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J “In the last four years? Too many institutions are failing with each passing year.”
K “Since our last discussion, the American Civil Liberties Union has gone off the rails and opted to fail. Yet they have maintained their defense of some civil liberties.”
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K “The courts are increasingly militarized and weaponized war zones. The major political crime families prosecute and persecute their opponents in the name of ‘Le Law’ before hand-picked and cooperative judges.”
J “It depends on the court. Count me a fan of the recent Colorado Supreme Court decision.”
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J “I agree the Federal Reserve is failing faster and may now have undermined all credibility and lost control of the economy. That frank recognition does not inspire confidence.”
K “End the Fed, they said. Mend the Fed, I said. End the Fed, I recently said.”
J “A lawyer is heading the Fed. I am uncomfortable with a lawyer heading the Fed. I am also uncomfortable with a lawyer heading the Department of Just-Us. And I am uncomfortable with an economist heading the Fed. An English major should head the Fed. Calculated obfuscation and willful misdirection should be eschewed and verboten, I say.”
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J “You still nurturing your cavil with the MSM.”
K “Still deeply troubled by the wholesale lack of integrity and independence.”
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K “For decades, I gave Academia a pass. Academia has earned a failing grade. I noted to someone recently that Harvard is ‘half a hedge fund and half a hustle’. Think Eric Hoffer. Are they going to refer to it as the Harvard Zuckerberg College of Arts and Sciences or the Harvard Gates College of Art and Sciences. To distinguish their graduates. Or warn others.”
J “All of the profitable universities adhere to the same business plan. There is not much difference. Massive bloated bureaucracies of useless administrators pursuing petty grievances and protecting patches of turf rather than developing and analyzing doctrines, notions, ideas, hypothesis, and tentative conclusions and challenging others to do the same. Some of the mascots are clever.”
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[See the e-commentary at Fourth Annual Noble Prize In Jurisprudence (October 21, 2019) awarding the Noble Prize in Jurisprudence to the ACLU. See the discussion of the ACLU’s failure in the face of a fundamental challenge to civil liberties in Korematsu Two; And The ACLU Endorses It! (September 6, 2021). The state of journalism is discussed at Read, But Don’t Read (June 26, 2023), Is Tucker Carlson The Walter Cronkite Of Our Day? (July 17, 2023), 2024 Pulitzer In “Breaking News Reporting” And “Investigative Reporting News”: Jeff Gerth And The Columbia Journalism Review / Kyle Pope (March 13, 2023) and Eighth Annual Pushitzer Prize In Commentary For 2023 (May 8, 2023). The courts are discussed at Weaponizing The Judiciary: Democratic Prosecutors + Democratic Judges; Republican Prosecutors + Republican Judges: Bad Math, Very Bad Math (December 4, 2023) and The Government Stumbles; The Judicial Legislature Rumbles (October 2, 2023). Academia was discussed years ago at “Adjunktification” In The S.I.C. (Schooling Industrial Complex) (March 13, 2017) and The “Intellectual Infrastructure Investment Act” (“III”) Oh, And Happy Valentine’s Day! (February 11, 2019). E-con-omists and e-cono-omics are discussed at Wandering E-con-omists: The Travels And Travails Of E-con-omic Sciences (November 4, 2019).]
Bumper stickers of the week:
“We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy our economy.” Chris Hedges
“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” Eric Hoffer
DNC = RNC = WWP
e-commentary 
Does Any Institution In America Function? Oh, And Happy Friday The 13th! (December 9, 2019)
Posted in Academia, Banks and Banking System, Congress, Democrats, Federal Courts, Federal Reserve, Institutions, Jurisprudence Award, Kleptocracy, Law, Medicine, MIC, MICAC, Military, MSM, Noble Prize in Jurisprudence, Pushitzer, Pushitzer Prize In Commentary, Republicans, Supreme Court on December 9, 2019 by e-commentary.org. . .
J “I need one more day.”
. . .
K “You don’t have to name three, just nominate one.”
