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Meet The Puppetmasters: Here Are The 25 Most Politically Influential Billionaires In The US

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It has been said, correctly, if only by those who see beyond the false "left-right" paradigm, that those who call the shots in US politics, and thus American socio-economics, are not so much America's lobbying corporations, but the people behind the corporations - i.e., those who have the money... all of it. Obviously, nobody has more money than America's billionaires. So who are the true puppetmasters who determine America's fate?

For one answer we turn to Brookings Institution Governance Studies Director Darrell West in whose upcoming book "Billionaires: Reflections on the Upper Crust" examines the political use of great wealth, including campaign expenditures, activism through nonprofit organizations and foundations, holding public office, media ownership, policy thought leadership, and behind the scenes influence. Most importantly, it ranks the 25 most influential American billionaires.

So from the Koch Brothers, to Bloomberg, to Tom Steyer, all the way to Marc Andreesen, Donald Trump and Alice Walton, here they are, whether readers agree with the ranking or not.

 

For more on West' perspectives and reasons for his rankings, below is a clip of the author with Bloomberg's Betty Liu:

 

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Thu, 09/11/2014 - 16:36 | 5208172 Oldwood
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How much can I get for a hundred dollars?

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 16:39 | 5208180 clymer
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bullshit list. Where is David Rockefeller?

 

http://www.save-a-patriot.org/files/view/whofed.html

there - fixed it for you

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 16:44 | 5208206 fauxhammer
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Trillionaires get their own list.

 

And it's secret.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 16:46 | 5208213 Rainman
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More proof you gotta be butt-ass fuckin ugly to be a billionaire.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 16:47 | 5208227 imaginalis
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Most of them were selected to become what they are, I expect, and the individuals we really want to discover, are the ones who pull their strings.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 16:51 | 5208242 AssFire
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Oh, almost forgot:

Happy Fake Terrorism Day all!

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 17:18 | 5208371 Zirpedge
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"Politically Influential" front men for the social enginnering of New Venice. Not one real organized crime family listed, the true masters of these merchant pirates who sell their souls to the devil. Only a dupe, pawn or troll make an antisemitic comment about this group of middle men.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 17:27 | 5208390 Leonardo Fibonacci2
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Rothschild's family?  (descends from Mayer Amschel Rothschild, a court Jew to the Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel in Frankfurt) 

 

Since 2003, a group of Rothschild banks have been controlled by Rothschild Continuation Holdings, a Swiss-registered holding company under the chairmanship of Baron David René de Rothschild.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 17:38 | 5208459 Zirpedge
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No, the names I'm thinking of make the Rothschilds look like book clerks. Think of the Medici and old school wealth, papal nobility. Look up Villa Farnese, the prototype of the pentagon. 

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 18:30 | 5208669 Occident Mortal
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Rupert Murdoch has the most political power of everyone on that list.

He also has the most political power of any billionaire in Europe (even though he resides in NYC)

He also has the most political power of any billionaire is Australasia.

The Murdoch press is the kingmaker in the elections of 2 UN Security Council seats and all 5 of the 5 eyes spy suprastate.

Murdoch has huge power and politicians offer him all kinds of crazy shit to buy his implicit support. He is immune to M&A laws.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 18:31 | 5208675 gmrpeabody
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Some of those mugs belong in the post office...

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 18:46 | 5208724 Anusocracy
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Not one of them is worth a broke dick.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 20:19 | 5208962 TeamDepends
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Which is why they were all shunned off of Broke Dick Mountain.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 20:48 | 5209047 Majestic12
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Love it! +1

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 21:26 | 5209160 J S Bach
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Where's Oprah?  I think there's some billionaire discrimination goin' on.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 21:48 | 5209231 bilejones
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It's ranked by wealth, not weight.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 23:20 | 5209480 willwork4food
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Hey, I don't know about the rest of you, but personally I think Alice Walton is HOT. Especially if she gave me a few million to play around hot.

OK, I admit it , everyone's got there price!!

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 23:30 | 5209496 Elvis the Pelvis
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You can have all the money in the world.  But the gold won't keep you from dying.  It's best to remember that God has ownership over the whole ball of wax.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 23:55 | 5209559 willwork4food
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Elvis? Is that you? Really dude, I was just kidding, well kind of. Honestly I don't really know if I could get it up for a million. But a few dozen Viagras might help!

