"The WORLD!" must "WAKE-UP" and stop directing everything on to OUR governments because they are just "PUPPETS" for the true "HIDDEN PARASITES" who are orchestrating the WORLD'S DEMISE!! PLEASE... read: wake-upbeforeitstoolate(dot)com to truly understand how "The World" has been incredibly deceived by a small percentage of the World's population. Who controls the MEDIA, controls the" INFORMATION." If you want a NEW WORLD for FREEDOM... then look behind the greatest deception of the Human Race.
Corporations had a stranglehold on our domestic and foreign policy long before 1978, perhaps this is when they sank their teeth into the U.S. Supreme Court...
Google: Allen Dulles/United Fruit/Guatemala, Jack Philby/Aramco/Saudi Arabia
It use to be parties controlling/controlled by corporations blackmailing the voters. Now that the age of the party has ended and the age of the candidate has taken complete hold of the country, the money just flows directly between the corporations and the politicians. The voters be damned.
It's too fucking late. If you are not willing to take up arms, then just say nothing, because no one can stop it. Or can they? How many of you re-elected an incumbent? Sociopaths view forgiveness of their trespasses against you as a weakness. Forgive them after you vote them out, and by ALL MEANS never vote Demo. or Rep.! If we continually clean house every election, we have a chance of turning the tide. But, you have to educated the blind and deluded around you; there are many of them.
Its too bad there are only 538 people in America that ACTUALLY vote for president. They are electors ...part of the Electoral College. When the average American goes to the voting booth every four years ..They vote for an elector ...NOT A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE.
America is a Republic, not a Democracy. Its been this way since day one; we've just been lied to so we think we have the right to vote for president.
The only power the people have is on the state/local level.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United Corporate State. And to a republic, that use to stand, One nation subjugated, with liberty and justice for some.
Does the slippery slope of predatory capitalism inevitably lead to corporate-control via fascism, or perhaps something like technocratic feudalism? Cenk is pretty-damn right-on with his critiques on USA Inc., disasterous wars based on lies & propaganda, corrupt Politicos & travesty of criminal 'Justice' system, ie. the betrayal of American ideals by elites & ruling class. US Security State has become the world's greatest purveyor of violence. Ruled by a totally immoral gang of ruthless thugs.
Blame,blame always the U.s government. I am fed up Americans blames the government. Kids in United States does not want to learn. U.S government gives so much to its people free education, free lunch, free transportation. Americans does not want to pay high tax on education. Teachers need to get paid good salary. Good pay means good education. U.S government needs to get high tax from very wealthy rich. Corporations own the U.S government anyone can see that. American people vote for Democrat.
Industrial civilization is doomed, you can't base an entire way of life off of FINITE resources and an infinitely expanding population and expect it to be sustainable. Regardless of whatever politics you subscribe to, we must return to a more SANE, sustainable way of living.. If you care about your children's lives, and their children's lives, WAKE UP! Technology will not save us! Go outside, turn off the TV! Wake up!
I know more about American economics, politics, controversies and history than the average American. Oh yeah... I am Canadian and in highschool. Now thats fucked up.
The education system in America is deeply flawed. We are only taught what those in power want us to learn.
The state I live in (Louisiana) is telling teachers what to teach ..Luckily, my government professor (college) is 100% opposed to this and didn't follow these instructions. He will most probably lose his job.
Its not just the education system either, the media system is highly corrupt too ..we hear what the corporations (that own the news channels) want us to hear.
@conan1845 I would like to introduce classes such as "A Hidden History of the United States", "Banking Influence on American Politics", "A History of the Illuminati", "Freemasonry in the United States" to the curricula.
This video has just under 13000 views, you wanna know why? Because the American sheep don't give a fuck about any of this stuff. We are mindless robots, perfectly You're a good man but don't waste your time.
If you want to do something about this stuff, then take action. If you will not take actions then just sit back and watch "Jersey Shore" like the rest of us god fearing americans.
@akatsukibeast2007 Thats what sucks with this nation we show so much praise for celbs and rich ass people......We must fight back...don't be morons and become lazy bums that don't care about history or goverment everyone should care. unless you just a careless person.
We have again become a plutocracy and again we must take our societies back and restore democracy. It is time to speak up, it is time for the citizen to rise.
To Cenk's point about the Borg being amoral, in the world, the worst thing is to be amoral because of the fact that when other people are at stake, there is no such thing as neutral. By denying regular Americans rights and giving corporations rights, we empower the corporations to oppress the lower classes. That in and of itself is immoral.
I read Thom Hartmann's research on this..it took a bit of time, but it was worth it. It was accurate, and to see what we have today, and know what happened in the past, this confirms so much of what I've suspected for 5 years when i was getting politically able to start putting things together.
Back during the Cold War the United States came to the conclusion that it was their role to promote Capitalism to counter Communism and give the world a false choice between the two. It also sold Capitalism as "Freedom" and Communism as "Oppression". Since the fall of the USSR the United States has demonstrated that unrestrained Capitalism can be just as oppressive as the way they portrayed Communism. We need to change the old laws that time from pro-Corporate to pro-Citizen.
Just laugh at this fratboy clown Cenk. If it weren't for Reagan and the break-up of AT&T the internet never would have come about, and this doofus Cenk would be holding forth at a schwarma stand in Dearbornistan, Michigan.
Cenk, what kind of weird statistic is that, "their combined assets equal 52% of our GDP"?!? You're comparing a stock to a flow measure. Completely meaningless.
I'm twice as fat as my laptop's energy consumption.
They are evil my friend. The effects that corporations have both directly and indirectly on both people and the environment are terrible. If an individual was caught doing the things that corporations are allowed to get away with, he or she would get life or be executed.
Yes, they would. There'll always be work to do on this planet. We got a lot to fix here. And if we run out of work... well, what then? Maybe then we'll have more time for our kids, our neighbours, ...ourselves. To grow within.
Economy run by corporations is just one (perverted) way of numerous options to do economic activity.
Ron Paul would reign in the banksters and also audit, if not eliminate, the Federal Reserve Bank. He would restore sound currency so the money you save maintains it's value and appreciates with interest. He would eliminate the planned inflation tax that causes our currency to loose it's value.
Oh gee! Did we just let them takeover our entire health care system? Oh yea. and I'm glad you po8inted out Obama is a product of the corporations. Funny I happened on this video. I actually had a tear in my eye for America tonight.
@MayonR Private insurance companies are corporations that took over our entire health care system a long time ago- and reform did nothing to change that fact. Obama is a product of the corporations as have all our presidents for the last 50 years.
The surfaces we set in place, the more our taxes have to be raised to pay for them, then more taxes means less hiring, less R&D and we, any half wit should figure this out.
By the way, if all large corporations are painted bad then that is not fair, nor realistic. Not all corporations are ran by crooks. The more factory jobs we bring back here the more prosperous our economy becomes, the more jobs are there. Socialzied solutions are not the answer weather it is government bailouts, unemployment services or welfare.
We need corporate America. We need the rich to hire the less rich. If it were not for large corporations the middle class would be out of work pertaining to factory jobs and other large corporate areas. When the government interferes with corporations then that is bad and interferes with the free-market. The more bailouts and regulation the more the economy suffers. It you do let them fail then they will never learn from there errors. The nice thing about the free-market is it can adapt.
