Chris Hitchens is more articulate in drunken off the cuff remarks than 99% of Ted Speakers with 3 months of word by word preparation to a silent captured audience. The effortlessness of the wit and intelligence is astounding.
It really is. Even as the dude who had the perfect standardized tests and such... I'm often left in awe by his ability to think in full paragraphs. Didn't know this clip existed though - good on Dennis.
Smart in a different way I think, remember they lived two different professions - and Miller had powers above him - couldn't always say what he wanted. That being said, Hitchens is in his own league!!!
I always thought MT was a saint on earth. Until I heard that when *SHE* got sick, she flew to another country to seek the best medical help, something she deprived her patients of.
She did all she could for the people she cared for who were terminally ill .... Should all people who go from Europe refuse to take medical care when they work to care for others in poor countries ??? Hitchens was a lazy gossip and slander journalist who tried to attract people to his articles by being controversial .. He claimed here that Mother Teresa could have administered painkilling drugs (in the 1970's) but choose not to .... (amongst his other lies) You can see from this article taken from the Indian "Quartz " website that in 2017 they only administer it correctly for 2% of the population in state hospitals and nothing outside.. By Priyanka Vora ......August 7, 2017 Women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi suggested legalising marijuana for medical purposes at a meeting of a group of ministers examining the draft cabinet note on the National Policy for Drug Demand Reduction earlier this last week. However, several doctors working in palliative care say that they would rather see the government ensure a better supply of opioid drugs, the medical use of which is already permitted. At present, doctors in India are allowed to prescribe six types of opioid drugs known to alleviate pain. However, they say that only three of the six drugs-morphine, methadone, and fentanyl-are available at present in India. 🤦♂Doctors estimate that only 2% of those who need palliative drugs actually get them. The rest try to battle excruciating pain. “What we need is to improve the access to (opioid) drugs first which are already available,” said Mary Ann Muckaden, professor and head, department of palliative medicine, at Tata Memorial Centre in Mumbai. The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, allowed limited access to opioid drugs even for medical use. A hospital would need five different licences each from a different authorities to be able to procure and store opioids. However, an amendment to the Act in 2014 allowed procurement and storage under a single licence, making it easier for doctors to prescribe these drugs. The problem, according to Muckaden and her colleagues, is that fewer hospitals are willing to procure, store, and dispense morphine and other opioids even though their use is permitted for pain management, especially in cancer patients. This is because hospitals need to keep detailed records of opioid procurement and use, increasing the amount of paperwork to be done. Moreover, pain management is not a part of the medical curriculum which has resulted in the poor awareness about opioid drugs in the medical community, according to Sushma Bhatnagar, professor and head of the department of onco-anaesthesia, pain and palliative care, at All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi. “Most doctors and nurses do not know enough about these drugs,” said Bhatnagar, who feels that India is not ready to legalise marijuana. Naveen Salins, editor of the Indian Journal of Palliative Care and associate professor at Tata Memorial Centre, said that talking about legalising medical marijuana was “like talking about euthanasia when you are not able to provide palliative care.” The demand for medical marijuana Though illegal, cancer patients in several parts of India confess to have consumed non-processed marijuana, said Salins, who used to practice medicine in Australia, where the use of medical marijuana is legal. He has prescribed synthesised marijuana drugs to patients and observed their benefits. “It is proved that marijuana can help in stimulating appetite and control nausea,” he said, cautioning that the natural form of marijuana can have undesirable side effects because of the psychoactive compounds present in it. “Allowing people to consume it in its natural form could be dangerous.” Sameer Kaul, a surgical oncologist who runs the non-profit organisaiton Breast Cancer Patients Benefit Foundation, thinks that permitting the use of medical marijuana can be a game changer in oncology. Kaul is against the use of opioids such as morphine. “Marijuana is a far safer and subtle form of agent which can help control pain,” he said, referring to the fewer side-effects and lower addictive capacity of marijuana as compared to opioids. Sourab Agarwal is the founder of the Medicinal Cannabis Foundation of India in Bhubaneswar, which has applied for permission to conduct a study using cannabis to reduce the side-effects of cancers ........... NOTHING BEATS DOING YOUR OWN RESEARCH -- SO SAD TO SEE SO MANY OF HITCHENS SUPPORTERS BLINDLY FOLLOWING HIS LIES thinking arr we have the new truth no the truth is that Hitchens peddled fake news!!
@markjn5790 Sorry but I cannot consider anyone that's religious to be an intellectual, so Peterson is out. Sam Harris or Richard Dawkins would qualify, but they don't have the same sense of humor as hitchens. Very few intellectuals could match his wit.
@@killyourtelevision999 Two of the most reactionary and right-wing propagandists I've seen in the last decade. Peterson is a moron, a hypocrite, an apologist for imperialist atrocities, and a person who has a persecution complex, his arguments are riddled with ‘pseudo-facts’ and conspiracy theories.
