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🧾 The Lobby That Never Loses 💸

Posted: July 31, 2025 in Anarchy Journal Constitutional
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Elections change the faces—but never the outcome. Lobbyists always win.

“Now it’s just an oligarchy, with unlimited political bribery being the essence of getting the nominations for president or being elected president.”
— Jimmy Carter

Every election cycle, we’re told to pick a side.

Red or blue.
Hope or fear.
Change or more of the same.

But behind the curtains and campaign ads, the same winners always emerge: the corporations who bankroll both sides.

Their lobbyists don’t need to win elections.
They just need to outlast them.

“The most offensive aspect of the modern political system is how entirely legalized the corruption is.”
— Matt Taibbi

The Revolving Door Spins On

The people writing our laws?
They often come straight from the industries they’re supposed to regulate.

And when they’re done “serving the public”?
They go right back into the private sector—with a pay bump for playing ball.

This isn’t representation.
It’s a handshake deal between government and corporate power.

And it’s why regulations rarely hurt the companies they’re aimed at.
They’re often written by them.

“The reason why the U.S. government does not hold elites accountable is because they are part of the same system. It is not broken — it is designed that way.”
— Glenn Greenwald

Regulatory Capture Is Not a Flaw—It’s the Design

When Big Pharma influences the FDA,
when defense contractors sit on Pentagon advisory boards,
when fossil fuel execs shape environmental policy—
that’s not corruption by accident.
It’s the system working exactly as built.

Agencies meant to protect the public
are used to protect the profits of the powerful.

And once captured, those agencies become shields—
giving the illusion of oversight while doing the opposite.

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.”
— Noam Chomsky

Campaign Donors Aren’t Donating—They’re Investing

In 2024, over $17 billion was spent on political campaigns.

But none of that money was a gift.
It was an investment.

And like all investors, donors expect returns:
– favorable legislation
– deregulation
– subsidies
– tax loopholes

They buy access. They buy influence.
And when necessary, they buy silence.

No matter who wins the vote, the lobby wins the outcome.

It’s Not a Bug. It’s a Business Model.

We’re taught that voting is our voice.
But what happens when the choices are pre-approved by money?

What happens when both parties answer to the same donors?
When every regulation is pre-lobbied?
When the economy is run by the few and paid for by the many?

Then we aren’t living in a democracy.
We’re living in a managed marketplace.

And the customers don’t get to write the rules.

“Elections are supposed to be an expression of will — not a demand for submission to manufactured choices.”
— Edward Snowden

🩸 Truth Over Tribalism

This isn’t about red or blue.
It’s about the money that owns them both.

It’s about a system where billionaires write the laws,
corporations fund the campaigns,
and lobbyists run the show.

We don’t need new slogans.
We need new structures.
Because the lobby will keep winning—until we stop playing by their rules.

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🕳️ What Do We Do With the Truth?

Posted: July 26, 2025 in Anarchy Journal Constitutional
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The Epstein list is no longer a conspiracy theory. So why does everything still feel so silent?

📚 The Facts — No Longer Fringe

Over 170 names have now been confirmed through the release of legal documents tied to Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking network. These include billionaires, celebrities, politicians, and royalty. The details are out. The timeline is established. The cover-up is ongoing.

🔦 What Do We Do With the Truth?

We now know.

Not in theory. Not through whispers or redacted documents or vague rumors.

We know — because it’s confirmed.

There was, and likely still is, a global sex trafficking network facilitated by billionaires, royalty, scientists, politicians, and financiers. Children were exploited. Victims were silenced. Powerful names were protected.

So what does it say about us?


That these are our leaders.
That this is our system.
That this was allowed to exist.

What does it say about power?
About justice?
About what we tolerate?

What kind of society protects this?
What kind of humanity forgets it?

We have been taught that truth is powerful.


That exposure leads to change.
That sunlight is the best disinfectant.

But what happens when truth lands like a stone in the ocean?
When facts come out — and are absorbed into the machine of normalcy?

What happens when justice does not follow evidence?

This isn’t a left vs. right issue.


This isn’t partisan.
This is a reflection of power.

