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In reply to the discussion: Making a Killing [View all]woo me with science
(32,139 posts)3. The history of our country and its political decisions
is to a large extent the history of our banks, our wealthy oligarchy, and their financial interests...
...yet our history books completely ignore this fundamental driving force of American policy. We are taught every motive for our wars except the financial ones. Any awareness of the role of money in policy, and the real power structure in our country, is completely omitted from what we teach our children.
No wonder we remain at the mercy of the one percent.
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The fascists won. Looking through history, as the Monarchies fell they were replaced
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2013
#2
1980. Why do we never listen until it's too late. Every single problem in America today was
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2013
#35
There was an attempt to re-introduce eugenics in the 1990s with The Bell Curve....
LongTomH
Feb 2013
#34
it is reality, and it also highlights how powerless a President like Obama can be
pasto76
Feb 2013
#8
'to suggest that 9/11 involved anything more than a bunch of cave dwellers,...
zappaman
Feb 2013
#12
George W Bush ignored CIA warnings: 'bin Laden determined to strike in the U.S.'
Octafish
Feb 2013
#18
What do you think? I'd guess one important point would be to keep the plot secret.
Octafish
Feb 2013
#33
How can anyone disagree? A handful of "cave dwellers" managed to defeat the
rhett o rick
Feb 2013
#28
No wonder all the Fox News people make 1,000,000,000,000 references to the Nazis...
Initech
Feb 2013
#26