Never forget it is those psychopaths that have ruined your lives with their greed and avarice. There was time when they realised that every person deserved a living wage, a productive life etc but not any longer. Now they take, take and take more, listen to this speech by Chris Hedges, incredibly accurate and up lifting.
+Jake Preston So true! Shall be including ‘Sociopaths’ in my rants, here on. 😄 It’s like shooting fish in a barrel these days. A few years ago I was constantly taken to task. N/C mhikl
+Baz Metse Even Roman emperors provided regular food supplies to Roman citizens and sometimes money, though i'm sure that didnt extend across the empire. I have to disagree about Hedges being uplifting. Sobering would be a more apt description.
What Chris is saying about the American prison system is true - from the police, to the courts, to the prisons - it is all unspeakably horrible, beyond belief for anyone who has not seen it up close.
Hearing truth which rings as clear as a bell is good for the soul. Chris Hedges new series on telesur, which is available on youtube as well, is great.
An end to speculation. Forgive student loan debt. Create living wage jobs. Health care as a right. Forgive mortgage loan debt. Moratorium on foreclosures. When will these reforms come to pass? Not in a thousand years. Not in a million.
Spartaculus Jones Iceland did most of those things and are the only country showing real growth in their economy. It starts with giving the "FUCK YOU" to the banks.
+Spartaculus Jones Yup!. Too late and would never be done anyway. The ultra 0.01% have a hunger that knows no bounds. They are coming down. Soon. They are feasting too close to the bone. It happens to all oligarchies in the end. Remember the Roman Empire. I believe Michael Parenti and “The Assassination of Julius Caesar” covers it in detail. What follows was the dark ages. Let us hope we can crawl out from under that one when the time comes and the times are approaching very quickly. N/C mhikl
only at the 30 minute mark, but wow, what a great speech so far and what a great man. yes, there is a moral imperative for revolt (especially against the criminal bankers today).
+smartknowledgeu he's going to go down in history as one of the new founding fathers, find me 5 other highly intelligent public individuals openly calling for revolution?
I'm reading Eisenhower's memoirs following WW2, entitled "Crusade in Europe". A fascinating read that revealed to me how much the average American detested the idea of embroilling the country in foreign wars. Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, how little the nation invested in any serious intelligence apparatus. The sparsity of its military forces. The temporary nature of its military bureaucracy, but for a cadre of career professionals. Prior to our entry in WW2, our nation did not have a thirst for bloody conflicts. The National Security Act of 1945 sealed the deal on codifying a DoD, CIA, and numerous other bureaucracies which continue to feed from the public trough to this day. Their unholy alliances with corporate/global entities, strengthened by revolving door benefits to those within its virtuous circle, ensure our march to Fascism. Sadly, it seems our successful efforts to curtail Fascism have allowed us to become the very enemy the Allies initially set out to defeat. Eisenhower was certainly part of the brain-trust that created a world-class, highly coordinated, multi-national military apparatus capable of brilliant operations like Torch and Overlord. However, this same man also warned us of the monster that had to be unleashed for this to happen. Too bad we didn't take his warning seriously enough. I suppose the propaganda machine was (and remains) too well tuned to allow that to happen.
This video has 52K views and covers the most important details of why our country is going down in flames. Pewdipie has millions of views, and has a comical take on video games. Maybe we deserve to crash and burn.
not all of us, but sometimes it's tempting to think the carefree dumbasses, who once they do care, often visit low/misinfo channels, like prager uv (autistic geezer presenting no brainer, biased viewpoints as if 'new revelations') alex jones, or any crap channel quickly get 100s of k's views.
Exactly ! The twisted values of the majority of americans is appalling ! And when the crash comes they will all try to overcome it with their game console controllers ! Omfg .
Make sure you don't drive in any newer cars, Chris. We are with you, just remember there are no real Demons. We are ALL victims in this system, and we ALL realize it, even the rich. We don't need an eye for an eye, no one is to blame. We need a future.
Explanation: investigative journalist Michael Hastings died in a suspicious car crash right after notifying his attorney that someone was after him. According to witnesses, his car suddenly sped up from a light then veered into a tree. His model of car could potentially be controlled by remote as admitted by the manufacturer. He had recently wrote a hit piece on a US General who responded with death threats.
Mr. Hedges, this is the one of the few times you will ever hear me move in lockstep with Noam Chomsky. He once said you don't speak truth to power because power already knows the truth. They just don't care.
As always, brilliant! At our core, we have become transformed into acquiescent consumers of "brands;" and, what it means to be a rebel is to buy generic. Those of us who wish to define ourselves beyond this confine are considered peculiar or family embarrassments.
Self Defense is Not Violence It's Justice and Revolution. When people are desperate, they an only do what they can do. Have the skill they have. Let's stay focused on the REAL Criminals and War Mongers
Restoring the Republic. The 17th amendment supposedly amends Article 1 Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution, it does not amend Article 5, which prohibits taking the state's right to equal suffrage in the senate via amendment and without the state's expressed consent. As per Article 5, each individual state, all 50 of them, must consent to the 17th, and if only one state withdraws its consent, the 17th is automatically voided. " ~ that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate." It doesn't say, unless *three fourths of the other states decide otherwise. No State, Without Its Consent. The 17th was unconstitutional from its inception, Alabama; Florida; Georgia (refused to vote on it); Kentucky; Maryland; Mississippi; Rhode Island; South Carolina; Virginia; Utah (explicitly rejected amendment);. Did not consent. The 17th is basically, a nonbinding agreement that is held in place by the rule of custom and ignorance. Being unlawful to begin with, the 17th does not need to go through the repeal process, all the states' have to do is withdraw their consent to it, as per Article 5, and seat their selection of Senators. IF the states' legislators were to do this, it would effectively end the 100+ year rule of progressive (socialist) democracy and restore the Republic. It would also decimate the DNC/RNC national party apparatus and cut the corporate bribery funneled through campaign funding by half, leaving the remaining half ineffectual. It would force people who divide themselves along party lines to seek common ground and common goals to counter state's ambitions in congress. And of course, it would toss the biggest monkey wrench into the gears of the Neoliberal/Neocon's nation destroying, empire building machinations. Over time, the people would withdraw their attention from the newly established Federal and focus upon the politics of local and state import, and states will regain their individual, independent personalities, establishing laws that work towards their own population's ends independent of other states and of Federal interference. We would, once again, become a nation of states, distinct. States' reputation of the unconstitutional 17th represents the fulcrum, the point at which the ever expanding centralized fascist police state can be overturned. All that needs to be done is to convince the states' legislators (the lever) that it is in their best interests to do it. They stick that one constitution based step into D.C., and we'll rush them with more constitution based reforms. If nothing else, we'll find out which side of the totalitarian fence they're stand on. The only thing I would suggest to the states' legislators when they write the enabling law, is that they stipulate that the selectee must be native born to their state and have served for a minimum of six years in elected public service within the state.
Hedges is right about rebellion being necessary but I don't think he should be putting down legal movements like the attempts to overturn Citizens United. He should be backing that too. He has definitely landing himself on the 'extremists' list with this speech. I hope he doesnt meet with an untimely ending. I admire his courage. Great man.
Climate change is happening, it naturally happens every so many thousand years, but our industrialisation is adding and ex celebrating the change and that is the problem..
What is going on with the ability to "Like" comments? I clicked on Baz Metse's Thumbs up Icon (Like), and it subtracted by one, I had to click again to get the likes back to 33, the same thing happened on a couple of others.
They will be the next ones to go down and will be betrayed along with the middle class and low income that this death system discards. The root problem is the oligarchic criminal class with ignorant people who are poisoned on purpose. Get the flouride and contaminates out of the food and water-one might have a chance. That includes the poisoned pharmaceuticals. Pay to live low wages by greedy employers is called wage slavery if one has to take out a loan or credit card needs to end. It's called exploitation for profit. One would have thought that there would be an armed rebellion by now. We are not free, we are free range slaves and its time to do something about it-quickly!
