How The 1% Take A 99% Cut (War Is A Racket)

Naomi Klein calls it the shock doctrine, David Icke calls it problem, reaction solution and it can also be called divide and rule or Hegelian dialectic. Either way it's very simple. NATO stirred up the war, NATO rides to the rescue with the solution. Then David Cameron did his Middle East arms sale tour followed by the RAF Tornadoes bombing the shit out Libya leaving this kids jaw hanging off.

Go back to sleep England. X-Factor is on the telly, footballs on later, and what goes around comes around is an old wives tale. Completely unrelated to the universal law of cause and effect. Let's just pretend that that Major General Smedley Butler never whistleblew that war is racket.

Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine & David Icke's Problem Reaction Solution Are The Same Thing

I doubt that David Icke and Naomi Klein are familiar with each others work, but I am and David's 'Problem, reaction, solution' and Naomi's Shock Doctrine are exactly the same premise. It's also the truth about how the the elites that pull the strings for the 1% - by proxy, also control the 99%. 


But not for much longer.


Quite an odyssey for a man who was possibly, by the corporately owned media, possibly the most widely ridiculed man in humankind.

Bytes versus Bites

The Future of the Book. from IDEO on Vimeo.

I'm into Food Sovereignty and La Via Campesina and Raj Patel at the moment so while I really like the design thinking that goes into IDEO's the future of the book, particularly the fluidity of the non-linear narrative as opposed to a thousand tabs opened up in Chrome or whatever it is we do to suck in a gigabyte a day, I'm struck by the yawning gap between the technology fetish of the geek advertising crowd, and the more engaging grounded topics of the real challenges of the 21st century.

I keep asking myself is advertising trivial?

Here's Raj, he can talk for 30 minutes or longer in a very engaging manner over issues that will, whether we ignore them or not be of consequence to us all. There were consequences to Wall Street excesses, though that didn't get in the way our trivial pursuits. Here's a taster because I know you are time starved?

Not that it's a competition or anything, as I'm a HUGE fan of Naomi Klein but in this New York interview attended by the Brooklyn Food Coalition Raj's compelling explanations are even more riveting than Klein who probably writes better if was being even handed or just nice. Anyway, here's an hour and half of two people who are a credit to the 21st century. I hope you get time to listen to this and through your own non linear narrative more of both.