"Throw (your TV) away, read books! You will become smarter!"
I haven't owned a TV since 1995. I have about 3000 books in my small apartment. I read all the time (when I'm not watching Chomsky on You Tube!), & I'm constantly getting into conversations with people who tell me I'm really smart. Why do they say this? Because television doesn't define how I think or talk!
So you are right on the money. Stay away from TV, study something & people will think you're a genius. :)
How many people they killed in persuade of communist>? some 200,000 ? or 100,000 , what ever the no be , it felt like murder of person on ideological basis is fine , but when the same thing is committed against Americans it is murder, terrorism, oppression and barbarism, shame on double standard of the world and of America off course
"In The New York Times, 85.8% of articles (28 of 33) that dealt with a country other than the United States using waterboarding called it torture or implied it was torture while only 7.69% (16 of 208) did so when the United States was responsible."
Kudos to CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Company) for coming out and saying it like it is. We did this after 9/11 as well. Proud to be Canadian and support our friends to the South the great USA.
Now, Chomsky, do I turn to thee, and mark my greeting well; for what I speak my body shall make good upon this earth, or my divine soul answer it in heaven. Thou art a traitor and a miscreant, too good to be so and too bad to live, since the more fair and crystal is the sky, the uglier seem the clouds that in it fly. Once more, the more to aggravate the note, with a foul traitor's name stuff I thy throat; and wish, ere I move, what my tongue speaks my right drawn sword may prove.
@freedominsomalia There is always at least one crack pot. You do realize that globalization has been happening since humans stopped living in local tribes, and moved to cities. By this logic, any association with central control = NWO. CITIES, STATES, COUNTRIES (the USA too) are all part of the NWO plot.
@freemarketsocialist: your rebuttal to somalia is made entirely of well poisoning, deliberate confusion of the word globalization.. and i think your closer is called something like.. reducto.. absurdium or something. well whatever, it's all fallacious even if i'm not sure exactly how. There is also the irony of you using the "conspiracy theorist" label/tactic on someone in the comments section of a manufacturing consent clip.
Religion,Mass Media,and psuedo-Politics seem to keep most(billions) under a spell of ignorance and blind servitude.American (so called)leaders watched pol pot lay waste to an entire people and then again in the 90s with the Rwanda Massarce,now America is taking a hand in this gencide with the invasion of iraq and afganistan.
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After the fall of the Khmer Rouge, Chomsky continued his propaganda. He claimed (using Khmer Rouge numbers) that the KR had killed just 20,000 before the Vietnamese invasion. He was only off by a factor of 100.
Hmmm. You seem obssessed with Chomsky & Pol Pot. Whereas I've seen Chomsky on numerous occasions (here for instance) denouncing Pol. And while we're on the subject, recall that the U.S. supported the Khmer Rouge in an attempt to ingratiate themselves to all sides in Cambodia. The power vacuum created by U.S. bombing Cambodia opened the door for the Khmer Rouge to ascend to power. Prince Sihanouk was very carefully neutral. The U.S. would not allow such neutrality.
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During the years that Pol Pot was running Cambodia, Chomsky was his biggest cheerleader. He called Pol Pot's changes to cambodian society examples of "social justice".
Back this statement up with a reference, and not simply with another expression of your personal hatred of Chomsky. Give us all a source for this statement; preferrably a non-internet book source where Chomsky has made propagandistic statements in favor of Pol Pot.
And FYI, I do know something about Cambodian history.
read any of his works on the subject of Cambodia. In Distortions at Forth Hand he claimed that 20,000 Cambodians had been killed by the Khmer Rouge when VN invaded. He was only off by a factor of 10. What can explain this error? He took the Khmer Rouge's word for it.
Such an error - if your recounting of it is accurate - does not imply support for the KR. Chomsky never endorsed the KR. Not would he.
On the other hand, the U.S. - trying to ingratiate themselves to all sides in Cambodia - had endorsed the KR. The U.S. bombing of Cambodia created a power vacuum, and 1000s of refugees fleeing the countryside. Prince Sihanouk was carefully neutral. The U.S. would not allow such neutrality. The Khmer Rouge stepped into this vacuum & took control.
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Yes, the KR stepped into a power vacuum and took control. Then Chomsky proceeded to praise them and dismiss claims that they were killing their people by the millions. He went so far as to slander refugees for the crime of telling the truth. The man is scum.
And you still have not provided me -- or anyone else -- with a solid reference to back up your claims of what Mr. Chomsky has said regarding Cambodia and Pol Pot, a reference I requested from you several days ago when you made your first fallacious claim.
I can see that it's going to be a looong wait.
While I'm waiting, what do you think of the murderous scumbag Ronald Reagan whose paranoid anti-commie fantasies resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of Central Americans?
