Alarming Discussion with Professor Noam Chomsky Regarding Our Nation and World

[GreggTheEgg]

I thought the interviewee was supposed to talk more than the interviewer.

[survive81]

you edited the video but didnt remove the earshattering alarm that goes off @8:47??

you know we all have the volume cranked up just to hear norm speak!  Shiaa!

[FingerLaserZ]

The interviewer acts like he's on speed...slow down..let Norm talk...This is not ""WWE", buddy...less dramatic and more directness with tact..ok?

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@FingerLaserZ - I don't care what people like you think, because people like you don't think, not one bit, about all the suffering and misery we discussed.

[rosiethebear300]

I've wondered since I was a kid why there's harsher sentences for robbing a bank than hurting or killing a human being

[rosiethebear300]

I wish he would let Chomsky talk

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@rosiethebear300 - I wish you would care about the world.

[prdgy132]

Thanks for the upload. Very much appreaciated.

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@prdgy132 - And thank you. Please pass it on to others. I don't think there are enough of us who care, but we'll never know unless we try.

[ngonea]

what about the military activity up in the upper stratosphere? Also HAARP, CHEMTRALS, automatic powered statelites etc??????????? Pls Mr Chromsky, with all due respect, get real ! get rid of the Pentagon, global warning problems solved

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@ngonea - We'll never get anywhere until we have elected representatives who stand for the people.

[michaelmacfee]

Thanks for bringing up Ron Paul. I know there is much to disagree with him about, but he has some serious points that deserve to be addressed.

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@michaelmacfee - No doubt.

[kris1842]

FEW OF THE BRILLIANT BRAINS IN THE WORLD THATS THINKING RIGHT...i wonder what should be the criteria for being the most intelligent fellow on earth, for starters that person should be thinking for the benefit of most of us.Chomsky is right up there..thanks for the upload DR KEN.

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@kris1842 - You're welcome, Kris.

Everyone calls me 'Ken.' Just not "Mr." :)

[cogitheum]

@kris1842 citations are a decent measurement, by which he is #8 in history, but that's perhaps misleading because he's beaten by academics who people were forced to quote.

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@cogitheum - Interesting. I wish you could cite your references, but I don't think youtube lets us put up links. Thanks just the same.

[TheDystopiaInside]

People have been convinced that global warming is a hoax...propaganda works.

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@BelfastAtheist - It's a discussion, not an interview, and you failed to answer my question.

[adribon]

If Chomsky were a climatologist he would have punched some huge holes in the theory of man-made global warming. Apart from climate change, 9/11 and the assassination of JFK, I approve of all he says. No doubt Chomsky is the greatest thinker of our generation.

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@adribon - What he said about climate change was significant, that the most widely held view by scientists is left out entirely.

[Bigum99]

@adribon Well, Chomsky is dead on right about human induced Global Warming. Too bad you along with most Americans are duped into believing it is hoax.

[shmaashmaa]

@adribon Chomsky's position on climate science is not at all ambiguous, and it is the exact opposite of what you seem to suppose it is, or should be.

[job187]

lol, sneaking in the legalization of marijuana when talking about ending world hunger.

Even bringing them up in the same sentence is so wrong that I don't know what to say. If you wan to be taken seriously and not like some hippe you should get the prioritizations right when speaking in a public venue.

Thanks for the upload tho :)

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@job187 Consider the waste in chasing people for non-crimes. It all goes together. There would be more money to feed the hungry if we didn't waste and give to those who've need of nothing. It's amazing that with all that's here, you pick out one sentence and distort its significance. There's nothing to 'laugh out loud' about. I drove 6000 miles last year to just see Noam, and posted my findings freely for all to see. What did you do last year? I worked every single day. Talk about priorities.

[eltrut96]

@DrKenHildebrandt You're correct. They do go hand and hand. Just like a lot of problems. There's no money in feeding the hungry, but there's a ton of money to be made in the 'drug war'. That's why it will never be legal. There's tons of money in pharmaceuticals, but no cure for malaria, because there's no money in curing poor people. Until we LITERALLY evolve as a species, hunger will always exist and the poor will always suffer.

