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Cashing in on a crisis
Terence Corcoran
November 24 2008
QUOTE: "This crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you
could not do before."
QUOTE: "Now is the time to confront the challenge of carbon emissions and
climate change once and for all," said Mr. Obama last week. "Delay is no
longer an option. Denial is no longer acceptable."
QUOTE: In an economic and financial meltdown, it's time to bring in those
languishing policy ideas - radical labour reform, ratchet up government
spending, nationalize industries, roll-out energy controls, re-regulate
banking and industry, socialize health care, turn the economy over to the
carbon police
QUOTE: It's apparently just fine to cash in on a crisis if the initiatives
are the ones you want.
QUOTE: If socialism is defined as a centrally planned economy in which the
government controls all means of production, America isn't there yet. But
the Obama agenda, from health care to energy policy to the auto industry, is
certainly built around the idea that government control of the means of
production is the answer to America's economic and social ills.
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and
hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series
of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." H. L Mencken
Obama and the rise of Disaster Socialism
As is now well known, Barack Obama's new Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, told
a Wall Street Journal conference last week that, "You never want a serious
crisis to go to waste." He added, his eye on the worsening financial
environment, that "This crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things
that you could not do before." President-elect Obama appears to be taking
the crisis strategy to heart. Announcing his economic team yesterday, Mr.
Obama spoke of an economic crisis of "historic proportions" that requires
immediate response: "If we do not act swiftly and boldly, most experts
believe we could lose millions of jobs next year."
The crisis mentality, the idea that disasters should be seized and used as
springboards for the imposition of radical ideas, appears to be gaining
favour in all circles.
In an economic and financial meltdown, it's time to bring in those
languishing policy ideas - radical labour reform, ratchet up government
spending, nationalize industries, roll-out energy controls, re-regulate
banking and industry, socialize health care, turn the economy over to the
carbon police. "Now is the time to confront the challenge of carbon
emissions and climate change once and for all," said Mr. Obama last week.
"Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer acceptable."
But wait a minute. Haven't we heard all this before?
Isn't cashing in on crisis supposed to have been George W. Bush's game, with
the evil Dick Cheney at his side and propped up by the crisis-mongering
cabal of capitalist free-market running dogs from the Chicago School, the
Milton Friedmanites? Isn't this Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine actually
being implemented - not by the right but by the left?
Looks like it to me, which is perhaps why we haven't heard too much
criticism from the left on the emergence of Barack Obama as the world's
leading practitioner of the art of disasterism. Ms. Klein reached hard to
paint President Bush as a ruthless crisis monger. He invaded Iraq after 9/11
because it was something his administration's key advisors (and his father?)
always wanted to do. The War on Terror was a pretext for privatization and
security controls. Hurricane Katrina turned into a great opportunity to
roll-back labour standards, close public housing and privatize schools in
New Orleans. Free trade was foisted on Americans by politicians during
economic turmoil.
All that was deplorable when the Bush administration seemed to be doing it,
but it's OK on the left now when their man is talking about turning the
current economic crisis into an open pit for every policy intervention
sitting in the filing cabinets of liberal think-tanks and Democrats in
Congress. It's apparently just fine to cash in on a crisis if the
initiatives are the ones you want.
In the wildest reaches of her shock doctrine theories, Ms. Klein seemed to
be saying that the capitalists almost deliberately created crises so that
they could turn them into vehicles for market reforms, free trade and
privatization. "The fundamentalist form of capitalism has always needed
disasters to advance."
But the idea that capitalism creates its own disasters to advance its cause
seems to fall apart in the wake of the current economic meltdown. The very
strategy Ms. Klein pinned on the late Nobel economist Milton Friedman and
capitalism turns out instead to be the modus operandi of the Obama
interventionists. She said of Mr. Friedman, as the creator of the "disaster
capitalism complex," that his aim was to overthrow the Keynesian policies
and welfare structures that pushed government deeper and deeper into
economic control. "Some people stockpile canned goods and water in
preparation for major disasters; Friedmanites stockpile free-market ideas."
As it turns out, the Friedmanites warehouse of market ideas - privatization,
deregulation, market forces - currently look to be no match for the massive
underground Doctor No storehouse of liberal, leftist and socialist schemes
being hauled to the surface by the Obamaites.
Americans don't like to have the word "socialism" attached to their
governments; that's for lesser, backwater nations like Canada, France, Peru
and the old Yugoslavia. The United States, as CNN likes to see it, is a
capitalist country, even as its politicians rush to bring in a rash of
Keynesian interventions and state controls.
