An oligarchy of learning, where the educated govern the ignorant, or even an oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex, which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters, o...
Risk is the raw material for transformation for It’s the heart afraid of breaking, that never learns to danceIt’s the dream afraid of waking, that never takes the chanceIt’s the one who won’t be taking, who cannot seem to giveAnd the soul afraid of dying, that never learns to l...
Their blueprint may well be the way that the oligarchs took over Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. When the centralized economy crashed, there were willing businessmen that saw an opportunity and took it. Buying up formerly state-controlled industries at dirt cheap prices, the...
The oligarchs are to blame. While the American economy remains productive, the benefits of that economy keep getting channeled towards a smaller and smaller group of people, who keep exchanging wealth-for-power and power-for-wealth, with a profit on every transaction. (This point comes from ...
He couldn’t tell them how to be born rich, he wasn’t going to tell them how to launder money for Russian oligarchs, and nobody wants to know how to go bankrupt running Atlantic City casinos— so there was really nothing to teach. Trump admirers paid upwards of $30,000 for that ...
which parties are uninterested in taking action on climate change, and vote against them. We need to change how our politics work, so that our countries are run in order to support individuals who are doing the right things instead of for the benefit of a few oligarchs who don't care if...
BF: Sure. Their big plan for when China invades is to scoot out the back side with all their gold! [Laughs] DW: [Laughs] BF: [Laughs] Getting back to the thread… DW: So the Kuomintang fled China to Taiwan. THE WESTERN OLIGARCHS WANTED TO CONTROL THE WORLD’S GOLD...
Pursuant to article 46, it pledges “to afford [other UNCAC parties] the widest measure of legal assistance in investigations, prosecutions and judicial proceedings” to enforce their laws against bribery, embezzlement, and money laundering. These provisions put the oligarchs’ yachts at risk of ...
These oligarchs are not patriots – not a single one of them. Oligarchs are insatiable: there are never sufficient “markets” in which to sell, there is never enough revenue, never enough power in their hands. Their abiding fears all are based on the loss – even slightly – of any port...
It was only when the mob ruled, only when the uneducated could demand free bread, and constant “entertainment,” and threaten chaos and public order; only when the Priests seduced the Virgins; only when the Senate found the wealth of the oligarchs laid at their door, only when licentiousness...