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POPSa looming betrayal guess he needs to not only please his republican friends- but also make sure there are ample slushy funds for his wall street cronies too- what a crock! betrayal is the least of what obama has done- in his running of his own personal shock doctrine-
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POPSWalker and Wackenhut: Odd Associations Oh look, here's some payback. Nothing like no-bid contracts to sell or lease public power facilities to pay back folks who might have an interest in Wisconsin's energy industry. This is why Wisconsin is so important. Walker got away with it once on a local level. Walker practices classic "Shock Doctrine" politics: Create a crisis, exploit the crisis, and do away with rights ordinary people have had for years. As part of the process, privatize public services so the "market" can make adjustments.
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POPSThe Left Embraces the Shock Doctrine
“don’t let a good crisis go to waste” power grab. And now Arianna Huffington, the founder of the left-wing bulletin board HuffingtonPost, makes the same point in a public radio appearance. On KCRW’s “Left, Right, and Center,” November 21 (at about 27:20 in the podcast), she declared: “A crisis is a terrible thing to waste. So . . . Emanuel. Krugman. Huffington. They’re all rallying around the theme that, well, that a left-liberal government should use this crisis to implement a more sweeping agenda than it could achieve in the absence of crisis. That’s the Shock Doctrine. Where are Naomi Klein and her legion of fans to expose and denounce it? Of course, Klein might well decry their corporatist, big government/big business plans as just another example of Friedmanite/neoconservative/Pinochetist right-wing ideology. Anything other than local worker’s collectives smells like capitalism to her. by Posted by David Boaz http://bit.ly/9mssHA http://www.cato-at-liberty.org
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POPSThe two edged sword of Haiti relief While everyone applauds the assistance being provided to Haiti, few know how Haiti has become so impoverished... Well you can thank many of the nations who are there now "helping". Will all this aid come with strings attached? You only have to look at Haiti's history to answer that question. A further understanding of the dangers is fleshed out in the book, "The Shock Doctrine", by Naomi Klein.
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