http://www.tv.com/las-vegas/heroes/episode/958574/summary.html?tag=ep_list;ep_title;16So why would i use my blogspace-time to mention this??? Well, quite frankly, it rather blew my mind. You see, this subtextual construct was that very rich people with extraordinary economic and political power are literally free to do whatever they desire to further their goals and intentions. On the episode of Las Vegas, the wealthy sociopath drugged and kidnapped a female for his personal sex slave, alluding to the fact that he had been doing this for a very long time, and that no one could really stop him from doing so. On the episode of Numb3rs, another billionaire manipulated and controlled an election through electronic hacking of central tabulators ostensibly to dominate CA election results and insure that he determined the future of national and international policy (with his fellow plutocrats). To accomplish this he used pawns, puppets, and syncophants, then had them killed, and then bragged that he was essentially untouchable.
http://www.tv.com/numb3rs/democracy/episode/985690/summary.html?tag=ep_list;ep_title;17
Plutocrats and oligarchs are beginning to exert their political control and will over much of the planet. As neo-feudal lords of capital they are beyond the scope of laws and consequential forms of justice as retribution for their heinous actions against all species. Flaunting this on tv, as part of dramatic series, only further serves their agendas, brazenly challenging the norms by which national and international societies conduct themselves. Political power in Russia, for example, is being consolidated in aligning plutocrats and oligarchs under one single strand of feudal authority. Those that step out of line, and especially those that try to report on the processes, are being marginalized, imprisoned, and killed. The US plutocrats are firmly supportive of abhorrent totalitarian regimes in the Middle East, to further purge discontent and threats to their power. The US is engaging Iran because of the dependency of the oligarchy on super light, and light crude oil traded in US dollars. Ever onward is the push to privatize the services of government from prisons to education, from social services to healthcare, from public works to military. Privatizing these systems imbues the corporate lords with immense power and removes the threat of consequence and justice.
Update: News today reports that Halliburton is moving its corporate headquarters from Houston to Dubai. Essentially this puts the company, and its board, in an extradition free zone, where Cheney and his cronies can go hide out the rest of their lives in the most stupendously outrageous region of conspicuous overconsumption on the planet. Of the 900+ billionaires in the world a full 46% of them have personal properties in Dubai, a nation protected by huge private security forces armed with the latest and most sophisticated of military technologies. Go figure.
Update #2:Time’s Karen Tumulty comments on Halliburton’s plan to move its headquarters from Houston to Dubai: “Is this about tax breaks? Getting beyond the reach of congressional subpoenas? And what about all that sensitive information that Halliburton has had access to? At a minimum, reincorporating in Dubai would mean that Halliburton will be paying less taxes to the U.S. Treasury, even as it collects billions from government contracts.” She also reports, “Henry Waxman is already planning to hold a hearing on this, an aide tells me.”
