it's so moving to see that i. was in this way got to dog it so hard not to think of the mother disappeared this woman the work of the hour and i don't miss the mark and if. this is the only thing that we do is music because everybody fights his way. to. the floor you can feel the fee was out of his will for this would be a very you have a whole movie about a lot of that came out of. what i think is this is the fans that is a constant. cool. albert einstein is often credited with defining insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting

a different result this is essentially the argument behind the trumpet ministrations deal of the century aimed at putting an end to the israeli palestinian conflict. is the american president indeed insane or a genius breaking with decades of fruitless mediation. noam chomsky and i and a family at mit and i think. getting more heavily involved as a war activities for the last few years. noam chomsky has made to international reputation school wide as does one of the national leaders of american resistance to the vietnam war the deepest is a professor of linguistics who before he was 40 is wrote to transform the nature of

his subject. you are identified with a new level whatever that is you certainly have been an activist as well as a writer. has a lot of times. it is wasted in anybody's catalogue among the half dozen top euros of the new left. this dandy achieved by adopting over the past 2 or 3 years a series of adamant. rejecting at least american foreign policy most america itself. budget this nation. but an interesting one so she used to tell us. it is used in truth. so if someone and say italy is criticizing berlusconi for the corruption of the italian state and so on than

a cold any italian thinks they were cold and italian people would collapse and laughter in the streets of rome or milan. in totalitarian states the notion to use so in the old soviet union dissidents were cold and he said that was the worst condemnation. of the brazilian military dictatorship they were gold in any brazilian. no it's true that in just about every society the critics are maligned. are mistreated different ways depending on the nature of the society like them so it unions they will be imprisoned. in a us dependency like el salvador at the same time this counterforce eather brains blown out by a u.s. run state terrorist worse. than others is it just condemned their villa from the so on that in the united states or one of the terms of abuse is anti american and

a couple of others like you know more cases there's an array of terms of abuse. of in the united states you have a very high degree of freedom and so if you're vilified by some commas or who cares to go on to your work and you these concepts only arise in a culture where if you criticize state power and when i state i mean. we're generally not just government but state corporate power if you criticize concentrated power you're against the society you're against the people it's quite striking that it's used in the united states for another the only democratic society with the concept isn't just ridicule and it's a sign of. elements of the league culture which are. the great the glee.

the american dream mike many ideals was partly symbolic but partly real so in the 1950 s. and sixty's it was a the biggest growth period in that american economic history. gold made. it was pretty colored tarion growth so the lowest 5th of the population was improving about as much as the upper 5th.

and there were some welfare state measures which improved life for much of the population it was for example possible for a. black worker to get a decent job in an auto plant. get a core of children go to school and so on and the same across the board. when the u.s. was. primarily a manufacturing center it had to be concerned with its own consumers here famously henry ford raised the salary of his workers who would be able to buy cars. when you're moving into an international tunnel me is the mancs like to call it political small percentage of the world's population that's

a gathering increasing wealth what happens to american consumers that have much less concern because most of them aren't going to be consuming your products anyway at least on a major basis. your goals or profit in next quarter even it if it's based on financial manipulation and. high salary high bonuses produced overseas if you have to and produce for the a wealthy classes here and their counterparts abroad what about the rest well there's a term coming into use for them too and they're called the precariat. precarious proletariat the working people of the world who live increasingly precarious lives . and it's related to the attitude toward the country all together. during the period of great growth of the economy fifty's and sixty's but in fact earlier taxes on the wealthy were far higher corporate taxes were much higher

taxes on dividends are much higher simply taxes on wealth for much rare the tax system has been redesigned of so that the taxes that are paid by the very wealthy are reduced and cursed ponderingly the tax burden on the rest of the population's increased. no the shift is towards trying to keep taxes just done and wages are not consumption which everyone has to do not say and dividends which i go to the rich. the numbers are pretty striking.

now there's a pretext of course there's always a pretext the pretext in this case is well that increases investment and increases jobs but there isn't any evidence for that if you want to increase investment give money to the poor and the working people they have to keep alive so they spend their incomes and that stimulates production stimulates investment that leads to job growth and so on. if you're an ideologist for the masters you have a different line and in fact right now it's almost absurd that corporations have money coming out of their pocket. so in fact general electric are paying 0 taxes and they have enormous profits let's take the profits somewhere else or the for it but not pay taxes and this is common. the major american corporations shift the burden of sustaining the society on to the rest of the population.