"We do not pretend to know where the truth lies amidst these sharply conflicting assessments; rather, we again want to emphasize some crucial points. What filters through to the American public is a seriously distorted version of the evidence available, emphasizing alleged Khmer Rouge atrocities and downplaying or ignoring the crucial U.S. role, direct and indirect, in the torment that Cambodia has suffered." ~ Distortions at Fourth Hand, Noam Chomsky & Edward S. Herman, The Nation, June 6, 1977
"The evacuation of Phnom Penh undoubtedly saved the lives of many thousands of Cambodians... " -
Chomsky and Herman would write the following about the article containing the above quote - a "carefully documented study of the destructive American impact on Cambodia and the success of the Cambodian revolutionaries in overcoming it, giving a very favorable picture of their programs and policies, based on a wide range of sources. "
anybody who knows anything about the Pol Pot years knows that the KR lied to the people to get them out of the city. They forced people to drag out those in the hospital - many were executed. All in all, about 40,000 people probably died during the forced evacuation. Millions more would die over the next four years of communist rule.
Chomksy can fool people who know nothing about Cambodian history. But to those who have studied the facts, it is revealed that Chomsky was nothing more that the propaganda arm of the Khmer Rouge.
@jeffmagic32 Thats a big allegation. I notice you offered no proof, nor reference. Even if you could provide a single reference. His entire body of works talk about removing unchecked power from society, and giving examples of them. How can that be a bad thing?
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Chomsky is pure scum. During the Khmer Rouge years, he demonized anybody who tried to speak the truth, all while he repeated Khmer Rouge propaganda, using official Khmer Rouge statistics to prove his points. From his ivory tower, he belittled refugees streaming out of Cambodia while ignoring their horror stories.
jeffmagic32. You must be watching a different documentary. At 1:10 Chomsky gives complete affirmation on the genocide. Something's pure and simple but it isn't Chomsky!
Chomsky is no Lap Dog ! You've made a few accusations about Prof. Chomsky. Show some proof. Post a video response, news article, something validating your claims. Chomsky has always stated that people should be responsible for their own actions. Why would he apologise for Pol Pot's atrocities? I don't believe you truly understand his convictions.
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I suggest your read his writings on the subject. In After the Cataclysm, in Distortions at Forth Hand, and in some more recent articles, Chomksy is little more than a cheerleader for the Khmer Rouge. He never met a totalitarian leftist that he didn't love.
there is proof all over the place. Start by reading his cheering of the Khmer Rouge in "Distortions at Forth Hand". The man is a primetime genocide denier - the worst sort of scum.
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Chomsky need only look in the mirror to get a good look at the propaganda model. His apologetic lies during the Pol Pot years is a case of genocide denial, pure and simple.
Thanks for posting. Such a helpless feeling- how to stop this from continuing around the world to the present day; how to counter avarice and greed and hegemony, and how to counter blinding propaganda so that others know the truth. Overwhelming.
some one tell me the methodology used for manufacturing consent
AprilCutie93 3 weeks ago
i don't like that hippy woman talking about how democratic east timur is
ahmed337799 9 months ago
And all this is apply nowadays. The corporation and the control of everything by the government it's even more powerful today.
xFerris 10 months ago
Mr Chomsky. I hope that people see you for what you are.
Pity Malcolm Caldwell followed your BS to the letter, eh.
You have blood on your hands.
The86416 1 year ago
East Timor kicks ass
1844Freddy 1 year ago
TV has changed, it`s like a circus! Throw it away, read books! You will become smarter! We are living in a zombie society because of TV!
Valdris1987 1 year ago
@Valdris1987
"Throw (your TV) away, read books! You will become smarter!"
I haven't owned a TV since 1995. I have about 3000 books in my small apartment. I read all the time (when I'm not watching Chomsky on You Tube!), & I'm constantly getting into conversations with people who tell me I'm really smart. Why do they say this? Because television doesn't define how I think or talk!
So you are right on the money. Stay away from TV, study something & people will think you're a genius. :)
bapyou 1 year ago
How many people they killed in persuade of communist>? some 200,000 ? or 100,000 , what ever the no be , it felt like murder of person on ideological basis is fine , but when the same thing is committed against Americans it is murder, terrorism, oppression and barbarism, shame on double standard of the world and of America off course
hammad313 1 year ago
Chomsky @ 0:11
Harvard's Kennedy School of Government:
"In The New York Times, 85.8% of articles (28 of 33) that dealt with a country other than the United States using waterboarding called it torture or implied it was torture while only 7.69% (16 of 208) did so when the United States was responsible."