Fri, 09/12/2014 - 00:09 | 5209588 Four chan
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i want to see the list of their puppetmasters.

Fri, 09/12/2014 - 01:22 | 5209679 Richard Chesler
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Obozo never saw a rich cock he didn't like.

 

Fri, 09/12/2014 - 02:47 | 5209749 SAT 800
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Gold will keep you from dying; or suffering, in times when paper won't. (rebuttal). Considering Dog, the great puppet master in the sky is only for infantile minds.

Fri, 09/12/2014 - 07:58 | 5209957 PT
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God decides whether you do anything worthwhile in your life or whether you just accumulate gold and do nothing else.

God decides whether your gold is swapped for something substantial, or whether you swap it all for the last crust of bread at the tip 3 years into a four year drought. 

God decides whether you do anything worth while with your gold or whether you will it to your good-for-nothing spoilt brat kids who blow it all in the first year after you die.  Oh hang on, does God decide that last one?  Or you?

But don't worry.  You just keep stacking and planning.  It's the least you can do.

;)

 

Fri, 09/12/2014 - 08:15 | 5209990 No Quarter
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Can't have a thread without bringing God into it. Seriously, organized religion whatever the brand, is just another tool to divide people which is precisely what the PTB want. I respect  your right as a human to believe what you want, but its worth pointing out what that does to a conversation once its introduced. Off topic.

Fri, 09/12/2014 - 14:43 | 5211716 PT
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True, the conversation does tend do go downhill once we drag religion into it.

Sometimes it helps to forget whatever you know about a religion and just read the texts and see what the books have to say for themselves.  I haven't studied every religion so I can't speak for all of them, but the gap between what is written and what is preached can be quite significant.

BTW, it's not just religion.  TPTB take advantage of ANY dominant beliefs of the time.  Have a good think about that one.

Fri, 09/12/2014 - 07:00 | 5209891 sister tika
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These "folks" are just the goose girls and piss boys.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 20:39 | 5209017 thestarl
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The phone hacking scandal in the UK proved that.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 20:47 | 5209038 Majestic12
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"No, the names I'm thinking of make the Rothschilds look like book clerks. "

"Medici"...think way above them and you're gettin' warm.....

Remember, "motivation" is not always about money...

...and exchange does not always have a "main st." understanding.....

Fri, 09/12/2014 - 03:28 | 5209780 giggler321
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where's Oprha Winfred?

Fri, 09/12/2014 - 09:18 | 5210215 Kobe Beef
Thu, 09/11/2014 - 18:00 | 5208553 ajax
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@Leonardo Fibonacci2

Get a fucking grip:

http://www.edmond-de-rothschild.ch/default-en.aspx

 

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 18:04 | 5208575 Leonardo Fibonacci2
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To ajax:  why are you telling me to get a grip?????????  Now go fuck your dead mother!

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 19:18 | 5208816 El Oregonian
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About 75 feet of water-soaked and prestretched hemp rope, about a dozen lampposts, and a few willing volunteers to administer a swift and final judgement should clear up this problem... Just say'in.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 20:55 | 5209072 Majestic12
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"75 feet of water-soaked and prestretched hemp rope"

Hemp???

Too good for these fuckers....

I say use aged, tanned "banker skin" rope....

They think they're so "tough"...they can finally "prove" it...

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 20:52 | 5209057 Majestic12
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Leonardo, Ajax is one of those millenials who only use Wikipedia, the top 10 google listings and couldn't possibly believe that our "good, wealthy bankers" would lie to us....

It's not his fault...Mom didn't tell him....

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 22:37 | 5209382 Leonardo Fibonacci2
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Got it!!! Thanks for the info Majestic.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 18:07 | 5208583 Budd aka Sidewinder
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Hey man! Could you at least put an NSFW for that link.

Talk about the spawn of Satanus

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 19:21 | 5208823 Escrava Isaura
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Study says:

Brookings Institution Governance Studies Director Darrell West make up studies to prevent himself from having a real job, because there aren’t any real job anymore, so kissing ass is his job.

 

What a charade. Can we get any more mediocre than that?

