“An unending cosmic rotation steadily moves man’s life-giving liquid by gravity through the gentle and incessant flow of streams to the great reservoirs of our oceans, draws it skyward by the sun’s attraction to be purified anew, conveys it by cloud and wind, and returns it by rain to refresh the thirsty earth and renew man’s lease on life … ad infinitum. It is an ever-recurring miracle, the most wondrous natural marvel of a wondrous universe.”
Congressman Jim Wright, (D-Tx) “The Coming Water Famine”, 1966.
“The World Commission on Dams Report was a resounding turning point: The Global era of unbridled giant dam building was over.”
“… desalinization cannot be the panacea technology to solve the world’s water crisis in the short term…. Even if costs plunged, there are unsolved environmental problems about how to dispose of the briny waste; inland regions cannot be reached without expensive pumping and building long acqueducts.”
Steven Solomon, “Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization. 2010, 496 pp, Harpers Collins”
Congressman Jim Wright, former Speaker of the House, was an original pro growth FDR Democrat, unlike today’s environmentalist Pelosi led anti Capitalist lemmings, who are marching over the cliffs of oblivion into the “never never” land of carbon tax credits and banning harmless CO2.
Back in 1966, Congressman Wright wrote about real pollution problems in American rivers and streams. He advocated the Clean Water Act which spent hundreds of billions of dollars to clean up the mess. Today, I walk over the Mississippi River in Minnesota daily which is clean enough to drink, and full of wildlife, in metropolitan Minneapolis.
Wright, however, wrote a book about the “coming water famine” to provide this resource for future generations. He advocated a bold, visionary plan to divert water from the Yukon River in Alaska, southwards through the Natural Rocky Mountain Trench in Canada, and thence to the arid Southwest, California, and Mexico.
He claimed that this “dream is, admittedly, both grandiose and visionary. However, the nation was build by visionaries. There have been some disturbing indications in recent years that we may have lost some of our capacity for dreaming and acting in those areas concerning our survival upon this earth. We must recapture that capability if we are to survive …. “
Wright called the Alaska waterway the “North American Power and Water Alliance” (NAWAPA), and said that it “has almost limitless potential if we possess the courage and the foresight to grasp it.”
Steven Solomon represents the “long descent of man” started by the Baby Boomer generation in 1968, which plagues the intellectual life of the Trans-Atlantic world from Washington, D.C. to Berlin.
While he writes some good chapters on the past usage of water, from the Grand Canal in China to the Nile River in Africa to the Erie Canal in North America, in the development of industrial societies, these developments are apparently all over now in the 21st century.
“No new innovative breakthrough capable of expanding usable water supply on a large enough scale to meet the demand is anywhere evident on the horizon….”
“The age of water scarcity consequently heralds the potential start of a momentous transition in the trajectory of water and world history: from the transitional paradigm based on centralized, mass scale infrastructure …. to a new efficiency paradigm built more upon more decentralized, scaled to task, and environmentally harmonious solutions that make more productive use of existing supplies.”
Small is Beautiful
Solomon’s Paradise of future water usage can be found in “rural parts of India and Central Asia where British colonialism did not penetrate with its centralized, modern water techniques, for example …. Village built and managed water tanks in India offer small, local, partial, but helpful solutions to the nation’s great water storage shortages.”
“Several promising principles have been enunciated. These include striking a balance between the “3 E’s”: environmentally sustainable use of water; equitable access by the world’s poor… efficient use of existing resources….”
He pays the usual drivel of homage to Rachel Carson for starting this movement in 1962 with “Silent Spring”, where the birds do not chirp any more because DDT killed them. This fraud did not save any birds, but killed millions of colored people who died from malaria that DDT could have prevented. Today, even the World Health Organization recommends “indoor DDT spraying” to combat malaria.
Then, of course, there was Earth Day, 1970, where “20 million Americans rallied to support an environmentally health planet.” I remember this “day of infamy” at Rutger’s University in New Jersey, where the local Socialists Workers’ Party leader wore a badge which portrayed belging smokestacks, and proclaimed, “Capitalism Fouls things up.” He ended up drunk as a skunk on Ripple Wine that day.
