DNow! had Naomi Klein on today to discuss her new book, the Shock Doctrine -- wow! As far as I know she's still of the viewpoint that Bush Admin simply capitalized on the attacks, but she has apparently created an amazing documentation of the context here for some of the policies which could be a powerful override to the NWO camp.
The important point is that she has the documentation of the thoughts of these people and those statements need to be exposed. Her books are not easy reading for the masses, so the film is important. She's made a short film with Alfonso Cuarón (Children of Men). Klein says, "I was hoping he would send me a quote for the book jacket and instead he pulled together this amazing team of artists -- including Jonás Cuarón who directed and edited -- to make The Shock Doctrine short film."
Watch the film here -
http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine/short-fil...
Excerpts from a 9/10/07 interview with Klein -
So you have these economists advocating for this pure form of capitalism -- what is the attraction of disasters to these people?
Well, disasters are moments where people are blasted out of the way, where they are in a state of shock, whether they're scattered -- as after a hurricane hits in New Orleans -- or just picking up the pieces after having been bombed, or their entire world view has just been shattered -- as after Sept. 11. These are malleable political moments. And there is an awareness that disasters create these opportunities, so you have a whole movement -- much of it standing at the ready within the think-tank infrastructure. I think of these think tanks as sort of idea-warmers -- they keep the ideas ready for when the disaster hits. Milton Friedman said that only a crisis, real or perceived, produces real change, and when that crisis hits, the change that occurs depends on the ideas that are lying around.
Let's talk about Chile. This is a country that ... when was it, about 1970, Allende was elected. He was a social democrat, socialist, comes into power but doesn't get along with the United States, is seen to be friendly to Castro and the Soviet Union, and successive American presidents are highly suspicious of him.
It was Nixon and Kissinger together. I end the book with a quote from a declassified letter from Kissinger to Nixon where he says that the threat of Allende was not about any of the things they were publicly saying at the time -- that he was cozying up to the Soviet Union, that he was only pretending to be a democrat and that he was going to turn Chile into a totalitarian system. Kissinger writes the real threat is the problem of social democracy spreading. The Soviet Union was a convenient bogeyman. It was easy to hate Stalin, but what was always more of a threat was the idea of democratic socialism, a third way between totalitarian Communism and capitalism. http://www.macleans.ca/culture/lifestyle/article.j...