Time for everyone to read (or re-read) THE SHOCK DOCTRINE

[Krashkopf]

This market meltdown could be "the shock" that proceeds "the shock therapy." Radical free market economics - Friedmanism - is what got us into this mess in the first place. I am watching VERY closely to make sure that "the disaster capitalists" don't use this economic meltdown to shove even more "Chicago School economics" down our throats!

When CNN starts talking about Jeffrey Sachs (as they did the other day), and calls him a "world renowned economist" - instead of identifying him as one of the ARCHITECTS of radical free market policies RESPONSIBLE for the current meltdown - we all need to hang on to our wallets.

As dire as things might seem, we all need to BEWARE of economic plans drafted behind closed doors that we are told "have to be passed immediately, to save the economy from collapse."

[Mme. Defarge]

1. That sent a cold chill up my spine yesterday ...

Are we being played? Are we being had?

[marmar]

2. I finally finished it......I had to read it in phases, because of the outrage overload.

I knew it was getting too intense for me when I yelled loud enough for others to hear me on a train to Toronto.

[lonestarnot]

3. Yes indeedie!

[malaise]

4. We should ensure that every Democrat has a copy n/t

[Junkdrawer]

5. Audible has the Audiobook version here:

http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=BK_AREN_000657&BV_UseBVCookie=Yes

[MadrasT]

6. I'm on my way to the bookstore.

It's been on my "to read" list for a while. It can't wait.

[seemslikeadream]

7. Joanne98 did a great review

The Shock Doctrine: It's not a tsunami, it's an opportunity! (part one)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=2706641

The Shock Doctrine: It's not a tsunami, it's an opportunity. (part two)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=2707418

The Shock Doctrine: A Corporatist State (blood-sucking, shape-shifting, vampires)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=2670242

The Shock Doctrine: Blowback page 351
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=2673866

The Shock Doctrine: A Corporatist State (blood-sucking, shape-shifting, vampires)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2670242&mesg_id=2670242

The Shock Doctrine: Erasing Iraq: Hey, Hey the Gangs All Here page 329
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2669245

The Shock Doctrine: The Love Shack... page 338
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=2612321


The Shock Doctrine: The Looting.. You are No One..
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=2610726

The Shock Doctrine: Fear Up
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=2609615

The Shock Doctrine: Shock and Awe; War as Mass Torture
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=2609103


The Shock Doctrine: The Kurbark Interrogation Manual page 368
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=2568675

The Shock Doctrine: Body Shocks page 365
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=2568367

The Shock Doctrine: Torture as Curing.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=2561149

The Shock Doctrine: The Anti-Marshall Plan page 346
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=2563105

The Shock Doctrine: Dismantling Democracy pg 361
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2564230&mesg_id=2564265


The Shock Doctrine: The Salvador Option WARNING GRAPHIC PHOTOS!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=2568489

The Shock Doctrine: The Clintons and the Cheneys
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=2533968

The Shock Doctrine: Clinton and Bosnia page 328
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=2492912

The Shock Doctrine: Setting up South Africa/Screwing Mandela.. chapter 10
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=2523705

The Shock Doctrine: Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=2525753

The Shock Doctrine: Disaster Apartheid/ if they can't pay, let them die!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=2527827

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. We need to fight now, and we need to take to the streets quite possibly

privatization of SS is floated again, which is a classic... see Argentina

[halfstep]

9. We need to ACT not READ!!!

we are out of time....we dont need people sitting in their houses reading books..we need people out in the streets demanding this shit stop...what is it going to take...most americans know we are fucked but no one is doing anything...where is the outrage...i am so infuriated and dont know what to do...it is being stolen from us in broad daylight....rise up people!!

[Krashkopf]

13. Before people will ACT . . .

they have to feel OUTRAGE . . .

before people can feel OUTRAGED, they have to SEE what is being done to them . . .

before people can SEE what is being done to them, they have to LEARN what to look for . . .

before people can LEARN what to look for, they have to READ . . .

Read. Act! NOW!!

[safeinOhio]

10. It had me outraged too

until I read the last chapter. If South America and the rest of the world can figure it out and see it for what it is, so can this country.

[Kurovski]

11. K&R. (nt)

[Kurovski]

12. K&R. (nt)

[MrsCorleone]

14. As Junkdrawer mentioned above, download from iTunes

to your iPod and listen on the go. Great option for busybees!

[Runcible Spoon]

15. Naomi Klein needs to change her name to Cassandra.

Nobody fucking listened and now I'm afraid it's too late....:scared: