politics will never change anything. it will always just lead to a decline of societies - since people loose time by listening to the politicians and watching what is going on in their lives. they're like sirens that sing tunes of false promise. it's more important for us citizens of this globe to connect over the web, start businesses and share things together.
@jon66065 . I'm pretty sure he meant to say "concentrations of power" but simply put it as "institutions" that deprive people of their liberties - oppressive governments, tyrannical corporations and so forth.
Chomsky's ideas, like himself, are ossified relics of a bygone era. Unfortunately, up until recently, his nearly unassailable ivory tower credentials and his leftist minions the world over have shielded him from any and all criticim. For anyone who admires Chomsky, I suggest they read Christopher Hitchen's criticism of the man in "Love, Poverty and War," and, even more damaging, Sam Harris' "The End of Fatih." You owe it to yourself to know the real Chomsky.
Obama ran on the platform of change and people were desperate for it because of the tragedy of the Bush era and they quickly bought it - cool marketing, a smart guy, well disciplined, intelligent but the only change was a change of government. Obama has no real ideology except he wants to do the right thing but that is not enough in a leader. I hate to say this because i like the guy but although he is a leader he doesn't know how to lead and really manage change. Big disappointment
You're right, I haven't read Chomsky. However, I HAVE heard this angry little man speak a few times at length, so there's been plenty of opportunity to learns his points or be convinced he's worth reading. Admittedly, I may not be the most brilliant person on the planet, certainly can't hold a candle to you, but I'm reasonably in the upper 10%. As for "alternative model" I should have qualified it with "reality-based with some historical precedent." Thanks for making me clarify my point.
Insightful, though he speaks from hindsight. I remember being ridiculed for being a pessimist when obama was campaigning on the platform of "change" and I told them he wouldn't actually change anything, wars, patriot act, etc. I had two heads every time I said it. Jaws hit the floor, awkward silence. I'm a young musician who lives in the margins and slips through the cracks, and the information from which I drew that conclusion wasn't hard for ME to find. Why do people WANT to be brainwashed?
@Gravija1980 I think I meant this for a video where he was saying obama was "worse than bush and blair combined". I had a bunch of videos open at once and I probably posted the wrong comment to the wrong video. Ironically, it was voted to the top, which WOULD give me a sense of satisfaction... oops
I wrote a song called "The Futility of hope" at the very beginning of the campaign, even before Chomsky talked about him. People compared it to the "satire of a schizophrenic". Maybe I should post it.
@AdamRainStopper because they follow a paradigmatic view of the world. when they find out that 9/11 was an inside job they will most likely kill themselves out of confusion that our gov't i capable of such a heanous crime. they simply won't allow for truth to overwhelm them.
@bmw200000 Not sure what you're replying to, I didn't mention Chomsky's position on 9/11, though I do believe it is difficult for someone so intelligent to deal with that subject with anything but denial. Intelligence can be a curse, and I can tell you first hand that empathy in combination with knowledge will break you down so badly that you become physically ill if you don't take precautions with how many days in a row you will read about the atrocities and injustice before taking a break.
People allow themselves to become brainwashed because of the fact that the propaganda is often times more pleasant than reality. People were offered this man that claimed to be the solution to our problems, and he talked a great game. They wanted to believe that something great would come out of it.
I would compare it to what's happening now with Ron Paul. He has loads of people supporting him because they want to believe that he's some political savior.
@CarlSagan0101 I also consider it dangerous the way the "RP 2012!!!!!" movement is so messianic and puts so much on the shoulders of one person, but there is a big difference between him and Obama. Obama ran a campaign of "change" in the face of wars that he voted to fund, the patriot act which he voted for, and wall st, which funded his campaign. Even as these things came to light, nobody wanted to hear it. Paul, flawed as he is, has a congressional scorecard (ACLU site) to match his campaign.
Oh, I know they're not exactly the same. I like Ron Paul for the fact that he's actually consistent with what he's saying, and that he has a good background, but he's not anything like what people are making him out to be. That's why I made the Obama comparison.
@AdamRainStopper they want HOPE, and hope is a defunct emotion if you think about it, what is it.. wishful thinking, ,its not intention, its not knowing its just insipid maybe this might happen, maybe it wont,, that attitude doesnt manifest anything..
perhaps you should have played the slogan yes we can backwards to your peers... they would then know exactly which camp the (CIA or perhaps even Russian asset)
Cause hope in a bleak world is a beacon - it gives you hope to live. Something, like religion - which gives people a light in the darkness which to follow, and they feel they will be rewarded if they obey. But most of the time, unfortunately, these people end up like moths that get too near a light bulb - their wings burn.
@AdamRainStopper Hmmm ... - combat in Iraq is over - the Libya strategy was right. - drone attacks vs al-Qaeda - the START II nuclear arms treaty. - Great Depression avoided - there is GDP growth since June '09 - the auto industry was saved. - two new, liberal, female Supreme Court Justices appointed. - worst oil spill - BP to ponies up $20 billion right at the start for recompensing victims - financial regulatory reform - new health care legislation - and Bin Laden killed.
@townsendjean Libya will have a new dictator soon. I don't celebrate drone attacks on anyone, nor am I proud to be a citizen of the country that funded, armed and radicalized the "Islamic World" for use as pawns in the cold war, then killed Bin Laden when he finally got sick of our global footprint and attacked. Replacing troops with mercenaries isn't ending the war. I don't applaud the half-assed HC bill in which Obama let the GOP kill the public option and every other meaningful provision.
@AdamRainStopper Well we´re not in Libya, and no american lives are sacrificed and we´re not funneling billions into the military machine. Drone attacks are a much less costly alternative to interventionism, if the war on terror must continue. The radicalization of the islamic world and the cold war is sordid history. Bin Laden was asking for it. The public option fell victim to gop intransigence. Obama did pretty well, all in all, under the circumstances.
@townsendjean We still have a global military footprint. Drone attacks are cowardly interventionism. Obama folded under GOP pressure because he wanted it to pass with "bi-partisan" support, he could have passed it with the dem majority. If we captured, tried, convicted and executed Bin Laden, we'd be the good guys. They killed him without even trying to capture him, because they don't want "sordid history" coming out at a public trial. We still funnel billions to the military industrial complex.
@AdamRainStopper Cowardly? Hell, they´re cheap and effective, and no more cowardly than the way al-qaeda operates. And if you think gop intransigence isn´t real, then you are incredibly naive. Obama is being pragmatic, but in due course I expect he will pull the Truman card and best up the Republican Congress. They are impossible, unpopular and classically, 'do nothing'. He will do this, and he will tear into them in ways we have not yet seen and can hardly imagine.
@townsendjean Yeah, no more cowardly than ....... AL QUEIDA?........ Now that sounds like a ringing endorsement for the U S A ....U S A ......U S A ......U S A.....
Like I said, I am not going to be jumping on this bandwagon. I don't cheer for genocide, whether committed by people who are willing to die to carry out their mission or by people who sit in a booth at an air-force base and fly drones over villages. Obam,a is doing everything I predicted in '08. He will continue. Don't be so naive.
@townsendjean He promised to close gitmo. Still open. He promised not to use signing statements. He promised to veto any extension of expiring provisions of the patriot act. He signed "patriot act 2" and all the expiring provisions. He promised to end Bush's "illegal wars" immediately. It's been almost 4 years. He promised lobbyists wouldn't be allowed in the whitehouse. Day after inauguration, the place was filled with lobbyists. He's a liar and a hypocrite. He is Bush's 3rd term.
@partonace I don't charge for what cost me nothing to make. CD's go for $6 locally, allowing me to buy another stack of CD's, more greeting-card paper, jewel cases, ink, guitar and bass strings, drum sticks, tubes, even save a little on the side to upgrade my recording setup. It's more than enough. The net is my way of sharing music globally and free. If you want to pay me for my music, donate food and blankets to OWS protesters on my behalf and get the songs off my channel. I got all I need.
@AdamRainStopper so if i send you my email you will send me your album as mp3 files (since i am against booklets, cds and jewel cases) after i send you 6$ via paypal? not the best way to promote your music - but if you fear that you will get nothing in return by upping your music to jamendo (or what you have - since i only know this site for now) this way it's ok for me, too.
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Over 30 years...yes 30 years ago when I was in my 20's, getting free love, had my own "hope", people might have listened...but I'm washed up with the times. Now, when I say "everyone", I actually mean "me". Follow me on Twitter.................
The strategies of the Democrats and Republicans are the same, and they serve the same masters.
They manufacture false dichotomies and reduce social issues of no importance to them but of great importance to the public, down to their most basic opposite extremes. They carefully and intentionally remove all reasoned nuance and middle ground to keep us at eachother's throats. They manufacture threats to distract us. They frenzy the people as demagogues into sneering and jeering at reason.
It is a powerful tool of propaganda, to present the people with a blank canvas, for their imaginations will paint whatever they wish and whatever they hope upon that canvas, and fight with fervor that rivals that of a religious mob, feeling wounded by every defeat, inspired by every victory, for they are fighting for their very hopes and dreams.