 

 

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 17:18 | 5208373 Aaaarghh
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hey, cool, pics to add to my hit list!

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 19:57 | 5208909 nmewn
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Yeah, Brookings would love us chasing moar squirrels. Money falls with absolutely zero force on the honest & incorruptible.

Maybe everyone should look in the mirror.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 17:45 | 5208475 TalkToLind
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Flags are flying everywhere.  Heck, it looks like a 4th of July celebration in some places. Those nightly network news presstitutes will be twerking HARD this evening to encourage the sheep to give up moar of their rights.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 18:54 | 5208750 Carpenter1
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The only person on that list with any real power is Rupert Murdock, and even he was dragged before the courts not long ago, which is proof you're not on the inside. 

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 20:43 | 5209025 Majestic12
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"More proof you gotta be butt-ass fuckin ugly to be a billionaire."

Have you ever seen a "pretty Reptile"?

The "real" ugly is on the "inside"....dark, black, evil....

The only cure is "anti-matter".....

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 22:03 | 5209283 trulz4lulz
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Its a by-product of centuries of inbreeding.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 18:12 | 5208580 Kirk2NCC1701
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@fauxhammer: "Trillionaires get their own list.  And it's secret."

And do you know why it's secret?  Because -- unlike 'mere' Billionaires, who think in terms of controlling and owning companies or conglomerates -- Trillionaires think in terms of owning entire countries

It's not that the Sheeple don't suspect or know that, it just cannot be official or documented information -- lest the Ploticians and their Plebeian Sheep get any 'funny 'ideas' of changing that reality.  The other reason is that when your wealth exceeds an entire country (e.g. Rothschilds), you need your own country (e.g. UK --> Israel --> USSA). 

And just like small-time Community Organizers, so too Trillionaires eventually get a clear idea of how the World ought to be, how it ought to run, and what they can do to bring it about.  The difference is Vision, Scale and Ability.

p.s. to 18:05 posting... Some Ploiticians have this inflated sense of Ability (in how they can bring about Change for the Better), but learn fairly quickly that they lack Resources and Time to realize anything truly Grand.  The best they can then hope for, is to hitch their Star to that of whatever Trillionaire who might smile upon them.  E.g. Reagan, Bush Sr, Clinton, Bush Jr, Obama.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 21:02 | 5209104 Majestic12
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"Trillionaires think in terms of owning entire countries."

[Bones voice] Dammit, Jim, you're a Starfleet Captain of the Galactic fucking Federation...think bigger!!!!

Seriously...think bigger....

Black Military technology is 50 years ahead of the public...

...ask any grunt who was using MIMO HUDs in the 90's...just "one" example...which is not black....

Don't be scared...just, think bigger....

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 18:57 | 5208761 logicalman
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Let's get both lists & a guillotine.

Won't be hard to decide the order.

Trillionaires get to watch the billionaires go first.

Fri, 09/12/2014 - 13:48 | 5211441 sgt_doom
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I heard the author and financial journalist, David Cay Johnston (from whose books I've gathered valuable facts over the years) at a Town Hall talk awhile back, and was surprised to observe how he had evolved from the contact-your-congress-creature former stance to finally comprehending that the super-rich do not appear on that Forbes List of the (so-called) richest, (although several might erroneously and by design appear near the very bottom, like David Rockefeller).

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 17:20 | 5208381 Forbes
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David Rockefeller in 99 years old. The only strings he's pulling are on the waistband of his PJs.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 17:40 | 5208463 ACP
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Soros is like 160 years old and he's still puppeteering.

OK, maybe he just looks 160.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 17:52 | 5208510 Kirk2NCC1701
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And Henry Kissinger is 200 years old and still making waves.  Last night he was on Jon Stewart's Daily Show, flogging his latest book (#15):  "WORLD ORDER"

He did make one interesting and seemingly rational and reasonable suggestion regarding Ukraine:  That it become a bridge between Russia and Europe, not its battlefield that is wrecked and torn asunder.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 18:18 | 5208628 Wait What
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it's curious that almost everyone on that list is some 3x as old as Wait What. what happens to that influence as soon as (and it will be soon!) all those old foggies kick the bucket? someone should be pulling some Inception operations on the heirs.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 21:39 | 5209196 atomp
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When a drug kingping goes down, a turf war ensues

Fri, 09/12/2014 - 13:50 | 5211456 sgt_doom
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One must assume you are another on his payroll, as the only people I've heard say that (and continuously) in public are Simon Johnson, who has a highly paid position as a senior fellow at (Peterson's and Rockefeller's) Peterson Institute, along with his academic postion at MIT, and another stooge at Counterpunch.org recently (who receives monies from the Rockefeller Foundation and several other Rockefeller foundations).