Well, there was this other fellow who lived, preached, died and rose from the tomb a while back. People still try to do what he preached. It is unfortunate that Mr. Hitchens never understood what the other fellow did, not to speak of St. Teresa of Calcutta.
How can Dennis Miller disagree about Theresa. She's no Mother, no Saint, and never did anything that didn't give her a chance to pat herself on her own back.
I feel so embarrassed for never hearing about Christopher until after he passed away, such a great mind who didn't deserve to leave this world that soon, this society needs more of him and more like him indeed 😪
😂 Greatest minds? An arrogant warmonger and condescending PoS. Calling himself an "Anti-zionist" and at the same time supporting the Iraq war that was based on lies, never even changing his opinion even years later - how much stupider can you get? This man must have been absolutely confused. I feel sorry for him but given his arrogance, not really all that much. Never even heard of the guy before watching some atheist RUclips channels. Can't say I missed much by not knowing who he was for the largest part of my life.
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion... I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... Time to die."
Hitchens was a lazy gossip and slander journalist who tried to attract people to his articles by being controversial .. He claimed here that Mother Teresa could have administered painkilling drugs (in the 1970's) but choose not to .... (amongst his other lies) You can see from this article taken from the Indian "Quartz " website that in 2017 they only administer it correctly for 2% of the population in state hospitals and nothing outside.. By Priyanka Vora ......August 7, 2017 Women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi suggested legalising marijuana for medical purposes at a meeting of a group of ministers examining the draft cabinet note on the National Policy for Drug Demand Reduction earlier this last week. However, several doctors working in palliative care say that they would rather see the government ensure a better supply of opioid drugs, the medical use of which is already permitted. At present, doctors in India are allowed to prescribe six types of opioid drugs known to alleviate pain. However, they say that only three of the six drugs-morphine, methadone, and fentanyl-are available at present in India. 🤦♂Doctors estimate that only 2% of those who need palliative drugs actually get them. The rest try to battle excruciating pain. “What we need is to improve the access to (opioid) drugs first which are already available,” said Mary Ann Muckaden, professor and head, department of palliative medicine, at Tata Memorial Centre in Mumbai. The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, allowed limited access to opioid drugs even for medical use. A hospital would need five different licences each from a different authorities to be able to procure and store opioids. However, an amendment to the Act in 2014 allowed procurement and storage under a single licence, making it easier for doctors to prescribe these drugs. The problem, according to Muckaden and her colleagues, is that fewer hospitals are willing to procure, store, and dispense morphine and other opioids even though their use is permitted for pain management, especially in cancer patients. This is because hospitals need to keep detailed records of opioid procurement and use, increasing the amount of paperwork to be done. Moreover, pain management is not a part of the medical curriculum which has resulted in the poor awareness about opioid drugs in the medical community, according to Sushma Bhatnagar, professor and head of the department of onco-anaesthesia, pain and palliative care, at All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi. “Most doctors and nurses do not know enough about these drugs,” said Bhatnagar, who feels that India is not ready to legalise marijuana. Naveen Salins, editor of the Indian Journal of Palliative Care and associate professor at Tata Memorial Centre, said that talking about legalising medical marijuana was “like talking about euthanasia when you are not able to provide palliative care.” The demand for medical marijuana Though illegal, cancer patients in several parts of India confess to have consumed non-processed marijuana, said Salins, who used to practice medicine in Australia, where the use of medical marijuana is legal. He has prescribed synthesised marijuana drugs to patients and observed their benefits. “It is proved that marijuana can help in stimulating appetite and control nausea,” he said, cautioning that the natural form of marijuana can have undesirable side effects because of the psychoactive compounds present in it. “Allowing people to consume it in its natural form could be dangerous.” Sameer Kaul, a surgical oncologist who runs the non-profit organisation Breast Cancer Patients Benefit Foundation, thinks that permitting the use of medical marijuana can be a game changer in oncology. Kaul is against the use of opioids such as morphine. “Marijuana is a far safer and subtle form of agent which can help control pain,” he said, referring to the fewer side-effects and lower addictive capacity of marijuana as compared to opioids. Sourab Agarwal is the founder of the Medicinal Cannabis Foundation of India in Bhubaneswar, which has applied for permission to conduct a study using cannabis to reduce the side-effects of cancers ........... NOTHING BEATS DOING YOUR OWN RESEARCH -- SO SAD TO SEE SO MANY OF HITCHENS SUPPORTERS BLINDLY FOLLOWING HIS LIES thinking arr we have the new truth no the truth is that Hitchens peddled fake news!!
@@renemartin5729 Indeed. It's a reminder that even the most intelligent people can have a streak of stupidity running through them and that it's wicked hard to defeat physiological addiction. For some reason, the human body evolved to crave substances that eventually kill it (yet another argument against a benevolent god).
Brilliant guy… such a sharp, honest, articulate & downright funny individual. Could you imagine the ‘Twitterstorms’ & hate campaigns he’d be subjected to today - not that he’d give a toss!
It's hard to imagine him embracing either the MAGA Cult or the Woke Mob, right? I wonder where he would weigh in... What does "all in on the needle stuff" mean?
