the securing of individual profits at the expense of an ocean of unwitting involuntary shareholders, previously known as taxpayers.

Thus highlighting the terminal flaw in the concept of capitalism. - everything can (and will) be sold and bought. This includes people, government, rights, laws .. the whole shooting match.

Eventually ending with Capitalism's only logical conclusion - One person/group will end up owning the fucking lot. All the food, all the humans, all the goods and resources, all the armies and weapons.

Globalisation is only the first step, trust me, it'll get worse after that's been implemented.

Apparently I'm the only one who saw this shit coming the very first time I heard about the concept of money. Yay me!

[Cramulus]

one day p3nt is going to be sitting on a pile of wreckage, smoking a J and saying "I called it!"



Cain, thanks for posting something that absolutely chilled my blood. Your sense of horror is impeccable. You should write for Goosebumps.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/26793903/the_big_takeover/print

The global economic crisis isn't about money - it's about power. How Wall Street insiders are using the bailout to stage a revolution

The reality is that the worldwide economic meltdown and the bailout that followed were together a kind of revolution, a coup d'état. They cemented and formalized a political trend that has been snowballing for decades: the gradual takeover of the government by a small class of connected insiders, who used money to control elections, buy influence and systematically weaken financial regulations.

The crisis was the coup de grâce: Given virtually free rein over the economy, these same insiders first wrecked the financial world, then cunningly granted themselves nearly unlimited emergency powers to clean up their own mess. And so the gambling-addict leaders of companies like AIG end up not penniless and in jail, but with an Alien-style death grip on the Treasury and the Federal Reserve — "our partners in the government," as Liddy put it with a shockingly casual matter-of-factness after the most recent bailout.

The mistake most people make in looking at the financial crisis is thinking of it in terms of money, a habit that might lead you to look at the unfolding mess as a huge bonus-killing downer for the Wall Street class. But if you look at it in purely Machiavellian terms, what you see is a colossal power grab that threatens to turn the federal government into a kind of giant Enron — a huge, impenetrable black box filled with self-dealing insiders whose scheme is the securing of individual profits at the expense of an ocean of unwitting involuntary shareholders, previously known as taxpayers.

Whoomp, there it is.