Trans-Pacific Region
Fortunately, for the future of mankind, the trans-pacific region of Russia – India – China has rejected the “small is beautiful” mantra of the now discredited “global warming”, British dominated, environmental Cartel.
China completed the world’s largest dam, the Three Gorges Dam, in 2006, right in the middle of the “no new dams” era on the flood prone Yangtze River, despite opposition from the US Export-Import Bank. It stands 600 feet high, and a mile and one half across, with “multitiered ship locks and a nearly 400 mile long reservoir.”
“China is the unapologetic, leading state representative of the hard path.”
“In 2001, Chinese leaders launched the transnational civil engineering water transfer scheme … to redirect rivers of water – two and a half to three times the volume of the Colorado River or 25 times more the Libya’s subterranean Manmade River — northward from the Yangtze basin. Three separate channels, totalling 2,200 miles in length, were designed to carry the water across mountains, canyons, waterways, railways, …. to deliver parched north China from its dire thirst”.
In effect, China is doing what the United States could have done with Nawapa in diverting the Yukon River in Alaska all the way to Mexico between 1965 and 1995. As Jim Wright said in 1966, “our water problems will be solved only moving water from areas of comparative abundance to sections of critical scarcity.”
Congressman Wright forecast the benefits of Nawapa to the US, Canada, and Mexico: millions of acre feet of water, kilowatts of energy, irrigated land, and increased domestic national product by untold billions of dollars.
In addition, there are now realistic plans to build a tunnel under the Bering Straits, thus linking Alaska, and North America, to Russia, and Asia with a high speed rail link. This would revolutionize the world’s economy.
By contrast, Solomon’s lack of wisdom does not even mention that a huge increase in nuclear power development could solve the final cost containment of desalinization of salt water.
But what, really, is the point, of these “Epic” books on “natural” resources by western publishers? To keep you, dear reader, in a controlled cultural and mental enviroment, away from the limitless potential of the universe that can be harnessed by each new generation of creative human beings.
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Dazed Congress Passes Wall Street Bill
July 16, 2010 • 11:23AM
The Senate approved the meaningless 2,300-page “Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act,” sending it to be signed by a spooked, disintegrating President Obama. Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold was the only Democrat voting no, with three Republicans, the Cabot family’s poodle Scott Brown and Maine’s Senators Snowe and Collins, voting for the Obama travesty.
Before the vote, Sen. Richard Shelby (Repub., Ala.) mocked the perpetrators, by contrasting them to Franklin Roosevelt’s Democrats: “The Banking Committee never produced a single report on or conducted an investigation into any aspect of the financial crisis.”
“In contrast,” Shelby continued, “during the Great Depression, the Banking Committee set up an entire subcommittee to examine what regulatory reforms were needed. The Pecora Commission, as it came to be known, interviewed, under oath, the big actors on Wall Street, and produced a multi-volume report.
“Unfortunately, this time around, the Democrat-run Committee gave Wall Street executives a pass. There were no investigations, no depositions, and no subpoenas…. Chairman Dodd never called on the likes of Robert Rubin, Lloyd Blankfein, or Angelo Mozilo, just to name a few, to testify before the Committee. Not a single individual from AIG’s Financial Products division was questioned by the Committee or its staff…. Most amazingly, the Banking Committee did not hold even a single hearing on the final bill before its mark up.”
Whistling in the Dark
A manic Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), the New Economy 200-millionaire, praised Dodd-Frank as a bill “that will stand with the legislation of the 1930s, that lasted through the years.” Warner claimed that community and independent banks came out winners in this legislation, and boasted, “we hear from our [hysterically bankrupt] European colleagues that they will follow our lead and pass complementary laws.”
Senator Feingold (D-Wi), was one of nine (9) Senators to vote against the repeal of Glass Steagall in 1999, and the ONLY Democrat to oppose this bill:
“Wall Street and its allies have been calling the shots in Congress for decades, so they must be glad to see how things are shaping up on financial regulatory reform. Congress is about to vote on a final bill that fails to fix the key flaws in the bills passed by both the House and Senate. At the start of this process I made clear that I had a simple test for financial reform — will it stop another financial meltdown? This bill fails that test, and I won’t support legislation that fails to protect the people of Wisconsin from the pain of another economic disaster. And I don’t need to be lectured about this issue by people who supported the repeal of Glass-Steagall, which paved the way for this terrible recession.”
