[lbo-talk] Check this out

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As Graeber notes in his book, the link between finance and state military is primordial.

Joanna
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Grimes" <c123grimes at att.net>

Subject: [lbo-talk] Check this out

``Corporate media are reporting that these white shirts are police 
supervisors as opposed to rank and file.  Recently discovered documents 
suggest something else may be at work.
If you're a Wall Street behemoth, there are endless opportunities to 
privatize profits and socialize losses beyond collecting trillions of 
dollars in bailouts from taxpayers.  One of the ingenious methods that has 
remained below the public's radar was started by the Rudy Giuliani 
administration in New York City in 1998.  It's called the Paid Detail Unit 
and it allows the New York Stock Exchange and Wall Street corporations, 
including those repeatedly charged with crimes, to order up a flank of New 
York's finest with the ease of dialing the deli for a pastrami on rye...'' 
Pam Martens

http://www.counterpunch.org/

As Spock said, Fascinating!

CG

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