Post by unlawflcombatnt on May 28, 2012 12:06:24 GMT -6
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9 Families
"The Nine Families is an American geo-political concept used to identify a group that provides massive donations to individuals, corporations, and political campaigns through the auspices of a benevolent foundation for the sole purpose of using the resulting political capital to advance conservative policies and agenda....
Origins
Beginning at about the turn of the millennium, the phrase "Nine Families" began to enter the American zeitgeist as the rapid expansion of the Internet allowed users from all over the world to more closely monitor the activities of organizations and think tanks that gather donations for use in generating, manipulating, or directing public opinion.
The usage began to gain prevalence after the start of the worldwide recession amidst fears and skeptical speculation that entire economies were being manipulated (and in some cases ruined) by a handful of individuals operating behind the scenes of so-called benevolent organizations.
It gained further expansion after Bernard Lawrence "Bernie" Madoff, an American stock broker that operated a massive Ponzi scheme, plead guilty in March 2009. Rumors abounding on the Internet of Madoff's connections to various "nine family" organizations—either for profit or protection—fueled the fire.
Conservative Families
The concept of "families" doesn't necessarily indicate a traditional family of siblings and/or parents. Often, it simply denotes a group of people acting together through a partnership that at one point and time was spearheaded or founded by a namesake. While the number and type of families changes depending on the author or spokesperson, the generally accepted list of conservative power brokers includes:
The Bradleys
The Carnegies
The Coors
The Morgans
The Rockefellers
The Scaifes
Foundations and Groups
Each so-called "family" operates a benevolent foundation or organization that acts as the public face and donation collection agency—often to efface large donations given by private donors, corporations, or other groups that, some would say, essentially purchase political capital used to manipulate the group's agenda and activities and wield it's influence over politicians and lobbyists.
The Adolph Coors Foundation
The American Enterprise Institute
The Bilderberg Group
The Bradley Foundation
The Brookings Institution
The Carlyle Group
The Carthage Foundation
The Center for Strategic and International Studies
The Council on Foreign Relations
The Heritage Foundation
The Institute for Justice
The Judicial Watch
The Media Research Center
The Scaife Foundations"
For the most part, I'd describe them as the elite Global Plutocracy--the rich people & entities that attend such things as Davos, and promote Global Collusion & Free Trade to exploit world resources--especially cheap labor--in their own best interests.
It is this collusionary plutocracy that promotes all the economic theories that favor the rich, while concocting pseudo-logical justifications for those theories.
Just think of the creative destruction fairy--where all those poorly used resources can be freed up and put to more "productive" use.
Never mind the fact that those "freed-up" resources--such as labor--are rarely put to a more productive use. Never mind that the "freed-up" capital is almost never used for a more productive use, instead be used for speculation or to employ less productive workers and even lower wages.
Never mind that the saved "opportunity cost" from throwing American workers out of jobs is never used for any more productive purpose--other than to move factories overseas to employ slave labor, and to bride the American Government into giving them more handouts, tax breaks, and freedom from regulations.
9 Families
"The Nine Families is an American geo-political concept used to identify a group that provides massive donations to individuals, corporations, and political campaigns through the auspices of a benevolent foundation for the sole purpose of using the resulting political capital to advance conservative policies and agenda....
Origins
Beginning at about the turn of the millennium, the phrase "Nine Families" began to enter the American zeitgeist as the rapid expansion of the Internet allowed users from all over the world to more closely monitor the activities of organizations and think tanks that gather donations for use in generating, manipulating, or directing public opinion.
The usage began to gain prevalence after the start of the worldwide recession amidst fears and skeptical speculation that entire economies were being manipulated (and in some cases ruined) by a handful of individuals operating behind the scenes of so-called benevolent organizations.
It gained further expansion after Bernard Lawrence "Bernie" Madoff, an American stock broker that operated a massive Ponzi scheme, plead guilty in March 2009. Rumors abounding on the Internet of Madoff's connections to various "nine family" organizations—either for profit or protection—fueled the fire.
Conservative Families
The concept of "families" doesn't necessarily indicate a traditional family of siblings and/or parents. Often, it simply denotes a group of people acting together through a partnership that at one point and time was spearheaded or founded by a namesake. While the number and type of families changes depending on the author or spokesperson, the generally accepted list of conservative power brokers includes:
The Bradleys
The Carnegies
The Coors
The Morgans
The Rockefellers
The Scaifes
Foundations and Groups
Each so-called "family" operates a benevolent foundation or organization that acts as the public face and donation collection agency—often to efface large donations given by private donors, corporations, or other groups that, some would say, essentially purchase political capital used to manipulate the group's agenda and activities and wield it's influence over politicians and lobbyists.
The Adolph Coors Foundation
The American Enterprise Institute
The Bilderberg Group
The Bradley Foundation
The Brookings Institution
The Carlyle Group
The Carthage Foundation
The Center for Strategic and International Studies
The Council on Foreign Relations
The Heritage Foundation
The Institute for Justice
The Judicial Watch
The Media Research Center
The Scaife Foundations"
For the most part, I'd describe them as the elite Global Plutocracy--the rich people & entities that attend such things as Davos, and promote Global Collusion & Free Trade to exploit world resources--especially cheap labor--in their own best interests.
It is this collusionary plutocracy that promotes all the economic theories that favor the rich, while concocting pseudo-logical justifications for those theories.
Just think of the creative destruction fairy--where all those poorly used resources can be freed up and put to more "productive" use.
Never mind the fact that those "freed-up" resources--such as labor--are rarely put to a more productive use. Never mind that the "freed-up" capital is almost never used for a more productive use, instead be used for speculation or to employ less productive workers and even lower wages.
Never mind that the saved "opportunity cost" from throwing American workers out of jobs is never used for any more productive purpose--other than to move factories overseas to employ slave labor, and to bride the American Government into giving them more handouts, tax breaks, and freedom from regulations.