Intelligent people should know that strict ideologies are dangerous.  

It is easy to pick out the active ideologies of the right as they have been supremely dominate in the US, England and Australia for a generation—and growing in Europe during the last few decades.  Severe social service and pension cuts should result, they say, from a chronic government debt crisis (made critical due to a neoliberal mindset which allowed excessive speculation via the collusion of government policy makers, banks, and the derivative’s market).  

So the right's ideological break with reality is that the lower and middle classes need austerity because the elite lost a bunch of money, included theirs, and now must be nursed back to health.  As long as they are doing good, everyone else will--eventually.  It was a good, applicable theory, but it is no longer working in today's economy.

I will not again detail 40 years of stagnate wages during the doubling of major sector productivity, economic growth/consumer spending financed by the credit boom, the unleashing of the elite's $700,000,000,000 (trillion) derivative's market, and the like as I have in past posts.  People that don't get this, ideologically don't want to: this is my point.  Strict Ideologies will maintain loyalty within people despite reality, trample human dignity, and finally themselves.  They always have--at least for all of written history.

This should be easy enough to see if one can have some objectivity, understanding and discernment.  What is less clear is to pick out the currently dangerous ideologies of the left.  They have been off stage, nursing their wounds from the Communism as practiced in the USSR, and revamping their theories.  I suspect some of their potential neoHegelian ideologies could be just as dangerous.  Next I will examine what the loyal opposition has to offer us in the way of destructive ideologies which could—given 40 years or so—set us back just as have the Ayn Rand, neoliberal ideologies of today.

L. Anton Feriozzi

       Multinational corporate interests will continue to anonymously control our government with either party in power. Most honest, thinking people have awoke to this fact. Even the original Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street agree on this.

     Yet the two party system controls the system so completely as to get people thinking, “I’ll do it one more time,” or, “I’m just wasting my vote on this third party." or maybe they just enjoy rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

       

      The most viable solution within the legal system is to start voting for the strongest third candidate until the two parties are forced to confront the issues corporations fearfully crowd out of the public dialogue.

You Have To Read This, So Another Preemptive War...

Advertising is the art of arresting the human intelligence just long enough to get money from it.
— Chuck Blore

You have decided without knowing it!

      So here we go again, the warmongering military-industrial-media complex has us in 70% agreement with another preemptive war.  The only debate is whether the President is "tough enough."  How's that for democracy?  

      Stranger still is the absence of any serious talk about it.  Wow, the level of control the military-industrial-media complex has to completely shut down dialogue, dialogue that was possible when we had a free and independent press,... back when we had a representative government.

     It's gotten so easy; just show a couple plausible, emotionally-charged videos--they know it bypasses our rational brain-- have the corporate media repeat 24/7, and BAM!, $500 million down payment on our country's most corrupt business.  Maybe they can squeeze another 1.5 trillion out of the taxpayers with no lasting effect like last time?  Meanwhile we can wave Old Glory and feel good about how we are still the strongest country on Earth, for now,...kinda like Rome in the 300s.  Anyways, it's easier than thinking.

What's to blame, the elitist amygdala (emotional brain).
      I believe those elite leaders behind this new war convinced themselves they are doing a good thing, that's what the emotional amygdala does: it short-circuits the rational parts of the brain with it's drivenness for something it wants.  The leaders making the decisions are like a drug addict, "I need this, we need this" I imagine them saying to themselves.  
    
    and our brain stem...
    For the 70%, if your emotions for revenge (amygdala) and your fear-fight-brain stem  is activated by fear from someone getting their head chopped off, it tends to short-circuit your rational brain.  This technique is used expertly by advertiser and public relations people before you know it happens.  

Your rational brain will rationalize the decision your more basic brain(s) made without your knowledge.  I wish more people knew about this, makes me wonder why.

If you want something emotional,
    What about the soldiers?  Their families?  Their mental health?  They're the ones that really have to live with these warmonger's decisions, they're the ones ordered to make "pink mist" out of people which have never threatened them or their country! 

It's a lot easier to go, than to come back.

...and let's not forget

ISIS is not that powerful.

It's a regional conflict,

and what will count as victory?

Sincerely,

Lawrence Feriozzi

James Foley : US Atrocity Propaganda?

