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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 9 Num. 16
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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UP, UP, UP
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Despite "prophets of doom" like Sherman Skolnick and Lyndon
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LaRouche, the stock market continues to go up, up, up. Even this
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editor has been burdened by quaint ideas: for example, his
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antiquated belief that manufacturing moving outside the U.S., and
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wealth not being produced here, meant market gains must be an
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illusion -- hence "the big crash" must be imminent.
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How silly and old-fashioned! There are plenty of maneuvers
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waiting in the wings to help puff up the bubble ever more. Like
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prison labor, for example. Smart yuppies who by day sagely
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nodded and agreed that NAFTA was what's best for America, by
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night phoned their stockbrokers with orders to invest in
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corporations headed toward Mexico. These same smooth talkers can
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now pontificate on how they care so much about prisoner
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rehabilitation then phone their brokers and order them to buy,
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buy, buy stock in "Prison Blues." The smart money now sees that
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slave wages paid to prison labor means big bucks for yuppie
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puppies.
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The smart money will also invest in private companies moving into
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the prison industry. With "tough on crime" a sure win for
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political candidates, increasing repression is assured. For the
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savvy investor, now is the time to invest in prisons. Just think
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what a grand, fine house you'll be able to buy with all the money
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pouring in!
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Just think of the money you might have made if you'd just
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invested in big oil companies! I know, I know: you were worried
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about the deal Iraq was making, to export oil in exchange for
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food. You thought for sure the extra oil on the market would
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drive down the price of "October crude" and oil stocks would go
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down. You saw that piece on *60 Minutes* by Leslie Stahl about
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the hundreds of thousands of children starving to death in Iraq
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due to "sanctions against Saddam" and you, you dummy, you
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actually believed that some sort of "moral outrage" (oh
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*please*!) would open the door for export of oil from Iraq. You
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really make me laugh sometimes! "Moral outrage" -- oh puhl-EEZ!
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Market scoffers and doom-and-gloomers kept pointing to monumental
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Clinton scandals of a staggering multitude. Erroneously they
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foresaw the fall of the Yuppie Dream Regime once the watchdog
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press alerted Mr. and Mrs. America to Clinton sleaze. But Mr.
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and Mrs. America were heavily invested in mutual funds! And the
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watchdog press were raking in big bucks thanks to Third World
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slave wages benefiting multinational corporations of which they
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were shareholders! Come on! Sure, they might wear a little
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ribbon and put on the latest sharing-caring talk. But really
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risk threatening their investments with anything uncomfortable
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like the truth? Sheesh!
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Get wise! These characters muttering all the time about "dire
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economy" and "day of reckoning" are quaint relics from horse and
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buggy days. The market is going up, up, up. Scoffers be damned,
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you can make some good money! And you'll be providing employment
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too. If not for you, it would be hard times for waiters and
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waitresses at trendy night spots. Without you, there'd be a
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slump in the police and prison industry. Why, when you get right
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down to it, you are one of the good guys! So forget about these
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nuts groaning about "right" and "wrong." (You'll notice that
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*they're* all poor.) Dare to dream big dreams, of mansions and
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fancy cars.
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Aperi os tuum, decerne quod justum est, et judica inopem et
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pauperem. -- Liber Proverbiorum XXXI: 8-9
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