ECONnoiter Continued
November 28th, 2009 by admin
Blame Shifting – Fault Lies in Blame
It has often been said of Russia that the time spent under authoritarianism indoctrinated and shaped the culture, thus making it impossible to reshape it to accept capitalism as dished up by Friedman ideology. Indigenous tradition is said to prove that laws of economics and engineering do not work everywhere. Today the wealthy and the poor in Russia seem to live in different centuries, but that same dynamic also exists in the U.S. The culture there and here is made up of many cultures from the region and the world. In the early days there were tribes, lust for power, riches and feudal control…things haven’t changed that much through the centuries. Death still comes in many guises whether it is through religion, greed, jealousy, subterfuge, slavery, stealing children, land, or women. The culture in the U.S. has the same background. We are a conglomerate of many cultures, and we stole from the tribal factions when our ancestors came here trying to escape feudal control. It has come full circle and we are doing the same thing to other countries that we did not want to happen to us.
Economic genocide has been going on since the 70′s when Reagan took office. His economic mentor was Milton Friedman. These ideologies have been carried forward through Bush and I wonder just how much further since Bush has changed laws through careful and legal documentation and word manipulation as Commander in Chief, without sanction when we were not looking.
One tribe is going to think it better than another, one religion the same, and of the economic policy proponents, one is thought to be better at the cost of eradicating, wiping the slate clean of those who are not believers. Tsars oligarchs, princelings, piranhas, monarchs, dictators and even pioneers all have the same motives. Money and power, through LSD. Dismantle and clean the slate. Extreme religion and radical ideas wipe out people and cultures. (Klein, p.19)
Conflict Forever Maintains Division
‘The beginning of division is conflict.” Krishna Murti
The real estate and mortgage meltdown in the U.S. plays into the demographic weeding of the poor and useless non-paying taxable citizens. It has driven the poorest of the poor to the streets where they are easy targets for the final blow of the bludgeon. Is this a diabolical attempt to ‘erase and remake’ employing the same precepts used by Dr. Cameron (Klein, p. 25-50) and the CIA. But any kind of shock is used these days and it undermines the citizens by blindsiding them, diverting their attention to the shock whatever it might be. During elections we are focused on political policy while economic policy is twisted to fit corporations and IMF and their ‘Pinky and the Brain’ takeover of the world. No matter how a cake is cut it is still cake, just as hock is shock. We are bludgeoned back to the Stone Age where living under bridges and hiding from subcontracted police and militia will become the norm.
After 27 years behind bars Nelson Mandela then South Africa’s President was also blindsided. While those supporting ‘The Freedom Charter’ (Klein, p. 195-216) were focused on the politics of keeping Parliamentary power the negotiators changed the economic strategies locking out that charter. A central bank was established but apartheid bosses ran it. The ANC had no power thanks to the Chicago School. Rights are usurped, land is taken away or the chance of ever having any, jobs are lost or not available, and the poor die off or disappear.
Division continues on the home front. A friend of mine is a devoted Mormon. I do not mind that she has differing political views. We are from the same middle-class arena. I experienced another shock when I shared my happiness over Obama’s election she heatedly told me that McCain won by over 3,000 votes. She was quite hostile.
Ms. Klein’s book brought a detail about Mormon capitalism to light.
The U.S. government gave RTI, Research Triangle Institute (Klein, p. 348-63), a Mormon dominated entity out of North Carolina a contract in Iraq during the reconstruction phase. Like many other contracts in Iraq, it failed. This information told me a lot about party affiliation and supremist/corporatist mentality of the Mormon Church.
During the 2008 election we have been focused on politics, thinking somehow that is all there is, similar to what occurred with the ANC in Africa. We are living in ignorance of the economy, but now being showered with its toxic fallout, while recognizing our democracy has been undermined by our own.
I am not against churches or religion, nor do I consider myself an atheist, but I do wonder about motives of churches especially when it seems they have a corporatist mind-set and money matters more than spreading a good word, or when their philosophy changes to considering themselves ‘Founding Fathers of Democracy’ in Iraq. It seems a bit egoist to me.
We are trained and conditioned to employ critical thinking, encouraged to debate, innovate, and be creative, but ironically quashed from using that skill in facets of daily life unless our utility can create high profits for large corporations. Citizens are coerced to conform to policies, regulations, and rules. If they cross the line or rock the boat they are jobless making employment appear to be another word for slavery.
