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Re: The strategy of economic shock by Naomi Klein




by Grelinette » 25/03/20, 22:37

Ahmed wrote:Invoking a "shock strategy" is only a journalistic figure that hides the essential: it is obvious that the public authorities will seek to take advantage of this health crisis to their advantage; nothing new in there ...

Certainly, we are in a time when the slightest event, however small or harmful, is a reason for some to seek enrichment.
More singular is that those who have succeeded in getting rich from a crisis arouse a kind of admiration (cf. the subprime crisis and the few investors who had anticipated it and appear to be ingenious precursors).

The crisis we are experiencing will not escape this recovery phenomenon, in particular by the public authorities and some other financial vultures.

On the other hand, when we speak of a "shock strategy" we are referring to a more pernicious and opaque phenomenon which consists in creating a crisis, maintaining it or exacerbating a crisis which has just started in order to recover substantial advantages, mainly financial or political ( or both! as we said about the Falklands War that Margaret Thatcher would have provoked at any cost despite the withdrawal of Argentina) .... but here we fall into the paranoid of the ugly conspiracy thesis!
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by Christophe » 25/03/20, 22:49

Sometimes the plots are exposed ... and it often costs in human life ...

And at that time it no longer neither theories nor theses ... but many proven plots ...
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by Ahmed » 25/03/20, 23:06

Rather than conspiracies, it is better to speak of adaptation to the context according to unchanged objectives. Let us not forget that determinisms are expressed through situations and their changes.
There are too many improvisations in the management of this crisis for everything to be, in reality, "under control" ....
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by Christophe » 25/03/20, 23:23

Well, there's more to it than a plot ... it's called the EMERGENCY LAWS !! : Mrgreen:
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by Christophe » 06/04/20, 18:20

The strategy of Shock version Coronavirus:

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by Grelinette » 13/04/20, 18:50

Christophe wrote:The strategy of Shock version Coronavirus:


I wonder about this alleged Shock Strategy (premeditated? conspiracy? ...) which would leave the neo-liberals a blank check.
Where does premeditation, the opportunistic exploitation of an unpredictable crisis begin, or a little of both?

What are the known shocks that were voluntarily produced?
What are the more or less known unpredictable shocks that have been exploited?

My analysis is rather the following:

Some economic, financial and political actors know that some of their border-line acts can bring them big profits but involve big risks of producing a shock (ex. Subprimes), but also anticipate and imagine how to exploit the possible consecutive damage of the shock, and keep an opportunistic strategy under the elbow to change their rifle to protect their assets and even make them grow.

It is simply a version of the Fireman-Pyromaniac strategy!

Greece is an atypical example because the country was already in a notorious decrepitude with glaring corruption and social and economic imbalances: the country was going to collapse sooner or later anyway, and the neo-liberals surely anticipated a strategy then give a little boost to accelerate the fall.
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Coronavirus: Edward Snowden Speaks Out on Data Collected by Governments and Actions Taken

Since his revelations concerning the mass listening scandals of the CIA, ex-computer security expert Edward Snowden is regularly consulted for his opinions on government decisions around the world, and their repercussions on the inhabitants . Shane Smith interviewed him about the current pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, and the measures taken by world authorities to stem its spread.

The future may be unpredictable, but not global pandemics. There is not a single government on the planet that has been warned, repeatedly, that at some point a viral pandemic would sweep the globe, causing death and economic disruption. Yet most have failed to prepare for the new coronavirus. This is in essence the words of the world famous whistleblower Edward Snowden.

“All the academics, all the researchers who looked at this question knew it was going to happen. Yet when we needed it, we failed the system, and it completely failed us, ”says Edward Snowden. Snowden is the first guest in the new “Shelter in Place” series, which debuts on VICE TV, and which examines the global response to COVID-19 and its lasting impact in the world.

At a time when companies like Google and Facebook are using their users' data to establish containment maps, and several global telephone operators are collaborating with different public authorities, including the European Commission, by sharing the geolocation data of their customers , Snowden talks about the use of these data and their post-pandemic treatment.

Smith: Why does it seem like we are so ill-prepared?

Snowden: There is nothing more predictable as a public health crisis in a world where we live on top of each other in overcrowded and polluted cities than a pandemic. And every academic, every researcher who studied this knew that it was going to happen. And in fact, even intelligence agencies, I can tell you with confidence, because they read reports, planned pandemics in advance.

Are autocratic regimes better able to handle such things than democratic regimes?

I do not think so. I mean, some argue that China can do things that the United States cannot do. This does not mean that what these autocratic countries are doing is actually more effective.

If you look at countries like China, where cases seem to have stabilized, how much can we believe these numbers to be true?

I don't think it's possible. In particular, we see the Chinese government working recently to expel Western journalists precisely at this time when we need credible independent information in this region.

It seems that the coronavirus is perhaps the biggest question of the modern era around civil liberties, the right to privacy. However, nobody asks this question.

As authoritarianism spreads, emergency laws multiply, we sacrifice our rights, we also sacrifice our ability to stop the slide in a less liberal and less free world. Do you really believe that when the first wave, this second wave, the 16th wave of the coronavirus are long forgotten events, that these measures will not be kept? That these datasets will not be kept? No matter how they are used, what is being built now is the architecture of oppression.

The full episode of Shelter in Place, including the interview with Edward Snowden:



https://trustmyscience.com/coronavirus- ... s-mesures/
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