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What Happened in 2010?
June, 2010 – After Obama finished with it, Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln’s Title VII of the so-called Wall Street Reform Act, which originally prohibited banks from dealing in derivatives, prohibited them from dealing in only TEN PERCENT of the derivatives which they now deal in, and which caused the great blowout of 2007-10. That is, what remains of Title VII is a joke, as is the rest of the “Dudd” bill.
Changes forced through by White House representative Dan Turton and Deputy Treasury Secretary Neil Wolin late Thursday night, allowed the five big Wall Street banks to continue to use their taxpayer-guaranteed customer deposits to gamble in 1) foreign-exchange derivatives; 2) interest-rate swap derivatives; and 3) most credit-default swap derivatives. These three types of gambling bets comprise together, 90% of the derivatives in which these parasite banks are gambling right now!
It has been reported that these provisions were actually written by Obama’s Treasury Department on Thursday night!
Speaker Pelosi was instrumental in pushing through this sellout, as were Massachusetts’ Rep. Barney Frank and discredited Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd.
What Happened in 1933?
“Faced with effectively complete collapse of the banking system in 1933, the New Deal confronted a choice. On the one hand, it could try to nationalize the system, or perhaps create a new government bank that would threaten eventually to drive all private banks out of business. On the other hand, it could accede to the long standing requests of the major money center banks — especially those headquartered around Wall Street – to relax restrictions on branch and interstate banking, allow mergers and consolidations, and thereby facilitate the emergence of a highly concentrated private banking industry, with just a few dozen powerful institutions to carry on the nation’s banking business. That, in efact, was the pattern in most other industrialized countries. But the New Deal did neither. In stead, it left the astonishingly plural and localized American banking system in place, while inducing one important structural change and introducing one key new institution.”.
”The structural change, mandated by the Glass-Steagall Banking Act of 1933, was to separate investment banks from commercial banks, thus securing depositors’ saving against the risks of being used for hight speculative purposes. The same act created a new entity, the FDIC…. the FDIC forever liberated banks and depositors from the fearful psychology of bank “runs”, or panics…. Bank failures, which had occurred at the rate of hundreds per year even before the Depression …. numbered fewer than ten per year in the decades after 1933.”
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929 – 1945. 928 pages, 1999, Oxford University Press, The Oxford History of the United States.
by David M. Kennedy, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History at Stanford University.
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Citizens for a Sound Economy
Empower America
FreedomWorks
The Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE) was founded in 1984; Empower America (EA) in 1993; both headquartered in Washington, D.C.. On July 22, 2004, CSE and EA merged, forming FreedomWorks, headquartered in Washington, D.C. Their current front group is called “Tea Party Express”, and runs bus tours around the country under the cover the Tea Party revolt.
The three co-chairmen of FreedomWorks shows the scope of its undertaking:
Co-Chairmen: Dick Armey—Between 1995 and his retirement in 2002, the Texas Republican Congressman was the iron-fisted House Majority Leader, who helped draft the Conservative Revolution’s 1994 Contract with America. He also led the move to impeach President William Clinton. Speaking of Mont Pelerin’s founder Friedrich von Hayek, Armey said in the Summer 1994 issue of the Heritage Foundation’s Policy Review magazine that, “Once this shift takes place—by 1996, I predict—we will be able to advance [in America] a true Hayekian agenda.”
“We read Friedman and Hayek. They were our inspiration.” – Yegor Gaidar, Dr. Gaidar is an economist, and from November 1991 to January 1994 he played a leading role in the transformation of the Russian economy after the fall of communism, serving Prime Minister Yeltsin and then President Yeltsin as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance.
“The passion to be reckoned upon, is fear” – Thomas Hobbes.
“That every private man is Judge of Good and Evil actions” can only be tolerated by a “diseased commonwealth”. Thomas Hobbes.
