Having lived in a collapsed empire before - I lived in Russia right after the Soviet Union collapsed … - Matt Taibbi

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My conscience is captive to the Word of God

Matt Taibbi

Having lived in a collapsed empire before - I lived in Russia right after the Soviet Union collapsed - you can see a lot of the classic signs of an empire that's on its way out.

Classic, Empire, Empires, Russia, Unions

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Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game.

Apology, Different, Hands, Player, Rigged, Rothschilds

'American Sniper' is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism. The only thing that forces us to take it seriously is the extraordinary fact that an almost exactly similar worldview consumed the walnut-sized mind of the president who got us into the war in question.

Criticism, Forces, Mind, Normal, Similar, War

'Nobody goes to jail. ' This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall Street embroiled in obscene criminal scandals that impoverished millions and collectively destroyed hundreds of billions, in fact, trillions of dollars of the world's wealth - and nobody went to jail.

Bank, Billions, Jail, Saws, Wall

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Democracy, Free, Freedom, Governed, Greed, Passively

The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.

Bank, Blood, Funnel, Jamming, Powerful, Squids

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