@gigerone Like TYT says, corporations are amoral. Their mission is to maximize profits. They have no mandate to do what is in the best interest of the country. If the corporation would maximize profits under fascism, then fascism is where the corporations will try push us. The most powerful voices are those that do not have the country's best interests in mind.
Young Turks, i always amazed at what you are saying and we all know this is the internet.... without disregarding your option and views. A suggestion, could you attach to your clips some of the fact you discuss i was quoting you about an issue but end up asking the question where did i get my fact from.... so a suggestion in which you can strengthen your program. I want to say to your team that make your web cast available "Sincere ty for standing up for those of us who can't"
Well actually they mention the sources in the clips. All you need to do is google the author or name or title, or if its a video you can find it here on youtube.
@LivingForTheFuture but this is slavery. The coporations "they wont get rid of us because they need us we have all the jobs". thats the reason people will work for anybody when they are broke and they will do ANYTHING to get the job and aNYThING to keep it. No matter how bad they treat us and pay us crap wages, or deny our sick. We cant get rid of them because they have the jobs. Who's your Daddy, the billion dollar coporations.
I have no problem with someone being as rich as they can possibly get even though i think its ridiculous to have more money than you can spend in your lifetime. And that money will be passed on to offspring and thats a generation who didnt have to work their way up, (but that is a different story lol). but system where it has more homeless and hungry people than financially secure people its a problem.
What we have to accept, is that we have a broken system, a system that nurtures a human instinct of greed with no boundaries. And with a system like this there will always be homeless, sick, and hungry people. I actually am not for government, i am for a scaled down version of community managing, bringing the power back to the people. But so many are unaware of what this system does to many people.
see everyone has this notion we have to "kill" the current system; it is DYING people, what everyone needs to do IS LET IT DIE. Stop investing in the schemes of others, stop accepting the bullshit that comes down the pipe from governments, federal and state/provincial/municipal, just STOP.
Buy food, pay for basic amenities AND THATS IT> STOP BUYING OVERPRICED JUNK YOU DO NOT NEED. Then it will collapes, they will declare martial law, and suddenly the numbers of people tired of the bullshit actually MATTER compared to their flawed systems of enslavement. Just STOP.
I mean there are some sociophathic types who make excellent liars and are ruthless in getting their way but clever at not getting caught. Now all the corporation has to do is turn a blind eye or slowly find their ranks (top down?) filling with these types. Being amoral they the corporations don't check on moral character if they don't have too, so the corruption is open to setting in. I.E. the amoral have no checks or balances about hiring evil if it gets a job done.
I want you guys to know, this clip cannot be shared on FACEBOOK. Now facebook is censoring a NEWS SHOW? I mean you said nothing hateful, offensive, or wrong here. If anything, you're finally saying the things that matter. Why would FACEBOOK Ban you from Linking this video directly? This is Bullshit. Can you run a piece on internet censorship addressing this?
We practise separation of church and state, and that seems to work out well. To some extent. Why not practise separation of government and business? Business doesn't intervene in government to influence politicians to make legislation that benefits them, and government doesn't intervene in business to protection certain competitors from competition. Keep the private sector and public sector separate. Each seems to work best when the other doesn't intervene.
@BobGeorgeAU for fuck's sake it says in god we trust on our money. America is bound to collapse over time (a very long time). some day America will be in history books along with the Roman empire etc...
Actually government needs to intervene in businesses from time to time to make sure the economy doesn't collapse into a state of anarchy. One prime example of government regulating is illegalizing inside trading, another is the Anti-Trust act.
@BobGeorgeAU If we practiced separation of government and business in the same way we did church and state, then the government would not be able to pass any laws or taxes that affect small business or corporations in any way, shape, or form. Essentially, corporations would be able to do whatever they want without any government regulations holding them back. Just look at what the Westboro Baptist Church gets away with (pretty much on a daily basis).
Cenk you finally get it. This same stuff has discussed in Zeitgeist and Zeitgeist Addendum. This path is a road to destruction. There is no hope within this system. That hope you see is an illusion to make you think the system can be fixed. The system is fatality flawed and this massive bubble that it has created will pop soon.
Cenk you finally get it. This same stuff has discussed in Zeitgeist and Zeitgeist Addendum. This path is a road to destruction. There is no hope within this system. That hope you see is an illusion to make you think the system can be fixed. The system is fatality flawed and this massive bubble that it has created will pop soon.
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed." Abraham Lincoln 1864 letter to Col. W. F. Elkins. Read 'Pawns in the Game' by William Guy Carr.
@purpleprinc3 So, in other words, corruption has plagued the US government. for quite a while. I'm amazed that the country hasn't completely imploded yet.
@Desmaad ~ It was corrupted almost as America began, which is why Lincoln was assasinated because he wanted to introduce his own currency the 'Greenbacks,' we have been enslaved by debt. I'd really suggest reading that book, it really is quite brilliant and extremely detailed, show's not just how America has been enslaved by debt but England, France, Spain, Russia etc from the moment of their revolution.
Easy; they waited for Progressive morons like you to give the Feds all the power. One stop shopping bitches! Then, inevitably, they bought the worthless turds in DC, Lock Stock and Barrle to do their bidding. You know, exactly like the Libertarians and Conservatives have been saying they would since the 30's.
@DillonDee1 Teddy Roosevelt? LOLOL. Teddy was one of the first Progressives. He was also in the pockets of big oil and banking. As a "RINO" he helped Woodrow Wilson get elected by running in a third party, "The Bull Moose Party", and splitting the vote from a true republican, William Taft.
@dangerouslytalented Standard Oil was charged with violating The Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890 and was broken up on May 15 1911 by the Supreme Court, 21 years after the law went into effect solely because of Standard and a full 2 years after Teddy left office. He may have spoken out against Standard while the cameras were rolling but he sure dragged his feet to actually do something.
central banking and centralized power (the federal govt) are the danger - our founding fathers warned against centralized power, public and private. if we only stuck to the constitution, we'd be much better off today. now we're doomed.
Enough with the constitution myth. It's a myth. Constitution was not followed from day one. And it's interpretation changes every twenty years or so. The US Constitution is like a Bible for some people where once they receive faith both are infallible. The US Constitution is a great start but in no way is it a perfect document. Read it as a fundamentalist and you will be surprised what changes were made to it. Read it as what it implies and there is no end to changes...
@tier0008 living breathing constitution makes no sense either - why bother to have it at all if what it means is whatever you think it means? and there is a way to change it, an amendment process, which was made intentionally difficult. anyway, we ignored our founders wisdom, and soon we will pay the price.
What will the next 2 term GOP president do? Cut taxes for the wealthy, in-crease war proffering, nullify responsible regulations that protect the masses and doing all this while chanting "USA!" and "I DRIVE A TRUCK".
I don't care how much socialist legislation needs to be passed. This Decade of WMDs, Enron, Bernie Madoff, Black Water and boom/bust debt economy needs to end.
Fox News would've criticized Obama for NOT passing the bailout. He zigs, they zag.
Nixon, Reagan, and of course Bush some of the worst Presidents ever in Presidential History funny how there all Republican...just too add two of the most progressive presidents in my mind LBJ and FDR who fought for what would be considered socialistic ideals happened to be good for the country and Americans and were Democrats
The same conservative legacy of the 1930s and 1960s is trying to stop today's progressive legislation. All I have to say is where would we be today with out The New Deal and Great Society.