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 18:47 | 5208725 goldsansstandard
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doug Shorenstein?

When O comes to SF he often stays at Doug's house. When Hillary did a fundraiser, it was at Doug Sisters theater.
When he was appointed to the Federal Reserve of SF, , the press release from the Fed said that he was appointed to represent the real estate industry.

His father was Walter Shorenstein. Walter used to say that " ( in heavy drolling Brooklyn accent) " When I came to San Francisco after the war,, I had twenty dollahhhs in my pocket.

At Walters Funeral , Nancy Pelosi gleefully related a story about the man who raised Walter, the boss of the democratic Machine in Queens. She said that back in day, in New York, Shorenstein was a verb.

So walter came to San Francisco with twenty dollahs and his uncle in his pocket.

That explains the early deals with major insurance companies . and later with the big banks.

Walter was at the nexus of politics and big bank, insurance and real estate money.
The network effect and inflation did the rest.

and now his son sits on the board of the Ministry of Inflation, the Fed, while he sits on billions of mortaged real estate and knows when to sell and when to buy.

BTW, These guys , both Walter and Doug are very decent guys, just working the system like everybody else. They are trying to be decent people , and they do well by doing good.

It's just that the road to hell is paved, lit , and signed with good intentions.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 19:32 | 5208858 bitterwolf
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Rockefellers and the dozens of powerful foundations funded by them,,,yup.

Fri, 09/12/2014 - 00:40 | 5209626 Peelingtheonion
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PTI,

 

That's a list of gofers......

Fri, 09/12/2014 - 01:33 | 5209692 Jayacts
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1918 Rich List: Before they became "philanthropists."

 

  • John D. Rockefeller
  •  

  • H.C. Frick
  • Henry Ford
  • Charles M. Schwab
  • Andrew Carnegie
  • George F. Baker
  • William Rockefeller
  • Edward S. Harkness
  • J. Ogden Armour
  • Pierre S. du Pont

 

http://www.forbes.com/2002/09/27/0927richest.html
Thu, 09/11/2014 - 16:45 | 5208186 Divided States ...
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If Zuckerbag is on that list, then where are the JOOgle founders?? Wow so many big noses on that list.

Also, Marc Andreeson looks like Darth Vader without his mask...wow, that guy just becoming a conehead.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 16:55 | 5208261 Darth Sidious
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f you . . . even when there is a list that clearly shows us horrible kikes don't actually control everything you still spew your vile anti-semitism.  If we do control everything, I'd hope the first one we go after and silence is you dipshit.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 17:16 | 5208364 WillyGroper
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You're right Darth, he should have said Zioogle to be PC.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 18:29 | 5208662 bilejones
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But as the horrible kikes on the list aren't actually semites, how can his distate for them be anti-semitism?

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 18:28 | 5208664 localsavage
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Did you even read that list?  It looks like the invite list to a Jewish wedding for fuck sake.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 20:07 | 5208935 nmewn
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David Koch is Catholic, yet the Mormon Reid calls him/them the son of satan himself.

Sayin ;-)

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 20:54 | 5209069 Lost Word
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Mormonism derived from Christianity,

Mormonism greatly influenced by Freemasonry,

Freemasonry and Catholicism are enemies,

Freemasonry greatly influenced by Judaism,

Jesus said Satan was the father of the Jews.

 

 

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 21:02 | 5209097 nmewn
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I'm afraid I'm gonna need just a little more than your word on lines 2 through 5 ;-)

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 22:11 | 5209308 Lost Word
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It would take too long to explain.

Do your own research.

