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Enormous and growing parts of...

Enormous and growing parts of the population are basically superfluous for profit-making purposes. Along with this, the jail population is increasing very rapidly; it's the highest in the industrial world by far. New and onerous crime bills are being passed to deal with this superfluous population.

Noam Avram Chomsky 821 quotes

Its true that contemporary te...

Its true that contemporary technology permits decentralization, it also permits centralization. It depends on how you use the technology.

Noam Avram Chomsky 821 quotes

I don't use the social media ...

I don't use the social media but I can see the effects in my own correspondence. I get a ton of correspondence. It used to be hard copy and now it's a very limited amount of actual letters people write. So it's mostly email.

Noam Avram Chomsky 821 quotes

There is little doubt that a ...

There is little doubt that a significant part of any serious solution will require advances of technology, but that can only be part of the solution. Other major changes are necessary.

Noam Avram Chomsky 821 quotes

There is always room for Gram...

There is always room for Gramsci's "optimism of the will."

Noam Avram Chomsky 821 quotes

One of the benefits of a prop...

One of the benefits of a properly functioning democracy is minority rights and majority rule.

Noam Avram Chomsky 821 quotes

The senate was wealthy people...

The senate was wealthy people and it wasn't elected, it was chosen through legislatures, which themselves were under private influence, powerful influence. They were remote from the population and that's where power was suppose to reside.

Noam Avram Chomsky 821 quotes

A woman was the property of h...

A woman was the property of her father or her husband and that remained true right into the twentieth century. It wasn't until 1975 that women had a guaranteed right to serve on federal juries.

Noam Avram Chomsky 821 quotes

The threat is that the public...

The threat is that the public will know what the government is up to. Any system of power is going to want to keep free from public surveillance, that's natural. Its shouldn't be but, its very natural.

Noam Avram Chomsky 821 quotes

Most of what is done I think ...

Most of what is done I think is to kept secret so the public won't know. The same is true of what Wikileaks exposed.

Noam Avram Chomsky 821 quotes

But on the contrary Wikileaks...

But on the contrary Wikileaks is under heavy attack by the government and corporations are participating in that by closing down their websites.

Noam Avram Chomsky 821 quotes

Long before the technology re...

Long before the technology revolution there was declassification of documents and I've spent quite a lot of time studying declassified internal documents and written a lot about them. In fact, anybody who's worked through the declassified record can see very clearly that the reason for classification is very rarely to protect the state or the society from enemies. Most of the time it is to protect the state from its citizens, so they don't know what the government is doing.

Noam Avram Chomsky 821 quotes

As far as Marx's analysis of ...

As far as Marx's analysis of capitalism, there's a lot of very useful ideas in it, but he's developing an abstract model of 19th century capitalism. It's abstract and it's changed.

Noam Avram Chomsky 821 quotes

The UN can go as far as the U...

The UN can go as far as the U.S. will allow, and no further. And it's bound by conditions that the powerful states, which means mostly the U.S., impose.

Noam Avram Chomsky 821 quotes

There is good reason to belie...

There is good reason to believe that we have already entered the Sixth Extinction, a period of destruction of species on a massive scale, comparable to the Fifth Extinction 65 million years ago, when three-quarters of the species on earth were destroyed, apparently by a huge asteroid.

Noam Avram Chomsky 821 quotes

There is a considerable polar...

There is a considerable polarization taking place here, increasing the gap between rich and poor. It's most dramatic in Third World countries, of course, but in the rich countries it's also very noticeable.

Noam Avram Chomsky 821 quotes

You can go into the Library o...

You can go into the Library of Congress and find information on just about anything, but that doesn't do you much good unless you know what you are looking for.

Noam Avram Chomsky 821 quotes

For the last couple of hundre...

For the last couple of hundred years, there have been struggles about this. Even the Fifth and Sixth Amendments of the constitution talk about personal rights.

Noam Avram Chomsky 821 quotes

Our whole educational and cul...

Our whole educational and cultural system is not designed to provide those intellectual tools, so people are often lost and the internet often becomes kind of a cult generator.

Noam Avram Chomsky 821 quotes

There are questions as to whe...

There are questions as to whether it should even exist. Who should corporations be responsive to, the management of a corporation? Theoretically they are responsive to the shareholders, but I why not to the so - called stakeholders, the work force and the community? Nothing in economic theory opposes that. Those are social and political decisions.

Noam Avram Chomsky 821 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....