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Sun, 07/07/2013 - 04:33 | 3727839 Disenchanted

You rightfully skewer Krugman(and others) WB7, how about something on Gnome Chomsky soon...

With his track record of rejecting one secret-government outrage after another in his trite fashion as just so much “conspiracy theory,” the position on 9/11 of America’s leading pied piper of the left, Noam Chomsky, was as predictable as the sunrise. “Chomsky dispels 9/11 conspiracies with sheer logic” proclaims the headline of Chomsky’s talk to a rapt audience on YouTube. As of this writing, almost 587,000 people have viewed the presentation. Of those weighing in, some 72 percent said they liked what they saw; the others said they disliked it.

One might be dismayed at these numbers, suggesting as they do that a large majority of the viewers of the video found Chomsky’s extremely shallow argument in favor of the government’s case persuasive. On the other hand, one might take heart in that more than a quarter of the viewers of the video turned thumbs down on it. The people who really care about what Chomsky has to say are generally committed leftists, mainly of the academic “intellectual” stripe. These are the ones to whom Chomsky pitches his message and they are bound to make up the lion’s share of the viewers of the video. On most issues, they could almost all be expected to like what Chomsky has to say. It is somewhat encouraging, then, to see that 28 percent clearly don’t. The readers of this article might want to do their part to make that number go higher.

Unfortunately, the opinion of this MIT linguistics professor still carries a lot of weight in some circles, however poorly supported it might be, and it is very poorly supported in this instance. In fact, were it to be made by someone of lesser prestige and intellectual clout, it might even be regarded as downright trivial and silly. The “sheer logic” that he invokes is that had people in the upper reaches of the U.S. government been involved, the news of it would have certainly leaked out and it would have been fatal, both for the perpetrators of the outrage and for the Republican Party...(continued at link)

Also...From:

Noam Chomsky: Controlled Asset of the New World Order

Noam Chomsky is often hailed as America’s premier dissident intellectual, a fearless purveyor of truth fighting against media propaganda, murderous U.S. foreign policy, and the crimes of profit-hungry transnational corporations.

He enjoys a slavish cult-like following from millions leftist students, journalists, and activists worldwide who fawn over his dense books as if they were scripture. To them, Chomsky is the supreme deity, a priestly master whose logic cannot be questioned.

However as one begins to examine the interviews and writings of Chomsky, a different picture emerges. His books, so vociferously lauded in leftist circles, appear to be calculated disinformation designed to distract and confuse honest activists. Since the 1960's, Chomsky has acted as the premier Left gatekeeper, using his elevated status to cover up the major crimes of the global elite.

From:

Rethinking Noam Chomsky

"A study of Chomsky's stands on particularly dreadful actions such as JFK's assassination, 9/11, and with regard to the roles of the CIA and FBI, shows Chomsky to be a de facto defender of the status quo's most egregious outrages and their covert agency engines. He conducts his de facto defence of the Empire he appears to oppose through applying the very propaganda methods against which he has warned, including use of the derogatory phrase "conspiracy theorist," which in one context he has characterized as "something people say when they don't want you to think about what's really going on." [indeed!]

His recommendation that people practice "intellectual self-defence" is well taken. But how many could dream the person warning you is one of the most perilous against whom you'll need to defend yourself? That he is the fire marshal who wires your house to burn down, the lifeguard who drowns you, the doctor with the disarming bedside manner who administers a fatal injection? If Noam Chomsky did not exist, the diaboligarchy would have to invent him. To the New World Order he is worth 50 armoured division. ".....Barrie Zwicker, Towers of Deception

Finally:

Damage Control: Noam Chomsky and the Israel-Palestine Conflict

Given the viciousness and the consistency with which Chomsky has been attacked by his critics on the "right," one ventures cautiously when challenging him from the "left." To expose serious errors in Chomsky’s analysis and recording of history is to court almost certain opprobrium from those who might even agree with the nature of the criticism but who have become so protective of his reputation over the years, often through personal friendships, that have they not only failed to publicly challenge substantial errors of both fact and interpretation on his part, they have dismissed attempts by others to do so as "personal" vendettas.

Chomsky himself is no more inclined to accept criticism than his supporters. As one critic put it, "His attitude to who those who disagree with him, is, by and large, one of contempt. The only reason they can’t see the simple truth of what he’s saying is that they are, in one way or another, morally deficient." [3]

Sun, 07/07/2013 - 08:50 | 3727957 JustObserving

Chomsky is competely destroyed in this article:

Noam Chomsky has bridled at the idea that 9/11 could have been to any significant degree the result of a state-level conspiracy, expressing his irritation at a recent presentation where he held forth for several minutes on the topic. Chomsky is a figure worthy in certain respects of the esteem accorded him, but his views on 9/11 reflect a common and dangerous mis-appraisal of the techniques of contemporary statecraft and, more shockingly (coming from him), of the long-worsening psychosis afflicting and increasingly characterizing the US military/industrial complex. The point made by Chomsky during his talk that 9/11 was a boon for authoritarian governments the world over is well-taken (if hardly original), yet beyond this his opinions regarding the attacks range from foolish to insidious.

Listed in the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (1992) as the most often-cited living author of the 1980s, Chomsky was recently touted on the floor of the UN’s General Assembly by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and, in another indication of his singular cultural status, has been referred to by international pop star Bono as a “rebel without a pause, the Elvis of academia.” Considering his academic and popular reputation, and his generally laudable contributions to letters historically, Chomsky’s irked condescension on the matter of 9/11 is especially perilous, given that—in light of critical studies by (among others) David Ray Griffin and Nafeez Ahmed—the psychosis of US state militarism appears to have manifested to a very real and criminal degree in Anglo-American state sponsorship of the September 11th 2001 attacks.

Not stooping to consider such sources, and bemoaning what he sees as the irrational interest in the subject of conspiracy on the part of many on the left, Chomsky recites the secularist mantra that a cover-up on the scale of 9/11 could never be maintained (not that it has been in other than his and other minds refusing to consider the relevant historical and forensic record). In support of his overall position he offers his rather incongruous and wholly unsubstantiated assurance that if the attacks had been pulled off by forces within the government those responsible would have been placed before firing squads and executed. The precise character of his detachment from reality here is difficult to gauge, since it’s not clear whom Chomsky’s assumes would (vigilante-style, apparently) dispatch the culprits, whether the US military and/or law enforcement, a proletariat finally taken to arms, or some anarchist or libertarian-socialist faction about which only he knows.

In claiming that “anyone who knows anything about the sciences would instantly discount that evidence” indicating 9/11 was a conspiracy, Chomsky is ignoring, or outright smearing, the considerable and growing body of highly qualified academic and relevant professional opinion indicating official complicity, a body of critical judgment which appears to outweigh as well as outclass that offered by the actual (that is active) defenders of the official story, who’ve regularly resorted to distortion, denial and prevarication in defense of their nevertheless mercurial positions. This point is spelled out in such books as 9/11 and American Empire: Intellectuals Speak Out and The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions as well as in more recent lectures and articles by David Ray Griffin and Kevin Ryan, including Ryan’s superb March 13, 2007 article, “9/11: Looking for Truth in Credentials: The Peculiar WTC ‘Experts’.”

Displaying his woeful ignorance of the technical expertise that’s been brought to bear on the matter by scholars, military personnel and other professionals, Chomsky glibly lays such contributions to “all kinds of elaborate conspiracy theories,” never pausing to consider that the greatly unverifiable (when not demonstrably false) version of events spoon-fed to him by the regime is precisely an “elaborate conspiracy theory.” In claiming such a plot could never be controlled Chomsky reveals his devoutly unreasoning acceptance of the basic tenets of the official story in spite of the lack of evidence supporting most every aspect of them, not to mention the broadly damning countervailing data, which again he merely ignores: “You couldn’t predict that the plane would actually hit the World Trade Center. I mean it happened that it did, but it could easily have missed.” According to Chomsky’s “reasoning,” it would never occur to folks at the top of a highly compartmentalized military/industrial bureaucracy capable of putting people in space and orbiting satellites around distant planets to switch planes and/or remotely control them into their targets in a secret operation with striking similarities to one signed off on in 1962 by a unanimous U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. Such history, amply documented in renown journalist James Bamford’s Body of Secrets, is out of bounds for Chomsky, who would have us attribute all such references to the “huge industry” peddling “all kinds of elaborate conspiracy theories” that have hoodwinked so many lesser intelligences than his hermetic own.

http://abdielsroom.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2007-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2008-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=2

Sun, 07/07/2013 - 09:33 | 3728005 mess nonster

Gnome Chomsky.. the prototype Leftist disinformation psyops agent, along with Ralph Nader and the Ford Foundation.

Amy "I' make myself as ugly as possible" Goodman is the production model.

Disinformation psyops agents of the Left 2.0: Julian Asshat and Edward Snowed-in.

Sun, 07/07/2013 - 01:48 | 3727759 Manic by Proxy

The Krug is at the window. The Krug is at the window.

Sun, 07/07/2013 - 01:19 | 3727716 Die Weiße Rose

I just watched "Good Morning America"

wich is now fully integrated and synchronized with all the rest of

the anglophiled "FREE-WORLD" "NEWS-SERVICES" !

I was very surprised because apparently:

the Muslims of Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza and the whole middle east

have by now all been converted to J-WASPs !

(J-WASP: Jewish White Anglo - Saxon Protestants)

there are no Islamic Muslims in the middle East,

according to the empirical and anglophile

"FREE WORLD MSM" "NEWS" "SERVICES"

apparently by now:

everybody has been rendered and "liberated" into an anglophile

Neo-Con J-WASP !

wr;)

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 21:31 | 3727355 jtlien

I once read that Ben Bernanke was so smart in High School he taught himself calculus! Well, didn''t we ALL have to teach ourselves calculus. I remember once asking the librarian in the children's section of the library to help me find the calculus books. She looked at me like I was from Mars. She went and looked for some but could not find any. I think I snuck upstairs into the adult section and found a few (libraries were very strick back then about kids making noise in the adult section, boy has that changed). Later on my Mexican roomate in college explained that they had a couple semesters of calculus in high school already. I think that it is true today that advanced math for those who need it in the US education system K-12 is just not there. I was fascinated by the calculus used by the space program to calculate escape velocity. There was a huge swelling in the interest in science in the 1960s and our education system was just not up to handling it.

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 23:04 | 3727507 Jim in MN

A kind, elderly chemistry tutor explained reactor physics to me when I was 11. He'd come in with hand drawings of fuel rod arrays and such. I guess he just gave a damn. His name was Gil. Don't know his last name.

Sun, 07/07/2013 - 00:28 | 3727665 mess nonster

When I was a student pilot, I once had the temerity to approach the gang of experienced pilots that hung out on the veranda of the FBO, drinking coffee, and ask a question: "What is the definition of a turbine engine?"

There was a long silence, and finally, Al, a pilot of about 12,000 hrs said,

"A turbine engine is this thing that spins like a motherfucker."

This is one of my unforgettable educational experiences.

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 20:40 | 3727256 JamesBond

Ahhh

Nightmare on Main Street

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 19:50 | 3727162 Bear

Alec Baldwin's ""[I’d] put my foot up your f**king ass, George Stark, but I'm sure you'd dig it too much,” could be enhanced by suggesting Dr. K do same with hand.

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 14:12 | 3726585 0b1knob

A little off topic but interesting. A town is virtually destroyed by the derailment of a train carrying crude oil. Many people missing.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/07/06/train-carrying-crude-oil-derails-in-quebec/?test=latestnews

Trains just like this one are carrying oil throughout the US mostly on Burlington and Northern rail. You know the one owned by the genius Warren Buffet. If you don't believe he's a genius just ask him. The oil is particularly flamable because it is tar sands oil diluted with other petroleum products (sometimes propane) to thin it out for transport. Virtual atomic bombs on rail rolling through towns throughout America and Canada.

None of this would be a problem except that Choom boy won't approve the Keystone XL pipeline.

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 21:55 | 3727408 jtlien

Its worse than that. Those incorruptable Norvegians in Nord Dakota have been blocking competing rail lines etc thru their wasteland now for about a hundred years. Back in the 70's I remember the coal fired utilities in Wisconsin and Minnesota wanted to build a coal slurry line from the Powder River Coal beds to cut their huge transportation expenses. The Dakotas would have none of it. Many entrepreneurs over the years have tried to string together rail lines to the Dakotas and get rights to lay track to form a competing line and none have ever gotten appoval. This is how they get their revenge I guess for living out there on the prairie where snowstoms can be so blinding it's dangerous to walk from the barn to the house without a rope between the two. James J Hill built the Great Northern railroad but we have been paying for it ever since.

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 21:09 | 3727312 bluskyes

There's going to be hell to pay over this one.

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 14:26 | 3726608 willwork4food

Damn that was one bitching hot fire. I sure hope no one living near the train tracks were home.

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 13:00 | 3726459 ebworthen

Modern Economics requires an IQ of 80-100 (average).

The more I hear and read Krugman, the more I see a very sincere 75-79.

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 13:12 | 3726478 Dr. No

Bull shit. Modern economics requires a Phd from an Ivy league university. IQ has nothing to do with it.

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 22:39 | 3726515 ebworthen

lol - good point Dr. No.

It's an expensive indoctrination, eh?

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 12:57 | 3726452 toadold

Like Freddy you just can't seem to avoid him or get rid of him. What kills me is that people keep talking about what he has to say. As far as I know he hasn't successfully predicted anything in the last two decades. I can understand Democrats doing this since he pretty much supports what ever the party line is on economics but conservative will also talk about him. He's an attention whore, ignore him, dang nab it. Get off my lawn and die ya irritating little freak!

Sun, 07/07/2013 - 01:38 | 3727751 Die Weiße Rose

Freddy Krüger won the Nobel Peace Price for blowing up the World Economy ?

and Barry got the Nobel Peace Price for having most civilians killed by US Drones...

outside of the peace-loving USA of course...

Alfred Nobel invented Dynamite...

obviously Osama bin Laden missed out on the Nobel Peace Price.

wr;)

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 12:22 | 3726388 The Heart

Good morning class.

Here just for fun is a little tid-bit for those constitution violating intruders in the halls of babyloniaville. If every soul on board here at ZH started using this, well, they might have to get more memory to store all this vital information. Get the Mozilla add on and have fun as it works in your background.:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/trackmenot/

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 13:09 | 3726442 ebworthen

"Turnabout is fair play."

Nice to turn "Baffle 'em with Bullshit" around on TPTB. Thanks.

Sat, 07/06/2013 - 12:25 | 3726406 ALANBEEKMAN