LadyDeliah

Ok, glad to hear it Woody.

Also, dismissing a female activist/author because she is attractive smacks of latent misogyny.

I'm Sure the film-maker will be overjoyed at the prospect of an intellectual giant such as yourself, dear Wotsit deigning to cast your eye over his humble offering. And as for original thought, I'm not sure she's claimed any. Her work is a look at available facts as far as I am aware and the way she links the facts available is plausible and compelling.

It's pretty good, DC, give it a go.

So if you have any criticism of what is either in the film, or in Niaomi Klien's book, The Shock Doctrine, on which the film is based, I await your reasoned arguments. Calling her a conspiracy obsessive or slagging off as bizarre, the film's claim of links between banning school milk and the neo-liberal doctrine pushed by Friedman, does not count as reasoned argument.

I like it because I get breaking news from lots of news channels, as well as information on legal changes, human rights and links to activists around the world. I don't do most politicians or the sleb stuff, but if I wanted to I could get info from them. I feel that there is enough of that already in the mainstream media, so I use Twitter as a way of finding out things that are going on in the world that are not always covered by mainstream media.

Yes MM, watch the film before offering a critique please?

Lol, the film has clips of her but is narrated by a Brit. I thought she was pretty good tho in the clips I saw to be honest.

Anyone get to watch this?

Just watched this on channel 4's website and I have to share. It's about the dirty and violent history of Neo-Liberal poilcy dating back to Pinochet's coup in Chile and is based on the book by Niaomi Klein also called Shock Doctrine. It's fascinating, hard hitting and blows the myth of how free market economics equates to democracy, so I hope you guys enjoy it as much as I did. http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-shock-doctrine/4od

I just want to add that it was Simon who gave me my first fix of The Wire when he lent me the box sets for series 1 and 2. Really sad to hear he has passed away, he was a lovely guy.

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Seems a bit odd to me. > > It would not be possible to live and survive in > Dulwich Wood. > > He would need to come out for any food / water. > > He would need money. ??? would need an address to > get benefits. ??? > > Fox. Can't work out if you are just trying to wind people up or really didn't think this one through. Never seen homeless people begging? Or heard of people with no fixed abode getting benefits.

Anyone still believe she wasn't a heartless, disgusting hag or that she had it in for Merseyside after the papers released this week?

What about the house prices?

Not sure why you say it has to all be on a large scale. The government were looking at micro-generation a couple of years ago and there is evidence that it's efficiency is increased a lot when you don't have to transmit electricity down cables from a huge central power-plant. Problem with micro-generation is that big corporations would have difficulty controlling it and creaming off a profit, as there would be more self-sufficiency of energy supplies, so it got shelved as a government backed option by Labour. Not sure if the ConDems would have the balls to try to pick it up again.

Has anyone watched this in Channel 4 or 4od? Love it. Make sure you watch the episodes in the right order though. I did 1983 (which is the 3rd one!) first which kind of spoiled a few surprises in the 1974 and 1980 ones, but fantastic series still.

Lol, what were his latest user names? I think I missed a few.

I'd like to start a Dulwich hunt to cull all the mangy foxes in the area!

Haha, do you really think we have a serviceable democratic system? When almost half the population of the country feel so disenfranchised and the parties so samey that they don't vote? And the people that do vote get lied to and shafted. When corporate and financial lobbyists have access to the politicians whenever they want but millions opposing their wars/cuts/laws are ignored. Hahaha, serviceable democracy, hahahaha.

I thought DJKQ worked in TV. I didn't know she did building work too.

Here is their news paper, the Occupied Times. That might give you an idea of what it's all about if you can't make it down there to ask. They also have live feeds of a lot of the political speakers and workshops etc.

I find the pressure to conform on poppy wearing a bit sinister and the hysteria seems to be increasing every year. It's not a co-incidence that jingoism and xenophobia increase in most countries during times of serious economic downturn, with some frightening end results in the past. The enforced 'patriotism' of poppy wearing is alarming in this context.

I've got kids and a 4 year old granddaughter so am definitely not anti-kids, but I think the problem comes when the parents of young kids don't know how to, or dont want to, tell their kids off when they are annoying other people. I've been in a situation where I was in the Plough and a kid kept throwing food and running about smearing soggy chips around the place. The parents failed to say anything to the kid, so when he came up to me brandishing a soggy chip with ketchup all over him, I shouted 'no, put that down!' at him quite sharply before he smeared it all over my leg. It stopped him in his tracks but the patents then scooped him up and tutted loudly at me! If they are not going to tell their kids off for being annoying, how can they complain if someone else does it for them? I didn't stay much longer after that because I didn't want to get into an argument with them and spoil my day.

intexasatthe moment Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Getting to Peckham Rye Train station in the > morning is now a nightmare on the 12 compared to > how it ever was on the bendy bus. > in what way ? It was really packed and a women with a buggy was stuck in the aisle because there wasn't enough room for people to move out of her way to get to the wheelchair bit, which made it difficult for people coming down the stairs. The bendy 12 was never as packed as that in the morning.

Getting to Peckham Rye Train station in the morning is now a nightmare on the 12 compared to how it ever was on the bendy bus.