Media always concentrate our attention on the utterly irrelevant and meaningless noise in congress and political campaigns and courts. The real power is in the banks and corporations.
Sometimes the media concentration isn’t even partisan. For instance, the meaningless noise about the “secretary of defense” missing work without telling anyone seems to be viewed negatively on all sides. Bloomberg, which is strictly DNC, disapproved firmly and wondered who’s in command. Well, the answer is simple. Raytheon and Boeing and General Dynamics are in command. They never miss work.
It’s tempting to consider corporate control as uniformly evil. Not quite. On April 28, 2022, TSA ended its ballgag requirement. There was a “lawsuit” which conveniently happened around that time, and TSA pretended that it was “required” to “obey” the “lawsuit”. Nonsense. Agencies never obey “lawsuits” when the “lawsuits” disagree with what the agencies want.
Manweller’s Rule. Government does what it wants. Period.
TSA wanted to end the strangulation mandate because all the airlines got together and commanded TSA to end it. The airlines control TSA’s territory.
Parkinson’s Law. The sole purpose of every bureaucracy is to expand its budget and power and territory.
If the airlines evict TSA from airports, the agency has NO REASON FOR EXISTENCE. It can’t enforce bizarre super-complex meaningless regulations about liquid containers and belt buckles. We knew 20 years ago that those regulations wouldn’t have stopped the Saudi attack because the existing airport security was told to look the other way.
Corporate control is evil most of the time, but I have to thank the airlines for saving civilization in this particular case.
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