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pbmus

(12,422 posts) Tue Jan 3, 2017, 06:29 PM Jan 2017

Not comforting...

"The threats that we now face are the most severe that have ever arisen in human history," says Noam Chomsky "They are literal threats to survival: nuclear war, environmental catastrophe. ... They have to be faced directly, and soon, if the human experiment is not to prove to be a disastrous failure."

When will we begin to take this man's advice seriously? ~Patrick

http://m.democracynow.org/stories/16961

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Not comforting... (Original Post) pbmus Jan 2017 OP

And how often is Noam Chomsky a guest on media outlets? guillaumeb Jan 2017 #1

The threats we now face 2naSalit Jan 2017 #2

If the scriptures are accurate bluescribbler Jan 2017 #3

Indeed... 2naSalit Jan 2017 #4

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)

1. And how often is Noam Chomsky a guest on media outlets?

Reply to pbmus (Original post)

Tue Jan 3, 2017, 06:38 PM

Jan 2017

far less than luminaries such as Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann, and other deep thinkers of the GOP.

2naSalit

(86,634 posts)

2. The threats we now face

Reply to pbmus (Original post)

Tue Jan 3, 2017, 06:47 PM

Jan 2017

are sitting in our halls of governance, and they don't give a shit. It's all about that self-fulfilling prophecy called the rapture that they are hell bent on making into an certain reality. They don't care about the rest of us, as long as they get their utopian wet dream to come true for them.

bluescribbler

(2,117 posts)

3. If the scriptures are accurate

Reply to 2naSalit (Reply #2)

Tue Jan 3, 2017, 06:51 PM

Jan 2017

And I'm not saying that they are, those people are in for a yuge surprise.

2naSalit

(86,634 posts)

4. Indeed...

Reply to bluescribbler (Reply #3)

Tue Jan 3, 2017, 06:55 PM

Jan 2017

yooooge. All the o's added for emphasis.

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