<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Before Naomi Klein published <i>The Shock Doctrine</i>, the 9/11 Truth community was connecting the dots.</div><div><br></div><div>I saw it because I was reading everything I could find on the subject for a talk at the Chicago 2006 9/11 conference. The talk began with defense mechanisms and how people resist the truth, then got into shock, starting with work by I. P. Pavlov.</div><div><br></div><div>You can get some idea from the slides, starting with #49.</div><div><a href="http://citizenstruth.info/denial-talk/mgp00049.html">http://citizenstruth.info/denial-talk/mgp00049.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>There is a constellation, including</div><div><br></div><div>9/11, PATRIOT Act, Homeland Security formed, wire-tapping, torture</div><div>U.S. credit collapse, foreclosures, the bail-out</div><div>PTSD, shock and awe, victims of war anywhere</div><div>economic shock therapy dating back to Pinochet-Friedman era in Chile</div><div><br></div><div>Understanding the mechanisms of shock prepares us for the future. Information, solidarity, compassion, and clarity are needed more than ever.</div><div><br></div><div>There's a very good short film done after The Shock Doctrine came out.</div><div><a href="http://bluegrassfilmsociety.blogspot.com/2007/09/alfonso-cuarn-and-naomi-klein-cias-love.html">http://bluegrassfilmsociety.blogspot.com/2007/09/alfonso-cuarn-and-naomi-klein-cias-love.html</a></div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><i>AT A CARDIAC ARREST, THE FIRST PROCEDURE IS TO TAKE YOUR OWN PULSE.</i></div><div>- Samuel Shem, The House of God</div></div></div></body></html>