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Fast Facts, Shocks and their Aftermath from the Shock Doctrine Short Film

Chile, 1973
  • 50,000 tortured
  • 80,000 imprisoned
  • Public spending cut by 50%
  • Incomes for the rich up 83%
  • 45% of population in poverty
Wars – Falklands War, 1982
  • 910 people die
  • Thatcher's popularity doubles
  • She privatizes gas, steel, airlines, telephones
  • She declares war on unions
  • Thousands are injured
  • Unemployment triples
  • Number of poor increases by 100%
Massacres
  • China 1989 – hundreds killed
  • Thousands jailed and tortured
  • China becomes sweatshop to the world
  • China embraces "free market" capitalism
  • Factory wages: $1/day
Russia, 1993
  • Yeltsin attacks parliament
  • Hundreds killed
  • Parliament burned
  • Opposition arrested
  • 72 million impoverished
  • 17 new billionaires created
Terrorist Attacks – New York, 2001
  • Attacks launch "War on Terror." It is privatized.
  • US spy agencies outsource 70% of their budgets
  • Pentagon increases budget for contractors by $137 billion/year
  • Department of Homeland Security spends $130 billion on private contractors
Invasions – Iraq, 2003
  • The most privatized war in modern history
  • US decrees 200 state companies will be privatized
  • Hundreds of thousands killed
  • 4 million displaced
Natural Disasters – Sri Lanka, 2004
  • 35,000 dead
  • Coastline handed over to hotels and industry
  • Nearly 1 million displaced
  • Fishing people forbidden to rebuild homes by the sea
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