| Blog Review 749 |
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| Written by Netsmith | |
| Wednesday, 15 October 2008 | |
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Somewhat in contradiction to Naomi Klein's thesis in The Shock Doctrine, crisis seems to bring on an expansion of State power....or at least, attempts to do so. On which subject, no, we've not really tried having tax cuts, not yet. Assuming a recession but no depression, the finance boom will have given us more than it will cost. What happens when you really don't trust the banks. Some sense amongst the nonsense about drugs. The fruits of innovation: ain't capitalism great? And finally, the journalistic cliche crash.
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government works by inculcating fear written by s masty, October 15, 2008
"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear — kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor — with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it." - Copy to Clipboard
-- Douglas MacArthur Write comment
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