Let's start with Russia. Putin decided to go all cold war and threaten to invade a neighboring country. The US went nuts, as did most of the world, which is a little hypocritical as the US invaded one country with no reason (Iraq) and possibly Afghanistan as well if 9/11 conspiracy theories are right about government involvement. Either way, it's hard to get on one's high horse when we have been caught red handed doing almost the same thing. Now mind you, we didn't go right in as Putin did, but the end result is the same. Regardless, the second Putin started sabre rattling, the Russian economy went belly up. And the billionaires (and possibly even trillionaires) of the world basically got Putin to pull back, lest the countries economic situation fall of the map.
When money is involved, especially as Russia has more of the world's billionaires than anyone thanks to the free market, fascist state that exists there, I am positive they put immense pressure on him to toe the party line and quit grandstanding. That is the real power right now. Not Putin. Not Obama. It's the super-elites that now wield so much power and influence, they can effectively control governments.
It's one of the reasons why the TPP trade deal that Obama has such a hard on for is so dangerous because it would make corporations the new de-facto leaders of the planet. t would give them ultimate power over sovereign states. These would be dictators the likes of which we have never seen. The worst part is, even without this trade deal, they still have more power than anyone else on Earth. They may not have nukes, but they have something much, much worse. With a flick of their wrist they could kill the economy of any country of Earth. They could start a new Depression in a heartbeat and governments know it. It's why no one went to jail for the epic fail of 2008. It's why the rich can get away with anything, including murder. It's why we do not live in a democratic country anymore.
The Republicans and Democrats (not all but 99%) are making sure that none if that ever gets heard. However, the civil war between the Tea Party and the Republicans have shown how powerful Big Business really is. The Tea Party has done the classic overreach that results in an epic smackdown, we have now seen in the past five primaries held so far. In every case where the race was the establishment versus the Tea Party, the latter candidate was beaten badly by the corporate backed GOP candidate. In Texas this week, John Cornyn easily beat his Tea Party candidate. Unfortunately, with the win of Greg Abbot for governor and Dan Abbot for Lt governor looking like the nominee,(neither of whom had a real candidate against them) these two Tea Party retards make Ronald Reagan look like Gandhi. When will people wake up and realize the Tea Party is quite literally killing them. Wendy Davis ran unopposed for the left for Texas Governor and we all should pray that she wins.
Meanwhile, the GOP House is voting for the 50th time to repeal Obamacare, Darryl Issa is still holding hearings about the IRS which are going nowhere, Lindsey Graham is saying Benghazi is the reason for the Russian Ukrainian crap, and John McCain and other are demanding we invade Russia stat, somehow forgetting that the world's largest nuclear arsenal is pointing right at us. Corporations run the show on both sides of the aisle and unless we do something about it soon, we won't have the ability to stop it.
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