Vamavid 1 year ago
Kudos to CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Company) for coming out and saying it like it is. We did this after 9/11 as well. Proud to be Canadian and support our friends to the South the great USA.
marcpinke 1 year ago
@marcpinke -Agreed! God bless the CBC!
jimmycrackedcorn225 1 year ago
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Now, Chomsky, do I turn to thee, and mark my greeting well; for what I speak my body shall make good upon this earth, or my divine soul answer it in heaven. Thou art a traitor and a miscreant, too good to be so and too bad to live, since the more fair and crystal is the sky, the uglier seem the clouds that in it fly. Once more, the more to aggravate the note, with a foul traitor's name stuff I thy throat; and wish, ere I move, what my tongue speaks my right drawn sword may prove.
GreatGrumbledook 1 year ago
how old is this docu?
wearechangenorwich 2 years ago
@wearechangenorwich
Final production was in 1992.
KIRKRH1 2 years ago
@wearechangenorwich
who cares how old it is?
usersimdave 2 years ago
me.
wearechangenorwich 2 years ago 3
@wearechangenorwich: things don't seem to have changed at all, right ?
LeonardMichaelis 9 months ago
UN = NWO
freedominsomalia 2 years ago 2
@freedominsomalia There is always at least one crack pot. You do realize that globalization has been happening since humans stopped living in local tribes, and moved to cities. By this logic, any association with central control = NWO. CITIES, STATES, COUNTRIES (the USA too) are all part of the NWO plot.
FreemarketSocialist 2 years ago
@freemarketsocialist: your rebuttal to somalia is made entirely of well poisoning, deliberate confusion of the word globalization.. and i think your closer is called something like.. reducto.. absurdium or something. well whatever, it's all fallacious even if i'm not sure exactly how. There is also the irony of you using the "conspiracy theorist" label/tactic on someone in the comments section of a manufacturing consent clip.
1xfoo 2 years ago
Religion,Mass Media,and psuedo-Politics seem to keep most(billions) under a spell of ignorance and blind servitude.American (so called)leaders watched pol pot lay waste to an entire people and then again in the 90s with the Rwanda Massarce,now America is taking a hand in this gencide with the invasion of iraq and afganistan.
MrNemy86 2 years ago 5
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After the fall of the Khmer Rouge, Chomsky continued his propaganda. He claimed (using Khmer Rouge numbers) that the KR had killed just 20,000 before the Vietnamese invasion. He was only off by a factor of 100.
jeffmagic32 2 years ago
Hmmm. You seem obssessed with Chomsky & Pol Pot. Whereas I've seen Chomsky on numerous occasions (here for instance) denouncing Pol. And while we're on the subject, recall that the U.S. supported the Khmer Rouge in an attempt to ingratiate themselves to all sides in Cambodia. The power vacuum created by U.S. bombing Cambodia opened the door for the Khmer Rouge to ascend to power. Prince Sihanouk was very carefully neutral. The U.S. would not allow such neutrality.
bapyou 2 years ago 2
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During the years that Pol Pot was running Cambodia, Chomsky was his biggest cheerleader. He called Pol Pot's changes to cambodian society examples of "social justice".
jeffmagic32 2 years ago
"Chomsky was Pol Pot's biggest cheerleader"
Back this statement up with a reference, and not simply with another expression of your personal hatred of Chomsky. Give us all a source for this statement; preferrably a non-internet book source where Chomsky has made propagandistic statements in favor of Pol Pot.
And FYI, I do know something about Cambodian history.
bapyou 2 years ago 4
read any of his works on the subject of Cambodia. In Distortions at Forth Hand he claimed that 20,000 Cambodians had been killed by the Khmer Rouge when VN invaded. He was only off by a factor of 10. What can explain this error? He took the Khmer Rouge's word for it.
jeffmagic32 2 years ago
Such an error - if your recounting of it is accurate - does not imply support for the KR. Chomsky never endorsed the KR. Not would he.
On the other hand, the U.S. - trying to ingratiate themselves to all sides in Cambodia - had endorsed the KR. The U.S. bombing of Cambodia created a power vacuum, and 1000s of refugees fleeing the countryside. Prince Sihanouk was carefully neutral. The U.S. would not allow such neutrality. The Khmer Rouge stepped into this vacuum & took control.
bapyou 2 years ago 2
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Yes, the KR stepped into a power vacuum and took control. Then Chomsky proceeded to praise them and dismiss claims that they were killing their people by the millions. He went so far as to slander refugees for the crime of telling the truth. The man is scum.
jeffmagic32 2 years ago
And you still have not provided me -- or anyone else -- with a solid reference to back up your claims of what Mr. Chomsky has said regarding Cambodia and Pol Pot, a reference I requested from you several days ago when you made your first fallacious claim.
I can see that it's going to be a looong wait.
