The Shock Doctrine In Practice

This entire article is revealing. What it reveals is the cancer inside. It discloses that which will kill us all. Unfortunately it reveals U.S. foreign policy that has become front and center since 2000 after the U.S. election process was compromised. I felt from that time onward that their had been a coup in the United States.


From Biofuels News:

"...notwithstanding the apparently good intentions driving this initiative, it must be said that biofuel projects in Colombia - especially the expansion of palm oil plantations - has played a negative role in the reintegration process. According to the IDMC, some palm oil cultivation projects are blocking the return of IDP's to their lands. This could be seen as an example of what Naomi Klein describes as the 'shock doctrine': (Click and view the film) after a catastrophe such as a civil war, people's lands, resources and livelihoods are taken over by large capital and the situation is presented as the only viable alternative to overcome the crisis.This goes to show that biofuel projects can cut both ways: if implemented smartly and within a framework of strong social and environmental policies, with control and power over the decision making process shared with rural communities and civil society organisations, they can contribute to rural development, social integration and poverty alleviation; if they are merely the object of big business interests and controlled by powerful elites, they can lead to land grabs, social injustices and social disintegration."



A lot of ordinary everyday people feel this way. Bruce Fealk posted this. It is exactly the same sentiment that came over me when I came into contact with Naomi Kleins book. I loaned it to a friend. He told me it was very depressing. Well it is depressing because it reveals that we are under attack by forces that we are required by law to support. It is depressing because you and I, the individual, have been subordinated to the context of 'labor power' without faces and without any real existence in the eyes of those dictating this subordination. The entity doing this is an inhuman construct, the purposes of which extend to the mutilation of humanity on the planet in exchange for money. It is the same vision George Orwell indicated in his book 1984 "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." George Orwell. This is exactly what we are watching happen NOW! Orwell had quite a way with words didn't he? He also had an astute knowledge of the way that things work. You can read some of his thoughts here.