The Lords of America

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Who are the lords of America? Add to this list of the lords of america, the people (and organizations) who hold immense power in America.


1. Supreme Court: Kennedy, Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Alito especially, along with Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan if one of the right wing defects. They basically can issue rulings like decree, and they are unaccountable to the public. It's virtually impossible to remove any of them from office. Their power is immense, more powerful domestically than the President alone.

2. ALEC: With Republicans all but assured of winning the midterm elections, ALEC holds immense power in getting legislation passed in the vast majority of states in America (that happen to have Republican dominated legislatures and Governor seats. If ALEC decides something, it is likely to get passed in states throughout the midwest, south, and interior west without opposition.

3. Koch Brothers: The Koch Brothers power is so immense, they can take over the Republican Party and use it as their personal sock puppet, as well as even have a real chance of taking over power of the entire federal government and governments across America via their tsunami of money. Presidential candidates kiss their feet for support.

4. Roger Ailes: Roger Ailes holds immense power being the head of the main propaganda arm of the Republican Party. Roger Ailes has the power to distort and create an alternate universe for millions and millions of Americans who happen to fall in its trap. Fox News, along with hate radio, actively turns Obama into a polarizing president with its near constant hate propaganda against Obama.

5. The CEO's of the NBC, ABC, CBS, and their news divisions (and CNN): They can control public opinion just by omission (like the real story of why the wages of Americans have gone down over the decades), and when it comes to war, they can totally fabricate the news to make America's opponents look worthy to start a war over.

6. Wayne Lapierre: Wayne Lapierre's power is immense enough to be able to shut down the debate for gun control in America, despite the horrific Sandy Hook shooting. Wayne used the NRA to make white men across America fearful that Obama would take their guns away.

7. Grover Norquist: Grover Norquist's power is immense enough that many Republican politicians pledge allegiance to him rather than the United States and their states or districts. Norquist orders Republicans not to raise taxes, they obey.

8. The Banksters: CEO's of Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, etc... You know your power is immense when you can cause the worst recession in 80 years and get away with it. Enron's crimes were much less and their CEO's got prison time.

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1. The Secret Government

i.e. CIA/NSA/FBI et.al.

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2. The Bush Crime Syndicate

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3. Here's one I had never heard of till recently...

It has its hands in Every part of our Gov't .

The MITRE Corporation (stylized as MITRE) is an American not-for-profit organization based in Bedford, Massachusetts and McLean, Virginia. It manages Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs) supporting the Department of Defense (DOD), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts on behalf of the Federal Judiciary, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST).

MITRE is organized as follows:

The National Security Engineering Center (NSEC) FFRDC is sponsored by the Department of Defense and focuses on national security issues.
The Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (CAASD) FFRDC is sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration and focuses on air traffic management.
The Center for Enterprise Modernization (CEM) FFRDC supports enterprise modernization within the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
The Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute (HS SEDI) FFRDC supports the Department of Homeland Security and its mission partners to safeguard people in the United States against terrorist threats, aid the flow of legal commerce and immigration, and recover swiftly from natural disasters and other national emergencies.
The Judiciary Engineering and Modernization Center (JEMC) FFRDC supports the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts on behalf of the federal judiciary.
The CMS Alliance to Modernize Healthcare FFRDC is sponsored by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) FFRDC sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Internal research and development explores new technologies and ways to apply existing tools and technologies.

And the chairman of the board is none other than ......Mr. Charles S. Robb, who married Lucy Baines John all those years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitre_Corporation

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4. MITRE is connected to the beginning of digital applications to defense and aerospace.

Founded 1959, systems engineering and all the rest applied to government agencies, from the FAA to the Pentagon.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/MITRE_Corporation

The listing says it's now a "Private Federal Corporation," which means it operates off-the-books as far as Congressional oversight goes and distributes money the way it sees fit.

That sounds like an ideal situation for Wall Street on the Potomac. Who knows where-all they're in now?

If this were a democracy, We the People would know. As we're not "in the loop," tough luck.

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5. Larry Summers

Larry's done it all for Wall Street on the Potomac. Now he wants to take the repeal of Glass-Steagall worldwide.

Larry Summers
and the Secret "End-Game" Memo

Thursday, August 22, 2013
By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine

EXCERPT...

The year was 1997. US Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin was pushing hard to de-regulate banks. That required, first, repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act to dismantle the barrier between commercial banks and investment banks. It was like replacing bank vaults with roulette wheels.

Second, the banks wanted the right to play a new high-risk game: "derivatives trading." JP Morgan alone would soon carry $88 trillion of these pseudo-securities on its books as "assets."

Deputy Treasury Secretary Summers (soon to replace Rubin as Secretary) body-blocked any attempt to control derivatives.

But what was the use of turning US banks into derivatives casinos if money would flee to nations with safer banking laws?

[font color="green"]The answer conceived by the Big Bank Five: eliminate controls on banks in every nation on the planet – in one single move. It was as brilliant as it was insanely dangerous. [/font color]

CONTINUED...

http://www.gregpalast.com/larry-summers-and-the-secret-end-game-memo/

The Banksters' Friend, slated for FED chairmanship until people noticed his opposite-Midas touch. Now he's counseling Ms. Clinton.