kann man auch noch mal schauen:
Mont #Pèlerin Society - Die #Anstalt
#hayek #friedmann #greenspan #koch #neoliberalismus #chile #pinochet #cato #reagan #thatcher #Lambsdorff #schröder #agenda2010 #giersch #buchanan #schuldenbremse #nobelpreis
#reagan
#Nixon conspired with South Vietnam to stop peace talks, win 1968 election.
#Reagan conspired with Iran to keep hostages, win 1980 election.
#Bush lost in 2000, engaged in Trump-like election-stealing efforts including a riot. Republican Supreme Court appointed him president.
#Trump conspired with Russia in 2016, attempted a coup...
https://hartmannreport.com/p/dear-republicans-we-tried-your-way
Dear #Republicans: We Tried Your Way and It Does Not Work
THOM #HARTMANN
..."Democrat Franklin Roosevelt and Republican Dwight #Eisenhower renewed #America with modern, state-of-the-art public labs, schools, and public hospitals across the nation; nearly free college, trade school, and research support; healthy small and family businesses; unions protecting a third of America’s workers so two-thirds had a living wage and benefits; and an interstate highway system, rail system, and network of new airports that transformed the nation’s commerce.
When we handed America over to Ronald #Reagan in 1981 it was a brand, gleaming new country with a prosperous and thriving middle class.
The seeds of today’s American crisis were planted just ten years earlier, in 1971, when Lewis Powell, then a lawyer for the tobacco industry, wrote his infamous “Powell Memo.” It became a blueprint for the morbidly rich and big corporations to take over the weakened remnants of Nixon’s Republican Party and then America.
...
Their sales pitch was effective, and we’ve now had 42 years of the so-called Reagan Revolution.
It’s time to simply say out loud that it hasn’t worked:
Republicans told us if we just cut the top tax rate on the morbidly rich from the 74% it was at in 1980 down to 27% it would “trickle down” benefits to everybody else as, they said, the “job creators” would be unleashed on our economy.
Instead of a more general prosperity, we’ve now ended up with the greatest wealth and income inequality in the world, as over $50 trillion was transferred over 40 years from the bottom 90% to the top 1%, where it remains to this day. The middle class has gone from over 60% of us to fewer than half of us. It now takes 2 full-time wage earners to sustain the same lifestyle one could in 1980.
...
The bottom line is that we — as a nation, voluntarily or involuntarily — have now had the full Republican experience.
And now that we know what it is, we’re no longer listening to the Republican politicians who are continuing to try to sell us this bullshit.
We don’t want to hear Republicans sermonizing about deficits (that they themselves caused)."...
Tiens... Ronald #Reagan déjà, utilisait ce slogan #MAGA Make America Great Again...
Comme #Trump ... Les #Conservateurs... faudrait envisager de changer de disquette, tout doucement, non ?
La fête est finie.
À 4min16 : https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=JOQ2bj54-e0&t=4m16s
Et bien sûr, avec les promesses de la #richesse qui va ruisseler vers le #peuple... La vaseline, c'était en plus, par contre.
Heureusement pour les Con-servateurs, il reste des gens qui :
qui font l'office
De lécheurs assidus des #riches orifices.
Ils sont toujours contents,
Toujours prêts à blanchir l'affront des inconstants.
Les vieux faiseurs de messes
Les ont accoutumés à vivre de promesses.
Rien ne peut les changer,
Ils sont toujours pour ceux qui leur en font manger.
There was an attack against the home of some of the senior members of Iranian People's Mujahedin, MKO of cult of Rajavi in Paris last week.
I didn't read much on French or international news, but the attack has the clear footprints of IRGC #Quds force, the main target was a senior member of MKO Masoud Keshmiri who was named as the personal behind the bombing in Tehran back in the summer of 1981 that killed the President Rajaii and Prime Minister #Bahonar.
The attack was always a source of questionable circumstances and many people believed that it was the work of #Rafsanjani and and #Khamenei together with Ali #Rezai the head of IRGC back then who were involved in the #McFarlane trip to #Iran before the US election of 1980 that resulted in a deal between #US government (actually #Republicans and #Reagan) and IRI regime to delay the release of the hostages who were planned to be released in early fall of 1980 in exchange for badly needed spare parts for Iranian #F-14 #TomCat fighter jets and the code to unlock the air to air missiles #Phoenix that #Shah of Iran had purchased before the àrevolution and IRI could not use them because of inability to break the code.
