“Forget the politicians. They are irrelevant. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice! You have OWNERS! They OWN YOU. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls.” – George Carlin, The American Dream [1]

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For Kamala Harris, the election underway that she was contesting was about “not going back!” She was a prosecuting Attorney attempting to hold in check a “convicted felon.” She was concerned that Donald Trump was a “fascist” wanting “unchecked power.”

Harris referred to Election 2024 as “The most consequential election of our lifetime.”

Whatever else it may have been, it is certainly the most expensive election of our lifetime! According to stats available at the non-profit organization OpenSecrets, fully $15.9 billion was spent overall, including over $1 billion dollars from shell companies and “dark money” groups not disclosing the identities of their donors that are trying to influence federal elections.

The nation may have been driven apart by the masses scared to death of the cartoonish villains in the media. We should therefore look beyond typical polito-chat happening in the work-place, the bar, and neighbourhood beauty salons and check out what the guys in real positions of power are saying.

Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, had this to say about the grand spectacle at the “holy of holies” ballot box:

“I’m tired of hearing this is the biggest election in your lifetime…The reality is over time, it doesn’t matter.” [2]

BlackRock works with both Democrats and Republicans. No matter the actual result, Wall Street is happy.

But now that we are looking at the (s)election of 2024 in the rear view mirror, it seems necessary to don our Deep State special eye-glasses and get a closer look at some of the processes active in both parties. We could then better calculate a more effective strategy than choosing the “lesser evil” every four years. We do our very best to accommodate your political needs on this special episode of the Global Research News Hour.

In the first half hour, we are joined by the writer and educator Dr. Jack Rasmus. He will delve into how he roughly predicted the outcome of the election in his two most recent pre-election articles and what the result would mean for the economic and foreign affairs of the country and also talk about the fundamental changes in recent years to both the Democrat and the Republican parties.

In our second half hour we talk with writer, blogger and geopolitical analyst Dmitry Orlov about his view that the elections and the president himself really don’t matter that much, and how the front man of the day will guide us through the wars, the collapsing economy and other factors.

And finally, we are joined by journalist and film-maker James Corbett about the aspects of the Trump campaign that ensure it’s loyalty to Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Miriam Adelson, and the forever war doctrine, regardless of what the new Commander-in-Chief may say, and what Americans can do to evolve beyond servitude in this rigged system.

Dr. Jack Rasmus is author of the book, ‘The Scourge of Neoliberalism: US economic policies from Reagan to Trump’ Clarity Press, 2019) and of the upcoming book The Twilight of American Imperialism (forthcoming later this year from Clarity Press). He is a host for the radio show Alternative Visions on the Progressive Radio Network, a journalist, a playwright, and a former professor of economics at St. Mary’s College (retired). 

He is a regular contributor to Global Research.

Dmitry Orlov emigrated from Russia where he was born to the United States in the mid-1970s. He has degrees in Computer Engineering and Linguistics and has worked in the fields of high energy physics, internet commerce, advertising and network security. He has now moved back to Russia. He is the author of numerous articles. His books include: Shrinking the Technosphere: Getting a Grip on the Technologies that Limit our Autonomy, Self-sufficiency and Freedom (2016), The Five Stages of Collapse: Survivors’ Toolkit. (2013) as well as  Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Experience and American Prospects (2011). Dmitry Orlov blogs at https://boosty.to/cluborlov.

James Corbett started The Corbett Report website (corbettreport.com) in 2007 as an outlet for independent critical analysis of politics, society, history, and economics. An award-winning investigative journalist, he has lectured on geopolitics at the University of Groningen’s Studium Generale, and delivered presentations on open source journalism at The French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation’s fOSSa conference, at TedXGroningen and at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto.

(Global Research News Hour episode 448)

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