Published on Jul 1, 2017
On this week’s episode of On Contact, Chris Hedges travels to Cambridge, Massachusetts for a conversation with America’s most important intellectual, Professor Noam Chomsky. In Part I of their conversation, Chomsky discusses the adverse effects of neoliberalism on the working class, as addressed in his book, “Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power”. Find RT America in your area: http://rt.com/where-to-watch/ Or watch us online: http://rt.com/on-air/rt-america-air/ Like us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/RTAmerica Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/RT_America

After watching this informative video you can find the solutions here!

1. ​The solution to the wealthy and fortunate few ruling over the unfortunate many can be found here 
2. The solution to avoid becoming an intellectual parrot, a social automaton, and a spiritual slave can be found here

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At this moment you could be anywhere doing anything.

Instead you sit alone before a screen. So what’s stopping us from doing what we want, being where we want to be. Each day we wake up in the same room and follow the same path to live the same day as yesterday. Yet at one time each day was a new adventure. Along the way something changed. Before our days were timeless now our days are scheduled.

Is this what it means to be grown up? To be free? But are we really free? Food. Water. Land. The very elements we need to survive are owned by corporations. There’s no food for us on trees, no freshwater in streams No land to build a home. If you try and take what the earth provides you’ll be locked away.

So we obey their rules. We discover the world through a textbook. For years we sit and regurgitate what we’re told. Tested and graded like subjects in a lab. Raised not to make a difference in this world. Raised to be no different. Smart enough to do our job but not to question why we do it. So we work and work

left with no time to live the life we work for. Until a day comes when we are too old to do our job It is here we’re left to die Our children take our place in the game. To us our path is unique but together we are nothing more than fuel. The fuel that powers the elite The elite who hide behind the logos of corporations

This is their world. And their most valuable resource is not in the ground It is us. We build their cities. We run their machines. We fight their wars. After all, money isn’t what drives them. It’s power. Money is simply the tool they use to control us. Worthless pieces of paper we depend on

to feed us, move us, entertain us. They gave us money, and in return we gave them the world. Where there were trees that cleaned our air, are now factories that poison it. Where there was water to drink, is toxic waste that stinks. Where animals ran free are factory farms where they are born and slaughtered endlessly for our satisfaction. Over a billion people are starving despite us having enough food for everybody. Where does it all go?

70% of the grain we grow is fed to the animals you eat for dinner Why help the starving? You can’t profit off them. We are like a plague sweeping the earth. Tearing apart the very environment that allows us to live We see everything as something to be sold. As an object to be owned. But what happens when we have polluted the last river? Poisoned the last breath of air?

Have no oil for the trucks that bring us our food? When will we realize money can’t be eaten, that is has no value? We aren’t destroying the planet. We’re destroying all life on it. Every year thousands of species go extinct. And time is running out before we’re next. If you live in America there’s a 41% chance you’ll get cancer.

Heart disease will kill one out of three Americans. We take prescription drugs to deal with these problems. But medical care is the third leading cause of death behind cancer and heart disease. We’re told everything can be solved by throwing money at scientists so they can discover a pill to make our problems go away. But the drug companies and cancer societies rely on our suffering to make a profit.

We think we’re running for a cure but really we’re running away from the cause. Our body is a product of what we consume. and the food we eat is designed purely for profit. We fill ourselves with toxic chemicals. The bodies of animals infested with drugs and diseases. But we don’t see this. The small group corporations that own the media don’t want us to Surrounding us with a fantasy we’re told is reality.

It’s funny to think humans once thought the earth was the center of the universe but then again now we see ourselves as the center of the planet. We point to our technology and say we’re the smartest. But do our computers, cars, and factories really illustrate how intelligent we are? Or do they show how lazy we’ve become. We put this civilized mask on.

But when you strip that away, what are we? How quickly we forget only within the

past 100 years did we allow women to vote. Allow blacks to live as equals. We act as if we’re all knowing beings yet there’s much we fail to see. We walk down the street ignoring the little things. The eyes who stare, the stories they share.

Seeing everything as a background to “me”. Perhaps we fear we’re not alone. That we’re a part of a much bigger picture. But we fail to make the connection We’re okay killing pigs, cows, chickens, strangers from foreign lands. But not our neighbours. Not our dogs, our cats, those we have come to love and understand. We call other creatures stupid

Yet we point to them to justify our actions. But does killing simply because we can, because we always have make it right? Or does it show how little we’ve learned. That we continue to act out of primal aggression, rather than thought and compassion. One day this sensation we call life will leave us. Our bodies will rot, our valuables recollected. Yesterday’s actions all the remain.

Death constantly surrounds us. Still it seems so distant from our everyday reality. We live in a world on the verge of collapse. The wars of tomorrow will have no winners. For violence will never be the answer, it will destroy every possible solution. If we all look at our innermost desire, we will see our dreams are not so different. We share a common goal. Happiness.