Rejaii was one of the deeply religious hardcore revolutionary who was badly tortured before the revolution in #Evin àprison and a man of principals who was 100% against the deal specially after he found out that most of the parts and àweapons delivered to Iran were actually came from an unmarked ship fromFrenxh port of #Marseille but it made a stop in Israeli port of #Haifa to load the weapons.
2 days before his death, #Rejaii made a famous speech that condemned those "naive individuals in the country who believed they could purchase weapons from an arh enemy of the nation in order to fight the little insignificant devil #Saddam that Iran could easily deal with".
The deal hlgave Reagan the landslide wicrory over #Carter who Khomeini hated more than anyone because he brokered a peace deal between #Israel and #Egypt and he, in his typical short sighted stupidity believed Reagan would be a friend of Iran in it's fight against the " pro #Soviet #Saddam".
The rest is history and we all know the sad and pathetic stupidity of #Khomeini and his closest inner circle gave the world a monster that setup the foundation to the shitty world we live in.
But for the stupid and ignorant followers of Khomeini, who never admitted that it was Israeli weapons and spare parts that turned the war around and let Iran almost destroy the entire Iraqi air force in series of attacks including one that goes to history as one of the longest direct hit of a French Mirage 1 (one of 3 that French government has lent to Saddam) from 150km distance using one of the $2.5M phoenix missiles, the blame was on MKO and not the evil Trio of IRI inner mafia.
So the last week's assassination brought "closer" to a 42 years old revenge against the puppet in the game of much more evil forces inside and outside IRI regime.
PS. Some say that #Macron's phone call with #Reisi was triggered by the #assassination in #Paris, buth both parties seems to have chosen not to talk about it in public.
Een bikkelhard boek over de rol van consultancy in de publieke sector: ‘De overheid infantiliseert’
De Volkskrant
Ministeries in Nederland geven jaarlijks miljarden uit aan extern personeel zoals consultants. Rosie Collington (30) deed onderzoek naar de consultancy-industrie. Ze waarschuwt ervoor dat de publieke sector wordt uitgehold door een bedrijfstak vol belangenverstrengeling.
Politici en publiek hebben het geloof in publieke diensten verloren, zegt Rosie Collington. En mensen die in de publieke sector werken, hebben het vertrouwen in zichzelf verloren. Dat is volgens haar, in de kern, de reden dat complete overheidstaken zijn overgenomen door consultants. ‘Ze bedenken beleid én voeren het uit.’ Welke dramatische gevolgen dat heeft, zet Collington (30) uiteen in het net verschenen boek De Consultancy Industrie. (...)
(Tekst loopt door onder de foto.)
Politiek econoom en schrijver Rosie Collington. Beeld Carlotta Cardana / de Volkskrant.
Ook de Nederlandse overheid besteedt veel uit. Vorig jaar gaven ministeries een recordbedrag van 2,7 miljard uit aan extern personeel, zoals ict’ers, interim managers én consultants. Dat is ruim 14 procent van het personeelsbudget, ook al is in 2010 afgesproken dat 10 procent het maximum zou moeten zijn. (...)
‘Dat komt niet alleen door de verkooptechnieken van consultants, die hun cliënten ervan overtuigen dat zij neutrale handelaren in expertise zijn, en werkelijk waarde toevoegen. De diepere oorzaak ligt in de geschiedenis, in de manier waarop we binnen het kapitalisme tegen de rol van de overheid aan zijn gaan kijken.’
‘Het is geen toeval dat de uitgaven aan consultants in de jaren ’80, onder Reagan in de Verenigde Staten en onder Thatcher in het Verenigd Koninkrijk, spectaculair zijn gaan stijgen.’ (...)
‘Het voor langere tijd uitbesteden van overheidstaken, dat kwam daarna pas echt goed op gang onder de linkse leiders van de zogenoemde Derde Weg: Clinton in de VS, Blair in het VK en bij jullie Wim Kok.’ (...)
