First published in Blasting News:
Crony capitalism has drained our treasury and enriched
oligarch turning America into a zombie nation hell bent on war with Russia
Since the overthrow of the American government in 2000, our
country has had the life blood sucked out of it by crony capitalists. A for-profit healthcare system, a military
industrial complex’s profit driven wars, a Wall Street profit driven banking
system, a hedge fund profit driven education system, a for-profit energy and
infrastructure system, a pay or die big Pharma, and an open borders immigration
system, America is a zombie nation. Our politicians are not regular citizens, but
oligarchs that serve themselves in a rigged election system. As Dr. Paul Craig Roberts’ wrote “The US is a
dead nation walking.”
Russia surpasses the US
The PNAC crowd that seized control over our government in
2000 has focused the development of military weapons systems on maximum profits rather than the best
state-of-the-art equipment to protect our nation. For instance the F-35 Joint Strike fighter
jet is the most expensive unmitigated disaster in history. The Pentagon has stuck so much money in it that
in 2010 it was determined to be “to big to fail”. In development for nine years and is still
not acceptable for combat the total price tag is expected to surpass $1.5
trillion over its life span.
While DOD has been plowing money into the failed F35 with its $400,000 pilot
helmets, Russia has developed a fleet of superior SU 35 fighter jets that are
currently in use in Syria. Along with
Russia’s new T14 Armata tank which is far superior to the American M1A2 any
fantasies of war with Russia are insane.
But insane is the order of the day since our military is under control
of rich insiders and unaccountable elites.
Profits before lifesaving medicine
The PNAC gang that was ushered in with the Bush regime and
their ready-at-hand Patriot Act had provisions to protect big Pharma from any litigation. Before the 911 attacks took place, Bayer was
under investigation for withholding adverse health findings regarding their
anthrax antibiotic Cipro. In trials
Cipro was shown to interact badly with other drugs and caused potentially life
threating infections. By July the Bush
FDA endorsed the use of Bayer’s Cipro in spite of a 1997 Pentagon study showing
several other drugs were as effective and less harmful.
The pharmaceutical industry spent $177 million on lobbying in 1999 and 2000, and the night after the
911 attacks, Cheney and White House staff were instructed to take Cipro, well
before the anthrax attacks took place.
Since then drugs that people rely on to remain alive have had their
patents bought up and prices skyrocketed in a pay up or die business model.
Charter school indoctrination camps
Congress has destroyed the best education system in the
world and replaced it with a for-profit
madrassa type of charter system that is a hedge fund cash cow. After accepting lavish gifts and trips,
congress has stripped our public schools of funds to endow Turkish terrorist
Fathullah Gülen with H1B visas to man his American taxpayer funded charter
schools across America. The purpose of
the charters is to produce cannon fodder for endless war.
With sixteen years of profits before people our country has
been devastated and resembles a Banana Republic run by oligarchs. America is on
the precipice of collapse. Just one more
president funded and controlled by the oligarchs in the two parties and our zombie nation will cease to exist.
By Patricia Baeten
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