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		By: JHCorcoran		</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thank you Aesopfan!

Always been a fan of Greenwald.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you Aesopfan!</p>
<p>Always been a fan of Greenwald.</p>
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		By: AesopFan		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[AesopFan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2021 07:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&quot;I am convinced this election was decided and planned starting 4 years ago. It was scripted.&quot; - JHCorcoran

You may be right about that.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/12/we_are_facing_an_unprecedented_corporate_tyranny_in_america.html
&lt;blockquote&gt;By Andrea Widburg
You must pay attention when voices from both left and right come together to express a common concern.  In this case, those voices are Glenn Greenwald and Tucker Carlson.  Both share dismay at the unprecedented power corporate America has acquired.  They are right to be worried.

...
 Today, corporations have complete control over our lives.  They know everything we buy, everything we earn, everything we think, and everyone with whom we communicate — and they have the on/off switch for all these things.
...
&lt;b&gt;The tech tyrants and the corporate media controlled the 2020 presidential news cycle.  They excoriated Trump, who fought for America, and lionized Biden, a stupid man with 47 years of failures behind him.  After their four years pretending Trump was allied with Russia, they dedicated 2020 to stifling facts proving that China owns Biden.  Their billionaires funded candidates and funded systems that supported their chosen candidates.&lt;/b&gt;
...
Glenn Greenwald, who values freedom and foolishly thought leftism was that path to freedom, understands this, which is why he wrote that &quot;The Threat of Authoritarianism in the U.S. Is Very Real, and Has Nothing to Do with Trump.&quot;  Instead, the real threat comes from &quot;a few corporate monopolies.&quot;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-threat-of-authoritarianism-in
&lt;blockquote&gt;Whether the U.S. was a democracy in any meaningful sense prior to Trump had been the subject of substantial scholarly debate. &lt;b&gt;A much-discussed 2014 study concluded that economic power has become so concentrated in the hands of such a small number of U.S. corporate giants and mega-billionaires, and that this concentration in economic power has ushered in virtually unchallengeable political power in their hands and virtually none in anyone else’s, that the U.S. more resembles oligarchy than anything else.&lt;/b&gt;
...
These COVID “winners” are not the Randian victors in free market capitalism. &lt;b&gt;Quite the contrary, they are the recipients of enormous amounts of largesse from the U.S. Government, which they control through armies of lobbyists and donations and which therefore constantly intervenes in the market for their benefit. This is not free market capitalism rewarding innovative titans, but rather crony capitalism that is abusing the power of the state &lt;/b&gt;to crush small competitors, lavish corporate giants with ever more wealth and power, and turn millions of Americans into vassals whose best case scenario is working multiple jobs at low hourly wages with no benefits, few rights, and even fewer options.
...
Stay-at-home orders, lockdowns and social isolation have meant that we rely on Silicon Valley companies to conduct basic life functions more than ever before.
...
That Facebook, Google and Twitter are exerting more and more control over our political expression is hardly contestable. &lt;b&gt;What is most remarkable, and alarming, is that they are not so much grabbing these powers as having them foisted on them, by a public — composed primarily of corporate media outlets and U.S. establishment liberals — who believe that the primary problem of social media is not excessive censorship but insufficient censorship.&lt;/b&gt;
...
These tech companies are more powerful than ever, not only because of their newly amassed wealth at a time when the population is suffering, but also because they overwhelmingly supported the Democratic Party candidate about to assume the presidency. Predictably, they are being rewarded with numerous key positions in his transition team and the same will ultimately be true of the new administration.

The Biden/Harris administration clearly intends to do a great deal for Silicon Valley, and Silicon Valley is well-positioned to do a great deal for them in return, starting with their immense power over the flow of information and debate.
...
The dominant strain of U.S. neoliberalism — the ruling coalition that has now consolidated power again — is authoritarianism. They view those who oppose them and reject their pieties not as adversaries to be engaged but as enemies, domestic terrorists, bigots, extremists and violence-inciters to be fired, censored, and silenced. And they have on their side — beyond the bulk of the corporate media, and the intelligence community, and Wall Street — an unprecedentedly powerful consortium of tech monopolies willing and able to exert greater control over a population that has rarely, if ever, been so divided, drained, deprived and anemic.

