@ianhowe007 He would destroy the economy. This is why I would vote for him, if I were a US-American. And I am not even joking. All those Ron Paul fanatics have some different ideas why they vote for him. I would want the economy destroyed.
chris hedges likes ron paul's foreign policy and support for civil liberties. but he doesnt have as deep an understanding of economics as of ideological politics so he doesnt understand that the fed is the root of the problem.
Thanks for posting this lecture. Hedges articulately expresses where "We The People" have lost touch with the core ideals that made us great and what we need to do to find our way back before it's too late to salvage our "Great Experiment." It is better to stand up and fight for liberty and justice than to quietly cower down to tyranny!
Nice lecture and kind looking man but I cannot help but wonder (since he's so into education) why ON EARTH he uses "free market capitalism" so fallaciously. This crisis has NOTHING to do with capitalism, let alone the free market LOL a semblance of which we last experienced in the early 70s. Capitalism and the free market requires A- stable currency (as opposed to central banks printing paper outta thin air at whim) B- small govt In a free market the state has little to NO power to regulate
The current absurdity of media was also predicted in black and white type, (the Situationist Manifesto) in 1957. By rebelling against it, they made themselves ironically famous themselves. Their big claim to fame was the near-toppling of the French government in 1968 during a nationwide strike of workers in support of students and vice versa. Everyone should read about this decadent phase of "spectacle" just to realize it isn't new, and the ending has already been scripted.
@bigollameo You must be one of those white losers. When white boys get rejected by white girls, they can only for those Asian trash. You and Chris H. are pathetic.
Don't stop now, man! If you're gonna look lose and become a tool, then don't settle for being the smallest tool in the shed - lose big. Don't be a screwdriver or a socket wrench when you can be a sledgehammer or a chainsaw. Keep it up - you'll get there!
I know it is quaint and golly gee cliche, but what is this real life he is alluding to? I suppose he means we are distracted from some bloodshed somewhere "on the other side of the wall"? Still, the whole skit sounds like just that that he is critiquing. As if the ancients had no celebrity culture, and games, as if any of it, putting aside the accidentally fresh aspects, were a bit new.The man himself is more prickly then most, he considers it a sign of character? Sounds a bit like Dawkins...
@VickyDPi - If you read Plato's Republic, it will give you a hint of what he is talking about. This assertion, however, is a bit harsh in my opinion, nevertheless it does have a ring of truth to it.
Stop trying to be popular and moderate, Democrats! These are the first steps for the sensible middle, middling ground is morally bankrupt and without merit against a corporate totalitarianism and vicious targeting of minorities, immigrants, and poor people for prison and scapegoating. Fight! Don't be the mealymouthed jerks who say to victims of power abuses (police, peer, govt, workplace,etc) , "what says the other side?" or "moderation is best". Or, "I'm surviving, moving ahead." JUSTICE !!!
Stop trying to be popular and moderate, Democrats! These are the first steps for the sensible middle, middling ground is morally bankrupt and without merit against a corporate totalitarianism and vicious targeting of minorities, immigrants, and poor people for prison and scapegoating. Fight! Don't be the mealymouthed jerks who say to victims of power abuses (police, peer, govt, workplace,etc) , "what says the other side?" or "moderation is best". Or, "I'm surviving, moving ahead." JUSTICE !!!
I am a proud Christian American and I've voted Republican on every ticket I ever could have since I turned 18 years old. Chris is becoming my idol; his truth and ability to see through deception is sobering. This country (and most of the Western world) is fueled by a hunger of self defeating consumerism, we exalt it through monetary, political and religious institutions. God have mercy on our souls, we have destroyed the integrity of the human design.
@lamuziq That's very sweet...and is a testament to Hedges brilliant ability to share his ideas. I called you sweet because Hedges is a Christian Socialist. And you went from being a Republican to see the validity of Hedges argument. Right on.
@grundgemonster That's precisely the type of passive aggressive / antagonistic behavior that Chris Hedges is trying to absolve between the partisan divisions. You are acting as the antithesis to basically everything he's saying here by allowing such a grand assumption (and what a trivial / aesthetic one at that) to lead you into mockery. I doubt very much that anyone would argue for Christ voting. Period. But that's not what you were trying to discuss when you made that comment, thats obvious.
@lamuziq Strive for the dream through the adversity, and your perseverance will be rewarded. "Be the change you want to see in the world, and you will see it."
Greenhouse gases are is primarily made by the animals people confine within torturous enclosures, feed abnormal diets, and sadistically delight to murder and consume. I sense that adopting predatory behaviors for gustatory purposes has been breeding an overflow of inter-species violence to intra-species violence from the age of the story of Cane & Abel. That story is metaphorical to the advent of agriculture and ensuing rivalry with pastoralism and the loss of foraging predecessors.
He is effectively critical of corporate imperialism, not as much at what immediate strategic imperatives can be initiated to dismantle the monolithic establishment of injustice and tyranny?
No wonder there's so many "Magical" shows on TV, ghosts, bigfoot, religious prophesies, UFOs, etc
Judicial" shows, incessant dumbed-down procedural crime dramas, to instill an Authoritarian ethic.
Does this explain the apparent death of the Planet Green channel??
(It used to have so many interesting shows, solar etc, biofuels, electric hot rods outperforming ICE cars, now it exists only in name. Was the Planet Green channel a threat to somebody? I'm sure that they will blame it on ratings.)
Chris Hedges doesn't seem to believe in the concept of the "just war" as Aquinas puts it. I have no experience with war, but war does seem to be a necessary truth to the human condition. We all have conflicting ideas, and sometimes compromise is not possible. Force is something that we would inevitably result to when all else fails. Also, some people choose the soldiers life over civilian life. It's rare but true. If it's so bad why do some CHOOSE it? This is a deep question, but its important.
@TheDavid2222 War is about economics, not ideas in the sense of Iraq and Afghanistan. It's just another example of transferring massive amounts of taxpayer wealth to arms manufacturers (corporations).
@Antiks72 That might apply more to our current era, but that is an acute observation and its nearly impossible to argue with that when it is applied to our current situation.
as a child I had an ant farm I could see through the glass...I wondered why they never went to sleep at night...just work work work and there was this pile where they took their dead ants .... I didn't know that the ant farm was the model of the corporate state where I was to live my life... an insect society with no heart or soul.
The funny thing is that the collapse of the Soviet Union was initiated by Polish labor union protest for rights, union protests that were supported by Reagan...
i could make this really funny if i sectioned it up n did it tosh.o style lol youtube allows me to talk to others about philosophy, i have a very hard time finding intelligent ppl to talk to it frustrates me
@DeadPedoHaHaXXIV: Again, you are a fool. I understand that you can look at my channel to find recent comments by me. It only took me my designated lunch to write all those comments on your video, so it really didn't bother my schedule that much. Overall, it is learning since in introduces the concept to certain individuals who might not have ever heard of it before. Also, it helps people taking my professors class learn his teaching styles, including my videos on dailymotion. Goodbye Troll! :D
@MyobuUzumaki Ahh!! Thanks Myobu.. I've always pronounced it Nihilsm (nye-uhl-ism).. I must be using the Canadian pronunciation (lol)... Anyway, thanks!!
Chris is indeed one of the most experienced, profoundly eloquent, clearest of mind, keenly intuitive and "right on" minds, in the public hemisphere...
I at once understand, relate to, agree with and therefore CHAMPION... what this exception mind and man so skillfully, poignantly and POWERFULLY conveys!!
Also, Jordan Chandler didn't accuse Michael of anything! It wasn't until his dentist father used a mind altering drug (as stated by the dental assistant) that he finally gave a accusation against Michael. I mean look at the World Music Awards (supposed molestation occurence), Jordan was having fun with Michael Jackson during that trip. Also, if Michael was guilty, well then why didn't Michael pay the 20 million extortion (brought on by the father) prior to the accusation being made public?
@RockyBalboa211 First I do think Chris Hedges is an exceptional speaker. Because of his experience as a war zone journalist he is able to express realities that extend beyond the parameters of indoor academia.
I would only criticize the gratuitous bit with the Michael Jackson metaphor. It was a disappointing sand castle summation constructed on a tide of yellow journalism and tabloid tripe.
@ RockyBalboa211 Asserting estimations of people based primarily on one’s own sense of etiquette and mannerisms is arrogant posturing mounted on a high horse with wobbly knees. It is impossible for anyone to measure the intentions within a person's heart and to do so compromises the objectivity of that person.