Try Google or Wikipedia.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 22:33 | 5209365 nmewn
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Thanks but I prefer books that can't be edited by irate critics & anoms (wiki) once written and sources that are not so impeachable (goggle, yes I always say goggle, instead of google) as to leave me at the dead end of another rabbit hole.

I do however have a small growing library that will at some point be a threat to the state ;-)

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 23:45 | 5209535 willwork4food
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Lmfao. So do I.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 23:49 | 5209547 Ms. Erable
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If your collection contains anything written by Orwell, Huxley, Rand, Rothbard, Hayek, or Paul, you're already a threat to the state. And, if so, I salute you.

Fri, 09/12/2014 - 01:00 | 5209651 Kirk2NCC1701
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In fairness, Wiki has its Checks & Balances (with its Review Board), to safeguard it from Idiots, Nuts and Crooks.

It may not be perfect, but it's better than what was before.

Fri, 09/12/2014 - 10:23 | 5210421 Lost Word
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I have my own library also,

and also use Public libraries,

but there is much more available on the internet,

and Wikipedia usually references books,

more than I can obtain in physical books for my own library,

and the internet is faster for starting a branch of research.

Fri, 09/12/2014 - 10:46 | 5210517 The Merovingian
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Try this guide to the Mormon 'religion' ....

http://www.villagevoice.com/2011-11-02/news/mormons-a-shallow-yet-helpfu...

 

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 20:06 | 5208923 bitterwolf
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No joos dont control shit really ...but make stunningly good fall guys vis a vis the chosen people complex. The jews are a were/are talented merchant people but dispossesed of their own nation by a European power, rejected by the native peoples of Europe for the aliens that they are ,before and after the diaspora, and pillaged again later by another European power...round 3 coming up.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 22:53 | 5209411 jballz
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I want to apologize on behalf of the Gentiles who don't see the world in jew and non jew. Unfortunately this is an anti Semite asylum, posters with a sub 100 IQ need very simple explanations of things. Half of these clowns think the system is rigged to give blacks more privileges than they have. So hey at least you aren't black having to listen to this shit. That would be worse.

To the news control the world bunch, and they are influential no doubt. You think if all the news disappeared there would be peace love and happiness?

Fuck no. Some other small group of psychopaths would team up and play the same fucking game. Nature of power. You would all just start bitching about those evil Tanzanians. Or whatever.

So shut the fuck up already.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 17:08 | 5208322 JR
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This is a U.S. Billionaires Political Power Index! And so it is subjective.  Brookings explains:

“Darrell West's U.S. Billionaires Political Power Index is a ranking of the top U.S. billionaires in terms of overall political power.

“In his forthcoming Brookings Institution Press book, Billionaires: Reflections on the Upper Crust, Darrell West examines the political use of great wealth, including campaign expenditures, activism through nonprofit organizations and foundations, holding public office, media ownership, policy thought leadership, and behind the scenes influence.”

In short, if you like Brookings, you’re sure to like this list.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 18:11 | 5208599 overexposed
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At least we know who all the liberal crybabies are all scared of this year. If Brookings serves no other purpose than that, it's about all we can expect.

Brookings: As intelligent as Paul Krugman, as impartial as MSNBC.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 22:23 | 5209334 Cugel
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True -- fear is why the kochtopus makes the top of the list. If they were as successful as Bloomberg and Murdoch in influencing the public, their views would be held as the mainstream default instead of the media barons.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 17:11 | 5208341 NotApplicable
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I think Andreeson ate Balmer.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 17:11 | 5208343 JuliaS
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If Trump's on the list, you know it's bullshit.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 16:45 | 5208210 takeaction
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The first ones are a double Cock...I mean Koch

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:21 | 5219343 fallout11
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Fun fact: The Duke Brothers (Mortimer and Randolph), who make a $1 bet to ruin the life of loyal, long term employee Louis Winthorpe III (played by Dan Aykroyd) and replace him with homeless bum Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy) in the 1983 comedy "Trading Places", are based on the Koch Brothers. Jewish Director Aaron Russo knew them personally.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 17:55 | 5208531 docmac324
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RELEASE THE HOUNDS!!!!

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 18:14 | 5208618 junction
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All lying, hypocritical fucks who get their marching orders from the NWO.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 20:03 | 5208926 rubiconsolutions
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But I thought we lived in a country where "all men are created equal", where I have as much clout as someone much richer than me. I just know that if I called the WH and asked for 30 minutes with the president I'd be afforded the time, right? Money doesn't buy influence because that's not what our system is all about.

