Naomi Klein "This Is A Classic Example Of The Shock Doctrine"

[democracy1st]

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The Shock Doctrine

In THE SHOCK DOCTRINE, Naomi Klein explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically. Exposing the thinking, the money trail and the puppet strings behind the world-changing crises and wars of the last four decades, The Shock Doctrine is the gripping story of how America’s “free market” policies have come to dominate the world-- through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries.

At the most chaotic juncture in Iraq’s civil war, a new law is unveiled that would allow Shell and BP to claim the country’s vast oil reserves…. Immediately following September 11, the Bush Administration quietly out-sources the running of the “War on Terror” to Halliburton and Blackwater…. After a tsunami wipes out the coasts of Southeast Asia, the pristine beaches are auctioned off to tourist resorts.... New Orleans’s residents, scattered from Hurricane Katrina, discover that their public housing, hospitals and schools will never be reopened…. These events are examples of “the shock doctrine”: using the public’s disorientation following massive collective shocks – wars, terrorist attacks, or natural disasters -- to achieve control by imposing economic shock therapy. Sometimes, when the first two shocks don’t succeed in wiping out resistance, a third shock is employed: the electrode in the prison cell or the Taser gun on the streets.

http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine

[gmcheeseman]

1. Great interview with Naomi Klein

I saw this interview on MSNBC. I've never read Naomi Klein's book "Shock Doctrine," but I'm going to buy a copy.

[Jemmons]

13. There are a few very good articles of hers available online:

http://www.faculty.fairfield.edu/dcrawford/klein.pdf

http://www.democruptcy.com/disaster-capitalism/

[madmax]

2. Have heard so much about her book have yet to buy it

and read it.

It's hard for people like me who were lulled into a false sense of security and believed in America, Mom and Apple Pie. Busy with family, then grands come along - life just happens.

Vietnam, Watergate and those things were aberrations - glitches in an otherwise perfect, alturistic USA. Little by little trust is eroded, questions, gut feelings that something is not quite right. I've know for a long time that all is not what it appears but, I had NO IDEA it was this deep and so very rotten to the core.

BAM! 2000k, Florida, USSC, voter suppression, rigged machines... realty. Now it's time to play catch up and hopefully I'm not too late to join the fracas and share what I'm learning with the Grands - not going to spoon feed them 'this is the best country in the world', bullshit.

[abq e streeter]

3. Absolutely one of the most important books I've ever read

even though sometimes I'd get so angry that I could only read 2 or 3 pages at a time. Should be required reading for every citizen. I hope you get a chance to finally read it, even though , as a progressive, you've probably at least suspected much of this stuff anyway.

And by the way, I was, and am, the same way, as far as still, after all these years,having also grown up believing in America's essential goodness and decency (and part of me still does) continuing to be shocked and hurt at learning how deep it all goes.

[madmax]

6. Getting this book is on my to do list for tomorrow.

All the political books I've read over the past 8 or so years have been focused on W and the the usual crap the Republicans have done to destroy the middle class. Klein's book sounds like she goes further into the global implications.

I better stock up on some Tylenol. ;)

[Freethinker65]

7. I agree. n/t

[amyrose2712]

15. +1000% on one of the most important books I ever read. nt

[jwirr]

17. I have been afraid to read it but considering that I am living in the

middle of it I better get over being afraid. For the sake of others we all need to know what it actually going on.

[livingonearth]

4. This is excellent

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. I think we should stop confusing free market with anarchical market.

You see, in a true free market, people will tend to want some kind of regulation to avoid the extremes, such as war, famine and starvation. Therefore, free market would have a certain level of tolerance for government regulations.

An anarchical market would be the absolute absence of any government interference. Which, essentially means that in a true anarchical market, protests in the streets would be ignored, rioters would be shot and the inevitable war, famine and starvation endured.

[realitythink]

8. Fantastic show!

Chris did a fabulous job today. Blew Cenk away, they should give the hour to him or let him have the 7 PM slot. O'Donnell sucks too.

