Re: <nettime> The best defence is to give no offense

["Mark Dery" <markdery@mindspring.com>]

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From: felipe rodriquez <felipe@xs4all.nl>
To: <nettime-l@bbs.thing.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 8:39 AM
Subject: <nettime> The best defence is to give no offense

> The Cato Institute published a report in 1998 under the name 'protecting
the
> homeland, the best defense is to give no offense. The Cato Institute is a
> nonpartisan public policy research foundation headquartered in Washington,
> D.C.


<engage irony filter>

The Cato Institute is as "nonpartisan" as a deregulation-or-death
libertarian thinktank merrily in bed with petroleum and pharmaceutical
giants, the tobacco industry, and big media can be.

Exxon, Shell, Merck, Pfizer, R.J. Reynolds, Philip Morris, Viacom, and
Microsoft are major contributors to the $8 million annual budget of this
powerful organization, whose steady stream of press releases, talkshow
appearances, and white papers ensures that Cato's fingerprints are all
over public-policy legislation in America.

Board members like Rupert Murdoch, universally acclaimed for his
stewardship of a TV network (Fox) whose very name is synonymous with
balanced, fair reporting and equal time for voices of all ideological
persuasions, ensure Cato's "nonpartisan" objectivity.

So, too, do Cato employees such as Jose Pinera, co-chair of its Project on
Social Security Privatization. Pinera's invaluable experience as a former
minister of labor and welfare in Chile, overseeing the gunpoint
privatization of Chile's pension system in the early 1980s under the
watchful eye of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, make Pinera well-suited to policing
the ethics of this staunchly "nonpartisan" organization, in whose hallowed
halls Ayn Rand is a household deity and neoliberalism the One Truth Faith,
to be defended by any means short of jihad.

For more, see: www.accuracy.org/articles/cato.htm.






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