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Wer die Resilienz der Bevölkerung aufs Spiel setzt, spielt Putin in die Hände :).

Das blöde an dieser Argumentation ist, dass man damit auch einen Nationalsozialismus begründen kann.

Kennt ihr Dr. Kupfer?

Zitat von https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/weltwirtschaft/kupfer-rezession-dr-copper-101.html

Böses Omen von "Dr. Copper"

Sein Spitzname kommt nicht von ungefähr: "Dr. Copper" alias Kupfer gilt als einer der besten Konjunktur-Frühindikatoren. Demzufolge steuert die globale Wirtschaft direkt auf eine Rezession zu.

Wer wissen möchte, wie es um die globale Konjunktur wirklich bestellt ist, sollte einen Blick auf die Rohstoffmärkte wagen: Der Kupferpreis gilt als hochsensibles Barometer für die Verfassung der Weltwirtschaft. "Kupfer ist ein Vorreiter, ein vorlaufender Indikator", erklärt Marktexperte Robert Rethfeld

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Die Diagnose, die "Dr. Copper" der Weltwirtschaft stellt, klingt allerdings alles andere als beruhigend. Denn der Kupferpreis befindet sich seit seinem Rekordhoch im März in einem Abwärtstrend; seit Anfang Juni hat sich die Abwärtsdynamik nochmals deutlich verschärft.

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Zitat von https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/weltwirtschaft/kupfer-rezession-dr-copper-101.html

"Der Kupferpreis signalisiert, dass die Inflation ihren Höhepunkt erreicht haben dürfte", erklärt Marktexperte Rethfeld. "Sollte Kupfer nun noch weiter fallen, dann verstärkt sich das Momentum in Richtung Rezession." Zumal nicht nur Kupfer, sondern auch andere Industriemetalle unter Druck stehen. "Die Metalle bleiben in ihrem Abwärtstrend gefangen."

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Die globalen Energieengpässe, die auf eine Eskalation im Winter zusteuerten, würden das globale Wachstum bedrohen, so die Experten um Nicholas Snowdon. Mit der sich verschärfenden Energiekrise in Europa dürften sowohl die Konsumausgaben als auch die industriellen Aktivitäten deutlich einbrechen.

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Jo. Denke schon. Welchen Zweck soll es sonst haben?

Das ergibt keinen Sinn. Die Industrie kann nur Profit mit hohen Preisen machen, wenn es genug Kaufkraft für die Nachfrage nach ihren Produkten gibt. Wenn alle wie blöd anfangen zu sparen, weil sie Geld - sofern sie nach dem Kauf der durch die Inflation verteuerten Waren des täglichen Bedarfs noch welches übrig haben - für die Gasrechnung zurück legen, dann sinkt die Nachfrage.

All that neoliberalism promises is wrong and how it brought Trump

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right but it's out of this Marxian idea that every ideology is essentially created around the economic and
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political interests of the ruling elite so in this case neoliberalism which is a
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utopian as John Ralston Saul says a utopian ideology the whole idea that any
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society throughout history has decided that every aspect of that society should
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be ruled by the dictates of the marketplace is insane but this ideology
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and every promise of course of neoliberalism which Thomas Friedman popularizes in his columns has turned
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out to be wrong you know that it'll build a larger middle class that it will spread democracy around the globe I mean
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he was even writing there was gonna end Wars and remember the famous line the normal anomic yeah I mean it was so the
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collapse of the ideology is crucial because and this is across the political
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spectrum no one's buying it and and so they are using much more draconian forms
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of control that's the security and surveillance state which Snowden exposed and which are leaders including Obama
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did nothing to reverse and it has created such a revulsion towards the
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elites Republican and Democratic that when a figure like Trump comes along it
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is kind of darkly cathartic and I would also add just one more thing about the

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white working-class so when Durkheim writes on suicide he
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said usually the lowest rates of suicide are among the or hmm the poor and soldiers hmm I mean
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he talks about different forms of suicide and soldiers can sacrifice themselves but but the poor because they
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realize that the rules are fixed against them and Baldwin writes the same point he said when he talks about why
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african-american men tend not to have a midlife crisis hmm because they african-americans understand that there
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are two sets of rules but the white working-class which at a certain period
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especially after World War two achieved an economic prosperity that was kind of remarkable believe the myth and and and
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and with the understanding that that that they've been had I think Express a
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very frightening and violent rage which manifests itself in mass shootings hate
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groups and supporting a figure like Trump

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Iraq war (parallels with what is happening now)

