@jazzbo66zz He sounds as if he's been talking with Bill McKibbens when he mentions going back to living local. I agree that it would be a sort of solution, the problem I have when I look at most environmentalist is they live in ivory towers where this sort of life is possible because culture,talent,and ideas are brought into the region. To suddenly localize everything what would this look like, would you restrict people's travel? Also, how will large urban environments look like? I think at th
@FlyWranglersTV wrote "corporations and the Government are one in the same."
Benito Mussolini wrote this:
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the ultimate merger of corporate and state power."
"reduce the influence of Government"? No. Reduce the influence of corporations on our anemic democracy, or else it is lost and we face dark totalitarian times ahead.
How true it is, capitalism and democracy are antithetical to one another. The sentiment that the "government" is the oppressor misses where the point of control is situated altogether. We should be waging a struggle to get around the technology by which we are divided. Our most effective weapons will always be community and literacy, which explains the concerted effort being made to dispossess us of them. We have reason to be skeptical about our tools & who provides them.
Hedges makes a critical point in this book concerning literacy. The vast majority of Americans are glued to a screen and mistakenly believe they are being informed, while the habit of reading has been lost for a generation. I would be surprised if anyone on this blog has read this book. Libraries in the US are disposing of books faster than a Fascist bonfire. Theodore Roszak believes most of what is being lost will never be recovered because history needs to be erased because we prefer lies.
TheRealNews is starting to look like a platform for conspiracy theorists to reinvigorate their emotive driven dislike for anything government or 'establishment' related. Although it is also a force for delving into hugely interesting concepts and subject that are untouched in the mass media, and i value it alot, it needs to inject some rationality. This guy is making massive claims and sweeping generalisations portraying a completely despotism type of political system and is not being challenged
You will be at a disadvantage trying to make sense of this interview if you have not read the books in which these analyses are developed. Sheldon Wolin's; Democracy Incorporated is in my judgement the most penetrating study of the beguiling of the American electorate & the nature of right wing political power in print. RealNews is bringing something very strange & disturbing to the surface to be sure. If you want to "inject some rationality" maybe it is time you got a library card.
And thus you have Americans thronging the streets in opposition to health-care reform. They protest against their own best interests. They are well brainwashed. There will be no uprising, not so long as they have a lousy education system, and tons of fatty food to eat in front of the television. What time's American Idol on? Oh, and by the way, more people watched that bit of crap than an interview Dan Rather did with Saddam Hussein on the same day - on the eve of the Iraq war. Pathetic.
@hobatu go learn some real science. Trees inhale CO2 and release oxygen in the sugar-fixing process, you have the whole thing backwards. Bonds, trees, gold, breeder reactors, I have to wonder if anything in your head is not backwards. Trees USE the heat they absorb, they do not convert it all to infrared. Reduction in albedo is not bad when CONVERSION is not happening to infrared. It's being used. You're a fuck-tard, marked as such, all deletions to follow. Go shut your fool mouth now
@hobatu So pedantic and full of false assumptions is your response as to be a primer on how acedemic acheivement without wisdom leads only to hubris. You're so busy redefining the terms of the debate you've forgotten to listen to what people here are saying. There are many components to human nature; not all of them are scientifically quantifable or subject to empirical measurement. So enough of this exchange , youaren't listening to anyone but yourself anyway.
@hobatu Mercifully, you don't get to decide who has anything to say. If you don't want to respond to my comments, try silence -- its much better than the haughty superiority you've been oozing here. " I'm an electrical engineer so I know my stuff." What's that all about? You got credentials and we're supposed to bow and scrape? Get over yourself and maybe you will have some meanngful exchanges in the future.
The progressive Marxist radicals who controll the capitalist system are deliberately ruining it with big government policies so that they can run it into the ground. and then will do what they always do. Blam e the free markey system for the problems that they created with their anti-free market policies imposed on the system. the coporations are not the ones overworking the factory workers in China. it is the nig government that is violaing human rights
the "REAL" news? i highly doubt it. is this is the real news, then fox news is also fair and balanced just like they claim. does anyoone hear this guy? popular uprisings? dismantiling the system? why are people still blaming the coporations? dosen't the left understand that its the state, not the coporations that create these problems? are they realy that ignorant? when are people going to wake up?
@Jaabyourface Who owns the the "state"? Who owns the government? It's the corporations! Politicians are the lap dogs of multi-national corporations that call the shots around the world. Especially the bankers. Did the politicians cause the 'economic crisis'? No! The banksters did. Corporations own and run everything, including the "state".
It *IS* a corpse-oration, a de-facto receiver-ship where it's population was/is beguiled through shady con-tract to become both it's employees & economic bond slaves. A Debtor, a Surf, a Mug.
It is 'voluntary' to contract with UNITED STATES, it's ramifications not taught, a
'societal norm' of operating on assumption, acquiescence & non-compos mentis consent.
W's*the7thfire*com/Politics and History/US-Legal-History*htm
@Jaabyourface the old question with a question bit? come on. by the way, not to sound precocious, but i am probably the most for indavidual liberties on this page of youtube.
