Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. When a man shouted “greedy” and threw a blue and white shaving-cream pie at Rupert Murdoch’s face, while he was being questioned before the British Parliament for a phone-hacking scandal, it evoked what Queen Marie Antoinette of France supposedly said: “Let them eat cake.” The reason for this memorable, uncanny similarity is that both of them were born into privilege and the Leisure Class, both lived during an age of enormous economic disparity, both maintained their power and prestige through an unquestioned belief, and both were indirectly responsible for the deaths of thousands of people. Antoinette was born into a wealthy,…
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