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Wed Jun 3, 2015, 09:05 PM Jun 2015

Just Say NO to Military Industrial Empire! | Philip A. Farruggio



Philip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust

May 23, 2015

Interesting how this empire of ours operates through its embedded and controlled mainstream media.

This is why so many of us go to the internet to get our news, even though a portion of it is not vetted and sometimes questionable. What choice do we have when the mainstream is so full of ****? Here's an example of hypocrisy in reporting by our empire's corporate-run news: The Thursday May 21st USA Today Money Section ran a "puff" piece entitled "New PayPal CEO gets his hands dirty."

The story then went on to report (huh?) "... while running Virgin Mobile, Dan Schulman, 57, hit the streets of New York without a penny to his name to better understand the plight of homeless teens the company was trying to help."

One wonders if Schulman, who the Wall Street Journal reported earned over 40 million dollars from the split of Pay Pal from E-Bay, ever gave a sizeable portion of that "found money" to some of the homeless teens and their families that he ran across. After all, Schulman was homeless for gee whiz one whole day!? Imagine the nerve of not only Schulman but a paper like USA Today to laud such a joke!? To add insult to injury the article goes on to report: "As head of American Express (how much did he learn while there one wonders?) he spent a day trying to cash checks without the benefit of his true financial background."

I kid you not -- this is what they had the gall to write about: A mega millionaire who "slums it" for 24 hours or even less! I will bet that so-called "rich liberals" like Schulman will be standing in line to fork over cash for Hillary 2016 just as the phony so-called "conservatives"' like the Koch brothers and their right-wing compatriots will do the same for the Republicans 2016. Either way, the corporate Fat Cats win and we serfs lose!

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