the mincer is beginning to reconstruct. franklin delano roosevelt he himself was rather sympathetic to progressive legislation that would be in the benefit of the general population but he had to get it passed so he informed the labor leaders and others forced me to do it. what he meant is you go out and demonstrate we're going to protest develop the labor movement. when the popular pressures fission and be able to control the legislation you know i am not for a were. killed last definition number 11 a i don't which many say 3 people were being gradually

a regular man in. friendly deal. i prefer that broad definition. so there was a kind of combination of a sympathetic government and by the mid thirty's very substantial but bitter activism. there were industrial action there were sit down strikes which are very frightening to. ownership. have to recognize a sit down straight is just one step before saying we don't need bushes we can run this by ourselves. and business was told to read the business press say in the late thirties they were talking about the hazard facing industrialists and the rising political power of the masses when. yes to be repressed things were on hold during the 2nd world war

but immediately after the 2nd world war the business offensive began in a force. test courtly a. tourist start any quality in labor management. the mccarthyism was used for a massive corporate propaganda offensives to attack union. increased sharply during the reagan years and reagan pretty much told the business world if you want to illegally break bergen izing efforts and strikes go ahead they are in violation of the law and if they do not report for work within 48 hours they have forfeited their jobs and will be terminated continued the ninety's and of course with george w. bush went through the roof by now less than 7 percent of private sector workers have unions. the effect

is that the usual counterforce to an offensive or highly class conscious business class is dissolved. if you're in a position of power you want to maintain class consciousness for yourself but a limited everywhere else you know back to the 19th century in the early days of the industrial revolution in the united states working people were very conscious of this they in fact overwhelmingly regarded that wage labor as not very different from slavery to the different only in that it was temporary effect of such a popular idea that was a slogan of the republican party. well that was a very sharp class consciousness and the interests of power and privilege it's good to drive those ideas out of people's heads you don't want them to know that they're

an oppressed class so this is one of the few societies magicks don't talk about class in fact the national class is very simple who gives the orders who follows and that basically defines class it's more nuanced and complex but that's basically it. the public relations industry the advertising industry which is dedicated to creating consumers it's a phenomenon developed in the freest countries in britain and the united states and the reason is pretty clear it became clear by a say a century ago that it was not going to be so easy to control of population by force

too much freedom in one. labor organizer in parliamentary labor party as in many countries women started to get the french as and so on she had to have other means of controlling people and it was understood and expressed they have to control them by control of. beliefs and attitudes well one of the best ways to control people in terms of attitudes is what the great political economists they're stunned blind called fabricating consumers. if you can fabricate a want to. make obtaining things that are just about within your reach the essence of life they're going to be trapped into becoming a consumer's. and you read the business press say 920 s. it talks about the need to direct people to the superficial things of life like

fashionable consumption and that will keep them out of our hair. you find this doctrine all through progressive intellectual thought but walter lippmann the major progress of intellectual of the 20th century. he wrote famous progressive essays on democracy and wishes for you was exactly that the public must be put in their place so that the responsible men can make decisions without interference from the be willed and heard. there to be spectators not participants then you get a properly functioning democracy straight back to madison on to the polls memory and so on and the advertising industry just exploded. with with this as its goal fabricating consumers. and it's done with great sophistication. many whilst down. as one of the last

known while very singular. whom are aware of the kind. of the ideal is which actually seemed to did. we're let's see teenage girls they have a free set or afternoon we'll go walking in a shopping mall. the library or somewhere else. the idea is to try to control everyone to turn the whole society into the perfect system. perfect system would be a society based on a diet of pair the pair is you and your television set or maybe now you in the internet. in which that presents you with would. the proper life would be with trying to gauge and you spend your time and effort to gaining those things which you don't need you don't want maybe to throw away. but that's the measure of

a decent life. what we see is in say advertising on television if you've ever taken an economics course you know that markets are supposed to be based on informed consumers making rational choices well if we had a system like that a market system in a television ad would consist of say general motors putting up information saying here's what we have for sale a samba an ad for a car is an ad for occurs in football hero you know an actress of the car doing some crazy thing like going up a mountain or something the point is to create uninformed consumers who will make irrational choices that's what advertising is all about. and when the same institutions p.r. . system runs elections they do it the same way.

