It takes a nation to protect the nation
The Power Elite is a book written by the sociologist, C. Wright Mills, in 1956. In it Mills calls attention to the interwoven interests of the leaders of the military, corporate, and political elements of society and suggests that the ordinary citizen is a relatively powerless subject of manipulation by those entities. The structural basis of The Power Elite is that, following World War II, the United States was the leading country in military and economic terms. According to Mills, the Power Elite are those that occupy the dominant positions, in the dominant institutions (military, economic and political) of a dominant country, and their decisions (or lack of decisions) have enormous consequences, not only for the U.S. population but, "the underlying populations of the world." Mills outlines the historical structural trends that led to the ascension of the power elite as involving a concentration of economic power and the cultural apparatus in the hands of a few, the emergence of a permanent war economy in the U.S. during and after WW2, the emergence of a bureaucratically standardized and conditioned (controlled) mass society and a political vacuum that was filled by economic and military elites. Due to the interchangeability of top positions within these three institutions, the members of the power elite develop class consciousness and a community of interests guided by a militarized culture, or what Mills described as the military metaphysic.
The book is something of a counterpart of Mills' 1951 work, White Collar: The American Middle Classes, which examines the then-growing role of middle managers in American society. A main inspiration for the book was Franz Leopold Neumann's bookBehemoth: The Structure and Practice of National Socialism in 1942, a study of how Nazism came into a position of power in a democratic state like Germany. Behemoth had a major impact on Mills and he claimed that Behemoth had given him the "tools to grasp and analyse the entire total structure and as a warning of what could happen in a modern capitalist democracy".[1]
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Sociologist Christopher B. Doob maintains that C. Wright Mills' The Power Elite is limited in terms of elitist activity in society. "Mills provided little detail about the contemporary elites' activities. For instance, he never mentioned either the Council on Foreign Relations or the Committee on Economic Development, two elite-dominated, policy-making organizations that were already prominent players in his time. In addition, through no fault of his own, Mills described an era when it was still possible to analyze the power elite by focusing only on the United States. The subsequent expansion of globalization has made his theory appearanachronistic." [4][5] However, Doob does appraise Mills' work in The Power Elite, stating Mills was a "pioneer, propelling his power-elite theory into a pluralism-dominated academic world, where his novel ideas, according to G. William Domhoff, "caused a firestorm in academic and political circles, leading to innumerable reviews in scholarly journals and the popular press, most of them negative." Over time, however, The Power Elite has become a classic, recognized as "the first full-scale study of the structure and distribution of power in the United States," using the complete set of theoretical and research tools then available.[6] Both Domhoff's andThomas Dye's theories have built upon Mill's conclusions, providing more detail about such issues as the make-up of the ruling group and the process by which policies are established and implemented. Their more contemporary works simply recent information about this powerful group's role in society." [7]
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A bit of good news for a change ! - a couple of articles about gamers striking back against Wall St re GameStop ;
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2021/01/gamers-1-bankers-0.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F3k2ESpI9I&feature=push-u-sub&...
Russia Today report ; https://www.rt.com/usa/513819-gamestop-stock-trading-wall-street/
Antony said:
A bit of good news for a change ! - a couple of articles about gamers striking back against Wall St re GameStop ;
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2021/01/gamers-1-bankers-0.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F3k2ESpI9I&feature=push-u-sub&...
magnificent!
I panic a bit at that word 'bailout' tho. The US govt is so dumb, they could even bailout small, bankrupt hedge funds.
Yes - though I have a nasty suspicion that Wall St will use there power to try to criminally prosecute these activists for doing the same thing that they do - or the taxpayer will end up bailing them out as they always do with these financial crime families - I always say "End Usury" - but obviously they control the machinations of power via fiat currency (or in some cases , by Jeffrey Epstein type blackmail) - hopefully there is a genuine people's revolution approaching !
ps - http://voxday.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-secret-of-elites.html
Alan Lake said:
magnificent!
I panic a bit at that word 'bailout' tho. The US govt is so dumb, they could even bailout small, bankrupt hedge funds.
Robin Hoodwinked ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG-W7QKozMc&feature=push-u-sub&...
this could be it ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0djML2CX7ik&feature=push-u-sub&...
Antony said:
Robin Hoodwinked ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG-W7QKozMc&feature=push-u-sub&...
An interesting allegation re Robin Hood ; http://voxday.blogspot.com/2021/01/never-trust-ticket-taker.html
Bonfire of the Shorts ; https://counter-currents.com/2021/01/bonfire-of-the-shorts/#more-12...
Understand short selling ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urBYjQUHhfo&feature=push-u-sub&...
The Gamestop shenanigans have exposed another angle of the Wall St/MSM/TechnoFascist/DemoKKKrat cabal.
US governments have been bailing out Wall St kleptocrats since the 1990s (Long Term Capital Management crisis). MSM have been on the side of Wall St for decades (one can look at the story of the Hunt brothers).
It's delicious that the fakely named "Robin Hood" and "Discord" should be forced to reveal that they too are part of the kleptocrat class.
This cabal is getting easier and easier to expose to the populous. The MSM are losing their grip. Internet communications allow the public to bypass the gatekeepers (which is why we need a new generation of messaging media, as the kleptocrats are now realising what a threat information & free comms pose to their class interests).
What's going on with Gamestop was obvious in a different context 40 years ago, the story of the Hunt brothers who realised that derivative markets allowed the price of commodities like silver to be kept artificially low (as Melvin Capital used something similar with naked short-selling of Gamestop at 120% to 140% of share issuance). As with Gamestop, once the Hunt brothers had exposed that naked derivatives contracts couldn't be fulfilled, the kleptocrat class changed the rules so they could bankrupt the Hunt brothers rather than allow the rigged game to be exposed. The Hunt brothers forced the price of silver to go from $2 to $50 because they bought the silver at the artificially depressed price AND took physical delivery.
https://globalbullionsuppliers.com/blogs/blog/inside-story-hunt-bro...
Hunt brothers were bankrupted because they were buying and storing actual huge amounts of silver.
But Melvin Capital is portrayed as the victim by the kleptocrats because they were selling 140% of the stock of a company, stock they didn't even own.
The system the kleptocrat class have created to reward themselves is protected at all costs.
Burning Wall St ; http://voxday.blogspot.com/2021/01/burning-wall-street.html
on another note about artificially high prices, I recall reading that diamonds would be pretty cheap, but De Beers keeps the price high.
If we look back to the start of this thread and the conversations we used to have, trying to convince people of a faceless elite controlling sections of our lives hiding in plain sight.
How does anyone think this gamestop issue will end. It can only work as a protest if the little investor holds their shares and is prepared ultimately to lose their money.
The media are already spinning this as some sort of illegal event. And as we know, all you need is the media saying so, backed up with a few polls and it'll all drift away into the ether.
Robinhood have been trying to sell their 'setup' to Amazon who were reportedly interested. The people running the Business have probably lost a good payday. I should think the Financial Authority will tear Robinhood to pieces. Can't have the little people actually making money that should be going to the rich. They don't mind if you want to protest in the park at wall street, in the freezing cold, turning the Park into a cesspit, and the Tent city into ram shackled hellhole. While the organisers live in Hotels, which was the case during the last 'occupy'.
The elites have gone after everyone who messes with them recently. No one stopped them. No one is going to stop them now. That was their money.
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