If socialism is defined as a centrally planned economy in which the
government controls all means of production, America isn't there yet. But
the Obama agenda, from health care to energy policy to the auto industry, is
certainly built around the idea that government control of the means of
production is the answer to America's economic and social ills.
Even under President Bush, as the financial crisis deepened, little thought
appears to have been given to the government's creeping nationalization of
banks and the financial markets, which continued yesterday with the bailout
of Citigroup. Mr. Bush speaks proudly of his dedication to free markets and
capitalism, but he clearly - contrary to the nonsense claims of Ms. Klein -
has never been in the business of promoting Friedmanite capitalism.
As we are now witnessing, Klein's disaster capitalist complex is a mythical
creation, the shock doctrine of disaster capitalism an artificial construct.
Disaster capitalism never got off the ground. From Russia to Canada to
Europe and the United States under Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, there
isn't a country in the world that hasn't undergone the experience of a
political takeover by the left on the wave of a crisis.
What is unfolding before us is a classic enactment of disaster socialism.
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Warmest Regards
Bonzo
"bnzoo" <b...@...com> wrote
> Cashing in on a crisis
>
> Terence Corcoran
November 25, 2008
Bloodshed and Death is coming to American Businessmen
In my 46 years on this Earth, I have never had to write such a frightening
Op-Ed piece as this. Sadly, the state of affairs inside the US and its
business community is such that remaining silent is no longer an option.
Put bluntly, bloodshed and death is coming. Brutal, violent, merciless.
Perpetrated with malice aforethought. If I am right, many of you business
folks - especially the folks at the top - are going to be the ones doing the
bleeding and the dying.
How we got to this point is simple. How we stop it from happening is not so
simple; but there is still a small window of opportunity which may help
avert
this.
It began with NAFTA and GATT. The whole "free trade" movement was
sales-pitched to us common folk as a way to break down trade barriers so
American products could be sold overseas with greater ease and
competitiveness. The pitch told us that it would help American companies and
increase American jobs. That sales pitch was a deliberate lie.
What was really afoot was a way for American corporations to significantly
reduce their manufacturing costs by opening state-of-the-art facilities in
third world countries, hiring third-world workers at pittance pay with no
benefits, while maintaining sales prices. This allowed you folks to pocket
huge additional profits.
Next, you corporate folks decided to jump on the "Diversity" bandwagon,
Diversity replaced merit. Corporate productivity slid but no one could dare
step up to say why for fear of being fired as a racist.
Diversity became and end unto itself and ultimately it was the straight,
white
male who suffered most. Straight white males were intentionally passed-over
for jobs and promotions. When "downsizing" took place, it was the straight,
white male cut loose so "diversity" could be maintained.
The last straw - and by far the worst betrayal - was the intentional use of
illegal aliens and the intentional importation of foreign, cheap labor under
the H1-B Visa system. Companies even went so far as to send their Human
Resources people to seminars offered by law firms so they could learn
precisely how to disqualify Americans for available jobs, in favor of
importing foreigners!
Well, ladies and gentlemen of the business community, the chickens have now
come home to roost.
Vast numbers of unemployed Americans, unable to pay their mortgages after
losing jobs, began defaulting, causing foreclosures to rise.
Vast numbers of illegal aliens who were also given mortgages (by banks who
feared being labeled racists if they declined to lend), defaulted on their
mortgages too. This caused even more foreclosures.
As foreclosures grew, they affected the value of nearby homes whose owners
suddenly found out they owed more than their homes were worth! When their
mortgage companies demanded large, lump sum payments to pay down the excess
mortgage, those folks could not pay and. . . . were foreclosed upon.
Long story short, these foreclosures caused the banking system to contract,
which caused the credit markets to dry up, which caused everything else to
go
in the crapper. That's where we are today.
Where we're heading is unlike anything you can imagine.
Unlike the great depression of the 1930's, people today are quite well
educated. We know exactly how this trouble happened and exactly who is to
blame: YOU. The corporate hot shots who put profit over country; who put
greed
above loyalty and who cared not one wit about who was displaced, who was
harmed, or who got shafted.
Unlike the great depression, people today have lost a lot more than just
their
jobs and homes. They've lost their retirement nest eggs, their children's
college funds and worst of all, any chance at a better future. Therein lies
a
recipe for violence;. and folks, violence is coming - right at you.
