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On 7/03/2012 9:01 AM, Stan Pierce wrote:
> "jubba" wrote in message news:XnsA00DE2F1CD112dds@88.198.244.100...
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/mar/05/new-right-ayn-ran...
> (snipped for brevity)

The URL was also snipped:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/mar/05/new-right-ayn-rand-marx

Monbiot apparently has no qualms about lying outright.

For example:

>
> "It has a fair claim to be the ugliest philosophy the postwar world has
> produced."

Interesting, try marxism - a wild success in North Korea, Zimbabwe and Cuba.

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>
>
> But the usual suspects were already subverting the government.

They still are - see above.

>
> Rand's is the philosophy of the psychopath, a misanthropic fantasy of
> cruelty, revenge and greed.

Unbelievable.

> ...
> as Adam Curtis's BBC documentary showed last year, the most devoted
> member of her inner circle was Alan Greenspan, former head of the US
> Federal Reserve.

Greenspan? Greenspan?

Greenspan ran the printing presses overtime, undermining the country's 
wealth and savings, promoting *debt*. He was the very antithesis of 
capitalism.

This is the left's big lie. The bankers wholesale out-of-control debt is 
blamed on 'capitalism' (which is the very opposite of debt) to promote 
their bankrupt cause.


> ...
> Once in government, Greenspan applied his guru's philosophy to the
> letter, cutting taxes for the rich,

Greenspan in government? Greenspan cutting taxes?

Goebbels would've been proud of Monbiot.
Greenspan was never in government - he was chairman of the Federal 
Reserve. Last I heard, the Fed didn't legislate anything - and it wasn't 
part of the government. In fact, it's ownership is unclear.


> repealing the laws constraining
> banks, refusing to regulate the predatory lending and the derivatives
> trading which eventually brought the system down. Much of this is
> already documented, but Weiss shows that in the US, Greenspan has
> successfully airbrushed history.

Is this Monbiot's projection?

(yawn)
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