This is why Obama has been able to continue the same Policies as Bush, Clinton, Bush Sr, and Regan, all to the same function under a different canvas.
In short, Chomsky strikes me as another angry leftist preaching to other angry leftists. He risks nothing with his ranting-has made a living at it in fact, made possible courtesy of the system he professes to despise. He offers no alternative model because there isn't one and he knows it. He is an utter sham and a hypocrite. His relationship to the USA is probably a reliving of his own frustrations with his parents-you know, criticizing with impunity.
@Scrayfish0 Whether you agree with him or not, already I know you're a know-nothing, perhaps wannabe intellectual. He does advocate an alternative model. You've clearly never read any of his essays or books concerning anarcho-syndicalism, or else you would know that, and wouldn't be talking out of your ass. Of course, you probably don't even know what that is. Enjoy looking it up on wikipedia though, and have fun being daft the rest of your life.
I can't say that Timothy McVeigh has made the top of my reading list quite yet, but even crazy people have a point sometimes, LOL. Certainly a person's political views are a reflection of who they are; the more extreme the views the more so. I don't understand how anything I said constitutes a presumption, but assertions yes.My observation is that he is a very angry man who cannot express himself honestly...thus the gentle veneer and the needlessly complex (confusing) locutions.
Chomsky could never live in a world governed by his own ideas . He is a repulsive weakling...prissy and coddled, who has spent his whole life playing the naughty little boy to masses of adoring idiots who wanted nothing more than a justification for their deep seated hatreds (probably of their parents), intellectual laziness and/or stupidity.
Have you ever read it? He thinks "leftists" have psychological issues such as inferiority complexes. I don't agree with much of it, but it's an interesting read. He's also staunchly against technological advancement, and he actually makes some good points to back it up, but I still don't fully agree. I agree that technology might get out of control, especially in the hands of fascists, but whatever.
Now you made a bunch of presumptions and assertions w/o explaining....
@Scrayfish0 I do not live in America.A country that I , on the whole admire.But right now I feel very sad for this country.It has been undergoing a long, persistent process of 'dumbing down" and one wonders just how far down it can go. I read somewhere that one on five high-school students were unable to locate USA on a map of the world.Given this race to the bottom in terms of awareness and intelligence,could it be that the great popular succes of such an intellectual fraud amd self-hating Jew
My analysis of Chomsky is that he is one of those Jews who, if he pours enough scorn and hatred on Israel and indirectly on Jews in general ,people may forget that he is himself a Jew.It may divert people's attention away from this fact which is possible discomforting to him.Could he be yet another self-hating Jew? A miserable position to be in.His pronouncements on Israel are scourced in an intense hatred which is ureasonable and totally unhelpful.In my view he is a deluded traitot.
One can't help where they were born and what their last name is. What one can help is their ignorance. Just because he realized "his people" have destroyed the world with warfare, from religion to political policy, to stealing Palestine, doesn't mean he's a "self hating jew" as you so provincially put it. I'm a white guy who grew up christian in america. I'm not "self hating" because I know about the atrocities committed by my forefathers. I don't associate myself with them.
@4tabula2rasa0 I don't think that you have understood my post.It may be "provincial" but I simply cannot understand the mentality of a Jew, given the tragic history of these people,culminating in the Holocaust, can align himself with Jew- haters whose ultimate aim is the destruction of Israel and the extermination of the Jews who live in that country.Your remarks about Jews having "destroyed the world with warfare"etc are the ravings of an ignorant and racist anti-Semite..Sorry about that.
I'm not ignorant, racist, or anti-semitic, actually. I think YOU missed MY point. I don't blame most jewish people for the atrocities committed by the Israeli, British, and US governments. And I would hardly call their entire history "tragic"....the holocaust, yes, but have you ever read the bible? If any of those stories are true, these "chosen people" went around pillaging, raping, sacrificing humans, etc of other tribes and religions in the name of a make-believe monster.
I don't care what skin color, nationality, religion, etc.....any people who commit such atrocities don't deserve to exist. It's a shame for the good ones that there are.
My views are exactly the opposite of racist. You zionists might call me anti-semitic, but you're delusional and brainwashed nationalists anyway...sorry about that.
Face it, the world has been a wreck because of Israel for thousands of years. Why not just be done with the idea of Israel? Ahem.
@4tabula2rasa0 Do you then think that the Germans "don't deserve to exist" because of their atrocities in two world wars? Or the Americans. for their destruction of an entire race of indigenous people? Likewise the Australians., or the Spanish (Conquistadors)? You might think that you are not raacist,,anti-Semitic,or ignoratnt but my point is ,I think that you are.
A;lso, your comments are very rude and personally abusive.Also, you are very full of hatred which is so ugly.
I think Chomsky has a great understanding of history, politics & how ideas and politicians market themselves. He makes me appreciate Ron Paul even more.
Chomsky only presumes that "human nature" includes the need to be free and creative, I think that's a fair assumption to make, whereas hierarchical economic arrangements like so-called "free market" systems assumes many erroneous things about human nature. I don't see why Chomsky's vision of anarcho-syndicalist society, I believe you notice me more when I use the word 'fuck'. Buckley presumes anything about human nature beyond the fact that they don't want to be exploited slaves.
Chomsky was walking his poodle through the woods when he felt the urge to pee. He looked for a deserving tree and when he chose one and approached it, he was surprised to find Burl Ives sitting at the base of the tree reading the Gita. Chomsky unholstered his dick and Burl Ives grabbed it and yanked on it with over 330 Newton-metres of force. It broke. Then then Michael Moore walked up and buttfucked both of them.
So today... LOL how many of those people who vote for the MORON still think the country is GOING THE WRONG WAY?... They bought into the joke... they put a joker in the White House.. now they don't like the punch line...
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Impeach O B O M B M A now!!! he will destroy you and the America. He is a liar , scumbag. Jail Bush and his cronies while your at it, the Fed's well I'm sure we all know what has to be done with them.
I don't recall the Bush acceptance speech, but he's not the President anymore. If the current President is not replaced in 2012, I'm afraid we've lost the country to Marxism, and make no mistake, this guy IS a Marxist who is determined to bring this Nation down based on his perception of past injustices. People didn't think it could happen here, but our generation allowed.
@andrewsanders1984 Yes, and I've been to some of those Socialist countries. Obama doesn't tell us he's a Marxist, but his attitude toward the American system is evident. Increasing taxes on the so called rich is not about generating revenue, it's about 'fairness'. Those were his words. He also stated-off teleprompter- that after a certain point, "...you've made enough money". His college years were spent with Marxists, Socialists, and radicals. It is happening here,
@jojmanful Taxing the rich at a more progressive rate is a tenant of Adam Smith. You know, asking people that make over a million dollars a year to go from a tax rate of 35% to 39.6% is not asking much.
@andrewsanders1984 It's easy to think that way, I get it. It's just not ours, or the government's money, to take. The cost to those businesses are passed on to us in the form of higher prices. The top 2% of taxpayers already pay 47% of all federal taxes in the U.S. If capital gains are increased, along with the Bush Era tax cuts expiring, the 'rich' will pay over 50% in taxes. Punishing achievement doesn't encourage anything posituve and the poor don't hire anybody.
@andrewsanders1984 I think Clinton was a Liberal Democrat. They love taxing because their base is comprised of so many people who depend on government. I'm not suggesting Obama is a Marxist simply because of his stand on taxes i.e. 'it's all about fairness'. He's a Marxist probably because his parents, and grandparents were and because his statements about redistribution are Socialistic in content. Type in Obama on Youtube and listen to him in his own words.
@jojmanful You embrace socialism. You just don't know. The fire dept is an example of socialism. How about the the Police Dept.? This is a fascist country, and Obama has nothing to do with that. I voted for Obama. I intend to NEVER vote again. It's mental masturbation. Because regardless of who is in the WH, it WILL be business as usual. If you examine our foreign policy, it looks like the same man has been in the Oval office since Theodore Roosevelt. Wake up ppl, you been had
@bastardoftheparty1 C'mon now, the need for a fire department doesn't equate to a Socialist government or citizenry. We're not in college anymore, I assume you're not, so let's take the real world and human nature as it is. WE have a system that works better than any other I know of. Some succeed, some don't- it's life. Surely, I'm not the only one here that can acknowledge that. Anybody here willing to make a positive statement about the U.S. without sarcasim? Hurry, we're losing it!
@jojmanful Who runs the fire dept? That's right the govt. Did you know that that wasn't always true. Fact is you could handle your own fires. You could protect yourself without the benefit of a police dept. This is what I'm saying. You're selective in what you call socialist. You and everyone else is playing with yourself when you say 'down with socialism' If you had to make a choice between ppl being absolutely self sufficient or socialism what would you choose?
I can see how humans have the potential to be self sufficient, police themselves, put out their own fires, etc...but general ignorance is just too rampant. Ignorance that is supported by a government that is back in turn supported by a lazy, apathetic population that isn't forced to REALLY learn how to work and how to work properly and disciplined. It's a vicious cycle and I think that we are nowhere close to policing ourselves. To think we are is the height or naivety.
