Well taken. REH
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of D and N Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 11:49 AM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION Subject: Re: [Futurework] PR becomes "counter-insurgency" 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 > _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