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George Bush
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and the Iraq war to my mind the leiden line is that that is pretty much the
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bone in our it's worse than a bone in the throat and it's but it said it set
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the stage for where we're at an illegal immoral irrational five trillion dollar
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or maybe a lot more war that goes on today in which the United States chose war chose torture ignited terrorism and
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body tears and literally killed a country in front of our eyes corrupted
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the Democratic opposition including our friend John Kerry and destroyed the
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media I mean every yeah the New York Times Washington Post in The New Yorker magazine all endorsed that war I was the New York
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Times now says it is the refuge for truth capital T Washington Post says democracy dies in darkness the war began
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and and went to its end with the cheerleading of those those institutions
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including your friend Tom Friedman William Safire the David and they're still working I mean
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anyway yeah back but the point is only that to see Trump he is symptomatic of
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all that betrayal of the working class at the same time he's the most I want to
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say viable person whoever tipped the tables on Jeb Bush and then on the Clintons I don't want to give him any
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credit for it exactly but it it makes him much harder to to analyze

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we can't personalize the crisis we're in

if we don't rebuild those social bonds we're finished

all those people who were wrong being still in power because they may have been wrong but they played their role and the role of the liberal elites is to discredit and you discredit the critics on the left because they set the moral parameters and they are essentially given their place in a capitalist democracy because they make sure nobody crosses those parameters nobody actually questions the system of capitalism nobody questions the intentions of going into Iraq

(? now nobody questions the intentions of Russia and the West ?)

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Chris Hedges my heart is with at this point the 60 or 70 percent of Americans
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who are being pushed towards a modern form of serfdom in the oligarchic system
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who's their leader who's there who gets them yeah but this is maybe Michael Moore maybe you know this is the problem
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I mean you know the the that we can't personalize the crisis we're in and it
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goes back to Durkheim if we don't rebuild those social bonds were finished
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and you bring up the war so any as you know I had a very contentious

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relationship with the New York Times I had been the Middle East bureau chief for the New York Times was denouncing the war I was booed off of a
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commencement stage and of course I actually knew the Middle East and knew the instrument of war unlike Pinker and
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[Music] and I was given a formal written
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reprimand and told I was no longer allowed to speak publicly about criticizing the war and I left the paper
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over that issue so when you talk about all those people who were wrong being still in power but that's a miss reading
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because they may have been wrong but they played their role and the role
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of this is Chomsky the role of the liberal elites is to discredit and you
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can read the review of this book in The New York Times The Washington Post because that's exactly what they do to
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discredit the critics on the left because they set the moral parameters
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and they are essentially given their place in a capitalist democracy because
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they make sure nobody crosses those parameters nobody actually questions the system of capitalism nobody questions

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the intentions of going into Iraq they may concede afterwards that it didn't go
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quite as it should so they played their role perfectly which is why they're still there that's their role I know we
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can't talk about leaders I mean this is complete misreading of what's happened in this country it's far more serious

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what would be real education

