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The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Noam Chomsky on the rise of neo-fascism, the bankruptcy of the liberal class and the future of America - Part II
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First step to this camouflaged modern capitalist EMPIRE is:
1. 'Negative Externality Cost' annual dumping that creates massive faux-profits, which can be greater than all corporate reported profits, and in some cases can approach total revenues of some particularly 'dirty' industries -- like oil, weapons, wars, and financial corruption.
2. Over multiple years this 'Negative Externality Cost' dumping is continually increased with the power of "Accumulation by Dispossession" [David Harvey] --- which creates a vast wasteland of; looted, expropriated, hoarded, and 'taken out of productive use' super-wealth, which explains why "The Quiet American" EMPIRE [Graham Greene] has driven America's GINI Coefficient of Wealth Inequality to exceed the 'Golden Fleece' of 0.90.
3. The final phase in extracting and hoarding vast Global Wealth far above many combined countries including China's GINI of only 0.70 --- also explains why Russia's GINI Coefficient of Wealth Inequality is declining fast in 2022 & 2023, as their oligarchs and National Wealth Funds are being looted by the U.S. Treasury's vast array of "Russian Harmful Foreign Activities Sanctions" --- essentially proving that the U. S. Global Empire* can extract as much wealth as it wishes (subject only to Russia having to start a Nuclear Armageddon).
4. By Empire, I mean, this Disguised Global Crony Capitalist Racist Propagandist Criminal Ecocidal 'Child-Killing' & 'War-Starting' EMPIRE, controlled by the ‘Ruling-Elite’, UHNWI, <0.003%ers, TCCers, arrogantly self-appointed "Masters of the Universe", and "Evil (not-so) Geniuses" [Kurt Andersen] — which hides Empire behind their totally corrupted dual-party Vichy-facade of duopoly faux-democracy.
Thank you. Also - GG tweets – extracted ~Oct. 28 period https://twitter.com/ggreenwald
• The regime of censorship being imposed on the internet – by a consortium of DC Dems, billionaire-funded "disinformation experts," the US Security State, and liberal employees of media corporations – is dangerously intensifying in ways I believe are not adequately understood.
• The people who work for the newspaper owned by Jeff Bezos and who write for the magazine controlled and funded by Laurene Powell Jobs (widow of Steve Jobs – she was a big ($6M+) donor to Hillary) are very worried this morning about the unprecedented crisis we face of billionaires buying and controlling the flow of news and information.
• The greatest damage in the West right now is being caused by self-anointed experts claiming to "combat disinformation," and NGOs funded by billionaires and the US/UK Security State dedicated to "anti-disinformation campaigns": @AtlanticCouncil, @DFRLab, @ISDglobal, @OCCRP, etc.
• That absurd spectacle of Dept. of Homeland Security appointing that deranged #Resistance fanatic (Nina Jankowicz) as Disinformation Czar was just one piece of this censorship regime uniting state and corporate power, funded by oligarchs, to shield propaganda from dissent: (Facebook, Tweeter, YouTube) -- Biden’s “Minster of Truth” Nina Jankowicz Participated in Secret NATO-Funded Cabal to Subvert Western Democracies Using Disinformation as Cover - https://www.revolver.news/2022/05/biden-minster-of-truth-nina-jankowicz-and-the-secret-nato-funded-cabal-to-subvert-western-democracies-using-disinformation-as-cover/
• And it wouldn't be possible without the vulgar use of corporate employees they call "reporters" whose only function is to troll the internet looking for establishment critics to silence: @oneunderscore__, @BrandyZadrozny, @TaylorLorenz, @RMac18, @MikeIsaac: censorship activists.
• Liberals spent decades suggesting (correctly as it turns out) that Reagan suffered various forms of senility, including onset of Alzheimer's, in his second term, but now they're trying to invent a new rule that it's bigoted against disabled people to discuss cognitive impairment
• Meanwhile, the cable show that has **the largest audience of younger Democrats** -- meaning self-identified Democrats between the ages of 24-54 -- is . . . the Tucker Carlson Tonight/Show, appearing 8 pm ET on Fox News
• Joe Biden often has no idea where he is, is often unable to string together two coherent sentences, and has started to fall asleep in the middle of interviews.
Why are you so bigoted against people “who struggle with a stutter”?
• Bernie Sanders condemns the House Progressives' original letter on Ukraine, says they were right to apologize for it and then retract it because it should never been issued at all, proceeds to recite Marco Rubio and Tom Cotton's views on Ukraine
• One of the signers of the now disgraced letter (that appallingly wondered if diplomacy might be a useful tool) -- @RepRaskin -- is commendably engaged in all sorts of self-abasement.
He's denouncing diplomacy advocates as -- transphobic colonialists
As much as I have admiration for Noam Chomsky's work this interview (like most interviews I've heard with him in the last several years) has left me seriously disappointed. His vitriol towards the Republican party stands in stark contrast to his mild critiques of the Democrats which is a viewpoint that seems increasingly anachronistic and out of touch to me.
This was most evident in his tirade against the Republicans with regards to climate change. Sure, the Republican party is probably worse on climate change than the Democrats but the fact of the matter is they are both so insanely, suicidally far from what it would take to meaningfully address climate change that any contrast between them is effectively meaningless. The same thought pattern reared its head when Chris asked about the Ukrain war. The Democrats (including Bernie Sanders), who control all branches of government, are currently embroiling our country in a nakedly corrupt proxy war that has a real possibility of ending in a nuclear holocaust. Does that not deserve at least as strong of condemnation as the Republican party's policies?
A thought experiment... If your are faced with two strangers, one of whom promises to stab your child 4000 times and another who promises to stab your child 3999 times, how much time would you expend bemoaning the former rather than decrying both options as unacceptable?
About strange nude man attack on Pelosi: Paul Pelosi was most likely attacked by a male prostitute