If the the watered down health reform bill hadn't passed the GOP would've gained more momentum than they already have. Either way they would've span it as a victory. Either "This was his Waterloo!" or "Wait till the Midterms!".
Who's judgment do you trust more: Sahara Palin or Dennis Kucinich?
The borg metaphor is perfect ^^ nothing will stop them (or you need future technologies right now to stop them XD ), and resistance is futile XD
Norway have future technology allready though, we just choose not to give it to the US army, and we've got something called "psychological warfare" going on, which by looking at the recent Iraq vid, is gonna work like nobodys business ^^
Well said by Cenk. Talked about a few things I didn't know about also. Horrible. Pathetic how Corporate Republicans use stupid middle class people and deceive them into screwing themselves over. The masses still lick that corporate ass without usually knowing it.
Good except they are evil. I've been trying to share the message of where we are going for 20 years. We are circling the drain and it is only a matter of time before we finally go down. For those who think those who think the system will stop the insanity, your mistaken. As long as wealth can be extracted those who make up the status quo will keep going until the house of cards folds. Only a massive, peaceful, and reality based social movement can possibly change this. Without that we're done
Too bad Bill Gates and Steve Jobs weren't the first ones to capitalize this whole government selling out deal. Think about it. With Wall Street controlling government what do we get? Economic meltdown. If Gates and Jobs controlled the government we'd have ultra-fast internet speeds, we'd have actually useful Apple gadgets (how about The iScratch ... my nuts all day), and all versions of Windows wouldn't have any bugs. Oh, well, you may say I'm a dreamer. It's all kinda sad, but I'd rather laugh.
Thanks.. You're right.. There is a problem, and it can't be fixed because the people we elect to fix it are beholding to the corporations to get elected. I wish I knew what we could do, I doubt elections will matter, we need massive civil resistance, voting will not change anything. However, for that to happen, we need to pull ourselves away from the media long enough to wake up.. So, I guess we are doomed, because we are a nation of sheep.
The Powell Memo did not become available to the public until long after his confirmation to the Court. It was leaked to Jack Anderson, a liberal syndicated columnist, who stirred interest in the document when he cited it as reason to doubt Powell's legal objectivity. Anderson cautioned that Powell "might use his position on the Supreme Court to put his ideas into practice...in behalf of business interests."
Wow. Unfortunately I, along with most people here, am a product of the US Education System. I had to look it up. It's true. Google "Powell Manifesto".
In 1971, Lewis F. Powell, then a corporate lawyer and member of the boards of 11 corporations, wrote a memo to his friend Eugene Sydnor, Jr., the Director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The memorandum was dated August 23, 1971, two months prior to Powell's nomination by President Nixon to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Because we never stop warring especially within ourselves. That's why!
We are always turning and finding a new way. Thus comes our strength and our weakness. For we know the path to the light... but... the darkness.... the darkness... ....
As much as i hate corporations buying our politicians, they are groups of people and have rights. The word corporation legally also refers to non profit corporations like the NAACP and the NRA, whose main vehicle of action is free political speech, including campaign contributions. We dont shouldn't exclude any type of entity from practicing free speech, but rather draft laws that can draw a line between contribution and bribery.
Btw, have you guys on the left ever thought to ASK one corporate contributor why he supposedly gives these huge amounts to candidates, rather than just make stupid-ass assumptions? I bet not. Probably because you have this really negative view of corporations being these big bad creatures who'll always lie and want to make children cry and all this nonsense, rather than simple self-interest.
@whoo689 Just give it a chance. See what the corporate guy has to say. See if he'll admit to buying votes or wanting to b/c of a contribution. If corporations are so "willing to buy votes", then it should be no problem for a corporate leader to admit.
I'm not saying corporate America has no influence, but in terms of campaign contributions, it's just not there. Their influence is ELSEWHERE, such as gifts to congressmen and stuff which give the more access to these congressmen to hear out the corporate executives' ideas and cases for or against legislation. The corporations do have a lot more money to lobby, for sure, and someone who gets a lot more access to a policymaker is more likely to be convincing, but contributions do not buy votes.
@whoo689 The investment theory is borne out much more by data and actual hardcore studies of this subject than your assumptions. Assumptions don't mean jack shit if you're trying to prove or make a case for something. Where's your EVIDENCE that "large corporate contributions" buy elections? No one gives money to someone who's their political enemy, esp. ideologically. That's just dumb. People give to candidates who believe as they do. It's not b/c they're trying to buy them.
@DeletedDelusion It may seem bizarre at first for a big corporation to donate to a big gov't liberal like Obama, but in fact, corporations are forward-thinking, VERY MUCH SO, in fact. A corporation wins if it gets a bad regulation taking off it or lowers taxes for itself, and it can also win if it can get a bad regulation passed that increases barriers to entry for possibly new firms and give a competitive disadvantage to other firms, esp. smaller ones, in that industry.
@DeletedDelusion Very profitable and large firms can afford to bear the costs of things like in-house food safety inspection, while smaller ones have a much harder time with that. In fact, if you do a little research, you'll find out that Phillip Morris was in many ways a supporter and shaper of that "healthy families" tobacco control act, whatever the hell it's called. GE has been a huge supporter of many Obama initiatives b/c of lots of goodies and subsidies as well.
@DeletedDelusion We all know that insurance companies in fact did support, to some extent, many provisions in the current HC bill, esp. things like the insurance mandate. I mean, the gov't forcing a whole new load of customers to buy from them? That's like Halloween for these guys.
best video i've seen from tyt in a very long time , great job guys , now get out there and preach this truth more often instead of bullshit tiger woods crap
People buy into this all-too-easy explanatio nfor why they can't get certain 'progressive' reforms passed because it requires zero critical thinking. They can keep drinking the Kool-Aid with ZERO actua knowledge of campaign finance regulations and limits. Hey, dummies, listen up! The Tillman Act BANNED corporate funding of campaigns since 1907, along with unions. PACs can only give 5 grand, and individuals can give 2400 max to candidates.
@whoo689 You guys shoud know better than anyone else that the FEC watches campaign finance like a hawk. If they saw something amiss, such as corporations actually donating money from their own treasuries, esp. something like 100 grand, to candidates, they'd fucking send their asses to court. I guarantee it. They're hardcore bureaucrats!
Keep drinking the Kool-Aid that folks like Cenk are giving you as a phony explanation for why you can't get your silly little "progressive" reforms passed, like single-payer healthcare. It's all a distraction! Don't you see he's playing you for fools? He honestly doesn't believe this nonsense, does he? People and groups who donate to candidates DO NOT give money to random candidates at every turn in the weird hopes that "enough money" will influence them.
The US is a proto-fascist state. I'm sorry but it's true. A merger of State and Corporations is one of the prime tenants and features of Fascism. Some of the main elements of Fascism are corporatism, anti-unionism, entwining of religion and government, an anti-egalitarian Social Darwinist view of society, social interventionism, and a state obsessed with national security that violates civil rights in the name of security.
Meanwhile the Democrats blame the Republicans and the Republicans blame the Democrats as both sides refuse to address actuall problems and line their pockets with corporate money. Our news media, run by large corporations, act like this imaginary blame game is the truth while ignoring the fact that we actually have a one party system. Occasionally i guy like Ron Paul is allowed to say that but is quickly marginalized by the bigger "Democrats are socialists" "Republicans are greedy" message
I would rather have corporations having influence over Government, rather than big Unions
corporations at least provide services and produce goods consumers demand
the Unions do none of these things, just keep extorting more for their members and themselves at the expense of the consumers,..and drive companies to offshore to get cheaper labor
Actually the note the clerk was different, but meant basically the same thing.