The media used Michael Jackson! They expected him to be normal, but how can a person with no childhood, and no understanding of friendship (by the age of 24) be normal? Michael Jackson in my honest opinion was not a pedophile, but a man searching to find acceptance in anything to combat total loneliness and isolation. Why would the man who advocated for children be a pedophile? I dont wonder ever of his love for children, undoubtedly the only company that never wanted/expected anything from him.
@RockyBalboa211 There is an interesting interview with Michael on the set of Beat It. It gives you insight of his psychology early on. Generally Jackson was afraid of people unless he was on stage entertaining them. The only people he could trust @age 24 was an older generation of already prominent entertainers like Quincy Jones and Diana Ross. It makes sense to let your guard down only around those who are less likely to have veiled intentions. Children aren't cutthroat like adults can be.
@Sleepyfist: I agree totally with your assessment. I am sorry for my overly emotional comments previously posted on this video. While, I also found Mr. Hedges to be quite exceptional in his speaking abilities (plus in his understanding of an interesting subject matter), I found the obvious "hit" on Michael Jackson to be pretty distasteful. I understand that personally, he might find Michael Jackson to be guilty, and that's understandable. Yet, he shouldn't have spoke of it as the overall truth.
@Sleepyfist: From your most recent comment, I agree with it totally. I actually saw that interview a couple of years ago. I used that interview in my overall understanding of the young Michael Jackson. He didn't list any family members as friends, which I found interesting. Also, by looking at the parties hosted by Michael Jackson in the early 80s, most of the invitations went out to celebrities/entertainers. To me, it seemed that he was only comfortable with just entertainers at that time.
Just a couple miles too deep past the bounds of reasonable pessimism, but the attitude and picture it paints is practically refreshing amidst a media environment hell bent on flat-out denial.
That would limit his ability to get the word out. Not only does the media make the president, it swaddles him or her in a protective and unbreakable shield of image decided upon by those who placed said president into position as a figurhead...
There is no solution to the dilemma Chris describes that will enable the way of life we have become accustomed to in this country to continue. One possible way to survive might be to reorganize our decentralized economy into a number of regional, self sustaining,agrarian nation states that produce all essential goods and services on a local level. Also, modify our consumption model from one of excess to one of subsistence. I suspect that in the long run the public would be healthier and happier
@hanksteelbranch --First of all the reason why we don't grow our own food in this country is because of the strict guidelines by the FDA under new homeland security laws, Second we import more food than we grow and export because the Government pays farmers NOT to grow. In response to your comment.." Also, modify our consumption model from one of excess to one of subsistence. I suspect that in the long run the public would be healthier and happier." You sound like the socialist pig M.OBAMA!
@IWOP1 I was proposing a way to establish a sustainable integrated ecosystem in the post Peak Oil period, when transportation costs may be prohibitively expensive. In the context of my proposal it doesn't matter which country produces a product, only the distance between the point of creation and the point of consumption. At some point in the not-too-distant future it will be vital for people to work together to enable survival. Inflammatory, childish name calling will hopefully be obsolete.
the reason he goes to the met museum is because artists (the good ones) are able to transform or destroy the ridgid boundries that lock us into the destructive behavior he talks about. You want a way out of the shit storm we are facing stop buying and selling, going to school, stop work, get off the tread-mill and begin to appreciate the most inexpensive enlightenment----art--- and a good conversation. Beats yoga-the internet--meditation--movies--money................
if anyone still doubts that this govt didnt intentionally create the condition of an economic depression and as such will have no quams about now trying to bankrupt us during it; or if anyone still doesnt believe the prison industrial complex is nothing more than a ransom and extortion racket being played by the criminal justice system (in conjunction with law enforcement); i would say that they need to watch this video. and then if they still vote republican, they need to be hung for treason.
Hedges speaks informed dissent. Those who examined American socio-economic events from all sides over the last 50 years will conclude as Hedges concludes. His description is accurate, and it explains the real data. More Americans need to awaken from the illusion; the more protesters unify, the more likely they'll prevail!
I'm not buying the Michael Jackson intro entirely. So this begins as, "the Democrats have betrayed us, the middle class..." but it needs to say, liberalism on both the left and the so-called conservative right, and the media of all kinds, have betrayed our world.
Not true he does not tell a single lie - he says we destroy those we worship and gives Michael Jackson as an example. Many we worship are not destroyed. Selective representation of the truth? I'd imagine so. Deliberate? I'd guess yes.
Hedges makes clear that we are paying the price for giving that vile, deranged crackpot scumbag Milton Friedman and his Chicago School of Nazi economics ten minutes worth of our time. I only hope Mr. Hedges is wrong and we can make the cats these bastards unleashed on us walk backwards.
How do you define 'socialism' in US? I thought it had something to do with people controlling the means of production. As opposed to few capitalists controlling them.
If you think countries like Soviet Union, in which people had very limited control on government or economics, were socialist, how far is USA from being a socialist country? I would rather try words like oligarchy, facist or totalitarian (on Soviet Union). Sure, none is perfect. ;)
@johan3248 not the people, the government. if each person held the means and power for personal production and exchange, the world would be an incredible place, and those in power would lose control over people, and there would be a more modest and healthy rate of growth, and only coming together when there is a common and meritable problem to be solved. socialism is the state, or the people represented or those who control the common people through taxes to control the production of goods.
Socialism, whether European or USSR, is not the answer... both put too much authority and power in the hands of the government. Capitalism & Socialism both have the same end as well; a servile state... An Italian friend of mine just told me of a story in Italy where they have government sponsored health insurance (and for that & retirement, they surrender 59% of income to tax, not including sales & vat, where he thought he was having a heart attack, so he went to the hospital. When they...
...could find no problem with him, they sent him a bill... why? Because the government is having to try and make up for extreme losses in the health care system, and the latest idea is to charge for those that don't have anything wrong... There are many other issues within the socialist european model... There are better solutions (non-Capitalist)... See Distributistreviewdotcom.
@johan3248 socialism, nazism, communism, terrorism, seems like any time they want us to be scared, fearful, or spiteful, or welcoming towards something they just name it with an ism, and tell us it is the NeW EVIL, or the NEW "freedom" we're fighting for. It is important to look far beyond the surface of things, had deals worked out between the bin ladens and the bushes several decades ago, between these fascitsts corporate dictators, and babylonian bankers, we would be invading saudi arabia.
@johan3248 I don't know how to define socialism in the US.. if i had to define it it would be "egalitarianism". however.. if i had to define capitalism in the US.. the way it is today.. i would have use a quote from someone who new this same exact system..
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini
wide ranging references ... geez from Michael Jackson to Global Warming to no holds barred critques of the Dems to naked condemnation of the corporation's brutal culture. Hard to disagree, but this new paradigm has be reality based. The idea of illusion, yes that is our current situation. I think that we need to move beyond monetary system... many interpretations. Very interesting
"Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling"
"Global Warming has Ended, the Earth is Now Cooling"
"Solar Activity Diminishes; Researchers Predict Another Ice Age"
Google this shit man. The earth is now cooling. Was warming, now cooling. Nothing to do with Co2! The earth did indeed get warmer starting in the mid 1800s. But most of this warming occured before the mid 1950's, so obviously the warming was not a result of the industrial age, but rather was natural...
@thatstheguy07 Sure, greenhouse gasses are bad, and pollution sucks. But an entire industry has been created around false pretensies. And the govt is using this scam to push for a global tax that makes no sense and will not reduce anything. You want to stop greenhouse gasses/pollution/deforesting/damage coral reefs, by all means, pick up the cause. But dont go supporting this GW scam because it makes u feel like your 'doing your part'. Because really youre only serving the bankers.
Chris Hedges is brillant. I would love to ask him what he thinks the odds are that we go into a NeoFascsist Future and how soon. I bet the odds are 99.9%.
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Chris gedges need to seriously STFU,this is just anti american crap disgused up in college talk,if you didnt know where living in a post 911 society(watch 24 and glen beck)
@iverti5555 You don't need him to become President. You don't need any other Presidents at all. You need to stop thinking of political sovereignty as rightfully belonging to anyone other than yourself, including a national government.
