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Guns-to-Caviar Index

Dienstag, 3.4.2007    

<(Link weg) Bröckers zitiert Naomi Klein , und ich kann nicht anders als (schamlos) abzuschreiben:

"In fact, there's an index called the Guns-to-Caviar index, which for seventeen years has been measuring an inverse relationship between the sale of fighter jets and executive luxury jets. And for seventeen years, this index, the Guns-to-Caviar index -- the guns are the fighter jets, the caviar are the executive jets -- has found that when fighter jets go up, executive jets go down. When executive jets go up, fighter jets go down. But all of a sudden, they're both going up, which means that there’s a lot of guns being sold, enough guns to buy a hell of a lot of caviar. And Blackwater is, of course, at the center of this economy."

eigentliches Thema: Privatisierung des Kriegs: "The Worse Things Get in Iraq, the More Privatized This War Becomes, The More Profitable This War Becomes" - Naomi Klein bei Democracy Now.