That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
NOAM CHOMSKYI stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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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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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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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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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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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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