There is one more thing in explaining apathy of the masses. It is done through meds and fluoride in the water and who knows what else. The majority of people are not naturally apathetic. It is being done on purpose for this very reason.
I keep hearing about living wages and decent employment. Before you can even begin to discuss wages, you first have to recognize the fact that our "leaders" are constantly giving us "free trade" instead of "fair trade". Not the same thing. Any profits or products made offshore should be taxed heavily. Otherwise we'll have to abandon the corporate state, in chaos and civil unrest.
He sounds like a minister at church. Go look up a TH-cam video on Billy Graham at a Crusade. Their speaking styles, self-confidence, rhythm of language, the use of pauses, are identical.
this guy is a spot on ROCK STAR. i know, a strange term to use, but..hey. he is spot ON!!! alas, i feel very much, like it's going to get a LOT worse, before it gets better. the enemy shoots back, and they aint stupid. we're in trouble. real trouble! and i have to say, that i never thought i'd see it come to this. i really didn't. let us all do everything we can. NOW!
I find Chris Hedges a brilliant scholar. I only wish he could exchange the phrase "climate change" to "climate engineering" and place the fault where it belongs? Thank you for this video. I was enthralled.
I have just posted the following on the C. Hedges v S. Wolin TH-cam discussion. "I have only watched a few minutes but I got the idea that Sheldon Wolin misunderstood both capitalism and democracy. In a nutshell we moved on from capitalism even before Karl Marx wrote about it. We replaced it with the "state interventionism". The capitalist would henceforth be totally regulated by the state. Whilst many consider that democracy is about voting and majority rule the truth is that parliamentary democracy is more to do with freedom of speech, freedom of thought, debate and scrutiny. I watched a bit more. The man is very mistaken. Take the following on "inverted totalitarianism" from Wikipedia: "Wolin believes the democracy of the United States is sanitized of political participation, and describes it as managed democracy: "a political form in which governments are legitimated by elections that they have learned to control".[13] Under managed democracy, the electorate is prevented from having a significant impact on policies adopted by the state through the continuous employment of public relations techniques.[14]" Have you ever heard anything so mistaken. If an administration had learned how to control elections then how come they get voted out of office? QED. I repeat that we moved on from capitalism to a "mixed economy" 150 years ago and democracy is a place where the best argument can be made, heard and acted upon. A new law is passed because it survived debate and scrutiny, first reading, second reading, amendment debates, second house review, stakeholder consultation and public consultation. And if there should be some unforeseen downside apparent following its introduction then we just amend the new law. It is mistaken to think that laws are made by corporate lobbying and bribes. But democracy is even bigger than the political world. It is the answer to the "value question". We no longer refer to ancient moral texts or the "greatest happiness principal" or the "categorical imperative". We make all our moral decisions as we go via parliament and in the western democracies we do a great job." Dear Chris, I thought you had read the Open Society and its Enemies but here you are espousing Wolin rubbish.
You're not understanding that the people that are running things are human hence prone to corruption, and errors. They forget there human and the population has forgotten. Society as a whole has put these people on a pedestal for so long they forgot.
God Bless You Chris Hedges! And God Bless America! A lost nation of violence and ignorance. It´s so sad. All the lost opportunities. All the wasted lives and resources. Just a few more days now until the day for vengeance has come! Looking forward to the final ball-game. Finally Make them pay! Regain the future!
I'd like to say how glad I am not to be an American Citizen, but I think that when the shit really hits the fan, it's not going to matter much when I come from. This will be global, nothing can stop it now.
Is electronic money real money? People get their paycheck deposited through direct deposit. Then, they use their debit cards to purchase things and pay bills. Yes, you can go to the bank and withdraw cash paper money. But what happens if everyone decides to do that? What happens if there is an announcement that savings deposit will be utilized for BAIL-INS? I tell you what will happen. Anyone that has two brain cells to rub together will rush to the bank to withdraw their money. The bank will not have enough cash on hand to pay off everyone. Even if the banks were able to utilize interbank loans or somehow call in all of their investments. There simply would not be enough cash to take care of everyone. But they can eventually get it. GETTING IT IS NOT THE SAME THING AS HAVING IT. So essentially we are operating this country under COUNTERFEIT MONEY. Then they take this counterfeit money and loan it to us and bury us in a mountain of debt. BUT HERE IS THE KICKER, They don't take the money from people's savings, they create their own counterfeit electronic money and loan it to us. Interest is like a tax on money and these private banks have a near complete monopoly on its creation. So if we can no longer afford the mortgage the banks foreclose on the home and they get to keep a real asset. They just exchange some computer entries for REAL STUFF. You think the politicians are going to help you? They spend 75% of their time looking for campaign / party contributions. They get these contributions when private entities tell them to vote "yes" on congressional bills written by these very same private entities. These congressional Bills have blanks in them so that the congress person could just simply insert their name. When we become a cashless society the banks will have the authority to tell us who gets a bank account and who does not. Another words if you start an ONLINE BUSINESS the banks will dictate who gets an account and who does not. If they don't like your business they can tell you that they are not going to do business with you. And because online businesses are a matter of convenience people won't shop if they have to jump hoops. Remember a bank account is a privilege. They have the authority to oust you if they want to. Take notice: Shortly after WikiLeaks -- the rogue information-gathering and dissemination website -- leaked hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. diplomatic cables to the public in 2010, Visa, and MasterCard blocked donations to the site. At the time, MasterCard said it doesn't allow its customers to be engaged either directly or indirectly with illegal activity. The organization, set up by Julian Assange, says it has lost 95 percent of its revenue since the so-called financial blockade began. However, in December 2012, a new organization called the Freedom of the Press Foundation was created and funnels donations to WikiLeaks among other organizations that execute "aggressive, public-interest journalism." The foundation takes all major credit cards for donations. Visa and MasterCard both declined to comment on the financial blockade. WikiLeaks never signed up to accept donations through Discover or American Express. Most people are told about this but they bury their face in the sand and go on as though nothing was said. But let me tell you. The people behind this are very evil. They want to spread this system all over the world. To date they have cause more bombs to be dropped than all the bombs in the second world war. During the second world war you could see the enemy and we responded in kind. Americans on one side and Russia on the other side. Hitler was confronted with the reality if his actions. They were levelling the country under his command. Bombardment day and night. Dresden, Berlin were all destroyed, millions of people died. And the Apathetic people died by the millions. But this new enemy is secret. They are amongst us. They are waging a war against us. And the apathetic people? They bury their head in the sand until one day they will come knocking on their door. And they wont be able to ignore it any longer.
se7ensnakes The banksters think they have divine right rule over the land. Enough of the wealthy who think they speak from god and do gods work. When they take real world assets for numbers on a 2 cent piece of paper, they think it is a gift from god because who would be that stupid to hand it over? It must be divine.
se7ensnakes Some people fear more that they might lose more then they gain because they got something. They care nothing for the lot who have nothing and even sneer at them for their plight. The chimps are looking at the their own status and try to stick with the most powerful chimp. These sorts of folks need to be pushed to the end of the queue because they sell other humans short not only because they are cynical but they worship the evil and wait for their own opportunity to get their. They enable the wealthy who use them in debt bondage to keep the poverty going. It means that the folks at the bottom have to fight to take a piece of the action. These numbers that keep on increasing in the computers are part of an elaborate mind war to keep folks poor.
Pine Ridge, Camden NJ, West Virginia some of the few sacrifice zones: Bikini Island in the South Pacific is the ultimate where Bravo atomic bomb was deployed.
