This interview is dense, and I required several attempts to understand the details. (leave window open and return to it in bursts)
Some highlights for me:
Michael McFall - wrote the book on how-to-color-revolutionses. Becomes ambassador to Russia. Makes sense.
Oh and Public Private Partnerships - to run Non-Government Organizations. Perfect for moving blame around; fuzzying up donors and securing government agendas while parading as a private company. Cute. I came across such organizations originating with blah blah from central government/private 'consultants' who were trying to legitimize furhter centralization of local governments (operating as a subsidiary to the ill-fated THree WaTers issues). Their doctrine is highly New Public Management oriented - complete with detailed othering of certain employees (to be clear, they wanted to get rid of 'old builders' who become local government employees, to fire them and replace them with fresh out-of-college types - highly offensive and against the law btw.), and management-looking 'calculations', that nobody bothered to run through some software, which turned out to be basically fraudulent. When following the money, some dirty names keep showing up, too.
Military rule. But whose military?
Oh and a nice bit at the end, giving a sitrep on the latest censorship battlegrounds: California and EU both pressuring X to rekindle censorship, under a shady non-government/ex government coalition (with over 40 national elections in the works this year).
This interview is dense, and I required several attempts to understand the details. (leave window open and return to it in bursts)
Some highlights for me:
Michael McFall - wrote the book on how-to-color-revolutionses. Becomes ambassador to Russia. Makes sense.
Oh and Public Private Partnerships - to run Non-Government Organizations. Perfect for moving blame around; fuzzying up donors and securing government agendas while parading as a private company. Cute. I came across such organizations originating with blah blah from central government/private 'consultants' who were trying to legitimize furhter centralization of local governments (operating as a subsidiary to the ill-fated THree WaTers issues). Their doctrine is highly New Public Management oriented - complete with detailed othering of certain employees (to be clear, they wanted to get rid of 'old builders' who become local government employees, to fire them and replace them with fresh out-of-college types - highly offensive and against the law btw.), and management-looking 'calculations', that nobody bothered to run through some software, which turned out to be basically fraudulent. When following the money, some dirty names keep showing up, too.
Military rule. But whose military?
Oh and a nice bit at the end, giving a sitrep on the latest censorship battlegrounds: California and EU both pressuring X to rekindle censorship, under a shady non-government/ex government coalition (with over 40 national elections in the works this year).