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@eltrut96 - I don't know what it has to do with evolving as a species, but we could vote our way out of this, as per my primary website listed on my YT home page. It's basically choosing common sense over insanity. I mean, that's our choice, but because the people with more money advertise more for insanity, the people vote against common sense. This needs to stop.

[eltrut96]

@DrKenHildebrandt I agree with you 100%. I guess I was just wishing out loud that greed and selfishness both need to be weeded out of the gene pool. Maybe one day it will happen. You never know! But, you're correct, people always vote against common sense. It seems like no one focuses on those little things called 'facts'.

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@eltrut96 - Because the media bury those facts, and most people are too lazy to dig them up. They also don't realize the seriousness of things, again, thanks to the Brainwashing Box primarily.

[cijferling]

@eltrut96 It's quite difficult to weed these things out because in a way they're also involved with processes who can be described as positive and characterizing, essential things .. people expire quickly deterministic concepts like good and evil.

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@job187 - Do a search on Jack Herer. Hemp could go a long way toward eliminating world hunger.

[DaSungandSoul1223]

Just a quick curiosity, what is your educational background? You seen to have a good command of the facts - what do you do professionally?

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@DaSungandSoul1223 - I agree with Noam, "Education is a system of imposed ignorance." That said, my life turning awareness came after watching MANUFACTURING CONSENT: NOAM CHOMSKY AND THE MEDIA, back in 1995, when I realized that politics could be dealt with scientifically, rationally & fairly, & the biggest block was the media. Likely saw 'MC' over 100 times, in bits and pieces, but it would be on in the background. Met Noam in 02 to discuss our election findings. I do this full time. Thanks.

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@littleflags - Yeah, I said Wow regarding the Iraqi Embargo, something I wrote about in 2000, an embargo that slowly killed hundreds of thousands of innocent children. Who sounds like a child, you or me?

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@stevenjandrews71 - No, that's when we became even more engaged in our "discussion," in which we arrived at the same conclusion. It's going to take a lot of effort and organization, and there's little time to waste. He may have written that last part. I can't recall at the moment, but we really don't have time to bicker about petty nonsense, like who said what and so forth.

[littleflags]

@DrKenHildebrandt Then why are you wasting time replying to petty YT comments? Just ignore them, or reply to important ones.

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@littleflags - Some of my best friends have started off as critics, so I try.

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@krisiswright - I've talked with Noam about my findings, obtained first hand in many cases, if not most, since 2000, as per my website listed on my youtube page and in the election videos I have posted. I've driven throughout no small part of the US in so doing. Noam knows the work I've put in. This is not an interview, it's a discussion, yet he surely spoke more than I did, and look at that priceless smile at the end. Give me, or rather the victims, a break, and stop sweating the small stuff.

[thedarkshitstain]

I clicked this cause I like the word alarming only if its followed by the name Noam Chomsky. I now see that its 32 minutes long. adds to watch later*

[racerx577]

I cant hear it im pissed its barely audible..



[Krakko44]

did women really have the right to vote in Afghanistan in the early 20s because i looked it up and it said 1964

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@gogreen1908 - If you couldn't stand me in the past, why did you come back for more?

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@Kurzula5150 - Who are you to tell me, or anyone else, what to do? Who drove 6000 miles last year to see Noam four times, you or me? Who paid for those trips, you or me? And who didn't read the title, that says this is a discussion, not an interview?

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@TheForwardGaze - Why do you keep watching my videos if I annoy you? I'm working on the sound problem. I'm not close to the microphone. I wish the problem was that simple. I talk loud. That's who I am, an imperfect human being who drove 1500 miles to bring this to you and others like you, free of charge. Disappointing you got nothing out of it, save the insults.

