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Osama Bin Laden Is The Dread Pirate Roberts

Well, Roberts had grown so rich, he wanted to retire. He took me to his cabin and he told me his secret. "I am not the Dread Pirate Roberts," he said. "My name is Ryan; I inherited the ship from the previous Dread Pirate Roberts, just as you will inherit it from me.

Waking from Lever-Lever Land
Source: Asia Times Online

The United States lived in Lever-Lever Land too long. Like Peter Pan, the country has refused to grow up.

Billionaire Bailout: Central Bank Socialism for the Rich, "bomb's-away capitalism for everyone else"
Source: Empire Burlesque

It is not exactly news that the Western world's fetishized "free market" is actually a mixed economy, combining cradle-to-the-grave socialism for the rich with ball-breaking, bomb's-away capitalism for everyone else.

As Always, an Unequal Pie: Wealth distribution
Source: The New York Times

THE distribution of wealth lies at the heart of political economics. Nations and empires have risen and fallen, and millions have died, as a result of humanity's struggle to decide how (or whether) to divide wealth.

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