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" I don't think there could've been a pitch as crass as Trump's 'I can fix America because I'm rich' without that groundwork laid by Davos and the Clinton Global Initiative. "
Naomi Klein
I Can
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" As I was writing 'The Shock Doctrine', I was covering the Iraq War and profiteering from the war, and I started to see these patterns repeat in the aftermath of natural disasters, like the Asian tsunami and then Hurricane Katrina. "
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" In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States. "
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" I really did have this powerful sense, when I was in New Orleans after the storm, of watching all these profiteers descend on Baton Rouge to lobby to get rid of the housing projects and privatise the school system - I thought I was in some science-fiction experiment. "
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" I think people are just incredibly depressed and hopeless about the prospects for change. "
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" Fossil fuels are - they're inherently centralized. And you need a lot of infrastructure to get them out, and you need a lot of infrastructure to transport it, as Obama was explaining in front of all that pipe, right? Whereas renewable energy is everywhere. "
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" We have a structural problem because you can simultaneously understand the medium to long-term risks of climate change and also come to the conclusion that it is in your short-term economic interest to invest in oil and gas. Which is why, you know, anybody who tells you that the market is going to fix this on its own is lying to you. "
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" In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged. "
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People
" I am about safety for the people and the planet. "
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" The customer is always right: 'It's my money. You have to listen to me'. "
Naomi Klein
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Me
Always
" What I hope is less about what the greens will do but what people who don't consider themselves part of the green movement will do. "
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Who
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" If David Duke got the percentage of the vote that Le Pen got, we would be terrified, as well we should be. "
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Should
Would
Pen
" I think the fossil fuel industry is genuinely freaked out by the combination of the price collapse, the divestment movement, and that fact that renewable energy is getting so cheap so fast. "
Naomi Klein
Energy
Cheap
Fact
" That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'. "
Naomi Klein
Hell
Mistake
You
" What we know is that the environmental movement had a series of dazzling victories in the late '60s and in the '70s where the whole legal framework for responding to pollution and to protecting wildlife came into law. It was just victory after victory after victory. And these were what came to be called 'command-and-control' pieces of legislation. "
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Victory
Legal
Law
" That is the meaning of the Trump brand - being the boss who is so rich and so powerful he can do whatever he wants. So the way in which he ran for president was to embody that idea as fully as he possibly could with his outrageousness. "
Naomi Klein
Meaning
Powerful
Rich
" Nike was the essence of sports, transcendence through sports. "
Naomi Klein
Sports
Essence
Nike
" Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear. "
Naomi Klein
Will
Politics
Hope
" That is the core of Trump. He is undoubtedly an idiot, but do not underestimate how good he is at that. "
Naomi Klein
He
Core
Underestimate
" I think there's a couple of things going on. One is that Trump's relationship with his base is not the traditional relationship of a politician and the people who elected him, and the constituency, which is a relationship of some accountability, right? The idea is that the politicians are working for the people. They're public servants. "
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Relationship
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" Even though I believe in mass social movements, I'm uncomfortable in crowds. "
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Even
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Believe
" Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise. "
Naomi Klein
Among
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Generation
" Before I had Toma, I was one of those people who had no interest in other people's kids. I was. 'Don't hand me that baby!' "
Naomi Klein
Baby
People
Hand
" The reason why nothing sticks to Trump - or very little sticks to Trump - is that he created this brand idea that has to do with being the guy who gets away from it. "
Naomi Klein
Away
Guy
Why
" You've got the Trump water and Trump Steaks and Trump's very so-called dodgy university. And so many of the towers, the Trump towers around the world, the Trump resorts around the world, those are not owned by the Trump Organization. "
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You
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" A state of shock is what results when a gap opens up between events and our initial ability to explain them. When we find ourselves in that position, without a story, without our moorings, a great many people become vulnerable to authority figures telling us to fear one another and relinquish our rights for the greater good. "
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Great
Good
Find
" What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up. "
Naomi Klein
Name
Build
Want
" This phrase, 'culture jamming,' was very much in vogue in the 1990s when these superbrands sort of emerged and started kind of projecting their names onto ever more surfaces. "
Naomi Klein
Started
More
Kind
" After the Pearl Harbor attacks, around 120,000 Japanese Americans were jailed in internment camps. If an attack on U.S. soil were perpetrated by people who were not white and Christian, we can be pretty damn sure that racists would have a field day. "
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" While everyone is focused on security and civil liberties, Trump's Cabinet of billionaires will try to quietly push through even more extreme measures to enrich themselves and their class, like dismantling Social Security or auctioning off major pieces of government for profit. "
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Class
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