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| Sunday, 12 December 2004 |
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Solemn Thoughts by Wendell Solomons Debt salesmen and economic holocaust -Part IV : First diversion for non-strategic States Continued from last week....... Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea and Malaysia served a strategic end in containing the Socialist block of nations. For strategic reasons the port was shifted from Colombo to Singapore. The revenue led to small Singapore blossoming. The island of Ceylon fell into the category of non-strategic nation States. The first post-WW2 method that money dealers used for attacking non-strategic erstwhile colonies and protectorates, was to subvert economic achievement. In its first report of 1952 for the island, the World Bank thus began promoting the enterprise of removal of virgin jungle at State expense, so as to distribute two hectare blocks of land for individual farmsteads. In Britain it was then an average of 80 hectares. In contrast, again in the USA, the average farm size then ran into thousands of hectares. Using tilling by tractor, harvesting by combine and crop dusting by airplane for competitive agriculture, some 5 per cent of the population then fed the entire USA. Following the need for practising concentrated farming in 1948 in the new State of Israel kibbutzim-type farms came into being. Such competitive agriculture was removed from the base of economic calculation for Ceylon. The World Bank report's medicine for development via buffalo-yoked plough was driven into the reckoning of the island's post-Independence statesmen. Informed opinion in the island asked about that investment in terms of the future of the children of farmers walking barefoot in deep mud to till the soil with a water-buffalo-yoked plough and grow rice. In history agriculture is known to release young people into employment in towns. So in tribute to those dissenting opinions recorded for all time in the Parliamentary Hansard, we may ask whether these are the young people who were thrown out to grow hungry for employment - and become material in the hands of the insurrectionists and warmongers who rocked the island. For 20 years the country graph registered slow development. As a result, students of economics began to consider the first model of the World Bank - charlatanry. Current model for adjusting belief system The ultimate ace-in-the sleeve had then to come out. Network media had saturated literature with the words 'Free World' though not quite apt for a world controlled by cartels and monopolies. However, by 1977 the World Bank and IMF led on and began to tingle with the words 'Free to Choose' (between monopolies!) The title was created for a video series put out under the names of Milton Friedman and his wife. Friedman had climbed on the tribune of U.S. Presidential Advisor. There he intended to launch his video series on tax-payer funding. From that tribune, he could also send out his band of apprentices to take control of U.S. university faculty and international bodies such as the World Bank and IMF based in Washington D.C. These apprentices came to be dubbed Chicago Boys (i) for the Chicago School (one subname of Friedman's discipline) and (ii) for the notorious criminal boys of the Chicago of Al Capone (of the Italian Mafia) who were beaten into underlings by the Meyer Lansky mob syndicate (Maier Suchowljansky, 1902-1983, Khazar Ashkenazim). Friedman's model was originally dubbed 'Voodoo Economics' in the USA. In a targeted nation, Friedman broached 'Freedom' as a means of value system adaptation to set people spitting in the community well (an idiomatic expression in Hebrew and Russian.) To this end, standing on a tribune at the expense of the tax payer, Friedman began an attack on the 'collectivist' third class public sector on grounds that the private sector solely and alone is the engine of progress. A community body enters the second class compartment if it is taken over by a private company. A community body enters the First Class compartment if it is taken over by an individual. Why? A predecessor of the Chicago Boys had been installed in Margaret Thatcher's Downing Street office. The philosopher-in-residence picked to restyle the belief system of the chemist PM was Allan Walters. It was the restyled PM who exclaimed, "There's no such thing as society - there are only individuals and families." Allan Walters had given his time of residence to persuading the PM to move Britain from third class 'collectivist' compartment to first class. If collectivism is deplored by the Chicago Boys, then they denounce not only the Israeli adopted kibbutzim, a direct development from 19th Century agricultural communes in Tsarist Russia. The Chicago Boys' logic decries as collectivist - learned societies of scientists and engineers. So does the logic decry every church, mosque, temple or synagogue. To listen to them and convert a learned society into a limited liability company gives it Second Class status. To go further and convert the society into the possession of a single individual raises it to unparalleled excellence the First Class ideal of the Chicago Boys. Friedman's associate Ayn Rand scripted the performance this way in her book 'Anthem' of the 1930s. "The word 'We' is as lime poured over men, which sets and hardens to stone, and crushes all beneath it, and that which is white and that which is black are lost equally in the grey of it." If the British era bestowed a particular balance of private and public sectors (e.g., the Bank of Ceylon was set up with the support of the public sector), in the mid-1970s Friedman and his Chicago Boys began their inciting of the private sector against the public sector. A privatisation-mania was induced. Free-booters, fly-by-nights and marauders were emboldened to raid community assets in the public sector. (to be continued) |
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