Friedman: “shock treatment” approach to economics
Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2007), 94.
Eduardo Galeano: “How can this inequality…”
Eduardo Galeano, Days and Nights of Love and War, trans. Judith Brister (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1983), 130.
The Opposite of Decency
$3 billion privately donated in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti
Vijaya Ramachandran and Julie Walz, Haiti: Where Has All the Money Gone?, Center for Global Development, CGD Policy Paper 004 (May 2012), https://www.cgdev.org/?files/?1426185_file_Ramachandran_Walz_haiti_FINAL.pdf.
Rebecca Solnit: disasters have a way of bringing out the best in us
Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell (New York: Penguin, 2009).
The Art of the Steal
Trump: “I rented him a piece of land…”
Jillian Rayfield, “Donald Trump Tells Fox and Friends: ‘I Screwed’ Gaddafi,” Talking Points Memo, March 21, 2011, http://talkingpointsmemo.com/?news/?donaldtrump-tells-em-fox-and-friends-em-i-screwed-gaddafi.
Trump in Think Big: “You hear lots of people say that a great deal is when both sides win…”
Donald J. Trump and Bill Zanker, Think Big: Make It Happen in Business and Life (New York: HarperCollins, 2007), 48.
Trump: “crime-infested”
Donald Trump, tweet, posted by @realDonaldTrump, January 14, 2017, https://twitter.com/?realdonaldtrump/?status/?820425770925338624?lang=en.
Trump: sites of “carnage”
Donald Trump, tweet, posted by @realDonaldTrump, January 25, 2017, https://twitter.com/?realdonaldtrump/?status/?824080766288228352?lang=en.
Violent crime rate has actually been declining nationwide for decades
Lori Robertson, “Dueling Claims on Crime Trend,” FactCheck.org, July 13, 2016, http://www.factcheck.org/?2016/?07/?dueling-claims-on-crime-trend/.
A Career Forged in Shock
New York Daily News: “Ford to City: Drop Dead”
Kim Phillips-Fein, Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics (New York: Metropolitan, 2017), 1.
Local television broadcast: “beggars can’t be choosers”
Kim Phillips-Fein, Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics (New York: Metropolitan, 2017), 258.
Trump: “a new skin” of Hyatt
Kim Phillips-Fein, Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics (New York: Metropolitan, 2017), 258; Michael A. Hiltzik, “Donald J Trump: N.Y.’s ‘Landlord’ May Be Shopping on the West Coast,” Los Angeles Times, February 28, 1988.
Phillips-Fein: “Trump would be allowed…”
Kim Phillips-Fein, Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics (New York: Metropolitan, 2017), 258.
Trump: $360-million tax break windfall
Kim Phillips-Fein, Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics (New York: Metropolitan, 2017), 258.
Architectural critic: “an out-of-towner’s vision of city life”
Kim Phillips-Fein, Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics (New York: Metropolitan, 2017), 259.
Phillips-Fein: “Donald Trump and the developers who exploited…”
Kim Phillips-Fein, Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics (New York: Metropolitan, 2017), 267.
Trump: with the Towers gone, he now had the tallest building in Manhattan
Jenna Johnson, “On 9/11, Trump Noted on TV That His Financial District Building Was Now the ‘Tallest,’?” Washington Post, September 11, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/?news/?post-politics/?wp/?2016/?09/?11/?on-911-trump-noted-that-he-now-owned-the-financial-districts-tallest-building/??utm_term=.6ccdb8e7b389.
Phillips-Fein: “this deep level of fear…”
Kim Phillips-Fein, Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics (New York: Metropolitan, 2017), 267.
Meet the Disaster Capitalism Cabinet
Exxon exploited the Iraq war to defy State Department advice and make an exploration deal…
Dmitry Zhdannikov, Isabel Coles, and Ned Parker, “Special Report: How Exxon Helped Make Iraqi Kurdistan,” Reuters.com, December 3, 2014, http://www.reuters.com/?article/?us-mideast-crisis-kurdistan-specialrepor-idUSKCN0JH18720141204.
As an executive at Exxon, Tillerson spent his career working for a company that decided to fund and spread misinformation and junk climate science
Katie Jennings, Dino Grandoni, and Suzanne Rust, “How Exxon Went from Leader to Skeptic on Climate Change Research,” Los Angeles Times, October 23, 2015, http://graphics.latimes.com/?exxon-research/.
All the while, according to an LA Times investigation, ExxonMobil…
Amy Lieberman and Suzanne Rust, “Braced for Global Warming While It Fought Regulations,” Los Angeles Times, December 31, 2015, http://graphics.latimes.com/?oil-operations/.
Tillerson: “So we will adapt to this…”
Council on Foreign Relations, “CEO Speaker Series: A Conversation with Rex W. Tillerson,” CFR.org, June 27, 2012, http://www.cfr.org/?world/?ceo-speaker-series-conversation-rex-w-tillerson/?p35286.
Trump: “I can look in their faces…”
“Donald Trump on Syrian Kids: I Can Look in Their Faces and Say ‘You Can’t Come,’?” YouTube video, 2:47, posted by HipsterBlood, March 8, 2016.
Trump: “beautiful babies”
Miriam Valverde, “For Trump, No Signal Yet Refugee Policy Will Change after U.S. Airstrike in Syria,” Politifact, April 7, 2017, http://www.politifact.com/?truth-o-meter/?article/?2017/?apr/?07/?after-syrian-missile-airstrikes-will-trump-change-/.
Stocks of two largest private prison companies soared by 43 and 21 percent
Heather Long, “Private Prison Stocks Up 100% since Trump’s Win,” CNN.com, February 24, 2017, http://money.cnn.com/?2017/?02/?24/?investing/?private-prison-stocks-soar-trump/.
ICE: 34,000 illegal immigrants; 73 percent of whom are held in private facilities
Associated Press, “Trump’s Stance on Illegal Immigration May Aid Private Prisons,” Denver Post, November 23, 2016, http://www.denverpost.com/?2016/?11/?23/?donaldtrump-illegal-immigration-may-aid-private-prisons/.
Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan at Boeing
Dominic Gates and Jim Brunner, “Trump Taps Boeing Executive Pat Shanahan for Deputy Secretary of Defense,” Seattle Times, March 16, 2017.
Lee Fang: “President Donald Trump has weaponized the revolving door…”
Lee Fang, “Donald Trump Is Filling Top Pentagon and Homeland Security Positions with Defense Contractors,” TheIntercept.com, March 21, 2017, https://theintercept.com/?2017/?03/?21/?revolving-door-military/.
Trump: increase spending on the military, the Pentagon, and the Department of Homeland Security by more than $80 billion in just one year
John Yang, “Trump Budget Seeks to Boost Defense Spending, Slash State Department and EPA,” PBS.org, March 16, 2017, http://www.pbs.org/?newshour/?updates/?trump-budget-seeks-boost-defense-spending-slash-state-department-epa/.