@blobperson If your for individual liberties. then you would be for capitalism. The system dosen't need to be transformed, it needs to be restored. The reaosn some of these big corrupt coporations dominate is due to the mixture of business and government. the government isn't the solution, it is the problem. and beelive me, those uprisings that this Chris guy is talking about are something we should all hope never ever comes.
@Jaabyourface well this country was founded on revolution, so hopfully the people of this nation will stand up to the powers and tell them its we the people not you the rich and powerful that this country belongs to, and if that means civil uprising so be it. id rather die on my feet than live on my knees
@blobperson but what kind of revolution do you want? that is the question? who do you see as the solution? do you think people need to resore their faith in god? or do you think that the state just needs to take over and do whatever is necessary to "liberate" the "oppressed" masseess?
@Jaabyourface i see the people as the soulution. niether the state or the indaviduals god should play any role in such an action, we are to liberate ourselves not BE liberated. this theoretical revolution does not need to spill blood, it simply would have to jerasticly reform or dismantle the current currupt system set in place currently
@Jaabyourface preferably autonomy, or as close to that as we(the people) are ready for, we would do away with money and economic control by a hand full of people. if not that then a form of direct democracy, with checks and balences THAT WORK and the only rules of the land be a literal translation of the constitution, as a back up plan....oh and no presidency, just congress and house of rep.
@blobperson Actually those Ideas sound exactly right. Checks and blances. blooodless revolution. Literasl tranlation of the constion, Indivudual reliabity and laws restricting the government from asserting unwanted authority over people's lives. perfect. that answers my qeustion. you beelive in revolution the way that the original american revolution was done
@Jaabyourface yes i do believe that people can make collective mistakes, look at the election and faliure to impeach the second Bush, it takes idiots to elect a moron
@hobatu I hear what you're saying, BUT all your assumptions predicate on the economic status quo -- which makes some sense inside the paradigm, but NO SENSE outside the somewhat limited and selfish empirical constructs humans have formulated to justify their rapaciousness. It time to confront the reality of nature, not just HUMAN nature. P.S. You laud economies of scale but condemn wholescale burning of forests, which, if anything, is ecomony of scale in action.
When I consider the biggest obstacle to the overthrow of inverted totalitarianism it is the people who believe the myths propagated by proponents of the free market. We give immortal beings, corporations, GODS by any standard, the same rights as people, and we wonder how they have come to rule over us all.
Thank you Mr. Hedges. There is no hope in the two headed beast of the democrats and republicans. Voting for the lesser of the two evils is only a joke on the voter.
The same story continues to play through history. Government becomes the tyrant.
Change will only occur outside of the system – their structure. Resistance will come at a high price as they place their tax paid pawns (police) between us and them. But what other choice do they give us? They do not represent us.
Government is what we make it. The tyranny we face expresses itself as intellectual and political passivity. We should be in the streets waging a national strike. The police can be taught what it means to live in fear. I have seen tactical police units in body armor with assault weapons chased down alleys in Paris by enraged students. We have to suffocate the security state by strangling the Fortune 500. Defunding the military and the prison complex are achievable goals.
@jazzbo66zz Government is what we allow it. The form of government currently in the US does not represent many people. It does not represent me. While I have protested I have not - yet - be in violent confrontations.
@hobatu I don't need to destroy my computer yet. When I need the materials inside of it more than the information, I'd be glad to. I have done that before. It's only a machine. It's not a quality of life, it's a tool at this time showing me how to get quality of life ONLY because of a lot of liars and manipulators. Please, destroy your brain, you aren't using it. Technological innovation must never be more important than food and debt-free living. NEVER.
@hobatu actually natural gas is large enough it won't leak. Protons (hydrogen) is much smaller so without a charged container (costs in entropy now) you will lose much more. Electrons of course will induce in fields as well as not be containable as objects so certainly there's electrical leakage, which is why production of electricity must always be limited to on-demand. Don't YOU get it? Making our OWN grids AND living without any, having BOTH options, is the solution.
@hobatu yes, it can and will work BUT there are always consequences. For one thing, breathing quality will go down, water quality may also go down. It's like prescribing meds after meds each to handle more side-effects. It's likely not the optimal solution whereas CO2 reduction likely is. If we collected carbon and learned how photosynthesis worked we could make new oil at any time.
@hobatu that's absurd - forests are always cooling down the air because they are a) removing CO2 which also keeps us warmer at night and b) removing heat into the water they circulate. There are lots of places left to plant trees if we remove the stupid pavement and office buildings which NEVER should have been put there at all.
@hobatu That's not the root cause but it is a root cause of many things.
With less waste of resources we can still invent, live and support quite a few people. HOWEVER, 4.5 billion to 6 billion is probably the safe upper limit. 9 is very pushy and above it is suicide. Nuclear with 95% recycling is viable and we need it now. 5% of this nuclear "waste" is still highly usable, highly energetic.
He has hit the nail on the head. We need to disconnect from the system. That is right. We also need to understand The Federal Reserve System. Ultimately, the only way to fix this thing permanently is by getting rid of The Fed.
