Now that America is decapitated, dictators of China and Russia are battling it out.

We are witnessing the rise of China to 1st place in the world of economic powers. America is decapitated, and the battle between the dictators of China and Russia is in place.

http://moneyinc.com/10-richest-russian-billionaires/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/pamelaambler/2017/10/30/where-young-chinese-billionaires-are-making-their-wealth-and-spending-it/#6c0985857fb6

Russia, started far behind, but used a trojan horse to seize control of American political power: Putin seized the Congress by superfunding the NRA.  Putin's genius was well-known but the Koch's cooperation was a huge surprise.  The Kochs pointed Putin to the use of a carnival barker as a distractor. The NRA was used to place empty suits into the seats of power.  Using its own resources against itself, Government is helpless, and we are witnessing the disguised sell-off and stripping of the assets of the former American Republic. Fox News, owned by offshore foreigners, has been teaching Americans to hate their own for decades.  And Fox News owns most of the porn which dominates the internet.  Faux News is a major industry, carefully curated, targeted, and projected for maximum toxic effect.

China continued to secure its seizure of America through the cooperation of the Walton-Merce lords of the South and Mid-West, using Walmart and chains of Casinos to destroy the middle class. 

Between the dictators of Russia and China, whoever tears off the biggest pieces of America will be declared the "winner".  And the entire globe will suffer, as science, the arts and the hearts of humankind gradually fade, and drown in tears and bitterness.

In terms of sources of Power, the only remaining hope against these global powers are the remaining unaligned billionaires.  We do not know what Amazon, Google, Apple and Microsoft might accomplish.  We do know that few other sources of power will survive this onslaught and the dive into resource depletion, numbing depravity, crippling poverty, and unleashed tyranny.   Sadly, the unaligned billionaires are not motivated or organized.  Corporate monopolist boards are structurally incapable of responding to crisis.  

Private stock companies simply cannot move quickly to seize treasure -- like Putin's puppets and Xi Jinping's Chinese syndicate.  Feudal lords of piracy will destroy the peace and prosperity built by the great republics and the middle class.

Sadly, the Bush Legacy lives on...BP, Pentagon-gate, overpaid corrupt officials

Just from a few items reported in the LA Times today...it appears that the Bush Legacy just keeps on giving:

1. PENTAGON ACCOUNTING. The Defense Department has never accounted for billions of dollars given to and entrusted to it. The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction was created in 2004 to oversee $53 billion appropriated by Congress for reconstruction. For the most part, there are no records, and billions have not been accounted for at all.

2. CITY OF BELL. The Mayor, Manager, and Council of a charter city were exposed for giving themselves high salaries and benefits, while cutting back services and depleting municipal resources to do it: $787,637 to Robert Rizzo as City Manager, $457,000 to Randy Adams as Police Chief, etc. Documents show that the employment records go back to 2003 when the wholesale looting began.

3. BLAGOJEVICH. The trial of this former Governor of Illinois is concluding. Among other evidence was the $12,000/month income for his wife who performed no services and had no qualifications for a real estate firm, Rezko.

4. WIKILEAKS re Afghanistan War. New documents have been outed from the secrecy under which they had been wrapped which "offer insight primarily into the war-fighting of the recently departed George W. Bush administration". [A10] The document reveal the deliberate killing of two Reuters journalists in July 2007 , and the absence of any leadership from the Bush administration. Any. Basically the documents reveal the fact that what administrative officials were telling us was pure fabrication. The troops on the ground were not trained for what conditions they found, and the mission was compromised from the beginning.

5. LEVERAGED BUYOUT OF TRIBUNE. The court-appointed examiner in the Chicago Tribune's bankruptcy determined that the 2007 leveraged buy-out was marred by the "dishonesty" of its senior management--to the extent that the $8.2 billion transaction was a fraudulent conveyance [AA2].

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6. ARLINGTON CEMETERY. During the 8 years of Bush appointees "taking charge" of the government which they openly despised, the displacement of remains and records at Arlington occurred. Over 6000 are in disarray. No one is being held accountable, but even worse, it is astonishing to see that the appointees who were paid to be responsible have such little honor that they do not step forward, take responsibility, and devote themselves to correction of this sad state.

7. SPILLED OIL. Not just the spill in the Gulf, but simultaneously, there have been spills in Alaska, and even in the Great Lakes region. The scale of this depredation is significant, but it pales in significance to the scale of the ignorance, incompetence, and mindless denials of the Bush-Cheney-Rowe appointees and the Limbaugh-Breitbart-Fox network of idiologues who continue to rant with such indifference to science, honor, responsibility, and recovery.


Once the Government is dismantled and its positions filled with blind idiots, the predators come out of the bushes and actively destroy what is left. The destruction is far worse than mere entropic neglect -- it is pillage driven by the open invitation for spoil. After 8 years of irresponsible authorities, society now pays the price.