@@Mostopinionatedmanofalltime His sarcastic banter wore thin for me quite a while ago. I enjoyed his exchanges with Norm MacDonald, but mainly because of Norm. His political stance and obscure, know-it-all references often feel pretentious. He can sometimes be quite mean. I've grown weary of him and his hip posturing...
I so wish that Hitchens could have debated with Jordan Peterson face to face. It would have been so cool to watch Hitch totally destroy that faux intellectual.
@@matswessling6600Nope he isnt he is playing a vital role encouraging family values from an evidently decadent apathetic nihlistic self destructuve west idc if its done by making people more religion.
Damn I miss Hitch. We lost a brilliant man who never shied away from a fight. We’re so lucky to have RUclips and to be able to watch Hitch in all his glory. Slaying debate opponents one after the next on topics like political corruption, human rights, war, and of course religion and the existence of god. RIP Christopher Hitchens
Hitchens was a lazy gossip and slander journalist who tried to attract people to his articles by being controversial .. He claimed here that Mother Teresa could have administered painkilling drugs (in the 1970's) but choose not to .... (amongst his other lies) You can see from this article taken from the Indian "Quartz " website that in 2017 they only administer it correctly for 2% of the population in state hospitals and nothing outside.. By Priyanka Vora ......August 7, 2017 Women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi suggested legalising marijuana for medical purposes at a meeting of a group of ministers examining the draft cabinet note on the National Policy for Drug Demand Reduction earlier this last week. However, several doctors working in palliative care say that they would rather see the government ensure a better supply of opioid drugs, the medical use of which is already permitted. At present, doctors in India are allowed to prescribe six types of opioid drugs known to alleviate pain. However, they say that only three of the six drugs-morphine, methadone, and fentanyl-are available at present in India. 🤦♂Doctors estimate that only 2% of those who need palliative drugs actually get them. The rest try to battle excruciating pain. “What we need is to improve the access to (opioid) drugs first which are already available,” said Mary Ann Muckaden, professor and head, department of palliative medicine, at Tata Memorial Centre in Mumbai. The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, allowed limited access to opioid drugs even for medical use. A hospital would need five different licences each from a different authorities to be able to procure and store opioids. However, an amendment to the Act in 2014 allowed procurement and storage under a single licence, making it easier for doctors to prescribe these drugs. The problem, according to Muckaden and her colleagues, is that fewer hospitals are willing to procure, store, and dispense morphine and other opioids even though their use is permitted for pain management, especially in cancer patients. This is because hospitals need to keep detailed records of opioid procurement and use, increasing the amount of paperwork to be done. Moreover, pain management is not a part of the medical curriculum which has resulted in the poor awareness about opioid drugs in the medical community, according to Sushma Bhatnagar, professor and head of the department of onco-anaesthesia, pain and palliative care, at All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi. “Most doctors and nurses do not know enough about these drugs,” said Bhatnagar, who feels that India is not ready to legalise marijuana. Naveen Salins, editor of the Indian Journal of Palliative Care and associate professor at Tata Memorial Centre, said that talking about legalising medical marijuana was “like talking about euthanasia when you are not able to provide palliative care.” The demand for medical marijuana Though illegal, cancer patients in several parts of India confess to have consumed non-processed marijuana, said Salins, who used to practice medicine in Australia, where the use of medical marijuana is legal. He has prescribed synthesised marijuana drugs to patients and observed their benefits. “It is proved that marijuana can help in stimulating appetite and control nausea,” he said, cautioning that the natural form of marijuana can have undesirable side effects because of the psychoactive compounds present in it. “Allowing people to consume it in its natural form could be dangerous.” Sameer Kaul, a surgical oncologist who runs the non-profit organisaiton Breast Cancer Patients Benefit Foundation, thinks that permitting the use of medical marijuana can be a game changer in oncology. Kaul is against the use of opioids such as morphine. “Marijuana is a far safer and subtle form of agent which can help control pain,” he said, referring to the fewer side-effects and lower addictive capacity of marijuana as compared to opioids. Sourab Agarwal is the founder of the Medicinal Cannabis Foundation of India in Bhubaneswar, which has applied for permission to conduct a study using cannabis to reduce the side-effects of cancers ........... NOTHING BEATS DOING YOUR OWN RESEARCH -- SO SAD TO SEE SO MANY OF HITCHENS SUPPORTERS BLINDLY FOLLOWING HIS LIES thinking arr we have the new truth no the truth is that Hitchens peddled fake news!!
Great as always. What surprises me is that he let Miller get away with calling him 'Chris'. First time I've ever seen Hitchens not correct someone on this, very minor, point.
I love this guy and he will never die... in my heart. As an Ex-Christian, Christianity is the biggest deception on humanity! Ever seen a Christian walk on water as Peter supposedly did? No, and no one will ever observe one do so. The con and deception of religion! Hold my cognac!