@iverti5555 You needed Clinton to save you from Bush's ways, you needed Bush. Jr to save you from Clinton's ways then you needed Obama to save from Bush.Jr's ways and Obama has already gone back on everything he promised. Understand this, you will never again have a president you can trust, ever. The position has been bought and paid for. The system does not work for you, until you understand this you're nothing more than midnight snack to these demagogues.
“I have taught at Columbia University, New York University, and Princeton University. These institutions feed students, no matter how mediocre, the comforting reassurance that they are there because they are not only the best but they are entitled to the best. We saw this attitude on display in every word uttered by George W. Bush. Here was a man with severely limited intellectual capacity and no moral core."
@gilfishdad Oh my God, I am not surprised to hear that. I go to the University of Queensland, essentially a very mediocre place where they also feed students "the comforting reassurance that they are there because they are not only the best but they are entitled to the best." But just a brief look around the scene proved to me how utterly false that attitude is. I guess it's a trend in this age of corporate universities for them to become vocational training centers in mediocrity.
i totally agree with you. its a great speech, but we all agree that global warming is a fraud, and for such a great writer ,it is disppointing to hear him spread this myth. he is actually fueling the elitist agend. on the part that God does not perform miracle, well He is a great God. Hilda
did you not hear what he was talking about with respect to the methane being released in northern russia? This is not speculation--it has been measured and verified. The caps are melting--it is unprecedented. Even the the most famous skeptics are whistling past the graveyard now. Hard to face for all of us. God help us.
@thatstheguy07 I do not agree with the whole fear mongering imperative. And as I understand now, there has been a great perversion of science over the last decade. This being said, we know there is climate change happening. I can't say %100 that it's anthropomorphic or if it's even preventable, but it is fact that there is change happening.
I also do not agree %100 with everything Hedges says but I do respect his thoughts and he does have many good observations.
@mikewtp The climate is and always has been changing. Its natural. Its due to the sun, not CO2. They are demonizing carbon, quite ridiculously since it is a building block of life itself, to create this global tax. Thats what this GW scam is all about.
The earth has always been cooling and warming, and in fact we are actually in a cooling period right now.
The govt knows the jig is up on this scam, which is why they just recently decided to actually change the name.
@thatstheguy07 so let me see if I understand you correctly... the ice cap is nearly gone, glaciers are nearly all melted, and we have had 8 record high world averages in the last 15 years. You identify this as a cooling down period.
Have you been nipping at Limbaugh's oxycotin stash again...?
@wilfrid55 ice cap nearly gone?? lol you listen to Al Gore too much. That shit melts yearly, and grows back. Youre just repeating the same tired alarmist bullshit weve all been hearing for the past decade. Have you not heard of a thing called "Climate-gate"? Thats when the whole scam was blown wide open. You should check that out. You should also do a search on global cooling, because we are indeed in a cooling period. The fraud of GW is done with.
@wilfrid55 You seem awfully mature. I see now why youre having such a difficult time accepting reality. I found a great article for you tho. Its called "THE HOCKEY SCHTICK- The Travesy of Global Cooling 12 Years and Counting".
Google that, see what you might take away from it.
At that same page is one titled -
"Scientific American Poll: 81% think the IPCC is Corrupt, with Group-think & Political Agenda".
You see, people are waking up to the scam. Just not you, apparently.
@wilfrid55 Yea, not at all surprised. You ppl hate to see facts that go against the lies youve been fed all these years. In all acualioty tho, I bet you did indeed google that. Dont want to admit youre wrong tho. You prefer the strawman defence. Keep on referring to Rush, like hes got anything to do with this. Keep on going back to that, instead of facing up to the facts Im telling you about.
@thatstheguy07 - Don't you dare badmouth Rush ! He's on OUR side, now that I believe you and him, THAT IS... and no, I did not google your tripe, but you may want to check Drudge, he believes you and Rush, too! By the way, the Republican Party believes you and Rush, too ! That's good enough for me - NO GLOBAL WARMING !
@wilfrid55 Are you from the ADL? Your debating skills are just like theirs. I proved you wrong and all you have to come back at me with is this silly nonsense. Good job.
@wilfrid55 Yea, Im a featehegithand you cant answer my questions or prove what you are saying, instead resort to this tired nonsense about some radip personality.
Who gives a shit about him? Why do you keep bringing him up?? You are a joke. Youre like an israeli PR guy. You have no leg to stand on and youve been proven wrong, and right npow should be running home with your tail between your leg. Instead youre still hanging around, without shit to say by way of intelligence...
instead you just keep repeating the same silly, childish shit. You are a joke. You have nothing for me at all, aside from the same sentence, slightly changed around. So, good for you! Youre pretty god at debating.
Now come back at me, yet again, about Rush. |And ignore the matter at hand, because you don kno what your talking about, and have some weird online fantasy crush on Rush. Awww .. thats cute.
R@thatstheguy07 - you and rush say the same thing...he's your man...go listen to him...by the way, Rush loves young Dominican boys...the viagra ? trip to the Dominican, rmember ?...that's your great leader...he's all yours....yummy !
@thatstheguy07 On my channel I've a list called "Climate Change, RSA": check out potholer54's videos about climate change, he covers all bases, and responds to criticism and questions from people like yourself. (I'm steering you to my channel cuz all you have to do is click my name and voila, no YT search necessary)
@1michelemichele1 GW isnt real. Climate change is. Its always been happening, and its due to the sun, not us. It was warmer in the dark ages than it is now. We are now in a cooling period. Thats right, the earth was warming, now its cooling... it does that. Nothing to do with Co2. Its ridiculous to say it is.
This is a falsity. If the variation in solar output were responsible for the warming we've seen during the past 150 years, we would detect that warming through the entire depth of our atmosphere. But that is not the case. What we see is warming present only in the troposphere (the lowest layer of the atmosphere where you & I live). It is in this layer that CO2 buildup is prominent. It has everything to do with CO2.
@bapyou Lol no, it doesnt. The percent of Co2 in our atmosphere is insignificant. The other gasses are much more present than co2. Also, other planets are warming as well, not just earth. That is obviously not due to Co2.
On top of this, the earth is now in a cooling period. So whiule co2 levels are still on the rise, temps are now going down, not up.
I've never read a word of Al Gore's writings nor have I seen his stupid movie. Try again, ass-licker.
The percentage of CO2 in our atmosphere is significant. CO2 is tranparent to short-wave radiation (the majority of the sun's EM radiation is short-wave) but absorbs long-wave radiation (what the Earth radiates). The evidence for CO2 warming Earth's atmosphere is overwhelming.
@bapyou An even more important reason not to give a damn what Al Gore says is because of NAFTA. Prior to being VP, he wrote a book talking about the need to save the environment. And then, he and Clinton go on to pass NAFTA, which ruin any chances of gov't instituting environmental safety South of the Border.
@DaHonestAbe I think Hedges puts it right in some of his newer talks here on YT: Bill Clinton was the greatest traitor to the working class of the past 30 years. NAFTA, Bill Clinton, Al Gore are all of a piece; they represented the neoliberal economic agenda continued under the Democratic party banner. You're right about environmental regulation in Mexico. The pillars of the neoliberal economic order: deregulation, low wages, limited-to-no workers' rights. Adios Mexico! Saludos China!
@thatstheguy07 No this past year was the warmest ever and the earth has been on a steady warming pattern for the last fifteen years. There is now 10% more moisture in the atmosphere than there was thirty years ago and sea levels are 9 inches higher than they were. CO2 is up to 390 parts per million, the highest it has been in millions of years, 350 is considered to be the baseline for a functioning civilzation.
Ah yea...you see the ice cap melts, and then grows back to some extent when the weather turns colder, but less than it was before! This process continues year after year, thus leading to the receding, and eventual disappearing, of the Ice caps and various glaciers. If you know how to use Google, you can witness this recession.
There is no such thing as Climate-gate...the British government conducted an investigation and cleared the scientists involved of the worst of the charges
@harmlesstree No such thing? Oh, the govt said so. Ok then. Just like how the govt said there was no fishy shit going on with the 7/7 bombings, or with 9/11. Yes, once a govt says so, well then its got to be truth.
Funny tho that Phil Jones, former head of the CRU, resigned after the emails came out. They were caught, red handed, discussing all the 'tricks' they use, to 'hide the decline', and so on. Thousands and thousands of imflamatory emails. No, there was no climate gate.
@harmlesstree Even tho it pretty much directly resulted in that cap&trade scam not getting passed in Copenhagen. lolYou ppl make me laugh.
