Kriget mot tillväxten

E24: Revoltera mot elbolagen
"Den svenska elmarknaden är ett skämt, ett mycket cyniskt skämt. Vattenfalls, Fortums och Eons dominans har skapat ett oligopol som satt elmarknaden ur spel. "

Vilken orättvis och feg attack på framgångsrika entreprenörer som bara gör sitt bästa för att skapa välstånd och tillväxt! Ett bolags uppgift är att maximera sin vinst och det är väl inte mer än naturligt att de då marknadsjusterar elpriserna om de anser att de inte får ut tillbörlig ersättning för sina produkter.

"Dessutom betalar vi moms på el vilket innebär att statens inkomster ökar på vår bekostnad ju mer elpriset stiger. Internationalens fjärde strof om det statliga skatteförtrycket har aldrig känts så aktuell som nu."

 "Att utländska elbolag som Eon och Fortum suger ut oss må vara svårt att angripa, de är ju i sin fulla rätt, men att folkets eget Vattenfall leder processen är svårare att acceptera."  

Som jag förklarade i kommentarsfältet på E24 så är naturligtvis lösningen på detta att göra oss av detta statsförtryck och sälja ut Vattenfall till t ex Fortum, Eon eller det långt mer fria Kina, så att inte svenska  staten ska sko sig på oss, utan vinsten helt och hållet går till de som förtjänar det nämligen hjältarna i de privata bolagsstyrelserna.


"Om alla Vattenfalls kunder struntar i att betala elräkningen i februari så kommer både politiker och elbolaget till slut förstå vidden av missnöjet", skriver Tomas Linnala. 

Det är ett jättebra förslag! Som det kommer att svida för Vattenfall att se Eon och Fortum göra rekordvinster när alla Vattenfalls kunder sitter arga i mörkret och protesterar!


 

USA stärker demokratin i Arabvärlden

US secures record $60 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia
The United States is selling $60 billion (£40 billion) worth of aircraft to Saudi Arabia in a huge deal that will increase unease about a gathering arms race in the Middle East. 

För att ytterligare stärka demokrati, frihet och flickskolor i muslimska länder investeras nu 60,000,000,000 dollar (ca 430 000 000 000 SEK) i demokratins och feminismens hemland; Saudi Arabien.

Fel Diktatur!

DN:”Vänsterpartiet slussar skattemedel till diktaturer”
Fredrik Malm
"Att Vänsterpartiet samarbetar med regimen i Vietnam är iögonfallande. Pressfriheten i landet är endast marginellt bättre än i Nordkorea, enligt Freedom of the Press survey för 2009. Situationen för de politiska rättigheterna får sämsta betyg, en sjua, av Freedom House. Enligt Human Rights Watch senaste landrapport förbjuder regimen oberoende fackföreningar och organisationer som arbetar för mänskliga rättigheter. Hårdare lagar har införts mot journalister och akademiker som kritiserar Kommunistpartiet. Det kan alltså inte bli mycket värre.

Om en enda krona svenskt bistånd satsades på en demokratisk opposition i Vietnam skulle det vara mödan värt. Men under nio månader 2007 plöjde Vänsterpartiet in 150.000 svenska skattekronor i den sittande diktaturen i landet. "

Vinnaren!

Johan Norberg verkar känna sig lite lurad av den kinesiska regeringen och olympiska kommittén;
Hosting the Olympic Games would make China more open claimed Chinese officials and the International Olympic Committee.

Det var ju många naiva vänsterliberaler som trodde att kina skulle bli demokratiskt bara för att väst flyttar all tillverkningsindustri dit. Hö hö hö!

Poängen var ju istället att fly långt bort från miljökrav, höga skatter och jobbiga fackföreningsmaffiosos och låta kinesiska slavarbetare göra jobbet för en spottstyver (då är diktatur en klar fördel) och sen låta vinsterna åka på semester till lämpligt skatteparadis med mutade kinesiska tjänstemäns goda minne.

McKina äger!


T o m Naomi Klein erkänner att Kina is tha shit;
"China, by any traditional capitalist measures, is by far the most successful capitalist economy - ten percent growth rates per year. And it has done this in a climate of enormous repression. It is a Stalinist style police state, which is increasing its level of repression as we speak. "

Ett vinnande koncept!

Bin Ladens Nya Video

Gulf dlr peg likelier to stay after bin Laden remarks

SVD DN AB

The world is not your responsibility, your skin is..

Via Birger Schlaug

Etik is Bad!

Timbro: Etiska krav drabbar fattiga
"De fattiga får betala när företagen vill vara etiska. Det anser Timbro, som tycker att Sida ska sluta sponsra granskning av svenska företag.

