9/11 Metastasizing: the Left's Co-Dependency

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Wednesday June 03, 2009 · 1:57 PM PDT

2009/06/03 · 13:57

This may be the shortest lived Diary on Kos history, begun only one week ago, mainly in response to the banishment of Tocque DeVille. I endeavor not to stray beyond the barricades of the Rules, but if I too face exile, all I ask of Kos and Meteor Blades before the guillotine is pulled is as much thoughtful consideration of these issues as I have given them...

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Thursday May 28, 2009 · 6:14 PM PDT

2009/05/28 · 18:14

In another disastrous episode of what the French call "savage capitalism"...

Utah County businessman Rick Koerber was indicted May 26 on charges of mail fraud, wire fraud and tax evasion resulting from an alleged Ponzi scheme he conducted with numerous investors and several of his businesses.

Koeber contributed heavily to advance Utah's defeated school voucher bill, while ranting against "socialists" and worshipping Ayn Rand on his "Free Capitalist" radio show -- free, that is, to wipe out the worth of his many investors while help plunging Utah's economy into a recession.

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Wednesday May 27, 2009 · 6:50 PM PDT

2009/05/27 · 18:50

The passage below is from Donald Gibson's excellent book, Battling Wall Street: The Kennedy Presidency. It details JFK's economic policies, and the furious opposition of Wall Street, Finance magazine, David Rockefeller, and other potentates of the plutocracy.

Specifically, JFK’s battle, via tax policy, to steer investment from short-term speculation to productive industry -- a battle resumed somewhat diffidently by Clinton -- and his foreign policy promoting indigenous economic development in the Third World as a bulwark against the expansion of Communism, versus the exploitative “shock doctrine” of the Chicago School that eventually triumphed in the stirrups of the IMF and World Bank. This war has been going on for a long time, with the Reagan/Bush imperialist oligarchs mostly victorious over the last 3 decades, but in another episode of blowback, it seems the Chicago cattle prod has short circuited from overuse and finally zapped the Yankee bully wielding it.

Every fear Quigley expressed has come to pass...

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