HITCH was passionately for justice, for the oppressed, for truth. I miss him terribly. His was the voice of reason, logic, human rights and compassion.
For all the things Hitchens wrote and said about Clinton, Kissinger, Mother Theresa etc, he was NEVER sued for libel by anyone he criticized. You might argue he was wrong, or mean-spirited, or unfair, but you could never say he was wrong on a point of verifiable fact. He was way too smart for that.
It’s amazing how the host doesn’t understand at all what Hitchens is clearly pointing out. He cannot understand and makes jokes; it’s quite fascinating that that is his defense mechanism (even if he’s doing a show).
Yet chose the safety of a studio to do it. Never heard of him criticizing Islam in a mosque or when visiting an Islamic country. He was a crashing bore.
Depends on what it is you have faith in. Faith alone is belief in the unseen, but the unseen can be anything you want it to be. Faith in Jesus Christ is the virtue. Faith by itself is simply a verb.
I think religion should not try to tell the general public how to behave, true. But I think the opinion, the world would be a better place without it, is naive at best. People don't need religion to bash each others' heads in. Greed, lust for power, nationalism, etc. will do just fine. I'd say tribalism is the biggest problem of not only our time but of all times. How you define in-group and out-group might include religion as a factor but not necessarily.
@@donshingondonvergonio2247 how about the entire og cast of snl, norm, and most comedians who have watched his stuff? hes funny. people just dont like him because hes conservative and not a raging lefty
Quite interesting to see him talk with someone who has much less knowledge on the topic and views Hitchens as a skeptic, and even thinks honesty is the most overrated virtue. Perfectly likeable guy but not exactly an intellectual challenge for Christopher, or someone he has any particular beef with, like with the priests and bishops etc. Seemed quite taken aback by the confusion at the Nancy Reagan statement, as if that was something that needed explaining. It also got painted as Christopher’s POINT, which it wasn’t, it accompanied his point about the Sacred Cow’s trips to Haiti.
“Shall i be serious for a second?” Is how Christopher Hitchens powers up
Especially with Dennis Miller being such giant chicken shit, too afraid to agree
Chris Hitchens is more articulate in drunken off the cuff remarks than 99% of Ted Speakers with 3 months of word by word preparation to a silent captured audience. The effortlessness of the wit and intelligence is astounding.
There is no such person- he was Christopher
And he's still dumber than Robert Fisk
It really is. Even as the dude who had the perfect standardized tests and such... I'm often left in awe by his ability to think in full paragraphs. Didn't know this clip existed though - good on Dennis.
never thought hitchens was such a big fan of mother theresa
@@kennethgiles-nu9dk you dont know what the word means
Christopher Hitchens is exactly what this world needs today.
Your right this world needs a good "hitchslaped"
No we have enough mayhem
More so than Jordan Peterson.
Slavoj Žižek exists, better than JP, old bitter extreme atheists or nothing imo
That is the truth. I would kill to hear his commentary of current world events.
I forgot how annoying Dennis Miller was.
I didn't. It has stuck in me, like a thorn that can't be torn from my side.
@@ukrandr 😂
Hitchens died and we still have Miller. Fuck.
Goes to show there is no God. Hitch would love that irony.
The good die young, and the assholes live forever.
Never seen Miller so intimidated. He always thought he was the smartest guy in the room, but Hitches just casually shatters that notion.
Smart in a different way I think, remember they lived two different professions - and Miller had powers above him - couldn't always say what he wanted. That being said, Hitchens is in his own league!!!
Hitchens was always the smartest guy in the room, wherever he went.
Miller was well read and had a great capacity for info retention but not nearly as prescient or incisive as Hitchens
Hitch was the real deal. Intellectual and also funny..
Miller was a guy who just wanted to appear as an intellect. He was nowhere as smart as he thought and some of his audiences thought.
I always thought MT was a saint on earth. Until I heard that when *SHE* got sick, she flew to another country to seek the best medical help, something she deprived her patients of.
Yes, she was a monster disguised as an angel.
She did all she could for the people she cared for who were terminally ill .... Should all people who go from Europe refuse to take medical care when they work to care for others in poor countries ???
Hitchens was a lazy gossip and slander journalist who tried to attract people to his articles by being controversial .. He claimed here that Mother Teresa could have administered painkilling drugs (in the 1970's) but choose not to .... (amongst his other lies) You can see from this article taken from the Indian "Quartz " website that in 2017 they only administer it correctly for 2% of the population in state hospitals and nothing outside.. By Priyanka Vora
......August 7, 2017 Women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi suggested legalising marijuana for medical purposes at a meeting of a group of ministers examining the draft cabinet note on the National Policy for Drug Demand Reduction earlier this last week. However, several doctors working in palliative care say that they would rather see the government ensure a better supply of opioid drugs, the medical use of which is already permitted.