they want to create an uninformed electorate which will make irrational choices often against their own interests and we see it every time one of these extravaganzas takes place. right after the election. president obama won an award from the advertising industry for the best marketing campaign and was reported here if you go to the international business press executives were euphoric you know they said we've been selling candidates marketing candidates like you know toothpaste ever since reagan and this is the greatest achievement we have i don't usually agree with therapy. and but when she mocks the much she calls the hopi changey stuff she's right 1st of all obama didn't really promise anything

that's mostly illusion you go back to the campaign rhetoric and take a look at it has very little discussion of policy issues and for very good reason because public opinion on policy is sharply disconnected from what the 2 party leadership and their financial backers want. poesy more and more is focused on the private interests that fund the campaigns. with the public being marginalized. you know world of big partners. loft and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and

shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. imagine that they know the 635 and you have a what a career and a career involves using your i phone in your computer and things they could have been in an office and perhaps she started getting headaches are kids. going to have to stop doing all this in this kind of you live the minutes must be frightening my world became smaller and smaller and smaller until i ended up learning it and the box. around it a very strong magnetic field held in my head. think of it like a real hard pressure my skin burns and that wireless access point and it's just

continuous on saying with our students in the school that. we are just continually bathing our citizens in this microwave radiation it is certainly electro small and it's getting worse. for the day but there are good terrorists and bad evidence the bad terrorists and those in yemen who the united states deems to be a threat the good those one in syria the cia and the u.s. military were engaged in covert actions really throughout the world. where they were assassinating populist leaders they were backing up. right way military juntas funding an army that's why there's no oath anymore because there's always a small out for really good this good for profit.

but politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. more some want to be wrestled. to the right to be present as a likeable for freedom or can't be good but i'm interested always in the wires in our. area i should. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i was waiting to get out of the world of politics sports business i show business i'll see that. one.

of the leading political scientists guillen's came out the list study of the relation in public attitudes and the mostly what he shows is that about 70 percent of the illusion has no way of influencing. the images will be untrue mother country . and the population knows. what its lead to is. the population that angry frustrated and hate institutions. it's not acting constructively to try to respond to that. there is popular mobilization and activism but in very self destructive direction. taking the form

of unfocused anger attacks on one another and on vulnerable targets that's what happens in cases like this. it is corrosive of social relations but that's the point the point is to make people hate and fear each other and look out only for themselves and don't do anything for anyone else. play she see it strikingly as on april 15th. they were 15th is going to measure the day if they are taxes of how democratic a society is a different sleep deficit how it is really democratic april 15th would be a day of celebration it's a day when the population gets together decides to fund the programs and activities that they have formulated agreed upon would be better than that station celebrated

the way it is needed state it's a day of mourning it's a day in which some in power has nothing to do if you is coming down to steal your hard earned money and you do everything it can they keep from doing. that is a kind of a measure of the extent to which at least in popular consciousness democracy is actually functioning. not a very attractive picture. be tendencies that we've been describing within american society and those there are reversed it's going to be an extremely ugly society i'm a society that's based on adam smith's final maxim you know all for myself

nothing for anyone else. a society in which normal human instincts an emotion of sympathy so of their eventual sport in which they're going driven out. that society so ugly i don't even know who'd want to live in it i would want my children to. defy the society is based on control by private wealth it will reflect the values that in fact does reflect. a value that is green and the desire to maximize personal gain at the expense of others and any society made a small society based on that principle is ugly but it can survive a global society based on that principle is headed for massive destruction.

and i don't think we're smart enough to design in any detail what a perfectly just and free society would be like i think we can give some guidelines and more significant we can ask how we can progress in that direction. john dewey the leading social philosopher in the late 20th century he argued that until all institutions production commerce. media unless they're all under participatory democratic control we will not have. a functioning democratic society. as he put it policy will be the shadow cast by business over a society. that's centrally true.

