Naomi Klein: How Socialism Protected Chileans from Earthquake Fall-out http://www.alternet.org/story/145897/naomi_klein:_how_socialism_protected_chileans_from_earthquake_fall-out (excerpt) A particularly distasteful case in point. Just two days after Chile was struck by a devastating earthquake, Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens informed his readers that Milton Friedman's "spirit was surely hovering protectively over Chile" because, "thanks largely to him, the country has endured a tragedy that elsewhere would have been an apocalypse.... It's not by chance that Chileans were living in houses of brick--and Haitians in houses of straw--when the wolf arrived to try to blow them down." +++++++++++++++++++++++ The building code was adopted<http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=1289347> in 1972, ie., pre-Pinochet. CEPR <http://www.cepr.net/> Center for Economic and Policy Research. They tracked down the origins of the building code. +++++++++++++++++++++++
ALL--- This is the kind of information we could provide directly to individuals or on Goanet. It helps in many ways, besides boosting morale. It gives courage to those whose spirit goads them to take on contentious issues. Do it for larger reasons. Of course the other well treaded option is to attack everything and wilfully mislabel thoughts, ideas, events, ideologies, including the misbegotten desire to proclaim to speak truth---a kind of in-your-face kouko-meme. venantius j pinto