“No clear chain of thought can withstand the force of genuine, mythical images.” Carl Schmitt (excommunicated by Catholic Church in 1926, at the same time as five works of French fascist Charles Maurras, and his Action Francaise, were placed on Roman Catholic Index of banned books by Pope Pius XI, who wrote Quadragesimo Anno in 1931 to honor Pope Leo XIII famous encyclical, Rerum Novarum )
“The specific difference between man and animals is reason. Thus man is much less at the mercy of momentary sense perceptions, he can envisage the future much better than can animals; for this very reason he is not like animals hungry only with the hunger of the moment, but also with future hunger, and thus he is the most predatory, the most cunning, the strongest, and the most dangerous animal.” Leo Strauss
“Another colleague had also prepared a paper arguing that the ‘middle-way’ was the pragmatic path for the Conservative party to take, avoiding the extremes of Left and Right. Before he had finished speaking to his paper, the new Party Leader reaching into her briefcase and took out a book. It was Friedrich Von Hayek’s The Constitution of Liberty. Interrupting our pragmatist, she held the book up for all of us to see. ‘This’, she said sternly, ‘ is what we believe,’ and banged Hayek down on the table.” Lady “Iron Corset” Thatcher (circa 1980)*
“the “Keynesian Revolution” will appear as an episode during which erroneous conceptions of the appropriate scientific method led to temporary obliteration of many important insights which we had already achieved and which we shall then have painfully to regain.” Friedrich Von Hayek
“In my opinion it is a grand book [Road to Serfdom] We all have greatest reason to be grateful to you for saying so well what needs so much to be said. You will not expect me to accept quite all the economic dicta in it. But Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it; and not only in agreement with it, but in a deeply moved agreement.” John Maynard Keynes.
“A new order is about to begin. I urge you in the first place to an intellectual and moral regeneration. Frenchmen, you will accomplish this and you will see, I promise you, a new France arise from your fervour.” Marshall Petain, on the occasion of the armistice with Hitler in 1940.
The founding conference of Synarchism can be said to occur on August 26 – 30, 1938 in Paris, comprised of 28 obscure acedemics, one month before the infamous Munich meeting between Hitler, Mussolini, and Chamberlain. Professor Louis Rougier, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Besancon, convened the Academic conference at the Institut International de Cooperation Intellectuelle, under the title of ‘Le Colloque Walter Lippman’, in order to give it some academic credence.
The attendees included an unknown lecturer at the London School of Economics, Friedrich Von Hayek, and his more well known mentor from the “Austrian School of Economics”, Ludwig Von Mises, then a resident at the Geneva Institute of International Studies. Mises had picked up Hayek as a non descript, confused neo fabian government bureaucrat, and made him a fervent disciple of “classical neo liberalism”.
Unfortunately, “neo liberalism” was in total disrepute because of the world depression, and the Lippman gang met in Paris to revive it. The Proceedings of the Conference were grandly published, and called, the “Magna Carta of Liberalism”. Lippman had just published his book, “The Good Society”, which lamented the dominant “collectivism” of the age.
German economist Walter Ropke and [......] Rustow had written “The Urgent Necessity of Re-orientation of Social Science” for the conference which proposed that “monetary tricks and public works will only end in disaster” as a ‘third way’ between collectivism and liberalism. Professor Rougier added [ French Quote ].
{quote} Le drame moral de notre epoque, c’est, des lors, I’aveugle- ment des hommes de gauche qui revent d’une democratie politique et d’une planisme economique, sans comprendre que le planisme economique implique l’Etat totalitaire et qui un socialisme liberal est un contradition dans les termes. Le drame moral de notre epoque, c’est l’aveuglement des hommes de droite qui soupirent d’admiration devant les gouvernements totalitaires, tout en revendiquant les avantages d’une economie capitaliste, sans se rendre compte que l’Etat totalitaire devore la fortune privee, met au pas et bureaucratise toutes les formes de l’activite economique d un pays. {endquote}
The conference resolved that Lippman, Hayek, and Ropke deploy to found the American, British, and Swiss branches of their new “re-orientation”. In reality, The London School of Economics, University of Vienna, and University of Chicago became the genesis of the Mont Pelerin Society.