@jojmanful You right wingers are all the same. You come off as socially and intellectually superior. When you're really full of shit. Your at your worst on abortion. On the one hand you say abortions are killing, but you'd allow a woman to get one if she is raped. Life becomes less than sacred if the guy is unlikable? You want to set the rules in some's favor, just not certain ppl. Socialism banned today you'd have chaos tomorrow. Exam the rights agenda. It favors the rich.
@bastardoftheparty1 Are we? I didn't realize you knew my position on abortion. That topic seems to always come up when somebody's classified as 'right wing'. Since you're going to make comments like a typical left wing college kid who hasn't had the chance to test his professors America hating theories, why not just move your ass to Russia where you'll be happy.
It drives me nuts when people say "why don't you move to Russia...." to someone they don't agree with politically.
Look, I don't agree with your position, but I've read your comments enough to know you seem reasonably intelligent. You should realize how UNamerican that stupid ass "move to russia" cliche is. I don't say that to any neo-cons, because I understand that they want to see the change they desire, just like I do, and it's why I stay my ass HERE!
@4tabula2rasa0 I know. It was said in frustration, but I stand by the intent. If one is unhappy with the conditions they find themselves, one is obligated to change what they can. When we're talking about a country, however, the change to Socialism that some promote affects us all. There are countries that already excercise the 'change' many here are in favor of. I don't see it as an unrealistic option for those who deem this Nation to be unfair, to try out a different country. Your thoughts?
You advocate Social Darwinism? That strips the humanity right from our consciousness. "Some succeed, some don't- that's life." I'd like to see you born into poverty and struggle your way out of it. It's not so simple, there are a lot of factors in life. Most kids in the ghetto are worried about survival, how can they devote their lives to education and "success"?!
Those who "succeed" should take care of those that "don't"
But I guess we're just another a lowly evolved mammal.
@4tabula2rasa0 I agree, but through charity, not by governmental extortion (the tax code). Life isn't fair and we, through our bleeding heart policies, will never make it fair for everyone. In fact, our government's social welfare policies have created more poverty by keeping people dependent.
What is your idea of rich and how much should these rich people put back into the system that allowed them to become rich, at the expense of those "below" them.....?
The thing is, if you WANT to be exceedingly wealthy and have WAAAAAYYY more than any human needs, you MUST put a large amount back into society if you expect it to function properly. If 500 corporations keep growing until they hoard ALL the wealth, what is there for ANYONE ELSE!?
@4tabula2rasa0 I don't claim to have a particular number in mind because it's not my money to take from them. You make it sound as though there is a finite supply of wealth and that some individuals have taken it from someone else and must 'put it back'. How much would you like to take from them? Whom would you like to give it to? At what point do 'achievers' lose their motivation to produce if it is simply taken from them by those who have determined they simply have too much?
Is there not a finite supply of available "wealth" or resources? If there were an infinite supply we wouldn't be having this conversation. I never made it sound as if they took it "from someone else" directly, but by hoarding excessive wealth, one is taking that available wealth out of the economy, leaving less for everyone else to fight over.
And I love the thoughtless cliche about "losing motivation to achieve..." that is a crock of shit. Nobody who makes millions is going quit their business because they are getting taxed heavily. You seem to think that people who make a million dollars a year are gonna say "fuck this, I think I work at the car wash since the government wants me to pay too many taxes..." That is a thoughtless argument parroted by right wing brainwashed drones who can't think for themselves.....
If there were an infinite supply of resources, as you seem to think, then by definition there would be no such thing as "wealth" and this conversation would be rendered moot.
Obviously I don't know what this finite supply of wealth is, so I can't give you numbers. Not to mention the monetary system has also been hijacked by the federal reserve who just prints money at the whims of government and big business....so when they create it from nothing maybe it is infinite haha....
@sagat3xknee you must be joking. the government can't very well kill everyone that has a strong (in their eyes, dangerous) opinion. obviously you haven't read much, if any, of his work or seen many of his lectures. i don't think he would be invited to speak to some of the most prestigious people around the world if he had nothing significant to say. you have to make a concerted effort to listen, comprehend. instead, you would rather make comments on things that intimidate you, another lazy mind.
Intelligent? So was Hitler. How about giving the U.S. some credit for something. Can you imagine a world without this Nation? We're losing our country folks. Think about. Here's a vid about Obama. It could be about Chomsky as well.
@jojmanful yes, we are losing our country, because people who want to shove their moral agenda down everyone else's throat have a right to vote, also because we aren't educating our children properly. our literacy rates are on the decline, as are infant mortality rates. have a look at census dot gov. we are breeding lazy minds, lazy people, & arrogance from a nation past. funny you mention hitler, as bush's acceptance speech was almost the same as hitler's, word for word verbatim.
@sagat3xknee It's more the fact that Chomsky does not belong to any political party or agitate for revolution. If he did those things he certainly would be assassinated. I think he has a lot of significant things to say, which are more or less common sense. However, it is his role as a historian that makes him an important figure. Sort of hard to ignore the fact that the choices we are presented with in major political elections are between individuals groomed by the elites.
Noam Chomsky still believes that the cold war and Al-Qaeda is real - Noam - it is all fake - false flag - created to ensure hegemony - all these things are created to control us by fear of the boogie man - please get on side with reality - i used to be a cold warrior and now i realize that it is all controlled media - bread and circus - i was fooled once and will never be fooled again - Obama -Bush - Clinton - all puppets - the only good presidents were the ones who they killed/ tried to kill .
What's with all the tough guys and their comments here? Anyone can talk tough online from the safety of their chairs. It's sort of like the people who shout stuff out their car windows and peel off.
And therein lies our problem. Jersey Shore gets more attention than current affairs and then people step into a voting booth and vote for a name that sounds familiar or like their own. They vote for the sound bite commercials that evoked a FEELING in themselves. They vote on one issue that they feel strongly about. They vote for the guy who seems to fit and look the part. They do not deserve to live in a democratic society because that comes with the responsibility to become informed.
@rtbell24 Anyone who takes the time to write a comment with nothing more insightful or challenging than "Fuck yall", would certainly fall into the none thinking category. So, to take your own advice, go and fuck yourself
chomsky talks in a subtle but very twisting and manipulating manner. i don't find him trustworthy in the least. I think he is confused in some ways and outright deceptive in others. He believes he is trying to better the world and to him, like with many on the left, it justifies the game he's playing.
I'm not sure what game you think he is playing. What is the object of the game? Have you read any of his books? He was a professor of linguistics and as such studied societies and how they progressed. His books about South American politics were, I think, the first deviation from his chosen field. In those he hits the nail on the head. He has been vilified by others of the Jewish faith as a traitor to the Israeli cause. His calm demeanor is refreshing when compared to podium thumping orators.
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you gentiles are Pathetic Always take some jew and make him god or Messiah just like the jesus and kerl marx and know this noam chomsky did you ever wondering why is this all your biggst gods and messiah and your intellectuals from right and left are jewish and you wonder how we the jews call are self the chosen people dont diss this
comment in 100 yreas from know your kids will things that holly histroy just like your Fathers Though't even the arebs belive in a jewish idea of god
@ehudnold9 Actually Arabs believe in an Abrahamic idea of god. It takes a people so arraogant that they refer to themselves as "chosen by god", an arrogance so deep that they will go as far as saying that Abraham, the father of monotheism, revered by all Semites, would have an "illegitamate" son, all just to ostracise an entire group of people, the Arabs. People who think like you are a poison to the world we live in.
And your comment is exactly why people fucking hate jews. Judaism is the worst thing to ever happen to the human species. It gave rise to christianity and islam, giving us 3 horrible, theocracy pushing, power hungry, sadistic, sexist, racist, genocidal monster make believe deities, Yahweh, Jesus (the whole trinity bullshit), and Allah. Because of Judaism countless people have lost their lives, sacrificed their humanity and act like fucking babboons. FUCK!
there is no direct club of the world elite that plan to take over the world like pinky and the brain. what is good for this corperation may very well be good of other corperations alike, and that is as far as their coordination goes. as for the government, money is a form of power, and the job of a state is to aquire power; it's just a machine doing it's job. foreign policies and international relationships are very complex and cannot be summed up in simple theories.
A moneyless,classless,stateless communities of humanity expressing our freedom in creative harmonious cooperation for a world that is so POTENTIALLY AND ACTUALLY nourishing. Capitalism in any form, Statist or Corporatist is the denial of our common humanity in a politically manipulated,tyrannical armed MARKET SYSYTEM of artificial scarcity that is designed to perpetuate the enslavement of immense humanity for material interest of the criminal ruling elite.
I wonder if, in the full interview, he mentioned about the dollar going into the dumper while gold goes crazy (during the great Obama administration)?
Noam Chomsky merely does what perhaps We All could/should do... speak His mind.
This sort of discourse would possibly get Us closer to some sort of 'change', for Those Who need it, or 'growth', for Those Who need that, or at least lead to increased aknowledgement of real 'problems' We can resolve.
