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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/19/2014 6:22 AM, Tom Hansen wrote:<br>
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<div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Courtesy of
today's (April 19, 2014) Moscow-Pullman Daily News.</div>
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sans-serif;">His View: Study: Money is running the show</span></h1>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>By Chuck Pezeshki</b></span></p>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Well, the science is in. In a
major study released by Princeton and Northwestern
universities, after comparing actual policy decisions by
the U.S. government to actual citizen preference, social
scientists at these two prestigious universities have
declared that the United States is an oligarchy.</span></p>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What is an oligarchy? It's
where the economic elite run the show.</span></p>
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background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Note that
the policy period analyzed went from 1981-2002. I
shudder to think what we'd be called if they'd looked
at the period post-9/11 to present.</span></p>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In the
words of the report, "The central point that emerges
from our research is that economic elites and
organized groups representing business interests have
substantial independent impacts on U.S. government
policy, while mass-based interest groups and average
citizens have little or no independent influence."
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Yes, yes, the economic elite have been controlling this and that for
centuries. Recall German bankers financing both sides of European
wars.<br>
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On the other hand, modern electronic technology is changing how one
views (various adjectives) strategy.<br>
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Here is a talk by Philip Evans, managing director of the Boston
Consulting Group about how big data is creating opportunities.<br>
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Notice that some of the opportunities may be accomplished by the
modestly-sized, and others by the gargantosaurs of society.<br>
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We all need to become better aware of these emerging relationships
both as beneficiaries and participants, and as citizens and
governors of ourselves.<br>
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Here is Philip Evans: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayI7MTLfyCk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayI7MTLfyCk</a>
Time Length: 21:55 <br>
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Ken<br>
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