*"America preaches free markets, but at home it's a different story." Joseph Stiglitz remind us there's no need for conspiracy theory - just a recognition that people try and plan things.

*Consider - "World Bank to back controversial Caspian pipeline". Nice to see risk socialised away from shareholders and onto the public ("you and me"). Anyway, I've no need of pipelines. But I do like teachers, but unfortunately we can't afford them ("Teachers face pay freeze to avert funding crisis"). I don't know why but TINA apparently...

*"Eisenhower had said: “Communism demands subservience to a single ideology, to a straitjacket of ideas and approaches and methods. Freedom of individuals or nations, to them is intolerable… They use force and threats of force, subversion and bribery, propaganda and spurious promises”

This time the Emperor warned: “A new totalitarian threat has risen against civilization”. The remark was clearly not meant to be taken as self-referential." Aziz Choudry on the naked imperial one.