http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs/message/43466
"Second, we continue to believe that we can compensate for the accelerating erosion of our base and our loss of jobs to foreign countries through massive military expenditures "military Keynesianism" (which I discuss in detail in my book Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic). By that, I mean the mistaken belief that public policies focused on frequent wars, huge expenditures on weapons and munitions, and large standing armies can indefinitely sustain a wealthy capitalist economy. The opposite is actually true" -Chalmers Johnson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs/message/43465 Author Naomi Klein calls it Disaster Capitalism, and associates it with neocon neolib economics, Milton Friedman, Chicaco School, Hayek and Montpelerin Society, Berkeley Mafia. She says we have seen it before: Chile, Argentina, Indonesia, Hurricane Katrina, to name a few. What has always been "handy", as Joel Bowman calls it, about diverting state revenues into the military, is that Milton Friedman's ivory tower utopian pseudo-economics can only live in a laboratory petri dish unless it has the full backing of a dictatorship with its police and military might. Even then, as CIA director William Colby said a few years ago to CIA hall of fame super hero Ralph McGehee,"We always lose", when the CIA puts a dictator in power like Generals Pinochet of Chile and Suharto in Indonesia, or George Bush in Coup2K and 2004, to enforce neocon neolib Milton Friedman pseudo-economics. Friedman's economics have always only ever been a circle of propaganda around a dot that could not motivate. The real economics are still a form of pseudo-economic pseudo-science, but will show you who to hang from the lamp posts, so to speak. The real economics of pseudo-Darwinist looting are explained by George Herbert Walker Bush in the 1980's and 1990's as follows: "If the American people knew what we were doing, they would chase us down the street and hang us from the lamp posts...what we are doing is capital transfer to those who are higher, tighter, and righter...the velvet glove is off the iron fist". Hanging is a reference to Nuremburg, where George's father Prescott Bush ought to have been hung for his role in neocon-style non-defensive war, and to English history, where the goldsmiths were hung from the lamp posts when they were caught in fractional-reserve banking. The oligarchy looting under cover of feigned "disinterested", pseudo-scientific albeit hired hierarchicalism, is the dot inside the circle of economic propagandists known as neocons. Oligarchy looters are the dot in a circle, flesh in hierarchicalist apologist pot... How can lower order diesel cost a dollar more per gallon than highly refined gasoline? Milton Friedman's free market is free for a police-military dictatorship to grant king's charter monopolies which are free to dictate a tax via freely raising diesel prices arbitrarily. How can all petroleum fuel cost more despite the US militarily seizing and occupying one of the world's largest sources of oil? Again, Milton Friedman's free market is free for an oligarchy to have its minions arbitrarily refuse to allow enough gasoline refining or refineries or natural gas liquification plants or LP gas pipelines, so as to set prices higher than they were before the war to make gasoline cheaper. Many citizens were deluded by propaganda to believe that the War On Terror was going to win lower gasoline prices and enfranchise them in Military Keynesianism as Beltway Bandits or their trickle-down-the-leg-lickers. Many were able to expense a 6001 pound vehicle in the first year, so Hummers and big SUV's were free under Military Keynesianism, free to those enfranchised as Beltway Bandits(I-495 DC beltway). Now we know there were no WMD in Iraq, which Blum and Scott Ritter and Joseph Wilson had proved before the US invasion of Iraq, and we know that neo colonialism is not about resource rape abroad to make gasoline cheaper, but liberating Milton Friedman's looters to fix fuel prices arbitrarily higher by occasion of dictatorial power. Under President Nixon, the same Donald Rumsfeld fixed prices lower, but now the same band of neocons has freed market makers to fix prices arbitrarily higher, by fiat of socialist dictatorship. The trouble is that the society of that socialism is only a small elite society, an oligarchy that is dot in the wagon circle of military keynesianism. The outer motivational, idealogical, propaganda circle of Milton Friedman's free market for an enslavingl elite of king's charter corporations, trojan horses filled with oligarchy and neo colonialist neo nobility Beltway Bandits, is candy coating on the dot in circle of might-makes-right economic darwinism. Good debunks there would be found in Vanity of the Philosopher by David Levy and Sandra Peart, and The Ascendancy of Scientific Dictatorship by Phillip Darrell Collins & Paul David Collins. -Bob