Hearing what Hedges tells about his country, I can only say that EUROPE is very different, to sum it all up in one simple sentence, or two! None of what he reports (and what we have seen outselves and know about since 2001) about the behaviour of cops and big corporations is anywhere close to happen in nearly all of Europe! I wonder if and when we might have to face the same corporate takeover here as well. From my personal perspective I cannot see we have to. Maybe I am just naive. Of course they try to introduce "fracking" here too (without success), but nothing is possible against the will of people. A longterm infiltration is always possible anywhere, but European governments are not in a position to force UNWANTED technologies on us overnight. Genetically changed foods is another example, as is nuclear energy any much more! America - Hedges is perfectly right - turns into a ruthless corporate state. All power and wealth for a chosen few - all others keep mouth shut or go to jail or FEMA camps. The solution? Get rid of your lying presstitudes. "BREAD & CIRCUS" is oldschool. th-cam.com/video/5lfInFVPkQs/w-d-xo.html
Look man, we are human beings, we are each part of humanity.... why not lets start a Union of human beings... The Union of Humanity". Now if we could pull that off...wow. You have the entire world to work with and my guess is that most people just want to get down to living. That would be one hell of a Union. Just thinking..
To "revolt" you have to be able to survive in a semi free state. Voting seems to only make differences around the edges, discouraging people in the process. Hedges seems to provide nothing about how to achieve that goal except to have independent means (ie be part of the rich already). Since that is so difficult nowadays especially with debt and/or a family I do not see how in principle it could be accomplished.
'Marx Was Right' was the title of the text of the opening speech at a conference of leftwingers in New York in May (www.truthdig.com/item/karl marx was right 20150531). This is certainly a welcome change from the usual 'Marx Was Wrong' found in economics textbooks. But there was a problem- the speaker, Chris Hedges, was wrong about what he thought Marx got right. Marx, he claimed,'saw that there would come a day when capitalism would exhaust it's potential and collapse'. Marx certainly didn't think that capitalism would last forever as he saw it as a passing stage in the history of humanity. Hedges, however, commits Marx to the view that capitalism will collapse economically (infact he thinks that this is happening already): ''as Marx warned, there is a limit to an economy built on scaffolding of debt expansion. There comes a moment, Marx knew, when there would be no new markets available and no new pools of people who could take on new debt. The hoarding of wealth by a tiny capitalist elite, Marx forsaw, along with the exploitation of workers, meant that the masses could no longer buy the products that propelled capitalism forward.' This suggests that capitalism will eventually collapse due to a lack of market demand on the part of 'the masses' whether from their pay or what they have borrowed. The trouble with this theory is that it does not explain why capitalism has not already collapsed., long ago, since the market demand of 'the masses' has always been limited because a part of what is produced goes to the exploiting capitalist class as profits.In fact, what they can't buy, the capitalists can. They don't always do, but that only causes the periodic economic slumps that are a feature of capitalism not the collapse of the whole system. To attribute such an incoherent view to Marx is not doing him a favour. It also assumes that the aim of production under capitalism is to meet the needs that people can pay for, that capitalism is an economic system geared to meeting paying consumer demand. Marx, on the other hand, analysed capitalism as being geared to making profits, where money is invested in production, with a view to profit, most of which is then re-invested as further capital. For Marx, 'what propels capitalism forward' is capitalist firms seeking profits, not what non capitalists buy. So, if capitalism were going to collapse it would have to be from a lack of profits rather than a lack of markets. But Marx didn't hold that view either. In his main work, Volume 1 of Capital, Marx does set out (at the end of chapter 32 on The Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation) how he thought capitalism would eventually come to an end. Economics was still involved but it was neither a lack of profits nor a lack of markets. It was the consentration and centralisation of the means of production operated co-operatively by a collective labour force.This would come into conflict with continuing class ownership of the means of production, a contradiction that would express itself in a 'revolt of the working class'. It would be resolved when the 'expropriators are expropriated' by the workers transforming 'capitalistic private property into socialised property', ushering in a society based 'on cooperation and the possession in common of the land and the means of production.' In short, capitalism would have to be collapsed, not collapse. It would not self-destruct but be purposefully replaced by a new society.
Most of this speaks to the weakness of the average person to bend towards the psychopath. The charmer, the liar, the fraud. We have been made more lazy from lack of education and the promotion of frauds in government. We do not have the intellectual capacity to earn the respect of these persons. They are not like us and we need to learn how to resist them. That earns their fear and fear generates their respect. They are not the same species and anger only feeds them. Intellectual grit is the only thing they fear and respect.
@ 1:01:20 He says that '1 in 4 children go to bed hungry in the this country' (i.e. the USA.)... Now this is a good example of why I have a problem with his talk. He rather one sided, not putting out all the facts, & even aggrandizing his point of view. I do think he makes some good points. But unless we tell the truth, the whole truth, & nothing but the truth, we will just in the end be discredited in part or whole. By the way who here really thinks that's 1 in 4 children in the USA. go to bed hungry? And most of the children that do go to bed hungry, there is a reason for it like, drug use by the parents & etc. not in large part because of the reasons he implied. And I'm sure he supports the big bad industrial complex everyday. I bet he even pays taxes. If a person believes so much in what he's saying quit supporting the complex, quit flying in those plans buying the gas for your car, & suit coat, quit using your A/C & etc. He's no doubt making a living off his verbiage, so he has to tow the line. Nevertheless, he does make some good points.
Feel free, by any means necessary, to demonstrate what you believe he doesn't and should. It will take us all doing something, not simply one person doing everything. Not putting it all on the person who, by virtue of fact, has already done too much. Working as a journalist to get the truth out in some of the most dangerous places of war on earth, working with the most vulnerable in dangerous places of destitution, while a divinity student. Writing books and presenting facts not fiction on these times, choosing to teach to the incarcerated. Yeah, feel free. Presenting this truth which he does with exceptionable lucidity. This courage and determination to speak truth to power puts a huge target on his back, from the system he critiques, which you may not realize, remains a very unpleasant place to exist. If is this is a burden you'd like to pick up and better ?? Feel free.
Search TH-cam using "9/11 Bombshell" and get access to the real 28+ page FOIA document in the segment immediately following minute 31. (Tip: You have to listen carefully to get the URL link.) After downloading it, forward it to everyone in your directory before the site is discovered and taken down.
you know when someone talks this slowly and sonorously, they are not relying on facts or logic to persuade you (he learned this from the church). Despite his flaws, Hedges' basic message is one I agree with: Resist the dominant structures of our time like "capitalism", nationalism, the political parties, the media, etc. He is the zealot of our side, powerful but ultimately possibly dangerous if we begin to effect change.
+ChannelMath He is relying on facts and logic. And by the authors he mentions he seems much better read than you are. You can't comment until you've read his books.
When I was a stinking hippie in the 60s, we always took to the streets in protest against this and that. now days its done over the internet, its less effective, or is it. now days I am to lazy to get off my couch. but if shit hits the fan I will go out in a blazing glory.
