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Miss Authoritiva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 12:04 AM
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Locally led nascent peace on earth and good presigned contracts to white men

Locally led nascent peace on earth and good presigned contracts to white men


By Grace Nearing @ Scriptoids



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On any given day, (the Office of Reconstruction and Stabilization) is paying private contractors to draw up detailed plans to reconstruct twenty-five different countries that may, for one reason or another, find themselves the target of U.S.-sponsored destruction, from Venezuela to Iran. -- Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

It’s true, it’s true. Just wade through all the mil.gov.state.tweakspeak -- including the cringe-worthy “locally led nascent peace” -- on the State Department’s Office of Reconstruction and Stabilization website and then gasp your way through the FAQs and the Essential Tasks Matrix. If your country or region has nationalized natural resources or other stuff that we want, the US Department of Regime Change has added you to its wish list of prime candidates. Norway -- you’ve been served.

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It’s absolutely soul chilling. They’ve got the tool kits (their term), the metrics (their term), and the Essential Tasks Matrix (their term) all set to go, along with shrink-wrapped bricks of $100 bills.

And what really inspires total confidence is that everything is so cobbled together and riddled with typos and don’t-give-a-shit mangled syntax that you just know some rat-fucking ex-member of the College Republican National Committee got paid $250,000 to “create” the package. The Office of Reconstruction and Stability is going to take over and smoothly run most of the world on the basis of approximately 500 to 600 PowerPoint slides electronically cut and pasted together -- give or take a few weapons of mass destruction.

Well something had to be done. The technology, housing, and finance bubbles have burst and splattered, so total morbid vertical integration -- destruction, maiming, killing, reconstruction, healthcare, burial-cremation, destruction, maiming, killing, reconstruction, healthcare, burial-cremation -- is not only the next big thing it’s the only big thing left.

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