The Shock Doctrine

A modern take on Machiavellianism:
http://www.amazon.com/Shock-Doctrine-Rise-Disaster-Capitalism/dp/0805079831

Here's another quick vid by some Canadian comedy troop:

NAFTA sailed through the US Congress as smooth as any computer-designed schooner. What stun or shock was operating then?

Well GuestZero, the corporations have been paying off your congressment and senators at will for a couple of hundred years. Is that enough to do it , do you think?

Prime, so what you're saying is, that being stunned and shocked by the blatant buying and selling of a trade policy is enough to ... push through the trade policy?

Sorry, that's too much of an identity action that doesn't determine anything of value. If the point was that corporations essentially run our government, then THAT is the real topic.

So free trade is the antithesis of fair trade?

And merchants don't always get together to provide higher quality goods at lower prices?

What the short movie says guestzero, is that we are using tactics out of the cia's 1950's torture manual to push thorough our fascist trade agreements on reluctant countries. We wait for them to get hit by an instance of horror that induces national shock, like a tsunami, a civil war, and earthquake, floods, anything horrific and unbearable. Such shock makes people's resistance to such vile agreements fade. We say to them, we will help you, IF, you sign the trade agreements. Milton Friedman the economist from hell, first pushed this tactic and we still use it today. Why do you think Wolffie went to the world bank for his next little gig as purveyor of evil? Good that they found a reason to kick his corrupt hind end out of there. But the tactic stands.