The court ruled that the case was without merit, and the clerk's note was something like (paraphrasing) "In this clerk's opinion, the case does have merit".
That FOOTNOTE was later used as precedent in other cases.
It should also be noted that the loophole providing corporations insulation for the owners, BOD, etc., has origins in legislation enacted to protect newly freed slaves.
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"The WORLD!" must "WAKE-UP" and stop directing everything on to OUR governments because they are just "PUPPETS" for the true "HIDDEN PARASITES" who are orchestrating the WORLD'S DEMISE!! PLEASE... read: wake-upbeforeitstoolate(dot)com to truly understand how "The World" has been incredibly deceived by a small percentage of the World's population. Who controls the MEDIA, controls the" INFORMATION." If you want a NEW WORLD for FREEDOM... then look behind the greatest deception of the Human Race.
einrib4truth 7 months ago
Corporations had a stranglehold on our domestic and foreign policy long before 1978, perhaps this is when they sank their teeth into the U.S. Supreme Court...
Google: Allen Dulles/United Fruit/Guatemala, Jack Philby/Aramco/Saudi Arabia
CaseyJones1979 8 months ago
It use to be parties controlling/controlled by corporations blackmailing the voters. Now that the age of the party has ended and the age of the candidate has taken complete hold of the country, the money just flows directly between the corporations and the politicians. The voters be damned.
Theroha 8 months ago
americans are too selfish to do anything about there own country.....
Dojocho 9 months ago in playlist The Young Turks 8
It's too fucking late. If you are not willing to take up arms, then just say nothing, because no one can stop it. Or can they? How many of you re-elected an incumbent? Sociopaths view forgiveness of their trespasses against you as a weakness. Forgive them after you vote them out, and by ALL MEANS never vote Demo. or Rep.! If we continually clean house every election, we have a chance of turning the tide. But, you have to educated the blind and deluded around you; there are many of them.
octaviaaugustus1950 1 year ago
@octaviaaugustus1950
Its too bad there are only 538 people in America that ACTUALLY vote for president. They are electors ...part of the Electoral College. When the average American goes to the voting booth every four years ..They vote for an elector ...NOT A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE.
America is a Republic, not a Democracy. Its been this way since day one; we've just been lied to so we think we have the right to vote for president.
The only power the people have is on the state/local level.
conan1845 1 year ago
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United Corporate State. And to a republic, that use to stand, One nation subjugated, with liberty and justice for some.
octaviaaugustus1950 1 year ago
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THIS KIND OF BAD INFORMATION IS TYPICAL PARANOID PROPAGANDA.
WE CONTROL YOUR MEANINGLESS LIVES BECAUSE WE MAKE ALL THE PROFITS.
YOUR PATHETIC CONTRIBUTION TO GLOBAL WEALTH MEANS NOTHING TO US.
WE CONTROL THE MONEY, THEREFORE WE CONTROL YOU, THE MINDLESS AMERICAN MASS CONSUMER.
IT MATTERS VERY LITTLE WHAT YOU THINK WE'RE CONSPIRING BEHIND CLOSED-DOORS.
GREED?? BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, PRATTLE ON, YOU MINDLESS CITIZENS...
ALL THAT MATTERS IS THAT YOU PAY INCOME TAX AND OBEY US, YOUR NEW CORPORATE RULERS.
CorporateRule 1 year ago
Does the slippery slope of predatory capitalism inevitably lead to corporate-control via fascism, or perhaps something like technocratic feudalism? Cenk is pretty-damn right-on with his critiques on USA Inc., disasterous wars based on lies & propaganda, corrupt Politicos & travesty of criminal 'Justice' system, ie. the betrayal of American ideals by elites & ruling class. US Security State has become the world's greatest purveyor of violence. Ruled by a totally immoral gang of ruthless thugs.
starmanskye 1 year ago
Blame,blame always the U.s government. I am fed up Americans blames the government. Kids in United States does not want to learn. U.S government gives so much to its people free education, free lunch, free transportation. Americans does not want to pay high tax on education. Teachers need to get paid good salary. Good pay means good education. U.S government needs to get high tax from very wealthy rich. Corporations own the U.S government anyone can see that. American people vote for Democrat.
64Hulya 1 year ago
@64Hulya What the fuck? That was barely coherent
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SHANAPAULINE 1 year ago
Industrial civilization is doomed, you can't base an entire way of life off of FINITE resources and an infinitely expanding population and expect it to be sustainable. Regardless of whatever politics you subscribe to, we must return to a more SANE, sustainable way of living.. If you care about your children's lives, and their children's lives, WAKE UP! Technology will not save us! Go outside, turn off the TV! Wake up!
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good stuff, watch zeitgeist!!!!!!
osman666free 1 year ago
I know more about American economics, politics, controversies and history than the average American. Oh yeah... I am Canadian and in highschool. Now thats fucked up.
Supercucu123 1 year ago
@Supercucu123
The education system in America is deeply flawed. We are only taught what those in power want us to learn.
The state I live in (Louisiana) is telling teachers what to teach ..Luckily, my government professor (college) is 100% opposed to this and didn't follow these instructions. He will most probably lose his job.
Its not just the education system either, the media system is highly corrupt too ..we hear what the corporations (that own the news channels) want us to hear.
conan1845 1 year ago
@conan1845 I would like to introduce classes such as "A Hidden History of the United States", "Banking Influence on American Politics", "A History of the Illuminati", "Freemasonry in the United States" to the curricula.
4dOp 1 year ago
This video has just under 13000 views, you wanna know why? Because the American sheep don't give a fuck about any of this stuff. We are mindless robots, perfectly You're a good man but don't waste your time.
If you want to do something about this stuff, then take action. If you will not take actions then just sit back and watch "Jersey Shore" like the rest of us god fearing americans.
akatsukibeast2007 1 year ago 2
@akatsukibeast2007 Thats what sucks with this nation we show so much praise for celbs and rich ass people......We must fight back...don't be morons and become lazy bums that don't care about history or goverment everyone should care. unless you just a careless person.
WorldDebater 1 year ago
Zero Hour
World Wide Digital Protest Sept 11/2010
All citizens, All countries
Remember remember the lessons of September
We have again become a plutocracy and again we must take our societies back and restore democracy. It is time to speak up, it is time for the citizen to rise.
eelli2945 1 year ago
To Cenk's point about the Borg being amoral, in the world, the worst thing is to be amoral because of the fact that when other people are at stake, there is no such thing as neutral. By denying regular Americans rights and giving corporations rights, we empower the corporations to oppress the lower classes. That in and of itself is immoral.
bluesboy25000 1 year ago
I read Thom Hartmann's research on this..it took a bit of time, but it was worth it. It was accurate, and to see what we have today, and know what happened in the past, this confirms so much of what I've suspected for 5 years when i was getting politically able to start putting things together.
TrustKovacss 1 year ago
Back during the Cold War the United States came to the conclusion that it was their role to promote Capitalism to counter Communism and give the world a false choice between the two. It also sold Capitalism as "Freedom" and Communism as "Oppression". Since the fall of the USSR the United States has demonstrated that unrestrained Capitalism can be just as oppressive as the way they portrayed Communism. We need to change the old laws that time from pro-Corporate to pro-Citizen.
