Thus we see how important the control of the media and propaganda is for
those who wish to have control.
Swinging to the latest Portside comment on the choice of replacements
for the Greek and Italian Prime Ministers from:
http://prospect.org/article/bankers-choice Lucas Papademos and Mario
Monti, I find it a chilling thought that a Banking contingent can
replace the elected officials of a *country* with their own choice. And
to have that bastion of order, Germany, as one of the instigators of
this 'take-over of a countries democratic rights', should make everyone
very wary. [Should we be considering the history of the Royal Family in
England as well?]
As noted in the Portside article, this seems like a coup by the Banks
and investment structures of a /'World Order'/ - my italics - because
these 2 replacements are there to deal with this problem as the banks
deem necessary /(so they can get their blood from the stone - /mine/)
/. How long will the people put up with that? Do any of you think the
banksters care if the country falls into chaos and turmoil? This could
end with a military takeover as in Chile or Argentina of the 1960's. And
I'm sure Germany and Britain would love to assist. The U.S. would not
even have to get involved further than the controls they already exhibit
on the Euro-banks. And the U.S. may not be able to commit to any
military assistance if the Occupy Wall Street protests continue to grow.
They will need all their military to control the 'dissidents' of their
own turf.
Now, with Homeland Security being the second largest employer in the
U.S., we have a definite similarity to 1920/30's Germany. All that needs
to be done is create destabilization in 2 or 3 Eurozone countries to
throw world economics into chaos. Call national security into action to
trounce upon and jail the protestors (as the rest of the world worries
about the conditions in Europe) and these same banksters and investment
corp.s will bankroll Halliburton, G.E. and the other military suppliers
of the false wars on Afghanistan and Iraq and N.A. and Europe will be
under military control but ruled by the Banksters.
And what will be reported to the masses by the press and news medias?
Maybe ... there are terrorists abroad in our country - yes that helps
for the need of military presence. These terrorists are coming into our
country from mmm, let's see ... how about Canada? Canada may escape that
thought if Harper gets his way with 'super-jails' and clamping down on
those lax marijuana laws and frees up our economic system for more 'free
enterprise'. He must be a good lap dog or he will become the enemy. We
already have an ear to the British throne in the form of ex Premier
Campbell. With that Germanic connection, the noose may form another knot
(13 - I think is the required number)
Yes, Ed, there is more than just Chicago Economics, but it is a great
way to destabilize and break trail for take-overs. Isn't real-time Risk
a fascinating game?
D.
On 11/13/2011 7:31 AM, Arthur Cordell wrote:
I think that the Chicago school offered up alternate scenarios of the
economy: privatizing water for example. These scenarios fell on a political
situation that was receptive. Reagan/Thatcher. In past times such ideas
would be expressed but falling on an unresponsive polity they gained no
traction. So it is true that the Chicago school caused changes and problems
but only because, I propose, that the political system accepted it and
championed as an instrument for change and competitiveness. And there were
lots of cheerleaders who stood to gain from such conservative moves. And,
finally, lots of passive voters who went along with things.
As to why Reagan/Thatcher dogma and notions took hold at that time is best
left to the historians. Perhaps society goes through political fads and
fashions as in clothing. Wide ties one year, narrow the next. Short skirts
one year, longer the next. With each cycle there are cheerleaders who
benefit from the change and passive consumers/voters who go along with
things usually by saying or thinking "that's what they are showing this
year....."
arthur
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Ed wrote:
I read Shock Doctrine some years ago and wasn't impressed. It
argued essentially, if I recall, that every bad thing that had
happened in the economic world could be attributed to the teachings
of the Chicago School. It seemed more than a little far fetched.
I think it would be more accurate to say that it argued that there has
been a widespread deliberate strategy of exploiting social disasters,
shocks and confusion to seize control of a society's assets and
finances, to entrain anything that might operate in the public
interest for private gain. And that evangelists for the Chicago
School have been the salient troops in promulgating and implementing
this strategy again and again.
The underlying concept is nothing new. Someone who would otherwise be
a more or less law-abiding citizen may loot the neighborhood liquor
store once it's been trashed in a riot or a disaster; others less
law-abiding may try to start a riot or a forest fire just so they can
get in on the subsequent looting. What may seem new (because it's one
of those not to be talked about things) is that (putatively) highly
responsible, respectable people may do that to whole national economic
and public service infrastructures, even to the point of fomenting a
financial or political collapse in order to make it possible.
It is not necessary that *all* such people be high-profile
polemicists for the Chicago School. If a number of the more prominent
of these miscreants are Friedman colleagues or acolytes and use CS
dogmata to subvert and co-opt public water supplies, public services,
public education or the public good in general, the Chicago School is,
if you're paying attention to what's on the end of your fork,
justifiably going to take a lot of the blame, the moreso to the extent
that such piratical practices are overt doctrine of the School.
FWIW,
- Mike
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