The blow up of the post Munich Conference European Order delayed the founding of the Mont Pelerin Society until 1947. However, Hayek went immediately to work on the ‘new’ thesis of Liberalism, which was modelled on Hilaire Belloc’s “Servile State”, 1902. Hayek called it, “The Road to Serfdom”, written from his post at the London School of Economics, and after several publishing houses rejected it, Aron Director of the University of Chicago Press offered to sponsor the book.
The University of Chicago promoted the book through an organized American tour of 1945, which began when the Reader’s Digest Henry Hazlitt published a condensed version of the book in April, 1945. With FDR barely in his grave, this well known “financial correspondent” organized 3000 people to fill New York Town Hall to hear the “now famous” Friedrich Von Hayek lecture on their “Road to Serfdom”, .
On February 28, 1944, while the Allies were preparing to liberate Europe from Nazi occupation, Friedrich Von Hayek addressed the “Political Society” at Cambridge University on the topic of “Historians and the Future of Europe”. In effect, he wanted to reconstitute the “Liberal International”, on behalf of the Synarchist financial oligarchs.
During his address, he suggested to the assembled “liberals” that they form an “Acton Society” to promote Lord Acton’s principles and historical methods. Von Hayek explained his future life’s work, which was to be named the Mont Pelerin Society:
”There are many features united in the figure of Lord Acton that make him almost uniquely suitable as such a symbol….. he unites the great English liberal tradition with the best there is in the liberal tradition of the Continent – always using ‘liberal’ in its true and comprehensive sense, … one to whom individual liberty is of supreme value and ‘not a means to a higher political end’.”
WHO WAS LORD ACTON?
Since the war was almost won, the synarchists hurried to intervene in the certain political vacuum that was to follow. Why did Von Hayek promote Lord Acton?
Lord Acton is famously known for his syllogism: “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority.” He thus shares the dismal view of human nature accepted by oligarchs and their mediocre intellectuals, which condemns altruism, and favors selfishness as the only real motivator of ambition.
Now fast forward 40 years to 1985. The Mont Pelerin Society is wildly successfull in infiltrating governments, think tanks, and political parties. Even a Ludwig Von Mises Institute had been set up at Auburn University in Alabama. One of their many front groups, the “Liberty Fund” of Indianapolis, Indiana publishes a “Liberty Classic” entitled, “Essays in the history of liberty: Selected Writings of Lord Acton”.
The editor, J. Rufus Fears, eagerly tells us that this new edition features “for the first time” Acton’s essays on the Civil War in America, during which Acton was an English M.P., and the main instigator of William Gladstone’s support of the South in Lord Palmerston’s government. Acton wrote for the Catholic Journal “Rambler”, and the “Home and Foreign Review”, where he polluted the English Catholic Church with his pro feudal doctrines, and created the basis for the 20th century “Distributionists”.
John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton was born in Naples, 1834. When his father died in 1837, the little boy became the 8th baronet of the Shropshire estate. William Gladstone elevated him to the peerage as First Baron Acton in 1869. Since the Shropshire baronets were Catholics, they had to seek their fame and fortune in Continental Europe. Grandfather Sir John Acton was Prime Minister of the Bourbon King of Naples. Acton’s Father, Sir Ferdinand Richard, married Marie Pelline de Dahlberg, daughter and heiress of Duc de Dahlberg, a top oligarchal German family.
When his father died in 1837, his mother, of Bavarian and Italian nobility, remarried the English Earl Granville, Liberal leader of the House of Lords, and the top English aristocratic advisor to William Gladstone.
Acton’s ramblings of the 19th century, in the Rambler, feature criticism of the Renaissance for elevating Plato over Aristotle, and praise for Edmund Burke, as the greatest English statesman, who could have reconciled the colonies to Britain, without the onerous taxes levied on the colonists.
However, his essays on the Civil War, and subsequent correspondence with Robert E. Lee, after the Civil War, show the true bestiality of the British oligarchs.
“All governments in which one principle dominates, degenerate by its exaggeration. … We understand liberty to consist in exemption from control. In America it has come to mean the right to exercise control.”