All of these authoritarian powers will, ironically, be invoked and justified in the name of stopping authoritarianism — not from those who wield power but from the movement that was just removed from power. &lt;b&gt;Those who spent four years shrieking to great profit about the dangers of lurking “fascism” will — without realizing the irony — now use this merger of state and corporate power to consolidate their own authority, control the contours of permissible debate, and silence those who challenge them even further. Those most vocally screaming about growing authoritarianism in the U.S. over the last four years were very right in their core warning, but very wrong about the real source of that danger.&lt;/b&gt;
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;I am convinced this election was decided and planned starting 4 years ago. It was scripted.&#8221; &#8211; JHCorcoran</p>
<p>You may be right about that.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/12/we_are_facing_an_unprecedented_corporate_tyranny_in_america.html" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/12/we_are_facing_an_unprecedented_corporate_tyranny_in_america.html</a></p>
<blockquote><p>By Andrea Widburg<br />
You must pay attention when voices from both left and right come together to express a common concern.  In this case, those voices are Glenn Greenwald and Tucker Carlson.  Both share dismay at the unprecedented power corporate America has acquired.  They are right to be worried.</p>
<p>&#8230;<br />
 Today, corporations have complete control over our lives.  They know everything we buy, everything we earn, everything we think, and everyone with whom we communicate — and they have the on/off switch for all these things.<br />
&#8230;<br />
<b>The tech tyrants and the corporate media controlled the 2020 presidential news cycle.  They excoriated Trump, who fought for America, and lionized Biden, a stupid man with 47 years of failures behind him.  After their four years pretending Trump was allied with Russia, they dedicated 2020 to stifling facts proving that China owns Biden.  Their billionaires funded candidates and funded systems that supported their chosen candidates.</b><br />
&#8230;<br />
Glenn Greenwald, who values freedom and foolishly thought leftism was that path to freedom, understands this, which is why he wrote that &#8220;The Threat of Authoritarianism in the U.S. Is Very Real, and Has Nothing to Do with Trump.&#8221;  Instead, the real threat comes from &#8220;a few corporate monopolies.&#8221;
</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-threat-of-authoritarianism-in" rel="nofollow ugc">https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-threat-of-authoritarianism-in</a></p>
<blockquote><p>Whether the U.S. was a democracy in any meaningful sense prior to Trump had been the subject of substantial scholarly debate. <b>A much-discussed 2014 study concluded that economic power has become so concentrated in the hands of such a small number of U.S. corporate giants and mega-billionaires, and that this concentration in economic power has ushered in virtually unchallengeable political power in their hands and virtually none in anyone else’s, that the U.S. more resembles oligarchy than anything else.</b><br />
&#8230;<br />
These COVID “winners” are not the Randian victors in free market capitalism. <b>Quite the contrary, they are the recipients of enormous amounts of largesse from the U.S. Government, which they control through armies of lobbyists and donations and which therefore constantly intervenes in the market for their benefit. This is not free market capitalism rewarding innovative titans, but rather crony capitalism that is abusing the power of the state </b>to crush small competitors, lavish corporate giants with ever more wealth and power, and turn millions of Americans into vassals whose best case scenario is working multiple jobs at low hourly wages with no benefits, few rights, and even fewer options.<br />
&#8230;<br />
Stay-at-home orders, lockdowns and social isolation have meant that we rely on Silicon Valley companies to conduct basic life functions more than ever before.<br />
&#8230;<br />
That Facebook, Google and Twitter are exerting more and more control over our political expression is hardly contestable. <b>What is most remarkable, and alarming, is that they are not so much grabbing these powers as having them foisted on them, by a public — composed primarily of corporate media outlets and U.S. establishment liberals — who believe that the primary problem of social media is not excessive censorship but insufficient censorship.</b><br />
&#8230;<br />
These tech companies are more powerful than ever, not only because of their newly amassed wealth at a time when the population is suffering, but also because they overwhelmingly supported the Democratic Party candidate about to assume the presidency. Predictably, they are being rewarded with numerous key positions in his transition team and the same will ultimately be true of the new administration.</p>
<p>The Biden/Harris administration clearly intends to do a great deal for Silicon Valley, and Silicon Valley is well-positioned to do a great deal for them in return, starting with their immense power over the flow of information and debate.<br />
&#8230;<br />
The dominant strain of U.S. neoliberalism — the ruling coalition that has now consolidated power again — is authoritarianism. They view those who oppose them and reject their pieties not as adversaries to be engaged but as enemies, domestic terrorists, bigots, extremists and violence-inciters to be fired, censored, and silenced. And they have on their side — beyond the bulk of the corporate media, and the intelligence community, and Wall Street — an unprecedentedly powerful consortium of tech monopolies willing and able to exert greater control over a population that has rarely, if ever, been so divided, drained, deprived and anemic.</p>
<p>All of these authoritarian powers will, ironically, be invoked and justified in the name of stopping authoritarianism — not from those who wield power but from the movement that was just removed from power. <b>Those who spent four years shrieking to great profit about the dangers of lurking “fascism” will — without realizing the irony — now use this merger of state and corporate power to consolidate their own authority, control the contours of permissible debate, and silence those who challenge them even further. Those most vocally screaming about growing authoritarianism in the U.S. over the last four years were very right in their core warning, but very wrong about the real source of that danger.</b>
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		By: JHCorcoran		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JHCorcoran]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2021 02:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[ArtDeco: You are 100% correct.  

