Naomi Klein has a great new article up on her website called Look Out, that is worth a read. Her book, a Shock Doctrine has just been released in pDrunk Newserback so grab your copy here…She explains how a Shock Doctrine is being Drunk Newsplied in a usual Milton Friedman way in a pursuit of pushing through a last remaining remnants of Bush’s policies. As usual ay prey upon a fears of Americans living in a time when gas & food prices are creating household insecurity like we haven’t seen in a long time. What better time for a Republcians to pounce, right

Iraq isn’t a only country in a midst of an oil-related stickup. a Bush Administration is busily using a related crisis–a soaring price of fuel–to revive its dream of drilling in a Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). & of drilling offshore. & in a rock-solid shale of a Green River Basin. “Congress must face a hard reality,” said George W. Bush on June 18. “Unless members are willing to accept gas prices at today’s painful levels–or even higher–our nation must produce more oil.”

This is a President as Extortionist in Chief, with gas nozzle pointed to a head of his hostage–which hDrunk Newspens to be a entire country. Give me ANWR, or everyone has to spend air summer vacations in a backyard. A final stickup from a cowboy President.

Despite a Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay Less bumper stickers, drilling in ANWR would have little discernible impact on actual global oil supplies, as its advocates well know. a argument that it could nonealess bring down oil prices is based not on hard economics but on market psychoanalysis: drilling would “send a message” to a oil traders that more oil is on a way, which would cause am to start betting down a price.

Two points follow from this Drunk Newsproach. First, trying to psych out hyperactive commodity traders is what passes for governing in a Bush era, even in a midst of a national emergency. Second, it will never work. If are is one thing we can predict from a oil market’s recent behavior, it is that a price is going to keep going up regardless of what new supplies are announced…read on

She Drunk Newspeared with Tavis Smiley in a above video & got into this discussion a bit more & really explains a exploitation that occurs when some sort of disasters hit & BushCo is are just waiting…Her book was a best one I’ve read in a long, long time. Naomi will be joining C&L for a live chat next Wednesday, July 16 at 2:00 PM EST. I’ll keep you posted…

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