And maybe that’s the point.
Maybe we are not meant to act on this truth.
Maybe we are only meant to know it — and feel helpless.

But that’s not enough.

We should not be okay with knowing… and doing nothing.

We should not learn of atrocities… and scroll past.

We cannot pretend that this level of coordinated abuse — and cover-up — is just another passing headline.

Some truths shouldn’t fade.


They should haunt.
They should wake us up.
They should never be allowed to settle.

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If you’ve made it this far, sit with it.
Not to be consumed by despair — but to resist forgetting.
Because forgetting is how they win.

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#DNCLeaks Fallout Shows Wikileaks = #Journalism

Posted: August 12, 2016 in Anarchy Journal Constitutional
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By @anarchyroll

What is journalism? What does it mean to be a journalist in 2016?

What is journalism in the era of media conglomeration? Has media conglomeration turned journalism as it was known in the 20th century into public relations for the 1%?

Is journalism;

  • What we see on local evening news? Sensationalized reporting of gun violence amongst those on the low-end of the economic ladder between sports, traffic, and weather.
  • What we read in newspapers and magazines between the advertisements, crossword
  • What we see on national news and cable news? Human interest pieces, celebrity gossip, and opinions given about politics, sports, and Hollywood all looped and edited to elicit emotion rather than thought or discourse.

Is journalism meant to report facts and information that affects large numbers of people based on the political, economic, and/or environmental the information will impact? Or is it just people writing/broadcasting what newspaper owners and trending topics dictate?

Journalism is about facts and information. It’s about exposing injustice to the public. It is about shining the light of truth into the dark corners of conspiracy and deceit.

Just because a small group of billionaires has bought all major news outlets (media conglomeration), doesn’t mean they have bought the facts and information that qualifies as news. Just because political parties receive large donations and cater to these media conglomerates, doesn’t mean they are immune from the facts and information they wish to keep secret from being reported to the public.

As was shown in the DNC Leaks, MSNBC was in direct contact with the Democratic National Committee about what to say and what not to say about Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. If MSNBC is a news station, and they are conspiring to turn the news into specifically crafted public relations, do they not deserve to have this conspiracy reported on? Is that not a news story?

When the news is owned by the people the news used to report on, so they don’t get reported on anymore, then the nature of gathering facts and information as well as reporting them must change. If the 1% would divest all holdings in all news reporting outlets, and all journalism was once again independently financed, what purpose would Wikileaks serve?

In a post print media conglomerate landscape, hactivism has evolved into journalism.

How much content have credible news outlets turned the DNC Leaks into? How many articles, pictures, videos, sound bites, polls, tweets, vines, snaps, and stories have been created because of what Wikileaks has done? The only ones who seem to think it’s wrong, are the people who have been exposed and their allies.

Mainstream media using the information provided by Wikileaks makes them complacent which makes what Wikileaks does with their hacking no longer any different from what a beat reporter did with their pen, paper, and access to newswires in the 20th century. Ten years ago Wikileaks may have been an underground, illegal, immoral, criminal, hacking networks of deviants, anarchists, and outsiders. In 2016, they are just another credible source alongside the Associated Press and Reuters. In 2016, Wikileaks is journalism.

#PanamaPapers Expose the Scarcity Paradigm of the 1%

Posted: May 28, 2016 in Excess and Algorithms
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By @anarchyroll

News as significant as the Panama Papers doesn’t come around that often, unless it’s a news about how bad global warming is getting. That is becoming a weekly occurrence.

The Panama Papers’ place in history places the document leak right up with Edward Snowden, Watergate, the Pentagon Papers, and Wikileaks in its prime.

What the Panama Papers does is removes the illusion that the wealthy care about the poor. It destroys the myth that money trickles down from the top to the bottom. The wealthy don’t give a shit about anything other than getting richer, keeping what they have, to ensure they remain the haves, and that the have nots stay that way.

Just like it has always been. The 99% vs the 1% was once known as the castle owners versus the serfs. All the poors will ever be to those with wealth are serfs. A bunch of ignorant mouth breathers who don’t deserve to live a life of privilege.

