We need an ‘Evil Plan’ to foil our own leaders: Defend yourself from the coming ‘American Winter’

marmar

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We need an ‘Evil Plan’ to foil our own leaders: Defend yourself from the coming ‘American Winter’

Paul B. Farrell
June 7, 2011, 12:01 a.m. EDT

We need an ‘Evil Plan’ to foil our own leaders
Commentary: Defend yourself from the coming ‘American Winter’

By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Got your “Evil Plan” yet? You really need one. For self-defense, attacks, plain old survival. Why? Things are bad folks. And they’re going to get much worse. Trust no one. Believe nothing you hear. Nothing.

While reading Hugh MacLeod’s best-seller “Evil Plans: Having Fun on the Road to World Domination” over Memorial Day I ran across a Newsweek feature, “Mad As Hell,” an ominous warning screaming: “The anger that fueled the Arab Spring is now boiling over in Europe. Could club-wielding protesters be in America’s future too?”

Answer? You bet. The Tea Party is just the tip of the spear in the upcoming American Winter that could explode any time into a full-blown “club-wielding” revolution, against Wall Street, Washington, Corporate America and the Super Rich now running our government.

What’s an “Evil Plan?” For MacLeod it started as personal, years ago when he broke free of corporate life, became an entrepreneur, made “a good living, doing what you love, without being accountable to some larger company.” That triggered a revolution. ................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/we-need-an-evil-plan-to-foil-our-own-leaders-2011-06-07

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Motown_Johnny

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Tue Jun-07-11 06:22 AM
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1. Trust no one. Believe nothing you hear. Nothing. Including this...

errr... I mean that, well this either. Or him, or me..... well... you know.

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Tue Jun-07-11 06:25 AM
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2. Consider the audience for this article in MarketWatch. It ain't us.

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marmar

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Tue Jun-07-11 06:27 AM
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3. I know. I'm really shocked that that WSJ-owned MarketWatch continues to run his column.....

..... Maybe he has shocking pictures of Stephen Moore and farm animals or something.

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Tue Jun-07-11 06:30 AM
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4. Right. Drive your Volvo or Saab to the protest. This is the rich business

Edited on Tue Jun-07-11 06:40 AM by geckosfeet

interests complaining that the rest of us don't have enough money to spend on their junk. And they are mad at us.

We need an 'Evil Plan' to foil our own leaders

Writing decades before today's out-of-control CEO bonuses, Rand could be talking about one of the Arab dictators: "The man at the top of the intellectual pyramid contributes the most to all those below him, but gets nothing except his material payment, receiving no intellectual bonus from others to add to the value of his time. The man at the bottom who, left to himself, would starve in his hopeless ineptitude, contributes nothing to those above him, but receives the bonus of all of their brains."

What a dark, evil view of the average man. Unfortunately, that extreme demagoguery has become self-destructive for Ryan, the GOP and, sadly, for all America.

We need an 'Evil Plan' to foil our own leaders

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Waiting For Everyman

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Tue Jun-07-11 06:34 AM
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5. Yup, another Black Swan's coming.

It's plain to see, but the "it can't heppen here" mentality dismisses it.

Couldn't agree more.

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Tue Jun-07-11 09:30 AM
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8. Great book. Should be required reading.

that and "The Ugly American".

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Tue Jun-07-11 06:39 AM
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6. Evil Plan means make your own job but the reaction to that has been to stem any capital into that

very action. The American worker has been checkmated.

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Tue Jun-07-11 06:49 AM
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7. The author sees the tea party as the tip of the spear of a coming revolution.

He seems to believe that they are part of the same phenomena as the uprisings in places like Egypt or the protests in Wisconsin.

Is he really that clueless, or is he intentionally distorting the origins and nature of the tea party?

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