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Once the family/gang has carved out their turf, they then turn to controlling and exploiting the resoruces (either natural or human) inside of it. How different is today’s President-Congress-Governor-Mayor-Worker relationship to the mafia’s boss-soldiers-associates model?

Is it simply ironic that the term “bankster” has become so ingrained? As Santiago Capital’s Brent Johnson explains in this brief presentation… if you can keep your mind open, today’s business leaders and politicians are no different as they run protection, extortion, control the flow of ‘drugs’, and manage ‘crime’.

Is it possible, he asks, that we are all collectivley empathizing and sympathizing (and in many cases defending) the very system and the very people that are holding us captive?