Mulga, thank you so much for kind words and corroboration. I always enjoy your posts & agree with about 90pct of what you say, esp. about the Zionazis. To be up front about it, I don’t have much more use for the Northern Alliance than I do for Karzai & Co. But then my knowledge of the area is less detailed than your own, & I’m sure you have strong reasons for feeling as you do.
However since my habit is to pronounce “anaesthetizes” as though spelt with both a Theta and a Tau…;)

A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us,us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Einstein

Are we in a time of Universal deceit well it’s either that or grand stupidity. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Now movie starts how did they learn to do this well with the help of writers and special effects people help a little and policymakers how did they learn law school and people on Wall Street business school. Granted after school they get on the job training the fine points. Does the thinking restrict them to there personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to them? No just one of the people and once in power they love us very very much. How’s that health care bill coming or the climate bill what climate bill. What is it 30 billion from TARP to small business oops big fight. The 30 billion should go to pay off the deficit so our kid’s will have a better life. Such good people and very clever sort of. Ignorance is strength it work’s with the help of symbols proper dress and if someone asks the wrong question no more air time for you or the look and please leave your on the wrong team your fired. You can’t fire me am a citizen of the Universe, SECURITY. This delusion is a kind of prison for us. Was he correct on this? Nice cup of coffee game of checkers?

I think you might find it worthwhile as well as enjoyable to read the detailed analysis of the Capitalist State authored some years ago by the late French philosopher Louis Althusser and his collaborator Etiene Balibar, in a couple of very readable books titled “Pour Marx” (“For Marx”) and “Reading Capital”.
It was not until I encountered these works that I fully realized that the State includes EVERYTHING that functions to keep or help to keep the current rulers in power. It includes not just the political state, the lawmaking bodies, the Executive organs, the Judiciary, Army, Security Organs, but also the Ideological Apparatus, the MSM, Academia, publishing, “culture” in general, the religious establishments, plus other elements — and lest I forget, the Financial State apparatus, topped by the NY Fed & the Dept of Treasury, plus the congressional bodies who make sure the statutes on the books accord with what Goldman Sachs wants to do.
BTW, I am somewhat bemused by, among others, Alex Cockburn’s “Counterpunch” webpage. AC et al publish a lot of worthwhile stuff, but also have a cpl of quirks which have lead many to conclude they are in fact “part of the scam”. Which is lent credibility by Cockburn’s continuing relationship with “”The Nation”, a publication that is definitely part of said scam.
But what has me bemused is that Counterpunch publishes some of the most pointed criticism of the Israeli state to be found, and also some of the most trenchant exposure of recent financial shenanigans and former, future, and current Goldman Sachs employees in same. On the one hand, exposure of the vicious, lawless Zionist state, on the other exposure of the machinations of a bunch of enthusiastic Zionist US Jews in the US economy. But it seems never the twain shall meet, like there is some impenetrable mental firewall between the two sets of phenomena.
Would I be “going too far” if I suggested something more than a coincidence might be involved?

The bailout of Wall Street initiated in September 2008 was premised on the dire prediction that if major counterparties in the massive edifice of derivative contracts were allowed to fall, the whole interlocking house of cards would collapse and take the economy with it.

This statement is true. Had the bailout not occurred the ripple effect would have been huge and the economy would have been worse off. So the government was needed to step in. The problem was that the government didn’t extract any concession from Wall Street. For example they didn’t repeal the 1981 Kemp-Roth tax cuts on the rich. They didn’t repeal the 1978 Capital Gains tax cuts. They didn’t rollback the 1983 shift of SS tax burden on the working class. They didn’t restore revenue sharing for the states. They didn’t restore anti-trust enforcement to break up the big banks.

Therefore the government did nothing to redistribute wealth back to the citizens which is what is needed.

i suppose that capone also had own banking system. So does judiciary, congress, the capo. So is capo gonna punish self? he never had before.
he might, do u think?