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. New Orleans’s residents, scattered from Hurricane Katrina, discover that their public housing, hospitals and schools will never be reopened…. After a tsunami wipes out the coasts of Southeast Asia, the pristine beaches are auctioned off to tourist resorts. Immediately following September 11, the Bush Administration quietly out-sources the running of the “War on Terror” to Halliburton and Blackwater…. 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.Īt 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…. In THE SHOCK DOCTRINE, Naomi Klein explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically.
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Now, with drag having entered the mainstream like never before, Hulu's new show Drag Me to Dinner sees drag superstars take on reality cooking shows in a riotous faux competition series, as a trailer for the upcoming show has now been released. Parents need to know that Thick as Thieves is the fifth volume in Megan Whalen Turner's historical fantasy series the Queen's Thief. When the hit reality competition series RuPaul's Drag Race first hit television screens back in 2009, the original concept of the show was part parody - in typical drag fashion - of mainstream competition shows such as the Tyra Banks helmed America's Next Top Model. TANAZ: "Astrid is a dumb little hoe with body betraying syndrome, how you gonna let Levi bully you and then get wet when he touched your RIBS. Here are her last reports before the incident: After 10 chapters of gruelling reading she demanded a D-N-F. My fellow correspondent and buddy reader Tanaz has unfortunately suffered the same fate as me. 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Rachel Hartman’s rich invention never fails to impress - and to convince. I love this book!” - Tamora Pierce, New York Times bestselling author. “Seraphina is strong, complex, talented - she makes mistakes and struggles to trust, with good reason, and she fights to survive in a world that would tear her apart. “A book worth hoarding, as glittering and silver-bright as dragon scales, with a heroine who insists on carving herself a place in your mind.” - Naomi Novik, New York Times bestselling author of the Temeraire series. Here are some things that are already being said about Seraphina by some fabulous authors: Her first YA fantasy novel, Seraphina, was published by Random House on July 10th, 2012. Rachel Hartman lives and writes in Vancouver, BC. What more, the very first page has a passing mention of two skeleton hands. The short story has every possible trope of traditional gothic literature be it clanking chains, cracking floorboards, or changing weather. 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