Duplicity
Is it the End or the Beginning?
When one regime ends the other begins, but in this atmosphere Obama’s beginning will be rocky. I noted the votes were not all in when John McCain delivered his concession speech. My attention went to the anxious and confused state of Sara Palin. Her reaction set me to wondering if she was clueless about her running mate’s plan to concede and if that wasn’t his plan all along. That is to say perhaps John McCain never intended to take office from the beginning. She appeared to be a pawn in a political game.
What could be waiting in the wings, cogs turning and set in motion by the Bush Administration? Has Barack Obama been duped and simply allowed to take office just to quell the discontent around the world, a world that shows obvious malcontent toward the U.S.? Many countries including Germany were happy to see that he won. These reactions bode well for our image and public relations. I am troubled by these thoughts. Has he been served up as a token minority? Will the proponents of Friedmanism and the profiteering economic majority and corporatists skewer President Obama? What laws are in place he cannot undo? How many of those strong corporatists will allow changes to the nuts and bolts of their operation? Will Social Security eventually be privatized as Bush wanted, without sanction, voting and unknown laws that currently exist and no one on the outside is aware of? The Friedman model is deeply entrenched throughout the world.
Acronyms are used a lot in the U.S., so I will use LSD. In the late sixties, early seventies LSD was the drug of choice. It is back now in a different form, Lies, Subterfuge and Deceit. Like bad weather we have undergone an inversion because now we call it DSL, which means the same thing, but brings to my mind whether having the Internet is a good thing since nothing escapes its inner brain. Is there any freedom, choice or privacy in that set up?
An inversion in this case is like the weather and laws of physics apply. Our government has a lot of hot air now hovering overhead that gets more cold and callous as it continues to rise keeping us under a smoke screen and in a polluted environment.
Bibliography
Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine, The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Metropolitan, 2007.
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Globalization and Its Discontents, W.W. Norton, 2002.
Robert O’Harrow, No Place To Hide, Free Press, Simon and Schuster, 2005.
By: Linda Vissat
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It has often been said of Russia that the time spent under authoritarianism indoctrinated and shaped the culture, thus making it impossible to reshape it to accept capitalism as dished up by Friedman ideology. Indigenous tradition is said to prove that laws of economics and engineering do not work everywhere. Today the wealthy and the poor in Russia seem to live in different centuries, but that same dynamic also exists in the U.S. The culture there and here is made up of many cultures from the region and the world. In the early days there were tribes, lust for power, riches and feudal control…things haven’t changed that much through the centuries. Death still comes in many guises whether it is through religion, greed, jealousy, subterfuge, slavery, stealing children, land, or women. The culture in the U.S. has the same background. We are a conglomerate of many cultures, and we stole from the tribal factions when our ancestors came here trying to escape feudal control. It has come full circle and we are doing the same thing to other countries that we did not want to happen to us.
Economic genocide has been going on since the 70′s when Reagan took office. His economic mentor was Milton Friedman. These ideologies have been carried forward through Bush and I wonder just how much further since Bush has changed laws through careful and legal documentation and word manipulation as Commander in Chief, without sanction when we were not looking.
One tribe is going to think it better than another, one religion the same, and of the economic policy proponents, one is thought to be better at the cost of eradicating, wiping the slate clean of those who are not believers. Tsars oligarchs, princelings, piranhas, monarchs, dictators and even pioneers all have the same motives. Money and power, through LSD. Dismantle and clean the slate. Extreme religion and radical ideas wipe out people and cultures. (Klein, p.19)
Conflict Forever Maintains Division
‘The beginning of division is conflict.” Krishna Murti
The real estate and mortgage meltdown in the U.S. plays into the demographic weeding of the poor and useless non-paying taxable citizens. It has driven the poorest of the poor to the streets where they are easy targets for the final blow of the bludgeon. Is this a diabolical attempt to ‘erase and remake’ employing the same precepts used by Dr. Cameron (Klein, p. 25-50) and the CIA. But any kind of shock is used these days and it undermines the citizens by blindsiding them, diverting their attention to the shock whatever it might be. During elections we are focused on political policy while economic policy is twisted to fit corporations and IMF and their ‘Pinky and the Brain’ takeover of the world. No matter how a cake is cut it is still cake, just as hock is shock. We are bludgeoned back to the Stone Age where living under bridges and hiding from subcontracted police and militia will become the norm.