[TheForwardGaze]

@DrKenHildebrandt Yes, your intentions are good. Thank you. However, I watch any video interview with Chomsky. My problem is that you're limiting his message with your "imperfect human" personality. In case you haven't noticed, there's a propaganda war underway for the hearts and minds of the American people. You should take your role more seriously. I want to hear Noam Chomsky's opinions. I don't want him interrupted to hear your opinions. That's my "imperfect human" opinion.

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@TheForwardGaze - You haven't a clue about the sacrifices I've made, nor the work I've done, and you failed to see that the video is listed as a discussion, not a lecture, nor an interview.

[gamerunknown]

Look up Lee Atwater on State's Rights or the National State's Rights Party. Right wing libertarianism is in opposition to left wing libertarianism, it's just not a diametric opposite like right wing statism. Chomsky has excellent videos elsewhere on youtube on the subject and believes the solution is preserving and expanding the meagre democratic institutions rather than dissolving them. After all, businesses run on essentially a feudal model and rely on an information disparity to survive.

[cgwartney]

Who is the moron interviewing him?

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@cgwartney - No one's interviewing him. It's a discussion, as per the title.

[mesler1]

What is with this fascination with centralization of power? If you feel that monopoly is intolerable in the private sector, what in the hell makes it a great idea in government?

Finland has a population of less than 6 million. California's population is 6 times that.

What is so evil about a state with 6x the population of Finland having more autonomy? Yes, it's possible for smaller governments to do bad things, but nothing precludes the entire US from doing the same on a larger scale.

[eensteven]

@revolutionow420 I'm also wondering why Noam Chomsky even bothers talking with someone who believes in chemtrails...

[Skeptic87]

@eensteven I think he talks back to anyone who is not rude to him.

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@eensteven - We didn't discuss chemtrails, and if you saw my video on them, how can you blow off that evidence? What about Kucinich's bill, and the bills that were in the House and Senate, not to mention the trails that spread out over time, unlike contrails that dissipate within seconds. Someone once said in an "interview," unlike this "discussion," "There are three dirty words in my vocabulary, belief, disbelief and supernatural."

[littleflags]

@littleflags maybe that was a little harsh on my part, he's probably just excited to be talking to Noam Chomsky, but still.

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@littleflags - Excited about both the topics and talking with a good friend. Your criticism, compared to what was discussed, is petty. 'A little harsh,' you state. Wow, you sure aren't as harsh on yourself as you are on others.

[badaltitude]

the comments approving ron paul are hilarious ... this is a man who would make it perfectly legal to discriminate on the basis of race ... and provide government force to make sure people could exercise this "right" to discriminate. (Just one example of paul's neo-nazi "philosophy".)

[misterhill663862a]

@badaltitude You are so full of $hit your eyes are brown

[PKengageyourmind]

ok, have had it with the interurptions...I mean who do we want to hear Chomsky or the interviewer? So after 14 minutes I'm outta here...

[annoloki]

@PKengageyourmind You seem to have missed the word 'discussion' in the video's title

[PKengageyourmind]

@annoloki I must have been heavily influenced by all the others who felt the same. apologies I didn't mean to offend. When I give up my time to listen to Chomsky then it's Chomsky I want to hear.

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@PKengageyourmind - Then I suggest you don't watch a video described as a "Discussion."

[PKengageyourmind]

@DrKenHildebrandt fair point so will you make the same point to the severeal peopl eon here and on FB who feel the same. In any case what's with the sound? You get an opportunity with a man like Chomsky and the sound is a mess. Sorry dude that's my redaing of it.

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@PKengageyourmind - I drive 1500 miles each time to do this and do the best I can. Hopefully in the future the sound will be better. People are helping me with that. I was glad the picture came out so good this time. My other camera did better on the sound, but I have no way of combining the two of them, and that picture wasn't even in the same ball park.

[PKengageyourmind]

@DrKenHildebrandt Good point, I take it back. Often we overlook the amount of work that goes into meetings such as these and then we get a bit frustrated when the final product is not perfect eventhough it is very good. Well done for getting the interview and thanks for sharing it also. All the best.

