15 books to get to know me

- #UnderstandingMedia by #MarshallMcluhan
- #ExpandedCinema by #GeneYoungblood
- #TheMythofSisyphus by #AlbertCamus
- #NakedLunch by #WilliamSBurroughs
- #ParableSeries by #OctaviaEButler
- #OntheRoad by #JackKerouac
- #MondoUtah by #TrentHarris
- #YouCan'tWin by #JackBlack (no, not that one)
- #MobyDick by #HermanMelville
- #PeopleoftheAbyss by #JackLondon
- #SpurtofBlood by #AntoninArtaud
- #ShockDoctrine by #NaomiKlein
-anything by #Samuel Beckett
-random #HughNibley article
-anything by #ChrisHedges

This is the classic 'opportunity' just like Bush hearing bin Laden wanted to use planes to fly into the Twin Towers...and not doing one damn thing to prevent it #ShockDoctrine #NaomiKlein

Hawaiian Electric Was Warned of System Fragility Before Maui Wildfire - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/19/business/energy-environment/hawaiian-electric-maui-wildfire-climate-change.html

Le pire pays terroriste de l'histoire de l'humanité #ShockDoctrine le plus homicidaire ☠️le plus inhumain. #UnitedStatesOfAmerica 🇺🇸 Conscience Humaine : ni pardon ni oubli 🇯🇵 https://www.initiative-communiste.fr/articles/international/6-aout-levons-nous-contre-la-guerre-nucleaire/

Le pire pays terroriste de l'histoire de l'humanité #ShockDoctrine le plus homicidaire ☠️le plus inhumain. #UnitedStatesOfAmerica 🇺🇸 Conscience Humaine : ni pardon ni oubli 🇯🇵

https://www.initiative-communiste.fr/articles/international/6-aout-levons-nous-contre-la-guerre-nucleaire/

#5yrsago In an attempt to quantify stupendous risk, #cyberinsurers ratchet up premiums, deploy gimmicks https://www.wired.com/story/cyberinsurance-tackles-the-wildly-unpredictable-world-of-hacks/

#5yrsago #PuertoRico to dismantle its statistics agency in the midst of radical #ShockDoctrine project https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-04120-5

#5yrsago For years, Facebook has been secretly deleting Zuck’s messages from his correspondents’ inboxes https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/05/zuckerberg-deleted-messages/

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More info on the coup against #Allende, the other 9/11:

https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-5/lrs-chile.htm

https://nixontapes.org/chile.html

Australia too:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/sep/11/declassified-documents-show-australia-assisted-cia-in-coup-against-chiles-salvador-allende

This will help too:
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1237300.The_Shock_Doctrine

#SomethingFierce #CarmenAguirre #DisasterCapitalism #ShockDoctrine

#SomethingFierce

Ever since i heard her story on #TheMoth (11 min), I have wanted to read more about her. She's the daughter of a revolutionary in Chile.

https://themoth.org/storytellers/carmen-aguirre

The US was on the wrong side of history here. Always supporting #coups that help some horrible murderous #dictator, so long as we can stop a democratically elected #socialist trying to get education &healthcare for all. Info on the "other 9/11":
#RedScare #DisasterCapitalism #ShockDoctrine

See next ⬇️

Adam Curtis: The Trap (2007)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prd68ZGg83A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMdpGRBxBS8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoNbrf80wns

The series consists of three 60-minute programmes which explore the modern concept and definition of freedom, specifically, "how a simplistic model of human beings as self-seeking, almost robotic, creatures led to today's idea of freedom."

More info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trap_(British_TV_series)

#Society #Capitalism #GameTheory #ShockDoctrine

#WorldHealthOrganization #ShockDoctrine #Ohio #OH #BirdFlu #H5N1 #NorfolkSouthern #BanalityOfEvil #blog

https://open.substack.com/pub/jessicawildfire/p/evil-is-banal-bad-stuff-happens-whether?utm_source=direct&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

@Bunkunin Like the UK and other countries, right-wing governments have used the crisis of the shock created by the pandemic to increase #privatization of the #Canadian public #healthcare system.

It's classic #ShockDoctrine stuff.

Holy crap. This Peru thing. I heard people at the gym praising the new woman head of state in Peru - they said, yeah we should do that... something felt like a red flag- so i read up...

You can be sure if #OAS is happy, the thing is very bad for the people... that's your cheat sheet.

