2 posts tagged with power by Blazecock Pileon.
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For your viewing pleasure, a rat staring contest.
posted by Blazecock Pileon
on Feb 25, 2009 -
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"Like the dotcom bubble, the disaster bubble is inflating in an ad-hoc and chaotic fashion." Journalist Naomi Klein discusses how corporations and governments are working together more closely than ever, using the mandate of catastrophe — whether natural or man-made — to further concentrate power in fewer hands, with less oversight: from illegal sales of American police technology to China to avert hypothetical tragedies during the Beijing Olympics, to the privatization of water supplies in post-tsunami Sri Lanka.
posted by Blazecock Pileon
on Aug 17, 2008 -
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