At present, doctors in India are allowed to prescribe six types of opioid drugs known to alleviate pain. However, they say that only three of the six drugs-morphine, methadone, and fentanyl-are available at present in India. 🤦♂Doctors estimate that only 2% of those who need palliative drugs actually get them. The rest try to battle excruciating pain. “What we need is to improve the access to (opioid) drugs first which are already available,” said Mary Ann Muckaden, professor and head, department of palliative medicine, at Tata Memorial Centre in Mumbai.
The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, allowed limited access to opioid drugs even for medical use. A hospital would need five different licences each from a different authorities to be able to procure and store opioids. However, an amendment to the Act in 2014 allowed procurement and storage under a single licence, making it easier for doctors to prescribe these drugs.
The problem, according to Muckaden and her colleagues, is that fewer hospitals are willing to procure, store, and dispense morphine and other opioids even though their use is permitted for pain management, especially in cancer patients. This is because hospitals need to keep detailed records of opioid procurement and use, increasing the amount of paperwork to be done.
Moreover, pain management is not a part of the medical curriculum which has resulted in the poor awareness about opioid drugs in the medical community, according to Sushma Bhatnagar, professor and head of the department of onco-anaesthesia, pain and palliative care, at All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi.
“Most doctors and nurses do not know enough about these drugs,” said Bhatnagar, who feels that India is not ready to legalise marijuana.
Naveen Salins, editor of the Indian Journal of Palliative Care and associate professor at Tata Memorial Centre, said that talking about legalising medical marijuana was “like talking about euthanasia when you are not able to provide palliative care.”
The demand for medical marijuana
Though illegal, cancer patients in several parts of India confess to have consumed non-processed marijuana, said Salins, who used to practice medicine in Australia, where the use of medical marijuana is legal. He has prescribed synthesised marijuana drugs to patients and observed their benefits.
“It is proved that marijuana can help in stimulating appetite and control nausea,” he said, cautioning that the natural form of marijuana can have undesirable side effects because of the psychoactive compounds present in it. “Allowing people to consume it in its natural form could be dangerous.”
Sameer Kaul, a surgical oncologist who runs the non-profit organisaiton Breast Cancer Patients Benefit Foundation, thinks that permitting the use of medical marijuana can be a game changer in oncology. Kaul is against the use of opioids such as morphine. “Marijuana is a far safer and subtle form of agent which can help control pain,” he said, referring to the fewer side-effects and lower addictive capacity of marijuana as compared to opioids.
Sourab Agarwal is the founder of the Medicinal Cannabis Foundation of India in Bhubaneswar, which has applied for permission to conduct a study using cannabis to reduce the side-effects of cancers ........... NOTHING BEATS DOING YOUR OWN RESEARCH -- SO SAD TO SEE SO MANY OF HITCHENS SUPPORTERS BLINDLY FOLLOWING HIS LIES thinking arr we have the new truth no the truth is that Hitchens peddled fake news!!
She obviously didn't want to keep her 'gift from god'
@@JakobusVdL She certainly used her gifts for the betterments of the poorest of the poor Hitchens made himself rich on his lies about her !
@@1234poppycatwhich of the comments that he made were untrue?
A massive intellect, sorely missed.
Hitchens was an incredible intellectual. A shame that intellectualism used to be strived for, now it is almost ridiculed or non existent in America
You haven't heard of Thomas Sowell or Jordan Peterson apparently. Sigh.
@markjn5790 Sorry but I cannot consider anyone that's religious to be an intellectual, so Peterson is out. Sam Harris or Richard Dawkins would qualify, but they don't have the same sense of humor as hitchens. Very few intellectuals could match his wit.
@@killyourtelevision999you have to be particularly daft to call Peterson an intellectual. And Hitchens destroyed sowell
...in America...
@@killyourtelevision999 Two of the most reactionary and right-wing propagandists I've seen in the last decade. Peterson is a moron, a hypocrite, an apologist for imperialist atrocities, and a person who has a persecution complex, his arguments are riddled with ‘pseudo-facts’ and conspiracy theories.
“In Montgomery they make more skepticism than they can consume locally.” A throwaway line - but absolutely brilliant.
also thought that was absolutely killer
witty and complimentary to the caller at the same time
quite possibly the most articulate and honest man that ever lived. i have always and still am in awe of Mr. hitchens intellect.
Me too.
me too and i miss him
Well, there was this other fellow who lived, preached, died and rose from the tomb a while back. People still try to do what he preached. It is unfortunate that Mr. Hitchens never understood what the other fellow did, not to speak of St. Teresa of Calcutta.
he was just another bullshit artist, he identified as a jew even though he was only a very small part racially jewish
he's bitter spam face clown
Trust me folks I don’t know much about mother Theresa but I don’t want any caregiver telling me my illness is a gift from God
@miketrav Yes, Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu was one of histories great criminals.
How can Dennis Miller disagree about Theresa. She's no Mother, no Saint, and never did anything that didn't give her a chance to pat herself on her own back.
Dennis grew up as a Catholic.
I generally agree with Hitchens but he is absolutely wrong about Mother Theresa.
I feel so embarrassed for never hearing about Christopher until after he passed away, such a great mind who didn't deserve to leave this world that soon, this society needs more of him and more like him indeed 😪
Me too. Very much feel bad.