SpitfireOFatj 1 year ago 5
Just laugh at this fratboy clown Cenk. If it weren't for Reagan and the break-up of AT&T the internet never would have come about, and this doofus Cenk would be holding forth at a schwarma stand in Dearbornistan, Michigan.
alphecca2539 1 year ago
Cenk, what kind of weird statistic is that, "their combined assets equal 52% of our GDP"?!? You're comparing a stock to a flow measure. Completely meaningless.
I'm twice as fat as my laptop's energy consumption.
677boston 1 year ago
Best video I have ever seen by these guys.
Lukeor 1 year ago
They are evil my friend. The effects that corporations have both directly and indirectly on both people and the environment are terrible. If an individual was caught doing the things that corporations are allowed to get away with, he or she would get life or be executed.
MrMeridian3 1 year ago
@scrxbandit
Nazism is a branch of state socialism. Fascism is a branch of corporatism.
trajan74 1 year ago 3
Watch money as debit
darkblood626 1 year ago
@LivingForTheFuture
Yes, they would. There'll always be work to do on this planet. We got a lot to fix here. And if we run out of work... well, what then? Maybe then we'll have more time for our kids, our neighbours, ...ourselves. To grow within.
Economy run by corporations is just one (perverted) way of numerous options to do economic activity.
KapitanHaddock 1 year ago
So excellent to watch you guys again at TYT
KapitanHaddock 1 year ago
USA = Corporate Totalitarian State
M3minusGrowth 1 year ago 43
@M3minusGrowth The United States of America (USA) will be renamed the Corporate Totalitarian State (CTS).
lukegreen37 1 year ago
@lukegreen37 Ah, no. USMC is already here. United States Marine Corps.
makemap 1 year ago
Ron Paul would reign in the banksters and also audit, if not eliminate, the Federal Reserve Bank. He would restore sound currency so the money you save maintains it's value and appreciates with interest. He would eliminate the planned inflation tax that causes our currency to loose it's value.
Obama pretty much does as he is told.
gsuitter 1 year ago 2
@gsuitter and ron Paul will probably be knocked off by the evil elite...
whoareyapauldunn 1 year ago
Oh gee! Did we just let them takeover our entire health care system? Oh yea. and I'm glad you po8inted out Obama is a product of the corporations. Funny I happened on this video. I actually had a tear in my eye for America tonight.
MayonR 1 year ago
@MayonR Private insurance companies are corporations that took over our entire health care system a long time ago- and reform did nothing to change that fact. Obama is a product of the corporations as have all our presidents for the last 50 years.
youcrackpot 1 year ago
The surfaces we set in place, the more our taxes have to be raised to pay for them, then more taxes means less hiring, less R&D and we, any half wit should figure this out.
gigerone 1 year ago
By the way, if all large corporations are painted bad then that is not fair, nor realistic. Not all corporations are ran by crooks. The more factory jobs we bring back here the more prosperous our economy becomes, the more jobs are there. Socialzied solutions are not the answer weather it is government bailouts, unemployment services or welfare.
gigerone 1 year ago
We need corporate America. We need the rich to hire the less rich. If it were not for large corporations the middle class would be out of work pertaining to factory jobs and other large corporate areas. When the government interferes with corporations then that is bad and interferes with the free-market. The more bailouts and regulation the more the economy suffers. It you do let them fail then they will never learn from there errors. The nice thing about the free-market is it can adapt.
gigerone 1 year ago
@gigerone Like TYT says, corporations are amoral. Their mission is to maximize profits. They have no mandate to do what is in the best interest of the country. If the corporation would maximize profits under fascism, then fascism is where the corporations will try push us. The most powerful voices are those that do not have the country's best interests in mind.
youcrackpot 1 year ago
greed is gravity.
benforshay 1 year ago
Young Turks, i always amazed at what you are saying and we all know this is the internet.... without disregarding your option and views. A suggestion, could you attach to your clips some of the fact you discuss i was quoting you about an issue but end up asking the question where did i get my fact from.... so a suggestion in which you can strengthen your program. I want to say to your team that make your web cast available "Sincere ty for standing up for those of us who can't"
David -Brooklyn
claudia1love 1 year ago 3
@claudia1love
Well actually they mention the sources in the clips. All you need to do is google the author or name or title, or if its a video you can find it here on youtube.
rencrow 1 year ago
@LivingForTheFuture but this is slavery. The coporations "they wont get rid of us because they need us we have all the jobs". thats the reason people will work for anybody when they are broke and they will do ANYTHING to get the job and aNYThING to keep it. No matter how bad they treat us and pay us crap wages, or deny our sick. We cant get rid of them because they have the jobs. Who's your Daddy, the billion dollar coporations.
Socrates469399 1 year ago
I have no problem with someone being as rich as they can possibly get even though i think its ridiculous to have more money than you can spend in your lifetime. And that money will be passed on to offspring and thats a generation who didnt have to work their way up, (but that is a different story lol). but system where it has more homeless and hungry people than financially secure people its a problem.
Socrates469399 1 year ago
What we have to accept, is that we have a broken system, a system that nurtures a human instinct of greed with no boundaries. And with a system like this there will always be homeless, sick, and hungry people. I actually am not for government, i am for a scaled down version of community managing, bringing the power back to the people. But so many are unaware of what this system does to many people.
Socrates469399 1 year ago
see everyone has this notion we have to "kill" the current system; it is DYING people, what everyone needs to do IS LET IT DIE. Stop investing in the schemes of others, stop accepting the bullshit that comes down the pipe from governments, federal and state/provincial/municipal, just STOP.
UBER069 1 year ago
Buy food, pay for basic amenities AND THATS IT> STOP BUYING OVERPRICED JUNK YOU DO NOT NEED. Then it will collapes, they will declare martial law, and suddenly the numbers of people tired of the bullshit actually MATTER compared to their flawed systems of enslavement. Just STOP.
UBER069 1 year ago
I mean there are some sociophathic types who make excellent liars and are ruthless in getting their way but clever at not getting caught. Now all the corporation has to do is turn a blind eye or slowly find their ranks (top down?) filling with these types. Being amoral they the corporations don't check on moral character if they don't have too, so the corruption is open to setting in. I.E. the amoral have no checks or balances about hiring evil if it gets a job done.
SKAMP57 1 year ago
Corporations can't be evil only amoral but they are possibly obliged then to employ evil people.
SKAMP57 1 year ago
I want you guys to know, this clip cannot be shared on FACEBOOK. Now facebook is censoring a NEWS SHOW? I mean you said nothing hateful, offensive, or wrong here. If anything, you're finally saying the things that matter. Why would FACEBOOK Ban you from Linking this video directly? This is Bullshit. Can you run a piece on internet censorship addressing this?
electronicoffee 1 year ago 4
We practise separation of church and state, and that seems to work out well. To some extent. Why not practise separation of government and business? Business doesn't intervene in government to influence politicians to make legislation that benefits them, and government doesn't intervene in business to protection certain competitors from competition. Keep the private sector and public sector separate. Each seems to work best when the other doesn't intervene.
BobGeorgeAU 1 year ago 48
@BobGeorgeAU for fuck's sake it says in god we trust on our money. America is bound to collapse over time (a very long time). some day America will be in history books along with the Roman empire etc...
jerman2003 1 year ago
@BobGeorgeAU Great comment, I just wish the majority understood this.
fixrifex 1 year ago
@BobGeorgeAU
Actually government needs to intervene in businesses from time to time to make sure the economy doesn't collapse into a state of anarchy. One prime example of government regulating is illegalizing inside trading, another is the Anti-Trust act.