We have all the power, People... and this is the best We can do?
I am interested in methods of showing the People's solidarity in such a way that 'Washington' fears Us.
@myklmusic Yea you're right. The contributions to linguistics he's made, the fact that he's a professor at MIT, the articles and books he's wrote which have made him one the most cited people ever... any of us could have done all that
His opinions about US policy aren't complex at all. They are actually quite obvious if you spend more than 5 seconds thinking about it. That's why he is called a 'public intellectual', and gets 500K+ views on youtube. None of these are bad things.
Its his ability to reference historical examples to defend his viewpoints which adds so much credibility to what he says.
@ZombieLincoln666 Yea I would agree with that. But to me it seems your original comment undermined what he has accomplished, especially for linguistics
I didn't make that comment, but in any event, I don't see how pointing out that we all have the ability to speak the truth with regards to US foreign policy as Chomsky has, is 'undermining' his accomplishments in his other field of study (one which is completely irrelevant to the topic on hand).
@fasciststate I don't think our vote is _completely_ worthless. The well funded propagandists do a good job at keeping large quantities of people from voting (with disgust in politics or a feeling of helplessness). If everyone voted, and if everyone was well informed, things would change... But they won't, because that would require a well-educated, critical thinking population.
In short, I'm not disagreeing with you, I just felt that "your vote is worthless" could use a little more depth. :D
Noam was so right about Obama. After his election, Obama continued Bush's stimulus of the banks and Corporations. Now he tries to blame republicans for debt ceiling situation. After all, he only had two and a half years as a democratic super majority in every branch of government to come up with a budget, but he didn't! Because he is still a blank slate.
we are anonymous, we are aware of the corruption in the world's governments and their apathy for the human lives because of money.
we are aware of the governments' attempt to cover on the news of the rebellions to keep us as slaves for the current system.
we are anonymous, we declare war on the corrupted system, join the plan to get your freedom and rights back. you are a human being, your life has value. we are anonymous, we are legion, expect us!
@AntiAntiAmerica If you have no interest on Noam Chompsky's opinion on Barack Obama, then why would you click a video entitled "Noam Chompsky on Barack Obama." While not once in this video does Noam say his opinion is greater than anyone else's. I'd assume the reporter was the one who decided to broadcast his opinion.
I have great interest in the distorted views of a man who influences the political opinion of many Americans who buy into his views.
One the most disturbingly vicious comments Chomsky made were made the day William F. Buckley died and Noam thought it a good occasion to say that "he may have thought himself an intellectual but I don't think so".
Or the time he said the Afghanistan invasion was intended to create a refugee situation that would starve and kill thousands. So wrong.
@AntiAntiAmerica I have never been a huge fan of Chompsky. I am simply stating stupidity of clicking on a video you obviously have no interest in, just to say what you did.
Aside from being grammatically incoherent, your comment fails to hold up to scrutiny in that your comment claims that you possess knowledge which you couldn't possibly possess.
@AntiAntiAmerica Good one.. Assaulting some one's grammar is always a mature way of continuing an argument. I couldn't care less if you're a fan of Chompsky. I'm not even defending him. I'm just saying that you don't have to be an asshole and make stupid sarcastic comments on others opinions.
@AntiAntiAmerica And I thought emptyness was the domain of the naive. You would have been a good snake oil salesman. Keep lying to yourself, it's all you've got in the end.
@benjhadwin They're only important opinions if they're good ones. Most people who empty trash for a living tend to hang with other people who don't read the newspaper as well. Democracy is a . . . nice dream.
@lodproductions90 That's because most of the world's dumbfucks either magically gain a broadened viewpoint when they watch some of the shit youtube has to offer, or are immediately removed by public consensus that they are indeed morons.
politics will never change anything. it will always just lead to a decline of societies - since people loose time by listening to the politicians and watching what is going on in their lives. they're like sirens that sing tunes of false promise. it's more important for us citizens of this globe to connect over the web, start businesses and share things together.
partonace 4 hours ago
Obama, a blank slate or an empty suit?
I myself knew what kind of creature Obama was by his slimy and very fast distancing of himself from Jeremiah Wright in the campaign.
like all politicians he is a whore
such is a requirement for the job
Strefanasha 1 week ago
you should all watch this , this is a solution
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zeitgeist proposes many scientific approaches on libertarian left
koliber231 3 weeks ago
he's got the same durty-assed, lying, frog-croak as henry kissinger, -
- do not trust this 'honest' man, - he is a liar of the highest order -
fucking lying-assed, jew, - there's a reason people hate you. fuckers.
bluelibra65 1 month ago
Uh did he say "southern africa"?
Dtchmastrkilla7 1 month ago
You don't think school is an oppressive institution? I don't mean to be rude, just curious...
jon66065 1 month ago
@jon66065 It can be...it can also be an empowering force.
daveruda 2 weeks ago
I love Chomsky, but when he argues against institutions, does he not exist in the academic institution??? Is he a hypocrite? Someone help!!
jon66065 1 month ago
@jon66065 . I'm pretty sure he meant to say "concentrations of power" but simply put it as "institutions" that deprive people of their liberties - oppressive governments, tyrannical corporations and so forth.
mykebulvai 1 month ago
@jon66065 There are DIFFERENT kinds of institutions with DIFFERENT goals and policies ;)
PNACATTACKdotCOM 1 month ago
Chomsky's ideas, like himself, are ossified relics of a bygone era. Unfortunately, up until recently, his nearly unassailable ivory tower credentials and his leftist minions the world over have shielded him from any and all criticim. For anyone who admires Chomsky, I suggest they read Christopher Hitchen's criticism of the man in "Love, Poverty and War," and, even more damaging, Sam Harris' "The End of Fatih." You owe it to yourself to know the real Chomsky.
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plan101 2 months ago
smart man...starting with blank slate.
plan101 2 months ago
Obama ran on the platform of change and people were desperate for it because of the tragedy of the Bush era and they quickly bought it - cool marketing, a smart guy, well disciplined, intelligent but the only change was a change of government. Obama has no real ideology except he wants to do the right thing but that is not enough in a leader. I hate to say this because i like the guy but although he is a leader he doesn't know how to lead and really manage change. Big disappointment
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ronpaulfan1 2 months ago
You're right, I haven't read Chomsky. However, I HAVE heard this angry little man speak a few times at length, so there's been plenty of opportunity to learns his points or be convinced he's worth reading. Admittedly, I may not be the most brilliant person on the planet, certainly can't hold a candle to you, but I'm reasonably in the upper 10%. As for "alternative model" I should have qualified it with "reality-based with some historical precedent." Thanks for making me clarify my point.
Scrayfish0 2 months ago
so... where did he answer the question on obama?
ThomasBCullen 2 months ago
The US really missed the target when we put term limits on the president but not the congress.
eyeammi 2 months ago
Insightful, though he speaks from hindsight. I remember being ridiculed for being a pessimist when obama was campaigning on the platform of "change" and I told them he wouldn't actually change anything, wars, patriot act, etc. I had two heads every time I said it. Jaws hit the floor, awkward silence. I'm a young musician who lives in the margins and slips through the cracks, and the information from which I drew that conclusion wasn't hard for ME to find. Why do people WANT to be brainwashed?
AdamRainStopper 2 months ago 29
@AdamRainStopper "Hindsight"? This interview was from 6/20/08; five months before Obama was elected
Gravija1980 2 months ago 2
@Gravija1980 I think I meant this for a video where he was saying obama was "worse than bush and blair combined". I had a bunch of videos open at once and I probably posted the wrong comment to the wrong video. Ironically, it was voted to the top, which WOULD give me a sense of satisfaction... oops
I wrote a song called "The Futility of hope" at the very beginning of the campaign, even before Chomsky talked about him. People compared it to the "satire of a schizophrenic". Maybe I should post it.
AdamRainStopper 2 months ago
@AdamRainStopper because they follow a paradigmatic view of the world. when they find out that 9/11 was an inside job they will most likely kill themselves out of confusion that our gov't i capable of such a heanous crime. they simply won't allow for truth to overwhelm them.
bmw200000 2 months ago
@bmw200000 Not sure what you're replying to, I didn't mention Chomsky's position on 9/11, though I do believe it is difficult for someone so intelligent to deal with that subject with anything but denial. Intelligence can be a curse, and I can tell you first hand that empathy in combination with knowledge will break you down so badly that you become physically ill if you don't take precautions with how many days in a row you will read about the atrocities and injustice before taking a break.
AdamRainStopper 2 months ago
@AdamRainStopper
People allow themselves to become brainwashed because of the fact that the propaganda is often times more pleasant than reality. People were offered this man that claimed to be the solution to our problems, and he talked a great game. They wanted to believe that something great would come out of it.
I would compare it to what's happening now with Ron Paul. He has loads of people supporting him because they want to believe that he's some political savior.
