Tenet that it interferes with the prerogatives hour for those who own and manage inside. I should say said andy union sentiment in the United States among elites is so strong that the fundamental couper of labor rights the basic principle in the International Labor organization is the rate of Free Association which would mean the right to form unions and us has never ratified. But i think the us may be alone among major sadies and that respect. Its considered so far out of the spectrum of american politics it literally has never been considered. Number that the us has a law on very violent labor history as. Society. But had been very strong about the 1920 s. In a period not unlike today it was virtually crushed robert reich. Buried. By the mincer is beginning to reconstruct. The designer is felt he himself was rather sympathetic to progressive legislation that would be in the benefit of the general population but he had to get it passed so he informed labor leaders and others forced me to do it. What he meant is going to help demonstrate were going to protest develop the labor movement. When the popular pressures fission and be able to control the legislation you know i am not for a were. Still last definition of a day and hour when many as a free people well being gradually read your man in. Privilege deal. I prefer that broad definition. So there was a kind of combination of a sympathetic government and by the mid thirtys very substantial but bitter activism. There were industrial action there were sit down strikes which are very frightening to. Ownership. Have to recognize a sit down straight is just one step before saying we dont need bushes we can run this by ourselves. And business was told you read the Business Press say in the late thirtys they were talking about the the hazard facing industrialists in the rising political power of the masses which has to be repressed things were on hold during the 2nd world war but immediately after the 2nd world war the business offensive began in force. Test courtly had a. Tourist start any quality in labor management. The mccarthyism was used for a massive corporate propaganda offensives to attack union. Increased sharply during the reagan years and reagan pretty much told the Business World if you want to illegally break bergen izing efforts and strikes go ahead they are in violation of the law and if they do not report for work within 48 hours they have forfeited their jobs and will be terminated continued the ninetys and of course with george w. Bush went through the roof by now less than 7 percent of private Sector Workers have unions. The effect is that the usual counterforce to an offensive or highly class conscious Business Class is dissolved. Known if youre in a position of power you want to maintain class consciousness for yourself but a limited everywhere else youre back to the 19th century in the early days of the Industrial Revolution in the United States working people were very conscious of this they in fact overwhelmingly regarded the wage labor as not very different from slavery to the different only in that it was temporary effect of such a popular idea that was a slogan of the republican party. Well that was a very sharp class consciousness and the interests of power and privilege its good to drive those ideas out of peoples heads you dont want them to know that theyre an oppressed class so this is one of the few societies magicks dont talk about class in fact the National Class is very simple who gives the orders who follows and that basically defines class its more nuanced and complex but thats basically it. The Public Relations industry the Advertising Industry which is dedicated to creating consumers its a phenomenon developed in the freest countries in britain and the United States and the reason is pretty clear it became clear by a say a century ago that it was not going to be so easy to control of population by force too much freedom in one. Labor organizer in Parliamentary Labor Party as in many countries women started to get the french as and so on she had to have other means of controlling people and it was understood and expressed they have to control them by control of. Beliefs and attitudes well one of the best ways to control people in terms of attitudes is what the great political economists there stand blind called fabricating consumers. If you can fabricate a want to. Make obtaining things that are just about within your reach the essence of life theyre going to be trapped into becoming a consumers. And you read the Business Press say 920 s. It talks about the need to direct people to the superficial things of life like fashionable consumption and that will keep them out of our hair. You find this doctrine all through progressive intellectual photo but Walter Lippmann the major progress of intellectual of the 20th century. He wrote famous progressive essays on democracy and wishes for you is exactly that the public must be put in their place so that the responsible men can make decisions without interference from the be willed and heard. There to be spectators not participants then you get a properly functioning democracy straight back to madison on to the polls memory and so on and the Advertising Industry just exploded. With with this as its goal fabricating consumers. And its done with great sophistication. Many whilst down. As one of the last known while