On 9/19/07, Mike Ballard <swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine/short-film
>
> A short Film by Alfonso Cuarón and Naomi Klein, directed by Jonás
> Cuarón.
> "When I finished The Shock Doctrine, I sent it to Alfonso Cuarón
> because I adore his films and felt that the future he created for
> Children of Men was very close to the present I was seeing in disaster
> zones. I was hoping he would send me a quote for the book jacket and
> instead he pulled together this amazing team of artists -- including
> Jonás Cuarón who directed and edited -- to make The Shock Doctrine
> short film. It was one of those blessed projects where everything felt
> fated." - Naomi K
>
>
> The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
> "Impassioned, hugely informative, wonderfully controversial, and scary
> as hell."
> -John le Carre
> At the most chaotic juncture in Iraq's civil war, a new law is unveiled
> that would allow Shell and BP to claim the country's vast oil reserves.
> Immediately following September 11, the Bush Administration quietly
> out-sources the running of the "War on Terror" to Halliburton and
> Blackwater. After a powerful tsunami devastates the coasts of Southeast
> Asia, the pristine beaches are auctioned off to tourist resorts. New
> Orleans's residents, still scattered from Hurricane Katrina, discover
> that their public housing, hospitals and schools will never be
> reopened.
>
>
> In THE SHOCK DOCTRINE, Naomi Klein explodes the myth that the global
> free market triumphed democratically. Exposing the thinking, the money
> trail and the puppet strings behind the world-changing crises and wars
> of the last four decades, The Shock Doctrine is the gripping story of
> how America's "free market" policies have come to dominate the world--
> through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries.
>
>
>
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