This film needs to be watched in total to get the connections being made, which is easy since it is only 6 minutes long. It is a promotion for a book, here is an article from The Times about the author and the piece. The central idea is very cogent, and I hope you will give it a moment of your time.
Enjoy your realizations,
Bp
[Article grabbed unceremoniously from The Mercury PDX blog, thanks for the find Erik]
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"The zeal of the free-marketers is so great, Ms. Klein declares, that if a natural or financial disaster fails to materialize, economists and policy officials help precipitate one. In her book she quotes a speech delivered by the economist John Williamson in 1993: “One will have to ask whether it could conceivably make sense to think of deliberately provoking a crisis so as to remove the political logjam to reform.”"
...been waiting for this book to arrive - rather 'timely' too, given the upcoming 'crisis' of the financial markets. . .or will it be bin laden, with his beard 'dyed for war'. . .and there's always the wild card of a 'natural' disaster waiting to be cashed in. . .
and of course, the US is in the runup to an election. . . should be an(other) interesting year!
she's actually speaking here on the 6th. Course, I'll be there, not here. *sigh*
She's getting a lot of well-deserved press -- we got our Harper's Magazine today and she has a large article in there.
Important stuff.
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