http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doct...part1/chapter2
In the case of post-Katrina New Orleans, W's admin. was worse than any looters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka3Pb_StJn4
All you conspiracy theorists should really jump on this. Klein presents a good case for the thesis that the corporate world has been creating and/or taking advantage of people's weaknesses following major catastrophes and that the U.S. gov. has been assisting them.
http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine
"...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 tsunami wipes out the coasts of Southeast Asia, the pristine beaches are auctioned off to tourist resorts.... New Orleans’s residents, scattered from Hurricane Katrina, discover that their public housing, hospitals and schools will never be reopened…. These events are examples of “the shock doctrine”: using the public’s disorientation following massive collective shocks – wars, terrorist attacks, or natural disasters -- to achieve control by imposing economic shock therapy. Sometimes, when the first two shocks don’t succeed in wiping out resistance, a third shock is employed: the electrode in the prison cell or the Taser gun on the streets..."
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