Coraxuss 1 year ago
@BobGeorgeAU "practiCe" but you're right
iLikeBondage69 1 year ago
@BobGeorgeAU practise?
FlyinSpaghettiMnstr7 1 year ago
@FlyinSpaghettiMnstr7 Sorry, British spelling
BobGeorgeAU 1 year ago
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MrShiner55 1 year ago
@BobGeorgeAU If we practiced separation of government and business in the same way we did church and state, then the government would not be able to pass any laws or taxes that affect small business or corporations in any way, shape, or form. Essentially, corporations would be able to do whatever they want without any government regulations holding them back. Just look at what the Westboro Baptist Church gets away with (pretty much on a daily basis).
SWATpotato 1 year ago
this is excellent. tyt needs to push more of this kind of thing out into the public.
belteshazzar293 1 year ago
These so called "leaders" of ours, should wear corporate logos on their lapels... NOT the American flag!!!
unincorporated1 1 year ago
Thanks for posting, all need to know this.
knau1234 1 year ago 2
Cenk you finally get it. This same stuff has discussed in Zeitgeist and Zeitgeist Addendum. This path is a road to destruction. There is no hope within this system. That hope you see is an illusion to make you think the system can be fixed. The system is fatality flawed and this massive bubble that it has created will pop soon.
darrenc182 1 year ago 2
Cenk you finally get it. This same stuff has discussed in Zeitgeist and Zeitgeist Addendum. This path is a road to destruction. There is no hope within this system. That hope you see is an illusion to make you think the system can be fixed. The system is fatality flawed and this massive bubble that it has created will pop soon.
darrenc182 1 year ago
The cyberpunk era has begun
Desmaad 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
god damn,this is what everyone needs to watch, and then research
Zachdudeio2 1 year ago
god damn,this is what everyone needs to watch, and then research
Zachdudeio2 1 year ago
corporations are cancerous, let's head back to mainstreet, not wall street like gerald celente would say
Zachdudeio2 1 year ago
Nobody to blame but Dodd (cashin in), Barney Frank (cashing in).
S
StyngRay1 1 year ago
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed." Abraham Lincoln 1864 letter to Col. W. F. Elkins. Read 'Pawns in the Game' by William Guy Carr.
purpleprinc3 1 year ago
@purpleprinc3 So, in other words, corruption has plagued the US government. for quite a while. I'm amazed that the country hasn't completely imploded yet.
Desmaad 1 year ago
@Desmaad ~ It was corrupted almost as America began, which is why Lincoln was assasinated because he wanted to introduce his own currency the 'Greenbacks,' we have been enslaved by debt. I'd really suggest reading that book, it really is quite brilliant and extremely detailed, show's not just how America has been enslaved by debt but England, France, Spain, Russia etc from the moment of their revolution.
purpleprinc3 1 year ago
One of the best TYT videos ever.
Thumbs up.
MarquisdeBarrabas 1 year ago 2
O was Big Finances top recipient in 08 to the tune of $40 million. Might explain
why 12 months later there has been virtually nothing done to reign in Wall St's excesses.
RomeoMD25 1 year ago
@RomeoMD25 ... and yet Wall Street have pulled a whole sackload of money out of Obama contributions and poured it into the republicans.
Ungrateful swine.
dangerouslytalented 1 year ago
"How Corporations Captured US Government "
Easy; they waited for Progressive morons like you to give the Feds all the power. One stop shopping bitches! Then, inevitably, they bought the worthless turds in DC, Lock Stock and Barrle to do their bidding. You know, exactly like the Libertarians and Conservatives have been saying they would since the 30's.
History you morons; Learn it!
VerbotenDingleberry 1 year ago
We need a President now like Teddy Roosevelt, our last good GOP President, who went after the Corporations with both fists flying.
DillonDee1 1 year ago 2
@DillonDee1 Teddy Roosevelt? LOLOL. Teddy was one of the first Progressives. He was also in the pockets of big oil and banking. As a "RINO" he helped Woodrow Wilson get elected by running in a third party, "The Bull Moose Party", and splitting the vote from a true republican, William Taft.
mickeysears 1 year ago
@mickeysears Hmmm I seem to remember him breaking up the Standard Oil Trust...
dangerouslytalented 1 year ago
@dangerouslytalented Standard Oil was charged with violating The Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890 and was broken up on May 15 1911 by the Supreme Court, 21 years after the law went into effect solely because of Standard and a full 2 years after Teddy left office. He may have spoken out against Standard while the cameras were rolling but he sure dragged his feet to actually do something.
mickeysears 1 year ago
Cenk is waking up ...
CheekyMonkey888 1 year ago 2
When Cenk says 'The Borg' is that a Star Trek reference? Makes sense if it is...
ImposingSumo 1 year ago
@ImposingSumo yes, yes it is.
dangerouslytalented 1 year ago
And you are JUST NOW REALIZING THIS? We have the best Government money can buy.
Corporations are not PEOPLE.
scawa1952 1 year ago 2
ahahahaha when I clicked on this link exploder crashed ...everytime ...had to <<<<to get it to load ...weeeeeerd!!
dangermous1968 1 year ago
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back2themusic 1 year ago
borg = banks, big oil, big farma, military industrial complex,
back2themusic 1 year ago
important piece Cenk,
back2themusic 1 year ago
central banking and centralized power (the federal govt) are the danger - our founding fathers warned against centralized power, public and private. if we only stuck to the constitution, we'd be much better off today. now we're doomed.
megagagnon1 1 year ago
Enough with the constitution myth. It's a myth. Constitution was not followed from day one. And it's interpretation changes every twenty years or so. The US Constitution is like a Bible for some people where once they receive faith both are infallible. The US Constitution is a great start but in no way is it a perfect document. Read it as a fundamentalist and you will be surprised what changes were made to it. Read it as what it implies and there is no end to changes...
tier0008 1 year ago
@tier0008 living breathing constitution makes no sense either - why bother to have it at all if what it means is whatever you think it means? and there is a way to change it, an amendment process, which was made intentionally difficult. anyway, we ignored our founders wisdom, and soon we will pay the price.
megagagnon1 1 year ago 5
Yes. Nixon, Reagen and W.
What will the next 2 term GOP president do? Cut taxes for the wealthy, in-crease war proffering, nullify responsible regulations that protect the masses and doing all this while chanting "USA!" and "I DRIVE A TRUCK".
I don't care how much socialist legislation needs to be passed. This Decade of WMDs, Enron, Bernie Madoff, Black Water and boom/bust debt economy needs to end.
Fox News would've criticized Obama for NOT passing the bailout. He zigs, they zag.
EdwarioERS 1 year ago
Nixon, Reagan, and of course Bush some of the worst Presidents ever in Presidential History funny how there all Republican...just too add two of the most progressive presidents in my mind LBJ and FDR who fought for what would be considered socialistic ideals happened to be good for the country and Americans and were Democrats
keredmieles 1 year ago
The same conservative legacy of the 1930s and 1960s is trying to stop today's progressive legislation. All I have to say is where would we be today with out The New Deal and Great Society.