why black panthers are still locked up

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society the problem in marginalized communities is a structural problem and
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and what they as they carried out the kind of corporate coup d'etat which
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really began in earnest under Thatcher and Reagan they trip they change the whole paradigm stirred Hall writes about
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this where it you didn't look to government anymore governments that
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famous Reagan line you know government is not the solution as part of the problem and as stirred Hall writes quite
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astutely it suddenly they told the beleaguered white working-class that there was an
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assault on their national identity and and so they actually in the Clinton's
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rose to power on this people forget but Jesse Jackson's rainbow coalition was dismantled by the Clintons who were
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using coded racist language and you know 22 out law-and-order
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the Republicans Biden was a big factor in this so it was actually the Democrats
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that accelerated mass incarceration from about 700,000 under Clinton to by the
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time he was out two million now half of the people in our prison system were never charged with physically harming
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another person the other thing Clinton did they destroyed the courts 94 percent
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of the people in prison never had a jury trial and the students I teach were the longest sentences are the ones who went
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to trial and they make and they did not cover that unfortunately they trusted the system but the system makes an
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example of them because as Michelle Alexander points out if everyone went to trial the system would crash it's built
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on plea deals so one of the things that always breaks my heart in the prison is
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and as one of the reasons I teach in the prison is that the structural racism which is
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so pronounced as to make it as you know from Detroit almost impossible to make a
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living in the legal economy has effectively sold a lot of these people
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this idea that it's your fault you made mistakes I mean my students you know
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August Wilson had a great line he said all the great black warriors in this country are in jail because when the
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society denied them the ability to get what they needed for their family they just found another way to get it and I
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would agree I am I I think that I I I mean I I I'm
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all for working with youth and I think that's all great and we have this scared
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straight program in the prison which I hate but I think that that there's a
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reason educational systems and marginal communities don't work
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I taught Sheldon Wolens politics and vision in the bridge well yeah which is a pretty serious book but I remember
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after that class I just have to a little anecdote about my students so you know I
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don't know if you know the book it's a classic it's brilliant brilliant but he
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looks at a Western culture through the lens of various philosophical systems marx nietzsche block Rawls everybody so
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I did my chapter on Marx and there was this long silence and one of the
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students goes ah we waited all semester for Marx and it's over I said okay when
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I finish the book I'll come back in another two hours I'm Marx but I remember several of my students saying because I've taught these guys many
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times you know we can't talk anymore to our we're lonely we can't and I think
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that that there's there's a conscious effort on the part of the corporate state to deny they always talk about
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stem you know it's all vocational to deny what I would call an education to
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the oppressed to hide the fact that these structures of power are designed to destroy their
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lives you know from Detroit you lock up the men and you evict the women and
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children and that's what happens and why because if if you have are evicted on
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the averages every six months in a poor community you can't build you finally the third or
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fourth time you're evicted you don't talk to your neighbors because you know you're gonna be evicted it's why they
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make it so unpleasant when you visit a prison and I think it's because and the
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children are terrorized I mean there's no other word for it and people stand out in the rain for hours without
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bathroom facilities because they don't want they're terrified of any unity I mean them as Pollan writes the most
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astute political class in America are African Americans they are the moat they
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are the one class that tends to actually understand what their interests are which is why they're all being a race
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from the voter rolls including by the Democratic Party so my feeling is and
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this comes out of Rosa Luxemburg I like very much Lent Lenin's only intellectual
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equal and which Lenin would admit and she was right where Lenin was wrong but
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when she writes she said you have to do it Luxembourg would say yes you have to do what you do we have to address hunger we
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have to address despair we have to but at the same time we have to educate so
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if you look at the radical movements at the beginning of the 19th century these were sweatshops yiddish-speaking
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workers on the you know East Side working horrible 12-hour days and then
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going up and having their anarchist Yiddish just discussion group and I mean
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just keep going it's why especially after the Attica uprising have you read
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blood in the water you should read it it's brilliant Heather Ann Thomson's history of the Attica uprising because
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it's not just about the uprising it's you know it's a fascinating window into the elite they were terrified of the
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Black Power movement Nixon rockefeller you know actually on my phone you've heard them on the phone yeah yeah and
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they actually thought that the attic uprising was going to trigger a Maoist rebellion but that's why we still have
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Panthers Black Panther locked up I visit Mumia abu-jamal who's one of the great revolutionaries
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and intellectuals of our time I when I see him on a six hour slot and a visit
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and all we do is talk about books for six hours because he reads everything and I think we have to rebuild that
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radicalism so that on the one hand yes you are right they have to we can't
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ignore the immediate suffering because it's severe on the other hand we have to
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begin to build a consciousness - and I don't use the word lightly overthrow the
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corporate state I mean that's what I'm calling for where the Democratic Party is not going to save us how do we
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overthrow it we get into the street I covered the revolutions in Eastern Europe I watch day after day as 500000
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East Germans went to Alexander Platz on East Berlin and brought down the Stasi state which until our own state was the
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most sophisticated security and surveillance state in the world and so I
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would say yes what you're doing is fantastic and important but at the same
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time consciousness consciousness consciousness

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Chris Hedges On US Imperialism, Zionism & The Rise Of Fascism In The US

Israel wanted intervention in Sytia, in Iraq -> they got it

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yes israel was uh
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fundamental i mean they've always gotten us to do their bidding uh and uh it uh
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you know their goals were achieved they wanted intervention in syria they they wanted intervention in iraq and
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they got it and we paid the price

war crimes and the media

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incident in gaza where the israelis bombed a building holding ap
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and al jazeera but there was an incident in iraq where the u.s troops uh bombed
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the journalists at a building in iraq targeted that's right that's not a mistake
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they know what they're doing they don't want coverage i mean especially al jazeera because al jazeera
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was showing images from the war that never appeared on american networks uh so that was a particular target and
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israel is so indiscriminate and i've been in israel when it's been attacked by jet aircraft and artillery uh they talk
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about surgical strikes which is a joke when you're talking about 500 000 pound iron fragmentation bombs
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dropped in refugee camps it blows up whole streets i've been there i've seen the bodies including the bodies of the
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children and they don't want to report it so even when i was covering i covered
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both of the two palestinian intifadas the israelis very cynically would just turn towards the journalists
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they were firing rubber bullets which are steel bullets just encased in rubber into the legs
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especially a photographer so yeah and i was i watched it i saw it uh and that was completely deliberate
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and yet these are uh recognized as war crimes yet the american media never talk about the war
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crimes of israel uh in in what they're doing to the palestinian people no the american media is reporting i
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mean look aris which is an israeli newspaper with jewish reporters israeli jewish
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reporters does a far better coverage of uh palestine than i think any american media mainstream certainly
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media outlet at all i mean i lived in israel i lived in jerusalem for two years and the there's a far broader discussion
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of the reality of the israel-palestine conflict uh within israel than there is within
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the united states and that is of course because of the power of the israel lobby which is a partisan lobby it's tied to
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likud or you know netanyahu

