Oligarchy is corrosive. It destroys trust and confidence in government. It breeds cynicism and discontent. If not challenged, it will swallow us whole.
The values of the U.S. public are not the same as those of the wealthy and corporations. It took a UN official—an outsider—to point out the dissonance.
Income inequality and the offshore hoarding of illicit black funds have reached such extremes that the earth's democracies are in peril. The oligarchs are taking over. People worldwide, however, are rising up, and they demand the UN seize and redistribute all that illegal filthy lucre. A Russian strongman, the American president, and the Saudi Ambassador to the US will do anything to stop and destroy this global expropriation moment - even if it means nuking the UN. Only three people can stop them: investigative journalist Jules Meredith; ex-CIA agent Elena Moreno; and her boyfriend, the ex-Special Forces Operative turned cybersecurity billionaire, John C. Jameson. If these three fail, the nuclear fireballs will blaze, democracies around the world will die, the UN will burn, and the Age of the Great Global Oligarchs will begin.
**Note: This is the COLOR edition of this book.**We must understand the problem in order to visualize and actualize the solution.How did the US voluntarily arrive at the doorstep of its own demise? is homemade manmade Handmaid's Tale, where falsehoods and transparently mean-spirited claptrap trump facts and common decency--subverting naïve yet positive innocence into a malignant supremacist and myopic nationalistic agenda that is now in aming the planet's already rising temperature of self-harm? All this to cloak the true aspirations of the identi ed malevolent Oligarchs, who no longer lie quietly waiting.The first book in this trilogy (Math v. Myth) exposed the blatant myths that now overshadow reality. The second book (Who is Jeb!!!) uncovered the horrible histories of the Bush dynasty--revealing how America, beginning with the JFK assassination, began its descent from being a force for good, to now having zero moral authority. Allies hold us in contempt; enemies nurture us.We must understand the problem in order to visualize and actualize the solution. Since I fear the solution is unlikely to be enacted organically, we must prepare to seek a ballot-box-inspired intervention from a higher power--we must seek deliverance from our own collective folly, not from the heavens but from our own homegrown saviors, whom we created in the image of own inescapable delusions.
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The ruling elites no longer have legitimacy. They have destroyed our capitalist democracy and replaced it with a mafia state. What the Roman philosopher Cicero called a commonwealth, a res publica, a “public thing” or the “property of a people,” has been transformed into an instrument of naked pillage and repression on behalf of a global corporate oligarchy. We are serfs ruled by obscenely rich, omnipotent masters who loot the U.S. Treasury, pay little or no taxes and have perverted the judiciary, the media and the legislative branches of government to strip us of civil liberties and give them the freedom to commit financial fraud and theft. The loss of control over our system of rulership, the misuse of all democratic institutions, the electoral process and laws to funnel money upwards into to a handful of oligarchs while stripping us of power, ominously means that the ruling elites can no longer claim the right to have a monopoly on violence.
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Tuesday, May 3, 2011: They killed Bin Laden yesterday; don't get me wrong, I wept openly on Sept, 11. And even went to a church service. But I can't help thinking how the narcissistic [Expletive] on Wall Street whom caused this great recession and destroyed millions upon millions of lives, did far more damage to our country than Al Qaeda could have ever dreamed... I believe it was a financial coup d'etat and if you agree with me then they are guilty of treason, and you know the penalty for that is? People have said \"oh that's offensive\" you can't say that, there was no loss of life.\" I thought about it. I have personally lost several close friends whom I attribute their death as a result of Wall Street wiping out their retirement and home equity and all hope of ever getting a well-paying job again. How many of you know someone or know of someone even now who is slowly killing themselves in some capacity because they have given up all hope; and if you think \"well they didn't break any laws\" that's because they are above the law which is fine! We don't have to waste time with a trial. I believe anyone or organizations with that kind of power is in complete contradiction to the idea of our democracy. Even now you have kids sacrificing themselves on grenades for their fellow Americans while unregulated electronic traders are front running and high frequency trading on Wall St; along with the Bernie Madoff's, Bank and Health Ins oligarchs; all raping the wealth of our democracy with a sense of entitlement and the remorse of a tyrannical monarch? Breakout author Eddy Justice steps into the story and leaves traditional journalism to the critics as he chronicles his career from the inception of the public internet to documenting the last two years of life as a cellular network grunt. He cites how the \"system\" ran all aspects of his life and alludes to the impact it is having on society. He leaves impartiality aside and takes a stand for the middle class being decimated by the burgeoning oligarchy that he believes has done more harm to our nation than the attacks on 9/11. As an \"integer\" in a corporate spread sheet his journal documents our segregation into a two class society while citing others who share his views on the abuse of the ease in which both public and private institutions quantify and digitize everyone and everything. It is an unintended consequence of the information age and it is giving power and control to a select few.\"
