{"id":342001,"date":"2018-01-02T02:01:46","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T01:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/rage-against-the-machine-a-war-vs-consensus\/"},"modified":"2018-01-02T02:01:46","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T01:01:46","slug":"rage-against-the-machine-a-war-vs-consensus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/rage-against-the-machine-a-war-vs-consensus\/","title":{"rendered":"Rage Against the Machine: A War vs. Consensus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>The wittiest line in the latest installment of an increasingly banal <em>Star Wars<\/em> franchise comes from codebreaker DJ, who Finn, reformed storm-trooper turned rebel, and his companion Rosie encounter in a prison in a wealthy Las Vegas type resort town whose inhabitants we are told got wealthy exploiting workers of mining colonies then using the mined materials to sell weapons to the dreaded First Order. Observing the despair emerging in Finn upon finding evidence that some of the town\u2019s largess also comes from selling space-fighters to the rebels with whom Finn has cast his lot, DJ advises Finn \u2018It\u2019s all a machine partner. Live free, don\u2019t join.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>It can be comical to observe the lengths that much of the American public, particularly its Liberal end, go to avoid facing this observation. On December 26<sup>th<\/sup> the <em>Washington Post<\/em> featured a story titled \u2018Democrats build a case against tax bill but don\u2019t call for repeal.\u2019\u00a0 The article featured Bernie Sanders\u2019 answer to CNN \u2018s Jake Tapper\u2019s question regarding the Tax Policy Center estimate that next year 91 percent of middle-income Americans will receive some tax break. Sanders response: \u2018Yes it is a very good thing. That\u2019s why we should have made the tax breaks for the middle class permanent.\u2019 Senator Joe Manchim (D-WV) explained his opposition to the saying \u2018I was for lowering the corporate taxes from 35 to 25.\u2019 The rates referenced to there apparently are meant distinguish from the 21 percent rate&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/01\/01\/rage-against-the-machine-a-war-vs-consensus\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wittiest line in the latest installment of an increasingly banal Star Wars franchise comes from codebreaker DJ, who Finn, reformed storm-trooper turned rebel, and his companion Rosie encounter in a prison in a wealthy Las Vegas type resort town whose inhabitants we are told got wealthy exploiting workers of mining colonies then using the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-342001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}