If you haven't read Naomi Klein's No Logo, read it. I'm sure The Shock Doctrine is great as well.

Another good book to read is Ecology of Fear, which was written a couple of years before 9/11. It talks about how the local climate and ecology of Los Angeles often got in the way of making easy money, and because of this, the land boom of the 1950's turned So. Cal. into the Hellhole that it is today. Needless to say, the naturally chaotic ecology of the LA basin crept into the imagination of Hollywood, which produced a large number of disaster movies, most of which take place in So. Cal.

Fascinating. I'm seeing this.

9/11 inside job. if it wasn't, these guys are too dumb to run a lemonade stand.

From Machiavelli to Orwell, it's been recognized, despots and
their supporters know a terrified population is a docile population.

The Republic party has nothing left to sell but fear...

Of Terrorists

Of Muslims

Of Immigrants

Of Gays

Of ANYTHING that isn't white, christian, and living in the Midwest or the south....

Though I haven't read it yet, this sounds very much so like the CIA's experiments with MKUltra and Project Monarch, and if that's the case, then we are, as a whole, in deep shit.

This all sounds a little too much like a tin-foil-hat ranting.

12 ysbaddaden Says:

That was for the thread below.

Cuaron is brilliant. While P.D. James' book had a specific message, he took Children of Men further with the film adaptation, showing us what could happen in the near future if things keep going the way they are. Ray Bradbury, Orwell and Huxley's works ring true today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W3AdD6CFF0

Naomi Klein is brilliant.

Grab some popcorn. Pipe down. Listen.

Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Part V
Part VI

Correction!

It should read "and teamed with Children of Men director Alfonso Cuarón"

That Film is too important to get the name wrong.

Peace Love

The Shock Doctrine
http://www.shockdoctrine.com

Digg It... http://digg.com/politics/The_Shock_Doctrine_3

Here's another natural disaster for ya:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/hfiend/race6.jpg

Why hasn't she ever been photographed with:

http://www.popeyespoopdeck.com/img/cast/ovalback.haggy.jpg

?

Naomi Klein is great, a treasure for whose work we should all be grateful.

She also supports organized labor. AMAZON does not.

Support labor: buy from unionized stores.

Read these recommendations. I read it, and I think it may be the most important book of our time.

"Klein tracks the forced imposition of economic privatization, rife with multinational corporate parasites, on areas and nations weakened by war, civil strife or natural disasters….pointing an alarmed finger at a global “corporatocracy” that combines the worst features of big business and small government…. Klein’s book incorporates an amount of due diligence, logical structure and statistical evidence that others lack….[P]persuasive…Provocative…. Required reading for anyone trying to pierce the complexities of globalization."
—Starred Kirkus review

"Impassioned, hugely informative, wonderfully controversial, and scary as hell."
—John le Carre

"Naomi Klein is one of the most important new voices in American journalism today, as this book make clear. She has turned globalism inside out, and in so doing given all of us a new way of looking at our seemingly unending disaster in Iraq, and a new way of understanding why we got there."
—Seymour M. Hersh, Pulitzer prize winning investigative journalist for The New Yorker

"This beautifully written, very readable book will change the disgusting history it so calmly chronicles"
—Peter Carey, author of Oscar and Lucinda and Theft: A Love Story

"Her argument is well-documented, logical, riveting, and convincing."
—Jane Smiley, author of A Thousand Acres and Ten Days in the Hills

"This masterful book is a measured but furious call to arms. Naomi Klein is Antigone before the King, the antidote to the feeling of inevitability that says that we must accept murder as a legitimate economic policy… A spectacular triumph."
—John Cusack, actor/filmmaker

"The Shock Doctrine is, simply put, a book without peer, an epic and riveting work whose message must be heard. With the persistence of a journalist, in the best sense of the word, and the rigor of a scholar, in its truest incarnation, Naomi Klein offers nothing short of a new paradigm for understanding politics…. Her book is honest, urgent and necessary to read. Through its eloquent writing, searing analysis and remarkable breadth, we confront the hubris and zealotry of envisioning a blank slate and being left, time and again, with a scorched earth. The Shock Doctrine is an essential book; only Klein could write it."
—Anthony Shadid, Pulitzer Prize winning Iraq correspondent for The Washington Post

"Naomi Klein is in the best tradition of I.F. Stone and Upton Sinclair, a muckraker who digs in where others accept the surface. I love her stuff and as a 20th Century man, I salute a 21st Century woman."
—Studs Terkel, historian and author of Working

"A revelation! With unparalleled courage and clarity Naomi Klein has written the most important and necessary book of her generation. In it she exposes liars, murderers and thieves, ripping the lid off the Chicago School economic policy and its connection to the chaos and bloodshed around the world. The Shock Doctrine is so important and so revelatory a book that it could very well prove a catalyst, a watershed, a tipping point in the movement for economic and social justice."
—Tim Robbins

"Naomi Klein is an investigative reporter like no other. She roams the continents with eyes wide open and her brain operating at full speed, finding connections we never thought of, and patterns which eluded us. She shows us, in clear and elegant language, how catastrophes -- natural ones like Katrina, unnatural ones like war -- become opportunities for a savage capitalism, calling itself “the free market,” to privatize everything in sight, bringing huge profits to some, misery for others. To ensure the safety of such a system, it becomes necessary to constrict freedom, to assault human rights. The torture chambers for some then match the torturing of the larger society. This is a brilliant book, one of the most important I have read in a long time."
—Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United State

"Naomi Klein has written a brilliant, brave and terrifying book. It''s nothing less than the secret history of what we call the ''Free Market''. It should be compulsory reading."
—Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things

"Naomi Klein as a writer is an accusing angel. This life-saving book, packed with thinking dynamite, provokes and instills a calm. It reveals a striking parallel between CIA prisoner interrogation technique and the blackmailing technique of the World Bank and I.M.F. for imposing disaster capitalism across the world; both want to induce by shocks a loss of identity. Hence calm is a form of resistance. A book to be read everywhere."
—John Berger, author of G, winner of the Booker Prize, and Ways of Seeing

"Naomi Klein''s exposé is certain to be sensational…. She rips away the ''free trade'' and globalization ideologies that disguise a conspiracy to privatize war and disaster and grab public property for the rich few. She is brilliant on the malevolent influence of Milton Friedman and the University of Chicago''s Economics Department in promoting global privatization. She offers an excellent explanation for the failure to repair New Orleans after Katrina. Hers is a long-needed analysis of our headlong flight back to feudalism under the guise of social science and ''freedom.''"
—Chalmers Johnson, author of The Blowback Trilogy.

Bill Norton - idiot!

Angelo - no killing is wrong,. make them live with the shame of their actions,. tattoo 'traitor to humanity' on they forheads,. lock them up in gitmo! put them on video 24/7 and let real people visit with them every day to 'talk' to them,. perhaps they can be saved,. but at least they will be kept form hurting the rest of us,. leave the killing to the non-human beings,. like the neo-con madmen that pulled 9/11! Fascism is on the rise becouse of this shock trick they have learned,. tell everone not to fall for FEAR!

this series of documentaries is worth a look:

http://www.archive.org/details/ThePowerOfNightmares

1st ep. synopsis:

"Both [the Islamists and Neoconservatives] were idealists who were born out of the failure of the liberal dream to build a better world. And both had a very similar explanation for what caused that failure. These two groups have changed the world, but not in the way that either intended. Together, they created today’s nightmare vision of a secret, organized evil that threatens the world. A fantasy that politicians then found restored their power and authority in a disillusioned age. And those with the darkest fears became the most powerful."