If the the watered down health reform bill hadn't passed the GOP would've gained more momentum than they already have. Either way they would've span it as a victory. Either "This was his Waterloo!" or "Wait till the Midterms!".
Who's judgment do you trust more: Sahara Palin or Dennis Kucinich?
EdwarioERS 1 year ago
Like I've said before; a society should never be based on profit. Its a very bad idea.
Lostfaith1980 1 year ago
I am sooooooooo glad I dont live in the US
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Lostfaith1980 1 year ago
Max Keiser, get him on your show!
eurogoldexchange 1 year ago
The borg metaphor is perfect ^^ nothing will stop them (or you need future technologies right now to stop them XD ), and resistance is futile XD
Norway have future technology allready though, we just choose not to give it to the US army, and we've got something called "psychological warfare" going on, which by looking at the recent Iraq vid, is gonna work like nobodys business ^^
lazygamerz 1 year ago
Well said by Cenk. Talked about a few things I didn't know about also. Horrible. Pathetic how Corporate Republicans use stupid middle class people and deceive them into screwing themselves over. The masses still lick that corporate ass without usually knowing it.
ridewave444 1 year ago
Good except they are evil. I've been trying to share the message of where we are going for 20 years. We are circling the drain and it is only a matter of time before we finally go down. For those who think those who think the system will stop the insanity, your mistaken. As long as wealth can be extracted those who make up the status quo will keep going until the house of cards folds. Only a massive, peaceful, and reality based social movement can possibly change this. Without that we're done
Navywxman 1 year ago
Yea, iceberg straight ahead, and the US is on a ship called Titanic.
djben1977 1 year ago
Too bad Bill Gates and Steve Jobs weren't the first ones to capitalize this whole government selling out deal. Think about it. With Wall Street controlling government what do we get? Economic meltdown. If Gates and Jobs controlled the government we'd have ultra-fast internet speeds, we'd have actually useful Apple gadgets (how about The iScratch ... my nuts all day), and all versions of Windows wouldn't have any bugs. Oh, well, you may say I'm a dreamer. It's all kinda sad, but I'd rather laugh.
jezmundberserker 1 year ago
see this is why i fear and hate big corporate america more than anything alive today im pissed at how the politicians have let this go on
phildew18 1 year ago
Read Jesse Ventura and Dick Russel's American Conspiracies, section 13 pp164-182.
If he's right you're just touching on the tip of the iceberg.
mtoffle 1 year ago
The financial system, like the corporate system, need to get their hands off my cookies and stay out of the public sector.
HostileNegotiator 1 year ago 4
you're all ready there cenk.
DrCrYz 1 year ago
Thanks.. You're right.. There is a problem, and it can't be fixed because the people we elect to fix it are beholding to the corporations to get elected. I wish I knew what we could do, I doubt elections will matter, we need massive civil resistance, voting will not change anything. However, for that to happen, we need to pull ourselves away from the media long enough to wake up.. So, I guess we are doomed, because we are a nation of sheep.
actualizeU 1 year ago
@actualizeU no we are not " a nation of sheep" stop thinking like that the first step off the edge.
my hand to yours into the dawn of tommorrow.
We are the American People and STILL we rise.
From the edge of death STILL we rise!
There is nothing to fear but fear itself.
HulkSmashPunyHumans 1 year ago
@HulkSmashPunyHumans I hope you are right friend.. I want to be wrong
actualizeU 1 year ago
@actualizeU Of course I am right because what's the alternative?
Despair? Doom? being Docile?
Is that what we hand over to our children?
Is that our mark?
How we just gave up when shit got hard?
I say Fuck That.
We have a war to win against these corporatists. these neocon slime who pretend to be libertarians.
So on your feet soldier.
HulkSmashPunyHumans 1 year ago
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Genjinuva 1 year ago
@Genjinuva got a favor I need from you. Go to your garage, close the doors...turn on your car...and wait.
boorens18 1 year ago
Everyone should watch this video.
Right, left, center. Alex Jones fan, tea bagger....
This is the reality we're in.
AltitudePolitik 1 year ago 22
I really hope TYT goes big. People need to hear about shit like this, and with the mainstream tv companies that's never gonna happen.
up2trix 1 year ago 2
You need to do a video titled "How the US Government captured Corporations and Tax Payers with Federal Reserve funny money"
JebBlack2010 1 year ago
Obama was captured long ago.
treid100182 1 year ago
The Powell Memo did not become available to the public until long after his confirmation to the Court. It was leaked to Jack Anderson, a liberal syndicated columnist, who stirred interest in the document when he cited it as reason to doubt Powell's legal objectivity. Anderson cautioned that Powell "might use his position on the Supreme Court to put his ideas into practice...in behalf of business interests."
manilaenglish 1 year ago
Wow. Unfortunately I, along with most people here, am a product of the US Education System. I had to look it up. It's true. Google "Powell Manifesto".
In 1971, Lewis F. Powell, then a corporate lawyer and member of the boards of 11 corporations, wrote a memo to his friend Eugene Sydnor, Jr., the Director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The memorandum was dated August 23, 1971, two months prior to Powell's nomination by President Nixon to the U.S. Supreme Court.
manilaenglish 1 year ago
It's more like we've already hit the iceberg and we're about to sink, yet, people still don't realize it...
Lullybean 1 year ago 22
@Lullybean
It's like the banks and corporations are in the life boats while the rest of the country is already sinking to the bottom.
Fuck the women and children first bullshit... THATS SOCIALISM!!!
:P
Joxman2k 1 year ago
@Joxman2k Ahahahaha, exactly. That analogy really puts things into perspective.
Lullybean 1 year ago
@Lullybean
:)
Joxman2k 1 year ago
"OF COURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRSE!!!!!!!!!"
Cenk Ugyar
TYT, everyday
realestatemalik 1 year ago 2
The banks are ran by the Fed. The Democrats voted to reinstate Bernake. Bernake is the reason hyperinflation in inevitable.
sendrid1 1 year ago
I wanna work for a big company and make mucho bucks!!
zundey2000 1 year ago
I still disagree, it's the system that's wrong. What the corporations doesn't have is votes.
The question is can the people be informed enough, to vote politicians???
Nades129 1 year ago
Political corruption is never ending.
imanisankofa 1 year ago
Very interesting stuff... but scary as well.
Fasten your seatbelt....
DeletedDelusion 1 year ago
@DeletedDelusion
Yes we Americans are interesting.
And would you like to know why?
Because we never stop warring especially within ourselves. That's why!
We are always turning and finding a new way. Thus comes our strength and our weakness. For we know the path to the light... but... the darkness.... the darkness... ....
HulkSmashPunyHumans 1 year ago
Incredible the genesis of all this corruption.
harr77 1 year ago
As much as i hate corporations buying our politicians, they are groups of people and have rights. The word corporation legally also refers to non profit corporations like the NAACP and the NRA, whose main vehicle of action is free political speech, including campaign contributions. We dont shouldn't exclude any type of entity from practicing free speech, but rather draft laws that can draw a line between contribution and bribery.
executehelenkeller 1 year ago
Btw, have you guys on the left ever thought to ASK one corporate contributor why he supposedly gives these huge amounts to candidates, rather than just make stupid-ass assumptions? I bet not. Probably because you have this really negative view of corporations being these big bad creatures who'll always lie and want to make children cry and all this nonsense, rather than simple self-interest.
whoo689 1 year ago
@whoo689 Just give it a chance. See what the corporate guy has to say. See if he'll admit to buying votes or wanting to b/c of a contribution. If corporations are so "willing to buy votes", then it should be no problem for a corporate leader to admit.
whoo689 1 year ago
@whoo689
Just give what a chance?
