If you have not read this already, please do.

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Naomi_Klein_explains_how_we_willingly_1013.html

The Shock Doctrine shares a sentiment that, while corporations are engineered to profit off of situations, planned or otherwise, the United States under President Bush has corporations opportunistically poised to collect taxpayer-funded payouts from disasters such as 9/11, Katrina and the Iraq occupation.

Calling it the "mission statement of the Bush administration," Klein says that politicians are seeing themselves as facilitators between disasters and their friends in the private sector. Each time there's a disaster, says Klein, politicians use the "shock" felt by the citizenry to "push through a further privatization agenda" with little opposition.

"In New Orleans," continues Klein, "it's the privatization of the school system, the public housing. After September 11th, it was the launching of a new economy in privatized homeland security, and in Iraq it's the Blackwater economy--The worse things get in Iraq, the more privatized--and profitable--this war becomes



That sentence in the last paragraph posted is why we continue in Iraq.

IRAQ MORATORIUM!

WHEN: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM this Friday, October 19, 2007

WHERE: Northwest corner of Mill and University Ave., Tempe
(near P. F. Chang's China Bistro, 740 S. Mill Ave.)
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Naomi Klein hits the nail on the head on this one. Everything that's happ-ening now becomes put into perspective.
An interview segment between her and Bill Mahr can be read on Raw Story' site today. She has interview links with John Cusack on HuffingtonPost.

They've undoubtedly used disasters to aid their friends at the expense of the country and the world at large.