Only one Book can save you all by leading you to such Salvation... Jesus Christ. His Word/Message in The Holy Bible. Mark 13:10 And the gospel must first be published among all nations. John 15:20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/07/1399799/-Civil-Disobedience-or-Insurrection-Poem Insurrection or Civil Disobedience? Insurrection, may be the only direction, to guarantee the protection of the citizens of the USA and the world. There has been far too much apathy by the electorate, Too much complacency of the protectorate, too much obeyence of the directorate, the simmering anger of the people needs to be unfurled. The only way that change in government policy has ever arisen, is through the power of people to break out of their prison. Voting people are the only ones who give government permission, to make fools of them, by voting for people who operate in the underworld. Will you stand up and take your government back, from people who will ridicule you and then will attack? We need fighters for human rights and for compassion of those who lack. Will you stand up for those rights, no matter what the words are that get hurled? No one ever said that change was very easy, We don't want it to happen through tactics that are sleazy. Chanting slogans demanding change may seem cheesy, sometimes civil disobedience is needed for the good of the world. - Linda Meyer Update: Added as a possible chorus: We are one, we are the human race, we don't disparage anyone with a different color face. No matter what your status is, don't be a disgrace. Fight with human kindness, no matter how much you get maced. Take your battle to the streets, with peacefulness and grace, even though through the streets, your movement may get chased. This is your time and your place, to make a chant storm and let the establishment be swirled, into a new awakening, with new thoughts that get twirled. -Linda Meyer
The question near the end about the results of previous revolutions reveals the weakness and indeed futility of what Hedges is advocating. While he, along with all sane and conscious people, recognize the nightmare that America has become, he ultimately has nothing to offer. Hedges, while preparing for his classes, would do well to study Plato more closely, particularly his views about democracy. While our leaders today are certainly corrupt, the average man and woman is no better, quite possibly worse. It is delusional to think that 'the people' are going to overthrow the corporate state and create some populist, progressive utopia. Like Hedges, there are many 'leftists' who are sincere and well meaning, but their efforts at genuine change are ineffective. Why? Because they're wrong. All men are not created equal. Democracy, equality, rights, all of that is nonsense. When an attempt is made to put these ideas into practice, the inevitable result is disaster. To those who want to go beyond Hedges to understand the real causes of our plight and what a real solution could be I would recommend listening to the interview of Mark Dyal by Greg Johnson here on youtube. His recommendation to those on the left is to keep going further in your criticism, keep going deeper in your questioning. If you do so honestly, you'll end up in a very different place than Chris Hedges.
if you wanted a future ,you should have joined the spacecraft club a long time ago, but as usual everyone was so comfy on their couch, now look at the bloody mess everyone is in, you could have empowered yourselfs with the ancient technologys, now its going to take a shitload of work, arg.
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A does he talk about any solutions how to fix all the problems that he is talked about. He’s very good at pointing out everything that is wrong which I agree with.But he doesn’t seem to have any answers or solutions to all these many many problems
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facts, data, and guy feeling - give me one good reason to trust and believe the government of the USA, Illuminati, corporations - follow the money they intend to suck as much from you and I as they can, nobody is going to fix any climate issues. These days everything is a lie, shake off the brain-washing and wake up.
Oh yes let's get off fossil fuels, let's clean up the environment. But let's not do it because of a lie. I personally have lived all my life environment friendly, I'm just sick to death of the lies.
Good documentary my friend, keep up the good work. I'm more worried these days about the financial crisis and the beating of war drums. One thing is clear - the USA is utterly out of control. It's not enough to have bad Middle East relations and terrorists, now they've stirred up a new Cold War and added Climate change to the pot. US citizens are being gunned down by their own Police, mass shootings are happening frequently. And more. The End Game is approaching there is no doubt. Nuclear war is my biggest fear. Where do we start to try and fix all this? Wake up and stop believing the media propaganda. Bring home all US troups, close all the bases. Make friends with Russia and Iran. Cut back energy use - start with Las Vegas. Replace fossil fuels with renewable energy. The answers are to be found everywhere but those in power don't care. 'They' are getting richer and they don't seem to care about anything else. It's always been that way but now the human race and the earth itself is threatened by the greedy power elite. Think about that 8 trillion guarding oil shipping, the 8 trillion on stupid wars, the 8 trillion on military buildup, and trillions and trillions more wasted and ask yourself where did all that money go? Then look at all the super rich and the answer has to be that it all went to the super rich. These people have sucked from the earth and its peoples now they're asking you to cough up more money to fix what they say are problems caused by all humans. They can't stop lying and making up ways to suck in more money. Wake up!
Right on, and here's hoping we all get a chance to buy an all electric vehicle in the hear future that has half the abilities of a Tesla. My friend just bought a new Nissan Leaf, looks pretty nice but as you pointed out not nearly as good as it could be.
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I like his work but the fact that he never referrer to The Zeitgeist Movement in this or any other speech,and cited the black lives matter as being Of the biggest movements at the moment shows hi is out of touch a bit.
I actually agree with you. There was no critique in the heavy sense of the word as I'm a huge fan of his work and will never be able to achieve a fraction of what he has or the impact he has had. I personally dont see the point of revolution for the sake of revolution without a broader understanding of what would it look like afterwards... We are looking of rivers of blood in the event of a 'global civil war' and I find it just as important to know where to go or it will be in vain. And I think the Zeitgeist movement shows at least one (not the only) viable updated view of reality that could be used as an educational tool along with a much overdue and muchly needed 'revolution' so that one compliments the other...
Great presentation Chris Hedges, however, I take exception to your comments relating to Climate Change...We all have a moral responsibility for the nurturing of our environment and the ecology, but it has been proven, unequivocally, that industrialisation' contribution to GLOBAL WARMING is insignificant. There is ample data supporting that we are entering a cyclical phase whether it is as a result from perturbation caused a binary planetary visitation or maybe its because the planet has reached its maximum point of its 26000 year precessional cycle where our polar ice caps are now closest the sun...Lets be objective on this point.......
Never forget it is those psychopaths that have ruined your lives with their greed and avarice. There was time when they realised that every person deserved a living wage, a productive life etc but not any longer. Now they take, take and take more, listen to this speech by Chris Hedges, incredibly accurate and up lifting.
Baz Metse I take it that "psychopaths" is a metaphor; however, I believe that "sociopaths" would be an exact diagnosis.
Jake Preston Fair enough
+Jake Preston
So true! Shall be including ‘Sociopaths’ in my rants, here on. 😄
It’s like shooting fish in a barrel these days. A few years ago I was constantly taken to task.
N/C
mhikl
+Baz Metse Even Roman emperors provided regular food supplies to Roman citizens and sometimes money, though i'm sure that didnt extend across the empire.
I have to disagree about Hedges being uplifting. Sobering would be a more apt description.
***** Yeah I could go with sobering as the verb. Irrespective the message he delivers is an important one. Peace
Right on, comrade Hedges. A huge number of us are ready and just waiting for the next spark.
just wait for the next crash, coming soon.
@@dickhamilton3517 yep
@Gavin. Still waiting for that spark?
Greetings from no man's land. 🔥
What Chris is saying about the American prison system is true - from the police, to the courts, to the prisons - it is all unspeakably horrible, beyond belief for anyone who has not seen it up close.
If people can stand united, Damn it. Come on humanity, keep pushing through anyway you can!
Hearing truth which rings as clear as a bell is good for the soul. Chris Hedges new series on telesur, which is available on youtube as well, is great.
An end to speculation. Forgive student loan debt. Create living wage jobs. Health care as a right. Forgive mortgage loan debt. Moratorium on foreclosures. When will these reforms come to pass? Not in a thousand years. Not in a million.
***** They also hanged people trapping to feed their family. Defenestration is more modern.
Spartaculus Jones Iceland did most of those things and are the only country showing real growth in their economy. It starts with giving the "FUCK YOU" to the banks.
Remember "The Patriot"" Why trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three hundred tyrants here?"
+Spartaculus Jones
Yup!. Too late and would never be done anyway. The ultra 0.01% have a hunger that knows no bounds.
They are coming down. Soon. They are feasting too close to the bone. It happens to all oligarchies in the end. Remember the Roman Empire. I believe Michael Parenti and “The Assassination of Julius Caesar” covers it in detail. What follows was the dark ages. Let us hope we can crawl out from under that one when the time comes and the times are approaching very quickly.