We tear the world apart looking for joy, without ever looking within ourselves. Many of the happiest people are those who own the least. But we we really so happy with our iPhones, our big houses, our fancy cars? We’ve become disconnected. Idolizing people we’ve never met. We witness the extraordinary on screens, but ordinary everywhere else. We wait for someone to bring change, without ever thinking of changing ourselves.

Presidential elections might as well be a coin toss. It’s two sides of the same coin. We choose which face we want and the illusion of choice, of change is created. But the world remains the same. We fail to realize the politicians don’t serve us. They serve those who fund them into power. We need leaders, not politicians. But in this world of followers we have forgotten to lead ourselves.

Stop waiting for change and be the change you want to see. We didn’t get to this point by sitting on our asses. The human race survived not because we are the fastest or the strongest but because we worked together. We have mastered the act of killing. Now let’s master the joy of living. This isn’t about saving the planet. The planet will be here whether we are or not.

Earth has been around for billions of years. Each of us will be lucky to last eighty. We are a flash in time, but our impact is forever. I often wish I lived in an age before computers. When we didn’t have screens to distract us. But I realize there’s one reason why this is the only time I want to be alive because here today we have an opportunity we never had before. The internet gives us the power to share a message and unite millions around the world.

While we still can we must use our screens to bring us closer together rather than farther apart. For better or worse our generation will determine the future life on this planet We can either continue to serve this system of destruction until no memory of our existence remains. Or we can wake up. Realize we aren’t evolving upwards but rather falling down. We just have screens in our faces so we don’t see where we’re heading. This present moment is what every step, every breath and every death has led to.

We are the faces of all who came before us And now it is our turn. You can choose to carve your own path, or follow the road countless others have already taken. Life is not a movie. The script isn’t already written. We are the writers. This is your story. Their story. Our story.

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President Trump pressed Vladimir Putin on Russian election meddling while also making headway on the Syria crisis. But what should Trump take away from their first formal meeting? #Tucker

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Please view and share this concise explanation of how the financial elite gained control of America's money supply over 100 years ago, and how that control affects you to this day. It's the biggest robbery ever enacted on the American people. We can expose it today to end private elite control over our hard-earned money and wealth. How? Start by sharing this video to teach people about this fraud.

It is well past the hour these facts become known by every citizen of United States. You are being robbed by the wealthy men and women of the world. Human courage is the only defense against Cognitive Dissonance and a dangerous public timidity! Our fear and silence is our consent. SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER is the only path to emancipation from the control of the wealthy and fortunate few. Shame on the intellectual prostitutes of mainstream media. History will record the mass deceptions you have evoked with your lies and deceptions and hold you accountable! This video will set you on the path of discovering the fraud, embezzlement, entrapment and outright theft of the economic resources of all citizens who make their way through the nobility of work and their own honest efforts of mind and body.

This video is about the biggest robbery ever enacted on the American people and the citizens of the world. 

We can expose it today to end private elite control over our hard-earned money and wealth. How? Start by sharing this video to teach people about this fraud.

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The curtain is now being pulled back to fully expose the Khazarian Mafia and its evil plan to infiltrate, tyranni[z]e the whole world and eradic[a]te all Abrahamic Religions and allow only their Babylonian Talmudism also known as Luciferiani[s]m, Satani[s]m or ancient Baal worship.

NOTE: Regardless of the seeming appearance of the wealthy and fortunate few preparing for their totalitarian political tyranny, economic slavery and a militarized police state so that they can rule over the unfortunate many they cannot defeat the promise made by the Creator of this world to every citizen who can actually hear the Father of All speaking to the children of time. 

This is the Promise of a Creator Son of God to the citizens of this world

 This promise is based upon a revelation of the spirit of our Father to your inmost souls.

They were all seated in the garden at just about noon when the Master appeared. They wore expressions of dignified solemnity, and all arose to their feet as he approached them. Jesus relieved the tension by that friendly and fraternal smile which was so characteristic of him when his followers took themselves, or some happening related to themselves, too seriously. With a commanding gesture he indicated that they should be seated. Never again did the twelve greet their Master by arising when he came into their presence. They saw that he did not approve of such an outward show of respect.

     After they had partaken of their meal and were engaged in discussing plans for the forthcoming tour of the Decapolis, Jesus suddenly looked up into their faces and said: “Now that a full day has passed since you assented to Simon Peter’s declaration regarding the identity of the Son of Man, I would ask if you still hold to your decision?” On hearing this, the twelve stood upon their feet, and Simon Peter, stepping a few paces forward toward Jesus, said: “Yes, Master, we do. We believe that you are the Son of the living God.” And Peter sat down with his brethren.