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@PKengageyourmind - Thank you, and again, it was a discussion, not an interview. I go there to talk with Noam, and I happen to video our conversations for those who care to listen. Hopefully, as stated, I'll make improvements with the sound next time. Peace. :)

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@annoloki - Thank you. Much appreciated.

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@annoloki - Exactly. Thanks, Annoloki. It's about the victims, victims Noam knows I care about. As it stands the insults do get to me, even worse, because it's about them, and it lessens my faith in humankind. Comments like yours help give hope.

[SuperSithan]

All this discussion about "why others hate Americans" was irrelevant now. In fact, right now we feel pity Americans. We know that American cities are debris contaminated of radiation in a latent state.

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@SuperSithan - It's hardly irrelevant, when our foreign policy is still the same today as it was then, save the Iraqi Embargo, for obvious reasons.

[SuperSithan]

@DrKenHildebrandt You just confirmed what I said. American politics is the same, but the timing is different and the Americans do not realize that. Now USA accept a greater risk than ever accepted in the past. This is why I pity Americans.

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@SuperSithan - You shouldn't pity them, but rather likewise try to inform them as I'm doing. These concerns DO still matter.

[SuperSithan]

@DrKenHildebrandt The fall of Rome can not be avoided in the past, the USA fall will not be avoided in the future. I have not watched the first, but I'll adjust my seat to see the second. The new problems of Americans do not concern me. I'm just a spectator.

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@SuperSithan - We can know what's happened, and what's happening, but no one knows for sure what will happen in the future. It's too bad you don't care about your fellow humankind who happen to live somewhere on the planet apart from you. And our policies, make no mistake about it, concern the entire world.

[SuperSithan]

@DrKenHildebrandt From 1962 to 1964 the CIA fomented a coup in Brazil. In 1967, when I was 3 years old, this coup came brutal into my house. No American has prevented the suffering came to me. I will not prevent that suffering go to Americans homes. I was a "collateral damage" of the USA dirty war in Brazil in the past. The Americans will also be "collateral damage" of the new USA war in the future. After Americans are "collateral damage" we will share the same experience, not before it.

[S2Cents]

@SuperSithan fuck you

[SuperSithan]

@S2Cents :o) I've actually got a good laugh on the Americans: the USA is at permament war , the cost of these wars inhibit reforms within the USA, American cities are falling apart, the police crackdown on discontent increases, Internet censorship. You deserve all it and more. Remember: I'll be here watching it with great attention and a big smile on my face because I know now it's my turn to see the Americans (you) are fucked. And as much you insult me, you know I'm right. :o)

[S2Cents]

@SuperSithan What I know is you are a pathetic, resentful little piece of shit.

[SuperSithan]

@S2Cents When you are pathetic and resentful we will are equal. But then I'll be laughing even more, and you're crying. The world turns and changes, the History is not ended and for me that are everything lovely. If you want to piss on me you will have to come to Brazil, but here you will not be treated as well as you'd like. We, Brazilians, really do not need new offenses to have motivation for...

[S2Cents]

@SuperSithan Keep diddling yourself if it makes you feel better.

[LisaTeletunes]

Dr.: technical suggestion: next time, plz dump the boom mic & hook him up to a lavalier.

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@LisaTeletunes - I'm getting outside help with that, and hopefully things will be better next time. As stated to someone else, my audio on the other camera was better, but the picture wasn't anywhere near as good, so I made a choice, perhaps not the best one.

[tranquito]

What's with the interviewers illusions in Ron Paul? He is a right wing conservatives from an economic class that does not care about the needs of ordinary people. His "libertarian" politics are about opening up certain markets for him and his wealthy buddies. He uses the pseudo-conspiricism and populist, anti-war, anti-state ideas to appeal to a layer of ordinary people without genuinely caring about their interest.