Chris Hedges is wrong. The conservadems are a bought & paid for subsidiary of Corporations as are republicans. Conservadems are a minority in the democratic party. In the RNC/ FNC all you have are conservative apologists on bended knee to BP. NO MATTER HOW BAD IT GETS YOU WILL NEVER SEE THAT FROM A MOCRAT. Not even conservadems Lieberman & the departing Evan *Bye*.
@hobatu The root cause of global warming isn't OVERPOPULATION. Its the Sun. All planets in our Solar System are experiencing "Global Warming". The Scientists who get their funding from Corporations that do WAY MORE HARM than average Human are not telling the truth. The Earths entire population could fit onto a land mass the size of Australia. I'm not suggesting that as a solution,just if we all start growing our own food and STOP CUTTING DOWN RAIN FOREST and start planting trees we can fix this.
@breedsauce101 Also until those SCIENTIST'S stop heating up Earths atmosphere with HAARP TECHNOLOGY I will say that any discussion about global warming is MOOT.If its not the Sun its THEM.
@breedsauce101 HAARP is nothing more than a few satellites absolutely without question INCAPABLE of the energy output you are talking about. AT MOST it could output a brief burst equal in power to a full sun-beam of the same steradian (solid radian) angle it could displace. Then it would be finished forever. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT HAARP IS. Wireless transmission of MICROWAVE and ELECTRICAL POWER via the ionosphere. It CAN NEVER do global warming. Not 0.0001% of the power TOTAL.
@breedsauce101 do some real scientific research for a change - it's not the sun because if it was the sun then the inner planets would show the same problem and they're NOT.
NOT all the planets in our solar system are experiencing global warming. MARS IS no more than normal, but it is/has because of CO2, massive CO2. Jupiter is not, for example, and if it did even 5 degrees C you'd see a 27 C jump up HERE. As in winter is 27C EVERYWHERE, summer is 80 C in some places. You're talking nonsense
This is not "neo-feudalism", this is capitalism gone wild and its a scary show, but at least people are starting to realize in large numbers just how scary it is. It's a shame that a major recession had to happen first.
@Cancroides you still need a power-source, you still need to reduce entropy somehow. Magnetic motors always have draw-backs in the normal temperature, not super-conducting range. Synethic photo-synthesis is also a very critical technology we must master soon.
@hobatu economies of scale are the LEAST important issue. The MOST important issue is too much oil is being USED and too much DAMAGE to all of us is happening from that oil extraction and use. That's about 1 billion times more important than economies of scale.
@hobatu hydrogen can leak. Installing a solar / thermal plant can last forever with little maintenance. Tens of thousands of dollars is nothing factored in over generations, much less even 10 years. The cost of oil is too high - it must be diverted to plastics for physical needs / medical, not to gas/heating to burn.
@hobatu no, if you disconnect from the grid you can live just like humans did before fossil fuels, which is just fine. It means not expecting to take gigantic car trips or fuel-expensive plane-trips. It means growing more food locally and not stacking people dozens of stories on top of each other in unsustainable cities - parasites that can live only off the farm land near-by if any, or huge oil expenses to ship huge amounts of food in, garbage out. Suicide.
the damage from industry-caused global warming is, at this point, irreversible. Everyone better get accustomed to hotter temperatures, drier growing seasons and lots more starving people than you have ever seen in history.
It's game over.
The Climate Deniers, complete retards, have pushed us too late into the game. Now people will die by the 100's of millions.
@hobatu Cheap energy leads to overconsumption and waste, which has been the American mantra for the past half century. It's finally time to confront the limits of Capitalism, don't you think?
@Heathencrusher7 The beginning of the crash has already started. Obama, the real estate market & the banks can't continue to hide the losses from the pricing bubble. NYT reports the grim choice of ONLY helping yesterday's borrowers or tomorrow's borrowers.
Wars, low taxes for the rich and subsidies to big business is killing us.
WAKE UP AMERICA! Fight the corporations, reduce or stop buying their products. Save on energy costs by conserving! or will be plastered by the GLOBAL CORPORATIONS.
@Heathencrusher7 you wanna see what the crash will look like, it takes some math. I did it. Take a look (math is showing so you can re-make it yourself).
/watch?v=b1mQZAIxC3A , /watch?v=tFTEdHJ8Byc
This shows the entire S&P from January 2010 to December 2010
The false paradigm meme is so tiresome. Fortunately fewer and fewer voices such as this are viewed as anything but what they are,flailing remnants of the neolib/neocon cabal ,an illegitimate corporatist nightmare desperate to keep the chimera of class warfare alive. Well, we aren't buying it anymore
@UndefeatedArmy09 That quote is often attributed to Mussolini however there is no record of him saying nor writing it. He did however call Italy "the corporate state".
