Reply #53: welcome to DU.. but you forgot the Corporatist Fascist Clepto-Plutocratic Oligarchy that signs their

[sam sarrha]

pay check.. the Bu$h's are just Mafia Soldiers. W was never in the least in charge, Who would put a wet brain alcoholic psychotic narcissist Loser with an IQ of 90 in charge of anything more dangerous than a wet mop..?? i think all he did in the oval office was play video games. Laura when asked if W was religious,..she replied, "yes, he's very religious. when hes playing video games i always hear him yelling, Oh God." When W was a child he organized the local children into expeditions to catch frogs. he then put fire crackers up their butts, lit the fuse and threw them up in the air. not unlike what he did to our troops in that needless war for Profit in Iraq.. so he might have had something to do with that at least for purely psychotic reasons.

http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
"SNIP...The Wealth Distribution
In the United States, wealth is highly concentrated in a relatively few hands. As of 2007, the top 1% of households (the upper class) owned 34.6% of all privately held wealth, and the next 19% (the managerial, professional, and small business stratum) had 50.5%, which means that just 20% of the people owned a remarkable 85%, leaving only 15% of the wealth for the bottom 80% (wage and salary workers). In terms of financial wealth (total net worth minus the value of one's home), the top 1% of households had an even greater share: 42.7%. Table 1 and Figure 1 present further details drawn from the careful work of economist Edward N. Wolff at New York University (2009)....SNIP"

In terms of financial wealth, the bottom 80% only have 7% of the total wealth in this country, and i hear 74% of the personal debt.


http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14839
The National Intelligence Council report, Global Trends 2025, stated that many governments will be “expanding domestic security forces, surveillance capabilities, and the employment of special operations-type forces.” Counterterrorism measures will increasingly “involve urban operations as a result of greater urbanization,” and governments “may increasingly erect barricades and fences around their territories to inhibit access. Gated communities will continue to spring up within many societies as elites seek to insulate themselves from domestic threats.”<1> Essentially, expect a continued move towards and internationalization of domestic police state measures to control populations.


The nature of totalitarianism is such that it is, “by nature (or rather by definition), a global project that cannot be fully accomplished in just one community or one country. Being fuelled by the need to suppress any alternative orders and ideas, it has no natural limits and is bound to aim at totally dominating everything and everyone.” David Lyon explained in Theorizing Surveillance, that, “The ultimate feature of the totalitarian domination is the absence of exit, which can be achieved temporarily by closing borders, but permanently only by a truly global reach that would render the very notion of exit meaningless. This in itself justifies questions about the totalitarian potential of globalization.” The author raises the important question, “Is abolition of borders intrinsically (morally) good, because they symbolize barriers that needlessly separate and exclude people, or are they potential lines of resistance, refuge and difference that may save us from the totalitarian abyss?” Further, “if globalization undermines the tested, state-based models of democracy, the world may be vulnerable to a global totalitarian etatization.”<2>




http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/jul2007/weal-j12.shtml
"SNIP...The cultivation of a minute layer of ultra-wealthy in these countries indicates, however, a certain limited redistribution of power within the global economy as industrial activity increasingly takes places outside the traditional imperialist powers, under cheap-labor conditions. Along these lines, the British Guardian announced on July 3 that Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim Helú recently overtook Microsoft founder Bill Gates to become the world’s richest man. As Helú’s massive Mexican telecom stock holdings surged forward in value, his fortune grew to an estimated $67.8 billion, surpassing Bill Gates’s $59.2 billion fortune largely built on Microsoft stock."