[robowombat]

Huge nations tend towards tyranny and imperialism. Smaller ones have more difficulty in those areas. The world saving activities of the US finally resulted in after 1945 in creating a real existential threat in the person of Stalin and his empire. Having a national policy of MYOB would have been much better. But financially connected elites have since the beginning of the Republic been determined to play the ‘giddy minds and foreign quarrels’ card as a smoke screen for their financial interests. The interests of the finance capital segment of the economy are not vital interests of the country. Of the government maybe but the government and the country are not conterminous in any way.

As far as Ron Paul is concerned he seems to be an idiot other than about some matters of finance and taxation. I suspect if a nuclear bomb were detonated on some American city he would denounce Americans and claim it was the fault of those attacked. That is a long way from working up a dithyram of fury over the torpedoing of the RMS Lusitania in British waters.

[DiogenesLamp]

Huge nations tend towards tyranny and imperialism. Smaller ones have more difficulty in those areas. The world saving activities of the US finally resulted in after 1945 in creating a real existential threat in the person of Stalin and his empire. Having a national policy of MYOB would have been much better. But financially connected elites have since the beginning of the Republic been determined to play the ‘giddy minds and foreign quarrels’ card as a smoke screen for their financial interests. The interests of the finance capital segment of the economy are not vital interests of the country. Of the government maybe but the government and the country are not conterminous in any way.

And I am coming to see things this way as well. Money controls Washington DC. They use their power and influence to make certain that the "right" people are being enriched by Washington DC.

I think one of the reasons there is a "war on oil" meaning the "global warming" bullsh*t among other things, is because the Washington-Boston area doesn't control oil.

If they did, nobody in the national propaganda system would be waring with oil. What economic powers they cannot control, they seek to destroy.

[BroJoeK]

Robowombat: ***”financially connected elites have since the beginning of the Republic been determined to play the ‘giddy minds and foreign quarrels’ card as a smoke screen for their financial interests.
The interests of the finance capital segment of the economy are not vital interests of the country.
Of the government maybe but the government and the country are not conterminous in any way.”***

And you learned all this cr*p in what school of anti-American propaganda?
My goodness, do you ever give it a break?