J “One institution after the other after the other after the other after the other after the other after the other has failed and continues to fail. And that is even after lowering the standards to the point that the bar is on the floor. One more day, I need.”
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K “The legal system at every level is a fraud and a racket. We live in a country with many, many, many rules and many, many, many laws, but we do not live in a country that believes in or adheres to the rule of law. There is no law, there is only ideology.”
J “The medical and health care / sick careless system is a racket and a fraud. I drive by the health insurance company skyscraper and reflect that not one person in the monolith has ever applied a band aid to a patient. There is no care, there is only profitability.”
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K “The economic system is rigged at every step and turn to loot every last dollar from the people for the benefit of the Kleptocrats. What is the end game for the expendable consumers who soon will have nothing left to bleed?”
J “The MSM media is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Kleptocrats. The message is tightly controlled by obedient droves of stenographers. As a first step, everyone should skip ‘The Wall Street Journal’ and jump over to ‘Wall Street On Parade’ produced by Pam Martens and Russ Martens.”
K “Academia is a substantially owned subsidiary of the Kleptocrats. The message on the critical issues is also controlled and shaped by the corporate sponsors. The campus buildings are all named for brigands; their kids and grandkids are admitted to skip the classes conducted in the namesake halls. The hallowed halls are hollow holes. The MIC is now expanded to include Congress and Academia in the MICAC.”
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K “Every agency from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) – in the air and on the sea – is corrupt and incompetent. Regulatory capture exists at just about every regulatory agency.”
J “Furlough the ‘L’ out of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (B“L”S). To determine the real rates of unemployment, a citizen must search in the shadows at “Shadow Government Statistics” prepared and analyzed by the dedicated and informed John Williams.”
K “And then there is the Federal Reserve. Probably no other institution, less one and perhaps two, has inflicted more grief and despair on the ordinary citizen with less publicity and notoriety than the Federal Reserve.”
J “And related agencies such as the Securities And Exchange Commission (SEC), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) are pernicious because they fool the citizen into believing that someone is watching out for him or her.”
K “And the Department of Defense (DoD) exists primarily to spend money, drop bombs, and kill people but not to provide for the common defense.”
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J “The CIA and the FBI are a threat to every citizen at home and abroad and now may be affiliated with and advancing the interests of one political party.”
K “The police in every burg and borough are paramilitary forces occupying the city and the county and the country. Very few understand that the real Occupy movement in America grinds on.”
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K “Even many of the vaunted NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) surreptitiously serve the government’s interests. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is a front for the MICAC and shielded by the MSM that advances the propaganda.”
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J “Local EMTs and fire departments are generally contributing to the public good.”
. . .
J “The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) is a credit worthy institution administering its duties dutifully.”
K “Despite unrelenting opposition from the White House, Republicans and industry, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is doing what it can to reduce the plundering and the pummeling of the Planet.”
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K “The ACLU is fighting the good fight.”
J “Planned Parenthood is improving our plight.”
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[See “Journalist: Newsweek Suppressed OPCW Scandal And Threatened Me With Legal Action” and other articles in “caitlinjohnstone.com” by Caitlin Johnstone, the 2019 recipient of the Pushitzer Prize In Commentary, dated December 8, 2019 and the discussion of e-con-omics in “Against Economics” in “The New York Review of Books” by David Graeber dated December 5, 2019.]
[See the e-commentary at “Here Comes Da Judge; Dere Goes Da Justice (August 31, 2015)”, “The FBI File: The American Imprimatur Of Success (January 18, 2016)”, “Suing Law Schools; Suing Gun Makers. Oh, And Happy Law Day! (April 30, 2018)” and “Clinton, Inc., Trump, Inc., Bush, Inc., Kennedy, Inc., O’Bama, Inc. (October 24, 2016)”.]
Bumper stickers of the week:
“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” Eric Hoffer
America is a racket not a republic.
“If the misery of the poor not be caused by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.” Charles Darwin
There is nothing you can do to make any material change of any kind in any way today.
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” Arthur Ashe
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