CarlSagan0101 1 month ago
@CarlSagan0101 I also consider it dangerous the way the "RP 2012!!!!!" movement is so messianic and puts so much on the shoulders of one person, but there is a big difference between him and Obama. Obama ran a campaign of "change" in the face of wars that he voted to fund, the patriot act which he voted for, and wall st, which funded his campaign. Even as these things came to light, nobody wanted to hear it. Paul, flawed as he is, has a congressional scorecard (ACLU site) to match his campaign.
AdamRainStopper 1 month ago
@AdamRainStopper
Oh, I know they're not exactly the same. I like Ron Paul for the fact that he's actually consistent with what he's saying, and that he has a good background, but he's not anything like what people are making him out to be. That's why I made the Obama comparison.
CarlSagan0101 1 month ago
@AdamRainStopper they want HOPE, and hope is a defunct emotion if you think about it, what is it.. wishful thinking, ,its not intention, its not knowing its just insipid maybe this might happen, maybe it wont,, that attitude doesnt manifest anything..
perhaps you should have played the slogan yes we can backwards to your peers... they would then know exactly which camp the (CIA or perhaps even Russian asset)
Bari M Shebazz was in... !
SovereignBeing 1 month ago
@AdamRainStopper
Cause hope in a bleak world is a beacon - it gives you hope to live. Something, like religion - which gives people a light in the darkness which to follow, and they feel they will be rewarded if they obey. But most of the time, unfortunately, these people end up like moths that get too near a light bulb - their wings burn.
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townsendjean 2 weeks ago
@townsendjean Libya will have a new dictator soon. I don't celebrate drone attacks on anyone, nor am I proud to be a citizen of the country that funded, armed and radicalized the "Islamic World" for use as pawns in the cold war, then killed Bin Laden when he finally got sick of our global footprint and attacked. Replacing troops with mercenaries isn't ending the war. I don't applaud the half-assed HC bill in which Obama let the GOP kill the public option and every other meaningful provision.
AdamRainStopper 2 weeks ago
@AdamRainStopper Well we´re not in Libya, and no american lives are sacrificed and we´re not funneling billions into the military machine. Drone attacks are a much less costly alternative to interventionism, if the war on terror must continue. The radicalization of the islamic world and the cold war is sordid history. Bin Laden was asking for it. The public option fell victim to gop intransigence. Obama did pretty well, all in all, under the circumstances.
townsendjean 1 week ago
@townsendjean We still have a global military footprint. Drone attacks are cowardly interventionism. Obama folded under GOP pressure because he wanted it to pass with "bi-partisan" support, he could have passed it with the dem majority. If we captured, tried, convicted and executed Bin Laden, we'd be the good guys. They killed him without even trying to capture him, because they don't want "sordid history" coming out at a public trial. We still funnel billions to the military industrial complex.
AdamRainStopper 1 week ago
@AdamRainStopper Cowardly? Hell, they´re cheap and effective, and no more cowardly than the way al-qaeda operates. And if you think gop intransigence isn´t real, then you are incredibly naive. Obama is being pragmatic, but in due course I expect he will pull the Truman card and best up the Republican Congress. They are impossible, unpopular and classically, 'do nothing'. He will do this, and he will tear into them in ways we have not yet seen and can hardly imagine.
townsendjean 1 week ago
@townsendjean Yeah, no more cowardly than ....... AL QUEIDA?........ Now that sounds like a ringing endorsement for the U S A ....U S A ......U S A ......U S A.....
Like I said, I am not going to be jumping on this bandwagon. I don't cheer for genocide, whether committed by people who are willing to die to carry out their mission or by people who sit in a booth at an air-force base and fly drones over villages. Obam,a is doing everything I predicted in '08. He will continue. Don't be so naive.
AdamRainStopper 1 week ago
@townsendjean He promised to close gitmo. Still open. He promised not to use signing statements. He promised to veto any extension of expiring provisions of the patriot act. He signed "patriot act 2" and all the expiring provisions. He promised to end Bush's "illegal wars" immediately. It's been almost 4 years. He promised lobbyists wouldn't be allowed in the whitehouse. Day after inauguration, the place was filled with lobbyists. He's a liar and a hypocrite. He is Bush's 3rd term.
AdamRainStopper 1 week ago
@AdamRainStopper ...why don't you use a platform like jamendocom. i'd like to hear some of your music and pay for it. what would you have to loose?
partonace 4 hours ago
@partonace I don't charge for what cost me nothing to make. CD's go for $6 locally, allowing me to buy another stack of CD's, more greeting-card paper, jewel cases, ink, guitar and bass strings, drum sticks, tubes, even save a little on the side to upgrade my recording setup. It's more than enough. The net is my way of sharing music globally and free. If you want to pay me for my music, donate food and blankets to OWS protesters on my behalf and get the songs off my channel. I got all I need.
AdamRainStopper 3 hours ago
@AdamRainStopper so if i send you my email you will send me your album as mp3 files (since i am against booklets, cds and jewel cases) after i send you 6$ via paypal? not the best way to promote your music - but if you fear that you will get nothing in return by upping your music to jamendo (or what you have - since i only know this site for now) this way it's ok for me, too.
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lightandbeautiful 3 months ago
Over 30 years...yes 30 years ago when I was in my 20's, getting free love, had my own "hope", people might have listened...but I'm washed up with the times. Now, when I say "everyone", I actually mean "me". Follow me on Twitter.................
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The strategies of the Democrats and Republicans are the same, and they serve the same masters.
They manufacture false dichotomies and reduce social issues of no importance to them but of great importance to the public, down to their most basic opposite extremes. They carefully and intentionally remove all reasoned nuance and middle ground to keep us at eachother's throats. They manufacture threats to distract us. They frenzy the people as demagogues into sneering and jeering at reason.
FreeTheWorker 3 months ago
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FreeTheWorker 3 months ago
It is a powerful tool of propaganda, to present the people with a blank canvas, for their imaginations will paint whatever they wish and whatever they hope upon that canvas, and fight with fervor that rivals that of a religious mob, feeling wounded by every defeat, inspired by every victory, for they are fighting for their very hopes and dreams.
This is why Obama has been able to continue the same Policies as Bush, Clinton, Bush Sr, and Regan, all to the same function under a different canvas.
FreeTheWorker 3 months ago 21
@FreeTheWorker Absolutely!
clarkbailey1973 1 month ago
In short, Chomsky strikes me as another angry leftist preaching to other angry leftists. He risks nothing with his ranting-has made a living at it in fact, made possible courtesy of the system he professes to despise. He offers no alternative model because there isn't one and he knows it. He is an utter sham and a hypocrite. His relationship to the USA is probably a reliving of his own frustrations with his parents-you know, criticizing with impunity.
Scrayfish0 3 months ago
@Scrayfish0 Whether you agree with him or not, already I know you're a know-nothing, perhaps wannabe intellectual. He does advocate an alternative model. You've clearly never read any of his essays or books concerning anarcho-syndicalism, or else you would know that, and wouldn't be talking out of your ass. Of course, you probably don't even know what that is. Enjoy looking it up on wikipedia though, and have fun being daft the rest of your life.
opsocftw 2 months ago
I can't say that Timothy McVeigh has made the top of my reading list quite yet, but even crazy people have a point sometimes, LOL. Certainly a person's political views are a reflection of who they are; the more extreme the views the more so. I don't understand how anything I said constitutes a presumption, but assertions yes.My observation is that he is a very angry man who cannot express himself honestly...thus the gentle veneer and the needlessly complex (confusing) locutions.
Scrayfish0 3 months ago
Chomsky could never live in a world governed by his own ideas . He is a repulsive weakling...prissy and coddled, who has spent his whole life playing the naughty little boy to masses of adoring idiots who wanted nothing more than a justification for their deep seated hatreds (probably of their parents), intellectual laziness and/or stupidity.
Scrayfish0 3 months ago
@Scrayfish0
Explain.
4tabula2rasa0 3 months ago
@Scrayfish0
Sounds like you've been reading the unabomber's manifesto haha.....
4tabula2rasa0 3 months ago
@4tabula2rasa0 Explain...(haha).
Scrayfish0 3 months ago
@Scrayfish0
Have you ever read it? He thinks "leftists" have psychological issues such as inferiority complexes. I don't agree with much of it, but it's an interesting read. He's also staunchly against technological advancement, and he actually makes some good points to back it up, but I still don't fully agree. I agree that technology might get out of control, especially in the hands of fascists, but whatever.
Now you made a bunch of presumptions and assertions w/o explaining....
4tabula2rasa0 3 months ago
@Scrayfish0 I do not live in America.A country that I , on the whole admire.But right now I feel very sad for this country.It has been undergoing a long, persistent process of 'dumbing down" and one wonders just how far down it can go. I read somewhere that one on five high-school students were unable to locate USA on a map of the world.Given this race to the bottom in terms of awareness and intelligence,could it be that the great popular succes of such an intellectual fraud amd self-hating Jew
TheSmoshmy 3 months ago
Respond to this video.. like Chomsky. is a case of "in the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king"?
TheSmoshmy 3 months ago
Chomsky predictions about the then new socialist Obama have proven to be wrong, again.