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@tranquito - He won't be a dictator, and can only do so much as president. However, I believe getting out of these wars, unlike the others, is one thing he can do. And once again, this is NOT an interview, it's a discussion, as per the title. If you want to see what I've done in the way of elections, then watch my election videos and go to the website I have listed on my home youtube page and see a fraction of the work I've done over the last 12 years.

[tranquito]

@DrKenHildebrandt My fear is not that any president will become dictator, a dictatorship of the markets is what already exists. The solution to the oppression suffered by ordinary people does not lie in putting all your hopes in a homophobic, right wing bigot who loyalties lie with the big business and the rich. It lies in the mass organisation of ordinary people in their workplaces and communities, coming together together to challenge the unfair capitalist system.

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@tranquito - Never said I put all my hopes in anyone. I just want the killing machine to stop as soon as possible. Judging by how nasty people are, I think the organization you're looking for isn't going to happen any time soon.

[RPShredow]

Seriously, dude there are more important things then weed atm.

[DoctorMandible]

@RPShredow Criminalizing widespread activities are a consistent tactic of fascist regimes to divide and imprison the population.

[RPShredow]

@DoctorMandible SO? Chomsky is talking about the possible destruction of the species and the interviewer is talking about how "How a plant is illegal."

[DoctorMandible]

@RPShredow Haha, obviously the former is more important than the latter. But the interviewer wanted to touch on multiple topics. But, more broadly, the species would be in a better position not to be destroyed if we lived in a more functioning democracy, including the freedom of people who smoke marijuana. If you're interested in Chomsky's views on nuclear disarmament, I recommend his new book Hopes and Prospects. He goes into great detail.

[RPShredow]

@DoctorMandible I just think its such a small issue it shouldn't even be brought up, if you want to talk about a functioning democracy they should talk more about the patriot act and that new bill that allows the government to imprison US citizens as terrorists indefinitely. Loosing our freedom of due process is much more important than smoking a plant.

Its not just nuclear disarmament, I don't think he even mentions that in this video, but climate change.

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@RPShredow - Accounting for over three quarters of a million arrests each year, it's hardly a "small issue." And it was only brought up quickly and dropped.

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@RPShredow - Yeah, and I'm talking about how much time and resources are wasted on same as our economy goes down the tubes.

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@RPShredow - I happen to care about 800,000 plus unnecessary yet brutal arrests each year, which leaves more real criminals at large as a result. Hardly small potatoes.

[RPShredow]

@DrKenHildebrandt Well maybe next time ask him about healthcare instead, 45,000 people DIE every year in this country cause they don't have healthcare. Through no fault of their own cause they didn't choose to get sick.

According to Chomsky we wouldn't even have a deficit if made healthcare more efficient. A surplus certainly would help the economy more.

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@RPShredow - He's stated that in another video I have posted. Can't get it all in every time, but I try. Military spending far outweighs health care.

[RPShredow]

@DrKenHildebrandt "Military spending far outweighs health care."

Your right that is another more important than legalizing marijuana.

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@RPShredow - Why not eliminate all unnecessary manufactured horror during these tough economic times? None of it makes sense. Spent but a few seconds on it this time around.

[Democrat93]

Check out my interview with Noam Chomsky on Occupy Protests, Anarchism, and Human Nature on my youtube page!

[winbri5]

We are going off the cliff quickly into Fascism, We have to all get together and get Ron Paul's Movement to grow. No he is not perfect, but he will help us push back on the draconian laws. Otherwise , We are going to live on our knees., while we have another war. Great Interview. Ron Paul 2012.

[KentAllard]

@winbri5

>we're heading towards fascism

>so lets elect Ron Paul

lol

[lushfauna]

Don't be defeatist Noam- Stranger things have happened in History

[jnnx]

@lushfauna care 2 point them out?

