The Shock Doctrine: "No Logo" Author Releases Controversial Short Film

Alfonso Cuarón, director of "Children of Men", and Naomi Klein, author of "No Logo", present a short film from Klein's book "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism." Watch it:

View the official film website here.

Comments

[zander12]

10:09 AM on 09/10/2007

I did not think the "film" really made any sense. It could have been done in much better way. These are professionals making this film? I did not get the connection to tourture and shock doctrine. Manipulating people after a tragic event is not something someone a guy came up with a few decades ago in the Nixion administration, it has been as long as there has been organized goverment! This film is some kind of socialist propaganda. People need to realize that socialism and free markets are imperfect systems. It is balancing both the seems to create the most benefit, until we can come up with something new. The film was kind of stupid...

[VictorLudorum]

09:43 AM on 09/10/2007

havent you heard the joke about the man who jumped out of the barbers chair after he heard a boy shouting ;your house is on fire!

[VictorLudorum]

09:35 AM on 09/10/2007

It is called Peneteration of Thought morally ,also the video is illegal for use ... this is what Chomsky couldnt do..the mass communication that you one day hear that Western Alliance States have no INTEGRITY left in the seas and has become a flag bearer of International Crime....

The voice of her partner in the video is equally nazsist... anyway Cheers and Solidiare Comrades!

[esquire07]

06:00 PM on 09/09/2007

The Iraq War will Bankrupt the United States. Depression is next - the next Depression will make the Great Depression of the 30's look like a picnic.

Martial law will be declared. Their will be riots in the streets. America wil look more and more like a Third World Nation. Police will kill citizens at random.

Its coming America, get ready.

[RandyRanson]

03:42 PM on 09/09/2007

Dumb thought, but here it goes... did George W. Bush, secretly tell Osama Bin Laden, or his family, that Osama, their son, would be the fall guy for the downing of the WTC on 9/11, but for playing the role of the villain, Osama would have to become a recluse in a cave, soon to be forgotten by the President, "he's of little concern", only to be left alone and safe, because all effort to find him and bring him to trial or face justice, has always been thrown out the window. As his biggest protecter is the President himself, who wants no one to really know what happened on that dreadful day.
By the way things are now unfolding, it may not be such a dumb a thought.

[esquire07]

06:06 PM on 09/09/2007

Your right on the money with that thought my friend... a though shared by millions who understand the blatent criminality behind George W. Bush.

Bush and the Neo-con facists NEEDS Bin Laden. Osama-Bin-CIA is needed to keep Americans - FOX Americans/CNN Americans in a constant state of fear and terror.

Just like little kids are afraid of the boggie man, aduclt Americans mist fear Osama. Security, the Patriot Act, loss of Civil Rights. Its all been planned.

Osama Bin LAden is Bush's secret weapon.

America has truly lost its Sanity.

www.911truth.org

[W i l l]

12:36 PM on 09/09/2007

"This video is part of marketing plan to promote a specific book. Should not be consider news. "

'Common Sense' was a promoted book. Without it, America may have remained under British rule for much longer than it had.

[Wildgorilla]

10:01 AM on 09/09/2007

This video is part of marketing plan to promote a specific book. Should not be consider news.

[ghostsofamerica]

12:07 PM on 09/09/2007

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/149.html


watch this, everyone. Wild gorilla is psyops-ing you. And be sure and watch the Naomi Klein video above at huffpo, pass it on to your friends and neighbors.

A real Eye Opener! Truthout.org has the terrific newspaper piece in the GUARDIAN UK that accompanies it, well worth reading, too.

[Blurp]

06:19 AM on 09/09/2007

Very clean and simple. Impressive. Yes, we just need to, as Bill Hicks used to say, "squeegee the third eye clean." Gee, the patently obvious is probably the truth! Huh? What could be more plain. In the end. Which is takin' a long time coming; but a tsunami of public reaction seems to be, finally, in the works.

[brooklyncitizen]

05:24 AM on 09/09/2007

Wow. I watched her speech on the privatization of the Iraq war and how it drives its profitability and decreases the likelihood that the war will end. She is one of a HANDFUL of American journalists speaking truth today.

Information is a tool to defend against this but unfortunately it is human nature to want to deny things too difficult to digest and comprehend. I often think of Orson Welles' "THe Stranger" when the Loretta Young character cannot believe she married a Nazi war crimial...anyway great flick and summarizes our reaction to the truth.

[stimpy]

02:14 AM on 09/09/2007

Milton Friedman's thinking had two glaring fundamental flaws:

1) That a "free market" system is somehow the most natural, superior, and highly evolved system possible.

2) That there actually is such a thing as a free market.

Free market advocates and libertarians both fail to recognize that life under either would NOT result in the highly advanced societies & achievements those societies have produced.

Go ahead and have your free market system, Milton. When the world is reduced to rock throwing subsistence farmers, whose gonna make your damn golf clubs?

[NoahVail]

03:22 AM on 09/09/2007

The LAST thing these guys (the neo-cons) want is a truly free market. That would mean fair prices and equitable distribution. What they want is one-party rule and one-corporation control.

I am not optimistic, particularly when I look at what corporate candidate B (Hillary) is proposing as an "alternative" to the neo-cons. Its the same program, only with KY jelly.

[brooklyncitizen]

05:50 AM on 09/09/2007

Well it is self-serving for those who stand to profit.

After the last 7 oppressive and mad years of the Bush Administration I finally GOT IT:most people in power(corporists/1%) do not CARE about the poor or disenfrnachized. IT is not in their interst to do so. There is a pretense of caring to woo certain groups (Christians) but the bottomline is that there is total indifference. This blatant indifference has never been more in evidence than with Bush and this Iraq invasion disguised as liberation for Iraquis.

Further examples are Katrina, and the tornado disaster a few months back in middle America, and the bridge collapse and the floods...etc.

[Defyant]

01:53 AM on 09/09/2007

That made me want to go to Washington and spread a little shock with my little friend.

Powerful, thank you. I will do my best to share this with others.

[outnow]

08:49 PM on 09/08/2007

Naomi Klein has it right. We need a bad guy badly.

[larry278]

06:56 PM on 09/08/2007

Off thread: Are there DVD's which show how to avoid injury when you have to deal with a police or military attack dog attacking you? Does the DVD show to end the attack by disabling the dog & its handler? Is the DVD easily available to the general public?

[MoeJava]

05:19 PM on 09/08/2007

All this is from the minds of so-called Christians. I'm certain Jesus is proud of them..... not! Even the threat of eternal damnation does not scare them. They live in the "now" and celebrate greed and destruction, while harboring their families in bunker-like compunds.
Mr Bush (I cant even mouth the words "president") Mr Cheney, Mr Rumsfeld,
ALL architects of PNAC and of the current invasion and occupation of Iraq - why not admit you are after oil and continued prosperity (for yourselves) while your Country, it's Citizens and those living elsewhere in this world, are held hostage and imprisoned in financial dungeons.

Shock, then disorient and pillage - what a wonderful Republican bumpersticker!

[protagonia]

04:10 PM on 09/08/2007

There are GOOD people in government too.

Something good must come of it.

[Defyant]

01:54 AM on 09/09/2007

It is past time for good people in government to speak up. Where are they?