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***** Rome began to fall with the collapse of it's republican institutions. Dang Marius and his reforms :)
only at the 30 minute mark, but wow, what a great speech so far and what a great man. yes, there is a moral imperative for revolt (especially against the criminal bankers today).
+smartknowledgeu he's going to go down in history as one of the new founding fathers, find me 5 other highly intelligent public individuals openly calling for revolution?
Indie Media Eastcoast
i can feel my mind slipping back into pacifism and complacency... thank you
I'm reading Eisenhower's memoirs following WW2, entitled "Crusade in Europe". A fascinating read that revealed to me how much the average American detested the idea of embroilling the country in foreign wars. Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, how little the nation invested in any serious intelligence apparatus. The sparsity of its military forces. The temporary nature of its military bureaucracy, but for a cadre of career professionals. Prior to our entry in WW2, our nation did not have a thirst for bloody conflicts.
The National Security Act of 1945 sealed the deal on codifying a DoD, CIA, and numerous other bureaucracies which continue to feed from the public trough to this day. Their unholy alliances with corporate/global entities, strengthened by revolving door benefits to those within its virtuous circle, ensure our march to Fascism.
Sadly, it seems our successful efforts to curtail Fascism have allowed us to become the very enemy the Allies initially set out to defeat.
Eisenhower was certainly part of the brain-trust that created a world-class, highly coordinated, multi-national military apparatus capable of brilliant operations like Torch and Overlord. However, this same man also warned us of the monster that had to be unleashed for this to happen. Too bad we didn't take his warning seriously enough. I suppose the propaganda machine was (and remains) too well tuned to allow that to happen.
Get rid of the oligarchs and take our country back by any means necessary!
This video has 52K views and covers the most important details of why our country is going down in flames. Pewdipie has millions of views, and has a comical take on video games. Maybe we deserve to crash and burn.
not all of us, but sometimes it's tempting to think the carefree dumbasses, who once they do care, often visit low/misinfo channels, like prager uv (autistic geezer presenting no brainer, biased viewpoints as if 'new revelations') alex jones, or any crap channel quickly get 100s of k's views.
Midas Snap m
Married at the age of 17
Exactly !
The twisted values of the majority of americans is appalling !
And when the crash comes they will all try to overcome it with their game console controllers !
Omfg .
@@maxfastest ok boomer
I am SO disappointed I missed attending this speech in person. Thanks for sharing.
God Bless you Chris , good luck , you speak the truth , its refreshing to hear the truth
people around the world should watch, understand, internalize and share this video in every social site to maximize its valuable information.
l Love the actual date of the talk!
"Military complex is the most dangerous institution swallowing $1 trillion a year"
- at 1:00 hour
Make sure you don't drive in any newer cars, Chris. We are with you, just remember there are no real Demons. We are ALL victims in this system, and we ALL realize it, even the rich. We don't need an eye for an eye, no one is to blame. We need a future.
Explanation: investigative journalist Michael Hastings died in a suspicious car crash right after notifying his attorney that someone was after him. According to witnesses, his car suddenly sped up from a light then veered into a tree. His model of car could potentially be controlled by remote as admitted by the manufacturer. He had recently wrote a hit piece on a US General who responded with death threats.
No one is "responsible" for this system.
sonetlumiere13 Blue tooth maintenance port hacking.
aurora7207 No, we are NOT "all victims" - there are real perpetrators, real villains, we live in an evil system run by psychopaths.
Steven Yourke No. Evil is an excuse to blame others for actions you fail to comprehend.
A voice of truth.
Mr. Hedges, this is the one of the few times you will ever hear me move in lockstep with Noam Chomsky. He once said you don't speak truth to power because power already knows the truth. They just don't care.
160,000 U.S. prisoners serving life without parole-a living death sentence-should be as big a scandal as 3,100 on death row.
Wonderful man
As always, brilliant! At our core, we have become transformed into acquiescent consumers of "brands;" and, what it means to be a rebel is to buy generic. Those of us who wish to define ourselves beyond this confine are considered peculiar or family embarrassments.
I do not mean this to be a hollow, meaningless, modern slogan, when I state:
MISTER HEDGES FOR PRESIDENT!
Self Defense is Not Violence It's Justice and Revolution. When people are desperate, they an only do what they can do. Have the skill they have. Let's stay focused on the REAL Criminals and War Mongers
He is simply the Best! Everything Chris hedges has spoken is the truth the question is do you get it!
8 bankers watched this video. Keep lighting up the darkness, Mr. Hedges!
Restoring the Republic.
The 17th amendment supposedly amends Article 1 Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution, it does not amend Article 5, which prohibits taking the state's right to equal suffrage in the senate via amendment and without the state's expressed consent. As per Article 5, each individual state, all 50 of them, must consent to the 17th, and if only one state withdraws its consent, the 17th is automatically voided.
" ~ that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate." It doesn't say, unless *three fourths of the other states decide otherwise. No State, Without Its Consent.
The 17th was unconstitutional from its inception, Alabama; Florida; Georgia (refused to vote on it); Kentucky; Maryland; Mississippi; Rhode Island; South Carolina; Virginia; Utah (explicitly rejected amendment);. Did not consent.
The 17th is basically, a nonbinding agreement that is held in place by the rule of custom and ignorance.
Being unlawful to begin with, the 17th does not need to go through the repeal process, all the states' have to do is withdraw their consent to it, as per Article 5, and seat their selection of Senators.
IF the states' legislators were to do this, it would effectively end the 100+ year rule of progressive (socialist) democracy and restore the Republic. It would also decimate the DNC/RNC national party apparatus and cut the corporate bribery funneled through campaign funding by half, leaving the remaining half ineffectual. It would force people who divide themselves along party lines to seek common ground and common goals to counter state's ambitions in congress. And of course, it would toss the biggest monkey wrench into the gears of the Neoliberal/Neocon's nation destroying, empire building machinations.
Over time, the people would withdraw their attention from the newly established Federal and focus upon the politics of local and state import, and states will regain their individual, independent personalities, establishing laws that work towards their own population's ends independent of other states and of Federal interference. We would, once again, become a nation of states, distinct.
States' reputation of the unconstitutional 17th represents the fulcrum, the point at which the ever expanding centralized fascist police state can be overturned. All that needs to be done is to convince the states' legislators (the lever) that it is in their best interests to do it. They stick that one constitution based step into D.C., and we'll rush them with more constitution based reforms.
If nothing else, we'll find out which side of the totalitarian fence they're stand on.
The only thing I would suggest to the states' legislators when they write the enabling law, is that they stipulate that the selectee must be native born to their state and have served for a minimum of six years in elected public service within the state.
man, this is so heartbreaking.
Chris is a brave man. He is not afraid. He speaks much truth.
It's time.
He is a gem of a human being.
Hedges is right about rebellion being necessary but I don't think he should be putting down legal movements like the attempts to overturn Citizens United. He should be backing that too.
He has definitely landing himself on the 'extremists' list with this speech. I hope he doesnt meet with an untimely ending. I admire his courage. Great man.
Climate change is happening, it naturally happens every so many thousand years, but our industrialisation is adding and ex celebrating the change and that is the problem..
robert alexander ho "exacerbating"
The 1%: "The residents of Richistan"
We need the Peoples Party !!!!!!!!!
What is going on with the ability to "Like" comments? I clicked on Baz Metse's Thumbs up Icon (Like), and it subtracted by one, I had to click again to get the likes back to 33, the same thing happened on a couple of others.
Military and police have to pull their heads out of the elites butt, and think of family and nation!
They will be the next ones to go down and will be betrayed along with the middle class and low income that this death system discards. The root problem is the oligarchic criminal class with ignorant people who are poisoned on purpose. Get the flouride and contaminates out of the food and water-one might have a chance. That includes the poisoned pharmaceuticals. Pay to live low wages by greedy employers is called wage slavery if one has to take out a loan or credit card needs to end. It's called exploitation for profit. One would have thought that there would be an armed rebellion by now. We are not free, we are free range slaves and its time to do something about it-quickly!