@UndefeatedArmy09 You and the people that gave you thumbs up should probably have a look at the talk page of Mussolini's wikiquote section. After that, look up corporati(vi)sm on wikipedia for an introduction.
i love not being filled with government propoganda and acutally hearing what is going on not being treated like a childe that cant handle the truth #3=)
so you say, yet with no evidence or support for your claims. Cointelpro at its finest. If you want to make remarkable claims, you must have remarkable evidence.. where's yours? You use terms like fearmongering, idiotic, peasants.. these terms are evidence of unsupported claims using emotions to make your case. Sorry Red.. doesn't work on informed audiences. Bring the facts or keep your noise.
right. as if i'm going to waste my time developing a case for this dross and for the benefit of peasants like you.
are you referring to yourself as "informed"? you are nothing more than a youtube freeloading teabagger. any idiot who goes onto youtube and asks for evidence or supporting arguments is well.....an idiot.
do i know who you are except an avatar called eraser7622 === no
See how easy that was? You just developed the case and proven yourself to be exactly as I described. Insults are proof positive of something to hide. Now, go ask your handlers for a raise b/c the fiat price of bread is rising.
@TheRedCapitalist you're a corporate shill defending all corporate mass murders, you do this on every video. Redcapitalist you are a goofy dink. SHut the hell up
@jazzbo66zz He sounds as if he's been talking with Bill McKibbens when he mentions going back to living local. I agree that it would be a sort of solution, the problem I have when I look at most environmentalist is they live in ivory towers where this sort of life is possible because culture,talent,and ideas are brought into the region. To suddenly localize everything what would this look like, would you restrict people's travel? Also, how will large urban environments look like? I think at th
PtAltmVansanTarr 8 months ago
@jazzbo66zz Half the Internet broadband network is being used for streaming videos....
PtAltmVansanTarr 8 months ago
@FlyWranglersTV wrote "corporations and the Government are one in the same."
Benito Mussolini wrote this:
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the ultimate merger of corporate and state power."
"reduce the influence of Government"? No. Reduce the influence of corporations on our anemic democracy, or else it is lost and we face dark totalitarian times ahead.
bapyou 1 year ago 2
@GuerrillaFighter12
How true it is, capitalism and democracy are antithetical to one another. The sentiment that the "government" is the oppressor misses where the point of control is situated altogether. We should be waging a struggle to get around the technology by which we are divided. Our most effective weapons will always be community and literacy, which explains the concerted effort being made to dispossess us of them. We have reason to be skeptical about our tools & who provides them.
jazzbo66zz 1 year ago
The market for technology can provide no alternative to reading writing or community except stupidity.
jazzbo66zz 1 year ago
Hedges makes a critical point in this book concerning literacy. The vast majority of Americans are glued to a screen and mistakenly believe they are being informed, while the habit of reading has been lost for a generation. I would be surprised if anyone on this blog has read this book. Libraries in the US are disposing of books faster than a Fascist bonfire. Theodore Roszak believes most of what is being lost will never be recovered because history needs to be erased because we prefer lies.
jazzbo66zz 1 year ago
TheRealNews is starting to look like a platform for conspiracy theorists to reinvigorate their emotive driven dislike for anything government or 'establishment' related. Although it is also a force for delving into hugely interesting concepts and subject that are untouched in the mass media, and i value it alot, it needs to inject some rationality. This guy is making massive claims and sweeping generalisations portraying a completely despotism type of political system and is not being challenged
afare1 1 year ago
@afare1
You will be at a disadvantage trying to make sense of this interview if you have not read the books in which these analyses are developed. Sheldon Wolin's; Democracy Incorporated is in my judgement the most penetrating study of the beguiling of the American electorate & the nature of right wing political power in print. RealNews is bringing something very strange & disturbing to the surface to be sure. If you want to "inject some rationality" maybe it is time you got a library card.
jazzbo66zz 1 year ago
if you wanna live with simplicity start a permaculture!!!
Daka12s 1 year ago
And thus you have Americans thronging the streets in opposition to health-care reform. They protest against their own best interests. They are well brainwashed. There will be no uprising, not so long as they have a lousy education system, and tons of fatty food to eat in front of the television. What time's American Idol on? Oh, and by the way, more people watched that bit of crap than an interview Dan Rather did with Saddam Hussein on the same day - on the eve of the Iraq war. Pathetic.
freedomsfart 1 year ago
Good stuff....
..."by popular uprising"
hmm.
govlover 1 year ago
@hobatu And there's the rub...
elfyboy 1 year ago
@hobatu go learn some real science. Trees inhale CO2 and release oxygen in the sugar-fixing process, you have the whole thing backwards. Bonds, trees, gold, breeder reactors, I have to wonder if anything in your head is not backwards. Trees USE the heat they absorb, they do not convert it all to infrared. Reduction in albedo is not bad when CONVERSION is not happening to infrared. It's being used. You're a fuck-tard, marked as such, all deletions to follow. Go shut your fool mouth now
ytgv3fc7 1 year ago
@hobatu So pedantic and full of false assumptions is your response as to be a primer on how acedemic acheivement without wisdom leads only to hubris. You're so busy redefining the terms of the debate you've forgotten to listen to what people here are saying. There are many components to human nature; not all of them are scientifically quantifable or subject to empirical measurement. So enough of this exchange , youaren't listening to anyone but yourself anyway.
elfyboy 1 year ago
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Unfortunately, inverted totalitarianism describes the US quiet well.
