Day: June 5, 2020

Chris Hedges: The Capitalist Class Wants To Keep The Working Class In A State Of Constant Distress

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Chris Hedges: The Capitalist Class Wants To Keep The Working Class In A State Of Constant Distress

The longer the ruling elites refuse to address the root causes behind these protests, the more they loot the treasury to enrich themselves and their fellow oligarchs, the more they engage in futile and absurd efforts to deflect blame, the more unrest will spread. The last desperate resort by the oligarchs to save themselves will be to stoke the fires of racialized violence between disenfranchised whites and disenfranchised people of color. – Chris Hedges

BLM à la russe: Russian libertarians want a localized movement against police brutality and now they’ve got a hashtag all their own

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

BLM à la russe: Russian libertarians want a localized movement against police brutality and now they’ve got a hashtag all their own

H/T StalkerZone: Killed for 4 Rolls of Wallpaper?: Liberals in Russia Deployed the #RussianLivesMatter Hashtag

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No Room For Argument: Mikhail Svetov is a Vicious Sado-Pedophile

Cato-Linked Russian Politician Exposed as ‘Pedophile, Zoophile, Sadist, Animal Abuser and Total Moral Degenerate’

BlackRock Authored the Bailout Plan Before There Was a Crisis – Now It’s Been Hired by three Central Banks to Implement the Plan

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

BlackRock Authored the Bailout Plan Before There Was a Crisis – Now It’s Been Hired by three Central Banks to Implement the Plan

It’s called “Going Direct.” That’s the financial bailout plan designed and authored by former central bankers now on the payroll at BlackRock, an  investment manager of $7 trillion in stock and bond funds. The plan was rolled out in August 2019 at the G7 summit of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming – months before the public was aware of any financial crisis. One month later, on September 17, 2019, the U.S. Federal Reserve would begin an emergency repo loan bailout program, making hundreds of billions of dollars a week in loans by “going direct” to the trading houses on Wall Street.

Why Did the US Fund Anti–Hugo Chávez Rock Bands in Venezuela?

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Why Did the US Fund Anti–Hugo Chávez Rock Bands in Venezuela?

Recently obtained documents show that in 2011, the US funded rock bands in Venezuela — through a group sympathetic to right-wing forces that later attempted a coup. Giving money to young musicians seems innocuous, but it’s part of a long history of US meddling in the democratic processes of countries to advance American interests.