Friedrich von Hayek the Golem of Britain

A short bio of von Hayek, and people he associated with and praised.

Thanks to a recent zealot whose mouth resembles an overflowing toilet, I'm shutting down the comments. Bad enough people defend the irrationality of the Austrian school, but, when you degenerate into gutter talk (what else do you expect from speculators) thats it.

I put this together in a couple of hours partly from my anger at the Alexander Hamilton and Abe Lincoln slander speech by Thomas Dilorenzo posted by Nielsio. You have to discuss the last 2000 years of history, in particular, the fight between the idea of a republican nation-state (as reflected in the discussion in Plato's dialogues), and that of the oligarchical model which came out of the Babylonian system through Rome, Venice, and the Anglo/Dutch financial oligarchy up to today instead of the 'History for Dummies' approach of Ayn Rand and Hayek which comes down to "Financial Speculation Gooood, Nations/Communism/Fascism baaaaad". Like all propagandists that the oligarchy have hired throughout history, von Hayek reflects an outlook of mankind that is morally disgusting and should be rejected by any civilization that doesn't want to end up in the toilet bowl of history like most vanished civilizations have. Most of you commentators just confirmed that. Anybody that a speculator defends is immediately suspect as an enemy to humanity.

For your information, I have compiled a list of the Foundations and think tanks that were set up to promote this Hayekian outlook which has resulted in the US and the world facing the worst economic crisis since the 14th century dark age, caused by the Venetian banks Lombard and Parduci collapsing. I'll list the Institution and how much they've collected since the 80's. Roughly, they've spent a quarter of a Billion dollars in this effort. Shouldn't that have been spent on something more useful to mankind instead of trying to legalize criminality?

Cato Institute $22.4 million
Hudson Institute $14.9 million
Hoover Institute $24 million
Intercollegate Studies Institute $13 million
Independent Womens Forum $7.7 million
Heritage Foundation $57.5 million
Heartland Foundation $3 million
Certer for Security Policy $6.3 million
Competitive Enterprise Institute $5.1 million
American Enterprise Institute $30 million
Reason Foundation $6.3 million
American Legislative Exchange Council $3.2 million
Citizens for a Sound Economy $16.9 million
Committee For A Constuructive Tomorrow $1.2 million
Collegiate network $3.9 million
Pacific research Institute $8.9 million

Here are the Foundations that fund them.

Lyne & Harry Bradley Foundation
Richard Mellon Scaife Foundations (Sarah Mellon Scaife, Carthage, Allegheny, & Scaife Family)
John M. Olin Foundation
Coors Foundations (Castle Rock)
JM Foundation
Koch Foundations (Charles G. Koch, David H. Koch, Clause R. Lambe)
Philip Mckenna Foundation
Walton Family Foundation
Wiliam Simon Foundation
Smith Richardson Foundation
Liberty Fund
Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation
John Templeton Foundation
Earheart Foundation
Jaqueline Hume Foundation
Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation
Randolph Foundation

As a disclaimer, I still believe that all these folks have a right to fund whatever salespeople they want to hire, just as much as the other foundations fund the environmentalist movement, which is just as destructive a philosophy as the belief in the free market.

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