Every pond has its scum. D.
On 11/10/2011 8:07 AM, Ray Harrell wrote:
Now we know what a Mormon Bishop considers important. REH Romney Plan Would Enact 'Deep' Cuts for Arts, Humanities Endowments USA Today, 11/3/11 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney wrote the following as part of an editorial in the USA Today: "I spent much of my 25-year career in the private sector turning around failing enterprises...But I have never seen an enterprise as large, as poorly led, and as badly in need of a turnaround as our federal government...There are three ways to reduce spending, which combined, will achieve a fiscal turnaround of this size. First, eliminate every government program that is not absolutely essential. There are many things government does that we may like but that we do not need. The test should be this: 'Is this program so critical that it is worth borrowing money to pay for it?' The federal government should stop doing things we don't need or can't afford. For example: Repeal ObamaCare, which would save $95 billion in 2016; Eliminate subsidies for the unprofitable Amtrak, saving $1.6 billion a year; Enact deep reductions in the subsidies for the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the Legal Services Corporation." http://usat.ly/tfzv3p -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Spencer Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 1:19 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Futurework] PR becomes "counter-insurgency" Not so much for the paranoid scare value as to indicate the applicablity of: People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. ---Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 1776. I think most people -- people who manage moderately complicated lives adequately -- fail to grasp the degree to which corporate entities mount systematic, organized, heavily funded, carefully debated and thought-out projects to suppress anything that threatens anything that is on the current corporate agenda. (I avoid saying "threatens profit and/or share value" because often (AFAICT) "things on the corporate agenda" are often trendy, misconceived, harmful to profit/share-value or similar.) http://www.businessinsider.com/the-fracking-industry-admits-to-employing-mil itary-psychologial-operations-on-american-citizens-2011-11 > From the article -- advice to fracking insiders: "Download the U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Manual, because we are dealing with an insurgency," Carmichael said. "There's a lot of good lessons in there and coming from a military background, I found the insight in that extremely remarkable." > From the manual mentioned: " ... insurgency has been a common approach used by the weak to combat the strong. At the beginning of a conflict, insurgents have the strategic initiative ... the insurgents generally initiate the war. They may strive to disguise their intentions, and the potential counter-insurgent will be at a great disadvantage until [corporate] leaders recognize that an insurgency exists and are able to determine its makeup and characteristics to facilitate a coordinated reaction. While the [corporation] prepares to respond, the insurgent is gaining strength and creating increasing disruptions throughout the state. The existing [corporation] normally has an initial advantage in resources, but that edge is counterbalanced by the requirement to maintain order. The insurgent succeeds by sowing chaos and disorder anywhere; the [corporation] fails unless it maintains order everywhere. Alles in Ordnung. Zu Befehl. How dare the biomass talk back? :-o FWIW, - Mike
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