 

 

/sarc

Bartender, another scotch please.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 20:41 | 5209023 Sambo
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A tiny speck of Gold the size of a God particle.

 

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 20:50 | 5209055 Sambo
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On a long enough timeline...it doesn't matter who has stashed away all the billions. If Hawking is to be believed, someday the Universe may do the disappearing act.

 

http://www.techly.com.au/2014/09/09/stephen-hawking-warns-of-the-god-particle-destroying-all/

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 23:50 | 5209545 willwork4food
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Which brings a good point up that even the well-healed rich educated-politically connected cocksuckers do not know what is in store for them on the carnal plane, let alone the spiritual plane.

 

Evil tends to eat itself.

 

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 16:37 | 5208175 LawsofPhysics
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Yes, but many don't appear on any list folks.  There is a reason why they don't want you to know who they are.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 16:41 | 5208199 Utah_Get_Me_2
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David Rockefeller comes to mind..

These are the PR, CNBC fall guys for the individuals who attend Davos and Bilderberg that you've never heard of and likely never will.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 17:19 | 5208378 LawsofPhysics
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or Kennedy..  or Bush  or Clinton ...

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 18:57 | 5208763 Pie rre
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The next tier down are just traitors.

 

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 16:45 | 5208212 crazybob369
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My thoughts exactly. The real power brokers won't appear on any of these lists. They're happy pulling strings in obscurity.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 16:58 | 5208262 Chupacabra-322
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They're the ones who stick their hands up these Douche Bag Asses & use them as Sock Puppets.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 16:58 | 5208274 Winston Churchill
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The trillionaires/billionaires  next door.

They don't need ,or want  the ego trip of being on that list.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 18:40 | 5208698 PhilofOz
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They learnt long ago to stay in the shadows and never boast about their wealth.  If the planet was aware of what one family actually controlled and how they have fucked over everyone in one way or another we might actually turn our attention away from quarrelling and fighting amongst each other and getting rid of this stain upon humanity.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 18:07 | 5208589 Glasshopper
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Would explain why Oprah isn't on the list

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 16:46 | 5208215 debtor of last ...
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Money fetish, power fetish. Two different lists. The money loves being tied up, the power loves to beat up.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 16:36 | 5208176 X-defiler
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Front men for the Real control.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 16:49 | 5208236 Goldilocks
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Red Ice Radio - Catherine Austin Fitts - Hour 1 - Secret Space Program & The Black Budget
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cKZ0HKbijQ (54:46)

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 17:57 | 5208540 mendolover
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I'm a big fan of Catherine.  She survived two poisoning attempts AND lost her mom to 'them'.   The one thing I wonder about is if this secret space program thing is genuine then NASA doesn't even know about it.

http://www.aulis.com/moonbase.htm

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 19:12 | 5208802 disabledvet
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"Nothing more disappointing than a trip to the space station." You're there in five minutes.

It's only three days to the moon...and that article makes it sound like going to the moon is really a let down. Thing is "Earth's moon is huge." Lot of really interesting exploration that can be done "just a few days away."

My guess is there are already lunar bases "on the dark side" but who knows.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 16:38 | 5208177 X-defiler
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duplicate

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 16:56 | 5208267 Goldilocks
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Linkin Park - In The End (Official Music Video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yw1Tgj9-VU (3:37)

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 20:50 | 5209052 Jam
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Power Play - Steppenwolf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMWi6gtujDI

 

Fri, 09/12/2014 - 08:52 | 5210119 detached.amusement
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which makes one wonder just who the fk linkin pork is related to, because their singer cannot open his mouth without an autotune and perchance he does, sounds like a dying cat

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 16:37 | 5208181 msmith9962
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Its nice that the first one is that elderly gay couple.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 16:38 | 5208182 hedgeless_horseman
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On a long enough timeline
the political influence for
everyone drops to zero.

God and the worms don't give a shit about how much money you have.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 16:58 | 5208275 Againstthelie
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The TPTB think in GENERATIONS and centuries.

