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Klein takes on capitalist policies

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Best-selling author and celebrated journalist Naomi Klein (right), author of “The Shock Doctrine,” spoke before an enthusiastic audience last night in Kresge Auditorium. Klein, a long-time critic of neo-liberal economic policies, addressed the current economic crisis at length.Naomi Klein, author of “The Shock Doctrine,” spoke to a crowd of around 300 people in Kresge Auditorium last night. She discussed the issues of disaster capitalism and the rise of democratic reconstruction worldwide.Klein is a Canadian journalist and syndicated columnist who is known for her best-seller “The Shock Doctrine,” as well as her previous book “No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies.” She shared the stage with Political Science Prof. Terry Karl.
"She took on the economic policies of revered experts such as Stanford’s own Milton Friedman, as well as others. She claimed that this economic crash should be seen as a negation of their ideology.“The crash on Wall Street for Friedmanism is like the fall of the Berlin Wall for authoritarian communism,” she said.In the lecture, Klein also focused on the idea of a “disaster capitalism complex,” the idea that, in times of crisis — such as natural disasters or economic breakdown — it is much easier to make economic policy changes that are not supported by the people.......
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In 1933, in the wake of the 1929 stock market crash and during a nationwide commercial bank failure and the Great Depression, two members of Congress put their names on what is known today as the Glass-Steagall Act (GSA). This act separated investment and commercial banking activities. At the time, “improper banking activity”, or what was considered overzealous commercial bank involvement in stock market investment. The bill that ultimately repealed the Act was introduced in the Senate by Phil Gramm (R-TX) and in the House of Representatives by James Leach (R-IA) in 1999. Without forcing a veto vote, this bipartisan, veto proof legislation was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on November 12, 1999.
And I hate to bring up the bad “F” word, but, you know, there is a model for this, and Mussolini had it in Italy, and it’s called “fascism.It’s where your big corporate interests throw in with government, destroy the freedom of the rest of the people, and preserve their power. Everybody forgets, private corporations and banks did quite well, made out quite well in Italy and Germany in those days, you know? And I am really worried about this assault on our democracy.


Ted Rudow III,MA

October 17, 2008


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Prop 8 doesn't protect anything; it threatens equal rights precedents

Tommy Wright
Issue date: 10/16/08 Section: Opinion



Despite everything that was accomplished by the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, inequality still exists in the United States. The people facing the most discrimination in this country today are gays and lesbians. They cannot give blood, cannot openly serve in the U.S. military and, in most of the country, cannot marry.--

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How much is the Lord going to stand of this filth? Sodomites even have gotten the Courts in California to bless their unions and celebrate their love together, to ask God's blessing on their union! How horrible! How blasphemous! They've even discussed having role models in the gay community, people you should look up to and emulate. How disgusting and sickening! It's absolute demon-possession!

They are mocking God, the Bible and are creating anarchy where there are no absolutes. No wonder both Gibbon and Toynbee concluded that homosexuality was one of the moral sins that contributed to the decline of the Roman Empire, and America now.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Class of 1996