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zionism working with the with the nazis inviting adolf eichmann to palestine

it's a settler colonial project

campaign of ongoing ethnic cleansing, racism and discrimination

wanted so many russians to come into the country

they were willing to sell the united states out for those russian jews

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the zionist project the idea that you could
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have a state where there wouldn't be anti-semitism if it was jewish uh you could have a jewish state that's
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been supported by not just the american politicians the democrats republicans but also the trade union
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leadership who support the idea of a zionist state um where is the zionistic going because
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as you say it is further and further to the right uh as far as ideologically and fascist
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and uh you know that history of course of zionism uh working with the with the
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nazis inviting uh adolf eichmann uh to to palestine at that time it seems
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there's a logic to this uh uh political agenda that they have well it's a
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it's a subtle or colonial project that's what zionism is that's a better way to describe it so
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they essentially seized land that wasn't theirs uh 750 000 palestinians ethnically
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cleansed in 1948 another 300 000 in 1967 and it has all of the
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aspects of any settler colonial project which is a campaign of ongoing
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ethnic cleansing uh you know uh ever more virulent levels of racism and
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discrimination uh and uh especially as uh the demographics don't play in favor
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of israeli jews that's why they wanted so many russians to come into the country uh so and
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and by the way they were willing to sell the united states out for those russian jews that's the whole issue of pollard uh who
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gave uh intelligence to israel but what he gave to israel was the entire uh clandestine operation
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uh including agents in the soviet union and and essentially they shut it down
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and many of those agents were executed uh and then the soviet union would release jews
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through vienna but part of the reason that all of the heads of the intelligence agencies in
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the united states did not want pollard released and this isn't widely known although sci hirsch did a good piece on it
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uh is that uh it wasn't just that he was giving information to a friendly country it's
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that he destroyed the entire covert operation within the soviet union and israel was
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complicit in passing that information on to uh soviet authorities
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so yes it's a settler colonial project

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who really is intervening in the election is Israel

there was a very fine documentary called the lobby where an undercover reporter from al jazeera went into the israel lobby in the united states and it's all photographed and of course israel put pressure on al jazeera was never broadcast

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the united states
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blaming china now and russia for intervening in the united states what has been the role i mean of israel
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when uh right i mean this is ridiculous because whatever russia did even what they list
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is what they did what bots or facebook posts i mean it's just stupid uh i mean the
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real kind of left unsaid is the country that does intervene in a massive way in election uh in our
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election process and that's israel and there was a very fine documentary called the lobby
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where an undercover reporter from al jazeera went into the israel lobby in the united states and it's all
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photographed and of course israel put pressure on al jazeera was never broadcast pirated copies are on
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the electronic intifada which everyone should watch because it's uh there's no it's uh appalling
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on the uh you know bundling hundreds of thousands of dollars for congressional candidates uh
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flying uh lawmakers on junkets uh you know removing recalcitrant
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uh elected officials cynthia mckinney was a victim of this that dare uh raised the issue of palestine
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i mean you had bibi netanyahu uh you know is constitutional violation
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uh come speak before the u.s congress uh to denounce uh president barack obama's
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iran deal i mean it's so the whole when we talk about there is interference
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did the russians try and interfere well probably i mean i covered overseas i was overseas for two decades
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there wasn't a country i was in that the us wasn't meddling in the elections often in a big way remember when when we wanted boris
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yeltsin re-elected they gave him a 10 billion imf loan of which an estimated 1.5 billion
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went into his campaign to get reelected because he was a servant of
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uh us corporate interests and big banks uh and uh they weren't wrong he was uh so
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uh yeah i i i i always find that kind of uh you know
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remarkable that uh you can spin out this assault against china or russia
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and ignore the monster in the room which is israel

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Assange

is about the criminalization of journalism it sets a legal precedent that anybody who possesses classified information and i possessed classified information as a reporter for the new york times and published it uh can be charged the way julian is being charged

the ruling elite the corporate mandarins that run the country lose credibility and when they lose credibility then the only forms of control they have left are propaganda coercion and violence