The evetual disappearnace of the ice caps?? How do you know this?? Cuz Gore said so? Just like all those poor polar bears that are drowning, cuz the ice caps are melting lol All alrmist nonsense. And you fools are eating it right up.
LOl..cooling period...last year was the second hottest year in recorded history, according to NASA; and the first half of this year was warmest in recorded history, while the last decade was the warmest decade in recorded history! Try consulting actual climate scientists, and not crackpots!
@harmlesstree Crackpots? Those are ho have been promoting the lie of GW. The climate scientists, the ones without an agenda, do indeed confirm we are and have been in a cooling period. This is fact.
The ones promoting man made GW are the crackpot lying fucks.
@wilfrid55 Google this: "US physics professor: 'Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life' "
Actually just google "resigns over global warming scam", and read all the stories.
Of course it's the sun; the sun is the ultimate source of the Earth's heat! But to suggest that greenhouse gases ( essentially global insulators) have no effect on the Earth's temperature is akin to saying that since your furnace is the primary source of heat within your home, the degree to which your house is insulated is not germane! The insulation slows the rate at which heat escapes your house, just like greenhouse gases do with respect to the Earth.
@harmlesstree The effect it has is MINIMAL. Certainly nothing to warrant the bullshit these GW proponents are suggesting, such as this cap&trade scam. The sun is what drives the climate, plain and simple. Co2, does not. So, to enact this global tax on carbon, is insane. How you ppl dont see the scam here, Ill never know.
Al Gore and Ken Lay came up with this bs back in the 90s. It is a money making scam. Period. GW is not real!
The fact that something is natural and necessary for life does not mean that it also cannot be hazardous to life, especially in large quantities. Do you realize just how fallacious your reasoning is? By your "logic," we must conclude that water, given that it is necessary for life, cannot possibly harm life! Yet, we can drown in it. It can also, in large quantities, destroy our crops and settlements. Just ask the people of New Orleans and Pakistan.
@harmlesstree The amount of Co2 humans are putting out is under 10% total. Dead leaves, oceans, volcanoes, cows shitting... these all give off far more Co2, than humans. What we put out, is not making any kiund of differnece. and certainly nothing to justify taxing all humans on fucking carbon. How do you not see how insane this is?? All that will happen is corporations will sell carbon credits. This tax will change nothing. It will only make rich ppl richer. Come on man, wake up.
@harmlesstree U remember Phil Manns famous hockey stick graph? Gore used it in his full of shit propaganda film. Thats what GW stands on, to show the correlation between temps and Co2 rising. Only the graph was a total fraud. Another fact that came out as a result of climate gate.
This is what surprises me with u guys. The whole thing has been totally blown out of the water, and yet still u guys are holding on to it. Those guys got caught lying and cooking the data, and u ignore it.
Last 10 minutes is the best, when he explains why, as a war journalist with first hand experiences, he cannot even talk to university professors about war any more.
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ianhowe007 3 days ago
Ron Paul would let corporatism run freely in front of face.
ianhowe007 3 days ago
@ianhowe007 He would destroy the economy. This is why I would vote for him, if I were a US-American. And I am not even joking. All those Ron Paul fanatics have some different ideas why they vote for him. I would want the economy destroyed.
RSFO 8 hours ago
chris hedges likes ron paul's foreign policy and support for civil liberties. but he doesnt have as deep an understanding of economics as of ideological politics so he doesnt understand that the fed is the root of the problem.
MachinaSapien 4 days ago
great speech.
MrPEDOCTOR 1 week ago
Thanks for posting this lecture. Hedges articulately expresses where "We The People" have lost touch with the core ideals that made us great and what we need to do to find our way back before it's too late to salvage our "Great Experiment." It is better to stand up and fight for liberty and justice than to quietly cower down to tyranny!
LEFTYM0M65 1 week ago
Nice lecture and kind looking man but I cannot help but wonder (since he's so into education) why ON EARTH he uses "free market capitalism" so fallaciously. This crisis has NOTHING to do with capitalism, let alone the free market LOL a semblance of which we last experienced in the early 70s. Capitalism and the free market requires A- stable currency (as opposed to central banks printing paper outta thin air at whim) B- small govt In a free market the state has little to NO power to regulate
aliaandreadi 1 week ago
The current absurdity of media was also predicted in black and white type, (the Situationist Manifesto) in 1957. By rebelling against it, they made themselves ironically famous themselves. Their big claim to fame was the near-toppling of the French government in 1968 during a nationwide strike of workers in support of students and vice versa. Everyone should read about this decadent phase of "spectacle" just to realize it isn't new, and the ending has already been scripted.
powergirl901 2 weeks ago
Alright! Chris mentioned Ralph Nader and I thought everybody on the left intelligentsia forgot about him.
Lootraevefan 3 weeks ago
He marries an Asian slut. What a fucking White trash.
veramann 1 month ago in playlist 2009 - 777 - Anti Elites - 84 - Chris Hedges
@veramann What on earth does him marrying an asian woman have to do with anything?
ArseneIncubus3 4 weeks ago
@ArseneIncubus3 There are more and more white guys going for Asian chicks but we rarely see an Asian guy dating a white girl. This is too easy.
veramann 4 weeks ago
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Potentially one of the dumbest things ever said on YouTube. If you didn't consider yourself to be a dumbass, now you can. Way to go!
bigollameo 2 weeks ago
@bigollameo You must be one of those white losers. When white boys get rejected by white girls, they can only for those Asian trash. You and Chris H. are pathetic.
veramann 2 weeks ago
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Don't stop now, man! If you're gonna look lose and become a tool, then don't settle for being the smallest tool in the shed - lose big. Don't be a screwdriver or a socket wrench when you can be a sledgehammer or a chainsaw. Keep it up - you'll get there!
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SNOTBREATH 1 month ago
I know it is quaint and golly gee cliche, but what is this real life he is alluding to? I suppose he means we are distracted from some bloodshed somewhere "on the other side of the wall"? Still, the whole skit sounds like just that that he is critiquing. As if the ancients had no celebrity culture, and games, as if any of it, putting aside the accidentally fresh aspects, were a bit new.The man himself is more prickly then most, he considers it a sign of character? Sounds a bit like Dawkins...
ThewildRageofGordon 2 months ago
"war is like getting into a car wreck and your best friend dying" (paraphrased)
well if you don't have any friends then you don't have to worry about it.
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seedpod01 3 months ago
plato was a fascist? I wanna hear more about this
VickyDPi 3 months ago
@VickyDPi - If you read Plato's Republic, it will give you a hint of what he is talking about. This assertion, however, is a bit harsh in my opinion, nevertheless it does have a ring of truth to it.
dtwchu 3 months ago
In extreme times , there is the emergence of great men - Chris Hedges is a great man !
rolynstone48 3 months ago
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HardHouseMusic4Me 3 months ago
be careful! this speech may change the way you think and hence change your life
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Stop trying to be popular and moderate, Democrats! These are the first steps for the sensible middle, middling ground is morally bankrupt and without merit against a corporate totalitarianism and vicious targeting of minorities, immigrants, and poor people for prison and scapegoating. Fight! Don't be the mealymouthed jerks who say to victims of power abuses (police, peer, govt, workplace,etc) , "what says the other side?" or "moderation is best". Or, "I'm surviving, moving ahead." JUSTICE !!!
MrPeonPower 4 months ago
Stop trying to be popular and moderate, Democrats! These are the first steps for the sensible middle, middling ground is morally bankrupt and without merit against a corporate totalitarianism and vicious targeting of minorities, immigrants, and poor people for prison and scapegoating. Fight! Don't be the mealymouthed jerks who say to victims of power abuses (police, peer, govt, workplace,etc) , "what says the other side?" or "moderation is best". Or, "I'm surviving, moving ahead." JUSTICE !!!
MrPeonPower 4 months ago
I am a proud Christian American and I've voted Republican on every ticket I ever could have since I turned 18 years old. Chris is becoming my idol; his truth and ability to see through deception is sobering. This country (and most of the Western world) is fueled by a hunger of self defeating consumerism, we exalt it through monetary, political and religious institutions. God have mercy on our souls, we have destroyed the integrity of the human design.
lamuziq 5 months ago 18
@lamuziq That's very sweet...and is a testament to Hedges brilliant ability to share his ideas. I called you sweet because Hedges is a Christian Socialist. And you went from being a Republican to see the validity of Hedges argument. Right on.
