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Earthwise on Christchurch Community Radio Plainsfm96.9 recently interviewed Chuck Collins, Director of the Program on Inequality and Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies, about his article :
The interview is available as a podcast. It reveals where power in America really lies, no matter who is President or who are in Congress.
(The ultra wealthy include Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg,…)
Lois Griffiths is a human rights activist.
100% correct Lois I couldn’t say it better.
“Money talks as truth walks” is the term for how power works in Governments around the world.
It’s the same the whole world over,
It’s the poor what gets the blame,
It’s the rich what gets the pleasure,
Isn’t it a blooming shame? (Fairly old traditional folk song)
Podcast is
https://plainsfm.org.nz/Programmes/Programme-Details.aspx?PID=6e214063-b869-45ca-8f4f-650d42b71034
America now has 4 centi-billionaires! Obscene!!
Yet America also has poverty, homelessness..people unable to access healthcare they need…a huge prison population…
I’m quoting from a journalist who says it better than me ,,, but I think a fair bit of what she writes also applies to NZ ,,, if we apply the rule of actions speak louder than ‘kind’ words ,,, although to be fair, our Labour party is not as bad as the democrats , who are to the right of our Nats,,,, for example the dems fight against public healthcare.
Catilin Johnston — “People are prevented from using the power of their numbers to force real change by a highly sophisticated domestic propaganda operation controlled by the media-owning plutocratic class and heavily influenced by sociopathic government agencies. As long as people are being successfully propagandized by mass media manipulation into accepting the status quo, they will never rise up and make it change.”
“The Democratic Party’s primary function is to kill all leftward movement in the United States to ensure Americans remain too poor and powerless to interfere in the operation of the empire.
The Democratic Party is what leftism would look like if you stripped it of every single thing that could possibly inconvenience plutocrats, intelligence agencies, or the military-industrial complex in any way.”