You see, folks of today understand that allowing the great depression of the
1930's to take place without retribution against those who caused it, set
the
stage for this latest financial screw job.
As any parent can tell you, when being nice over bad behavior fails to stop
such behavior, one must resort to punishing bad behavior to prevent future
bad
acts.
Punishment for what you have done is your due and folks out here in the real
world are preparing to deliver it - right to your physical person on the
doorstep of your offices and homes.
Thanks to the internet, we know who the CEO's and CFO's of all your
companies
are. We know who is on every Board of Directors. Thanks to information
services like Intellius.com, we also know where all of you live. ALL of you.
Americans who have lost everything, have no reservation whatsoever about
coming after you to inflict violence for wrecking their lives and our
nation.
In fact, I personally know of a "movement" of several groups actively
recruiting the destitute from make-shift homeless centers, with the
intention
of organizing criminal violence against you. Groups like the Ku Klux Klan,
Aryan Nations, Nazis and White racist skinheads are seeing staggering growth
in membership. I know. I've seen it with my own eyes. And you know what? I
agree with "the movement" because I think what you've done stinks.
I will proudly stand with those groups when the time comes.
These groups are folks, right here in America, who have nothing left. They
have lost everything, including all hope. They do not fear the police, jail
or
death. They certainly don't fear you.
More interesting, many of the people now facing utter destitution are US
military veterans and they are helping the aforementioned groups prepare for
what's coming. Through their contacts in the military, veterans in the
groups
mentioned above have gained access to automatic weapons, armor piercing
ammunition, grenades, C4 plastic explosives, anti-personnel mines,
rocket-propelled grenades and more!
I personally know one former US Army Combat Engineer in the National
Alliance.
I can't even begin to describe how helpful he has been to "the movement."
If you want an example of how frighteningly effective this movement has
become, I can tell you for an absolute fact that the US Secret Service had
to
emergency-deploy eight (8) sniper teams around Grant Park in Chicago, IL on
election night because a member of "the movement" was reportedly headed down
there with military Mortars to attack and kill Barack Obama and his
supporters! That's how bold, how brazen, how incredibly dangerous things are
getting!
What good will the police or your corporate security forces be against these
types of dedicated and committed, angry people? What good are the "safe
rooms"
you've built in your homes or office buildings when C4 and RPG's can blow
right through them?
Last year, a listener to my talk radio show who is a gunsmith, thought I
might
like having an illegal silencer for my gun. He built one and shipped it to
me!
I have pictures to prove it!
Was it illegal? Yes. Did he care? No. Did I care? I won't say.
You have no idea how bad things are getting out here in real America. Trust
me, if you don't do something now to step up and help the average people of
this country, by the time you find out exactly how bad things are, it will
be
too late for you.
So I think you corporate folks would do well to seriously reconsider your
actions over the past
15 - 20 years and decide whether you're going to help America or continue
lining your own pockets? Are you going to bring the jobs back to America or
continue using third world labor as your country collapses? Are you going to
stop this bad behavior or are you going to have to be punished?
If you need help deciding, just ask yourself this: What good is all your
wealth if an uprising of angry white males leaves you too dead to spend it?
Oh, and if you think an uprising can't happen here, think again.
The bullet-resistant vests worn by police and your corporate security do not
protect them from the paralyzing effects of a Tazer. Once the cops and
security people are neutralized, your guns and those of the angry white
males
can do their thing. Since there are more of us than you, we win.
There's a fight coming. The cops can't stop it. The lawyers can't stop it.
The
courts can't stop it. The military is spread too thin around the world to be
of any consequence and the government is too broke to fund any more homeland
security.
But this fight doesn't have to happen. It can be avoided with a little
national loyalty and a little compassion.
Get your Board of Directors together and ask what your company can do to
help
America for the next 24 months? Talk to your stockholders and ask their
permission to cut dividends by half for the sole purpose of hiring more
AMERICANS to jobs here in America.
Go on TV and tell the public what you're doing to make things better HERE,
at
home! You can recover from the horrid reputation you've gotten, and help
resolve the horrid situation you have created if you'll only take some time
to
do the right things for the COUNTRY. A little corporate sacrifice will go a
long way to help a lot of us little people. The gratitude and admiration it
will generate will be priceless.
Of course, you are free to continue being impressed with yourselves as
masters
of the universe and keep right on doing what you've been doing. If that is
your intention, then know now:
The jig is up. Either get right with white males and America, or get your
affairs in order.
Hal Turner
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