StrangeIsMyWorld 2 months ago
@StrangeIsMyWorld Proudly ex-Republican. Thank you very much.
lamuziq 2 months ago
@lamuziq :) May you have many babies.
StrangeIsMyWorld 2 months ago
@lamuziq Yeah. Jesus would have voted republican for sure.
grundgemonster 2 months ago
@grundgemonster That's precisely the type of passive aggressive / antagonistic behavior that Chris Hedges is trying to absolve between the partisan divisions. You are acting as the antithesis to basically everything he's saying here by allowing such a grand assumption (and what a trivial / aesthetic one at that) to lead you into mockery. I doubt very much that anyone would argue for Christ voting. Period. But that's not what you were trying to discuss when you made that comment, thats obvious.
FoxPaste 2 months ago 4
@grundgemonster Additionally I love how we in some Freudian slip often pick names that represent us accurately. Yours I find especially ironic.
lamuziq 2 months ago
@lamuziq Strive for the dream through the adversity, and your perseverance will be rewarded. "Be the change you want to see in the world, and you will see it."
jasperb12345 2 weeks ago
Greenhouse gases are is primarily made by the animals people confine within torturous enclosures, feed abnormal diets, and sadistically delight to murder and consume. I sense that adopting predatory behaviors for gustatory purposes has been breeding an overflow of inter-species violence to intra-species violence from the age of the story of Cane & Abel. That story is metaphorical to the advent of agriculture and ensuing rivalry with pastoralism and the loss of foraging predecessors.
TheVeganerd 5 months ago
He is effectively critical of corporate imperialism, not as much at what immediate strategic imperatives can be initiated to dismantle the monolithic establishment of injustice and tyranny?
TheVeganerd 5 months ago
Fantastic! my new hero
rebel7332 6 months ago
Great speech but my only complains are his Republicans vs. Democrats mentality and his belief in man-made global warming.
camreeno360 6 months ago
@camreeno360 Exactly; those were my only hang-ups, too.
OrmondTheMagnificent 6 months ago in playlist Big Stuff
No wonder there's so many "Magical" shows on TV, ghosts, bigfoot, religious prophesies, UFOs, etc
Judicial" shows, incessant dumbed-down procedural crime dramas, to instill an Authoritarian ethic.
Does this explain the apparent death of the Planet Green channel??
(It used to have so many interesting shows, solar etc, biofuels, electric hot rods outperforming ICE cars, now it exists only in name. Was the Planet Green channel a threat to somebody? I'm sure that they will blame it on ratings.)
HalcyonicRepose 7 months ago
Chris Hedges doesn't seem to believe in the concept of the "just war" as Aquinas puts it. I have no experience with war, but war does seem to be a necessary truth to the human condition. We all have conflicting ideas, and sometimes compromise is not possible. Force is something that we would inevitably result to when all else fails. Also, some people choose the soldiers life over civilian life. It's rare but true. If it's so bad why do some CHOOSE it? This is a deep question, but its important.
TheDavid2222 7 months ago
@TheDavid2222 War is about economics, not ideas in the sense of Iraq and Afghanistan. It's just another example of transferring massive amounts of taxpayer wealth to arms manufacturers (corporations).
Antiks72 5 months ago
@Antiks72 That might apply more to our current era, but that is an acute observation and its nearly impossible to argue with that when it is applied to our current situation.
TheDavid2222 5 months ago
@TheDavid2222 I do think you're right; human beings love to fight. We love to kill and maim.
Antiks72 5 months ago
as a child I had an ant farm I could see through the glass...I wondered why they never went to sleep at night...just work work work and there was this pile where they took their dead ants .... I didn't know that the ant farm was the model of the corporate state where I was to live my life... an insect society with no heart or soul.
poosta7 7 months ago
The funny thing is that the collapse of the Soviet Union was initiated by Polish labor union protest for rights, union protests that were supported by Reagan...
Ermal8711 7 months ago
Too long of an introduction--this isn't the introducer's time it is the speaker's time.Every professor I have had has said this.
danielbalter 7 months ago
Read Frank Chordov's "Fugitive Essays" for a clear and comprehensive analysis of our current moral, political and cultural crisis.
Socialism is neither a remedy nor a friend of liberty.
Easleytee 7 months ago
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Easleytee 7 months ago
i could make this really funny if i sectioned it up n did it tosh.o style lol youtube allows me to talk to others about philosophy, i have a very hard time finding intelligent ppl to talk to it frustrates me
koldblooded1 8 months ago
@DeadPedoHaHaXXIV: Again, Jerk I don't care.. do you want, I got things to do.. so ttyl! :D
RockyBalboa211 8 months ago
@DeadPedoHaHaXXIV: Again, you are a fool. I understand that you can look at my channel to find recent comments by me. It only took me my designated lunch to write all those comments on your video, so it really didn't bother my schedule that much. Overall, it is learning since in introduces the concept to certain individuals who might not have ever heard of it before. Also, it helps people taking my professors class learn his teaching styles, including my videos on dailymotion. Goodbye Troll! :D
RockyBalboa211 8 months ago
@MyobuUzumaki Ahh!! Thanks Myobu.. I've always pronounced it Nihilsm (nye-uhl-ism).. I must be using the Canadian pronunciation (lol)... Anyway, thanks!!
TheRealDarthCosby 8 months ago
"State socialism" is the term applicable to the (late) USSR.
tbrucia 8 months ago
What is moral Neilism(sp??) I've heard him say it a few times but can't find it anywhere on line (I'm sure I'm spelling it wrong too so...)
TheRealDarthCosby 9 months ago
A TRULY OUTSTANDING talk!
Chris is indeed one of the most experienced, profoundly eloquent, clearest of mind, keenly intuitive and "right on" minds, in the public hemisphere...
I at once understand, relate to, agree with and therefore CHAMPION... what this exception mind and man so skillfully, poignantly and POWERFULLY conveys!!
:-) WST
SelfGoverned 9 months ago
he does so well then lapses into Global Warming fraud.
MrSchpankme 9 months ago
Also, Jordan Chandler didn't accuse Michael of anything! It wasn't until his dentist father used a mind altering drug (as stated by the dental assistant) that he finally gave a accusation against Michael. I mean look at the World Music Awards (supposed molestation occurence), Jordan was having fun with Michael Jackson during that trip. Also, if Michael was guilty, well then why didn't Michael pay the 20 million extortion (brought on by the father) prior to the accusation being made public?
RockyBalboa211 9 months ago
@RockyBalboa211 First I do think Chris Hedges is an exceptional speaker. Because of his experience as a war zone journalist he is able to express realities that extend beyond the parameters of indoor academia.
I would only criticize the gratuitous bit with the Michael Jackson metaphor. It was a disappointing sand castle summation constructed on a tide of yellow journalism and tabloid tripe.
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@ RockyBalboa211 Asserting estimations of people based primarily on one’s own sense of etiquette and mannerisms is arrogant posturing mounted on a high horse with wobbly knees. It is impossible for anyone to measure the intentions within a person's heart and to do so compromises the objectivity of that person.
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RockyBalboa211 9 months ago
The media used Michael Jackson! They expected him to be normal, but how can a person with no childhood, and no understanding of friendship (by the age of 24) be normal? Michael Jackson in my honest opinion was not a pedophile, but a man searching to find acceptance in anything to combat total loneliness and isolation. Why would the man who advocated for children be a pedophile? I dont wonder ever of his love for children, undoubtedly the only company that never wanted/expected anything from him.
RockyBalboa211 9 months ago
@RockyBalboa211 There is an interesting interview with Michael on the set of Beat It. It gives you insight of his psychology early on. Generally Jackson was afraid of people unless he was on stage entertaining them. The only people he could trust @age 24 was an older generation of already prominent entertainers like Quincy Jones and Diana Ross. It makes sense to let your guard down only around those who are less likely to have veiled intentions. Children aren't cutthroat like adults can be.
Sleepyfist 8 months ago
@Sleepyfist: I agree totally with your assessment. I am sorry for my overly emotional comments previously posted on this video. While, I also found Mr. Hedges to be quite exceptional in his speaking abilities (plus in his understanding of an interesting subject matter), I found the obvious "hit" on Michael Jackson to be pretty distasteful. I understand that personally, he might find Michael Jackson to be guilty, and that's understandable. Yet, he shouldn't have spoke of it as the overall truth.