solidarity is quite dangerous from the point of view of the masters you're only supposed to care about yourself and not about other people this is quite different from the people they claim are their heroes like adam smith who based is whole approach to the economy on the principle that sympathy is a fundamental human trait but that has to be driven out of people's heads gotta be for yourself father while maxon don't care about others which is ok for the rich and powerful but is devastating for everyone else. going to take a lot of effort to try to drive these basic human emotions out of people's heads.

and we see it today in policy for major for example in the attack on social security. social security is based on a principle it's based on a principle of solidarity saw bury it in caring for others. a social security means i pay payroll taxes so that the widow across town can get something to live on. for much of the population that's what this of iowa. it's of no use to the very rich a so therefore there's a concerted attempt to destroy it. one of the ways is defunding it you want to destroy some system 1st defund it. then it will work people be angry they want something else that's a standard technique for. privatizing some system. we

see it in the attack on public schools. public schools are based on the principle of solidarity. i no longer have children in school or grown up but the principle of solidarity says i happily pay taxes so that the kid across the street can go to school that's normal human emotion and it drives it out of people's heads i don't have kids in school why should i pay taxes privatized it so on. the public education system all the way from kindergarten to higher education is under severe attack i mean that's one of the jewels of americans. go back to the golden age again the great chris period fifty's and sixty's

a lot of that is based on free public education. and one of the results of the 2nd world war was the g.i. bill right which enabled veterans remember that's a large part of the population and to go to college they would have been able to otherwise the century got free education where in communities date or nation regularly invest substantial shared resources in education the investment invariably it returned in better business and a higher standard of living u.s. was way in the lead in developing extensive mass public education at every level. but now more than half the states most of the funding for the colleges comes from 2 issues not from the state that's a radical change that's a terrible burden on students it means that students if they don't come from very wealthy families they're going to leave college with big debts and if you would

think that you're trapped i mean maybe you wanted to become a public interest lawyer but you're going to have to go into a corporate law firm a tip. by the time you're part of the culture you know you are going to get out of it and that's true. trade and investment to become magic spells to conjure economic development. most people think about trade they think about goods and services being exchanged between countries and the invest the chapter of a trade agreement is about something very different but what one investment leads to toxic manufacturing that destroys sacred sites all ruins the environment. that means that if local communities that are being poisoned if they object if they do

anything that the company feels is interrupting their profits they can they serve. the nationals of taking on the whole nation philip morris is trying to use i yes yes to stop oregon by implementing new tobacco regulations aimed at cutting domestic smoking rates a french company sued egypt because egypt resists minimum wage democratic choice trump corporate. joint says we try to fund don't want to. and we're going to fulfill repeated promises apologise to the people and promise to be you know we've all pots the uterus. pretty. clock.

that you want to work. on no. longer. all. 5 in the 1950 s. it was a much poorer society in the news today but nevertheless could easily and will centrally free mass higher education and today a much richer society claims doesn't have the resources for. that just what's going on right before our eyes and it's the general attack on the principles

that and that i mean not only are they humane they're the basis of the prosperity and health of this society. if you look over the history of regulation say a railroad regulation financial regulation and so on and you find that quite commonly it's it's either initiated by the economic. concentrations that are being regulated or it's supported by them and the reason is

because they know that sooner or later they can take over the regulators. and it ends up with what's called regulatory capture. the business being regulated is in fact running the regulators. bank lobbyists are actually writing the laws of financial regulation gets to that extreme. and that's been happening through history and again it's a pretty natural tendency when you just look at the distribution of power. one of the things that expanded enormously in the 1970 s. is lobbying as the business world moved sharply to try to control legislation. business world was pretty upset by the advances in

a public welfare in the sixty's and in particular by richard nixon and it's not to will understand that but he was the last new deal president and they regarded that as class treachery. and nixon's administration you get the consumer safety legislation safety and health regulations in the workplace the e.p.a. the environmental protection agency. business didn't like it of course they didn't like the taxes. they didn't like the regulation and they began a coordinated effort to try to overcome it. lobbying sharply increase the regulation and begin with the rule ferocity. there were no financial crashes in the fifty's and the sixty's because the regulatory apparatus of the new deal was still in place. as a pm to be dismantled under business pressure and political pressure. to get more and more crashes.