very singular. Whom are aware of the kind. Of the ideal is what you actually see need to did. Were lets see teenage girls they have a free set or afternoon well go walking in a shopping mall. The library or somewhere else. The idea is to try to control everyone to turn the whole society into the perfect system. Perfect system would be a society based on a diet of pair the pair is you and your Television Set or maybe now you in the internet. In which that presents you with would. The proper life would be with trying to get education and you spend your time and effort to gaining those things which you dont need you dont want maybe to throw away. But thats the measure of a decent life. What we see is in say advertising on television if youve ever taken an economics course you know that markets are supposed to be based on informed consumers making rational choices well if we had a system like that a market system in a Television Ad would consist of say General Motors putting up information saying heres what we have for sale a samba an ad for a car is an ad for occurs a football hero you know an actress or the car doing some crazy thing like going up a mountain or something the point is to create uninformed consumers who will make irrational choices thats what advertising is all about. And when the same institutions p. R. System runs elections they do it the same way. They want to create an uninformed electorate which will make irrational choices so often against their own interests and we see it every time one of these extravaganzas takes place. Right after the election. President obama won an award from the Advertising Industry for the best Marketing Campaign and was reported here if you go to the international Business Press executives were euphoric they said weve been selling candidates marketing candidates like you know toothpaste ever since reagan and this is the greatest achievement we have i dont usually agree with therapy. Well when she mocks the. Hopi changey stuff shes right 1st of all obama didnt really promise anything and thats mostly illusion go back to the Campaign Rhetoric and take a look at this very little discussion of policy issues and for very good reason because Public Opinion on poesy is sharply disconnected from what the 2 Party Leadership and their financial backers want. More and more is focused on the private interests that fund the campaigns. With the public being marginalized. Its. Lists lists. Leaked. And very well might continue watching on since last. Sergey stressed to no longer pause to take this or that the british as an edible of blotted out that india was terrible. The other question was so youre saying then there is the fish fish hes a c. E. O. Which is quite a shock. Here which got i thought which he never happened oh look what youve seen in the investment future or woman or man or share. What you thought an issue of agreement if youre going to contribute. To the mr so its a good of im still with them to spirit over for fishing to be a valuable piece that its a studio actually of course in the pushovers to be vocal for sure. To stop them spilling. Expressed sure. Today there are good terrorists and bad editors the bad terrorists and those in yemen who the United States deems to be a threat the looked at it is those who work in syria the cia and the u. S. Military were engaged in covert actions really throughout the world. Where they were assassinating populist leaders they were backing up right Wing Military juntas funding an army death squads theres not any more because theres always a small out for a really good. Profit. The leading political scientist martin gill and came out with a study of the relation between Public Attitudes and the wood moment see what he showed is that about 70 percent of the population has no way of influencing. They might as well be in some other country. And the population knows. What its led to is a population that angry frustrated and hates institutions. And its not acting constructively to try to respond to that. There is Popular Mobilization and activism but in very self destructive directions. Taking the form of unfocused anger attacks on one another and on vulnerable targets thats what happens in cases like this. It is corrosive of social relations but thats the point the point is to make people hate and fear each other and look at only for themselves and dont do anything for anyone else. One place you see it strikingly is on the april 15th. April 15th is a kind of a measure the day of prayer taxes of how democratic a society is a different city if a society is really democratic april 15th would be a day of celebration its a day when the population gets together decides to fund the programs and activities that they have formulated agreed upon which could be better than that so asian celebrated the way it is needed state its a day of mourning its a day in which some alien power has nothing to do with you and is coming down to steal your hard earned money. And you do everything you can they keep from doing it. Though that is a kind of a measure of the extent to which at least in popular consciousness democracy is actually functioning. Not her attractive picture. The tendencies that weve been describing within American Society unless theyre reversed its going to be an extremely ugly society im a society thats based on adam smiths final maxim you know all for myself nothing for