Classic, and very insightful. Worthy of the author of The Killing of William Browder (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36078055-the-killing-of-william-browder). Money is the key. Follow the money.
Vladimir Putin earned the permanent enmity of financial capital when he told Russian oligarchs that they could keep their money if they n…
Vladimir Putin earned the permanent enmity of financial capital when he told Russian oligarchs that they could keep their money if they no longer interfered in Russian politics, and made it stick with the prosecution of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and others. Was this illegal and despotic? Yes, but then so was the bribery with which the oligarchs controlled other Russian political figures. What we have in the US today is a pre-Putin political-economic system rife with corruption at the federal and many state levels.
A single authoritarian law-giver like Hammurabi, Solon or Putin is not the American way. Nothing will fundamentally change until there is a Constitutional amendment or a SCOTUS decision overruling Citizens United and making it clear that 1) collectives chartered by government (such as both profit and non-profit corporations) are NOT persons under the law and have none of the unalienable INDIVIDUAL rights recognized by the Constitution and that 2) money is not speech and its use to purchase speech is not a right.
Russia was created and funded by western bankers. We are not under the constitution, but under the Vatican - the Pope thinks he owns us all. Why do you think that all the so-called constitutional laws are being broken repeatedly by government? The constitution is just an appearance to give us the idea that we have freedom.
Classic, and very insightful. Worthy of the author of The Killing of William Browder (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36078055-the-killing-of-william-browder). Money is the key. Follow the money.
Vladimir Putin earned the permanent enmity of financial capital when he told Russian oligarchs that they could keep their money if they no longer interfered in Russian politics, and made it stick with the prosecution of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and others. Was this illegal and despotic? Yes, but then so was the bribery with which the oligarchs controlled other Russian political figures. What we have in the US today is a pre-Putin political-economic system rife with corruption at the federal and many state levels.
A single authoritarian law-giver like Hammurabi, Solon or Putin is not the American way. Nothing will fundamentally change until there is a Constitutional amendment or a SCOTUS decision overruling Citizens United and making it clear that 1) collectives chartered by government (such as both profit and non-profit corporations) are NOT persons under the law and have none of the unalienable INDIVIDUAL rights recognized by the Constitution and that 2) money is not speech and its use to purchase speech is not a right.
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Russia was created and funded by western bankers. We are not under the constitution, but under the Vatican - the Pope thinks he owns us all. Why do you think that all the so-called constitutional laws are being broken repeatedly by government? The constitution is just an appearance to give us the idea that we have freedom.