Naomi Klein AND Naomi Wolf On TYT On The Shock Doctrine, The Wall Street Crisis & Freedom

[ihavenobias]

Naomi Wolf, author of Give Me Liberty, joins Cenk and .


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And if you haven't already, make sure you to everyone you know.

[gateley]

1. Cool -- thanks! nt

[hisownpetard]

2. Ihnb - Thanks for posting Naomi x 2. (Is there a stickie that shows blood boiling?)

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[ihavenobias]

5. Blood boiling...

no, I don't think so, but I understand your anger.

[tblue]

3. The Naomis are two of the most eloquent, brilliant, principled thinkers, kinda like Sarah Palin

:sarcasm:

[matthewf]

4. K&R- Both Naomis kick ass.

[ihavenobias]

43. Yeah, it's very cool to have both on in the same show n/t

[CherylK]

6. Must watch!

Thanks for posting.

:toast:

[ihavenobias]

14. Thanks for rating

:)

[cliffordu]

7. Great work!!!! K&R!!!!

[TBF]

8. Rally on Wall Street Thursday

Read about it at Naomi's website: http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine/wall-st-protest

[Supersedeas]

18. k & r

[pleah]

9. K&R

[bananas]

10. k&r for naomi and the other naomi

[sattahipdeep]

13. Naomi Wolf - The End of America

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjALf12PAWc&NR=1

[ihavenobias]

17. Thanks for the link n/t

[OhioChick]

11. K&R

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[arthritisR_US]

12. thank you for the links!!! K & R n/t

[biggerfishsmallpond]

15. kick

get educated

[Quantess]

45. You're such an elitist.

Just kidding. :hi:

Mostly I wanted an excuse to kick this thread.

[SeattleGirl]

16. Cool!

Thanks for posting!

[mmonk]

19. Great job.

a must read.

[Bozita]

20. Most important thread today.

[ihavenobias]

21. These are critical issues, I agree n/t

[Bozita]

22. None more important.

[ihavenobias]

31. Not judging by the views, that's for sure

:(

[alfredo]

23. Excellent. Thanks

[Seldona]

24. K&R

Great interviews. Certainly made me think of implications I hadn't before. What a mess.

[clear eye]

25. Sample letter on Bailout to Send to members of Congress

Dear __________,

I am deeply disturbed at hearing Rep. Frank on Countdown describing the "oversight" Congress is proposing for the bailout plan as a board, funded by Congress rather than the Treasury, Fed, or financial institutions, that would be able to "ask" Treasury after the fact what was paid for each asset purchase, and for an explanation of why that was the right price. Neither this board, nor Congress, would have any ability to halt a purchase even if the price is drastically off, or change the individuals making the pricing decisions. We've had eight years of government officials being publicly exposed for wrongdoing and continuing the same actions anyway, in effect saying, "So you (Congress) don't like it and the public doesn't like it, but you can't do anything about it, so we don't care." In light of this history, and Paulson's recently exposed corruption, this is beyond inadequate and into the realm of stage dressing.

Pres. Hoover tried throwing money at the banks to deal with defaults arising from a troubled economy and it failed utterly. More recently Japan tried to cope with a serious recession by doing the same and found it useless. The financial institutions and their employees are as wrong on this as a solution as they were on mortgage-backed securities and derivatives. I also hear that requiring equity rather than asset purchases is no longer being considered; the taxpayers deserve having this reopened, especially in light of the debt too huge to rescue in the form of "credit default swaps".

The only obligation you have is to leave the next President enough money and borrowing power to rescue the economy by other, "New Deal"-style means after this fails. If excess borrowing to finance this moneypit is extreme enough to tank the dollar, the gov't will be broke just when the economy desperately needs help.

Sincerely,

[clear eye]

30. Correction to first line of letter

"as a board" should read "is a board

[ihavenobias]

33. That middle part is very interesting, providing historical context

I wish there were some links in it (on Hoover, Japan, etc.).

[clear eye]

34. O.K.

http://articles.latimes.com/1998/mar/22/business/fi-31522

This article from 1998 outlines what both Japan and Hoover did that didn't stop either problem. Japan ended up nationalizing their two largest investment banks, and of course FDR realized that direct help to citizens w/ mortgage refinances and job stimulus programs were needed. I'll try to get links for the Japanese nationalizations and add them w/an edit.

Edit: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-19429356.html

Also, neither the Japanese program, nor the RFC authorized the purchase of bad assets. They made loans to the troubled financial houses. They didn't bankrupt the Treasuries of their respective countries, so the governments of each were still able to employ other means afterwards to improve their economies.

[ihavenobias]

36. Thanks, I'll check these out n/t

[lonestarnot]

26. K & R!

Turned on a stranger named Lyle to N.K. today. He just stopped in to say he liked my politics of traveling billboards! :D So I was nearly late to work discussing all of it with him and left him with the departing shot of N.K. The secrecy and the decision to stop publication of the M3 reved his interest. I should start charging commission. :P

[OakCliffDem]

27. K & R

[DemReadingDU]

28. morning kick

[southern_belle]

29. Strong kick eom

[CherylK]

32. Bump!

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[Kaleko]

35. Yar! It's a must watch/must read thing, alright. n/t

[theFrankFactor]

37. Kickiddy Recciddy!

[srf Rantz]

38. no sound

can't get any sound!

been looking for the past couple days for anything from both Naomi's
this is the first I've found from Naomi wolf.

any other links to this video elsewhere?
I tried all the ones I could find on turks site, same thing. no sound.

my sound works for all other videos there, so not my computer
help!

[ihavenobias]

39. So this link doesn't work for you?

http://youngturks.wmod.llnwd.net/a591/o1/9-22-08Wolf.wmv

It works fine for me, it opens up in Windows Media Player and the sound is great. What program are you opening it with? Maybe the mute button is selected only on that program?

[srf Rantz]

40. link works, sound doesn't

windows media player opens and plays the video but no sound, mute is off. volumne full.
works fine for anything else.

[ihavenobias]

41. I don't know then, it works for me...

Can you play anything else in Windows Media Player with sound?

[CherylK]

42. Bump!

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[malaise]

44. Kick

Must read

[ihavenobias]

46. Duplicate Comment

:)

[ihavenobias]

47. Thanks, even though it's technically "must watch"...

:)