anyone else. A society in which normal human instincts an emotion of sympathy so of their e. B. To a sport in which theyre going to driven out. That society so ugly i dont even know whod want to live in it i wouldnt want my children to. Give the society is based on control by private wealth it will reflect the values that in fact does reflect. A value that is green and that lead to maximize personal gain at the expense of others any society made a Small Society based on that principle is a good way to control. A Global Society based on that principle is headed for massive destruction. And i dont think were smart enough to design in any detail what a perfectly just and free society would be like i think we can give some guidelines. And more significant we can ask how we can progress in that direction. John dewey the leading social philosopher in the late 20th century he argued that until all institutions production commerce. Media unless theyre all under participatory democratic control no we will not have a functioning democratic society. As he put it policy will be the shadow cast by business over a society. Thats centrally true. Where there are structures of authority domination and hire somebody gives the orders somebody takes them as they are not selfjustifying who they have to justify themselves and their burden to prove to me. Will if you take a close look usually find they cant justify themselves if they cant we ought to be dismantling. Trying to expand the domain of freedom and justice but dismantling that form of Illegitimate Authority and in fact progress over the years well thankfully recognize as progress has been just that the way things change is because lots of people are working all the time and you know theyre working in their communities in their workplace or wherever they happen to be and theyre building up the basis for Popular Movements which are going to make changes and thats the way everything has ever happened in history. Takes a freedom of speech. One of the real achieved. Once of American Society its 1st world in that its not in the bill of rights its time that the constitution and freedom of speech issues began to come to the Supreme Court in the early 20th century. The major contributions came in the 1960 s. One of the leading ones was a case of going Civil Rights Movement well but then you had a mass Popular Movement which was demanding rights. Refusing to back down and in that context the Supreme Court did establish a pretty High Standard freedom of speech or it takes a womens right women also began identifying oppressive structures refusing to accept them or hed go their people to join with them well thats her right to return. To a nontrivial extent if also spent a lot of my life in activism camilla doesnt show up publicly but you know i should not terribly good at it and not the greatest organizer i think that we can see quite clearly a very very serious defect in our. Culture and. Which are going to have to be corrected by operating out that is commonly accepted i think were going to have to find the right. But the activists are people who have created the rights that we enjoy. In the arctic carrying out process based on information that theyre receiving but also contributing to the understanding remembers are separate from process. To try to do things you learn you learn that with the world its like that feeds back to the understanding of how to go on. Theres huge opportunity it is a very free Society Still the freest world. Government has very limited capacity to coerce corporate big. Since may try to coerce but there are mechanisms. So theres a lot to be done if people are going to struggle for the right system is done in the past and can win many victories commune. Close friend for many years later cowards in. To put in his word that what matters is the countless small deeds of unknown people who lay the basis for the significant events that enter history. Theres a once whos done things in the past the angelus do it future. In. The room. Blue blue. Blue. Blue. Blue. Blue. Blue. Blue blue. Blue. Blue. Blue. Did. I go with. Her. Into. The room. I believe it was an important accomplishment of diplomacy. To it. To talk about its demise but unfortunately the europeans have not been able to put their money where their mouth is they have been stating dish imports for j. C. Pewit but they have not been prepared to take good risks to invest in order to maintain a great achievement of the compass ready ready ready ready. I am sure to stop at the continuing to grow. I just never know very good about the idea of bringing it into the world because i didnt feel like things were in very good shape that a life was just going to be a lot of software programs. Theres no reason the more. You take things that are already made the. Movie is a myth Something Else that. Everybodys scared to talk to that is certifiable is really dependent on us addressing this issue and if we can even talk about it if we can even have a conversation of that it then. Were in trouble. Good stuff. The British Government suffers a crushing defeat in parliament as lawmakers vote to prevent a no deal Prime MinisterBoris Johnson is now calling for an early election. As the us news website claims russia has been meddling in america for 100 years we take a closer look at that claim. In the region of the. Jews and muslims by banning kosher and slaughter