Miljöregler, lönesättning och gemensamma standarder gör att det blir allt svårare att göra affärer i utvecklingsländer, säger tankesmedjan Timbros chefsekonom Fredrik Erixon."
"- Jag hoppas att företagen och allmänheten vaknar upp och inser vad som håller på att hända, säger Henderson, när han gästar Stockholm på inbjudan av Timbro. (David Henderson från Westminister Business School)

Han anser att företagen håller på att glömma bort vad som är deras huvuduppgift, att skapa värde åt aktieägarna. I sin iver att framstå som goda drar företagen på sig en massa onödiga kostnader. Aggressiva frivilligorganisationer har tvingat in företagen i ett hörn.
- I slutändan kommer det att göra oss alla fattigare, säger David Henderson."

Jäpp, får man inte ha slavarbetare och släppa ut skit så finns det ju ingen poäng att flytta företag utomlands!
Och använder inte vi barnarbetare så kommer nån annan att göra det eller så kommer dom att bli prostituerade.

(Och det är inte bara slavarbete på bomullsplantager som är bra. Tänk på att vi skulle alla leva under ett globalt islamistiskt kalifat om USA inte kunde outsourca sin tortyr till egypten, syrien, jordanien och andra trevliga regimer!)

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How To Sell a War

The Rendon Group deploys ‘perception management’ in the war on Iraq

By Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber

“I am not a national security strategist or a military tactician,” Rendon said. “I am a politician, and a person who uses communication to meet public policy or corporate policy objectives. In fact, I am an information warrior and a perception manager.” He reminded the Air Force cadets that when victorious troops rolled into Kuwait City at the end of the first war in the Persian Gulf, they were greeted by hundreds of Kuwaitis waving small American flags. The scene, flashed around the world on television screens, sent the message that U.S. Marines were being welcomed in Kuwait as liberating heroes.

“Did you ever stop to wonder,” Rendon asked, “how the people of Kuwait City, after being held hostage for seven long and painful months, were able to get hand-held American, and for that matter, the flags of other coalition countries?” He paused for effect. “Well, you now know the answer. That was one of my jobs then.”

Of course, we have no way of knowing whether Rendon or any other PR specialist helped influence the toppling of Saddam’s statue or other specific images that the public saw during the war in Iraq. Public relations firms often do their work behind the scenes, and Rendon—with whom the Pentagon signed a new agreement in February 2002—is usually reticent about his work. But his description of himself as a “perception manager” echoes the language of Pentagon planners, who define “perception management” as “actions to convey and (or) deny selected information and indicators to foreign audiences to influence their emotions, motives, and objective reasoning. … In various ways, perception management combines truth projection, operations security, cover, and deception, and psyops [psychological operations].”"
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Shocktherapy is Good! (II)

Shocktherapy is Good!

China’s New Leftist
NY Times October 15, 2006 "Co-editor of China’s leading intellectual journal, Dushu (Reading), and the author of a four-volume history of Chinese thought, Wang, still in his mid-40’s, has emerged as a central figure among a group of writers and academics known collectively as the New Left. New Left intellectuals advocate a “Chinese alternative” to the neoliberal market economy, one that will guarantee the welfare of the country’s 800 million peasants left behind by recent reforms."

"For Wang, the problems associated with China’s uneven development were first identified by the demonstrators in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Wang himself was one of the last protesters to leave the square on the morning of June 4, 1989, as the tanks of the People’s Liberation Army closed in. Normally rather brisk and matter-of-fact, he grew animated as he described in fluent, if occasionally idiosyncratic, English how a “broad social movement” began to grow out of the distress caused by the shock therapy of market reforms."

"When Deng Xiaoping sought to bury the ghosts of Tiananmen for good by calling for speedy market reforms in 1992, he may well have calculated that the prospect of personal wealth — and access to Western brand-name goods — would compensate many newly enriched people for the lack of political democracy."

"More than 150 million people survive on a dollar a day. About 200 million of the rural population are crowding the cities and towns in search of low-paying jobs. More than four million Chinese participated in the 87,000 protests recorded in 2005, and these statistics may not fully convey the rage and discontent of Chinese living with one of the world’s highest income inequalities and deteriorating health and education systems, as well as the arbitrary fees and taxes imposed by local party officials.

Much of this, Wang said, could be laid at the feet of the “right-wing radicals” or neoliberal economists who cite Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek (advocates of unregulated markets who inspired Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in the 80’s) and who argue for China’s integration into the global economy without taking into account the social price of mass privatization. And it is they, Wang added, who have held favor with the ruling elite and have dominated the state-run media."


Gosh! That was the silliest thing I´ve ever heard!!

Electroshocks are Good!

