I've started listening to "Shock Doctrine," by Naomi Klein. For those of you unfamiliar with this book on murderous and genocidal economics theory and practice, it is rather troubling. She talks about how the Milton Friendman economics gang known as the Chicago Boys have destroyed economies, created horrific suffering for the masses, increased debt and inflation within nations, etc. You know, making the rich richer and poor poorer. The key to creating such horrific conditions in the economy is using disaster to the wealthy folks' advantage. They have the capital to invest, and the poor are easily tossed aside. Take hurricane Katrina for instance.
I posted a review recently of John Perkins' book, "Confessions of an Economic Hitman." John Perkins had the job of going into a nation and forecasting an inflated view of their economic capabilities. That particular nation would then be encouraged to take out massive loans through the IMF, World Bank, and others, in order to create this vast economy promised by faulty forecasts. When the nation couldn't pay back the loans, the nation would be held hostage for natural resources, votes in the UN, and other such coerced activities, and the less rich and the poor were the ones to pay for this, of course, while the rich ran away with the money and the resources while paying those with the guns to control the masses.
I have quite the understanding of the Nazi's. I have read so many books about the dirty underhanded deals of WWII, not your usual stuff about the great glories of how wonderful America and the Allies were and how evil the Axis and the Japanese were. I read about how Henry Ford financed Hitler and his gang of thugs. I read about the Vatican involvement with the Nazi's. Race riots in the U.S. Race strikes in the U.S. The death camps we aren't supposed to know about. I recently re-listened to George Weller's book, "First Into Nagasaki." George was the first reporter to sneak in to Nagasaki about a month after the U.S. dropped the bomb. He managed to commandeer two Fords from the Japanese officer in charge. Two Fords. What were Fords doing in Japan at this time? Did Hank do his dirty business with them, as well as the Nazis?
In "Shock Doctrine," during the devastating Milton Friedman and the Chicago Boys overhaul of the Argentine economy, just prior to the fascists leaving office because of the destruction they caused, they gave escape to some five corporations from their bad business decisions so they would not only keep the profits they stole, but not have to pay for the economic destruction they helped cause. Chase Bank, Citi Bank, IBM, Ford, and Mercedes were all allowed exemption from the economic destruction they caused. Do you know what these five corporations have in common? They all did business with the Nazi's during WWII and made gazillions in profits while Americans, other allies, enemy soldiers, civilians, etc., were slaughtered by gazillions for their profits. Some things never change.
I also recently listened to the posthumous book by Sebastian Haffner, a well known German political analyst, called "Defying Hitler." He talks about his life from the age of 7 at the break out of WWI in Germany, the propaganda, the misinformation, the German mind. He talks about how pro-war he was because it was like a numbers game. He never saw any of it. He did hear some of the gun battles close to his home, but it was still just an unreal game. As he became an adult, he realized there was a lot of lying going on. But he just lived his life. He didn't pay attention. But in '33, things became serious and Adolf and his thugs took power. It still didn't matter all that much to him. He did start to feel rather troubled when it started directly effecting him. He started to understand when people close to him started being effected. It was troubling to watch and see the violence. It was troubling to be FORCED to pay hommage to a nation one, even though a citizen, when they were doing such terrible things. Then, to get his job in the government, he first had to go to indoctrination camp. Even though he hated the Nazi's and everything they stood for, he kinda got into it for that little bit of time. But the thing that kept even the German citizens who wanted nothing to do with the Nazi's in line was terror. If you didn't salute the flag, you would be beaten. There are many in this nation who would Love that type of atmosphere and would still call it freedom. I had a friend who told me that with such people you should just ignore them. If you want to stop a bully, you ignore them, he told me. Sebastian stated in his book, you should not ignore them. To ignore them gives them more time to coerce people and gain power. I would tell that friend that if someone was coming at me or my family with a hatchet, they simply weren't going to go away if I ignore them.
I had a friend that listened to Glenn Beck. He told me he didn't believe in the indoctrination as much as Glenn gave good information. This was about a year ago and I had no idea who Glenn Beck was, and now that I do, I'm fairly certain Glenn Beck is a piece of s**t. I recently heard on Democracy Now how some fella a year or so ago, motivated by the likes of Glenn Beck and Mike (Weiner) Savage was on his way to kill 11 people from some organization called Tide that Beck said was evil for some reason. He got side tracked with a gun battle with the cops and was arrested. Beck also states pretty much that George Soros owns the nation. There seems to be no backing with his information, but when attempting to convince an audience of your lies, your not about to tell them where to get the facts, like at "Media Matters," website. Media Matters exposes the lies of right wing television and radio talk show hosts. Whaddya know. Sometimes I wonder if folk like Glenn Beck are trying to get us in line to salute the flag under threat of being beaten and still calling this the nation of the frei.
All of this makes me wonder if a**holes like Glenn Beck are trying to vie for power like that of the Nazi's. I don't think the conditions are such because there is diversity within the social fabric of the U.S. A single culture could be easily manipulated into joyful mass slaughter for the coffers of wealth for the few, but it is rather difficult when you have a diversity of thinking, a diversity of culture and languages, a diversity of religions. Does Beck thrive on the fact that he motivated at least one man to want to kill for him. Killing is much easier when you don't do it yourself. Why is Glenn Beck wearing a fake Nazi uniform on the cover of his book, "Arguing with Himself?" I mean "Arguing with Idiots?" Why, when he is a proven liar, do people still listen to him, believe in him, thrive on his fascist vibe?
I don't know how it is connected, but yesterday, when heading from Eugene to Albany, I saw one of the longest processions ever with about 40 Harley riders and at least 100 cars. I was figuring I would learn on the news later. When I got to my last stop in Albany, and didn't see one member of the usual crew at the restaurant I delivered to. I didn't think much of it. I mentioned the long procession to the fella standing in for the regular manager. The assistant manger, I was told, had a son, a Marine, in Afghanistan. His son was killed recently, and that was the procession for his son. The service was in Eugene, and they were heading there from Albany. I told the stand in manager I believed it was all us old f**kers who should be out there fighting wars, not these young people. The young people should be home enjoying life. He said he thought all wars should be fought with swords so that way one could see their enemies and maybe folk wouldn't be so motivated to fight wars. The young mans name was Joseph Rodewald
"It's time to go hunting," he says, and suddenly you find yourself walking in a field with Dick. His shotgun is constantly pointing at your face. No matter where you move, his shotgun is always in your face.
