Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
NOAM CHOMSKYColorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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But 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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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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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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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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