and it goes on through the years. seventy's sort of starts begin. eighty's really takes off congress was asked to approve federal loan guarantees to the auto companies about the want and want to have a $1000000000.00 and all of this is quite safe as long as you know the government's going to come to your rescue so takes a break and instead of letting them pay the cost break and build out the banks like continental the biggest bail out of american history at the time that she ended his term with so the huge financial crisis the savings and loan crisis and the government moved in and build it out for a kind of $300.00 for a very fair lady and $199.00 regulation with its dismantled to separate commercial banks from investment banks. then come see bush and obama

bill and bear stearns is running to the feds to stay afloat president bush today defended the decision to bail out citi group that in may and freddie macin ask for a total f. green $1000000000.00 more to sale out could get much bigger than billing even in troubles for the u.s. economy. and they're building up the next term. a b. each time the taxpayer is called on to bail out those who created the crisis increasingly the major financial institutions. in a capitalist economy you would do that in a capitalist system that would worry about the investors who made risky investments but the rich and powerful they don't want

a capitalist system they want to be able to run to the nanny state as soon as they're in trouble and get billed a taxpayer it's called the too big to fail. i mean there are no bill or it's an economics who significantly disagree with the course that we're following people look to stiglitz paul krugman others and none of them were even approached the people picked to fix the crisis were those who created the robert rubin crowd the goldman sachs croak they created the crisis are no more powerful than before is that accident well not when you pick those people to create an economic plan and then what do you expect to happen. been well for the poor let market principles prevail don't expect any help from the government the government the problem not the solution and so on that's essentially neo liberalism

and it's as this dual character which goes right back in economic history one set of rules for the rich opposite set of rules for the poor. and nothing surprising about this exactly the dynamics you expect if the population allows it to proceed she's going to go on and on like this until the next crash which is so much expected that credit agencies which kind of evaluate the. status of firms are now counting into their calculations the taxpayer bailout that they expect to come in after the next crash which means that the beneficiaries of these credit ratings like the big banks they can borrow money more cheaply they can push out smaller competitors and you get more and more concentration everywhere you look policies are done this way which should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone that's what happens when you put power into the hands of

a narrow sector of will which will is dedicated to increasing power for itself just as you'd expect. be. a. concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. particularly so as the cost of elections skyrockets which kind of forces the political parties into the pockets of major corporations. the citizens united this was january 2009 i guess that's a very important decisions print court decision but it has a history and you got to think about the history. of 14th amendment has a provision that says no person's rights can be infringed without due process of

law. and the intent clearly was to protect freed slaves said ok they have got the protection of the law i don't think it's ever been used for freed slaves if ever marginally almost immediately it was used for businesses corporations their rights can't be infringed without due process of law so they gradually became persons under the law. corporations or state created legal fictions. maybe they're good maybe they're bed but to call them persons is kind of rages so they get got personal rights back about a century ago and that extended through the 20th century. as they give corporations rights way beyond what persons have so if say general motors invests

in mexico they get national rights the rights of the mexican business well the notion of person was expanded to include corporations it was also restricted if you take the 14th amendment literally that no undocumented alien can be deprived of rights if they're persons. undocumented aliens who are living here and building your buildings clear lawns and so on they're not persons. but general electric is a person. an immortal a super powerful person this perversion of the. elementary morality and the obvious meaning of the law is quite incredible. in the 1970 s. the courts decided that money is a form of speech. that leaders value and then you won through the years to citizens

united which says that the right of free speech of corporations namely spend as much money they want can't be curtailed. take a look what that means it means that corporations which anyway have been pretty much buying elections are now free to do it with virtually no constraint as tremendous attack on the residue of democracy. interesting to read the rulings like justice kennedy's swing vote his ruling said we'll look after all the c.b.s. has given freedom of speech there are corp why shouldn't general electric be free to spend as much when is that what. i mean it's true that c.b.s. has given treat of speech but they're supposed to be performing a public service that's why that's what the press is supposed to be general electric is trying to make money for the chief executive some of the shareholders.

sitting critical decisions and it puts the country in a position where business power is greatly extended beyond what it always was this is part of that vicious cycle the supreme court justices are put in by reactionary presidents who get in there because they're funded by business and that's the way the cycle works. a little kid from compensating. and i. don't know. it's not. going to.

move unless i did it again showed up the moon this guy who on the stand in front of it in so. i thought does not. cause it is a. tough. good politicians do. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and you. want. to be like to be pros which you like before 3 of them or can't be good. i'm interested in the water's edge. there should.

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