TheWhodatman 3 months ago
My analysis of Chomsky is that he is one of those Jews who, if he pours enough scorn and hatred on Israel and indirectly on Jews in general ,people may forget that he is himself a Jew.It may divert people's attention away from this fact which is possible discomforting to him.Could he be yet another self-hating Jew? A miserable position to be in.His pronouncements on Israel are scourced in an intense hatred which is ureasonable and totally unhelpful.In my view he is a deluded traitot.
TheSmoshmy 3 months ago
@TheSmoshmy
One can't help where they were born and what their last name is. What one can help is their ignorance. Just because he realized "his people" have destroyed the world with warfare, from religion to political policy, to stealing Palestine, doesn't mean he's a "self hating jew" as you so provincially put it. I'm a white guy who grew up christian in america. I'm not "self hating" because I know about the atrocities committed by my forefathers. I don't associate myself with them.
4tabula2rasa0 3 months ago
@4tabula2rasa0 I don't think that you have understood my post.It may be "provincial" but I simply cannot understand the mentality of a Jew, given the tragic history of these people,culminating in the Holocaust, can align himself with Jew- haters whose ultimate aim is the destruction of Israel and the extermination of the Jews who live in that country.Your remarks about Jews having "destroyed the world with warfare"etc are the ravings of an ignorant and racist anti-Semite..Sorry about that.
TheSmoshmy 3 months ago
@TheSmoshmy
I'm not ignorant, racist, or anti-semitic, actually. I think YOU missed MY point. I don't blame most jewish people for the atrocities committed by the Israeli, British, and US governments. And I would hardly call their entire history "tragic"....the holocaust, yes, but have you ever read the bible? If any of those stories are true, these "chosen people" went around pillaging, raping, sacrificing humans, etc of other tribes and religions in the name of a make-believe monster.
4tabula2rasa0 3 months ago
@TheSmoshmy
I don't care what skin color, nationality, religion, etc.....any people who commit such atrocities don't deserve to exist. It's a shame for the good ones that there are.
My views are exactly the opposite of racist. You zionists might call me anti-semitic, but you're delusional and brainwashed nationalists anyway...sorry about that.
Face it, the world has been a wreck because of Israel for thousands of years. Why not just be done with the idea of Israel? Ahem.
4tabula2rasa0 3 months ago
@4tabula2rasa0 Do you then think that the Germans "don't deserve to exist" because of their atrocities in two world wars? Or the Americans. for their destruction of an entire race of indigenous people? Likewise the Australians., or the Spanish (Conquistadors)? You might think that you are not raacist,,anti-Semitic,or ignoratnt but my point is ,I think that you are.
A;lso, your comments are very rude and personally abusive.Also, you are very full of hatred which is so ugly.
TheSmoshmy 3 months ago
I didn't see any part in this video where he said "yes, he's a smart man".
morningbirdfeeder 3 months ago
I think Chomsky has a great understanding of history, politics & how ideas and politicians market themselves. He makes me appreciate Ron Paul even more.
johnnyborealis 3 months ago
this would be a perfect video for the occupy wall street movement
Rasterius 3 months ago
This Marxist cocksucker deserves a spot in the mass graves he's advocated. Choke him to death... he's not worth a bullet.
hiram13pm 3 months ago
Noam Chomsky is a greasy kike.
clinicalreaction 4 months ago
Chomsky only presumes that "human nature" includes the need to be free and creative, I think that's a fair assumption to make, whereas hierarchical economic arrangements like so-called "free market" systems assumes many erroneous things about human nature. I don't see why Chomsky's vision of anarcho-syndicalist society, I believe you notice me more when I use the word 'fuck'. Buckley presumes anything about human nature beyond the fact that they don't want to be exploited slaves.
Thank you
g17y5wb 4 months ago
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Chomsky was walking his poodle through the woods when he felt the urge to pee. He looked for a deserving tree and when he chose one and approached it, he was surprised to find Burl Ives sitting at the base of the tree reading the Gita. Chomsky unholstered his dick and Burl Ives grabbed it and yanked on it with over 330 Newton-metres of force. It broke. Then then Michael Moore walked up and buttfucked both of them.
Thank you.
g17y5wb 4 months ago
So today... LOL how many of those people who vote for the MORON still think the country is GOING THE WRONG WAY?... They bought into the joke... they put a joker in the White House.. now they don't like the punch line...
dangraphic 4 months ago
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arzoyan 4 months ago
Impeach O B O M B M A now!!! he will destroy you and the America. He is a liar , scumbag. Jail Bush and his cronies while your at it, the Fed's well I'm sure we all know what has to be done with them.
Go Ron Go
johnnycmajor 4 months ago
I don't recall the Bush acceptance speech, but he's not the President anymore. If the current President is not replaced in 2012, I'm afraid we've lost the country to Marxism, and make no mistake, this guy IS a Marxist who is determined to bring this Nation down based on his perception of past injustices. People didn't think it could happen here, but our generation allowed.
jojmanful 4 months ago
@jojmanful Corporatist, not Marxist.
benandreas369 4 months ago
@jojmanful Marxist? Have you even read any of Karl Marx or Frederich Engels work? Obama is as far away from them as possible.
andrewsanders1984 4 months ago
@andrewsanders1984 Yes, and I've been to some of those Socialist countries. Obama doesn't tell us he's a Marxist, but his attitude toward the American system is evident. Increasing taxes on the so called rich is not about generating revenue, it's about 'fairness'. Those were his words. He also stated-off teleprompter- that after a certain point, "...you've made enough money". His college years were spent with Marxists, Socialists, and radicals. It is happening here,
jojmanful 4 months ago
@jojmanful Taxing the rich at a more progressive rate is a tenant of Adam Smith. You know, asking people that make over a million dollars a year to go from a tax rate of 35% to 39.6% is not asking much.
andrewsanders1984 4 months ago
@andrewsanders1984 It's easy to think that way, I get it. It's just not ours, or the government's money, to take. The cost to those businesses are passed on to us in the form of higher prices. The top 2% of taxpayers already pay 47% of all federal taxes in the U.S. If capital gains are increased, along with the Bush Era tax cuts expiring, the 'rich' will pay over 50% in taxes. Punishing achievement doesn't encourage anything posituve and the poor don't hire anybody.
jojmanful 4 months ago
@jojmanful They paid 50% in the Clinton years. Was he a Marxist, too?
andrewsanders1984 4 months ago
@andrewsanders1984 I think Clinton was a Liberal Democrat. They love taxing because their base is comprised of so many people who depend on government. I'm not suggesting Obama is a Marxist simply because of his stand on taxes i.e. 'it's all about fairness'. He's a Marxist probably because his parents, and grandparents were and because his statements about redistribution are Socialistic in content. Type in Obama on Youtube and listen to him in his own words.
jojmanful 4 months ago
@jojmanful You embrace socialism. You just don't know. The fire dept is an example of socialism. How about the the Police Dept.? This is a fascist country, and Obama has nothing to do with that. I voted for Obama. I intend to NEVER vote again. It's mental masturbation. Because regardless of who is in the WH, it WILL be business as usual. If you examine our foreign policy, it looks like the same man has been in the Oval office since Theodore Roosevelt. Wake up ppl, you been had
bastardoftheparty1 4 months ago
@bastardoftheparty1 C'mon now, the need for a fire department doesn't equate to a Socialist government or citizenry. We're not in college anymore, I assume you're not, so let's take the real world and human nature as it is. WE have a system that works better than any other I know of. Some succeed, some don't- it's life. Surely, I'm not the only one here that can acknowledge that. Anybody here willing to make a positive statement about the U.S. without sarcasim? Hurry, we're losing it!
jojmanful 4 months ago
@jojmanful Who runs the fire dept? That's right the govt. Did you know that that wasn't always true. Fact is you could handle your own fires. You could protect yourself without the benefit of a police dept. This is what I'm saying. You're selective in what you call socialist. You and everyone else is playing with yourself when you say 'down with socialism' If you had to make a choice between ppl being absolutely self sufficient or socialism what would you choose?
bastardoftheparty1 3 months ago
@bastardoftheparty1 Self sufficient. We've become to reliant on government to ever allow that to happen, though.
jojmanful 3 months ago
@bastardoftheparty1
I can see how humans have the potential to be self sufficient, police themselves, put out their own fires, etc...but general ignorance is just too rampant. Ignorance that is supported by a government that is back in turn supported by a lazy, apathetic population that isn't forced to REALLY learn how to work and how to work properly and disciplined. It's a vicious cycle and I think that we are nowhere close to policing ourselves. To think we are is the height or naivety.
4tabula2rasa0 3 months ago
@jojmanful You right wingers are all the same. You come off as socially and intellectually superior. When you're really full of shit. Your at your worst on abortion. On the one hand you say abortions are killing, but you'd allow a woman to get one if she is raped. Life becomes less than sacred if the guy is unlikable? You want to set the rules in some's favor, just not certain ppl. Socialism banned today you'd have chaos tomorrow. Exam the rights agenda. It favors the rich.
bastardoftheparty1 3 months ago
@bastardoftheparty1 Are we? I didn't realize you knew my position on abortion. That topic seems to always come up when somebody's classified as 'right wing'. Since you're going to make comments like a typical left wing college kid who hasn't had the chance to test his professors America hating theories, why not just move your ass to Russia where you'll be happy.
jojmanful 3 months ago
@jojmanful
It drives me nuts when people say "why don't you move to Russia...." to someone they don't agree with politically.
