Daniel Gross: “Homeland security may have just reached the stage…”
Daniel Gross, “The Homeland Security Bubble,” Slate, June 1, 2005, http://www.slate.com/?articles/?business/?moneybox/?2005/?06/?the_homeland_security_bubble.html.
Lt. General Keith Kellogg at Cubic Defense: “our ground combat training business…”
Ben Kamisar, “Trump Taps Keith Kellogg for National Security Council Post,” The Hill, December 15, 2016, http://thehill.com/?homenews/?administration/?310600-trump-taps-keith-kellogg-for-national-security-council-post.
Idea that war could ever definitively end quaint relic of “pre–September 11 thinking”
Keith Olbermann, “The Death of Habeas Corpus,” NBCNews.com, October 11, 2006, http://www.nbcnews.com/?id/?15220450/?ns/?msnbc-countdown_with_keith_olbermann/?t/?death-habeas-corpus/?#.WPWuFRIrK1s.
Trump: “have total, total control over him…”
Paulina Firozi, “Trump Names Another Goldman Sachs Executive to Senior Administration Role,” The Hill, March 15, 2017, http://thehill.com/?homenews/?administration/?324027-trump-names-another-goldman-sachs-exec-to-senior-administration-role.
Goldman Sachs: helped inflate mortgage bubble then turned around and allegedly bet against mortgage market
US Department of Justice, “Goldman Sachs Agrees to Pay More than $5 Billion in Connection with Its Sale of Residential Mortgage Backed Securities,” press release, April 11, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/?interactive/?projects/?documents/?goldman-sachs-internal-emails.
Greg Gordon, “How Goldman Secretly Bet on the U.S. Housing Crash,” McClatchy, November 1, 2009, http://www.mcclatchydc.com/?news/?politics-government/?article24561376.html.
Goldman Sachs: settlement of $5 billion
US Department of Justice, “Goldman Sachs Agrees to Pay More than $5 Billion in Connection with Its Sale of Residential Mortgage Backed Securities,” press release, April 11, 2016, https://www.justice.gov/?opa/?pr/?goldman-sachs-agrees-pay-more-5-billion-connection-its-sale-residential-mortgage-backed.
Goldman Sachs: a $550-million fine
Securities and Exchange Commission, “Goldman Sachs to Pay Record $550 Million to Settle SEC Charges Related to Subprime Mortgage CDO,” press release, July 15, 2010, https://www.sec.gov/?news/?press/?2010/?2010-123.htm.
Carl Levin: “the evidence shows that Goldman repeatedly…”
David Morgan and Ken Milstone, “Live Blogging: Senate Hearing on Goldman Sachs,” CBSNew.com, April 27, 2010, http://www.cbsnews.com/?news/?live-blogging-senate-hearing-on-goldman-sachs/.
Steven Mnuchin has distinguished himself for his willingness to profit off misery
Paul Kiel and Jesse Eisinger, “Trump’s Treasury Pick Excelled at Kicking Elderly People Out of Their Homes” ProPublica.org, December 27, 2016, https://www.propublica.org/?article/?trump-treasury-pick-excelled-at-kicking-elderly-out-of-their-homes.
Lorraine Woellert, “Trump Treasury Pick Made Millions After His Bank Foreclosed on Homeowners,” Politico, December 1, 2016, http://www.politico.com/?story/?2016/?12/?trump-treasury-foreclosed-homes-mnuchin-232038.
Predatory practices drew fire during Mnuchin’s confirmation hearing for Treasury secretary
Ben White, “Mnuchin Weathers Attacks on Funds, Foreclosures,” Politico, January 19, 2017, http://www.politico.com/?story/?2017/?01/?steven-mnuchin-confirmation-hearing-233842.
Senator Ron Wyden: “while Mr. Mnuchin was CEO…”
“Treasury Secretary Confirmation Hearing,” C-SPAN, January 19, 2017, https://www.c-span.org/?video/??421858-1/?treasury-secretary-nominee-steven-mnuchin-testifies-confirmation-hearing.