After 27 years behind bars Nelson Mandela then South Africa’s President was also blindsided. While those supporting ‘The Freedom Charter’ (Klein, p. 195-216) were focused on the politics of keeping Parliamentary power the negotiators changed the economic strategies locking out that charter. A central bank was established but apartheid bosses ran it. The ANC had no power thanks to the Chicago School. Rights are usurped, land is taken away or the chance of ever having any, jobs are lost or not available, and the poor die off or disappear.
Division continues on the home front. A friend of mine is a devoted Mormon. I do not mind that she has differing political views. We are from the same middle-class arena. I experienced another shock when I shared my happiness over Obama’s election she heatedly told me that McCain won by over 3,000 votes. She was quite hostile.
Ms. Klein’s book brought a detail about Mormon capitalism to light.
The U.S. government gave RTI, Research Triangle Institute (Klein, p. 348-63), a Mormon dominated entity out of North Carolina a contract in Iraq during the reconstruction phase. Like many other contracts in Iraq, it failed. This information told me a lot about party affiliation and supremist/corporatist mentality of the Mormon Church.
During the 2008 election we have been focused on politics, thinking somehow that is all there is, similar to what occurred with the ANC in Africa. We are living in ignorance of the economy, but now being showered with its toxic fallout, while recognizing our democracy has been undermined by our own.
I am not against churches or religion, nor do I consider myself an atheist, but I do wonder about motives of churches especially when it seems they have a corporatist mind-set and money matters more than spreading a good word, or when their philosophy changes to considering themselves ‘Founding Fathers of Democracy’ in Iraq. It seems a bit egoist to me.
We are trained and conditioned to employ critical thinking, encouraged to debate, innovate, and be creative, but ironically quashed from using that skill in facets of daily life unless our utility can create high profits for large corporations. Citizens are coerced to conform to policies, regulations, and rules. If they cross the line or rock the boat they are jobless making employment appear to be another word for slavery.
Duplicity
Is it the End or the Beginning?
When one regime ends the other begins, but in this atmosphere Obama’s beginning will be rocky. I noted the votes were not all in when John McCain delivered his concession speech. My attention went to the anxious and confused state of Sara Palin. Her reaction set me to wondering if she was clueless about her running mate’s plan to concede and if that wasn’t his plan all along. That is to say perhaps John McCain never intended to take office from the beginning. She appeared to be a pawn in a political game.
What could be waiting in the wings, cogs turning and set in motion by the Bush Administration? Has Barack Obama been duped and simply allowed to take office just to quell the discontent around the world, a world that shows obvious malcontent toward the U.S.? Many countries including Germany were happy to see that he won. These reactions bode well for our image and public relations. I am troubled by these thoughts. Has he been served up as a token minority? Will the proponents of Friedmanism and the profiteering economic majority and corporatists skewer President Obama? What laws are in place he cannot undo? How many of those strong corporatists will allow changes to the nuts and bolts of their operation? Will Social Security eventually be privatized as Bush wanted, without sanction, voting and unknown laws that currently exist and no one on the outside is aware of? The Friedman model is deeply entrenched throughout the world.
Acronyms are used a lot in the U.S., so I will use LSD. In the late sixties, early seventies LSD was the drug of choice. It is back now in a different form, Lies, Subterfuge and Deceit. Like bad weather we have undergone an inversion because now we call it DSL, which means the same thing, but brings to my mind whether having the Internet is a good thing since nothing escapes its inner brain. Is there any freedom, choice or privacy in that set up?
An inversion in this case is like the weather and laws of physics apply. Our government has a lot of hot air now hovering overhead that gets more cold and callous as it continues to rise keeping us under a smoke screen and in a polluted environment.
Bibliography
Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine, The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Metropolitan, 2007.
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Globalization and Its Discontents, W.W. Norton, 2002.
Robert O’Harrow, No Place To Hide, Free Press, Simon and Schuster, 2005.
By: Linda Vissat
About the Author:
Linda’s articles appeared on EzineArticles in 2006.
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