While I'm waiting, what do you think of the murderous scumbag Ronald Reagan whose paranoid anti-commie fantasies resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of Central Americans?
bapyou 2 years ago 5
"We do not pretend to know where the truth lies amidst these sharply conflicting assessments; rather, we again want to emphasize some crucial points. What filters through to the American public is a seriously distorted version of the evidence available, emphasizing alleged Khmer Rouge atrocities and downplaying or ignoring the crucial U.S. role, direct and indirect, in the torment that Cambodia has suffered." ~ Distortions at Fourth Hand, Noam Chomsky & Edward S. Herman, The Nation, June 6, 1977
bapyou 1 year ago
"The evacuation of Phnom Penh undoubtedly saved the lives of many thousands of Cambodians... " -
Chomsky and Herman would write the following about the article containing the above quote - a "carefully documented study of the destructive American impact on Cambodia and the success of the Cambodian revolutionaries in overcoming it, giving a very favorable picture of their programs and policies, based on a wide range of sources. "
jeffmagic32 1 year ago
@bapyou
anybody who knows anything about the Pol Pot years knows that the KR lied to the people to get them out of the city. They forced people to drag out those in the hospital - many were executed. All in all, about 40,000 people probably died during the forced evacuation. Millions more would die over the next four years of communist rule.
jeffmagic32 1 year ago
Chomksy can fool people who know nothing about Cambodian history. But to those who have studied the facts, it is revealed that Chomsky was nothing more that the propaganda arm of the Khmer Rouge.
jeffmagic32 2 years ago
@jeffmagic32 Thats a big allegation. I notice you offered no proof, nor reference. Even if you could provide a single reference. His entire body of works talk about removing unchecked power from society, and giving examples of them. How can that be a bad thing?
FreemarketSocialist 2 years ago
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Chomsky is pure scum. During the Khmer Rouge years, he demonized anybody who tried to speak the truth, all while he repeated Khmer Rouge propaganda, using official Khmer Rouge statistics to prove his points. From his ivory tower, he belittled refugees streaming out of Cambodia while ignoring their horror stories.
jeffmagic32 2 years ago
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Chomsky - Pol Pot's biggest fan.
jeffmagic32 2 years ago
jeffmagic32. You must be watching a different documentary. At 1:10 Chomsky gives complete affirmation on the genocide. Something's pure and simple but it isn't Chomsky!
SETATSDELIAF 2 years ago 12
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During the Killings Fields years Chomsky was Pol Pot's chief apologist.
jeffmagic32 2 years ago
Chomsky is no Lap Dog ! You've made a few accusations about Prof. Chomsky. Show some proof. Post a video response, news article, something validating your claims. Chomsky has always stated that people should be responsible for their own actions. Why would he apologise for Pol Pot's atrocities? I don't believe you truly understand his convictions.
KIRKRH1 2 years ago 25
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I suggest your read his writings on the subject. In After the Cataclysm, in Distortions at Forth Hand, and in some more recent articles, Chomksy is little more than a cheerleader for the Khmer Rouge. He never met a totalitarian leftist that he didn't love.
jeffmagic32 2 years ago
@KIRKRH1
there is proof all over the place. Start by reading his cheering of the Khmer Rouge in "Distortions at Forth Hand". The man is a primetime genocide denier - the worst sort of scum.
jeffmagic32 1 year ago
@KIRKRH1 I wish to be your friend!
aMagicalUnic0rn 1 year ago
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Chomsky need only look in the mirror to get a good look at the propaganda model. His apologetic lies during the Pol Pot years is a case of genocide denial, pure and simple.
jeffmagic32 2 years ago
When was this produced. Jose Ramos Horta (5.44) is now the President of East Timor. Funny he should appear here...
thegreatmissed 2 years ago
Final production for Manufacturing Consent was in 1992.
KIRKRH1 2 years ago
Oil reserves...now I understand why the Us supports the Indonesian invasion...
68generation 2 years ago 5
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pinko
jeffmagic32 2 years ago
Chomsky's a better American than most.
Raford146 2 years ago 34
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the man is scum
jeffmagic32 2 years ago
@Raford146
he is scum. Check out his writings on the genocidal Khmer Rouge - he was one of their biggest western supporters.
jeffmagic32 1 year ago
@jeffmagic32 Please provide proof of that.
Thanks.
Raford146 1 year ago
Thanks for posting. Such a helpless feeling- how to stop this from continuing around the world to the present day; how to counter avarice and greed and hegemony, and how to counter blinding propaganda so that others know the truth. Overwhelming.
SweetDissident 2 years ago 2
Thank you for posting. The footage of the Timorese and Aussie journalist Greg Shackleton was very moving.
qwertyubiofhd 2 years ago 5