... I'm glad Naomi and her terrific book are getting some air time on US TV. :)

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Great video, great book making a great point, great author.

But please spell her name right - it should be "Klein".

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I've started reading The Shock Doctrine--a powerful and compelling analysis. Can we get a couple of Democratic presidential candidates to link the atrocities of Blackwater to the capitalist Shock Doctrine? After all, it's our tax dollars that are paying for Blackwater!
Dick Gillett

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... and loonies like Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter can become part of the firmament, but we never see this woman, who is probably the best journalist on the planet.

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As I said above, her tour dates are mid Nov. to mid Dec. Let's see what kind of coverage she gets from the MSM then.

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"When you've got a bunch of people who believe a bit too much in a 'theory of everything', you're going to end up with a big mess."

"The secret is this: the only people capable of really smashing the system are the ones who came up with it in the first place, and the ones who service it."

British artist and expert on human systems, Simon Morse

Rather than inventing a whole new way of looking at the world, Klein has given us a worn-out Marxist analysis of capitalism, but with slicker marketing and design.

She is a bit like an old Vaudville performer, giving the audience the same old songs and jokes, but with extra zip to make it seem fresh again.

The idea that psychological torture is the lynch pin in how capitalism sustains itself is bogus. All political philosophies that seek to dominate (and most of them do) use force at some point to get their way. Socialism and communism killed to get its way (the estimates vary, but so far these two variants of marxism killed the most number of people in human history). Fascism comes in at a close second, with imperial capitalism in third place.

It would be more useful to see a work that delves into human conflict and battles over resources, and then tries to find a way that we can get along (and bump along) on this planet without having to kill each other.

The blank slate analysis (the Klein approach) assumes US imperialism is a natural given, and that it is all bad. But in fact, the US arose at the end of the second world war as much by historical accident and luck as by design. Since then the US has in good and bad ways sought to cast its net of influence in the world wide.

Can Klein, hand on heart, claim she is successful as she is without having stepped on others along the way?

What I think we see here is a mix-up between strategy and tactic. Overwhelming your enemies with everything you've got is something learned as a tactic. The ancients applied this technique in battles, and in the modern age, we saw with Hitler's Blitzkreig this applied to the machine age.

Sometimes it is worth looking at how as much of our world and our society is a product of events than design. Conspiracy theories work only as long as you ignore something called 'unintended consequences'. For every conspiracy to hoard power and wealth has provoked a force that pushes back.

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play a game of releasing the requirement to hord....what is hording other than desiring control, or safety,or approval.the key is desire ..a thought form..just a thought form ..the self is complete always has been recognize

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