Giving us a lot of material on Milton Friedman's pseudo-economics idealogy in Disaster Capitalism, Naomi Klein does not delve as far back into history as she might think. She does not mention Irving Strauss and econometrics while relating Friedman to neoconism, and Sam Bush's WW1 Merchants of Death Bureau and Prescott Bush's cultivating Adolf Hitler from 1920's, as far as oligarchy propping up Friedman or whoever's platonic utopia via military and covert intervention like 911. Consistently, Klein does not view 911 as in the vein of CIA car-bombs for two Chilean generals and then General Pinochet accept a CIA job to put Milton Friedman on life support in Chile, which Klein does talk about. Disaster Capitalism should have been more about 911 than Katrina, as Katrina privateer response was opportunistic after the fact, out of habit. Where did the habit come from? Reichstag burnings, Pearl Harbors galore, pre-emptive war, fake Tonkin incidents, Venetian bankers hiring Ghengis, Bush family profiting from both sides of WW1 and WW2.
Although he only mentions Milton Friedman once, premier economics professor David Levy in Vanity of the Philosopher deals with many nuances of neocon and nazi pseudo-economics idealogy which includes Friedman. Levy deals with the assumptions that break down in the real world, by many citations from hundreds of years of the literature. Neocons and nazis, always working together, Darwin and Friedman's plan for the poor, old, weak, infirm, and non-white, including the Irish, of course. Laissez faire the military-industrial complex, and what trickles down the leg of Big Brother for your poor, old, weak, infirm, and non-white? Not economics. William Colby saw Quixote roaring around the wilderness meddling with civilians, and said,"We always fail". What else could Quixote economics do? It's not science. Try Levy for some science. -Bob http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs/message/43271 --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, "muckblit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Aside from the fact that he is dead, Milton Friedman's moribund idealogy always needed life support. Pinochet in Chile. Two generals car-bombed, third accepts CIA job. "We always fail", said CIA director William Colby to CIA super-hero Ralph McGehee. Propping up Friedman's dead idealogy by military and covert intervention has always failed. John Birch Society and Friedman's cult pseudo-scientific idealogy always had two things in common. While arguing less is more in terms of laissez faire, they really argued more is better i.e. more corporate welfare for the hegemonic military-industrial state. JBS would belie itself by running a Red Cocaine story by an announced spook, and shaft its Lansdale expose' with an article by Andy Messing, Lansdale disciple and Friendman evangelist via covert action. Why wouldn't the argument used against the Soviet system apply, that if Friendman's pseudo-economics idealogy needed so much military and covert intervention, how could it be as good as advertised? Worse, if it "always fails", per Colby, despite US hegemonic military and covert intervention--Friedman on life support from day one?