30:43 on prison officials interrupting prisoner education....
Ooh, yes! Come on, Americans, take your country back!
There is one more thing in explaining apathy of the masses. It is done through meds and fluoride in the water and who knows what else. The majority of people are not naturally apathetic. It is being done on purpose for this very reason.
I keep hearing about living wages and decent employment. Before you can even begin to discuss wages, you first have to recognize the fact that our "leaders" are constantly giving us "free trade" instead of "fair trade". Not the same thing. Any profits or products made offshore should be taxed heavily. Otherwise we'll have to abandon the corporate state, in chaos and civil unrest.
This is the land of the FREE!!!!!
US is land of the fee, home of the slave
Very powerful statements at about 22:00
I wonder what his life expectancy is?
See Naomi Wolf's Ten steps. Cant paste link so google it
He sounds like a minister at church. Go look up a TH-cam video on Billy Graham at a Crusade. Their speaking styles, self-confidence, rhythm of language, the use of pauses, are identical.
Have to take away the candy from the spoiled children, the elite!
*Overthrow the Corporate State*
this guy is a spot on ROCK STAR. i know, a strange term to use, but..hey. he is spot ON!!! alas, i feel very much, like it's going to get a LOT worse, before it gets better. the enemy shoots back, and they aint stupid. we're in trouble. real trouble! and i have to say, that i never thought i'd see it come to this. i really didn't. let us all do everything we can. NOW!
I find Chris Hedges a brilliant scholar.
I only wish he could exchange the phrase "climate change" to "climate engineering" and place the fault where it belongs?
Thank you for this video. I was enthralled.
I have just posted the following on the C. Hedges v S. Wolin TH-cam discussion.
"I have only watched a few minutes but I got the idea that Sheldon Wolin misunderstood both capitalism and democracy. In a nutshell we moved on from capitalism even before Karl Marx wrote about it. We replaced it with the "state interventionism". The capitalist would henceforth be totally regulated by the state. Whilst many consider that democracy is about voting and majority rule the truth is that parliamentary democracy is more to do with freedom of speech, freedom of thought, debate and scrutiny. I watched a bit more. The man is very mistaken. Take the following on "inverted totalitarianism" from Wikipedia: "Wolin believes the democracy of the United States is sanitized of political participation, and describes it as managed democracy: "a political form in which governments are legitimated by elections that they have learned to control".[13] Under managed democracy, the electorate is prevented from having a significant impact on policies adopted by the state through the continuous employment of public relations techniques.[14]" Have you ever heard anything so mistaken. If an administration had learned how to control elections then how come they get voted out of office? QED. I repeat that we moved on from capitalism to a "mixed economy" 150 years ago and democracy is a place where the best argument can be made, heard and acted upon. A new law is passed because it survived debate and scrutiny, first reading, second reading, amendment debates, second house review, stakeholder consultation and public consultation. And if there should be some unforeseen downside apparent following its introduction then we just amend the new law. It is mistaken to think that laws are made by corporate lobbying and bribes. But democracy is even bigger than the political world. It is the answer to the "value question". We no longer refer to ancient moral texts or the "greatest happiness principal" or the "categorical imperative". We make all our moral decisions as we go via parliament and in the western democracies we do a great job."
Dear Chris, I thought you had read the Open Society and its Enemies but here you are espousing Wolin rubbish.
You're not understanding that the people that are running things are human hence prone to corruption, and errors. They forget there human and the population has forgotten. Society as a whole has put these people on a pedestal for so long they forgot.
God Bless You Chris Hedges! And God Bless America!
A lost nation of violence and ignorance. It´s so sad. All the lost opportunities. All the wasted lives and resources.
Just a few more days now until the day for vengeance has come!
Looking forward to the final ball-game. Finally Make them pay! Regain the future!
Crimetocracy - the criminals are in power.
"The criminals are in power" I'm going to add the "biggest thugs" are in power..
The strangest people have the power to lead me to my darkest hour. - Ian Gillan
24:00 and 115:00
He comes across a lot like JFK!
56:50
His compassion for the prison population is interesting.
Hedges a running mate for Bernie Sanders??
Please america,save yourself.
I'd like to say how glad I am not to be an American Citizen, but I think that when the shit really hits the fan, it's not going to matter much when I come from. This will be global, nothing can stop it now.
this white man has a very high esteem for himself
Once the corporations supplying discretionary items go down and all you have left is monopoly supplied necessities paid what have you got?
What? In America?
associaed forces like the state department, and westminster
Is electronic money real money? People get their paycheck deposited through direct deposit. Then, they use their debit cards to purchase things and pay bills. Yes, you can go to the bank and withdraw cash paper money. But what happens if everyone decides to do that? What happens if there is an announcement that savings deposit will be utilized for BAIL-INS? I tell you what will happen. Anyone that has two brain cells to rub together will rush to the bank to withdraw their money. The bank will not have enough cash on hand to pay off everyone. Even if the banks were able to utilize interbank loans or somehow call in all of their investments. There simply would not be enough cash to take care of everyone. But they can eventually get it. GETTING IT IS NOT THE SAME THING AS HAVING IT. So essentially we are operating this country under COUNTERFEIT MONEY.
Then they take this counterfeit money and loan it to us and bury us in a mountain of debt. BUT HERE IS THE KICKER, They don't take the money from people's savings, they create their own counterfeit electronic money and loan it to us. Interest is like a tax on money and these private banks have a near complete monopoly on its creation. So if we can no longer afford the mortgage the banks foreclose on the home and they get to keep a real asset. They just exchange some computer entries for REAL STUFF.
You think the politicians are going to help you? They spend 75% of their time looking for campaign / party contributions. They get these contributions when private entities tell them to vote "yes" on congressional bills written by these very same private entities. These congressional Bills have blanks in them so that the congress person could just simply insert their name.
When we become a cashless society the banks will have the authority to tell us who gets a bank account and who does not. Another words if you start an ONLINE BUSINESS the banks will dictate who gets an account and who does not. If they don't like your business they can tell you that they are not going to do business with you. And because online businesses are a matter of convenience people won't shop if they have to jump hoops. Remember a bank account is a privilege. They have the authority to oust you if they want to. Take notice:
Shortly after WikiLeaks -- the rogue information-gathering and dissemination website -- leaked hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. diplomatic cables to the public in 2010, Visa, and MasterCard blocked donations to the site. At the time, MasterCard said it doesn't allow its customers to be engaged either directly or indirectly with illegal activity. The organization, set up by Julian Assange, says it has lost 95 percent of its revenue since the so-called financial blockade began.
However, in December 2012, a new organization called the Freedom of the Press Foundation was created and funnels donations to WikiLeaks among other organizations that execute "aggressive, public-interest journalism." The foundation takes all major credit cards for donations.
Visa and MasterCard both declined to comment on the financial blockade. WikiLeaks never signed up to accept donations through Discover or American Express.
Most people are told about this but they bury their face in the sand and go on as though nothing was said. But let me tell you. The people behind this are very evil. They want to spread this system all over the world. To date they have cause more bombs to be dropped than all the bombs in the second world war. During the second world war you could see the enemy and we responded in kind. Americans on one side and Russia on the other side. Hitler was confronted with the reality if his actions. They were levelling the country under his command. Bombardment day and night. Dresden, Berlin were all destroyed, millions of people died. And the Apathetic people died by the millions. But this new enemy is secret. They are amongst us. They are waging a war against us. And the apathetic people? They bury their head in the sand until one day they will come knocking on their door. And they wont be able to ignore it any longer.