Lexman00 1 year ago
Unfortunately, inverted totalitarianism describes the US quite well.
Lexman00 1 year ago
Popular uprising don't come from disconnecting from the grid. That is pure idiocy.
DenisRancourt 1 year ago
@hobatu Mercifully, you don't get to decide who has anything to say. If you don't want to respond to my comments, try silence -- its much better than the haughty superiority you've been oozing here. " I'm an electrical engineer so I know my stuff." What's that all about? You got credentials and we're supposed to bow and scrape? Get over yourself and maybe you will have some meanngful exchanges in the future.
elfyboy 1 year ago
The progressive Marxist radicals who controll the capitalist system are deliberately ruining it with big government policies so that they can run it into the ground. and then will do what they always do. Blam e the free markey system for the problems that they created with their anti-free market policies imposed on the system. the coporations are not the ones overworking the factory workers in China. it is the nig government that is violaing human rights
Jaabyourface 1 year ago
the "REAL" news? i highly doubt it. is this is the real news, then fox news is also fair and balanced just like they claim. does anyoone hear this guy? popular uprisings? dismantiling the system? why are people still blaming the coporations? dosen't the left understand that its the state, not the coporations that create these problems? are they realy that ignorant? when are people going to wake up?
Jaabyourface 1 year ago
@Jaabyourface Who owns the the "state"? Who owns the government? It's the corporations! Politicians are the lap dogs of multi-national corporations that call the shots around the world. Especially the bankers. Did the politicians cause the 'economic crisis'? No! The banksters did. Corporations own and run everything, including the "state".
rkymtnrdr88 1 year ago 18
@rkymtnrdr88
Um, dude.
It *IS* a corpse-oration, a de-facto receiver-ship where it's population was/is beguiled through shady con-tract to become both it's employees & economic bond slaves. A Debtor, a Surf, a Mug.
It is 'voluntary' to contract with UNITED STATES, it's ramifications not taught, a
'societal norm' of operating on assumption, acquiescence & non-compos mentis consent.
W's*the7thfire*com/Politics and History/US-Legal-History*htm
GnosticNinja 1 year ago
@rkymtnrdr88 Are you Occupying? Shocking that this video is over a year old isn't it?
MusicMissionary 3 months ago
@Jaabyourface why are you so against bettering the system?
blobperson 1 year ago
@blobperson why are you so against individual liberties?
Jaabyourface 1 year ago
@Jaabyourface the old question with a question bit? come on. by the way, not to sound precocious, but i am probably the most for indavidual liberties on this page of youtube.
blobperson 1 year ago
@blobperson If your for individual liberties. then you would be for capitalism. The system dosen't need to be transformed, it needs to be restored. The reaosn some of these big corrupt coporations dominate is due to the mixture of business and government. the government isn't the solution, it is the problem. and beelive me, those uprisings that this Chris guy is talking about are something we should all hope never ever comes.
Jaabyourface 1 year ago
@Jaabyourface well this country was founded on revolution, so hopfully the people of this nation will stand up to the powers and tell them its we the people not you the rich and powerful that this country belongs to, and if that means civil uprising so be it. id rather die on my feet than live on my knees
blobperson 1 year ago
@blobperson but what kind of revolution do you want? that is the question? who do you see as the solution? do you think people need to resore their faith in god? or do you think that the state just needs to take over and do whatever is necessary to "liberate" the "oppressed" masseess?
Jaabyourface 1 year ago
@Jaabyourface i see the people as the soulution. niether the state or the indaviduals god should play any role in such an action, we are to liberate ourselves not BE liberated. this theoretical revolution does not need to spill blood, it simply would have to jerasticly reform or dismantle the current currupt system set in place currently
blobperson 1 year ago
@blobperson Oky. what kind of system would you want to replace this currupt system with?
Jaabyourface 1 year ago
@Jaabyourface preferably autonomy, or as close to that as we(the people) are ready for, we would do away with money and economic control by a hand full of people. if not that then a form of direct democracy, with checks and balences THAT WORK and the only rules of the land be a literal translation of the constitution, as a back up plan....oh and no presidency, just congress and house of rep.
blobperson 1 year ago
@blobperson Actually those Ideas sound exactly right. Checks and blances. blooodless revolution. Literasl tranlation of the constion, Indivudual reliabity and laws restricting the government from asserting unwanted authority over people's lives. perfect. that answers my qeustion. you beelive in revolution the way that the original american revolution was done
Jaabyourface 1 year ago
@Jaabyourface and im glad we could come to an agreement over this issue.
blobperson 1 year ago
@blobperson Do you beelive in the dictatorship of the proletariatt?