‘De filosofie van de Derde Weg was dat de overheid moest sturen en niet moest roeien. Maar dat is onlogisch. Overheden weten niet hoe ze moeten sturen als ze al zo lang niet zelf meer hebben geroeid. Je hebt eigen, praktische ervaring nodig om te kunnen bepalen wat er moet gebeuren.’ (...)
‘Inkopen kan veel meer kosten dan wanneer je een taak zelf had verricht. Die kosten zijn vooral hoog op de lange termijn. Want we willen als burgers een overheid die zich kan aanpassen als wij nieuwe behoeften hebben. Zoals nu bijvoorbeeld de klimaatcrisis te lijf gaan. Of het reguleren van big tech. Maar doordat de overheid allerlei competenties niet zelf ontwikkelt, verliest zij het vermogen om zich aan te passen aan nieuwe situaties. Daarom schrijven wij dat het uitbesteden van werk aan consultants de overheid infantiliseert.
‘Die theorie van de slanke organisatie gaat uit van een idee over kennis dat volstrekt irreëel is. Alsof je die in een presentatie kan zetten en kan overdragen. Maar met de meeste kennis kan dat niet. Zeker niet in de publieke sector, waar je je hoort te baseren op wat je van dag tot dag leert over je beleidsterrein, je team en vooral de gemeenschap voor wie je beleid is bedoeld. Dat is niet te standaardiseren.
‘Neem klimaatverandering. We weten dat de overheid daar nog heel lang mee bezig zal zijn. Dat maakt het nog logischer om kennis in huis te ontwikkelen. Toch is de klimaatconsultancy geëxplodeerd. En wij zeggen niet dat de overheid nooit met anderen moet samenwerken, uiteraard niet. Dit is geen pleidooi om overheden alles zelf te laten doen. Maar ook om goed samen te werken heb je kennis nodig.’ (...)
‘We vergelijken consultants met een slechte therapeut die zijn cliënten eeuwig in therapie houdt, in plaats van hen te helpen instrumenten te ontwikkelen waarmee zij op eigen benen kunnen staan.’ (...)
De oorspronkelijke, Engelse titel van het boek is The Big Con, de grote zwendel. De schade van het outsourcen, beschrijven Collington en Mazzucato daarin, is vaak pas na jaren te zien. Zo is met het outsourcen van ict al in de jaren ’90 begonnen en pas de laatste jaren worden de gevolgen duidelijk. (...)
Collington wijst er fijntjes op dat buitenproportioneel veel werknemers van de grote consultancyfirma’s werken in belastingparadijzen zoals de Kaaimaneilanden. Het is dus aannemelijk dat zij bedrijven helpen om zo min mogelijk belasting te betalen aan de overheden die ze intussen adviseren. Zo helpen ze dus actief om die overheden te verzwakken. (...)
Tags: #nederlands #boeken #overheid #ambtenaren #publieke_sector #consultants #consultancy #belangenverstrengeling #McKinsey #Bain_en_Boston_Consultancy_Group #Deloitte #Ernst_&_Young #KPMG #PwC #kapitalisme #kleine_overheid #reagan #thatcher #derde_weg #blair #tony_blair #wim_kok #bill_clinton #clinton #outsourcen
Halabja : 35 years later!
Time flies. It wasn't yesterday, but I still remember the first I heard the news on shortwave radio.
Saddam had used chemical weapons again, but this time targeting civilians in IrQi Kurdistan.
Reports were mentioning some horrifying scenes of people lying dead on the allys and pathways, door fronts or in their homes.
US and UK did everything in their power to prevent the UN to condemn the Saddam regime and put the blame first on Iran, then under pressure, changing the UN resolution to condemn both sides using chemical weapons.
Even 10 years later, long after operation Desert Storm and massive bombing campaign that followed, the no fly zone over Iraqi Kurdistan and occasional bombing of Saddam military operating there, a team of reporters from American TV channel CBS went to visit the place.
The 60 minutes team visited Halabja, met with the locals and went to see the graves. The people were desperate, 100s of people were still suffering from the aftermath of the chemical attacks. Without any help, they were suffering and dying.
Even the ground water was contaminated, partially because of the clean up operation, but also from the corps of the victims leaking deadly chemicals into the ground water that people used for drinking and farming.
