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   From: garymatalucci@gmail.com   
      
   On Apr 9, 8:10 am, "Hägar"  wrote:   
   > "Sir Arthur C.B.E. Wholeflaffers A.S.A."  wrote in   
   > messagenews:628619a3-8553-4171-80d8-31a738ea182b@t7g2000pbn.go   
   glegroups.com...   
   >   
   > > I'll try to remember to take a shit on her grave site, something to   
   > > remind me of her.   
   >   
   > Looks like the shit is coming from your mouth, not your ass ...   
   > Is that what they call "Shit-fer-Brains" ???   
      
   Hager you and your in-bred useful idiots are worthless to the human   
   race.  I saw dog shit that is worth more than your entire family.   
   Your kind have been dragging down humanity for far too long.   The   
   best thing that Raygun and Thatcher did was die.  Good riddance to bad   
   bad rubbish   
      
   Margaret Thatcher and the Triumph of Crony Capitalism: “There is No   
   Alternative” (TINA)   
      
   Last night, on the day that Margaret Thatcher died, much of the   
   mainstream media fell over itself to mourn the passing of a ‘great’   
   leader. There were of course some references to her being a ‘divisive   
   figure’, but only because she did what ‘had to be done’, which   
   politicians before her were too weak-willed to do (ie attack workers’   
   rights, the welfare state and beat down wages).   
      
   Even people like Henry Kissinger, a man often accused as having the   
   blood of innocent millions on his hands, were wheeled onto our screens   
   to tell the British public what a really outstanding leader she was.   
   That the BBC would turn to Kissinger for such a ringing endorsement of   
   Thatcher’s policies and personality says a lot about the mindset over   
   at the good old ‘Beeb’.   
      
   I happened to see Kissinger on the BBC’s late night ‘serious’ new   
   analysis programme Newsnight. Presented by senior broadcaster Jeremy   
   Paxman, prior to talking with Kissinger, the show hosted a studio   
   debate about Thatcher’s legacy. As elsewhere, it was a broadcast   
   lavishly sprinkled with eulogies for the ‘great Margaret’.   
      
   Early in the broadcast a Conservative MP (or ex-MP) offered his   
   opinion about her legacy. He stated that Thatcher served to put an end   
   to certain debates that had raged prior to her taking power, not least   
   the question of capitalism being the best system for delivering goods   
   and services effectively and for wealth creation. Paxman sat there and   
   just let this go.   
      
   Yet, later in the broadcast, leftist political figure Ken Livingstone   
   made a comment about her legacy, which included the current a housing   
   crisis in Britain. Paxman was on him straight away, pulling him up and   
   tell Livingstone about Thatcher’s ‘successes’ in the housing sector.   
   Livingstone’s comment about the housing crisis was benign when   
   compared with the Tory person’s comments that celebrated the wonders   
   of capitalism.   
      
   How a senior BBC presenter can sit there and not challenge someone who   
   says the debate about socialism/capitalism is ended because capitalism   
   has proved to be successful may well be beyond the thought process of   
   some people. Successful for whom? For the rich and for millionaire   
   politicians who come on to our screens and perpetuate this lie.   
   The banking system has collapsed and ordinary folk are being burdened   
   with ‘austerity’ (mass unemployment, cuts to welfare and services) to   
   pay the for bankers’ losses as a result of their gambling and   
   criminality. Thatcher deregulated the ‘City’ which gave bankers a free   
   rein in the first place.   
      
   Due to ‘deregulation’ in many areas, we now have virtual monopolies in   
   various sectors, including energy, finance and transport.   
   Manufacturing jobs have been outsourced and replaced with Macjobs or   
   no jobs at all and underemployment. Communities across the UK are   
   suffering from social breakdown, criminality, drugs, etc. There is a   
   housing crisis and a personal debt crisis. And ordinary people’s share   
   of wealth has declined (from 65 to 53 percent in the 80s alone).   
      
   Inequalities began to rocket under Thatcher and were perpetuated by   
   ‘New Labour’, which supported her policies. Economic growth in the 80s   
   was the same as in the 70s – wealth creation? Wealth was funnelled   
   towards the top.   
      
   Capitalism is regarded as being so successful by its proponents   
   because higher profits ensued as unemployment rose and labour became   
   cheap in Britain where the unions were broken or was already cheap in   
   the countries to where jobs were outsourced. And as the share of   
   wealth going to labour fell, demand for goods fell, so debt was   
   introduced to boost it. Where now, seeing the level of consumer debt   
   was unsustainable? Capitalism cannot manage is crises, it just shifts   
   them around in ever decreasing circles. Capitalism is in crisis   
   because of it. Look no further than the ‘Eurozone crisis’ and the slow   
   death of   
   the US economy.   
      
   Capitalism (via ‘globalisation’) is devastating communities and   
   economies all over the world, not least farmers in India who have   
   experienced debt and poverty on a massive scale as western   
   agribuisiness has taken over farming; and not least in terms of the   
   illegal land grabs from tribal people in Orissa and Chhattisgarh being   
   undertaken by the Indian govt on behalf of trans-national   
   corporations. From Congo, Mali, Libya and Syria, so-called capitalist   
   countries in the West, via NATO and its proxy armies, are causing   
   devastation and conflict in order to grab the resources required to   
   feed western capitalism’ rapacious appetite.   
      
   Whether it’s IMF/WTO backed policies that impose ‘structural   
   adjustment’ on sovereign states or it is NATO paving the way for the   
   looting of countries, the ‘capitalism’ often celebrated in/by the   
   mainstream media is not based on some notion of a ‘free market’ but is   
   based on brute force, coercion and bullying. But this is not to be   
   discussed. This is the rantings of the ‘extremist’ or unrealistic   
   ‘dreamer’. This is beyond the scope of what is considered ‘rational’   
   debate within the cosy TV studios ofLondon and ‘Westminster Village’.   
   And because it’s beyond the scope, the real extremism, the brutality   
   of monopoly capitalism and imperialism does not get mentioned and is   
   therefore left unchecked by the media.   
      
   While ‘on air’ it may at times be difficult or unnecessary to launch   
   into a wide ranging critique of capitalism, to just sit there and   
   accept at face value and not challenge someone who espouses the   
      
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