Noam Chomsky - 1994-02-08 - The New World Order in the Middle East - Buffalo State - Improved Sound

Be sure to pick at least 720p for best sound quality. Noam begins at 2:57 in. Q&A begins at 1:08:56 in. On February 8, 1994, Noam Chomsky spoke at Buffalo State University on the subject of the New World Order and how it affects the Middle East and other matters. The source was a series of audio tapes converted to .wav format. The audio quality was only fair, but with digital noise reduction to remove a persistent hiss/grinding noise, and EQing and notch filtering to tame some troublesome frequencies, it turned out fairly well, with over 55 decibels of dynamic range. However, the first 30 or so minutes of the Q&A has poor sound, due to Noam stepping away from the podium and using a handheld microphone which created all kinds of odd noises, distortion, and at times, too much bass - I spent several hours just on this bad section of the Q&A, but it's still not great. I went over the whole recording second by second, and except for that 30 or so minutes of the Q&A, it's pretty good now, as I removed hundreds of pops, clicks, and microphone clipping incidents. Tags: Chomsky, 1994, George Bush, Gulf War, Saddam, Shiite Uprising of 1991, Thomas Friedman, South Commission, Oil, Saudi Arabia, Dwight Eisenhower, Monroe Doctrine, USSR, Cold War, Israel, Palestine, Oslo Accords, Shimon Peres, Yasser Arafat, Danny Rubinstein, 1967 War, Robert McNamara, Ariel Sharon, Yigol Allon, Allon Plan, UN 242, Anwar Sadat, Secretary of State William Rogers, Henry Kissinger, First Intifada, Ze'ev Schiff, Yitzhak Rabin, Shlomo Gazit, B'Tselem, Cato Institute, NAFTA, Anthony Lewis, John Kennedy, USSR, Dwight Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev, Cold War, Yugoslavia, Angola, Jonas Savimbi, Boris Yeltsin, Russia, China, Thomas Jefferson, Adam Smith, School Vouchers, James M. Buchanan Jr, Climate Change, the Internet, Marijuana, From a cassette tape transfer provided by The Public Mind Denver, in collaboration with this channel. Thank you to the Public Mind Denver!    / @thepublicminddenver   ---- As always, The Noam Chomsky Audio and Video Conservatory remains a strictly not-for-profit archive to make available to anyone all of Noam Chomsky's public events in the highest possible quality. Visit the original Noam Chomsky Audio Conservatory on Archive.org to download any of the programs on this channel in high quality audio and video formats.