special messages to go (spellchecked and upright)

what a week! the world of commerce and information is spitting out more than i can catch in my kid size glove. where shall i start? let's venture somewhere close to my heart. THE US ECONOMY! influential economist jeffrey sachs has a piece that dresses down the geithner-summers public-private plan to buy up 'toxic assets.' mind you mr. sachs, along with lawrence summers and other free marketeers are complicit in bankrupting bolivia in 1985, poland in 1990, and russia in 1991, largely through their economic 'shock therapy' programs. i don't know if geithner-obama-summers et al. are aware that these 'shocks' of 'stimulus' are from the same neoliberal text (not subtext). i'm glad mr. sachs is turning a new leaf, because i agonized reading his book 'end of poverty' while in school. noticably, his critics just rolled their eyes, they must have thought he was taking blue pills and hanging out with bono and angelina jolie so much he lost grip with reality. no mr. sachs, africa is poor because it's resource rich, all the west has given it (and the rest of the global south) are artificial borders, resource extraction, slave labor, political cover for friendly dictators, usury loans, guns, desertification, slave trade, liberation theology, and denial. despite it, i'd like to have lunch with him. i'd ask him how it feels to go from telling heads of state what to do, armed with legalese to privatize entire economies and holding the funnel to billions in imf loans, to sharing web page space with 'sexiest vegetarians alive' on the huffington post?
i am that rude. and incidentally, i read the huffington post. special cheers goes to one ms. smith who gave me 'the shock doctrine' right on time; at about the time it came out, and although she doesn't know it, needs speakers and a receiver to complete her living space.