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i think i mean i know julian and respect him and admire him very much and of course
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what's happening to him and to his family is tragic and horrifying but it really is about the criminalization of
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journalism it sets a legal precedent that anybody who possesses classified information and i possessed classified
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information as a reporter for the new york times and published it uh can be charged the way julian is being charged and he faces
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175 years 170 years under 17 counts of the espionage act and another five years for
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hacking into a government computer so um the empire which which knows how corrupt it is uh
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and and knows the crimes it commits and knows its disregard for the rule of law uh
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it is has to really uh you know make an example of julian uh because in essence what what happens
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is when people find out the truth uh that the ruling elite the the
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you know the corporate mandarins that run the country lose credibility and when they lose credibility then the
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only forms of control they have left are propaganda coercion and violence
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and that's that that's what we're moving towards because i think across the political spectrum the ruling elites don't have any
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credibility that's what gave rise to a figure like trump

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Aber wir verkaufen fast die Hälfte ins Ausland und da sinkt die Kaufkraft nicht, durch Sparsamkeit hier.

Von welchem Ausland redest Du? Wo sinkt die Kaufkraft nicht? Wo in der industrialisierten Welt sind die Inflationsraten nicht ordentlich gestiegen? Die deutsche Industrie exportiert keine Billigware (außer wenn es um von der EU subventionierte Agrarprodukte geht), sondern vor allem Investitionsgüter, High-Tech Zeug, und Vorprodukte für die chemische Industrie in anderen Ländern.

Natürlich wollen Habeck & Co. die Verluste für die Konzerne so gering wie möglich halten und einen Teil der Kosten auf die Endverbraucher abwälzen. Aber das ändert nichts daran, dass Lieferketten unterbrochen sind und kleinere Unternehmen Konkurs anmelden müssen, weil sie ihre Schulden bei der Bank nicht mehr bezahlen können.

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Außerdem sollen die Leute Gas sparen und nicht Geld.

Doch, genau das sollen sie tun.

Nochmal für Dich zum mitschreiben: Die Heizkosten sind bereits drastisch gestiegen, es kommt bloß noch nicht bei den Verbrauchern an. Alle Experten aus Politik, Wissenschaft, und Verwaltung raten dazu, jetzt entweder bei den Versorgen um eine vorzeitige Erhöhung der Abschlagszahlungen zu bitten, oder ordentlich Geld zurück zu legen, damit die Heizkostenabrechnung zum Jahresende auch bezahlt werden kann. In beiden Varianten fehlt Kaufkraft, die nicht mehr in den allgemeinen Konsum fließt. Das ist keine Spekulation, sondern eine Tatsache.

Was allerdings in Deutschland nicht in den Konsum fließt kommt auch dem deutschen Binnenmarkt nicht zu gute und erhält dort auch keine Arbeitsplätze. In der exportlastigen Industrie arbeitet nur noch knapp ein Drittel der abhängig Beschäftigten im Land - und sofern sie dort festangestellte FacharbaeiterInnen und IngenieruInnen sind, gehören sie ohnehin schon eher zur gehobenen Mittelschicht, weil der Großteil der deutschen ArbeitnehmerInnen in Dienstleistungsberufen arbeitet - von denen viele, vor allem im Einzelhandel, in der Gastronomie, oder in der schönen neuen Welt der algorithmisierten Lieferheldenlogistik ohnehin schon prekär entlohnt werden - oder in irgendwelchen Verwaltungen. Von Verwaltung alleine wird aber niemand satt , oder kann sich ein Haus bauen. Dazu braucht es produktive Arbeit und physische Produktionsmittel.

Das Eigentum an Letzteren ist allerdings in unserer kapitalistischensozialen Marktwirtschaft das Privileg privater Investoren und Anteilseigner. Und wenn die das Gefühl haben, dass sich ihr investiertes Geld nicht mehr angemessen zu mehr Geld verwandelt, dann wird auch nichts mehr investiert. Und wenn im Kapitalismus nichts mehr investiert wird, dann funktioniert der Kapitalismus nicht mehr.

Das wissen natürlich auch Olaf Scholz, Robert Habeck und Marcel Fratzscher. Aber da der Kapitalismus als sozioökonomisches System der Gesellschaft in deren Augen alternativlos ist, kann man da halt nichts machen. Da muss man dann durch. Da wird dann eben mal die unproduktive Spreu vom produktiven Weizen getrennt. Da macht man dann vielleicht noch eine schöne konzertierte Aktion, um die Gewerkschaften am streiken und protestieren zu hindern, und die ArbeitnehmerInnen zusammen mit den Arbeitgebern auf das Hehre Ziel der Entsagung von weltlichen Gelüsten zur Stärkung des Kampfes gegen das Böse im Osten einzuschwören. Aber an der grundsätzlichen Problematik einer profitgetriebenen Wirtschaft wird nicht gerüttelt.