     Jesus, still standing, then said to the twelve: “You are my chosen ambassadors, but I know that, in the circumstances, you could not entertain this belief as a result of mere human knowledge. This is a revelation of the spirit of my Father to your inmost souls. And when, therefore, you make this confession by the insight of the spirit of my Father which dwells within you, I am led to declare that upon this foundation will I build the brotherhood of the kingdom of heaven. Upon this rock of spiritual reality will I build the living temple of spiritual fellowship in the eternal realities of my Father’s kingdom. (THE PROMISE) All the forces of evil and the hosts of sin shall not prevail against this human fraternity of the divine spirit. And while my Father’s spirit shall ever be the divine guide and mentor of all who enter the bonds of this spirit fellowship, to you and your successors I now deliver the keys of the outward kingdom — the authority over things temporal — the social and economic features of this association of men and women as fellows of the kingdom.” And again he charged them, for the time being, that they should tell no man that he was the Son of God.

     Jesus was beginning to have faith in the loyalty and integrity of his apostles. The Master conceived that a faith which could stand what his chosen representatives had recently passed through would undoubtedly endure the fiery trials which were just ahead and emerge from the apparent wreckage of all their hopes into the new light of a new dispensation and thereby be able to go forth to enlighten a world sitting in darkness. On this day the Master began to believe in the faith of his apostles, save one.

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Professor Michio Kaku discusses the secret military projects that the United States had planned during the 1950's, such as US President Eisenhower's OPLAN 852 to drop the atomic bomb on North Korea and President Nixon's Operation Duck Hook (code-named "Pruning Knife" by the military) in the Atomic Anex which had plans to use Thermonuclear weapons on the the China-Korean Border to end the Vietnam War. 

In 2005 Michio Kaku was invited to a world peace conference in San Pedro with US congressman Dennis Kucinich, who would go on to run in the 2008 election, and brought up some very insightful and interesting points, some of which may have been a premonition to the global economic crisis and the global military agenda.

Just as Eisenhower assumed that "Atomic Bombs are Like Bullets" we are now being fed the illusion that "Wars are like Bullets" and that we should just tolerate warfare as the only solution to anything.

War on Poverty, War on Healthcare, War on Everything.

The global spending on weapons and military programs outweigh all programs that combat healthcare and poverty combined. 

The world we live in is on the brink of failure from a gregarious, domination driven, series of world powers. These are not hidden Cabals or secret societies, these are not communities hiding in the shadows of society: these are the plain sight actions of entire nations. 

The United States, North Korea, Russia, China, The United Kingdom and European Union are all engaging in gregarious social military operations that impoverish our culture and are keeping people on the brink of starvation and abject poverty. 

Moreover, more people are being slaughtered themselves in ever more frequent acts of mass violence, which have been increasing in frequency every year; a clear probe into the self-destruction of social bonds in modern culture and a premonition to the potential destruction of our civilization into an eventual state of barbarism.

The economic situation, constantly being advertised as unstable, is causing bickering which will inevitably lead to high levels of warfare, fuelled by a greed that is never sated.

Systematic destruction of the Earth's ecosystems and environment is also carried out by the global superpowers, causing continuous destruction from an unstable climate which they have inadvertently created and yet deny they have done so, leaving the blame in limbo and the consequences to a population of vulnerable people who have been told that city destroying tornadoes and flooding are normal and that they should just be good and suffer it rather than upset the apple cart. 

The political elite are so utterly dependant on their systems of economic, political, religious and social control that they will fight against the people to do so. 

Modern warfare does not fear nuclear weapons, the cold war is over. There are no "Superpowers". The Nations realise that the greatest destructive force to the traditional way of keeping people in line are the people themselves. 

As Dr. Kaku rightfully says: "The will of the people is more powerful than the hydrogen bomb". Governments know this and, as a result, frequently declare war on the people to keep them in line. 

Conservative Politicians, in both the US and European Union, are attempting to create "New Rome", an unstoppable global empire which will rule the earth using military overreach until our rights are devoured.

That is why television has become insipidly stupid and trivialised, that is why media sharing websites are placated with advertisements and that is why we are constantly reminded that any for of work in today's economy (no matter how menial) is a virtue. 

The best way "Old Rome" could control the people was trough the Gladiator Games and nationalistic fervour that saw violence as good and criminals as demigods.

Government's have plenty of money, and dish it out to keep the people happy enough to be allowed to work for the global domination driven elite and dumb enough to think that it is a gift given to them by their superiors. 
Warfare has changed from being between nations to being between the rich and the poor. 

The Global Economic Crisis of 2008 can be traced, piece by piece, by a combination of warfare funded by the United States and European Union against the Islamic Civilization and a form of warfare aimed at their own citizens which has resulted in a so-called "recession" which government's in The West want to make permanent.

We are in the 3rd stage of empire: Military Overreach and Economic and Social Collapse.

This is the Empire of the Rich versus the Democracy of the Public.

We the people must end this self-destructive madness and create an era of awakening so that we can turn our swords into plowshares and begin to have a future as a global community.