Ink Dup not me
Ink Dup some people are satified with all the stuff they got even though they may be slaves
se7ensnakes The banksters think they have divine right rule over the land. Enough of the wealthy who think they speak from god and do gods work. When they take real world assets for numbers on a 2 cent piece of paper, they think it is a gift from god because who would be that stupid to hand it over? It must be divine.
se7ensnakes Some people fear more that they might lose more then they gain because they got something. They care nothing for the lot who have nothing and even sneer at them for their plight. The chimps are looking at the their own status and try to stick with the most powerful chimp. These sorts of folks need to be pushed to the end of the queue because they sell other humans short not only because they are cynical but they worship the evil and wait for their own opportunity to get their. They enable the wealthy who use them in debt bondage to keep the poverty going. It means that the folks at the bottom have to fight to take a piece of the action. These numbers that keep on increasing in the computers are part of an elaborate mind war to keep folks poor.
Ink Dup hey I warn you. Stop insulting the sheep....
C.H. for president!
It's nice to have access to truth. Thanks for inventing the internet Al Gore.
Pine Ridge, Camden NJ, West Virginia some of the few sacrifice zones: Bikini Island in the South Pacific is the ultimate where Bravo atomic bomb was deployed.
Hearing what Hedges tells about his country, I can only say that EUROPE is very different, to sum it all up in one simple sentence, or two!
None of what he reports (and what we have seen outselves and know about since 2001) about the behaviour of cops and big corporations is anywhere close to happen in nearly all of Europe!
I wonder if and when we might have to face the same corporate takeover here as well.
From my personal perspective I cannot see we have to. Maybe I am just naive. Of course they try to introduce "fracking" here too (without success), but nothing is possible against the will of people. A longterm infiltration is always possible anywhere, but European governments are not in a position to force UNWANTED technologies on us overnight. Genetically changed foods is another example, as is nuclear energy any much more!
America - Hedges is perfectly right - turns into a ruthless corporate state. All power and wealth for a chosen few - all others keep mouth shut or go to jail or FEMA camps.
The solution?
Get rid of your lying presstitudes. "BREAD & CIRCUS" is oldschool.
th-cam.com/video/5lfInFVPkQs/w-d-xo.html
Look man, we are human beings, we are each part of humanity.... why not lets start a Union of human beings... The Union of Humanity". Now if we could pull that off...wow. You have the entire world to work with and my guess is that most people just want to get down to living. That would be one hell of a Union.
Just thinking..
Wish the audience had clapped at 15:30.
To "revolt" you have to be able to survive in a semi free state. Voting seems to only make differences around the edges, discouraging people in the process. Hedges seems to provide nothing about how to achieve that goal except to have independent means (ie be part of the rich already). Since that is so difficult nowadays especially with debt and/or a family I do not see how in principle it could be accomplished.
'Marx Was Right' was the title of the text of the opening speech at a conference of leftwingers in New York in May (www.truthdig.com/item/karl marx was right 20150531). This is certainly a welcome change from the usual 'Marx Was Wrong' found in economics textbooks. But there was a problem- the speaker, Chris Hedges, was wrong about what he thought Marx got right.
Marx, he claimed,'saw that there would come a day when capitalism would exhaust it's potential and collapse'. Marx certainly didn't think that capitalism would last forever as he saw it as a passing stage in the history of humanity. Hedges, however, commits Marx to the view that capitalism will collapse economically (infact he thinks that this is happening already):
''as Marx warned, there is a limit to an economy built on scaffolding of debt expansion. There comes a moment, Marx knew, when there would be no new markets available and no new pools of people who could take on new debt. The hoarding of wealth by a tiny capitalist elite, Marx forsaw, along with the exploitation of workers, meant that the masses could no longer buy the products that propelled capitalism forward.'
This suggests that capitalism will eventually collapse due to a lack of market demand on the part of 'the masses' whether from their pay or what they have borrowed. The trouble with this theory is that it does not explain why capitalism has not already collapsed., long ago, since the market demand of 'the masses' has always been limited because a part of what is produced goes to the exploiting capitalist class as profits.In fact, what they can't buy, the capitalists can. They don't always do, but that only causes the periodic economic slumps that are a feature of capitalism not the collapse of the whole system.
To attribute such an incoherent view to Marx is not doing him a favour. It also assumes that the aim of production under capitalism is to meet the needs that people can pay for, that capitalism is an economic system geared to meeting paying consumer demand. Marx, on the other hand, analysed capitalism as being geared to making profits, where money is invested in production, with a view to profit, most of which is then re-invested as further capital.
For Marx, 'what propels capitalism forward' is capitalist firms seeking profits, not what non capitalists buy. So, if capitalism were going to collapse it would have to be from a lack of profits rather than a lack of markets. But Marx didn't hold that view either.
In his main work, Volume 1 of Capital, Marx does set out (at the end of chapter 32 on The Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation) how he thought capitalism would eventually come to an end. Economics was still involved but it was neither a lack of profits nor a lack of markets. It was the consentration and centralisation of the means of production operated co-operatively by a collective labour force.This would come into conflict with continuing class ownership of the means of production, a contradiction that would express itself in a 'revolt of the working class'. It would be resolved when the 'expropriators are expropriated' by the workers transforming 'capitalistic private property into socialised property', ushering in a society based 'on cooperation and the possession in common of the land and the means of production.'
In short, capitalism would have to be collapsed, not collapse. It would not self-destruct but be purposefully replaced by a new society.
Too weird! Born the son of Thelma Louise. Was born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, September 18, 1956.
Most of this speaks to the weakness of the average person to bend towards the psychopath. The charmer, the liar, the fraud. We have been made more lazy from lack of education and the promotion of frauds in government. We do not have the intellectual capacity to earn the respect of these persons. They are not like us and we need to learn how to resist them. That earns their fear and fear generates their respect. They are not the same species and anger only feeds them. Intellectual grit is the only thing they fear and respect.
@ 1:01:20 He says that '1 in 4 children go to bed hungry in the this country' (i.e. the USA.)... Now this is a good example of why I have a problem with his talk. He rather one sided, not putting out all the facts, & even aggrandizing his point of view. I do think he makes some good points. But unless we tell the truth, the whole truth, & nothing but the truth, we will just in the end be discredited in part or whole. By the way who here really thinks that's 1 in 4 children in the USA. go to bed hungry? And most of the children that do go to bed hungry, there is a reason for it like, drug use by the parents & etc. not in large part because of the reasons he implied. And I'm sure he supports the big bad industrial complex everyday. I bet he even pays taxes. If a person believes so much in what he's saying quit supporting the complex, quit flying in those plans buying the gas for your car, & suit coat, quit using your A/C & etc. He's no doubt making a living off his verbiage, so he has to tow the line. Nevertheless, he does make some good points.
Feel free, by any means necessary, to demonstrate what you believe he doesn't and should.
It will take us all doing something, not simply one person doing everything.
Not putting it all on the person who, by virtue of fact, has already done too much.
Working as a journalist to get the truth out in some of the most dangerous places of war on earth, working with the most vulnerable in dangerous places of destitution, while a divinity student.
Writing books and presenting facts not fiction on these times, choosing to teach to the incarcerated.
Yeah, feel free.
Presenting this truth which he does with exceptionable lucidity.
This courage and determination to speak truth to power puts a huge target on his back, from the system he critiques, which you may not realize, remains a very unpleasant place to exist.
If is this is a burden you'd like to pick up and better ??
Feel free.
Search TH-cam using "9/11 Bombshell" and get access to the real 28+ page FOIA document in the segment immediately following minute 31. (Tip: You have to listen carefully to get the URL link.) After downloading it, forward it to everyone in your directory before the site is discovered and taken down.
you know when someone talks this slowly and sonorously, they are not relying on facts or logic to persuade you (he learned this from the church).