The Collapse of the American Empire - Lecture Featuring Chris Hedges

what they're doing to critics of capitalism and imperialism

major left-wing sites

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the ruling elites are well aware that across the political spectrum they've lost credibility I
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that that fear of a loss of credibility manifests itself in what they're doing
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to critics of capitalism and imperialism who already are pushed off of public broadcasting pushed to the margins of
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the Internet but you see this attempt to attack figures such as myself as as
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agents of a foreign power you have anonymous and shadowy groups prop or not
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propaganda or not which we still don't know who's behind it trumpeted on the front page of the
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Washington Post listing sites including all major left-wing sites in the United
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States counterpunch alternate truth out TruthDig world socialist website black
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agenda report as disseminating Russian propaganda although it's completely
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false

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mechanisms to fight the critics, the poor, the marginalized

cancelled voices/people

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that triggered Google Twitter Facebook to impose algorithms to divert
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traffic away from these sites so for instance I write a weekly column every Monday for TruthDig and you have what
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they call impressions so if you went to Google and you typed in imperialism and I had written a column recently on
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imperialism it would come up with other articles now it won't because those algorithms serve as filters so the
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referrals from algorithms on TruthDig alone have fallen in the last 12 months from over 700,000 to below 200,000 and
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alternates traffic is down by 63% and I think that's because the the ruling
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elites don't have a counter argument anymore and so therefore these critics become more dangerous you couple that
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with the abolition of net neutrality where you can tear the internet and you
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have a very effective mechanism by which you can already take marginalized voices
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and critics and analysis which does not
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appear on media platforms including public broadcasting which is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the Koch
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brothers and and you further diminish its ability to reach a public I mean we
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sometimes forget in America that if you went back to the 1960s and you looked at public broadcasting you could see Noam
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Chomsky who's been blacklisted for years including by my paper the New York Times my former paper you could see Malcolm X
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James Baldwin Howard Zinn Ralph Nader and those voices have all vanished from
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the American landscape and what's risen to take its place is a kleptocrat a con
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artist

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what comes wehen capitalists can't extract more from the working class:

cannibalizing of the gov. sys. -> privatize everything (war in Afghanistan shall be privatized) -> privatized prisons -> slaves

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the
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pillage of the very structures of government that are that maintain a capitalist democracy and this of course
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was an understanding that Karl Marx had when he wrote about the late stages of capitalism he said there comes a point
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when capitalists unable to extract profit from an exploited working class
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that who's had its wages decline I mean wages in the United States are
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technically they're stagnant but in real terms of course they've declined since the 70s then they start cannibalizing
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the very systems of the governmental systems that that that make that
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capitalist democracy possible and that of course if you look at the Department of Education under Betsy DeVos it's
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about privatizing public education because the federal government in the
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United States spends about 63 billion dollars a year on public education and the hedge funds want it and they're
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going to get it it is about everything as becomes privatized we have our brother Eric prince arguing now that the
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war in Afghanistan shall be privatized seventy percent of US intelligence gathering is privatized beause Allen
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Hamilton for instance where Edward Snowden left from 99 percent of its
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revenue comes from the government I teach in a prison every you still have a state in federal structures
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nominally running the prison but internally for-profit corporations have
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taken over every aspect the commissary the money transfer the phone rates which
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are astronomical far higher than and this is for me particularly cruel since
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foremost incarcerated parents the only connection they have with their children is through the telephone and now they
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have email you know eating absurdly priced emails I think it's 40 cents an
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email or something all sorts of fines that you if you go to a prison Dostoyevsky once wrote that if you want
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to understand the true nature of a society go to a prison and watch what
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they do to the most vulnerable and now we are seeing corporations being lobbied
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by prison officials in the United States to come back and use bonded labor in the
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prisons they said you don't need to be in Bangladesh and pay 22 or 32 cents an hour you can come to the prison and pay
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20 no that workers in if you're in prison and you have a job you're paid 22
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cents an hour in the state of New Jersey that's 28 dollars a month if you're in Alabama you're not paid at all and we
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now have huge corporations McDonald's for instance makes its uniforms in prison you have huge corporations 1
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million prisoners working in China like conditions within the American prison
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system and of course they can't strike they can't complain about their working conditions they're not paid for sick
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days there's no vacation time obviously no benefits and if they ever cause a problem they're locked in solitary
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confinement for one or two years and this is the natural trajectory of where
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we're headed

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corporate power assaults public education

why humanities is an important subject

-> what is teached and why/what for -> IT or comp. science for goldman sachs -> systems managers

