[kj] Killing joke and Communism

[Brendan]

Christ on a bike, things are going downhill when the fascists start
putting out their own conspiracy theories, thought that was for hippies
like us?!

The feral right annoy me too, I was over at my friend's place the other
day and his Dad, who is head of one of the larger japanese car companies'
presence in NZ, was there. He's always going on about his right agenda,
he's another one who believes in Ayn Rand's self correcting perfect market
bullshit...but he's too dumb to have done any research into it so didn't
even know who Ayn Rand is...

Anyway get this, I know all this sounds too good to be true (I almost
wished I had it on tape...), but they are adopting 'environmentally
friendly' policies at his behest, even though in his words "there's not a
scrap of scientific evidence to support global warming"...merely as  PR
exercise.

Waste of time talking to people like that.

Oh and at my cousin's baby's party recently, I met a guy who works in
marketing, someone asked him how to promote a particular product (a class
of small yacht), and he unabashedly told him to get a couple of kids with
cancer out there and publicise it...everyone wins, they get an experience
they otherwise wouldn't have, and you get your good publicity.

Fucking unbelievable...Cancerous Kids Marketing inc. I know it all sounds
too good (bad) to be true but both instances happened within the same
week.



> Yeah, I have watched that documentary, From Freedom to Fascism, which is

> a right-libertarian wet dream. It basically says the Fed is an arch-evil

> agency -- much like the UN's black helicopters to right wing militia

> nuts in the 1990s -- that is illegal and un-Constitutional and is

> reviled by a lot of "I just hate paying taxes"-type Libertarians for the

> wrong reasons.

>

> In actuality, the Fed head is appointed by the President, if I remember

> right, and it acts a lender of last resort to US banks, created to

> ensure the Great Depression never happens again and that banks ever run

> out of money if there is a big run on banks like there was before the

> Great Depression. It is basically a welfare-state creation for banks,

> who are the lifesblood of our economic system. It won't allow banks to

> fail to such a degree that confidence in US markets is lost and

> everything collapses. A nanny state for the business sector.

>

> The Fed also has an unsavory policy of wanting to keep unemployment

> between 4% and 8% -- which translates to real misery for milliosn of

> people, by raising interest rates when unemployment gets too low. When

> unemployment gets too low, the theory goes, workers demand higher wages,

> and, to keep their cushy salaries and other big perks, executives will

> charge consumers more to make up for that. That means higher consumer

> prices, which means workers will want more wages -- so up goes inflation.

>

> One thing the Federal Reserve is NOT is some evil conspiratorial cabal

> of financial elites with ties to the Illuminati, or to Jewish

> moneylenders, or any of the other thinly-veiled anti-Semitic crap that

> has been peddled in some UFO/conspiracy type circles. If you ever see an

> article on the web about the Fed Reserve that mentions "the Rothschilds"

> or "medieval Jewish financial bankers," skip it. It's bullshit.

>

> It is, however, a kind of safety net for the banking industry, but it

> has a policy of keep 4 to 8% of America's population unemployed at any

> given time, so that workers will be more likely to accept less wages.

>

> -Oliver

>

>

>

> Brendan wrote:

>> Who owns the Federal Reserve...do a search for that on Google and tell

>> me

>> what you believe...lots of conspiracy theories on that one...I'm not

>> sure

>> what to believe...some people contend that it's a private corporation,

>> or

>> mega-corporation, owned by the banks and banking houses...

>>

>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America:_Freedom_to_Fascism

>>

>> "The central thesis of the film may be that this monetary policy is the

>> strongest form of governance that has ever existed, and is central to

>> the

>> unconstitutional, global power ambitions of the interests that

>> supposedly

>> control the Federal Reserve."

>>

>>

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