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Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein
Canadian Journalist
Born: May 8, 1970
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Look at the structure of the Gates Foundation and this idea that, rather than trying to solve these huge global problems through institutions with some kind of democracy and transparency baked into them, we're just going to outsource it to benevolent billionaires. Naomi Klein
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I don't think you can understand Trump's relationship to his voters and how he gets away with what he gets away with, without understanding the pact between a lifestyle brand and its consumer base and how that really transformed the global economy in the 1990s. Naomi Klein
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'Shocking' is like a bolt from the blue. It is something external that ruptures your world. Naomi Klein
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I can tell you Donald Trump's products may not be made in America, but Donald Trump was made in America. Naomi Klein
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The Trump family's business model is part of a broader shift in corporate structure that has taken place within many brand-based multinationals, one with transformative impacts on culture and the job market, trends that I wrote about in my first book, 'No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies'. Naomi Klein
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A large-scale crisis - whether a terrorist attack or a financial crash - would likely provide the pretext to declare some sort of state of exception or emergency, where the usual rules no longer apply. Naomi Klein
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Governments started negotiating towards emission reduction in 1990. That's when the official negotiations started. Naomi Klein
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Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed. Naomi Klein
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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. Naomi Klein
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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. Naomi Klein
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My worry about this exclusive focus on Trump - the personality and how all of this is so unprecedented - is that then the solution seems to be, 'Well, we'll just get rid of Trump.' Naomi Klein
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Even though I believe in mass social movements, I'm uncomfortable in crowds. Naomi Klein
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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
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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. Naomi Klein
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My sister lives in Oklahoma. And, you know, it is so shocking that James Inhofe, the foremost climate-denying senator, is from the state that is so deeply climate-affected. Naomi Klein
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There are things that government can do to incentivize the free market to do a better job, yes. But is that a replacement for getting in the way, actively, of the fossil fuel industry and preventing them from destroying our chances of a future on a livable planet? It's not a replacement. Naomi Klein
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I've been trying to pinpoint what keeps drawing me back to the Gulf of Mexico, because I'm Canadian, and I can draw no ancestral ties. Naomi Klein
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If there is one thing BP's 'watery improv act' made clear, it is that, as a culture, we have become far too willing to gamble with things that are precious and irreplaceable, and to do so without a back-up plan, without an exit strategy. Naomi Klein
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I think people are just incredibly depressed and hopeless about the prospects for change. Naomi Klein
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When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps. Naomi Klein
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As soon as you write about climate change, the first attempt to discredit you is, 'Well, you wrote this on a computer,' or, 'You took a plane to this conference.' So your opinion isn't valid. Naomi Klein
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I am about safety for the people and the planet. Naomi Klein
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My father was born in Newark, New Jersey, and my mother was born in Philadelphia. They both went to Stanford for grad school and met there. Naomi Klein
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