Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine - Part 1 of 6

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (http://policyalternatives.ca) presents:

Naomi Klein talks about her new book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.
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Speaking at a benefit event for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, a social justice research institute.
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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[MelioraCogito]

@davidmaren2000 .. socialism is against human nature is it? So how do you explain volunteer armies of young men & women willing to give up their selfish individuality to protect the national collective? What of sports teams, in which individuals suppress their selfish individualism for the collective good of the "team"?

“human nature overrides reason” – not.

Human nature overrides the absence of reason.

When life is reduced to you OR me rather than you AND me, we're all fucked.

[mytone1967]

Wow the ignorance of the people that have commented on this video is overwhelming. You can't argue facts and you can't change history. But I'm sure some of you will try.

[pcc68]

@tehatemachine

Your comment certainly made it seem like you either didn't know she was Canadian. Or you were blaming her for not doing something when she was a baby. Something that as a Canadian she really has nothing to do with. I guess I meant that your comment was pointless.

[tehatemachine]

@pcc68 and you assert that I am not aware of her being Canadian?

[pcc68]

@tehatemachine

She's Canadian...

[tehatemachine]

@DrunkenPoetic Did Klein Get rid of the Draft? Nope she was sucking her thumb during that time. In a way we all owe credit for our freedom to Milton.

[tehatemachine]

@DrunkenPoetic Milton NEVER had any extreme ideology. Klein is a fucking idiot that misquoted him while adding words on what he said that he never said. Fuck that stupid whore. The most dishonorable thing ANYONE can do is mislead the young. Friedman was the most humanistic person of his time and more than you and I. The shit that Pinochet did Milton never condoned. He was against using force.

[oldfromcliffs]

She has no idea about Central and Eastern part of Europe. She ignores processes in most of the countries in the world. It is extreme Americentrism. Why we need to take the most stupid things from USA?

[DrunkenPoetic]

Remember that Klein isn't a socialist.

What she opposes is any extreme ideology, whether it is communism or unrestrained capitalism.

[DrunkenPoetic]

Look at what's going on in Europe now.

Greece, for example.

There's the shock (the debt crisis, this time).

There's the offers of loans, dependent upon the implementation of neo-liberal reform.

And then there's the complete lack of regard for the resistance to these reforms by the Greek people.

The technocrats have come in and democracy has gone out the window.

[HoRostam]

@toknowandgrow yes

[toknowandgrow]

So hot when She says "its our dystopic future"