INDEX - RICH PEOPLE
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SUBJECT: VACATION ESCAPE

SOURCE: JUAN WILSON juanwilson@mac.com

POSTED: 9 NOVEMBER 2007 - 10:00pm HST

Naiomi Klein on Democracy Now!

video above: part 2 of a 3 part interview with Amy Goodwin on Democracy Now!
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Services for the rich - Privatized Disaster

by Niomi Klein on 7 Novmeber 2007 on Democracy Now!

Yeah. Well, this is happening simultaneous to the wildfires. There's a company called Sovereign Deed. It's one of the key -- it's connected to the mercenary firm Triple Canopy, and also a retired brigadier general back from Iraq named Richard Mills is one of the key executives in this company. And they have just announced plans to set up a kind of a privatized FEMA in Pellston, Michigan, northern Michigan, a rural part of Michigan, that happens to have a very modern regional airport. And the idea is that they're going to be turning Pellston, Michigan into their national disaster response center -- once again, only for their members.

So if you go to the Sovereign Deed website -- and I really recommend that people do read about this company in their own words, because what's really extraordinary about it, Amy, and this is where you have some similarities with a company like Blackwater, is that it's run by people straight out of the military and intelligence who now have gone into the private sector, and they're saying to people -- they're scaring people -- they're saying: you can't count on FEMA, you can't count on the National Guard, we live in disastrous times.

Their website is just filled with sort of apocalyptic news about terrorist attacks, climate change, all of the -- pandemics, all of the things that we might face. And we think we're going to face them collectively, but their message is: you can't count on the government; I should know, I used to work there last week, or whatever it is. Pay your $50,000 membership and $15,000 annual fees, and this company is stockpiling drugs, fuel, water, and for an extra premium payment, you can get a VIP rescue in the midst of some sort of unnamed disaster. And this is just amazing, Amy.


[Editor's Note: Niomi Klein is author of "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" and other books.]


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