ordered disorder
mostly nuggets
- ant nuggets
- blessed britains
- conspiracy
- honorary ants
- mad bad world
- ECONOMIC HIT MAN
- ISRAEL / PALESTINE
- miscellaneous mad bad
- POVERTY
- 28,000 children a day
- 9-11 victims
- african children
- facts on poverty in Africa
- GREED
- $3 goes to those who need the money most
- 3 big men
- a debt that can never be paid back
- a tax on being poor
- BAE profits soar on Iraq conflict
- breakfast with Bill
- capital flight
- eradicating wall street's hunger
- high net worth individuals
- inequality
- new york diners and the irrawady delta
- not cleaning up
- not reaching human stomachs
- SUPER-markets
- the difference between Tanzania and Goldman Sachs
- the task of an economic hitman
- the top and the bottom
- trickle-down
- we're getting greedier
- not thinking the human costs
- poor get poorer
- poverty and holocaust deaths
- poverty and reform in the former soviet union
- poverty deaths
- saving 6 million children
- selling off grain reserves
- There is simply indifference
- structural adjustment
- mad world
- remembrance and forgettance
- war crimes
blessed britons
In 1993, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Australian Parliament reported that “at least 200,000” had died under Indonesia’s occupation: almost a third of the population...
For three decades, the Australian, US and British governments worked tirelessly to minimise the crimes of Suharto’s gestapo, known as Kopassus, who were trained by the Australian SAS and the British army and who gunned down people with British-supplied Heckler and Koch machine guns from British-supplied Tactica “riot control” vehicles.
In one year, the British Department of Trade provided almost a billion pounds worth of so-called soft loans, which allowed Suharto buy Hawk fighter-bombers. The British taxpayer paid the bill for aircraft that dive-bombed East Timorese villages, and the arms industry reaped the profits.
Suharto, the model killer, and his friends in high places (January 2008)
mad world
The standard ‘trickle-down’ argument against redistribution (through progressive taxation etc) is that instead of making the poor richer, it makes the rich poorer. However, this apparently anti-interventionist attitude actually contains an argument for the current state intervention: although we all want the poor to get better, it is counter-productive to help them directly, since they are not the dynamic and productive element; the only intervention needed is to help the rich get richer, and then the profits will automatically spread down to the poor. Throw enough money at Wall Street, and it will eventually trickle down to Main Street. If you want people to have money to build, don’t give it to them directly, help those who are lending it to them.
...millions die while the rest of the population obediently goes about its business. Howard Zinn