Hear hear
Don't worry he is with God.
I hate tobacco.
huh?@@rixille
Still can't believe he's gone.
One of the greatest minds of our time.
The good die young
😂 Greatest minds? An arrogant warmonger and condescending PoS. Calling himself an "Anti-zionist" and at the same time supporting the Iraq war that was based on lies, never even changing his opinion even years later - how much stupider can you get? This man must have been absolutely confused. I feel sorry for him but given his arrogance, not really all that much.
Never even heard of the guy before watching some atheist RUclips channels. Can't say I missed much by not knowing who he was for the largest part of my life.
Not smart enough to put those cigarettes down though
I can’t believe I was so late to find him. It has been amazing to catch up.
rest in pee moron
To paraphrase the line from Blade Runner, " The candle that burns twice as bright, burns half as long. And you dear Christopher burned so brightly."
It didn't last the night
First fig by Edna St Vincent Millay
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion... I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... Time to die."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends-
It gives a lovely light!
Hitchens was a lazy gossip and slander journalist who tried to attract people to his articles by being controversial .. He claimed here that Mother Teresa could have administered painkilling drugs (in the 1970's) but choose not to .... (amongst his other lies) You can see from this article taken from the Indian "Quartz " website that in 2017 they only administer it correctly for 2% of the population in state hospitals and nothing outside.. By Priyanka Vora
......August 7, 2017 Women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi suggested legalising marijuana for medical purposes at a meeting of a group of ministers examining the draft cabinet note on the National Policy for Drug Demand Reduction earlier this last week. However, several doctors working in palliative care say that they would rather see the government ensure a better supply of opioid drugs, the medical use of which is already permitted.
At present, doctors in India are allowed to prescribe six types of opioid drugs known to alleviate pain. However, they say that only three of the six drugs-morphine, methadone, and fentanyl-are available at present in India. 🤦♂Doctors estimate that only 2% of those who need palliative drugs actually get them. The rest try to battle excruciating pain. “What we need is to improve the access to (opioid) drugs first which are already available,” said Mary Ann Muckaden, professor and head, department of palliative medicine, at Tata Memorial Centre in Mumbai.
The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, allowed limited access to opioid drugs even for medical use. A hospital would need five different licences each from a different authorities to be able to procure and store opioids. However, an amendment to the Act in 2014 allowed procurement and storage under a single licence, making it easier for doctors to prescribe these drugs.
The problem, according to Muckaden and her colleagues, is that fewer hospitals are willing to procure, store, and dispense morphine and other opioids even though their use is permitted for pain management, especially in cancer patients. This is because hospitals need to keep detailed records of opioid procurement and use, increasing the amount of paperwork to be done.
Moreover, pain management is not a part of the medical curriculum which has resulted in the poor awareness about opioid drugs in the medical community, according to Sushma Bhatnagar, professor and head of the department of onco-anaesthesia, pain and palliative care, at All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi.
“Most doctors and nurses do not know enough about these drugs,” said Bhatnagar, who feels that India is not ready to legalise marijuana.
Naveen Salins, editor of the Indian Journal of Palliative Care and associate professor at Tata Memorial Centre, said that talking about legalising medical marijuana was “like talking about euthanasia when you are not able to provide palliative care.”
The demand for medical marijuana
Though illegal, cancer patients in several parts of India confess to have consumed non-processed marijuana, said Salins, who used to practice medicine in Australia, where the use of medical marijuana is legal. He has prescribed synthesised marijuana drugs to patients and observed their benefits.
“It is proved that marijuana can help in stimulating appetite and control nausea,” he said, cautioning that the natural form of marijuana can have undesirable side effects because of the psychoactive compounds present in it. “Allowing people to consume it in its natural form could be dangerous.”
Sameer Kaul, a surgical oncologist who runs the non-profit organisation Breast Cancer Patients Benefit Foundation, thinks that permitting the use of medical marijuana can be a game changer in oncology. Kaul is against the use of opioids such as morphine. “Marijuana is a far safer and subtle form of agent which can help control pain,” he said, referring to the fewer side-effects and lower addictive capacity of marijuana as compared to opioids.
Sourab Agarwal is the founder of the Medicinal Cannabis Foundation of India in Bhubaneswar, which has applied for permission to conduct a study using cannabis to reduce the side-effects of cancers ........... NOTHING BEATS DOING YOUR OWN RESEARCH -- SO SAD TO SEE SO MANY OF HITCHENS SUPPORTERS BLINDLY FOLLOWING HIS LIES thinking arr we have the new truth no the truth is that Hitchens peddled fake news!!
This was the time when smart, educated, and brave men could speak their minds, sip scotch, and smoke a cigarette on live television.
Uhm that was the 1960s really.
Indeed.
...and die of alcohol and smoke induced throat cancer at an early age?
