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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 08:37 AM Original message |
Naomi Klein: Disaster capitalism--making money out of misery |
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bryant69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 08:40 AM Response to Original message |
1. That's depressing |
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Double T (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 08:44 AM Response to Original message |
2. When will our government outsource our disaster recovery...... |
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whistle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 08:44 AM Response to Original message |
3. Geese, that is what capitalism is all about and Bush wasted.... |
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Toots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 09:06 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. No that is not what Capitalism is all about |
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whistle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 09:34 AM Response to Reply #6 |
10. Oh I see and exactly during what periods of time has capitalism... |
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leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-31-06 07:41 AM Response to Reply #6 |
30. Read Prof. Joseph Schumpeter's "Creative Destruction of Capitalism" |
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emmadoggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 10:00 AM Response to Reply #3 |
16. There was something on PBS last night... |
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GETPLANING (370 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 09:10 PM Response to Reply #16 |
28. It was FRONTLINE The Storm. |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 10:14 AM Response to Reply #3 |
19. That may be what CAPITALISM "is all about", but it most decidedly |
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rman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 08:45 AM Response to Original message |
4. "disaster-response partnership with Wal-Mart". See, |
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lutefisk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 08:55 AM Response to Original message |
5. The privatised White House shows where this leads. |
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snappyturtle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 09:13 AM Response to Original message |
7. K&R Naomi Klein is correct in saying only the rich will survive |
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mnhtnbb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 09:17 AM Response to Original message |
8. This is the essence of fascism. Government to benefit corporations |
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Time for change (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 09:30 AM Response to Original message |
9. Excellent and very imporant article |
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emmadoggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 09:35 AM Response to Original message |
11. Ughhhh. I just can't even put it into words... |
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SammyWinstonJack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 10:49 AM Response to Reply #11 |
23. I hear ya! I feel the same way. |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 09:40 AM Response to Original message |
12. reagan was the ''out of the closet'' moment for neo-cons and neo-liberals. |
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w4rma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 09:44 AM Response to Original message |
13. In pre-Republican America this used to be called "profiteering". (nt) |
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confludemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 09:51 AM Response to Original message |
14. You gotta see the Greg Palast/Amy Goodman Katrina special |
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emmadoggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 10:06 AM Response to Reply #14 |
17. Yep, I watched it. |
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confludemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 10:37 AM Response to Reply #17 |
21. Yeah, the deliberate, cold lockout of residents from their apartments |
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glitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 10:26 PM Response to Reply #21 |
29. And pointing out what they are doing makes us conspiracy theorists |
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burythehatchet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 10:00 AM Response to Original message |
15. In plain view, we are witnessing a text book example |
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CollegeDUer (452 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 10:08 AM Response to Original message |
18. Not another far left Green-Communino-Pinko hippie editorial! |
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catrose (591 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 10:36 AM Response to Original message |
20. Wal-Mart? |
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confludemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 10:40 AM Response to Original message |
22. Get this Corporate Watch report (pdf) on N. O. profiteering- |
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rrasile (214 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 01:59 PM Response to Original message |
24. privatization of disaster with pure capitalism |
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Jankyn (197 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 02:02 PM Response to Original message |
25. This kind of stuff always... |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 02:19 PM Response to Original message |
26. I wrote this a year ago |
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LSK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 05:58 PM Response to Original message |
27. kick |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-31-06 12:07 PM Response to Original message |
31. The MAJOR flaw in this 'thinking': "Excess Capacity" |
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mrdmk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-31-06 07:15 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. You are correct, one law of many concerning economics |
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Monkey see Monkey Do (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-31-06 12:46 PM Response to Original message |
32. "Klein's book on disaster capitalism will be published in spring 2007" |
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