Jaabyourface 1 year ago
@Jaabyourface yes i do believe that people can make collective mistakes, look at the election and faliure to impeach the second Bush, it takes idiots to elect a moron
blobperson 1 year ago
@Jaabyourface Yikes ! You've got some homework to do !
punkempireinterviews 1 year ago
@hobatu I hear what you're saying, BUT all your assumptions predicate on the economic status quo -- which makes some sense inside the paradigm, but NO SENSE outside the somewhat limited and selfish empirical constructs humans have formulated to justify their rapaciousness. It time to confront the reality of nature, not just HUMAN nature. P.S. You laud economies of scale but condemn wholescale burning of forests, which, if anything, is ecomony of scale in action.
elfyboy 1 year ago
@UrineDenial Globalism makes perfect sense if you are a rich power monger.
elbowbiter1 1 year ago
A. STOP voting! The system is for the rich... and not you.
B. Start buying solar cells and other decentralized energy sources and form independant power grids. (Technology = Salvation)
C. Stop Shopping, Stop trying to fit into corporate consumer culture. Can't? Then turn off the TV and stop buy magazines (easier now hey).
D. Put down your holy book and pick up a copy of Fight Club (this is your new religion).
E. Be like Ty Durden. How? See F.
F. "Reject the system dictating the norms."
elbowbiter1 1 year ago
some people dronk pepsi, some people drink coke, the wacky morning DJ says democracy's a joke. building a religion- cake
lokiflash 1 year ago
simplicity - the new austerity
DavidAKZ 1 year ago
what happened to HD?
noraklagrangian 1 year ago
When I consider the biggest obstacle to the overthrow of inverted totalitarianism it is the people who believe the myths propagated by proponents of the free market. We give immortal beings, corporations, GODS by any standard, the same rights as people, and we wonder how they have come to rule over us all.
j0hnwi11iams 1 year ago
Is this becoming an infowars channel?
pcuimac 1 year ago
@pcuimac
well, it depends.
is that a good thing, or a bad thing?
AustralianPyro 1 year ago
@pcuimac nope
infowars is full of anti communists and anti socialists
greenhell666 1 year ago
Thank you Mr. Hedges. There is no hope in the two headed beast of the democrats and republicans. Voting for the lesser of the two evils is only a joke on the voter.
The same story continues to play through history. Government becomes the tyrant.
Change will only occur outside of the system – their structure. Resistance will come at a high price as they place their tax paid pawns (police) between us and them. But what other choice do they give us? They do not represent us.
iknownothingnow 1 year ago 14
@iknownothingnow
Government is what we make it. The tyranny we face expresses itself as intellectual and political passivity. We should be in the streets waging a national strike. The police can be taught what it means to live in fear. I have seen tactical police units in body armor with assault weapons chased down alleys in Paris by enraged students. We have to suffocate the security state by strangling the Fortune 500. Defunding the military and the prison complex are achievable goals.
jazzbo66zz 1 year ago
@jazzbo66zz Government is what we allow it. The form of government currently in the US does not represent many people. It does not represent me. While I have protested I have not - yet - be in violent confrontations.
I believe that with many much can be achieved.
iknownothingnow 1 year ago
@iknownothingnow
Amen Brother !!!
jazzbo66zz 1 year ago
@hobatu I don't need to destroy my computer yet. When I need the materials inside of it more than the information, I'd be glad to. I have done that before. It's only a machine. It's not a quality of life, it's a tool at this time showing me how to get quality of life ONLY because of a lot of liars and manipulators. Please, destroy your brain, you aren't using it. Technological innovation must never be more important than food and debt-free living. NEVER.
ytgv3fc7 1 year ago
@hobatu actually natural gas is large enough it won't leak. Protons (hydrogen) is much smaller so without a charged container (costs in entropy now) you will lose much more. Electrons of course will induce in fields as well as not be containable as objects so certainly there's electrical leakage, which is why production of electricity must always be limited to on-demand. Don't YOU get it? Making our OWN grids AND living without any, having BOTH options, is the solution.
ytgv3fc7 1 year ago
@hobatu yes, it can and will work BUT there are always consequences. For one thing, breathing quality will go down, water quality may also go down. It's like prescribing meds after meds each to handle more side-effects. It's likely not the optimal solution whereas CO2 reduction likely is. If we collected carbon and learned how photosynthesis worked we could make new oil at any time.
ytgv3fc7 1 year ago
@hobatu that's absurd - forests are always cooling down the air because they are a) removing CO2 which also keeps us warmer at night and b) removing heat into the water they circulate. There are lots of places left to plant trees if we remove the stupid pavement and office buildings which NEVER should have been put there at all.
ytgv3fc7 1 year ago
@hobatu That's not the root cause but it is a root cause of many things.
With less waste of resources we can still invent, live and support quite a few people. HOWEVER, 4.5 billion to 6 billion is probably the safe upper limit. 9 is very pushy and above it is suicide. Nuclear with 95% recycling is viable and we need it now. 5% of this nuclear "waste" is still highly usable, highly energetic.
ytgv3fc7 1 year ago
@hobatu Oh, yeah, chemtrails! Great idea! (sarcasm) =(
notunderarock 1 year ago
Physically disconnect---that's my idea; basically, I'm planning to emigrate.
MustafaPresents 1 year ago
watch?v=I9z7UL_AFlE
"Americans in Irak"
Explicit rape scene
sansez 1 year ago
The guy is a bit depressing......
