On 2013-06-19, at 11:05 AM, Jim Devine wrote:

> from this link:
> Leigh Phillips writes:it [the JP Morgan manifesto] is >> the first
> public document I’ve come across where the authors are frank that the
> problem is not just a question of fiscal rectitude and boosting
> competitiveness, but that there is also an excess of democracy in some
> European countries that needs to be trimmed.

> […]
> 
> Yes, you read that right…
> […] 

Excellent post, Jim. I'd add a) "independent" central banks free from mass 
political pressure as well as b) binding free trade agreements with provisions 
designed to supersede the legislated gains won over generations by workers and 
farmers to protect their living standards as two other devices which the 
corporations and their states have used to distance themselves from democratic 
control.

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