You represent the "thinking" of sheeple: now = everything.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 17:17 | 5208366 Kirk2NCC1701
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Gods think in terms of Generations and Centuries also - because they can.

So do TPTB, who see themselves as 'gods' on a collective basis:  Having the power of life & death, fortune & poverty, fame & infamy over sheeple.  That's why they see themselves as "Doing God's work".

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 19:15 | 5208809 disabledvet
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Meh. You can have money..."you can also have a budget." If you're talking the War on Terror that number is huge. With zero economic recovery the value of a billionaire "is but a string." Having a three hundred billion dollar budget...yearly...on the other hand...

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 21:03 | 5209107 Lost Word
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Jesus said, Do not fear him who can destroy the living body,

but instead fear God who can destroy the living soul. 

 

Because the soul lives after the death of the body.

Fri, 09/12/2014 - 02:37 | 5209673 Kirk2NCC1701
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Let's hope so. But we have no proof of that and only ancient anecdotal evidence, that's not robustly recorded by today's standards.

In an updated version, I'd describe Heaven as your Virtual Residual on a computer network - a Matrix in the Sky, or on a Holodeck.

Destroying the 'Soul' then is deleting the virtual person and sending it into electronic Oblivion.

Good luck in explaining this to a bunch of illiterate or semi-literate goat/sheep herders of questionable hygiene, thousands of years ago.

Fri, 09/12/2014 - 08:59 | 5210155 detached.amusement
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Too bad everything the tibetans did is only considered "anecdotal evidence"...

 

electronic oblivion = the great street sweep at the end of the universe

 

enlightenment =  getting past the physiospiritual coefficient of friction

 

you have until then to complete the task...

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 17:50 | 5208498 ajax
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Oligarchy. The USA is an oligarchy.

- get your flu shot this year 'cause you're gonna need it.

 

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 16:39 | 5208185 Utah_Get_Me_2
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Where's David Rockefeller? This list while accurately listing the prominent billionaires is exactly what you'd expect from the globalists at Brookings. Why Warren Fucking Buffett, Georgie Boy and the Bill 'planned parenthood' Gates aren't tied for 1st is beyond me.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 19:23 | 5208674 GooseShtepping Moron
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+1 for the comment, another +1 for the Point Break reference in your handle. A classic movie directed by a hottie boombalottie. And I've always loved Gary Busey, who must be one of the most underrated actors of all time. I've never once seen him drop a scene, ever.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 16:40 | 5208195 GooseShtepping Moron
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Mark Zuckerberg has one of the most punchable faces I've ever seen - smug, stupid, and utterly devoid of grit. It's also telling that he is so shrimpy that he makes our Mulatto Farquaad President, Barack Obama, look huge by comparison.

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=obama+and+zuckerberg&qpvt=obama+and+zuckerberg&FORM=IGRE

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 16:45 | 5208216 Utah_Get_Me_2
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He's such a fuck mook. I can't fucking stand that piece of garbage.

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:24 | 5219362 fallout11
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He is also extremely autistic, like Bill Gates is as well.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 17:05 | 5208309 Savyindallas
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I suspect he has no real power or wealth  - a puppet placed in their -like Obama. All of his wealth will go to foundations at his masters direction   -just like gates, Michael dell, Buffett  -and others. They're front men. They don't really own anything. 

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 17:14 | 5208356 NotApplicable
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Well, they did own a few things, then they were convinced it was in their best interest to "Play Ball!"

Buffet's silver, Gates' DC monopoly follies. Good times.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 16:40 | 5208196 LibertyBear
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These individuals are mid-tier.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 16:47 | 5208208 alexcojones
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Rogues Gallery.

"Behind every great fortune there is a great crime." - Balzac

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 17:02 | 5208294 Excursionist
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Perhaps, but not all of 'em.  I'd exclude shooting arrows at John Arnold.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 17:09 | 5208315 Kirk2NCC1701
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"Behind every great criminal is a great criminal culture" -Kirk

And behind every great criminal culture is a fake deity, to justify the criminal culture.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 17:16 | 5208363 NotApplicable
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Fake deity du jour?

The state.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 16:46 | 5208217 Racer
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Thanks for that, now I need to clean all the spit off my screen!