David Dayen, “Treasury Nominee Steve Mnuchin’s Bank Accused of ‘Widespread Misconduct’ in Leaked Memo,” TheIntercept.com, January 3, 2017, https://theintercept.com/?2017/?01/?03/?treasury-nominee-steve-mnuchins-bank-accused-of-widespread-misconduct-in-leaked-memo/.
Jacob Pramuk, “Senators Hammer Trump Treasury Pick Mnuchin on History with Mortgage Lender,” CNBC.com, January 19, 2017, http://www.cnbc.com/?2017/?01/?19/?read-what-steven-mnuchin-will-say-at-his-treasury-confirmation-hearing.html.
The Katrina Blueprint
Curtis Muhammad: “convinced us that we had no caretakers”
“Three Displaced New Orleans Residents Discuss Race and Hurricane Katrina,” Democracy Now!, September 7, 2005, https://www.democracynow.org/?2005/?9/?7/?three_displaced_new_orleans_residents_discuss.
Buildings were spray-painted with messages: “looters will be shot”
Brian Thevenot, Keith Spera, and Doug MacCash, “Old West Has Nothing on Katrina Aftermath,” August 31, 2005, New Orleans Times-Picayune, http://www.nola.com/?katrina/?2005/?08/?old_west_has_nothing_on_katrin.html.
On Danziger Bridge, police officers shot Black residents on sight
“What Happened on the Danziger Bridge,” graphic, New Orleans Times-Picayune, http://media.nola.com/?politics/?photo/?diagram-danziger2-061911jpg-37722c5f58b27770.jpg.
Kevin Litten, “New Orleans to Pay $13.3M to Settle NOPD Civil Rights Violations in Post-Katrina Chaos,” New Orleans Times-Picyune, December 19, 2016, http://www.nola.com/?politics/?index.ssf/?2016/?12/?katrina_civil_rights_settlemen.html.
Resident: “the opportunity to hunt Black people”
A.C. Thompson, “Post-Katrina, White Vigilantes Shot African-Americans with Impunity,” ProPublica.org, December 19, 2008, https://www.propublica.org/?article/?post-katrina-white-vigilantes-shot-african-americans-with-impunity.
Milton Friedman: “Most New Orleans schools are in ruins…”
Milton Friedman, “The Promise of Vouchers,” Wall Street Journal, December 5, 2005, https://www.wsj.com/?articles/?SB113374845791113764.
Richard Baker: “We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans…”
Susan Saulny, “Clamoring to Come Home to New Orleans Projects,” New York Times, June 6, 2006, http://www.nytimes.com/?2006/?06/?06/?us/?nationalspecial/?06housing.html.
Under Pence’s leadership, Republican Study Committee came up with list of “Pro-Free-Market Ideas for Responding to Hurricane Katrina and High Gas Prices”
Paul S. Teller, “Pro-Free-Market Ideas for Responding to Hurricane Katrina and High Gas,” e-mail, September 13, 2005, http://www.naomiklein.org/?shock-doctrine/?resources/?part7/?chapter20/?pro-market-ideas-katrina.
Commitment to wage all-out war on labor standards and on the public sphere…
Paul S. Teller, “Pro-Free-Market Ideas for Responding to Hurricane Katrina and High Gas,” e-mail, September 13, 2005, http://www.naomiklein.org/?shock-doctrine/?resources/?part7/?chapter20/?pro-market-ideas-katrina.
Another recommendation called for giving parents vouchers to use at charter schools
Paul S. Teller, “Pro-Free-Market Ideas for Responding to Hurricane Katrina and High Gas,” e-mail, September 13, 2005, http://www.naomiklein.org/?shock-doctrine/?resources/?part7/?chapter20/?pro-market-ideas-katrina.