The end result is clear - the ruling class intends to kill us

The headline here is a killer. Even though I may agree there may be some in the ruling class with these thoughts, I cannot personally accept the generalization of the headline.

Grey Wolf

Based on your own assessment of the article

I think the thrust of the article is that policies intended to increase the wealth of the richest

I think your article violates the #3 of the COH

Headlines should be supported by the information presented in the article/seed, rather than used primarily as a means to draw attention

Perhaps the moderators will consider this or you will edit the title of the article

There are interesting points to that could be debated in the article, but the title is over the line IMHO

It's difficult to dismiss the pattern of hard-won laws to protect individual rights and dignity, being methodically neutralized, and finally completely removed. There are many examples, with the Patriot Act at the top of the food chain, and laws that require firemen to watch as someone's house burns down for lack of a $75 fee, down nearer to the bottom.

The one bright spot is that they recognize how important public opinion is. If that were not the case, they wouldn't have made the capture of that opinion so central. Which means that we can take this back if we can be as successful as they have been in capturing the minds of those whose minds are easy to capture.

And I'll be the first one to admit, that without weapons such as Fox News and the Koch Brothers & all their kin, it will be no small task.

The title is brutally clear, but then so is starvation.

And I think the title fulfills the requirements of all good titles: it tells the truth about what the article contains. The idea embodied in the title is confirmed over and over again throughout the article itself. I think it's possible that very thing may be what actually troubles those complaining about the title: it's a little too apt.

I also think that criticisms of titles overall at Newsvine are among the most trivial of all trivial criticisms. They usually make some appeal to the moderators -- always carries this tattle-tale quality to me. As if we're a bunch of children who can't figure out if a title is misleading or not all by ourselves.

Just my take.

911 proves getting rid of some of us is not something unthinkable to this ruling class, though it would have been only a few in the upper echelons of government behind it. Google World Trade Center Building 7 if you have any doubts that it was an Inside Job. 911 was done to launch this country into a trajectory that it has been on since it happened, perpetual wars and all the rest. To be an American these days is to wake up to news from the Middle East like Orwell wrote about the wars in Oceania. I recall reading about the Holocaust and how Jews in Germany couldn't bring themselves to believe that they would be exterminated even as it was happening. I read some the same remarks here from people who can't believe they would go that far. To a far right winger getting rid of what they consider dead weight makes sense.

The ruling class comrade? There is no ruling class!! Too much vodka me thinks.

The world would not only survive without its bankers and CEOs but would be better off. There is no such thing as a surplus of people, that kind of talk is genocidal nonsense. There is enough resources for all, the problem is the people have almost no access to it other then what is given to them by the ruling class. The ruling class is making up all these lies about how the Earth cant sustain us so they can use that to put tighter controls on the Earths resources. Stand up and take it from the oppressors.