Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine - Part 5 of 6

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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.

Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: September 4, 2007 at 5:45 pm
Author: policyalternatives

Length: 00:08:21
Rating: 4.77
Views: 21494

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Video Comments:
97036 (October 31, 2008 at 12:40 pm)
Damn crying babies :P
Good video though, I love her!
Guncriminal (October 27, 2008 at 9:19 am)
I've got some magic beans I want to sell you.
michigan83guerrilla (October 4, 2008 at 12:30 am)
Naomi Klein reminds me of Sarah Palin, only Klein has a brain.
TijoKJose (September 28, 2008 at 11:23 pm)
Zimbabwe is not capitalist. It is a feudal economy. Capitalism requires rule of law, free markets, limited government, property rights, enforcement of contracts, and a banking system. Zimbabwe has none of those.
TijoKJose (September 28, 2008 at 11:20 pm)
No, Im not a red neck. Im an immigrant from India. I currently live in the suburbs of Chicago.
TijoKJose (September 28, 2008 at 11:18 pm)
My royal standard of living is possible, not because of government intervention, but because I can keep the money I earn and spend it how I desire. I can choose between dozens of products from companies that compete for my business. Because I have the right to shop around I can get products of the highest possible quality at the lowest possible price. I buy from any country in the world. I dont think William the Conqueror could do that.
TijoKJose (September 28, 2008 at 11:18 pm)
If you compared a king from a thousand years ago to me today the King has a pretty shitty life. I have two cars in my garage, he has no cars. I have electricity and running water, he does not. I can stuff myself with as much food as he can. I have better healthcare than any thousand year old king. I was not born into wealth, I worked for it.

damm it too many characters again
TijoKJose (September 28, 2008 at 11:17 pm)
You missed the point of my argument. My point was that people dont become rich by stealing from the poor. People get rich by creating new wealth. New Wealth is created with new inventions, new factories, and new ideas. Men like Henry Ford for example, before Ford cars were more expensive than houses. He used mass production to give everyone cars.

damm it too many characters.
marcoantoniocosta (September 14, 2008 at 4:14 pm)
So you think employers should be regulated to keep working so that the poor have jobs? You do realize that coerced labor equals slavery?

It's their business, their profits, their property, why shouldn't they be allowed to own it, for a change?

And your idea does not hold in reality. See Ireland that was poor until the 90s and now has a rich, thriving free market economy that, guess what, allows FULL repatriation of profits.

That attracts wealth and economic development, not the opposite.
tjaryma (September 14, 2008 at 7:48 am)
Here she says that think tanks are people who are paid to think by those who make tanks so in a way this pun suggests that there is a causal link between neolieralism and violence like the tanks were moved by the fuel comming from economists' brains?!