@@renemartin5729 Indeed. It's a reminder that even the most intelligent people can have a streak of stupidity running through them and that it's wicked hard to defeat physiological addiction. For some reason, the human body evolved to crave substances that eventually kill it (yet another argument against a benevolent god).
@@renemartin5729 you think your gunna live forever? Anytime is your time sir
"He looks like a product of the love scene in deliverance" is one of the greatest burns I've ever heard 😂
No one can accuse Hitchens of being a hypocrite.
I agree, he definitely isn't a hypocrite! I love his work.
Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction that threatened the West. Hitchens wasn't lying or anything like that. Not at all.
@@Chris-wj4ze any proof?
@@icebearsss2528 I believe he was being sarcastic.
@@paintedhorse6880 I think I misunderstood it and can't tell which side he is on and to which the sarcasm is directed to.
Brilliant guy… such a sharp, honest, articulate & downright funny individual. Could you imagine the ‘Twitterstorms’ & hate campaigns he’d be subjected to today - not that he’d give a toss!
One of the great tragedies is that we don't get to see how Christopher Hitchens would have reacted to our current situation.
We must use what he left us to create ourselves in debate and contrarian intellect. You don't have to stand tall, just stand up.
He would have been all in on the needle stuff, most likely
It's hard to imagine him embracing either the MAGA Cult or the Woke Mob, right? I wonder where he would weigh in...
What does "all in on the needle stuff" mean?
@@chonqmonkHe'd most likely be a supporter of Bernie. He would hate Trump and hated the Clinton's!
Miller probably wakes up each day, looks in the mirror, and says, "Hello handsome." He's a doofus.
Cmon now, Miller is pretty cool.
@@Mostopinionatedmanofalltime His sarcastic banter wore thin for me quite a while ago. I enjoyed his exchanges with Norm MacDonald, but mainly because of Norm. His political stance and obscure, know-it-all references often feel pretentious. He can sometimes be quite mean. I've grown weary of him and his hip posturing...
@@fenwayify You must keep busy watching all those people you can't stand..........
@@AlBundyOz Bless you Al. You well know that reality, as there's nobody you can stand.
@@AlBundyOz - it’s good to be informed - you should try it sometime
Christopher was a skeptic because he looked at the facts. Contemporary skeptics create their own facts apparently. I miss the older kind.
Oh god, I miss Christopher Hitchens…
What god? Allah?
@@JayG666 FSM, of course! 😁
@@MrBookeh Of course, how silly of
me.
Lol atheist humour
Lol
I so wish that Hitchens could have debated with Jordan Peterson face to face. It would have been so cool to watch Hitch totally destroy that faux intellectual.
I wish I could give you more than one star for that comment!
A missed opportunity, alas
@@tommym321oh yes, he is.
@@matswessling6600Nope he isnt he is playing a vital role encouraging family values from an evidently decadent apathetic nihlistic self destructuve west idc if its done by making people more religion.
I don’t think they would have disagreed. And you don’t get to be a Harvard University professor if you’re a faux intellectual.
I've seen a lot of clips of the old Hitch, but this one is right up there. Pure class.
Hitchens opened my eyes to Mother Theresa. I knew something wasn't right and he nailed it for me. Truly she was evil.
Yes! Me too! And whenever I bring it up people are horrified and think I’m an awful person
You don't know the half of it. Forceful conversions were the norm. People in Calcutta knew all about her "charity"
That phone call was amazing. Give her the Nobel prize
Damn I miss Hitch. We lost a brilliant man who never shied away from a fight. We’re so lucky to have RUclips and to be able to watch Hitch in all his glory. Slaying debate opponents one after the next on topics like political corruption, human rights, war, and of course religion and the existence of god.
RIP Christopher Hitchens
Hitchens was a lazy gossip and slander journalist who tried to attract people to his articles by being controversial .. He claimed here that Mother Teresa could have administered painkilling drugs (in the 1970's) but choose not to .... (amongst his other lies) You can see from this article taken from the Indian "Quartz " website that in 2017 they only administer it correctly for 2% of the population in state hospitals and nothing outside.. By Priyanka Vora
......August 7, 2017 Women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi suggested legalising marijuana for medical purposes at a meeting of a group of ministers examining the draft cabinet note on the National Policy for Drug Demand Reduction earlier this last week. However, several doctors working in palliative care say that they would rather see the government ensure a better supply of opioid drugs, the medical use of which is already permitted.
At present, doctors in India are allowed to prescribe six types of opioid drugs known to alleviate pain. However, they say that only three of the six drugs-morphine, methadone, and fentanyl-are available at present in India. 🤦♂Doctors estimate that only 2% of those who need palliative drugs actually get them. The rest try to battle excruciating pain. “What we need is to improve the access to (opioid) drugs first which are already available,” said Mary Ann Muckaden, professor and head, department of palliative medicine, at Tata Memorial Centre in Mumbai.
The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, allowed limited access to opioid drugs even for medical use. A hospital would need five different licences each from a different authorities to be able to procure and store opioids. However, an amendment to the Act in 2014 allowed procurement and storage under a single licence, making it easier for doctors to prescribe these drugs.