[jwirr]

18. I agree - I have always liked Chris.

[roxiejules]

9. Shock Resistance

Lots of good phrases from Naomi Klein:

- 'Manufactured Crisis'

- 'Too much faith in leaders'

- 'Shock Doctrine has to be resisted BEFORE going into effect'

- 'Wisconsin is example of Shock Resistance'

[erodriguez]

11. Noam Chmsky wroteand made a movie about "manufactured" crisis

I haven't read the book. But after almost 20 years the movie still resonates with me.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent:_Noam_Chomsky_and_the_Media

[RoccoR5955]

24. Chomsky is one smart guy!

He's been warning us about this for many years!

[blackspade]

10. Awesome.

Klein is bang on again!
Great interview.

[pam4water]

12. I love it when Naomi Klein is on! K&R

[Joanne98]

14. The Shock Doctrine is the most important book wrote in the last fifty years!

EVERYBODY should read it.

[usrname]

16. Success through incompetence

In this case in Wisconsin, the shock was man-made. Walker deliberately "loss" $140 million and then leveraged the state constitution to take that money back on someone else. More like "robbing Peter to pay Paul" than shock doctrine. Shock Doctrine is taking advantage of a catastrophe. This incident is purely created. It's leveraging loopholes and unintended consequences in statutes by doing things incompetently.

A standard and well-used example would be construction contractors. If everything was done perfectly, a construction project would succeed under budget and everyone gets exactly what they contracted out for. But contractors wait to see a mistake in the design or planning. Then they follow along, knowing full well that the continued construction cannot succeed. Once the construction reaches that point where the problem is clearly manifested and corrections must be done, the contractors know that they can score big on money because the financier isn't going to walk away now that the project is 85% done, and they'll squeeze every last dime they can. The construction manager is the one who has to make sure that every step is correct and protect the financier from mis-deeds.

In this Wisconsin case, Walker is the construction manager, the people who got the $140 million are the contractors and the public are the financiers. So he decides to take the $140 million from another part of the project (the pensions and collective bargaining rights). I'm still not sure how CBR, a civil right, can be held hostage for money.

[jwirr]

19. LOL In a small community where I lived the road right through the

business section was going to be repaired. To avoid (resist) the problem you outlined the city contracted with them to finish the project in a certain time line and IF they did not the contractors company would pay something like $10,000 a day over the limit. Needless to say they were done when they were supposed to be. I don't think any of us saw that as shock resistance at the time.

[usrname]

21. That's the way to do it competently

But what the Repugs are famous at would be to hire their friends as the road repair contractors and let the incompetently work at it for years, ballooning the budget for fixing the road from, say, $200,000 to $5,000,000 or more. That's how our wonderful MIC has $5000 nuts and bolts and $20,000 toilets, and jet planes that don't work as designed but cost 20x the original bid offer.

[Overseas]

20. Excellent interview! K&R. /eom

[The Wielding Truth]

22. Shock resistance! We must be shock resistant!

[jonthebru]

23. Another thing is those promoting a Theocracy,

they will welcome the stress and confusion of the populous during crisis. People tend to drift towards organized religion and may support laws and social lifestyle that lead to Theocratic regimes. Thinking about it, Nazism was a sort of Theocratic regime.
Karl Rove has basically laid it on the line recently. Rachel had a bite on where he said that if the right continues to lessen the influence of unions then eventually the working class will not have any force to counter the rights effort to control our government and economy.
Friends, we must strive get campaign finance reform in place along with the ability for workers to organize.
SUPPORT ANY UNION ORGANIZING EFFORT, WHEREVER IT IS!

[whirlygigspin]

25. films online

http://www.filmsforaction.org/Watch/The_Shock_Doctrine_2009/

http://www.filmsforaction.org/Watch/Manufacturing_Consent_Noam_Chomsky_and_the_Media/