[lushfauna]

@jnnx The french revolution, The American Revolution there is a point where society as a whole says fk it! If we don't get our house in order I could see it happening here. People in Greece are starting to go hungry

[fodads]

this is so fucking stupid

[chris99103]

Since years I have seen this whole thing coming...since Korea the US slowly but surely is drifting towards something like a coorporative 2 party military dictatorship..and the worst of all is that the idea of being somewhat superior to other nations/cultures has spread among the population...and now with the new NDDA bill the whole setting reminds a bit at the German Enabling Act 1933...and we all know how this ended...in 1933 the jews where the enemy...for US now its the muslims...very scary

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@chris99103 - There's still time to change our course, but it'll take effort, as Noam says.

[chris99103]

@DrKenHildebrandt Yes, the biggest problem however is the unawareness and the happy ignorance of the average american citizen about the seriousness of the whole situation,The Roman Republic was based on the trias politica principle of seperation of power yet it ended in a military dictatorship cause over time more and more power where taken form the Senate and directed towards the consuls and one day one consul thought he had to be in charge for another period...

[chris99103]

@DrKenHildebrandt In Germany too existed this unholy pact and the corruption between the Industrial Complex and the Goverment and although it was a different situation and time the structures are somewhat similar. Its a dangerous time for the US, while the population is kept ignorant with mass media provided "bread and games" a little elite has highjacked the country to play their own little, but very profitable, power games.

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@chris99103 - Chris, I'm right with you. Please check out my book site (free for now), and see how I've been trying to combat this "happy ignorance" since 2000. That's a great way of putting it, by the way. I wish you ran your last post through spell check & gave a quick proof, so I could ask to quote you on my FB page. I know the habit on the Internet is to not care about trivialities most ignore, yet I think we should remove any potential blocks when countering this mass "happy ignorance."

[chris99103]

@DrKenHildebrandt No problem, you are wellcome. I posted a spellchecked version on your channel. Not everybody on YouTube or the Net is indifferent on things..its just a matter of certain educational level and true freedom of the thinking process.There is plenty of people with high level knowledge out there but doctrinally blindfolded and constantly living in denial of certain facts in order to not have to break down the doctrines/ideas they believe in...

[chris99103]

@DrKenHildebrandt Eisenhower warned about the militay industrial complex in 1960 and his warnigns got totally ignored by his successors.Another problem is that the US can not drop out of this militaristic built up without taking a vast low blow in its domestic economy and employment rate.Wherever Ron Paul gets elected or not he would face the huge problem of what to do with all this military personel and those working in the milit. industria who will be very unkeen loosing jobs

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@chris99103 - Remember, over half of taxpayer's money is going to the military as it stands, while our infrastructure is becoming more and more like a third world country, as Noam pointed out in one of the other videos from last year. So, there's plenty for them to do, and then we'd have the money to fix these things by greatly reducing our military budget, which now exceeds that of the entire world combined. The US has enough weapons, and our worst enemies are our leaders and their puppeteers.

[KentAllard]

>implying Ron Paul would spend on healthcare or food for the poor

[devinthrash]

@KentAllard i think a fiat currency that can be manipulated by a private centralized banking system is pretty tyrannical... message me if you want to talk more. (i dont want to clutter video up)

[KentAllard]

@devinthrash

talking points

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@KentAllard - Likely not, but at least with Paul we'd have a voice. If we could get out of these wars and go back to having the right to free speech, then we'd be doing a lot better than we are now.

I do recall that you're in Australia, by the way, yet as you likely know, as goes the US, so goes the rest of the empire.

[mdcaigoy]

@DrKenHildebrandt It's naïve to believe Ron Paul would alter the establishment, or that "we'd have a voice." His presidential promises, like Obama's, are not meaningful during a campaign. He's supported by astroturf campaigns by think tanks, like Cato, John Birch Society, and Heritage Foundation—all of which are funded by the Kochs (not to mention volunteer zealots). He doesn't need direct corporate funding when he has it surreptitiously, and can claim antiestablishment credentials.

[gregcyr]

@mdcaigoy I do not believe that anyone is suggesting Ron Paul has the answers to turn the country around and make it great - so much as he SUCKS LESS than the other candidates. Given the other GOP candidates, that's not saying much, though.