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longer essentially the white power structure refused to confront what they
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had done and who they were the longer they manufactured this faux
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innocence and goodness and virtue the
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more monstrous they became and Donald Trump is a kind of figure that
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exemplifies this utter inability to be
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not just self-critical but truthful and [Music]
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American society I mean one of the reasons that
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corporate power assaults public education and in particular make makes war on the humanities is because when
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the humanities are taught right they teach you not what to think but how to
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think they are by nature subversive because you are meant to critique
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structures of power ask questions that
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the ruling elites don't want asked and so from every level from the bottom to
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the top of American society it has become vocational so if you are in a marginal community you are given enough
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literacy numerical literacy to work in a fast-food restaurant or stack shelves in
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a Walmart if you're at Princeton and I've taught there and the the biggest major at Princeton is computer science
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which is also true at Harvard you are trained vocational you've given
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vocational training to work at Goldman Sachs so you become a Systems Manager at
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simply a higher level you become a manager who's compensated quite a bit
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but your job is to maintain the system not to question it

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how public banks could have been built

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so when we had the
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2008 crash there was no ability to question the system it was only about
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reinf lating it as Ralph Nader pointed out with that kind of money we could
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have created public banks in every state we could have given them ten billion dollars each they could have leveraged
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themselves ten to one and all these people whose mortgages were underwater could have been given new mortgages

the christian right

systems of indoctrination

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can you help
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us understand the seemingly unwavering yet also credibly hypocritical support that the Christian Right has for the
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current incumbent in the white house see I don't look at it as hypocritical I spent two years writing that book and I
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went and like any reporter and that's the only way you understand I think I
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went to mega church services I went to creationist weekends actually I went I
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took a course to be certified to teach creationism
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but it's fascinating because it's in the details that you understand the absurdity of it so according to
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creationism the account of the creation of the world in Genesis is factually true but it does create a problem
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because God doesn't create a light until the 4th day so our teacher was saying
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well just tell them that God created a temporary light that's not in Genesis but it's it's there that you see the the
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species of magical thinking that is endemic as Hannah Erin points out to all
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forms of totalitarianism these mega church pastors are trumpian they are
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phenomenally wealthy they pray man make their fortune there are millionaires off
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of people's despair by promising them that magic Jesus will solve all of their
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problems as long as they keep giving seed gifts and buying prayer cloths and
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all this kind of stuff they haven't created a classic system of totalitarian
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indoctrination where you invite people into the service which has nice music and like the Presbyterian Church there's
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like comfortable chairs to sit and but then they suck you into what again going
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back to errant crawls the systems of indoctrination which we don't see so suddenly all of your educational time
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your leisure time your religious time is devote is is occupied by this church you
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are assigned a disciple or any kind of questioning becomes backsliding

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"why do you give liberals such a hard time?"

the role of the liberal class in a system

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because they are hypocrites they they
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want the appearance of morality without actually engaging in a moral struggle
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they want to posit themselves as the moral Center while never taking risks
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I mean King saw this at the end of the civil rights movement so liberals were willing white liberals
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in the North we're willing to support king's efforts for desegregation but
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once king called for economic justice and King understood that if there was not economic justice they would never be
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racial justice the liberals went for the door and the the the liberal class and
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Chomsky I think is done for me the best job of explaining the role of a liberal class in a capitalist democracy the
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liberal class functions as a safety valve so that it can ameliorate or
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adjust the system like Roosevelt did it can decry the excesses of the system
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without ever questioning the system itself but but in exchange for in a in a
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capitalist democracy in exchange for giving liberals their positions and universities are on the media the quid
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pro quo is that they discredit radicals they discredit people who question the
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motives of those who started the war in Vietnam or those who started the war in Iraq and I've been a victim of that I
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mean I was very outspoken against the war in Iraq and I was an prime target
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because I had been the Middle East bureau chief for the New York Times so actually understood the Middle East had
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spent months of my life in Iraq and understood the instrument of war and so by name I was fiercely attacked by the
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liberal class who were all useful idiots for George Bush and because they had to take me down now
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once the war went bad they were able to do mia Copas and say well we are we
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meant well they meant well but it was misguided it was wrong and that that's
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really mendacious because they didn't make a mistake they played the role to
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which they were allotted and that's why all of these people who were completely wrong about the war in Iraq
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starting with Thomas Friedman are still have the purchase that they have because they they played their role very well
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and and and you know I in my book death of liberal class I talked a lot about
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this but as I told no I should have put him in as a co-author because I think my entire understanding of liberal
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liberalism comes from Noam Chomsky

