With the state-corporate in The Homeland being nothing more than a unceasing barrage of pro-establishment propaganda it is difficult to single out which forum is the worst. When it comes to making a list though, one would have to rank Time Magazine within the top ten and with the annual "Person of the Year" issue hitting the newsstands this week there is every reason why it is fully deserving of such lofty placement. Don't forget that it was this very publication that back in 2009 tabbed one Helicopter Ben Bernanke, the man who saved the planet for the dubious honor. The soon to be gone Federal Reserve chairman was quite the sensation back then, at the tip of the spear for the relentless public relations campaign by the greedy Wall Street banksters who blew up the economy and then fleeced the taxpayers to back their bad bets when the bearded one showed up on another high ranking propaganda organ CBS's 60 Minutes to lovingly introduce the focus group friendly term "green shoots" into the national lexicon. It was tough to follow-up the gag factor of last week's edition, the cover of which featured Carl Icahn, another one of the greedy bastards whose irresponsible gambling has created the current situation where the 2009 person of the year's employer has to now pump 85 billion dollars a month into the rigged markets to prevent another implosion. It was a typical hagiography by a long corrupt media in glorifying the amorality of the looter class in which the churning out of books, movies etc. exalting such degenerates as offshoring pioneer "Chainsaw" Jack Welch the noxious horse's ass Donald Trump. Time however managed to put the crowning cherry on the shit cake of 2013 with bestowing their enshrinement of Pope Francis as this year's 'winner'.
It would seem to be a bit odd to follow-up the slobbering homage to Icahn with a man who just issued the most blistering condemnation of capitalism since Karl Marx walked the Earth so it was already a done deal prior to the Pope's apostolic exhortation two weeks ago. Pope Francis was already an improvement over his predecessor Herr Ratzinger who was in his early years a member of the Hitler Youth but I have to admit that he was dead on with his remarks on the mutated form of capitalism that currently exists today: "How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points?". Just that sentence alone sounds very strangely like Jesus, the one who actually chased the money changers from the temple rather than the Jesus V.2 who wields a mighty sword, hates gay people and whose true teachings about the evils of accumulated wealth have been washed away by some bastardized version of the bible known as the Prosperity Gospel. There is no question that greed and corruption have destroyed capitalism and the Pope had some stones to tell it like it is but I doubt that the Vatican will soon begin to divest itself of it's obscene wealth in order to minister to the poor and downtrodden. In America the Pope's remarks earned him the scorn of multi-billionaire gasbag Rush Hudson Limbaugh III who came out and called him a Marxist in the back to the future John Birch Society dialogue that is so prevalent today.
Had the Pope's slamming of bastardized capitalism come earlier the magazine would have had to come up with some other figure, perhaps Jodi Arias or some celebrity flake but what goes unspoken is that it had to be ANYONE OTHER THAN EDWARD SNOWDEN! Let's face it, the "Person of the Year" is technically supposed to be awarded to one who has been most influential to domestic and world events and the zeitgeist. This is why some other former honorees were the likes of Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, the Ayatollah Khomeini and George W. Bush. Snowden has done one hell of a lot to roil the global waters with his revelations of an out of control Anglo-American surveillance machine that continues to grow exponentially, limited only by rapidly developing technology. Thanks to the former government contractor Booz Allen whistleblower the way that international relations, especially business will be changed forever and Snowden has bestowed the gift of a reason to distrust the unchecked power of the state to non-libertarians.
In a system not rigged and rotten Mr. Snowden would have been the winner but with the corrupt government and ruling establishment still reeling from the damage inflicted on their nefarious activities by his exposure the last thing that would be desired is for his face to adorn the cover. That could possibly inspire the sheep to get the idea that their enemy is domestic rather than the foreign bogeyman of the week and to actually try to do something about it. In fairness to Time they do mention Snowden but the story is buried inside the issue and as most of it's content is pretty mediocre. For a much better story on the real persons of the year check out Rolling Stone's year end issue and the story: The Men Who Leaked the Secrets. At least that is a magazine that has some integrity and a much better writing staff as well.
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