The Panama Papers proves that those with wealth will take extraordinary measures to opt out of the social contract. That even though they could not possibly acquire a fortune without society, that they do not under any circumstance want to give back.
How do the rich give back? Not with charity but with taxes. We as a society need taxes. We need taxes to build our infrastructure to ensure our bridges don’t collapse and that our water pipes aren’t poisoning us with lead.

We need taxes to create housing and counseling for the mentally ill, physically handicapped, and generationally underprivileged. That is what the public sector and more importantly, public service is for.

If the rich, wealthy, private sector could be relied upon to help society better than the public sector, wouldn’t they have done it by now? The concentration of wealth is greater now than at any other point in modern history. So are the billionaires of the world repaving our roads, repairing our water pipes, building schools, shelters, asylums, and municipal Wi-Fi? No, they are putting the consumerism, capitalism ideology on steroids and crashing the economies’ of the world cyclically.

Private islands, mega yachts, vacation homes, third cars, personal jets, spa getaways, and tax havens. They go together like peas and carrots, peanut butter and jelly, caviar and foie gras, VIP bottle service and hookers.

After all they worked for that money, except for the trust fund crowd.

Remember, its not the local café owner, franchise retail manager, regional bank president, or serial entrepreneur whose economic terrorism has been exposed by the Panama Papers. Its not the rich, it’s the wealthy. Were talking Bill Gates money, not Oprah money.

Whether it is distrust of specific governments, municipalities or just the public sector in general is irrelevant. Infrastructures are crumbling, people are starving, coastal communities are eroding, species going extinct, and these greedy fuckers only care about having enough money to one up each other in the game of thee who dies with the most toys wins.

The #Ferguson Aftermath is Another Example of the War on #Journalism

Posted: August 31, 2014 in Anarchy Journal Constitutional
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by @anarchyroll
8/30/2014

There are many issues going on in Ferguson worth examining:

  • Race relations in America
  • The militarization of police
  • Urban inequality
  • The line between civil disobedience and riots
  • Arrests of journalists for doing their jobs

The war on journalism was on display early in Ferguson. It has taken a back seat in recent weeks due to repeated examples of the brutal force by the militarized police of Ferguson against unarmed citizens in the wake of the shooting of an unarmed teenager.

Reporters getting arrested isn’t as big a story as SWAT teams repeatedly threatening civilians on camera and using military like force against unarmed civilians on camera. Certainly the death of an unarmed civilian at the hands of police officer, followed up by days and weeks of not only unapologetic but antagonistic conduct by the police force against the rest of the town of Ferguson’s protesting population is a bigger story than journalists being arrested.

However journalists being arrested in America is a big deal. In the big picture, in the grand scheme, a precedent of journalists being arrested on American soil for doing nothing within the realm of anything against the law is a bigger deal than the death of a single civilian. That may sound highly insensitive to some. I understand and accept that. If it was a relative of mine, or someone in my area of residence, I would certainly be more outraged about the killing of an unarmed teen and tear gassing of peaceful protesters more than some male, Caucasian reporters who got arrested in a McDonald’s and released a few hours later.

But the freedom of the press, is in the First Amendment. Right up there with the right to free speech. Journalists may get arrested and/or beheaded in the Middle and Far East, but not in America. When the press is getting arrested for merely trying to grab a bite to eat and recharge smartphones, we have bigger problems in America than a few racist cops in the heartland.

The war on the press is not a cold war either. It has very much been a hot war under the Obama Administration. An administration that has been dubbed “the greatest threat to press freedom in a generation” by a New York Times writer who is being prosecuted by the Obama Administration for doing his job and not revealing a source for an article he wrote.

Barack Obama and his administration have prosecuted seven journalists or whistleblowers under the Espionage Act of 1917. That is more than all previous Presidents/administrations combined.

Ferguson has brought many issues that the public has wanted to ignore into the national spotlight. This is the light that comes after the darkness of a tragic event. All the issues listed at the beginning of the article are important issues that need to be not only talked about but addressed through local, state, and federal regulation. I would simply point out that without a free press, which is being attacked by local police in Ferguson, and the Executive Branch of the United States Government, none of us would know what is going on in Ferguson, Washington, or anywhere that isn’t our own backyard. And our free press is very much in real danger in real time.

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