Nader Funny Papers: "Psychiatrists, help us understand"
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Subject: Nader Funny Papers: "Psychiatrists, help us understand"
Date: Jan 19, 2010 2:07 AM
"Organizational psychiatrists and efficiency
economists, please help us understand."
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LOL. Oh, that's very funny.
The proponents of "IT's ALL ABOUT MEEEEeee!"
are going to explain to us the folly or
the abyss or the vortex of foncusion, or the
logical black hole of "IT's ALL ABOUT MEEEeeee!!"
http://www.actionlyme.org/PSYCHIA_SATANISM.htm
When you talk to them psychiatrics about
brain diseases they come back with, "there
will be no more spirochete-like
discoveries":
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.diseases.lyme/browse_frm/thread/df0d595f8c23f271/9a021517cb0d451f?lnk=st&q=there+will+be+no+more+spirochete-like+discoveries&rnum=5#9a021517cb0d451f
"5) psychiatric disorders are etiologically
complex, and *** no more "spirochete-like"
discoveries will be made*** "
Oh.
The last time we had a major global
disaster, the Indonesian Tsunami, the
Tsunamians, when asked about the help
offered by psychiatry, said, "No thanks
we want *REAL* help."
Etiologically uncomplex disorders like
reality and the unaccountability in
private corporations - whose one function
is to sell something for more than it is
worth, AKA capitalism - in combination
with the brain drain engineered by the
likes of the Whorey-Glorey Trainers:
http://www.actionlyme.org/AARON_RUSSO.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/BRITISH_PSYCHIATRY.htm
are gonna be splained to us by the Founders
of BULLSHIT,... or The Value of Deceit, or
"SELFISHNESS IS NORMAL, and SELFLESSNESS is
ABNORMAL."
I wish I thunk that one up myself.
In the land of "Freedom!" and the "Rights
of Man!" the one set of unbrainiacs
responsible for the downfall of it
have the balls to admit they got it
all wrong, when what led to them getting
it all wrong and their total inablity
to admit this to themselves, is the
hardwiring caused by psychoanalysis that
we know is the very definition of psychosis:
http://www.actionlyme.org/DIABOLICAL_PERVERSION_PSYCHOANALYSIS.htm
??
I don't know. So far, no one can "heal"
psychiatry's kind of "mental illness," except
by the recognition of the predictably *uncomplex*
question, "What is Evil?"
KMDickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
http://www.relapsingfever.org
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http://www.counterpunch.org/nader01182010.html
MLK Day Edition
January 18, 2010
Up for Sale
Privatizing Everything
By RALPH NADER
Whenever Frank Anderson speaks the way he did at a recent public forum
in Washington, D.C. about "essential state functions performed by
businesses," people better listen. Mr. Anderson is the president of
the Middle East Policy Council, but previously he was the chief of the
Near East and South Asia Division of the CIA. A discussion-relayed
over C-Span-featuring Mr. Anderson, was among established scholars and
policy wonks focused on national security in that tumultuous area of
the world. Mr. Anderson was asked about Blackwater, the controversial
corporation whose profits come from Pentagon and State Department
contracts to provide security to U.S. government personnel in west and
central Asia and to perform such secret operations that it could have
an identity crisis with the CIA.
Blackwater has gotten in trouble for shooting up Iraqi civilians in
unprovoked situations. The corporation's operatives are involved in
sensitive missions, such as the recent double-agent suicide explosion
in Afghanistan. Again and again, the line between corporate and
governmental functions is not only blurred, it has ceased to exist.
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL.) called Blackwater a "repeat offender
endangering our mission repeatedly, endangering the lives of our
military and costing the lives of innocent civilians." She asked why
Blackwater is employed anywhere by the U.S. government.
Outsourcing national security activities, right down to interviewing
job applicants for intelligence agencies, is troubling many retired
and active members of the national defense and security agencies. Yet
corporate contracting, launched big time by Ronald Reagan, seems
unstoppable. There are more contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan than
there are U.S. soldiers. Over two hundred thousand of them and
counting.
The rationale for these contracts is (1) greater efficiency, (2)
greater talent and (3) more flexible personnel in and out whenever
they are needed.
First, throw out the tax dollar savings argument. Mr. Anderson
estimates that the costs are two to three times more when corporations
do the work. Other estimates are higher, even when non-deliveries,
contaminated food and drinking water, embezzlements and fraud that
keep Pentagon auditors awake at night, are not included.
Government acquisition specialists accuse politicians of creating
layers and layers of contractors with their massive, convoluted
contracts dissipating accountabilities. It is a Kafkaesque nightmare
of corporate statism. Of course, all this has led to a government
brain and skill drain over to the corporate sector which pays so much
more than government. A vicious cycle of incapacity and hollowing out
sets in and allows the governmental departments to rationalize more
outsourcing.
"No way that we should have allowed businessmen to perform essential
state functions," said Mr. Anderson, especially, he added, in the
areas of "intelligence and the application of violence."
At the same forum, Bruce Riefel, senior fellow in foreign policy at
the Brookings Institution and former CIA officer and specialist in
Middle East Affairs, agreed with Mr. Anderson, bemoaning more and more
layers of reviews and contracts.
Messrs Anderson and Riedel are not loners. Their views often reflect a
larger circle of governmental professionals who have seen the
wholesale stampede of contracting out government from DOD, CIA, AID,
and NASA. The Congress is sort of looking into this mindlessness that
is swelling deficits and escaping standards of public service and
ethics. The prospects for change? Mr. Anderson said "fixing this would
require revolutionary changes." That objective can only come from the
proverbial people-aroused and determined. If that does not happen,
what Franklin Delano Roosevelt called fascism in 1938-that is
corporate control of government-will tighten its very costly grip.
The corporate government mentality is not restricted to Washington,
D.C. State governments are also outsourcing with similar though lesser
waste, fraud and escape from accountabilities.
Just last week, Virginia's incoming governor, Robert F. McDonnell,
announced that he will let his Cabinet secretaries have dual
allegiances by serving on commercial corporate boards of directors.
Virginia is one of the states that permits this in-built conflict of
interest between duty to the citizens and loyalty to specific
corporate profit.
So his new Secretary of Commerce and Trade, Robert Sledd, will
continue to sit on three corporate boards. In his day job, Sledd is
responsible for 13 agencies that regulate business policy, according
to the Washington Post. On the side, he sits on the board of a tobacco
company and a medical supplies business.
Down in Arizona, a new slide toward the pits is about to occur. Beset
with a large state deficit, the state officials and their Governor
refuse to end corporate welfare and corporate tax abatements and
subsidies. Instead, get this, they have put "for sale" signs on
Arizona's state buildings hoping to realize $735 million and then
start paying the buyers rent!! (Breaking News--they've got a sale!)
Also up for sale, among other structures, go the legislative
buildings, the Department of Public Safety, the prisons and the state
Coliseum. Organizational psychiatrists and efficiency economists,
please help us understand.
Wouldn't it have been better for the state legislators to just sell
the back of their jackets to corporate advertisers? Then at least,
there would be truth in advertising!
For a regular stream of news about privatization visit:
privatizationwatch.org
Ralph Nader is the author of Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!, a
novel.
"[Real] scientists are *fiercely* independent. That's the good
news."-- NIH's Top Fool, Anthony Fauci