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from Noam Chomsky about Gaza
(Event Sound Management by 492 Cafe)
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Recordings
- Introduction
- Sergio Reyes
- Chomsky v3.0 (23:40)
Q and A with Audience
- Activism, The Religious Right
- Investigate 9-11
- Obama Another Clinton?
- Latin America
- White South Africa
- Clinton's Crimes in Turkey
- Earth's Oil Supply
- Chomsky is Complicit in U.S. Imperialism
- Two Evils and Third Parties
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Thanks to Robbie Leppzer of Turning Tide Productions for technical assistance.
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-Photo: Roger Leisner (Radio Free Maine)
In his first public talk since the 2008 elections, and nearing his eightieth birthday, Dr. Chomsky, lays out the disappointing facts about Obama's cabinet picks, and what they portend. He also explains the differences between real Democracy and America's rule by corporate elite, explaining the means by which these forces undermine markets and the market of ideas needed to support Democracy.
Chomsky on Obama's Campaign |
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"Change, hope and so on (as campaign rhetoric) ... was kind of reflexive. Any party manager this year ... would instantly conclude that our theme in the election has to be change, because people hate what's going on.""The goal of advertising is to create uninformed consumers who will make irrational choices. ... Markets are supposed to be based on informed consumers making rational choices. Industry spends hundeds of millions of dollars a year to undermine markets and insure you get uninformed consumers making irrational choices. ... And when they turn to selling a candidate, they do the same thing. They want uninformed consumers, voters, to make irrational choices. So you undermine Democracy in much the same way as you undermine markets." "The Wall Street Journal ... talked about this tremendous grass roots army that had been developed, which is now waiting for instructions. ... What they don't seem to realize is that the ideal they are describing is dictatorship, not Democracy." |
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QuotesObama picks Joe Biden for Vice President
Obama picks Rahm Emanuel for Chief of Staff
Obama Picks Wall Street and Washington insiders, Makers of Fraud, Bailouts and Theft
Obama's contempt for Real Democracy
So, What's Next ?
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About the Gig |
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492 Cafe managed sound for the fundraiser, which played to a full house, including the balconies Boston Talk Radio Meister Christopher Lydon and CCTV received 492 Cafe's audio feeds, which included audience response. Democracy Now and Z-Magazine also shot their own video. The Arlington Street (Unitarian) Church has a nice sound system with lots of speakers. |
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Emcee Dorotea Manuella, Noam Chomsky, Radio Meister Christopher Lydon and Audio Technician Freeman Z. |
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Freeman Z adjusts one of Mr. Chomsky's microphones. | |
Photos by Roger Leisner of Radio Free Maine (edited by Freeman Z) |
(History of american populist campaigning)
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AIPAC: Undue Foreign Influence? |
Pelosi & Emanuel share a moment. |
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Since his days as a fund-raiser and then a "political adviser" – read: enforcer – for President Clinton, Emanuel has earned notoriety as a no-holds-barred politico. Accept the good with the bad because it’s of a piece, said Steve Rabinowitz, who worked with Emanuel in the Clinton White House. "He can be a ‘mamzer,’ but he’s our mamzer," said Rabinowitz, using the Yiddish term for "bastard," speaking both as a Democrat and a Jew. "Sometimes that’s what you need." (source) |
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