RockyBalboa211 8 months ago
@Sleepyfist: From your most recent comment, I agree with it totally. I actually saw that interview a couple of years ago. I used that interview in my overall understanding of the young Michael Jackson. He didn't list any family members as friends, which I found interesting. Also, by looking at the parties hosted by Michael Jackson in the early 80s, most of the invitations went out to celebrities/entertainers. To me, it seemed that he was only comfortable with just entertainers at that time.
RockyBalboa211 8 months ago
è tutto vero grazie chris dall italia
Deathbysterotype1 9 months ago
OMG, wow, How can you say all these things?, his so obsessed with MJ...
ImanJones22 10 months ago
@ImanJones22 OMG wow you just made his point... oh wait you did not watch past 5 min. To real for you?
Whalebone7 9 months ago
OMG, wow, How can you say all these things?
ImanJones22 10 months ago
"Thinking happens in solitude."
All spiritual traditions through human history prescribe solitude where one can actually think and reflect.
Our society is structured so that we are never alone, so we can not actually think.
Get rid of your TV.
Stop wasting hours on the Internet.
Read books.
Socrates was right. Books have done unimaginable damage to humanity.
ManACanadian 10 months ago
You are so right on and I am feeling hopeless about humanity.
dianna487 10 months ago
Past historians wrote on the rise and fall of empires.
Future historians will write on the rise and sale of America...
TomFynn 11 months ago 12
@TomFynn Zing...
StrangeIsMyWorld 2 months ago
Just a couple miles too deep past the bounds of reasonable pessimism, but the attitude and picture it paints is practically refreshing amidst a media environment hell bent on flat-out denial.
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That would limit his ability to get the word out. Not only does the media make the president, it swaddles him or her in a protective and unbreakable shield of image decided upon by those who placed said president into position as a figurhead...
standingwest 11 months ago
There is no solution to the dilemma Chris describes that will enable the way of life we have become accustomed to in this country to continue. One possible way to survive might be to reorganize our decentralized economy into a number of regional, self sustaining,agrarian nation states that produce all essential goods and services on a local level. Also, modify our consumption model from one of excess to one of subsistence. I suspect that in the long run the public would be healthier and happier
hanksteelbranch 1 year ago
@hanksteelbranch --First of all the reason why we don't grow our own food in this country is because of the strict guidelines by the FDA under new homeland security laws, Second we import more food than we grow and export because the Government pays farmers NOT to grow. In response to your comment.." Also, modify our consumption model from one of excess to one of subsistence. I suspect that in the long run the public would be healthier and happier." You sound like the socialist pig M.OBAMA!
IWOP1 11 months ago
@IWOP1 I was proposing a way to establish a sustainable integrated ecosystem in the post Peak Oil period, when transportation costs may be prohibitively expensive. In the context of my proposal it doesn't matter which country produces a product, only the distance between the point of creation and the point of consumption. At some point in the not-too-distant future it will be vital for people to work together to enable survival. Inflammatory, childish name calling will hopefully be obsolete.
hanksteelbranch 11 months ago
thanks for posting
redliner251 1 year ago
the reason he goes to the met museum is because artists (the good ones) are able to transform or destroy the ridgid boundries that lock us into the destructive behavior he talks about. You want a way out of the shit storm we are facing stop buying and selling, going to school, stop work, get off the tread-mill and begin to appreciate the most inexpensive enlightenment----art--- and a good conversation. Beats yoga-the internet--meditation--movies--money................
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vikumsagara 1 year ago
y cant he be my teacher =(
desde11 1 year ago
if anyone still doubts that this govt didnt intentionally create the condition of an economic depression and as such will have no quams about now trying to bankrupt us during it; or if anyone still doesnt believe the prison industrial complex is nothing more than a ransom and extortion racket being played by the criminal justice system (in conjunction with law enforcement); i would say that they need to watch this video. and then if they still vote republican, they need to be hung for treason.
paragshah2112 1 year ago
His "Great Orator" speaking style is comically weak. He seems to be straining to make his weak words have grand meaning.
FleurDeLis06 1 year ago
Hedges speaks informed dissent. Those who examined American socio-economic events from all sides over the last 50 years will conclude as Hedges concludes. His description is accurate, and it explains the real data. More Americans need to awaken from the illusion; the more protesters unify, the more likely they'll prevail!
SIMKINETICS 1 year ago 2
piercing indictment...we are not going to hell, we are already there.
syborius 1 year ago
I'm not buying the Michael Jackson intro entirely. So this begins as, "the Democrats have betrayed us, the middle class..." but it needs to say, liberalism on both the left and the so-called conservative right, and the media of all kinds, have betrayed our world.
ucsteve 1 year ago
SOBERING INDICTMENT OF OUR GOVERNMENT AND HE DIDNT TELL A SINGLE LIE. THIS HURTS DEEPLY!
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seedpod01 3 months ago
Not true he does not tell a single lie - he says we destroy those we worship and gives Michael Jackson as an example. Many we worship are not destroyed. Selective representation of the truth? I'd imagine so. Deliberate? I'd guess yes.
seedpod01 3 months ago
Hedges makes clear that we are paying the price for giving that vile, deranged crackpot scumbag Milton Friedman and his Chicago School of Nazi economics ten minutes worth of our time. I only hope Mr. Hedges is wrong and we can make the cats these bastards unleashed on us walk backwards.
ChrisDutch 1 year ago 3
How do you define 'socialism' in US? I thought it had something to do with people controlling the means of production. As opposed to few capitalists controlling them.
If you think countries like Soviet Union, in which people had very limited control on government or economics, were socialist, how far is USA from being a socialist country? I would rather try words like oligarchy, facist or totalitarian (on Soviet Union). Sure, none is perfect. ;)
johan3248 1 year ago 21
@johan3248 not the people, the government. if each person held the means and power for personal production and exchange, the world would be an incredible place, and those in power would lose control over people, and there would be a more modest and healthy rate of growth, and only coming together when there is a common and meritable problem to be solved. socialism is the state, or the people represented or those who control the common people through taxes to control the production of goods.
IcarusFlying 1 year ago
@johan3248 i agree. if the former ussr is any kind of "socialism", then its a totalitarian socialism for sure :)
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@johan3248 "State socialism" is the term applicable to the (late) USSR.
tbrucia 8 months ago
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@johan3248 "State socialism" is the term applicable to the (late) USSR..
tbrucia 8 months ago
Socialism, whether European or USSR, is not the answer... both put too much authority and power in the hands of the government. Capitalism & Socialism both have the same end as well; a servile state... An Italian friend of mine just told me of a story in Italy where they have government sponsored health insurance (and for that & retirement, they surrender 59% of income to tax, not including sales & vat, where he thought he was having a heart attack, so he went to the hospital. When they...
Brennandh7777 8 months ago
...could find no problem with him, they sent him a bill... why? Because the government is having to try and make up for extreme losses in the health care system, and the latest idea is to charge for those that don't have anything wrong... There are many other issues within the socialist european model... There are better solutions (non-Capitalist)... See Distributistreviewdotcom.
Brennandh7777 8 months ago
@johan3248 socialism, nazism, communism, terrorism, seems like any time they want us to be scared, fearful, or spiteful, or welcoming towards something they just name it with an ism, and tell us it is the NeW EVIL, or the NEW "freedom" we're fighting for. It is important to look far beyond the surface of things, had deals worked out between the bin ladens and the bushes several decades ago, between these fascitsts corporate dictators, and babylonian bankers, we would be invading saudi arabia.
buddaxX520Xx 7 months ago
@johan3248 Or plutocracy...
gorgorybmus 7 months ago
@johan3248 I don't know how to define socialism in the US.. if i had to define it it would be "egalitarianism". however.. if i had to define capitalism in the US.. the way it is today.. i would have use a quote from someone who new this same exact system..