”If my present theme were the institution of slavery in general, I should endeavor to show that it has been a mighty instrument not for evil only, but for good in the providential order of the world. Almighty God, in His mysterious ways, has poured down blessings even through servitude itself, by awakening the spirit of sacrifice on the one hand, and spirit of charity on the other.”
“The most suggestive enactment I could adduce to illustrate the idea of personality in the negro, is, that if the life of a slave was taken by the law, his owner received his value in money from the State Treasury. No slave could make a contract; therefore he could not contract a legal marriage, even with the consent of the master.”
Acton then goes on to to quote Confederate Vice President Stephens, “The corner stone of our new government rests upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.” Therefore, Acton declaims, the Confederacy represented “a society, therefore, more aristocratically constituted than those of feudal times.”
Paradise Regained!
Furthermore, the “long reign of Southern politics at Washington, down to the year 1860, provoked no rupture, because they desired self government, and not empire.” [note that England had imported 750,000 slaves into Jamaica between 1690 and 1820, and invented death camp labor "recycling", by refusing to import women to rebuild the population]
Against this paradise, Acton contends that Lincoln supporter Daniel Webster “laid down, in immortal speeches, that the Union is not a compact between the states, but a fundamental law no longer subject to their choice, and that each state is bound up with the rest by cords that cannot be legally severed.”
Had only the southerners “called on the negroes to be partners with them in the perils of war and in the fruits of victory, I believe that generous resolution would have conferred in future ages incalcuable blessings on the human race.”
ROBERT E. LEE
After the Civil War, and Abraham Lincoln had magnanimously spared the life of traitorous Robert E. Lee, Lord Acton corresponded with him to tell him why the English aristocrats favored “the imminent decline and ruin of Democratic Institution” and feared the “prospect of Farragut appearing in the Channel and Sherman landing in Ireland.”
”Secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of democracy…. I deemed you were fighting the battles of our liberty, our progress, and our civilization; and I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.”
In his effusive response to Lord Acton, Robert E. Lee rued the failure of the 1814 Hartford Convention to actually secede from the U.S. However, since the rebellion was crushed “the legitimate consequence then must be the perfect equality of rights of all states; the exclusive right of each to regulate its internal affairs under the rules established by the Constitution, and the right of each state to prescribe for itself the qualifications of suffrage.”
Hayek in Mont Pelerin, Switzerland
However, Hayek had to go to Switzerland to find some “real” money for such a project, as Britain was bankrupt. So Hayek was sent to meet Dr. Hunold, at the Institut d’Etudes Internationales at Geneva, in November, 1945, who introduced him to the leading Swiss bankers and ‘industrialists”, whose coffers were richly full of Nazi gold and assets looted from the Jewish population of Europe.
This group underwrote Hayek’s project, which finally convened on the slopes of Mont Pelerin, at the Hotel du Parc, on April 1, 1947. 38 academics attended the meeting, including Americans Frank Knight, Aaron Director, George Stigler, Milton Friedman, and three economists from the Foundation of Economic Education in N.Y., F.A. Harper (Cornell), Leonard Read, and V.O. Watts, as well as Henry Hazlitt, who now wrote for Newsweek.
The William Volker Charities Trust underwrote the American delegation. Volker was a window shade manufacturer from Kansas City.
Hayek’s crew included Austrians Von Mises, Popper, Fritz Machlup (Professor SUNY Buffalo, and later Johns Hopkins), Dr. Karl Brandt (Stanford), and Gottfried Haberler, but also featured the “social market” Freiburg School of Economics, in order to mesh the new institute with “mainstream” European thought. Freiburg School leader Walter Eucken attended, as well as Wilhelm Ropke, soon to be advisor to Adenauer, and Ludwig Erhard.
British Pelerinites featured Geoffrey Howe, Enoch Powell (a self described fascist), John Biffen, Keith Joseph, and Rhodes Boyson, and a clutch of “journalists” led by Willian Rees Mogg.
By 1980, this little group had ballooned to 600 invitees and guests at the Hoover Institute, Stanford University. Milton Friedman had become president of the MPS in 1972, and even proposed its dissolution because its proliferation was so successful in Anglo American institutions. The MPS had considered the collapse of Bretton Woods its greatest victory in 1971.
