'Hidden in plain sight'
'Eyes wide shut'
>From: "R" <rhisiart at charter.net>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
>Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] parenti's conspiracies that the conspirators
>announce to the world?
>Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 15:56:54 -0800
>
>another good source of info about "conspiracies" is magazines like Foreign
>Affairs.
>
>of course, all this doesn't mean they don't conspire, too. not all that's
>fit is printed.
>
>R
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Stephen Philion
> To: lbo
> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 9:08 AM
> Subject: [lbo-talk] parenti's conspiracies that the conspirators
>announce to the world?
>
>
> In 1994, the officers of the Federal Reserve announced they would
> pursue monetary policies designed to maintain a high level of
>unemployment
> in order to safeguard against "overheating" the economy. Like any
>creditor
> class, they preferred a deflationary course.
>
> --doesn't sound like conspiracy to me, sounds like point blank
> straightforward capitalism. odd that a marxist like parenti should think
>of
> this as a 'conspiracy' example.
> --------------------------------
> They have repeatedly announced their commitment to
> seeing that "free-market reforms" are introduced in Eastern Europe.
>Their
> economic aid is channeled almost exclusively into the private sector
>
> --they repeatedly announce their conspiracies? wow.
> ---------------------------------------------
> though they call it "planning" and "strategizing" - and
> they do so in great secrecy, often resisting all efforts at public
> disclosure.
>
> --Noam Chomsky was fond of pointing out in the 1980's that if you wanted
>to
> understand what the US was doing in Central America, read the
>congressional
> record...some "conspiracy"...
> ----------------------------------------------
> Yet there are individuals who ask with patronizing, incredulous smiles,
>do
> you really think that the people at the top have secret agendas, are
>aware
> of their larger interests, and talk to each other about them?
>
> --secret agendas that are publicly known, discussed...interesting kinds
>of
> 'conspiracies' that Parenti has found.
>
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