A chance to EVEN more steal our elections?
Holy shit you are a such a sell out.
Hey asshole corporations are not going to send MILLIONS of dollars for no fucking reason you sell out prick.
Ugh... you are so vile.
Seriously how do you live with yourself?
HulkSmashPunyHumans 1 year ago
@whoo689 You need to do the necessary research and you will find out just how wrong you are. You want evidence? Look for it. It's there.
If you want the TYT analysis, look through the archives of videos and you find it there as well.
dayati 1 year ago
@whoo689
Ron Paul has the same amount of disdain towards corporations and he is as orginal conservative/rightwing as one could get.
willia3r 1 year ago
I'm not saying corporate America has no influence, but in terms of campaign contributions, it's just not there. Their influence is ELSEWHERE, such as gifts to congressmen and stuff which give the more access to these congressmen to hear out the corporate executives' ideas and cases for or against legislation. The corporations do have a lot more money to lobby, for sure, and someone who gets a lot more access to a policymaker is more likely to be convincing, but contributions do not buy votes.
whoo689 1 year ago
@whoo689 The investment theory is borne out much more by data and actual hardcore studies of this subject than your assumptions. Assumptions don't mean jack shit if you're trying to prove or make a case for something. Where's your EVIDENCE that "large corporate contributions" buy elections? No one gives money to someone who's their political enemy, esp. ideologically. That's just dumb. People give to candidates who believe as they do. It's not b/c they're trying to buy them.
whoo689 1 year ago
@whoo689
Then why did two big Swiss banks who were among the 20 biggest doners in the last US presidantal elections donate money to both candidates?
DeletedDelusion 1 year ago
@DeletedDelusion It may seem bizarre at first for a big corporation to donate to a big gov't liberal like Obama, but in fact, corporations are forward-thinking, VERY MUCH SO, in fact. A corporation wins if it gets a bad regulation taking off it or lowers taxes for itself, and it can also win if it can get a bad regulation passed that increases barriers to entry for possibly new firms and give a competitive disadvantage to other firms, esp. smaller ones, in that industry.
whoo689 1 year ago
@DeletedDelusion Very profitable and large firms can afford to bear the costs of things like in-house food safety inspection, while smaller ones have a much harder time with that. In fact, if you do a little research, you'll find out that Phillip Morris was in many ways a supporter and shaper of that "healthy families" tobacco control act, whatever the hell it's called. GE has been a huge supporter of many Obama initiatives b/c of lots of goodies and subsidies as well.
whoo689 1 year ago
@DeletedDelusion We all know that insurance companies in fact did support, to some extent, many provisions in the current HC bill, esp. things like the insurance mandate. I mean, the gov't forcing a whole new load of customers to buy from them? That's like Halloween for these guys.
whoo689 1 year ago
best video i've seen from tyt in a very long time , great job guys , now get out there and preach this truth more often instead of bullshit tiger woods crap
lorndarken 1 year ago
People buy into this all-too-easy explanatio nfor why they can't get certain 'progressive' reforms passed because it requires zero critical thinking. They can keep drinking the Kool-Aid with ZERO actua knowledge of campaign finance regulations and limits. Hey, dummies, listen up! The Tillman Act BANNED corporate funding of campaigns since 1907, along with unions. PACs can only give 5 grand, and individuals can give 2400 max to candidates.
whoo689 1 year ago
@whoo689 You guys shoud know better than anyone else that the FEC watches campaign finance like a hawk. If they saw something amiss, such as corporations actually donating money from their own treasuries, esp. something like 100 grand, to candidates, they'd fucking send their asses to court. I guarantee it. They're hardcore bureaucrats!
whoo689 1 year ago
Keep drinking the Kool-Aid that folks like Cenk are giving you as a phony explanation for why you can't get your silly little "progressive" reforms passed, like single-payer healthcare. It's all a distraction! Don't you see he's playing you for fools? He honestly doesn't believe this nonsense, does he? People and groups who donate to candidates DO NOT give money to random candidates at every turn in the weird hopes that "enough money" will influence them.
whoo689 1 year ago
The US is a proto-fascist state. I'm sorry but it's true. A merger of State and Corporations is one of the prime tenants and features of Fascism. Some of the main elements of Fascism are corporatism, anti-unionism, entwining of religion and government, an anti-egalitarian Social Darwinist view of society, social interventionism, and a state obsessed with national security that violates civil rights in the name of security.
America has all of that.
A86 1 year ago
@A86
NO!
We will overcome. It might take awhile BUT SO WHAT?
Nothing good has ever come easy.
HulkSmashPunyHumans 1 year ago
@HulkSmashPunyHumans - Oh I'm with you. I'm just saying Americans need to come to terms with what our country has become.
A86 1 year ago
@A86
Aye.
I am with you too.
Seeing what is wrong is the first step towards adjustment.
I just want you to know that We are The American People and We have fought our way out of this countless times before and we will again.
No shit. No bragging.
All it takes is determination. AND THAT we have in spades. We will bring down the corporatocracy
HulkSmashPunyHumans 1 year ago 2
Meanwhile the Democrats blame the Republicans and the Republicans blame the Democrats as both sides refuse to address actuall problems and line their pockets with corporate money. Our news media, run by large corporations, act like this imaginary blame game is the truth while ignoring the fact that we actually have a one party system. Occasionally i guy like Ron Paul is allowed to say that but is quickly marginalized by the bigger "Democrats are socialists" "Republicans are greedy" message
doctender77 1 year ago
@doctender77
aye sing bro!
They can not fool all of the people all of time!
HulkSmashPunyHumans 1 year ago
This is what it means to be a Celt.
It means to find defiance in your own reflection.
It means to overturn the system.
It means to remember everything.
It means to give away everything.
It means to dwell in introspection.
It means to adapt to anything...
HulkSmashPunyHumans 1 year ago
I would rather have corporations having influence over Government, rather than big Unions
corporations at least provide services and produce goods consumers demand
the Unions do none of these things, just keep extorting more for their members and themselves at the expense of the consumers,..and drive companies to offshore to get cheaper labor
genie0390 1 year ago
@genie0390
Well that's because you are an idiot.
DO YOU HAVE A JOB MOTHERFUCKER?
I aint shit but at least I swing a GODDAMN hammer.
So run it by me again how I am not supposed to join a union which will help me and my family.
HulkSmashPunyHumans 1 year ago
Actually the note the clerk was different, but meant basically the same thing.
The court ruled that the case was without merit, and the clerk's note was something like (paraphrasing) "In this clerk's opinion, the case does have merit".
That FOOTNOTE was later used as precedent in other cases.
It should also be noted that the loophole providing corporations insulation for the owners, BOD, etc., has origins in legislation enacted to protect newly freed slaves.
Definitely worth reading up on!!
fret2424 1 year ago
The UNITED STATES is a corporation. 14th amendment MORON.
bigc028282 1 year ago
What a joke. Cenk being the "gate keeper" media again. MORON
14th Amendment *sshole
bigc028282 1 year ago
End The Fed!
Pher0cious 1 year ago
would be fun to argue that you cant own a company in the US. after all 'its a person'.
logoth80 1 year ago 2
the corporations were spending money before thi