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini
danmarino1970 4 months ago
As an european I'd say Chris is one of the few sane voices from USA. Actually he is one of the very few sane christians I have ever heard.
johan3248 1 year ago 4
I believe we need more people like Chris Hedges to tell it like it is. Great Job!
websterwl 1 year ago 3
wide ranging references ... geez from Michael Jackson to Global Warming to no holds barred critques of the Dems to naked condemnation of the corporation's brutal culture. Hard to disagree, but this new paradigm has be reality based. The idea of illusion, yes that is our current situation. I think that we need to move beyond monetary system... many interpretations. Very interesting
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CapnCanard 1 year ago
"Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling"
"Global Warming has Ended, the Earth is Now Cooling"
"Solar Activity Diminishes; Researchers Predict Another Ice Age"
Google this shit man. The earth is now cooling. Was warming, now cooling. Nothing to do with Co2! The earth did indeed get warmer starting in the mid 1800s. But most of this warming occured before the mid 1950's, so obviously the warming was not a result of the industrial age, but rather was natural...
thatstheguy07 1 year ago
@thatstheguy07 Sure, greenhouse gasses are bad, and pollution sucks. But an entire industry has been created around false pretensies. And the govt is using this scam to push for a global tax that makes no sense and will not reduce anything. You want to stop greenhouse gasses/pollution/deforesting/damage coral reefs, by all means, pick up the cause. But dont go supporting this GW scam because it makes u feel like your 'doing your part'. Because really youre only serving the bankers.
thatstheguy07 1 year ago
Can you say New World Order up ahead?
flax56 1 year ago
Chris Hedges is brillant. I would love to ask him what he thinks the odds are that we go into a NeoFascsist Future and how soon. I bet the odds are 99.9%.
valhala56 1 year ago
Amazing insight and vision of a comatose system of "democracy"
crosby87871 1 year ago
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Chris gedges need to seriously STFU,this is just anti american crap disgused up in college talk,if you didnt know where living in a post 911 society(watch 24 and glen beck)
wiithershiins 1 year ago
What a great American, we need more people like Chris Hedges.
He is a statesmen in my view. He should be the President of the United States
iverti5555 1 year ago 41
@iverti5555 You don't need him to become President. You don't need any other Presidents at all. You need to stop thinking of political sovereignty as rightfully belonging to anyone other than yourself, including a national government.
petrus4 1 year ago
@iverti5555 He should be advising the president.
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standingwest 11 months ago
@iverti5555 You needed Clinton to save you from Bush's ways, you needed Bush. Jr to save you from Clinton's ways then you needed Obama to save from Bush.Jr's ways and Obama has already gone back on everything he promised. Understand this, you will never again have a president you can trust, ever. The position has been bought and paid for. The system does not work for you, until you understand this you're nothing more than midnight snack to these demagogues.
MegaDeadman4 10 months ago 3
Read the book.
gilfishdad 1 year ago
“I have taught at Columbia University, New York University, and Princeton University. These institutions feed students, no matter how mediocre, the comforting reassurance that they are there because they are not only the best but they are entitled to the best. We saw this attitude on display in every word uttered by George W. Bush. Here was a man with severely limited intellectual capacity and no moral core."
gilfishdad 1 year ago
@gilfishdad Oh my God, I am not surprised to hear that. I go to the University of Queensland, essentially a very mediocre place where they also feed students "the comforting reassurance that they are there because they are not only the best but they are entitled to the best." But just a brief look around the scene proved to me how utterly false that attitude is. I guess it's a trend in this age of corporate universities for them to become vocational training centers in mediocrity.
superheronumber1 1 year ago
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Global Warming is not real. It is a scam. Its unfortunate he is helping in perpetuating that myth.
thatstheguy07 1 year ago
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i totally agree with you. its a great speech, but we all agree that global warming is a fraud, and for such a great writer ,it is disppointing to hear him spread this myth. he is actually fueling the elitist agend. on the part that God does not perform miracle, well He is a great God. Hilda
obarelida 1 year ago
@obarelida Put this in English. Thanks.
mikewtp 1 year ago
did you not hear what he was talking about with respect to the methane being released in northern russia? This is not speculation--it has been measured and verified. The caps are melting--it is unprecedented. Even the the most famous skeptics are whistling past the graveyard now. Hard to face for all of us. God help us.
@thatstheguy07
asiafilmcenter 1 year ago
@asiafilmcenter oh stop it. you gw fear mongerers are a dying breed. its been exposed. so give it up.
thatstheguy07 1 year ago
@thatstheguy07 I do not agree with the whole fear mongering imperative. And as I understand now, there has been a great perversion of science over the last decade. This being said, we know there is climate change happening. I can't say %100 that it's anthropomorphic or if it's even preventable, but it is fact that there is change happening.
I also do not agree %100 with everything Hedges says but I do respect his thoughts and he does have many good observations.
Take care,
mike
mikewtp 1 year ago
@mikewtp The climate is and always has been changing. Its natural. Its due to the sun, not CO2. They are demonizing carbon, quite ridiculously since it is a building block of life itself, to create this global tax. Thats what this GW scam is all about.
The earth has always been cooling and warming, and in fact we are actually in a cooling period right now.
The govt knows the jig is up on this scam, which is why they just recently decided to actually change the name.
thatstheguy07 1 year ago
@thatstheguy07 so let me see if I understand you correctly... the ice cap is nearly gone, glaciers are nearly all melted, and we have had 8 record high world averages in the last 15 years. You identify this as a cooling down period.
Have you been nipping at Limbaugh's oxycotin stash again...?
wilfrid55 1 year ago
@wilfrid55 ice cap nearly gone?? lol you listen to Al Gore too much. That shit melts yearly, and grows back. Youre just repeating the same tired alarmist bullshit weve all been hearing for the past decade. Have you not heard of a thing called "Climate-gate"? Thats when the whole scam was blown wide open. You should check that out. You should also do a search on global cooling, because we are indeed in a cooling period. The fraud of GW is done with.
thatstheguy07 1 year ago
@thatstheguy07 you've been reading too many comic books....
wilfrid55 1 year ago
@wilfrid55 Its called reality. Dont fear it.
thatstheguy07 1 year ago
@thatstheguy07 ok, you win, I believe you and Rush from now on....
wilfrid55 1 year ago
@wilfrid55 You seem awfully mature. I see now why youre having such a difficult time accepting reality. I found a great article for you tho. Its called "THE HOCKEY SCHTICK- The Travesy of Global Cooling 12 Years and Counting".
Google that, see what you might take away from it.
At that same page is one titled -
"Scientific American Poll: 81% think the IPCC is Corrupt, with Group-think & Political Agenda".
You see, people are waking up to the scam. Just not you, apparently.
thatstheguy07 1 year ago
@thatstheguy07 - thanks, but I'll pass on the googling...I prefer to just take yours, and Rush's word for it. Rush wouldn't lie.
wilfrid55 1 year ago
@wilfrid55 Yea, not at all surprised. You ppl hate to see facts that go against the lies youve been fed all these years. In all acualioty tho, I bet you did indeed google that. Dont want to admit youre wrong tho. You prefer the strawman defence. Keep on referring to Rush, like hes got anything to do with this. Keep on going back to that, instead of facing up to the facts Im telling you about.
You are a weak minded pussy. Gore lied to you.
thatstheguy07 1 year ago
@thatstheguy07 - Don't you dare badmouth Rush ! He's on OUR side, now that I believe you and him, THAT IS... and no, I did not google your tripe, but you may want to check Drudge, he believes you and Rush, too! By the way, the Republican Party believes you and Rush, too ! That's good enough for me - NO GLOBAL WARMING !
wilfrid55 1 year ago
@wilfrid55 Are you from the ADL? Your debating skills are just like theirs. I proved you wrong and all you have to come back at me with is this silly nonsense. Good job.
thatstheguy07 1 year ago
@thatstheguy07 - you're just a featherweight...what a dope you are...yes, you proved me wrong - you and Rush - now go play outside....
wilfrid55 1 year ago
@wilfrid55 Yea, Im a featehegithand you cant answer my questions or prove what you are saying, instead resort to this tired nonsense about some radip personality.
Who gives a shit about him? Why do you keep bringing him up?? You are a joke. Youre like an israeli PR guy. You have no leg to stand on and youve been proven wrong, and right npow should be running home with your tail between your leg. Instead youre still hanging around, without shit to say by way of intelligence...
thatstheguy07 1 year ago
instead you just keep repeating the same silly, childish shit. You are a joke. You have nothing for me at all, aside from the same sentence, slightly changed around. So, good for you! Youre pretty god at debating.