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 16:48 | 5208226 Perimetr
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The list of TRILLIONAIRES still remains secret.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 16:52 | 5208244 Utah_Get_Me_2
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British and Dutch Royal families, Rothschilds et al, Rockefellers et al

Feel free to add to the list..

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 16:49 | 5208229 alexcojones
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Red Shields? What are they worth?

Financially speaking not ethically speaking?

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 17:00 | 5208280 Chupacabra-322
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Last check about about 300 Trill. Give or take a few Trill.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 21:08 | 5209115 Lost Word
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Most of it being War profits.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 16:48 | 5208232 blabam
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Where's Oprah?

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 16:50 | 5208239 Goldilocks
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Lloyd Pye - Everything You Know Is Wrong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe6DN1OoxjE (1:58:34)

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 17:16 | 5208241 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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Owners don't show up on these lists. I don't see the name Warburg or Loeb on that list for starters.

You are going to tell me a name Rockefeller or Dupont is absent also?

Also am I the only one who finds it fitting that Geithner who as former head of the Federal Reserve of New York and Treasury Secretary (we all know his banker friendly record there) wound up in employment of a Warburg once he jumped into the revolving door.

You going to tell me that that is accidental and the Warburgs one of the main founders behind the Federal Reserve aren't still influental in a world where petrodollar is king the Federal Reserve is one of the key players.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 17:27 | 5208407 Skateboarder
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Nope. It's all ZuckerBux and BezoPosts and WindowGates and BerkaBuffets.

For the vast majority of us, what you see is what you think is reality.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 16:52 | 5208245 alexcojones
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All about the money? Great Movie Scene.

BULWORTH - WARREN BEATTY
Thu, 09/11/2014 - 16:53 | 5208248 all-priced-in
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Would the country be better off if

 

The EBT/FSA was calling the shots?

Or maybe

Leave it up the the academics like Yellen,  Bernanke, Krugman and Summers. 

Or the religious fanatics, or the middle class or how about the fucking Rainbow Coalition.

 

Go ahead and slam me with down arrows - but please have the fucking balls to tell me who you think should be "in charge".

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 17:10 | 5208338 spooz
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Globalist economic royalists have no sovereign loyalty.  The minimum I ask of our leadership is that.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 17:26 | 5208400 all-priced-in
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So would that be the military? :-(

 

My point is not that I want billionaires controlling things either - but who?

 

 

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 17:51 | 5208427 spooz
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As far as military goes, the interest of the sovereign should be protection of its citizens.  Military engagement abroad, to advance the interests of globalists, does not meet that standard.

We need to end the duopoly's grip on our election process.  The candidates it produces are bought and paid for by the corporate interests above. We need a new Bull Moose party to take on the oligarchs.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 21:35 | 5209134 Lost Word
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I should be the One controlling, at least, New Jerusalem, New Israel,

also known as the United States.

When my secret identity is revealed.

The Government already knows my identity, watching me for more than fifteen years, reading all my email, reading all my blog posts.

I suppose Nobody wishes to take a wrong chance with Destiny.

Prophecy is unclear in the details, Judgement Day for who?

New Jerusalem, New Israel, Not the same as Old Jerusalem, Old Israel.

My credentials? Study Biblical prophecy. Opening the sealing wax seals of the books of the secrets of prophecy.

World Trade Center Twin Towers destruction on 9-11 prophesied, 

in Old Testament Book of Amos chapter 9,

in New Testament Book of Revelation chapter 11.

There is much more explanation of prophecy I could reveal,

I have tried to tell the World, but very few believe.

Waiting for Destiny to be completely fufilled.

Did I mention that I am a "Truther" and a "Birther"?

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 22:06 | 5209298 spooz
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I think you should get back on your medication.

Fri, 09/12/2014 - 10:39 | 5210486 Lost Word
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Just think of it being a Black Swan event.

Fri, 09/12/2014 - 07:46 | 5209933 Mesquite
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>Lost Word...

Isn't it fun being a TI ( targeted individual ) ?

:-)

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 18:22 | 5208647 falconflight
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No sovereign loyalty from your central gov't as well.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 18:53 | 5208743 spooz
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Because they are owned by globalist corporate benefactors.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 18:44 | 5208716 g speed
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