[11th_VA]

Oh, very nice. King, eh! I expect you've got a palace and fine clothes and courtiers and plenty of food. And how d'you get that? By exploiting the workers? By hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the social and economic differences in our society! We're living in a dictatorship, A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes ...

[Bryanw92]

>>set out in his 1976 graduate thesis

>>Power was centralised in the hands of increasingly specialised ‘elites’ and ‘experts’

I hate to break the news to this guy, but he’s one of those “elite experts” he hates so much.

[Prospero]

Oh. There’s some lovely filth over here!

[saleman]

Although I didn’t read every single word.....he sounds like a commie to me.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Bookmarked.

[lucky american]

From just reading the excerpt I think he believes the same as most of us.Its true that the political elites now run everything and there are a lot of evil big businesses in collusion with those politicians. We have the same goal as the author but the method and outcomes are not the same.

[70times7]

You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship.

Listen -- strange women wearing grimy pants suits distributing lies is no basis for a system of government.

[sphinx]

For example, and as calculated by my colleague JZ Liszkiewicz, a white cotton T-shirt contains roughly 570 gallons of water, 11 to 29 gallons of fuel, and a number of toxins and emissions including pesticides, diesel exhaust, and heavy metals and other volatile compounds – it also generally includes child labor. Accounting for those costs and their real social, human and environmental impacts has totally different implications for how we should organise production and consumption than current predatory capitalism."

I can get a four-pack of tishirts at Target for $19.99, and probably less somewhere else if I looked around a bit. Not bad for something that this bird says takes 570 gallons of water and 11 to 29 gallons of fuel.

I'm grasping for the term for the type of lunacy this piece embodies. Bits and pieces of insight, provocative theories, some truth, some fiction, all wrapped up in a delusional architecture.

[stinkerpot65]

Steele also runs a blog Public Intelligence which promotes theories that the government conspired to fake the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, [3] and that the September 11 attacks were a false flag event staged by the Bush Administration.

Major kook.

[defconw]

Bump for later.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Oligarchy.

It's not just a good idea...

It's the Law!

[buffaloguy]

This guy may be working for the nsa. Open source refers to your life and communications which will be used in pattern analysis.

Their predictions of future actions may carry more weight than your current actions.

This would not be pleasant, to say the least.