Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine - Part 5 of 6

Naomi Klein talks about her new book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Speaking at a benefit event for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, a social justice research institute.
Naomi Klein explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically. Exposing the thinking, the money trail and the puppet strings behind the world-changing crises and wars of the last four decades, The Shock Doctrine is the gripping story of how America's "free market" policies have come to dominate the world-- through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries.

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[223DesignGroup]

chrsit.. does any one know that you can make a 30+ minute video??? breaking it up into 5-6 pieces is a lame

[policyalternatives]

@223DesignGroup At the time these were created, max length for youtube videos was 10 min.

[lphelt4inter]

this book is very imprtant because it includes the truth of the political fact we are living in our comptemporary time.... some comments are just express the ignorance of some peaple. i personally advice you to read this book to be conscious about what are happening now over all the world.

[somersetdc]

She is smart as a whip. I wish she was American. Mother, please take your baby outside!

[TheGodlessGuitarist]

Fantastic oneliner there Naomi "Think tanks are places where people are paid to think by makers of tanks", it is so very true!

[k9a2g6]

Error,try again !

[pyrrho314]

@RebelRadius instead you argue foolishly.

[RebelRadius]

@pyrrho314 I don't argue fools.

[pyrrho314]

@RebelRadius : the difference between AAA grade beef and the easter bunny is actual capitalists trade in the former and not the latter.

Maybe you should come back with some actuals.

[RebelRadius]

@pyrrho314 You are asking me to argue about a negative and not an actual. If you desire to invest in Easter eggs from the Easter Bunny, then that is your choice.

Hopefully you have the integrity to invest in non-actuals with your own money no one elses.

[pyrrho314]

@RebelRadius :excuse me but thing this through.  I want to buy 100 lb AAA beef that hasn't been created yet... a person has to promise that the beef they provide in the future (I've bought in advance to fix the price) is of a certain quality. There has to be a common definiton ONE way or ANOTHER. period.

[RebelRadius]

@pyrrho314 If I am a free man, let me be the judge of AAA beef.

I

[pyrrho314]

@RebelRadius : hardly... a regulator is the one that defines what AAA grade beef is so you can sell beef futures.

you're view of rule systems is simplistic. Without system-rules there is no system. As if animals in the state of nature are part of a "market"... ridiculous. Think it through a bit please.

[RebelRadius]

@pyrrho314 Absolute rubbish!!

Capitalism means men are free to trade and as Ayn Rand said "they must be free to agree or disagree, to cooperate or to pursue their own independent course, each according to his own rational judgment. Freedom is the fundamental requirement of man’s mind"

A regulator decides where, what and whom can trade. A regulator is the slave master and regulations are ropes of bondage.