What should we do? : Nothing, there is no hope, ur a peon, shoot urself.
unab84 1 year ago
we must bring back the unions globally.
btigtime2 1 year ago
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He has hit the nail on the head. We need to disconnect from the system. That is right. We also need to understand The Federal Reserve System. Ultimately, the only way to fix this thing permanently is by getting rid of The Fed.
BillymanWag 1 year ago
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BillymanWag 1 year ago
People are so fucking broken, We (humanity) deserves all that looms on the horizon.
ToeInspector 1 year ago
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@ToeInspector
"People are so fucking broken, We (humanity) deserves all that looms on the horizon."
negative quitter like you are not "we humanity" ;)
aerobique 1 year ago
danger0usknowledge 1 year ago
@hobatu The root cause of global warming isn't OVERPOPULATION. Its the Sun. All planets in our Solar System are experiencing "Global Warming". The Scientists who get their funding from Corporations that do WAY MORE HARM than average Human are not telling the truth. The Earths entire population could fit onto a land mass the size of Australia. I'm not suggesting that as a solution,just if we all start growing our own food and STOP CUTTING DOWN RAIN FOREST and start planting trees we can fix this.
breedsauce101 1 year ago
@breedsauce101 Also until those SCIENTIST'S stop heating up Earths atmosphere with HAARP TECHNOLOGY I will say that any discussion about global warming is MOOT.If its not the Sun its THEM.
breedsauce101 1 year ago
@breedsauce101 I seen it on the internets it must be true !~
ToeInspector 1 year ago
@breedsauce101 HAARP is nothing more than a few satellites absolutely without question INCAPABLE of the energy output you are talking about. AT MOST it could output a brief burst equal in power to a full sun-beam of the same steradian (solid radian) angle it could displace. Then it would be finished forever. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT HAARP IS. Wireless transmission of MICROWAVE and ELECTRICAL POWER via the ionosphere. It CAN NEVER do global warming. Not 0.0001% of the power TOTAL.
ytgv3fc7 1 year ago
@breedsauce101 do some real scientific research for a change - it's not the sun because if it was the sun then the inner planets would show the same problem and they're NOT.
NOT all the planets in our solar system are experiencing global warming. MARS IS no more than normal, but it is/has because of CO2, massive CO2. Jupiter is not, for example, and if it did even 5 degrees C you'd see a 27 C jump up HERE. As in winter is 27C EVERYWHERE, summer is 80 C in some places. You're talking nonsense
ytgv3fc7 1 year ago
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Viva la revolution!
ulgrum 1 year ago
why t f do I have to keep re subscribing to my fav channels
hoplite46 1 year ago
This is not "neo-feudalism", this is capitalism gone wild and its a scary show, but at least people are starting to realize in large numbers just how scary it is. It's a shame that a major recession had to happen first.
blackiron60 1 year ago 4
@hobatu Watch videos about magnet motors, those can be the future.
Offcourse, on a bigger scale: )
Cancroides 1 year ago
@Cancroides you still need a power-source, you still need to reduce entropy somehow. Magnetic motors always have draw-backs in the normal temperature, not super-conducting range. Synethic photo-synthesis is also a very critical technology we must master soon.
ytgv3fc7 1 year ago
@hobatu economies of scale are the LEAST important issue. The MOST important issue is too much oil is being USED and too much DAMAGE to all of us is happening from that oil extraction and use. That's about 1 billion times more important than economies of scale.
ytgv3fc7 1 year ago
@hobatu hydrogen can leak. Installing a solar / thermal plant can last forever with little maintenance. Tens of thousands of dollars is nothing factored in over generations, much less even 10 years. The cost of oil is too high - it must be diverted to plastics for physical needs / medical, not to gas/heating to burn.
ytgv3fc7 1 year ago
@hobatu no, if you disconnect from the grid you can live just like humans did before fossil fuels, which is just fine. It means not expecting to take gigantic car trips or fuel-expensive plane-trips. It means growing more food locally and not stacking people dozens of stories on top of each other in unsustainable cities - parasites that can live only off the farm land near-by if any, or huge oil expenses to ship huge amounts of food in, garbage out. Suicide.
ytgv3fc7 1 year ago
the damage from industry-caused global warming is, at this point, irreversible. Everyone better get accustomed to hotter temperatures, drier growing seasons and lots more starving people than you have ever seen in history.
It's game over.
The Climate Deniers, complete retards, have pushed us too late into the game. Now people will die by the 100's of millions.
ytgv3fc7 1 year ago
The question nobody answers "How do we make US citizens turn to each other?"
AS bad as it is, how bad does it have to get to rouse the public, and if roused, won't demagogues just turn them against each other?
leo81316 1 year ago
@leo81316 Disable communication satellites. Eliminate the media bubble, especially cable tv. See how people treat each other after two months.
SubmarinerAndroid 1 year ago
Tiptoe Totalitarianism
Electrorules 1 year ago
@poetswolf1985 shit happens.
gringodeltoro1 1 year ago 2
@hobatu Cheap energy leads to overconsumption and waste, which has been the American mantra for the past half century. It's finally time to confront the limits of Capitalism, don't you think?
elfyboy 1 year ago
@hobatu
Cheaper? at the cost of air quality? Poor climate? and Biohazards?
that's expensive in my book.
