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Jul 21
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Prescient article from 2019, by Dan Fisher.

In her 2007 book, The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein investigated natural & man-made disasters that enabled a more aggressive & ruthless capitalism to form – something she termed “disaster capitalism”...

theconversation.com/deregulation-a…
"Klein’s work brought to light how neoliberal policies are pushed through following disasters, allowing for deregulation & wholesale corporate seizures of public services."

Sorry to write this sentence, but Liz Truss is the ERG's & Global Disaster Capitalists' wet dream. Image
Britain currently faces multiple crises.

"When comparing Brexit to the events highlighted in Klein’s book, such as the economic crisis in Bolivia that started in the late 70s, we can observe similar patterns emerging in the UK since the 2016 referendum."

link.medium.com/0zZDvMpuQrb
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Jul 21
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Each year for the last 20 years the number of children identified by the National Referral Mechanism has been rising. Last year there were about 5,500 child slaves in the UK - children like Mo, trafficked either for labour or sexual exploitation.

transformingsociety.co.uk/2022/07/19/mo-…
'Some UK-based child slaves freed from bondage by the police go on to be victimised by the courts, who – not understanding the nature of slavery - charge enslaved cannabis growers, for example, as criminals, sending them to prison and then deporting them.'
Some years ago the coalition of expert organisations Anti-Trafficking Monitoring Group, concluded the NRM was institutionally racist: Black African victims seeking to be identified as such had about one third the chance of being accepted as victims as did white European victims.
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Jul 21
James McGill Buchanan was a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Koch-funded US think tank, the Cato Institute.

In 2018, Liz Truss visited them, saying “a thicket of regulation & control” is holding back business, & called for a new “Anglo-American dream”.

In 2018, Liz Truss met with representatives of five libertarian groups, including the opaquely funded anti-abortion Heritage Foundation, & the American Enterprise Institute, that aim to shrink the size of the US government & scrap environmental protections.
Truss also met with ALEC, which brings together corporate interests & politicians to draft business-friendly legislation that is then enacted across the US, & a roundtable with Americans for Tax Reform, strongly linked with the UK’s TaxPayers’ Alliance, founded by Matthew Elliot.
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Jul 20
The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective (Eds Mirowski, P & Plehwe, D).

Modern #neoliberalism was born at the "Colloque Walter Lippmann" in 1938, but came into its own with the 1947 founding of the Mont Pèlerin Society.

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The Mont Pèlerin Society's original membership was made up of transnational economists and intellectuals, including Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, George Stigler, Karl Popper, Michael Polanyi, & Luigi Einaudi.

From this small beginning, their ideas spread throughout the world, fostering, among other things, the political platforms of Margaret Thatcher & Ronald Reagan & the Washington Consensus, & leading to the potentially catastrophic & #neofascist present.

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Jul 20
Read up on Dr Barbara Kolm – President of the Hayek Institute, & Director of the Austrian Economic Center & Free Market Roadshows which evangelise Austrian-School Free Market Economics worldwide with the aim of ‘Disrupting Democracy’.

bakerstreetherald.com/2020/09/case-2…
Kolm plays a key role in influencing most global Libertarian institutions, lobby groups & governments, & is referred to by her own Austrian Economic Center as ‘the Voice of Europe‘. She is VP of the Austrian National Bank, sits on numerous boards & is a University lecturer. Image
Kolm is a member of the infamous Mont Pèlerin Society, a network of neoliberal intellectuals & a closely related network of neoliberal partisan think tanks under the umbrella of the ATLAS Network (formerly the Atlas Economic Research Foundation) founded in 1981 by Antony Fisher.
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Jul 20
Britain's next PM will be an embarrassing inarticulate Thatcher-impersonating free-market fundamentalist US Libertarian billionaire puppet who ignored the British Pregnancy & Advisory Service's requests to publicly denounce the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn #RoeVsWade😬 Image
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