Emily Spence

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The greed and selfishness that the free market capitalist economy inspires impact just about every area of social and commercial interaction in consenting societies, it seems. It's not just Wall Street and government leaders caught in the trap. It's the entire system in terms of the way that it's set to run, which moves the money ever more to the top economic tier by siphoning it from the bottom and middle ones.

Since there is a relatively fixed supply of money, it stands to reason that the more that one sector of society gets of it (often through economic disaster schemes in the patterns that Naomi Klein describes) -- the less that exists for other sections. So in the end, the country increasingly becomes a banana republic with a huge lower class, a greatly affluent upper class and not much in between.

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Michael Collins

Dr. Josef Mengele interrupted his medical career to serve in Germany’s war of aggression against the Soviet Union. 30 million of that nation's 170 million population died resisting the invasion.

After Dr. Mengele was wounded, he became a physician at Auschwitz. The Nuremberg trials detailed the type of medical torture at Auschwitz and other camps. Mengele had a special interest in twins. In his most appalling experiment, he performed an operation to surgically join two normal twins.

After being spirited out of Germany at the end of the war, Mengele spent the rest of his life in South America protected by Nazi sympathizers whose political heirs later murdered tens of thousands of their own citizens. Speculation to the contrary, Dr. Mengele is a real historical figure who participated in the real medical torture and genocide at Auschwitz.

BY GILAD ATZMON

Back in 2007 the notorious American Jewish right-wing organization, the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) announced that it recognised the events in which an estimated 1.5 million Armenians were massacred as "genocide." The ADL's national director, Abraham Foxman, insisted that he made the decision after discussing the matter with ‘historians’. For some reason he failed to mention who the historians were, nor did he refer to their credibility or field of scholarship. However, Foxman also consulted with one holocaust survivor who supported the decision. It was Elie Wiesel, not known for being a leading world expert on the Armenian ordeal.

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