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STEM all about science technology math as a way to create to slot people into the corporate mechanism

who controls the textbooks and what is inside them or not

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the public school system in the United States is in deep distress they don't even have basic supplies
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teachers have to often how to diminish salaries buy the supplies including
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toilet paper either send out letters where parents have to send in items like toilet paper for the kids and
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this is all by design it is about creating charter schools which are it's
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it's that stem model where it's all about science technology math as a way
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to create to slot people into the corporate mechanism so we're very far
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away I mean much of the textbooks for instance in the United States are
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controlled by these right-wing entities like Texas I mean it's kind of appalling
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actually what is inside school textbooks in the United States which glorify
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robert e lee minimised the slavery essentially erase the labor struggles
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and the radical movements and the radical figures that as howard zinn pointed out opened up democracy

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So und als Bonus noch paar Talks und Interviews in denen sich dann die meisten Punkte über die Masse an Talks größtenteils wiederholen, aber vllt doch manchmal noch erweitert oder verändert/angepasst oder in anderen Kontext gesetzt werden.

"Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison" w/ Chris Hedges

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This talk by author, activist, teacher and dissident Chris Hedges at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, NY is about his new book, “Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison,” released on October 19, 2021 by publisher Simon & Schuster.

A Conversation with Chris Hedges: Corporate Totalitarianism

American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse. Chris Hedges Joins

Chris Hedges: "Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle"

Zitat von https://perspektive-online.net/2022/07/getreidepreise-auf-den-globalen-rohstoffmaerkten-sinken-die-lebensmittelpreise-steigen-weiter/

Getreidepreise auf den globalen Rohstoffmärkten sinken – die Lebensmittelpreise steigen weiter

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Gründe dafür sind die weiter gehende Exportfähigkeit der Ukraine und die begonnenen Verhandlungen zwischen der Ukraine, Russland und der UNO über das Aufheben der Blockade an den Schwarzmeerhäfen der Ukraine. Erzielen die Delegierten in den kommenden Tagen eine Einigung und Russland hebt die Hafenblockade auf, so werden die Preise mit großer Wahrscheinlichkeit sogar erneut stark sinken.

Die unterstreicht deutlich, wie stark die Preise für Getreide und andere Rohstoffe nicht so sehr von realen wirtschaftlichen Entwicklungen, sondern vielmehr von der Spekulation auf Grundlage politischer und militärischer Konflikte basiert.

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Zitat von https://perspektive-online.net/2022/07/getreidepreise-auf-den-globalen-rohstoffmaerkten-sinken-die-lebensmittelpreise-steigen-weiter/

Auch die befürchteten Ernteausfälle bleiben weitgehend aus. So dürfte laut der UN-Agrarorganisation FAO die Weltgetreideernte in diesem Jahr nur unwesentlich geringer ausfallen als 2021. Bislang rechnen die Vereinten Nationen mit 2,785 Milliarden Tonnen Weizen, Mais und Reis. Das wären rund 23 Millionen Tonnen weniger als im vorangegangenen Wirtschaftsjahr...

Trotz dieser Preisentwicklungen und der wieder steigenden Angebote auf den globalen Rohstoffmärkten wird an uns Verbraucher:innen davon nichts weitergeleitet. Im Gegenteil: Die Getreidepreise steigen aufgrund der anhaltenden Inflation sogar weiter an. Somit können sich immer weniger Menschen die wichtigsten Grundnahrungsmittel leisten, was zur Folge hat, dass die Zahl der hungernden Menschen auf der Welt enorm ansteigt. Laut der Welthungerhilfe mussten bereits 2021 mehr als 800 Millionen Menschen hungern. Das ist bereits mehr als jede zehnte Person...

wenn man das alles gehört hat ist man dann reif für den suizid. (Auch wenn ich ein fan von Chris Hedges bin)

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wenn man das alles gehört hat ist man dann reif für den suizid. (Auch wenn ich ein fan von Chris Hedges bin)

Ich finde er strahlt gerade nicht so ne Hoffnungslosigkeit aus.

Darf ich fragen, Kayvan Soufi-Siavash? Der Internet-Rebell im Interview-Porträt | Episode 7

Er sagt halt schon einiges wo man ihm zustimmen kann...

Und auch da hat es durchweg so ne Musik im Hintergrund.

Symboltweet "liberale" Doppelmoral:

Tilo könnte ja mal in diesen heißen Tagen Sachen wie den Tweet unten retweeten. Gibt glaube vom SWR und dem RBB auf Twitter auch solche Meldungen, muss also nicht dieser Tweet sein. Account bin nicht ich und ja, fragwürdiges Deutsch

Der Teil mit Carsten Stahl würde auch irgendwie gut ins Thema Populismus passen, denn so welche fehlen der Linken irgendwie.