Now come back at me, yet again, about Rush. |And ignore the matter at hand, because you don kno what your talking about, and have some weird online fantasy crush on Rush. Awww .. thats cute.
thatstheguy07 1 year ago
R@thatstheguy07 - you and rush say the same thing...he's your man...go listen to him...by the way, Rush loves young Dominican boys...the viagra ? trip to the Dominican, rmember ?...that's your great leader...he's all yours....yummy !
wilfrid55 1 year ago
@wilfrid55 I feel embarassed for arguing with a 12 yr old on the internet. Bye bye little boy.
thatstheguy07 1 year ago
@thatstheguy07 if I was Dominican, your buddy Rush would love me....
wilfrid55 1 year ago
@thatstheguy07 On my channel I've a list called "Climate Change, RSA": check out potholer54's videos about climate change, he covers all bases, and responds to criticism and questions from people like yourself. (I'm steering you to my channel cuz all you have to do is click my name and voila, no YT search necessary)
1michelemichele1 1 year ago
@1michelemichele1 GW isnt real. Climate change is. Its always been happening, and its due to the sun, not us. It was warmer in the dark ages than it is now. We are now in a cooling period. Thats right, the earth was warming, now its cooling... it does that. Nothing to do with Co2. Its ridiculous to say it is.
The end.
thatstheguy07 1 year ago
@thatstheguy07 "Climate change is ... due to the sun"
This is a falsity. If the variation in solar output were responsible for the warming we've seen during the past 150 years, we would detect that warming through the entire depth of our atmosphere. But that is not the case. What we see is warming present only in the troposphere (the lowest layer of the atmosphere where you & I live). It is in this layer that CO2 buildup is prominent. It has everything to do with CO2.
Not the end.
bapyou 1 year ago 2
@bapyou Lol no, it doesnt. The percent of Co2 in our atmosphere is insignificant. The other gasses are much more present than co2. Also, other planets are warming as well, not just earth. That is obviously not due to Co2.
On top of this, the earth is now in a cooling period. So whiule co2 levels are still on the rise, temps are now going down, not up.
GW is not real. Al Gore foold you. Wake up.
thatstheguy07 1 year ago
@thatstheguy07 "Al Gore foold you."
I've never read a word of Al Gore's writings nor have I seen his stupid movie. Try again, ass-licker.
The percentage of CO2 in our atmosphere is significant. CO2 is tranparent to short-wave radiation (the majority of the sun's EM radiation is short-wave) but absorbs long-wave radiation (what the Earth radiates). The evidence for CO2 warming Earth's atmosphere is overwhelming.
Whether other planets are warming is irrelevant.
bapyou 1 year ago
@bapyou An even more important reason not to give a damn what Al Gore says is because of NAFTA. Prior to being VP, he wrote a book talking about the need to save the environment. And then, he and Clinton go on to pass NAFTA, which ruin any chances of gov't instituting environmental safety South of the Border.
DaHonestAbe 1 year ago
@DaHonestAbe I think Hedges puts it right in some of his newer talks here on YT: Bill Clinton was the greatest traitor to the working class of the past 30 years. NAFTA, Bill Clinton, Al Gore are all of a piece; they represented the neoliberal economic agenda continued under the Democratic party banner. You're right about environmental regulation in Mexico. The pillars of the neoliberal economic order: deregulation, low wages, limited-to-no workers' rights. Adios Mexico! Saludos China!
bapyou 1 year ago
@thatstheguy07 No this past year was the warmest ever and the earth has been on a steady warming pattern for the last fifteen years. There is now 10% more moisture in the atmosphere than there was thirty years ago and sea levels are 9 inches higher than they were. CO2 is up to 390 parts per million, the highest it has been in millions of years, 350 is considered to be the baseline for a functioning civilzation.
ChrisDutch 1 year ago
Ah yea...you see the ice cap melts, and then grows back to some extent when the weather turns colder, but less than it was before! This process continues year after year, thus leading to the receding, and eventual disappearing, of the Ice caps and various glaciers. If you know how to use Google, you can witness this recession.
There is no such thing as Climate-gate...the British government conducted an investigation and cleared the scientists involved of the worst of the charges
harmlesstree 1 year ago
@harmlesstree No such thing? Oh, the govt said so. Ok then. Just like how the govt said there was no fishy shit going on with the 7/7 bombings, or with 9/11. Yes, once a govt says so, well then its got to be truth.
Funny tho that Phil Jones, former head of the CRU, resigned after the emails came out. They were caught, red handed, discussing all the 'tricks' they use, to 'hide the decline', and so on. Thousands and thousands of imflamatory emails. No, there was no climate gate.
thatstheguy07 1 year ago
@harmlesstree Even tho it pretty much directly resulted in that cap&trade scam not getting passed in Copenhagen. lolYou ppl make me laugh.
The evetual disappearnace of the ice caps?? How do you know this?? Cuz Gore said so? Just like all those poor polar bears that are drowning, cuz the ice caps are melting lol All alrmist nonsense. And you fools are eating it right up.
thatstheguy07 1 year ago
@thatstheguy07
LOl..cooling period...last year was the second hottest year in recorded history, according to NASA; and the first half of this year was warmest in recorded history, while the last decade was the warmest decade in recorded history! Try consulting actual climate scientists, and not crackpots!
harmlesstree 1 year ago
@harmlesstree Crackpots? Those are ho have been promoting the lie of GW. The climate scientists, the ones without an agenda, do indeed confirm we are and have been in a cooling period. This is fact.
The ones promoting man made GW are the crackpot lying fucks.
thatstheguy07 1 year ago
@wilfrid55 Google this: "US physics professor: 'Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life' "
Actually just google "resigns over global warming scam", and read all the stories.
thatstheguy07 1 year ago
Of course it's the sun; the sun is the ultimate source of the Earth's heat! But to suggest that greenhouse gases ( essentially global insulators) have no effect on the Earth's temperature is akin to saying that since your furnace is the primary source of heat within your home, the degree to which your house is insulated is not germane! The insulation slows the rate at which heat escapes your house, just like greenhouse gases do with respect to the Earth.
harmlesstree 1 year ago
@harmlesstree The effect it has is MINIMAL. Certainly nothing to warrant the bullshit these GW proponents are suggesting, such as this cap&trade scam. The sun is what drives the climate, plain and simple. Co2, does not. So, to enact this global tax on carbon, is insane. How you ppl dont see the scam here, Ill never know.
Al Gore and Ken Lay came up with this bs back in the 90s. It is a money making scam. Period. GW is not real!
thatstheguy07 1 year ago
@thatstheguy07
The fact that something is natural and necessary for life does not mean that it also cannot be hazardous to life, especially in large quantities. Do you realize just how fallacious your reasoning is? By your "logic," we must conclude that water, given that it is necessary for life, cannot possibly harm life! Yet, we can drown in it. It can also, in large quantities, destroy our crops and settlements. Just ask the people of New Orleans and Pakistan.
harmlesstree 1 year ago
@harmlesstree The amount of Co2 humans are putting out is under 10% total. Dead leaves, oceans, volcanoes, cows shitting... these all give off far more Co2, than humans. What we put out, is not making any kiund of differnece. and certainly nothing to justify taxing all humans on fucking carbon. How do you not see how insane this is?? All that will happen is corporations will sell carbon credits. This tax will change nothing. It will only make rich ppl richer. Come on man, wake up.
thatstheguy07 1 year ago
@harmlesstree U remember Phil Manns famous hockey stick graph? Gore used it in his full of shit propaganda film. Thats what GW stands on, to show the correlation between temps and Co2 rising. Only the graph was a total fraud. Another fact that came out as a result of climate gate.
This is what surprises me with u guys. The whole thing has been totally blown out of the water, and yet still u guys are holding on to it. Those guys got caught lying and cooking the data, and u ignore it.
thatstheguy07 1 year ago
Last 10 minutes is the best, when he explains why, as a war journalist with first hand experiences, he cannot even talk to university professors about war any more.
lodproductions90 1 year ago
He talks too much about Michael Jackson, like an advertisement board. :-/
lodproductions90 1 year ago
Wow, this was a great lecture! Very enlightened. Jackson, Spears, Woods... so true so true.
lodproductions90 1 year ago
The internet is not about education, it is pure entertainment.
lodproductions90 1 year ago
@lodproductions90 You can find a better education through than you can from a school. Thats for damn sure.
thatstheguy07 1 year ago
@thatstheguy07 True true.
lodproductions90 1 year ago
how can you loot a bankrupt treasury?
capricioussole 1 year ago