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midnight

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Wed Jun 15, 2016, 10:16 AM Jun 2016

We Must Understand Corporate Power to Fight It

Chris Hedges uses a comparison to Nazi Germany and how they used their victims-divided them and had them policed by one of their own, and how their own leaders curtailed any decent. Sometimes it's been said that if one does not learn from the past they will be doomed to repeat it. A jobless economy has been very distablilizing to the country as a whole.


"A handful of listeners, however, including Zivia Lubetkin, who two years later would help lead the uprising by 500 armed Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto, instantly understood the ultimate aims of the Nazi state.

“I don’t know how we intuitively shared the same horrible conviction that the total annihilation of all the Jewish communities in Nazi-occupied Europe was at hand,” she wrote in her memoir, “In the Days of Destruction and Revolt.”



"The aims of the corporate state are, given the looming collapse of the ecosystem, as deadly, maybe more so, as the acts of mass genocide carried out by the Nazis and Stalin’s Soviet Union.

The reach and effectiveness of corporate propaganda dwarfs even the huge effort undertaken by Adolf Hitler and Stalin. The layers of deception are sophisticated and effective. News is state propaganda. Elaborate spectacles and forms of entertainment, all of which ignore reality or pretend the fiction of liberty and progress is real, distract the masses."

http://commondreams.org/views/2016/06/13/we-must-understand-corporate-power-fight-it


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We Must Understand Corporate Power to Fight It (Original Post) midnight Jun 2016 OP
Interesting Sherman A1 Jun 2016 #1
It's a tough one… But I appriciate your consideration with this... midnight Jun 2016 #2
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