The short 20 minutes or so that the CBS team used in their broadcast went missing during the lies of post 9/11, when suddenly US started to scare the world of the danger of Saddam with his WMDs and Collin Powell went to the UN and showed the world what he claimed being enough Anthrax to kill thousands of people in the most horrifying way.
What they didn't say was that Powell was one of Reagan's men working with Saddam's army to coordinate their attacks against Iranian and Kurdish forces. He was probably aware of fhd usage of a cocktail of chemical weapons given to Saddam by German chemical companies, with the help of French and Italian scientist and American helicopters and Soviet chemical bomb canisters. But Powell didn't say anything about those, he was quiet for 15 years and never ever told anyone how much help and Support Saddam received from Americans, French and Britta to fight the barbarian army of Iranians. Because after all Iran was the enemy, not Saddam.
35 years have past, none of those who provided those deadly weapons to Saddam were prosecuted nor named or shamed.
Saddam is gone, and once again, Iran is the target of the US and the memory of those victims of chemical attacks against Halbja and over 30 Iranian sites that no one even care to remember, are all gone.
US is now the savior of the free world, standing up alongside other NATO nations against the new enemy from the east, Putin and his friends Lukashenko and Reisi with the hint of help from China.
America is the source of good, and only grumpy old men like me remember the dirty history of men who are acting like they are the moral guardians of our world.
And for people of Halabja, no one really cares.
#Halabja #ChemicalAttacks #Hisgory #Iraq #Saddam #Reagan #Iran #PersianGulf #NeverForget #NeverForgive
#Libertarianism doesn't work
#Individualism doesn't work.
more on the demise of sears from Beverly Dir
"Ayn Rand's - Sears Demise began much earlier.
Sears followed #Reagan's Union Busting and Lifetime Firing of 11,364 Experienced Professional Air Traffic Controllers who went on strike due to under staffing and wide spread fatigue which caused unsafe working conditions in the air traffic control system for in- flight plane accidents. There have been 22 near misses this year. Reagan's undermining of unions was also the Demise of the Middle Class.
1) In the late 1970s Sacramento, Sears "laid off" their BEST large appliance repairman & retained or hired young inexperienced cheaper repairmen.
2) In the 1990s, Raley's Supermarket, now with 129 Supermarkets worth $1.4 Billion did the same thing. Raley's grocery store CEO Mike Raley Teel is the wealthiest man in Sacramento according to Forbes, worth $ 940 Million. Despite the Corporate and Individual wealth, Teel with 92% ownership, cut the hours of all Senior staff with 10 years or more working for Raley's, from 40 hours weekly to 24 hours weekly, so that Raley's did NOT have to contribute as much to the employees retirement fund.
3) Our son worked for Raley's Bel Air Supermarkets for 26 years as the graveyard warehouse receiving and stocking crew manager, and he was also assigned to various stores to "clean up & reorganize" departments like the biggest money making liquor departments.
4) Raley's not only cut Workers' weekly hours and income, but workers consequently lost family medical benefits.
5) Our son had three kids to support, some older staff had kids in college who were forced to drop out, and some employees lost their homes through no fault of their own.
6) Our son and our grandkids were on the brink of homelessness were forced to move out of expensive California to a cheaper, but lower wage State on the East Coast.
7) Mike Teel's raw unrestrained capitalist greed ruined some workers and their family's' lives, contributed to the decline of the community and homelessness!
8.) Employers must have to hire employees for a full 40 hour work week before they can hire part time, underpaid, and under compensated workers who must work 3 jobs to barely pay for living expenses."
#Nato in Osteuropa: Eine Osterweiterung des Denkens
#Brandt statt #Reagan , #Abrüstung statt Aufrüstung: So wuchs unser Autor auf. Auf seinen Reisen durch #Osteuropa lernte er einen Perspektivwechsel
#taz #rada #russland #putin #ukraine
https://taz.de/Nato-in-Osteuropa/!5839905
Diese „Nachbarschaft“ machte mehr als 150 Millionen Menschen zu so etwas wie Spielmaterial einer russlandfreundlichen deutschen Außenpolitik, die sich auf die Ostpolitik Willy Brandts berief und auf russische „Sicherheitsinteressen“, hinter denen sich Putins Hegemonialstreben verbarg.