Look, I don't agree with your position, but I've read your comments enough to know you seem reasonably intelligent. You should realize how UNamerican that stupid ass "move to russia" cliche is. I don't say that to any neo-cons, because I understand that they want to see the change they desire, just like I do, and it's why I stay my ass HERE!
You're smarter than that.
4tabula2rasa0 3 months ago
@4tabula2rasa0 I know. It was said in frustration, but I stand by the intent. If one is unhappy with the conditions they find themselves, one is obligated to change what they can. When we're talking about a country, however, the change to Socialism that some promote affects us all. There are countries that already excercise the 'change' many here are in favor of. I don't see it as an unrealistic option for those who deem this Nation to be unfair, to try out a different country. Your thoughts?
jojmanful 3 months ago
@jojmanful
You advocate Social Darwinism? That strips the humanity right from our consciousness. "Some succeed, some don't- that's life." I'd like to see you born into poverty and struggle your way out of it. It's not so simple, there are a lot of factors in life. Most kids in the ghetto are worried about survival, how can they devote their lives to education and "success"?!
Those who "succeed" should take care of those that "don't"
But I guess we're just another a lowly evolved mammal.
4tabula2rasa0 3 months ago
@4tabula2rasa0 I agree, but through charity, not by governmental extortion (the tax code). Life isn't fair and we, through our bleeding heart policies, will never make it fair for everyone. In fact, our government's social welfare policies have created more poverty by keeping people dependent.
jojmanful 3 months ago
@jojmanful
"...so called rich"
What is your idea of rich and how much should these rich people put back into the system that allowed them to become rich, at the expense of those "below" them.....?
The thing is, if you WANT to be exceedingly wealthy and have WAAAAAYYY more than any human needs, you MUST put a large amount back into society if you expect it to function properly. If 500 corporations keep growing until they hoard ALL the wealth, what is there for ANYONE ELSE!?
Just askin.
4tabula2rasa0 3 months ago
@4tabula2rasa0 I don't claim to have a particular number in mind because it's not my money to take from them. You make it sound as though there is a finite supply of wealth and that some individuals have taken it from someone else and must 'put it back'. How much would you like to take from them? Whom would you like to give it to? At what point do 'achievers' lose their motivation to produce if it is simply taken from them by those who have determined they simply have too much?
jojmanful 3 months ago
@jojmanful
Is there not a finite supply of available "wealth" or resources? If there were an infinite supply we wouldn't be having this conversation. I never made it sound as if they took it "from someone else" directly, but by hoarding excessive wealth, one is taking that available wealth out of the economy, leaving less for everyone else to fight over.
4tabula2rasa0 3 months ago
@jojmanful
And I love the thoughtless cliche about "losing motivation to achieve..." that is a crock of shit. Nobody who makes millions is going quit their business because they are getting taxed heavily. You seem to think that people who make a million dollars a year are gonna say "fuck this, I think I work at the car wash since the government wants me to pay too many taxes..." That is a thoughtless argument parroted by right wing brainwashed drones who can't think for themselves.....
4tabula2rasa0 3 months ago
@jojmanful
If there were an infinite supply of resources, as you seem to think, then by definition there would be no such thing as "wealth" and this conversation would be rendered moot.
Obviously I don't know what this finite supply of wealth is, so I can't give you numbers. Not to mention the monetary system has also been hijacked by the federal reserve who just prints money at the whims of government and big business....so when they create it from nothing maybe it is infinite haha....
4tabula2rasa0 3 months ago
@4tabula2rasa0 I think we agree on something.
jojmanful 3 months ago
@sagat3xknee you must be joking. the government can't very well kill everyone that has a strong (in their eyes, dangerous) opinion. obviously you haven't read much, if any, of his work or seen many of his lectures. i don't think he would be invited to speak to some of the most prestigious people around the world if he had nothing significant to say. you have to make a concerted effort to listen, comprehend. instead, you would rather make comments on things that intimidate you, another lazy mind.
naervana 4 months ago
Intelligent? So was Hitler. How about giving the U.S. some credit for something. Can you imagine a world without this Nation? We're losing our country folks. Think about. Here's a vid about Obama. It could be about Chomsky as well.
jojmanful 4 months ago
@jojmanful yes, we are losing our country, because people who want to shove their moral agenda down everyone else's throat have a right to vote, also because we aren't educating our children properly. our literacy rates are on the decline, as are infant mortality rates. have a look at census dot gov. we are breeding lazy minds, lazy people, & arrogance from a nation past. funny you mention hitler, as bush's acceptance speech was almost the same as hitler's, word for word verbatim.
naervana 4 months ago
A man like Noam doesn't deserve to be American, far too intelligent.
CapitalBhoy78 4 months ago
@sagat3xknee It's more the fact that Chomsky does not belong to any political party or agitate for revolution. If he did those things he certainly would be assassinated. I think he has a lot of significant things to say, which are more or less common sense. However, it is his role as a historian that makes him an important figure. Sort of hard to ignore the fact that the choices we are presented with in major political elections are between individuals groomed by the elites.
JustADasein 4 months ago
@JustADasein finally, someone who speaks sense.
naervana 4 months ago
Noam Chomsky still believes that the cold war and Al-Qaeda is real - Noam - it is all fake - false flag - created to ensure hegemony - all these things are created to control us by fear of the boogie man - please get on side with reality - i used to be a cold warrior and now i realize that it is all controlled media - bread and circus - i was fooled once and will never be fooled again - Obama -Bush - Clinton - all puppets - the only good presidents were the ones who they killed/ tried to kill .
cassanoa 4 months ago
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divinegod102 4 months ago
What's with all the tough guys and their comments here? Anyone can talk tough online from the safety of their chairs. It's sort of like the people who shout stuff out their car windows and peel off.
citrusnite 5 months ago
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Chomsky: the only man who can write a 200 page book on terrorism without once mentioning Islam !
He is a Jew who hates himself for being a Jew - cf.Soros
vonkleve 5 months ago
And therein lies our problem. Jersey Shore gets more attention than current affairs and then people step into a voting booth and vote for a name that sounds familiar or like their own. They vote for the sound bite commercials that evoked a FEELING in themselves. They vote on one issue that they feel strongly about. They vote for the guy who seems to fit and look the part. They do not deserve to live in a democratic society because that comes with the responsibility to become informed.
gocar1962 5 months ago
@fasciststate So you're saying you wouldn't want to keep things like medicare?
1019079 5 months ago
fuck all yall none thinking people
rtbell24 5 months ago
@rtbell24 Anyone who takes the time to write a comment with nothing more insightful or challenging than "Fuck yall", would certainly fall into the none thinking category. So, to take your own advice, go and fuck yourself
MrSyrett 5 months ago
This wizard speaks with authority and grace. Fun vid!
-CityBeat™
CityBeatTM 5 months ago
@fasciststate He did, in a nice way
behinddacurtain 5 months ago
Where is you hope now?!
Orionx30 5 months ago
chomsky talks in a subtle but very twisting and manipulating manner. i don't find him trustworthy in the least. I think he is confused in some ways and outright deceptive in others. He believes he is trying to better the world and to him, like with many on the left, it justifies the game he's playing.
horsedesigns 5 months ago
@horsedesigns This all depends if you care or not.
PlutoniumPlayPin 5 months ago
@horsedesigns you are too dumb to understand what he says. go watch some lady gaga videos. idiot.
catalinaguerrero 5 months ago
I'm not sure what game you think he is playing. What is the object of the game? Have you read any of his books? He was a professor of linguistics and as such studied societies and how they progressed. His books about South American politics were, I think, the first deviation from his chosen field. In those he hits the nail on the head. He has been vilified by others of the Jewish faith as a traitor to the Israeli cause. His calm demeanor is refreshing when compared to podium thumping orators.
gocar1962 5 months ago
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ecnerwal999 5 months ago
yours the (arebs) Knowledge about Abraham and he sons by the way he had more than two is from jews tribes who live in arebia in the time of the koren and even Early in the mishna a jewish book the say that there is jew in arebia from 190b.c and there is jews in yamen from 500 b.c by the way i am yameni jew y fthe jews Brought you the knowleage about monotheism.and about th
chosen people frist that in the (book) second the gentiles chose us its empiirical fact if you know history
ehudnold9 5 months ago
I wish you could spell better; it would help out the strength of your argument.
wallace2ification 5 months ago
you gentiles are Pathetic Always take some jew and make him god or Messiah just like the jesus and kerl marx and know this noam chomsky did you ever wondering why is this all your biggst gods and messiah and your intellectuals from right and left are jewish and you wonder how we the jews call are self the chosen people dont diss this
comment in 100 yreas from know your kids will things that holly histroy just like your Fathers Though't even the arebs belive in a jewish idea of god
ehudnold9 6 months ago
@ehudnold9 Actually Arabs believe in an Abrahamic idea of god. It takes a people so arraogant that they refer to themselves as "chosen by god", an arrogance so deep that they will go as far as saying that Abraham, the father of monotheism, revered by all Semites, would have an "illegitamate" son, all just to ostracise an entire group of people, the Arabs. People who think like you are a poison to the world we live in.
hammoudi 5 months ago
@ehudnold9 that comment doesnt make sense.