Richard Aubrey: Too many of my associates.  It baffles and sickens me.  I talk to New Zealander’s who understand America’s government better then our citizens. It is not to say that the clueless ‘Kiwi’ doesn’t exist, but they do not vote in US elections and they are not required to understand our system of government.
I am convinced this election was decided and planned starting 4 years ago. It was scripted.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ArtDeco: You are 100% correct.  </p>
<p>Richard Aubrey: Too many of my associates.  It baffles and sickens me.  I talk to New Zealander’s who understand America’s government better then our citizens. It is not to say that the clueless ‘Kiwi’ doesn’t exist, but they do not vote in US elections and they are not required to understand our system of government.<br />
I am convinced this election was decided and planned starting 4 years ago. It was scripted.</p>
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		By: Art+Deco		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Art+Deco]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2020 16:32:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&lt;i&gt;Really. I don’t admire either of them. &lt;/i&gt;

Trump is vulgar, but has real accomplishments.  Obama does not (other than getting elected, which I&#039;d attribute more to David Plouffe).]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Really. I don’t admire either of them. </i></p>
<p>Trump is vulgar, but has real accomplishments.  Obama does not (other than getting elected, which I&#8217;d attribute more to David Plouffe).</p>
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		By: OBloodyHell		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[OBloodyHell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2020 16:21:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The REAL question is, how did someone who just made the top of this list get &quot;thoroughly trounced&quot; in the election?

By a guy who did very poorly?

Yet another piece of evidence of the blatant absurdity of this election.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The REAL question is, how did someone who just made the top of this list get &#8220;thoroughly trounced&#8221; in the election?</p>
<p>By a guy who did very poorly?</p>
<p>Yet another piece of evidence of the blatant absurdity of this election.</p>
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		By: GRA		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[GRA]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2020 15:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Seems like if you&#039;re the Obamas, or a leftie Dem, you don&#039;t have to do much to be admired.

&#062;6% - Biden

For POTUS, a vote for Biden was a vote against Trump. People never actually voted &quot;for&quot; Biden. Old Joe got in because lefties and drones were desperate, opting for their third string QB.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Seems like if you&#8217;re the Obamas, or a leftie Dem, you don&#8217;t have to do much to be admired.</p>
<p>&gt;6% &#8211; Biden</p>
<p>For POTUS, a vote for Biden was a vote against Trump. People never actually voted &#8220;for&#8221; Biden. Old Joe got in because lefties and drones were desperate, opting for their third string QB.</p>
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		By: Richard Aubrey		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard Aubrey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2020 06:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So, JH.  How many of your associates voted for it?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, JH.  How many of your associates voted for it?</p>
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		By: JHCorcoran		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JHCorcoran]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2020 05:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Obama has lost his mojo.  There is a lot of ‘skank’ in the Bidens, Kamalas, and Obamas these days. And we already know about the Clintons. With all the censored news, the facts still get revealed. The facts are ugly and unbelievable.   These are obvious, slimy characters from a Dickens novel. 

I cannot count how many people in their 80s and 90s have said they never thought they would see American be in the position it is in today.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Obama has lost his mojo.  There is a lot of ‘skank’ in the Bidens, Kamalas, and Obamas these days. And we already know about the Clintons. With all the censored news, the facts still get revealed. The facts are ugly and unbelievable.   These are obvious, slimy characters from a Dickens novel. </p>
<p>I cannot count how many people in their 80s and 90s have said they never thought they would see American be in the position it is in today.</p>
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		By: deadrody		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[deadrody]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2020 05:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[@ackler

&quot;...when was the last time a sitting president or president-elect scored only 6%? Has it ever happened? I doubt it.  Biden is a nonentity, almost completely irrelevant, and even Democrats know it.&quot;

Which is why he got more votes than any presidential candidate in history... ?

Seems suspicious]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@ackler</p>
<p>&#8220;&#8230;when was the last time a sitting president or president-elect scored only 6%? Has it ever happened? I doubt it.  Biden is a nonentity, almost completely irrelevant, and even Democrats know it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Which is why he got more votes than any presidential candidate in history&#8230; ?</p>
<p>Seems suspicious</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[deadrody]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2020 05:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[OOH, OOH, me, me, me - I can name something about Kamala Harris...

Slept her way to the top.  Fact.  Definitely something the smart set feminists should be admiring, for sure.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OOH, OOH, me, me, me &#8211; I can name something about Kamala Harris&#8230;</p>
<p>Slept her way to the top.  Fact.  Definitely something the smart set feminists should be admiring, for sure.</p>
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