Today 11/25/1008 Barack Obama said he wanted to "jolt the economy".
Naomi Klein chronicles in Disaster Capitalism that the MKULTRA neocon neolib economists are always using Ewen Cameron MKULTRA analogy, based on electroshock by ad hoc deliberate, premeditated economic sabotage and then creating a new economy on tabla rasa, a blank slate. A "jolt", then, would be an increment of electroshock that comes before "the bottom", tabla rasa, blank slate for a new order. That means that a succession of "jolts" in economic Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib are predicted by deployment jolt verbiage. Jolt also means failure, not success, worse, not better, defeat, not victory, and looting, not growth. In fact, jolt and looting are probably synonyms. On TV, I saw the number at $350 billion for Citigroup. Then in my email, I read $500 billion for Citigroup. Looting, jolt, increments of electroshock heading toward tabla rasa, blank slate, then a new order. Is "The Brick" looting as electroshock before restructuring, or, restructuring published on tabla rasa? Vance Packard did not call it disaster capitalism, and may not have named specific companies including Lockheed-Martin which profit from both war and reconstruction, but Packard did precede Naomi Klein with his Vietnam-era theory that a government-corporate partnership was engaging in what he called "demolition and urban renewal", and Naomi Klein aptly refers to as Disaster Capitalism.