"A 12-year-old boy receives electric shock treatment for his Internet addiction at the Beijing Military Region Central Hospital in Beijing Friday June 17, 2005. The boy, a new patient, had become so addicted that he spent four straight days in an Internet cafe, barely eating or sleeping. The clinic, the country's first government-approved facility geared toward curing Internet addicts, has treated more than 300 addicts since opening last October."


Trots stora ansträngningar att hjälpa det kinesiska folket mot demokrati och mänskliga rättigheter, verkar det dock fortfarande finnas stora missbruksproblem. Något för electrolux kanske?

War is Good!

"Krigsutbrottet i Irak gjorde Bildt till mångmiljonär

Carl Bildt tjänar stora summor på Irakkriget.
Han har suttit i styrelsen för kapitalförvaltaren Legg Mason med stora ekonomiska intressen i den amerikanska krigsindustrin.
Samtidigt var han lobbyist för amerikanska krigsintressen med kopplingar till vapentillverkaren Lockheed Martin."


Irakkriget tycks gå så bra att Danmark och England drar sig ur;

Det grundar sig på att de irakiska säkerhetsstyrkorna nu är kapabla att själva ta över ansvaret för södra Irak, sade Rasmussen.

Kids are Bad!

"The first report on the well-being of children in 21 western states shows marked divisions in education, health and sexual behaviour and drug-taking. The Netherlands topped the well-being table compiled by the UN children's agency Unicef, with Scandinavian nations also performing well.
However the United Kingdom and United States fare much worse, taking the bottom two places in the table.

The report shows no strong link between child well-being and per capita GDP."

Sweden is obviously raising a lot of spoiled kids. If you look at economic world leaders - like the US and Britain - then this softhanded scandinavian cuddling obviously isnt healthy for the economy.

And who cares about children, anyway? They dont produce anything, they smell, and only cost a lot of money to society. (Well, you can sell pictures of them on the internet, but thats about it)

"...Nor does the wealth of a nation guarantee its children a good education. Norway and Denmark are to be found in the 18th and 19th places for educational well-being..."

We should educate our youth in arms, porn and drugs instead - thats where the money is.

"She warned that "drastic action", including an injection of 4.5 billion pounds, was needed to meet a government target of halving the number of children in poverty by 2010."

You of course got to be one of those who HAVE money to enjoy the benefits of a high GDP. But they shouldnt include poor people in the study because that completely messes up my vision of globalisationism almost as much as Exxon joining the global warming alarmists.

"...One of the report's authors told the BBC that under-investment and a "dog eat dog" attitude in society were to blame for Britain's poor performance..."

What a load of crap!

Competition is healthy and weeds out the useless people who dont produce anything - like kids, old and sick people.

Bin Laden is Good!

What to do when the vital US Arms industry experience a significant drop in sales?

Many people employed in the business afraid of their jobs might go out on the street demanding "more wars now" and board meetings might get awash in cold sweat and a feeling of deep loss.


But who could replace the ideal foe ; the Red Plague, the Commie Threat, the Evil Empire - the Soviet Union - to justify a mammoth defense budget and boost the US arms exports again?

China?

Well, they are a bit of a commie dictatorship and have more or less all the scary looking characteristics of a world domination seeking James Bond villain.

But they have a natural resource almost as good as Saudi, Iran or Iraq - they have an unlimited underpaid workforce who are stripped of all workers rights, and a cold war with China would mean that americans flags again had to be manufactured by higher paid american workers who might even be organized in unpatriotic maffia trade unions. Hmmm..

Enter Bin Laden and September 11.

Perfect! (Or as Netanyahu put it - "Very Good!") There he is, the return of the world domination seeking villain. And voilá the worlds demand for american weapons are back to the good old cold war days again.

Its not that bin Laden as a person is important;

"'I don't really think about him very much. I'm not that concerned.' We need a president who stays deadly focused on the real war on terror."

(He is not even wanted by the FBI for 9/11)

He is more important as a symbol, he personifies the new threat, the militant islamist.

Now if people can get as frantic about muslim terrorists, as they were about communism, then oil and bank assets that otherwise might come in the hands of "world domination seeking terrorists", can preemptively be confiscated and there is an excellent excuse to spy on foreign business competition and persuade less than clever politicians to spy on their own populations phone and internet communication and hand the data over to the US.

So there are great synergetic domino effects in islamism!

And war creates a lot of jobs and wonderful business opportunities. And for the creative entrepreneur the privatization of everything from propaganda to prisons, torture and military operations, it is a multibillion dollar industry.

"The United States is by far the largest exporter of weapons in the world, with a sales volume that exceeds the next 14 countries combined. Military sales equate to about 18 percent of the Federal budget, far and away the greatest proportion of any nation.

John Ralston Saul states that the American government cannot reduce arms sales because of the consequent fall in GDP. "