Despite his flaws, Hedges' basic message is one I agree with:
Resist the dominant structures of our time like "capitalism", nationalism, the political parties, the media, etc.
He is the zealot of our side, powerful but ultimately possibly dangerous if we begin to effect change.
+ChannelMath
He is relying on facts and logic. And by the authors he mentions he seems much better read than you are. You can't comment until you've read his books.
ok, thanks for telling me the rules of this comment section
ChannelMath
I simply meant that you should read his books, with citations and bibliography before you claim that he doesn't use evidence.
I didn't say he doesn't use evidence, or that evidence is not on his side.
+ChannelMath RUBBISH
When I was a stinking hippie in the 60s, we always took to the streets in protest against this and that. now days its done over the internet, its less effective, or is it. now days I am to lazy to get off my couch. but if shit hits the fan I will go out in a blazing glory.
It's CORPORATISM not capitalism.
I can't even live in Seattle! Effing capitalism won't let me💔💔🇺🇸💔🇺🇸💔💔💔💔💔
Only one Book can save you all by leading you to such Salvation... Jesus Christ. His Word/Message in The Holy Bible.
Mark 13:10
And the gospel must first be published among all nations.
John 15:20
Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/07/1399799/-Civil-Disobedience-or-Insurrection-Poem
Insurrection or Civil Disobedience?
Insurrection,
may be the only direction,
to guarantee the protection
of the citizens of the USA and the world.
There has been far too much apathy by the electorate,
Too much complacency of the protectorate,
too much obeyence of the directorate,
the simmering anger of the people needs to be unfurled.
The only way that change in government policy has ever arisen,
is through the power of people to break out of their prison.
Voting people are the only ones who give government permission,
to make fools of them, by voting for people who operate in the underworld.
Will you stand up and take your government back,
from people who will ridicule you and then will attack?
We need fighters for human rights and for compassion of those who lack.
Will you stand up for those rights, no matter what the words are that get hurled?
No one ever said that change was very easy,
We don't want it to happen through tactics that are sleazy.
Chanting slogans demanding change may seem cheesy,
sometimes civil disobedience is needed for the good of the world.
- Linda Meyer
Update:
Added as a possible chorus:
We are one, we are the human race,
we don't disparage anyone with a different color face.
No matter what your status is, don't be a disgrace.
Fight with human kindness, no matter how much you get maced.
Take your battle to the streets, with peacefulness and grace,
even though through the streets, your movement may get chased.
This is your time and your place,
to make a chant storm and let the establishment be swirled,
into a new awakening, with new thoughts that get twirled.
-Linda Meyer
The question near the end about the results of previous revolutions reveals the weakness and indeed futility of what Hedges is advocating. While he, along with all sane and conscious people, recognize the nightmare that America has become, he ultimately has nothing to offer.
Hedges, while preparing for his classes, would do well to study Plato more closely, particularly his views about democracy. While our leaders today are certainly corrupt, the average man and woman is no better, quite possibly worse. It is delusional to think that 'the people' are going to overthrow the corporate state and create some populist, progressive utopia.
Like Hedges, there are many 'leftists' who are sincere and well meaning, but their efforts at genuine change are ineffective. Why? Because they're wrong. All men are not created equal. Democracy, equality, rights, all of that is nonsense. When an attempt is made to put these ideas into practice, the inevitable result is disaster.
To those who want to go beyond Hedges to understand the real causes of our plight and what a real solution could be I would recommend listening to the interview of Mark Dyal by Greg Johnson here on youtube. His recommendation to those on the left is to keep going further in your criticism, keep going deeper in your questioning. If you do so honestly, you'll end up in a very different place than Chris Hedges.
Ask Hedges what he thinks about 9/11.....ah-ha-ha-ha.....
A NEW AMERICA !!! SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS FOR PRESIDENT
if you wanted a future ,you should have joined the spacecraft club a long time ago, but as usual everyone was so comfy on their couch, now look at the bloody mess everyone is in, you could have empowered yourselfs with the ancient technologys, now its going to take a shitload of work, arg.
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A does he talk about any solutions how to fix all the problems that he is talked about. He’s very good at pointing out everything that is wrong which I agree with.But he doesn’t seem to have any answers or solutions to all these many many problems
He advocates for massive, peaceful civil disobedience. We refuse to comply, we withhold our labor.
We unite.
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I was fine with everything he said until he mentioned Climate Change. Mr. Hedges please wake up.
facts, data, and guy feeling - give me one good reason to trust and believe the government of the USA, Illuminati, corporations - follow the money they intend to suck as much from you and I as they can, nobody is going to fix any climate issues. These days everything is a lie, shake off the brain-washing and wake up.
Oh yes let's get off fossil fuels, let's clean up the environment. But let's not do it because of a lie. I personally have lived all my life environment friendly, I'm just sick to death of the lies.
Good documentary my friend, keep up the good work. I'm more worried these days about the financial crisis and the beating of war drums. One thing is clear - the USA is utterly out of control. It's not enough to have bad Middle East relations and terrorists, now they've stirred up a new Cold War and added Climate change to the pot. US citizens are being gunned down by their own Police, mass shootings are happening frequently. And more. The End Game is approaching there is no doubt. Nuclear war is my biggest fear. Where do we start to try and fix all this? Wake up and stop believing the media propaganda. Bring home all US troups, close all the bases. Make friends with Russia and Iran. Cut back energy use - start with Las Vegas. Replace fossil fuels with renewable energy. The answers are to be found everywhere but those in power don't care. 'They' are getting richer and they don't seem to care about anything else. It's always been that way but now the human race and the earth itself is threatened by the greedy power elite. Think about that 8 trillion guarding oil shipping, the 8 trillion on stupid wars, the 8 trillion on military buildup, and trillions and trillions more wasted and ask yourself where did all that money go? Then look at all the super rich and the answer has to be that it all went to the super rich. These people have sucked from the earth and its peoples now they're asking you to cough up more money to fix what they say are problems caused by all humans. They can't stop lying and making up ways to suck in more money. Wake up!
Right on, and here's hoping we all get a chance to buy an all electric vehicle in the hear future that has half the abilities of a Tesla. My friend just bought a new Nissan Leaf, looks pretty nice but as you pointed out not nearly as good as it could be.
Pure propaganda, all lies wake up.
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Chris should go live in Russia !!
Blah blah blah. .. ive heard this over and over.
immigration......
I like his work but the fact that he never referrer to The Zeitgeist Movement in this or any other speech,and cited the black lives matter as being Of the biggest movements at the moment shows hi is out of touch a bit.
I actually agree with you.
There was no critique in the heavy sense of the word as I'm a huge fan of his work and will never be able to achieve a fraction of what he has or the impact he has had.
I personally dont see the point of revolution for the sake of revolution without a broader understanding of what would it look like afterwards...
We are looking of rivers of blood in the event of a 'global civil war' and I find it just as important to know where to go or it will be in vain. And I think the Zeitgeist movement shows at least one (not the only) viable updated view of reality that could be used as an educational tool along with a much overdue and muchly needed 'revolution' so that one compliments the other...
Andjr hm zeitgeist? really? 95 percent of us that have viewed that have seen through it and 'thrive'
Great presentation Chris Hedges, however, I take exception to your comments relating to Climate Change...We all have a moral responsibility for the nurturing of our environment and the ecology, but it has been proven, unequivocally, that industrialisation' contribution to GLOBAL WARMING is insignificant.
There is ample data supporting that we are entering a cyclical phase whether it is as a result from perturbation caused a binary planetary visitation or maybe its because the planet has reached its maximum point of its 26000 year precessional cycle where our polar ice caps are now closest the sun...Lets be objective on this point.......