[mdcaigoy]

@gregcyr We'll have to disagree that he sucks less.

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@mdcaigoy - We're talking about stopping the expansion of the American Empire. Who else wants to do that amongst the contenders, including Obama?

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@gregcyr - And he's arguably not as bad as Obama either, but far better than any of the other Republican candidates. Who wants to get out of the wars, save Paul, out of everyone?

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@mdcaigoy - I never took Obama's promises seriously, not for a second. As far as who supports Ron Paul, I don't think you can hold him responsible for that. I think he's for the Constitution enough that we'd have a voice. I see him as not as bad as the others who are in the campaign and getting somewhere at this point. I have never stated I supported his campaign. I've brought up the fact that the media are trying to marginalize him, same as I did when I talked with Noam prior to the 08 election

[mdcaigoy]

@DrKenHildebrandt It's also questionable to cherry pick from Ron Paul's policies, which is what some progressives do. His policies regarding the public infrastructure are atrocious. His Confederate values would only make the situation for women, gays and minorities even worse at the state level. Why states are assumed less oppressive is beyond me.

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@mdcaigoy - With a constitutional government, he wouldn't be able to do those things on his own. He's not going to be a dictator you know?

[KentAllard]

@DrKenHildebrandt

>we'd have a voice

No, what limited democratic institutions there are would be utterly neutered and control of society handed over to Big Business

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@KentAllard - You can't say that with certainty, Kent. If someone like Paul was elected, he or she would have air time on television, time to explain what they're talking about, and why such things were so important, like getting out of these wars primarily.

[KentAllard]

The Marines in Australia will eventually expand to full MEU size

And they'll also be training the ADF in transforming one of its infantry battalions, and supporting units, into an MEU-like amphibious force

[Tibet2138]

*Thanks* for the valuable upload !

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greetings from Vienna

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@Tibet2138 - Greeting back from the boondocks of Virginia, USA. :)

[ForLiberty888]

Time for people like Chomsky has passed. This anarcho-socialist, Chomsky, has discredited himself with sheer lack of understanding about sound economics pushing instead feeble syndicalism Benito Mussolini had in mind.

Folks should ALWAYS remember that bankers, monopolies, trade unions & tenured professors are EQUALLY afraid of fair competition; Pentagon, CIA, TSA are afraid of permanent peace......

[AndrewMann552]

@ForLiberty888 Judging from your page you're a Ron Paul supporter.So instead of anarcho-syndicalism, libertarian socialism etc., you propose what? Paul's hyper capitalist, Ayn Rand brand of economics? All that would do is complete the current corporate transformation of our system by simply eliminating the government component and leaving the terrain completely open for a privatized takeover.

[Incognitoification1]

@AndrewMann552 Ayn Rand would say you're being irrational! ; )

[devinthrash]

@AndrewMann552 i support the paul and his radical rothbardian ideas probably wont pass, but as commander of the military he can stop all this bullshit.

[KentAllard]

@devinthrash

you support corporate tyranny

[devinthrash]

@KentAllard no i dont.

[KarlHertz]

@ForLiberty888 The difference between the (relevant) instances you enumerate here (bankers, large corporation/effective monoploies, trade unions) are that they are not equally powerful, laws are not equally favourable to them, etc. I am sure you can figure out who are the current benefactors...

As for Chomsky, I would be interested to see how you reached your conclusions on him. How is Mussolini's facism, based on strong relation between the political and industrial/corporate sectors, relevant?

[trislaura]

Thanks for this.

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@trislaura - You're quite welcome. Thanks for commenting. Nice to hear from you again.

[Canadacampaigns4Paul]

Noam's a wise man,

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@Canadacampaigns4Paul - Indeed he is.

[DubMcVain]

Thank you for this video. It's always great to hear Noam's take on things.

[DrKenHildebrandt]

@DubMcVain - And thank you for your kind comment. :)