If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
NOAM CHOMSKYBut China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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