On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Geoff <[email protected]> wrote: > ORCHESTRATED CRISIS??? > > Delusions must really plague you badly nowadays.
http://bit.ly/ce1dHD - - - The Strategy was first elucidated in the May 2, 1966 issue of The Nation magazine by a pair of radical socialist Columbia University professors, Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. David Horowitz summarizes it as: The strategy of forcing political change through orchestrated crisis. The "Cloward-Piven Strategy" seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse. Cloward and Piven were inspired by radical organizer [and Hillary Clinton mentor] Saul Alinsky: "Make the enemy live up to their (sic) own book of rules," Alinsky wrote in his 1989 book Rules for Radicals. When pressed to honor every word of every law and statute, every Judeo-Christian moral tenet, and every implicit promise of the liberal social contract, human agencies inevitably fall short. The system's failure to "live up" to its rule book can then be used to discredit it altogether, and to replace the capitalist "rule book" with a socialist one. (Courtesy Discover the Networks.org) Newsmax rounds out the picture: Their strategy to create political, financial, and social chaos that would result in revolution blended Alinsky concepts with their more aggressive efforts at bringing about a change in U.S. government. To achieve their revolutionary change, Cloward and Piven sought to use a cadre of aggressive organizers assisted by friendly news media to force a re-distribution of the nation's wealth. In their Nation article, Cloward and Piven were specific about the kind of "crisis" they were trying to create: By crisis, we mean a publicly visible disruption in some institutional sphere. Crisis can occur spontaneously (e.g., riots) or as the intended result of tactics of demonstration and protest which either generate institutional disruption or bring unrecognized disruption to public attention. No matter where the strategy is implemented, it shares the following features: 1. The offensive organizes previously unorganized groups eligible for government benefits but not currently receiving all they can. 2. The offensive seeks to identify new beneficiaries and/or create new benefits. 3. The overarching aim is always to impose new stresses on target systems, with the ultimate goal of forcing their collapse. - - - - Publius > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Publius Maximus > Sent: Friday, 5 February 2010 12:50 PM > To: ProFox Email List > Subject: [OT] How big is $1.9 trillion? > > http://bit.ly/ac52a5 > > - - - > WASHINGTON - A 1.9 trillion-mile trip is about the same as 8 million > trips to the moon. > > Unfortunately, the $1.9 trillion in new borrowing authority Congress > is giving President Barack Obama won't take people quite that far. The > additional $1.9 trillion raises the debt ceiling to $14.3 trillion, > but that limit may have to be increased again after the November > election. > > No matter how you look at it, 1.9 trillion is a lot. In dollars, it > equals about $6,000 for every man, woman and child in the U.S. It's > almost twice all the money America has spent on military operations in > Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001. > That amount would buy about 422 Nimitz Class aircraft carriers, which > run about $4.5 billion apiece. It would be enough to provide Pell > grants of $5,000 to some 380 million low-income students, a number > exceeding the entire population of the country. > > And 1.9 trillion feet would take you to the top of Mount Everest 65 > million times, or to the bottom of the 36,000-foot Mariana Trench, the > deepest point in the Pacific, about 53 million times. > > In terms of time, 1.9 trillion seconds adds up to about 60,000 years. > And 1.9 trillion hours ago, or almost 220 million years ago, dinosaurs > were just beginning to dominate the Earth. > - - - > > Only Helen Thomas can fact-check the last statement as an eye-witness, > but overall, it paints a picture of a government careening completely, > utterly out of control. > > New era of responsibility? My @$$. > > They used the excuse of the (orchestrated?) crisis in late 2009 to > break the bank. Completely smash it into dust. > > - Publius > > -- > > "It ought never to be forgotten, that a firm union of this country, > under an efficient government, will probably be an increasing object > of jealousy to more than one nation of Europe; and that enterprises to > subvert it will sometimes originate in the intrigues of foreign > powers, and will seldom fail to be patronized and abetted by some of > them. Its preservation, therefore ought in no case that can be > avoided, to be committed to the guardianship of any but those whose > situation will uniformly beget an immediate interest in the faithful > and vigilant performance of the trust." 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