Margaret Thatcher and Keith Joseph established the Centre for Policy Studies in 1974 to prepare for their takeover the Conservative Party, and thence Britain itself.
Hayek had become a British subject, and devotee to the 19th century Victorian franchise of propertied male voters. His philosophy merely regurgitated the Mandeville “private vices = public good” mantra, especially when a strong government enforced this “market system”. While he condemned fascism and socialism as “collectivist”, he would gladly accept any dictatorship, such as Chile, if it preserved its “free markets”.
Hayek never progressed beyond his first book, The Sensory Order”, (written in the 1920’s and published in 1952) which simply followed Arisototle’s dictum that the human mind cannot know itself, or the principles of the universe, but merely can organize a complex classification system from its sensory perceptions.
The Cato Institute have named their auditorium after Von Hayek, but he was far afield from Libertarianism. Hayek was simply a toady of European Central Bankers .
Sources:
Thinking the Unthinkable: Think tanks and the Economic Counter Revolution, Richard Cockett, Harpers Collins, 1995
Hayek, Iron Cage of Liberty, Andrew Gamble, 1996, Polity Press
Carl Schmitt’s Critique of Liberalism, John P. McCormick, University of New Hampshire, Cambridge U. Press, 1997
Essays in the History of Liberty, by Lord Acton , Editor J. Rufus Fears, Liberty Fund, Indiana, 1984
The Unholy Alliance of Carl Schmitt and Friedrich Hayek, Constellations, 4:2, October 1997
Commanding Heights: PBS Documentary
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Half hour video which documents the historical process leading up to Obama’s destruction of NASA.
The release on Feb. 1 of the Obama Administration’s FY2011 budget for NASA calls specifically for the cancellation of the human space exploration programs the agency has been working on for the past five years, and ends the possibility of sending people back to the Moon, much less to Mars. NASA’s Constellation program—which consists of a new crew vehicle to replace the Shuttle, a rocket to launch it to the space station, and a heavy lift rocket for lunar missions—is to be replaced by transport systems developed by private sector “space pioneers,” none of which has yet successfully launched any payload at all into Earth orbit, and the program to develop a heavy lift vehicle needed to leave Earth orbit will be replaced by an endless “Rƒ” program.
This potentially literally catastrophic policy was motivated by representatives mainly from Peter Orszag’s Office of Management and Budget today as being “sustainable,” compared to the operative Vision for Space Exploration. OMB complained that cancelling Constellation is necessary because it is “over budget and behind schedule.” And while admitting that this is so, because it was underfunded from the start, OMB tried to justify ending the program, and relying on amateurs, rather than proposing that it be adequately funded and accelerated, as Congress has tried to do.
A well-connected Washington source said that the gutting of NASA comes from the behaviorists at OMB, who have no science orientation whatsoever. He compared them to the Physiocrats at the time of the French Revolution.
Orszag himself went further in a morning White House budget briefing, describing the lunar program as doing “what we’ve already done, which is return a man or woman to the Moon.” In fact, NASA’s program was not about the often-derided “flags and footprints” which the Apollo program became when it was prematurely ended, but was a multi-decade technology-driver lunar colonization effort, as a stepping stone to Mars.
The reaction to the irresponsible proposal to put the lives of astronauts in the hands of amateur rocket enthusiasts was immediate. Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio), who has NASA’s Glenn Research Center in his state, described Congress as “up in arms.” Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), who has NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in his, said the budget “begins the death march for U.S. human space flight.” The law appropriating NASA’s FY2010 funds states that the administration cannot change the Constellation program without the consent of the Congress. But what is at stake is more than the potential loss of tens of thousands of jobs in their districts. It is the very future.
Former Apollo astronaut and geologist Harrison Schmitt described the decision to cancel a return to the Moon as “a colossal mistake.” In addition to the fact that studying the Moon advances our understanding of the history of the Earth and Solar System, development of the helium-3 resources on the Moon will be the fuel for thermonuclear fusion power, Schmitt states. “If it is a commercial effort only to visit the space station, then it is the beginning of the end of human space exploration,” Schmitt said on Jan. 29th.
If we allow it to become the beginning of the end of human space exploration, we are cancelling our future.