Do it the Tesla way, ELECTRIC!
PersonalJesus348 1 year ago
What? We only get 2 segments with Chris Hedges but we get 7-12 segments with a bunch of dull, unknown characters?
AndrewMann552 1 year ago 3
It started off so promisingly, but it didn't take long for the AGW scam to raise its ugly head.
Please stop this nonsense, it's becoming really tedious.
flyhead2 1 year ago
@flyhead2 Yeah, I agree AGW is a liberal scam, just like all this talk about cigarettes causing cancer, nonsense.
KalifUmestoKalifa 1 year ago
more bull shit ?
gasttheplast 1 year ago
@hobatu
Well no wonder your scared to go off the grid. Your best idea is to power your house with hamsters...
PersonalJesus348 1 year ago
America is in a police state, and the economy is going to crash just like in 1939 stock market!!!
Heathencrusher7 1 year ago 3
@Heathencrusher7 The beginning of the crash has already started. Obama, the real estate market & the banks can't continue to hide the losses from the pricing bubble. NYT reports the grim choice of ONLY helping yesterday's borrowers or tomorrow's borrowers.
Wars, low taxes for the rich and subsidies to big business is killing us.
WAKE UP AMERICA! Fight the corporations, reduce or stop buying their products. Save on energy costs by conserving! or will be plastered by the GLOBAL CORPORATIONS.
topthickproducer 1 year ago 4
@Heathencrusher7 you wanna see what the crash will look like, it takes some math. I did it. Take a look (math is showing so you can re-make it yourself).
/watch?v=b1mQZAIxC3A , /watch?v=tFTEdHJ8Byc
This shows the entire S&P from January 2010 to December 2010
ytgv3fc7 1 year ago
Thanks for this, Paul. Keep up the good work.
ThinkingManNeil 1 year ago
hedges is a good man
aerobique 1 year ago
The false paradigm meme is so tiresome. Fortunately fewer and fewer voices such as this are viewed as anything but what they are,flailing remnants of the neolib/neocon cabal ,an illegitimate corporatist nightmare desperate to keep the chimera of class warfare alive. Well, we aren't buying it anymore
sailfished 1 year ago 5
great stuff lately, with Hedges and Henwood.
terpis 1 year ago
Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power - Benito Mussolini
UndefeatedArmy09 1 year ago 40
@UndefeatedArmy09 That's what that guy Ron Paul calls it. Corporatism. (not that anyone listens to him where it will make a difference)
greatbroad 1 year ago
@UndefeatedArmy09 That quote is often attributed to Mussolini however there is no record of him saying nor writing it. He did however call Italy "the corporate state".
ArcticSlicer 1 year ago 2
@UndefeatedArmy09 You and the people that gave you thumbs up should probably have a look at the talk page of Mussolini's wikiquote section. After that, look up corporati(vi)sm on wikipedia for an introduction.
sheepOG 1 year ago
@hobatu
umm... You can power yourself with solar.
PersonalJesus348 1 year ago
i love not being filled with government propoganda and acutally hearing what is going on not being treated like a childe that cant handle the truth #3=)
shitydrumer 1 year ago
just donated.. thanks so much for the quality and true journalistic integrity of your work!
Eraser7622 1 year ago 31
@Eraser7622
Spread the word man, Spread the word. We can't let this die!
PersonalJesus348 1 year ago
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@Eraser7622
another peasant writer with more fear mongering dross.
another idiotic internet news network with low journalistic standards and a bias towards serving peasants with more disinformation.
TheRedCapitalist 1 year ago
@TheRedCapitalist
so you say, yet with no evidence or support for your claims. Cointelpro at its finest. If you want to make remarkable claims, you must have remarkable evidence.. where's yours? You use terms like fearmongering, idiotic, peasants.. these terms are evidence of unsupported claims using emotions to make your case. Sorry Red.. doesn't work on informed audiences. Bring the facts or keep your noise.
Eraser7622 1 year ago 3
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@Eraser7622
right. as if i'm going to waste my time developing a case for this dross and for the benefit of peasants like you.
are you referring to yourself as "informed"? you are nothing more than a youtube freeloading teabagger. any idiot who goes onto youtube and asks for evidence or supporting arguments is well.....an idiot.
do i know who you are except an avatar called eraser7622 === no
do i get paid for presenting a case === no
idiot.
TheRedCapitalist 1 year ago
@TheRedCapitalist
See how easy that was? You just developed the case and proven yourself to be exactly as I described. Insults are proof positive of something to hide. Now, go ask your handlers for a raise b/c the fiat price of bread is rising.
Eraser7622 1 year ago
@TheRedCapitalist
another Ayn Rand fan
God4Dunoon 1 year ago
@TheRedCapitalist yea, eraser has it right. Youre a douche and a PEASANT.
SmokinBabies 1 year ago 2
@TheRedCapitalist you're a corporate shill defending all corporate mass murders, you do this on every video. Redcapitalist you are a goofy dink. SHut the hell up
ytgv3fc7 1 year ago
first!!!!!
0GSX 1 year ago