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If we look at it from the other side and check the Shock Doctrine the keys appear to monopolize the solutions through the constant narration drawl of the spin machine and then target key persons. The key persons would be individuals that can be swayed and who can then browbeat their parties/ministers into following them without necessarily knowing the actual plan.

I do not have the Shock Doctrine at hand right now but I think it was in Bolivia that an incoming leftist government started with an extreme project of privatization. This was started as soon as the leftist president was elected, by inviting him and his closest to a small conference with the richest people in the country and their pet economists. There it was explained that crises was bigger then expected and a radical project was needed to avoid complete collapse. Fortunately the economists had a plan ready to go.

The president and his closest men were convinced and when at the first meeting of the new cabinet they dropped the program on the table and declared that this was the plan and anyone that did not agree could resign as minister right there and then. (The sources was interviews some 15 years later with some of the ministers.)

Generally, the stick is the threat of economic collapse, the carrots are access to markets, capital (in the form of credits) and also personal economic success for the key persons (how much so depending on the level of corruption).

If anyone have not read the Shock Doctrine by now, you really should.

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by A swedish kind of death on Fri Oct 16th, 2009 at 10:56:39 AM EST
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Additionally, this kind of meetings are kept of the record and their actual existence (and threats made) must not be published lest the country will collapse in economic turmoil.

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by A swedish kind of death on Fri Oct 16th, 2009 at 11:00:57 AM EST
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