Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Banker Occupied Europe and America

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Banker Occupied Europe and America

Click here to access article by Stephen Lendman from his blog.

Wall Street and major European banks usurped unprecedented money making power. With complicit politicians, they make it the old fashioned way. They steal it.

As a result, ordinary people are harmed. They've lost jobs, homes, savings, and futures to let privileged elites get richer and more powerful at their expense.

In the 19th and 20th centuries the industrial capitalists stole from workers and slaves the wealth they produced. Nowadays, the capitalist ruling class consists mostly of people connected to the central banks which are privately owned (sometimes with a thin veneer of government accountability) that are now exploiting working people through debt slavery throughout the world.