#usmilitarycoup #shockdoctrine #southamerica #uspolicy #latinamerica #militaryindustrialcomplex #defundthepentagon

https://open.spotify.com/episode/40qZoGo6Js6P2sdaW7znSm?si=kKdy2jB0T-edPzLwkxI3Lw&utm_source=copy-link

#44 Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Alfred A. Knopf Canada, Toronto, 2007, 1st edition. #NaomiKlein #DisasterCapitalism #ShockDoctrine #AlfredAKnopf #BookOfTheDay

Been reminded that someone uploaded an audiobook of my first book Shock Doctrine of the Left using a Stephen Hawking-esque computerised voice, if you wanted a weird way to read it

https://youtu.be/dDLvLBqVnSQ

It's on #activism and #cybernetics / #complexitytheory basically!

(There's some diagrams in the last chapter which I dont think are included, just so you know)

#directaction #cooperatives #socialmovements #ecology #socialecology #shockdoctrine #complexsystems #radicalleft #leftwing

People here might also be interested in my first book The Shock Doctrine of the Left, which combined leftist / social movement activism with complex systems theory. Its much shorter and doesn't include the spirituality angle of my current projects, but it's otherwise of a piece!

https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/The+Shock+Doctrine+of+the+Left-p-9781509528554

#complexitytheory #complexityscience #complexsystems #activism #socialjustice #shockdoctrine #ecology #socialecology #socialmovements #systemsthinking

#ShockDoctrine's SOP in crises. Vulture conservatives prove David Frum was right: when they realize they can't get elected democratically, they won't reject conservatism; they'll reject democracy. Crises provide cover for all kinds of things.

Hey, speaking of which, remember that time #ThugFord made it virtually impossible to sue the Ontario gov't for dereliction of duty etc? No? That's because he buried it in a ginormous Omnibus Bill & rammed it thru the Legislature:
https://www.huffpost.com/archive/ca/entry/ontario-passes-budget-bill-kills-lawsuits_ca_5ceef354e4b00cfa19659fd4

@crowgirl Look up #ShockDoctrine when you get a chance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine

#ThugFord and his rw neolib privatization agenda need healthcare & education systems broken so they can then point to the underfunded wreckage as "proof publicly owned systems don't work, so we simply *must privatize!!".
The exploitation of pandemic fallout is deliberate. They NEED overflowing hospitals & distraught parents screaming 4 action. That action won't be to put stolen $4B back into HC system & re-fund it.

> #NaomiKlein delivering her Sept. 20, 2017 TED Talk “How shocking events can spark positive change.” How can people today—who are facing “non-stop shocks” like record-breaking storms and militarized police—use these crises “to catalyze a kind of evolutionary leap” towards a more just, equitable, and habitable world?.. Naomi Klein laid out.. two crucial ingredients.. imagination and organizing...
https://laudatosimovement.org/pt/news/naomi-klein-encourages-us-to-look-at-the-glaring-connections-between-issues-and-build-a-movement-with-imagination-and-organizing-based-on-core-values-5/
#LeapManifesto #ShockDoctrine #LaudatoSi

'..exactly two weeks before the #coronavirus outbreak was declared a pandemic, and there was no mention that a goal of this vast, high-tech expansion was to protect American health. Only that it was necessary to avoid being outcompeted by China. But, of course, that would soon change..'

https://theintercept.com/2020/05/08/andrew-cuomo-eric-schmidt-coronavirus-tech-shock-doctrine/

#NaomiKlein on #ScreenNewDeal #Covid justifications of #CorporateWelfare supports for #EricSchmidt #JeffBezos #Cuomo #Pandemic #IT #ShockDoctrine

"No More War, No More Trouble" --- Bob Marley...
The #Russian invasion of #Ukraine , after tinkering by the #IMF and #NED ( #ElliotAbrams and #VictoriaNulan ) , had me re-reading parts of #ShockDoctrine by #NaomiKlein . And the way "#FreeMarket " policies increased Russian alcoholism, suicide and misery in general reminded me of #WarByOtherMeans , a documentary movie by #JohnPilger.
https://vimeo.com/16366942

'Coupled with Ukraine’s endemic corruption, these policies led to the profitable looting of state assets by the corrupt ruling class, and to falling living standards and austerity measures for everybody else. The post-coup government upheld Poland as its model, but the reality was closer to Yeltsin’s Russia... After a nearly 25% fall in GDP between 2012 and 2016, Ukraine is still the poorest country in Europe. '
This is like reading the part about #Russia in #ShockDoctrine by #NaomiKlein