DJWEBSTAR914 5 months ago
@ehudnold9
And your comment is exactly why people fucking hate jews. Judaism is the worst thing to ever happen to the human species. It gave rise to christianity and islam, giving us 3 horrible, theocracy pushing, power hungry, sadistic, sexist, racist, genocidal monster make believe deities, Yahweh, Jesus (the whole trinity bullshit), and Allah. Because of Judaism countless people have lost their lives, sacrificed their humanity and act like fucking babboons. FUCK!
4tabula2rasa0 3 months ago
there is no direct club of the world elite that plan to take over the world like pinky and the brain. what is good for this corperation may very well be good of other corperations alike, and that is as far as their coordination goes. as for the government, money is a form of power, and the job of a state is to aquire power; it's just a machine doing it's job. foreign policies and international relationships are very complex and cannot be summed up in simple theories.
mathexalias 6 months ago
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A moneyless,classless,stateless communities of humanity expressing our freedom in creative harmonious cooperation for a world that is so POTENTIALLY AND ACTUALLY nourishing. Capitalism in any form, Statist or Corporatist is the denial of our common humanity in a politically manipulated,tyrannical armed MARKET SYSYTEM of artificial scarcity that is designed to perpetuate the enslavement of immense humanity for material interest of the criminal ruling elite.
arzoyan 6 months ago
I wonder if, in the full interview, he mentioned about the dollar going into the dumper while gold goes crazy (during the great Obama administration)?
IClausius 6 months ago
Noam Chomsky merely does what perhaps We All could/should do... speak His mind.
This sort of discourse would possibly get Us closer to some sort of 'change', for Those Who need it, or 'growth', for Those Who need that, or at least lead to increased aknowledgement of real 'problems' We can resolve.
We have all the power, People... and this is the best We can do?
I am interested in methods of showing the People's solidarity in such a way that 'Washington' fears Us.
myklmusic 6 months ago 14
@myklmusic Yea you're right. The contributions to linguistics he's made, the fact that he's a professor at MIT, the articles and books he's wrote which have made him one the most cited people ever... any of us could have done all that
bradbrook60 4 months ago
@bradbrook60
His opinions about US policy aren't complex at all. They are actually quite obvious if you spend more than 5 seconds thinking about it. That's why he is called a 'public intellectual', and gets 500K+ views on youtube. None of these are bad things.
Its his ability to reference historical examples to defend his viewpoints which adds so much credibility to what he says.
ZombieLincoln666 4 months ago
@ZombieLincoln666 Yea I would agree with that. But to me it seems your original comment undermined what he has accomplished, especially for linguistics
bradbrook60 4 months ago
@bradbrook60
I didn't make that comment, but in any event, I don't see how pointing out that we all have the ability to speak the truth with regards to US foreign policy as Chomsky has, is 'undermining' his accomplishments in his other field of study (one which is completely irrelevant to the topic on hand).
ZombieLincoln666 4 months ago
@fasciststate I don't think our vote is _completely_ worthless. The well funded propagandists do a good job at keeping large quantities of people from voting (with disgust in politics or a feeling of helplessness). If everyone voted, and if everyone was well informed, things would change... But they won't, because that would require a well-educated, critical thinking population.
In short, I'm not disagreeing with you, I just felt that "your vote is worthless" could use a little more depth. :D
edmondsjc 6 months ago
Noam was so right about Obama. After his election, Obama continued Bush's stimulus of the banks and Corporations. Now he tries to blame republicans for debt ceiling situation. After all, he only had two and a half years as a democratic super majority in every branch of government to come up with a budget, but he didn't! Because he is still a blank slate.
lobestarter1 6 months ago
@lobestarter1 Obama, Bush2, Clinton and Bush1, meet the new boss,
same as the old boss.
fntime 6 months ago 17
@AntiAntiAmerica he's one of the only one's that talk the truth,you obviously cant handle the truth!!!go and watch fox news muppet
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Odiggidy 6 months ago 2
Hi. I'm Noam Chomsky and I'm a linguist. My political opinions are as important as the guy who empties the trash bin at the community college.
AntiAntiAmerica 6 months ago
@AntiAntiAmerica If you have no interest on Noam Chompsky's opinion on Barack Obama, then why would you click a video entitled "Noam Chompsky on Barack Obama." While not once in this video does Noam say his opinion is greater than anyone else's. I'd assume the reporter was the one who decided to broadcast his opinion.
LawnKnives 6 months ago
@LawnKnives
I have great interest in the distorted views of a man who influences the political opinion of many Americans who buy into his views.
One the most disturbingly vicious comments Chomsky made were made the day William F. Buckley died and Noam thought it a good occasion to say that "he may have thought himself an intellectual but I don't think so".
Or the time he said the Afghanistan invasion was intended to create a refugee situation that would starve and kill thousands. So wrong.
AntiAntiAmerica 6 months ago
@LawnKnives
Predictable response from another tired Chomskyite.
You should check out his interview on the Protein Wisdom blog.
But then, you probably just read the same stuff over and over again, like the ideologue you are.
AntiAntiAmerica 5 months ago
@AntiAntiAmerica I have never been a huge fan of Chompsky. I am simply stating stupidity of clicking on a video you obviously have no interest in, just to say what you did.
LawnKnives 5 months ago
@LawnKnives
Aside from being grammatically incoherent, your comment fails to hold up to scrutiny in that your comment claims that you possess knowledge which you couldn't possibly possess.
Now that's the height of willful stupidity.
AntiAntiAmerica 5 months ago
@AntiAntiAmerica Good one.. Assaulting some one's grammar is always a mature way of continuing an argument. I couldn't care less if you're a fan of Chompsky. I'm not even defending him. I'm just saying that you don't have to be an asshole and make stupid sarcastic comments on others opinions.
LawnKnives 5 months ago
@LawnKnives
Nice deflection from your atrocious grammar. Your argument has not merit, with or without your torturing the english language.
Where did I say I am a "fan" of Chomsky?
You're such a dolt you cannot even spell his name correctly.
AntiAntiAmerica 5 months ago
@AntiAntiAmerica Seriously. You know what I'm saying, I made some typos.
LawnKnives 5 months ago
@AntiAntiAmerica You spelled no wrong.
imaginativelads 5 months ago
@imaginativelads lol
trilerkiler 4 months ago
@imaginativelads
The white spaces surrounding your words compel you to commit acts of self loathing.
AntiAntiAmerica 4 months ago
@AntiAntiAmerica And I thought emptyness was the domain of the naive. You would have been a good snake oil salesman. Keep lying to yourself, it's all you've got in the end.
imaginativelads 4 months ago
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imaginativelads 4 months ago
@AntiAntiAmerica Oh, by the way, you still spelled no wrong.
imaginativelads 4 months ago
@AntiAntiAmerica Are you suggesting that the guy who empties trash is unimportant or his opinions?
benjhadwin 5 months ago
@benjhadwin They're only important opinions if they're good ones. Most people who empty trash for a living tend to hang with other people who don't read the newspaper as well. Democracy is a . . . nice dream.
imaginativelads 4 months ago
@fasciststate
rabble rabble rabble
DrSacapuntas 6 months ago
544,664 dived by the global population
still along way to go
Openmindness 6 months ago
lol @ "not undisliked"
vinoberg 6 months ago
america is almighty and pure!
hahahaha.
diotus21 6 months ago
I am amazed that so many youtubers watch intelletual stuff like Noam Chomsky's interviews. So there is hope for youtube.
lodproductions90 6 months ago 2
@lodproductions90 I love the ol' "intelletual stuff"...
COUGHintelleCtualCOUGH
zarathustra2k1 6 months ago
@lodproductions90 That's because most of the world's dumbfucks either magically gain a broadened viewpoint when they watch some of the shit youtube has to offer, or are immediately removed by public consensus that they are indeed morons.
george77772moons 4 months ago
Where are hope and change promised by Obama ? :)
temudjin1155 6 months ago
Whatever you do... DONT THINK !!
HarvardBoxer 6 months ago
educated idiot ,don't wait for the goverment to save you get out of your mom's basement use your brain and help your self
TEX10261 6 months ago
erm the saying is... the be and end all - and yeah no-one is that's the point of the saying....
rugbyboy198127 6 months ago
@fasciststate Are the puppeteers jews?
jd55192 6 months ago
I love Noam Chomsky. I fap while reading his literature. His erotica novels are brilliant!
mistuhDavecash 6 months ago
Stick to linquistics.
IWubYooz 6 months ago