    Why would ISIS be so stupid as to provoke the American military with the recent beheading of James Foley? Certainly they know they have a better chance of gaining power without provoking the United States?

Why are no corporate media outlets asking this basic question?
Or perhaps this is just part of the US government's plan described by General Wesley Clark years ago:

Video of Gen Wesley Clark Reveals US Plan To Invade Iraq, Syria, etc... in 2007

   I hope to God its not true. But we have seen these types of emotional claims "leak" before that serve the powers that want war in our government and military industries.  What of the female genital mutilations ISIS was perpetrating that turned out as faked?

Then there is the most famous of all atrocity propaganda:
  Nayirah testimony Oct. 1990 to Congress

Of babies being taken out incubators to die in Kuwait hospitals by heartless Iraq soldiers which testimony in Congress led to the narrow margin of congressional support for the 1st Gulf War.  This was a just war but presently I'm sceptical about further engagements that cost so much money and the young lives of our soldiers and foreigners who's children grow up to hate us.

In sincere hope our government is telling us the truth this time,
Lawrence Feriozzi

Health Insurers Lead Government To Death's Door

Why would an uninsured, broke, anti-government, libertarian --who needed expensive medical procedures--refuse government assistance?  He instead would struggle to pay a five figure medical bill out of his own pocket that would devour more than half his yearly wages.  The two main reasons the bill is so high is due in part to the government/corporate partnership within the healthcare industry, and the “un-supervisable” expertise of insurance company actuaries. 

The higher than competitive market price is a result of government subsidizing medical payments in the form of Medicare and Medicaid—providers continually increase prices and medical procedures they know a disinterested financier (the government) will pay.  It is no longer a competitive market when the government pays almost 50% of Americans' health care bill.  Ironically the above mentioned person is subsidizing a government-induced, non-competitive, quasi-monopolized health care system.

The private sector is perhaps even more sadistic.  Health insurance actuaries are paid well as the worlds' statistical masterminds.  No one else can understand what they do because it takes years of specific and complicated study to do it.  To oversee what they are doing would be like a preschooler supervising the scientist’s search for the God particle.  They minimize the risk of losing money by primarily insuring those who don't need health care, charging exorbitant rates to those who might, and rejecting those who will.  (It makes their job easier that the government already pays for 90% of this last, sickly, category through Medicare and Medicaid).  So with a lot of help from the government, actuaries played perhaps the most important part in the $12,000,000,000 of profit the five largest health insurers made in 2009.

Sincerely,

Lawrence Feriozzi

Corporate Censorship of the Public Dialogue.

Having just watched  Shadows of Liberty, several emotions developed within me.  The first emotion was disgust for our society that allows/abets the confinement of discourse occurring in our corporate dominated media.  Secondly, repulsion for The Rendon Group and others vocationally devoted to this corporate censorship, and finally, courage from those who stood up to these rotten figureheads in our society.

I often wonder why is there such a lack of substantive issues reported in our mass media, instead they report titillating stories akin to BDSM in pornography, (you know what it stands for).  These corporate led media conglomerates know they can keep us distracted and stupid with stories of blood and sex for the same instinctual reason we have rubberneckers and romance novels.

Our political discussions are the discussions they frame for us, big media no longer need to silence issues that threaten their ability to make a profit, they are simply never mentioned:  We have no idea what we are not talking about.

Sincerely,
Lawrence Feriozzi

Rush is Corporatist Tool

    The largest corporate donor's billions, their lobbying, and their writing of the complex anti-competitive regulatory laws—which is impenetrable to everyone except them—has defiled our republic.  It has done so by eliminating competitive capitalism at the highest levels.  The largest corporations in all of our mature industries have nearly become state-supported monopolies and oligopolies. 
     The biggest companies in oil, food production, media, education, health care, banking, credit cards, etc., have used Republican's loyalty to the idea of free-markets to perpetrate less competition in our economy.  Their use (abuse) of governmental power; tailored regulations, corporate bailouts, lax antitrust prosecution, will eventually destroy our economy. 
     Do influential Republicans like Rush Limbaugh see this?  Do they know they are a corporatist tool?

Sincerely,
Lawrence Feriozzi