where there are structures of authority domination and hire somebody gives the orders somebody takes them as they are not self-justifying they have to justify themselves and their burden to prove to me. will if you take a close look usually find they can't justify themselves as they can we're going to be dismantling. trying to expand the domain of freedom and justice but dismantling that form of illegitimate authority and in fact progress over the years we'll thankfully recognize as progress has been just that the way things change is because lots of people are working all the time and you know they're working in their communities in their workplace or wherever they happen to be and they're

building up the basis for popular movements which are going to make changes and that's the way everything has ever happened in history. takes a freedom of speech. one of the real achievements of american society it's the 1st in the world and it's not the bill of rights it's time that the constitution and freedom of speech issues began to come to the supreme court in the early 20th century. the major contributions came in the 1960 s. one of the leading ones was a case of knowing the civil rights movement well but then you had a mass popular movement which was demanding rights. refusing. to back down and in that context the supreme court did establish a pretty high standard freedom of speech or it takes a women's right to women also begin to identify oppressive structures refusing to accept them or he go their people to join with them. that's her right to return.

to trouville extent if also spent a lot of my life in activism a militant doesn't show up publicly but you know. terribly good it was the greatest organizer i think that we can see quite clearly some very very serious defects in our. culture in. which are going to have to be corrected by operating outside of work that is commonly accepted i think we're going to have to find new ways of put it right. but the activists are people who have created the rights that we enjoy. in the army carrying out a policy is based on information that they're receiving but also contributing to the understanding remembers are separate process. to try to do things you learn you learn that with the world it's like that feeds back to the understanding of how to go on. there's huge opportunity it is

a very free society still for just world. government has fairly limited capacity to coerce corporate business may try to coerce but there are mechanisms. so there's a lot to be done if people organize struggle for the right system if done in the past and can win many very. close friend for many. there's wave power and then. to put it in his words that what matters is the countless small deeds of one the people who play the basis for the significant events that matter history.

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a career and career involves using your arm flew in your computer it seems that in an office. perhaps you sort of getting headaches are good for t.v. you could have to stop doing this in this kind of you lose the minutes must be from my world became smaller and smaller and smaller until i ended up learning it in a box. very strong magnetic field held in my head. think of it like a real hard pressure my skin burned and that wireless access point your sister continues on saying with our students in the schools. we are just continually our citizens in this microwave radiation it is certainly electro small and it's getting worse. the people who are printing the money don't rely on taxes to get wealthy they're

not part of a real economy that's a does the same thing as saying the rulers of saudi arabia rely on the wages of the people living in saudi arabia to get rich they they don't they just print more or pump more oil in the america the princes that run our economy just print more money they don't need the workers they don't need their taxes that's why they don't have wage growth that's why there's been enough this aeration because there are needed. today there are good terrorists and bad good it's the bad terrorists and those in yemen who the united states deems to be a threat the good. those weren't in syria the cia and the us military were engaged in covert actions really throughout the world. where they were assassinating populist leaders they were backing up right away military windows funding and arming death squads there's no phones and more because there's always

a small. or really good this. profit. joining me every thursday on the all excitement and i'll be speaking to get a feel of the world of politics or business i'm showbusiness. thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the country's military and the decision a little sheltered lives every song came to a complete. the day that i was right to be instructed you know told to shut up what they'd kill me and i see how it destroyed my life many screamed at me and he made me come in and you graham my arm and he write me with his birthing area if you take into account that women don't report because of the extreme retaliation and it's probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the us military rape is

a very very traumatizing tat happen but i've never seen trauma like i've seen women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma reporting rape is more likely to get the victim punished and be offended and almost 10 year career or chose very invested in and i gave that up to report a sex offender who was not even put to justice or put on the registry this is simply an issue of our and violent male sexual predators for the large part of charge of whoever is there to prey upon whether that's a man or woman. live .

in the headlines for you this monday the british prime minister is accused of burying a russian influence in the. us . whose house was destroyed during a police chief won't see any compensation from the authorities. they proceeded to destroy the whole house and finally they ended up. really. feel mixed messages from facebook. to fail through people trafficking and jihadi groups but nonetheless others are using.