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星期日, 3月 18, 2012

The Shock Doctrine .torrent

套用《無間道》裡頭的一句旁白『這是最好的時代，也是最壞的時代』（原來這句話出自作者Charles Dickens的一本小說A Tale of Two Cities, 1859），戰爭和災難的恐慌就是賺錢的大好時機。大部分的人對於這句話心裡會感到不舒服，但是對於某些經濟學家和政治家，那是SOLUTION。

Naomi Klein 在其2007年出版的The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism書中，把那些我們不曾思考的世界，用收集到的資料一一拼湊成令人信服的觀點，更讓人反思自己和環境整治的關聯性。

這幾年來，類似的書籍被導演以紀錄片的方式呈現，讓人更快的接觸到這些資訊，但是我們還是需要許多的努力，讓更多的人關注與思考我們的共構環境，集體思考集體的未來，而不是將大眾的權利權投資在一個人的身上，等待救世主的來到。

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In The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, 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.

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.

Based on breakthrough historical research and four years of on-the-ground reporting in disaster zones, The Shock Doctrine vividly shows how disaster capitalism – the rapid-fire corporate reengineering of societies still reeling from shock – did not begin with September 11, 2001. The book traces its origins back fifty years, to the University of Chicago under Milton Friedman, which produced many of the leading neo-conservative and neo-liberal thinkers whose influence is still profound in Washington today. New, surprising connections are drawn between economic policy, “shock and awe” warfare and covert CIA-funded experiments in electroshock and sensory deprivation in the 1950s, research that helped write the torture manuals used today in Guantanamo Bay.

The Shock Doctrine follows the application of these ideas through our contemporary history, showing in riveting detail how well-known events of the recent past have been deliberate, active theatres for the shock doctrine, among them: Pinochet’s coup in Chile in 1973, the Falklands War in 1982, the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989, the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Asian Financial crisis in 1997 and Hurricane Mitch in 1998.