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Chris Hedges: The ruling elite is nervous.....this system will ultimately implode (Original Post) marmar Sep 2012 OP
I don't know who is better. Fuddnik Sep 2012 #1
Chris Hedges has a lot more pizzazz. Quantess Sep 2012 #2
I LOVE Hedges Plucketeer Sep 2012 #5
I can listen to him speak for a long time. Quantess Sep 2012 #6
k&r nt raouldukelives Sep 2012 #3
The system is unsustainable and they know it. Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2012 #4

Quantess

(27,630 posts)
2. Chris Hedges has a lot more pizzazz.
Thu Sep 20, 2012, 04:25 PM
Sep 2012

They both speak eloquently, but listening to Chomsky is like ....uuuuhhhh...... monotone words ....uuuhhh..... monotone words ...uuuhhh....

I can listen to Chris Hedges without going to sleep.

 

Plucketeer

(12,882 posts)
5. I LOVE Hedges
Thu Sep 20, 2012, 06:00 PM
Sep 2012

He's the one that refines the intellecto-babble to where I can understrand EVERY word.

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
4. The system is unsustainable and they know it.
Thu Sep 20, 2012, 04:56 PM
Sep 2012

By LAW companies are required to put shareholders before their own customers and projected profits as dictated by Wall Street annalists. This creates a system where Wall Street DEMANDS that you follow a specific business model of cheap labor and cut rate production costs until you end up with this:

http://www.yumsugar.com/Hersheys-Switching-Cheaper-Ingredients-2039796

Companies can never have a bad year. They must ALWAYS have higher and higher profits or Wall Street will destroy them. In the process, they are destroying themselves.

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