The problem, according to Muckaden and her colleagues, is that fewer hospitals are willing to procure, store, and dispense morphine and other opioids even though their use is permitted for pain management, especially in cancer patients. This is because hospitals need to keep detailed records of opioid procurement and use, increasing the amount of paperwork to be done.
Moreover, pain management is not a part of the medical curriculum which has resulted in the poor awareness about opioid drugs in the medical community, according to Sushma Bhatnagar, professor and head of the department of onco-anaesthesia, pain and palliative care, at All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi.
“Most doctors and nurses do not know enough about these drugs,” said Bhatnagar, who feels that India is not ready to legalise marijuana.
Naveen Salins, editor of the Indian Journal of Palliative Care and associate professor at Tata Memorial Centre, said that talking about legalising medical marijuana was “like talking about euthanasia when you are not able to provide palliative care.”
The demand for medical marijuana
Though illegal, cancer patients in several parts of India confess to have consumed non-processed marijuana, said Salins, who used to practice medicine in Australia, where the use of medical marijuana is legal. He has prescribed synthesised marijuana drugs to patients and observed their benefits.
“It is proved that marijuana can help in stimulating appetite and control nausea,” he said, cautioning that the natural form of marijuana can have undesirable side effects because of the psychoactive compounds present in it. “Allowing people to consume it in its natural form could be dangerous.”
Sameer Kaul, a surgical oncologist who runs the non-profit organisaiton Breast Cancer Patients Benefit Foundation, thinks that permitting the use of medical marijuana can be a game changer in oncology. Kaul is against the use of opioids such as morphine. “Marijuana is a far safer and subtle form of agent which can help control pain,” he said, referring to the fewer side-effects and lower addictive capacity of marijuana as compared to opioids.
Sourab Agarwal is the founder of the Medicinal Cannabis Foundation of India in Bhubaneswar, which has applied for permission to conduct a study using cannabis to reduce the side-effects of cancers ........... NOTHING BEATS DOING YOUR OWN RESEARCH -- SO SAD TO SEE SO MANY OF HITCHENS SUPPORTERS BLINDLY FOLLOWING HIS LIES thinking arr we have the new truth no the truth is that Hitchens peddled fake news!!
The best interview I've EVER had the good luck to find , thanks CHRIS.
Great as always. What surprises me is that he let Miller get away with calling him 'Chris'. First time I've ever seen Hitchens not correct someone on this, very minor, point.
I’m sure the scotch is the only reason why he didn’t 😂
I love this guy and he will never die... in my heart. As an Ex-Christian, Christianity is the biggest deception on humanity! Ever seen a Christian walk on water as Peter supposedly did? No, and no one will ever observe one do so. The con and deception of religion! Hold my cognac!
Never get tired of listening to Hitchens.
Miss the hell out of Christopher
Dammit I still miss this guy.
“Contemptuous old bat” is my favorite diss of all time.
So true about Bill Clinton. His name was just mulled over with the Epstein scandal. The Clintons have a lot of blood to answer for.
When pigs fly
Discovered this guy a couple months ago, amazing intellectual. He is very missed
Same here havent stoped watching him since
Good to see Hitchens legacy is holding up well.
lucky you, you've got a lot of great watching ahead of you
Watch EVERYTHING you can and read all his books and articles. You will not regret it.
HITCH was passionately for justice, for the oppressed, for truth. I miss him terribly. His was the voice of reason, logic, human rights and compassion.
Christopher Hitchens ... awesome as ever.... RIP !
Dead in life, screaming eternally in death.
@@Logiconfireplease seek professional mental health
@@Logiconfire of COURSE you’re a nutbag who believes in the afterlife.
'Product from the love scene in deliverance'
I died, I fucking died!
Miller says he's doing a "comedy" show. Funniest thing he ever said.
That’s probably the best 10 minutes I’m gonna have all day
I love Christopher Hitchens, and I'm glad that there is so much video of him, as such he shall never die.
For all the things Hitchens wrote and said about Clinton, Kissinger, Mother Theresa etc, he was NEVER sued for libel by anyone he criticized. You might argue he was wrong, or mean-spirited, or unfair, but you could never say he was wrong on a point of verifiable fact. He was way too smart for that.
Wow Dennis Miller is holding on to dear life trying to keep up with Hitchens. Quite a disservice Hitchens had to put up with this interview
To be fair, most people would be struggling to keep up with Christopher
@@chadgrov Lol yes. That is the intended implicit extrapolation from that initial statement.
He made more sense pissed than 99% of politicians do when sober.
Hitch was brilliant. We lost a very important member of humanity when he passed on. He looks at the world with a remarkably clear eye.
“The missionary position”. 😂😂😂😂
A breed of journalist that has gone extinct
Faith is making a virtue out of not thinking
This video is proof that legacy media killed itself. We need to go back to these kinds of interviews
I miss the Hitch
I love this man -.... walks on stage to a talk show with a glass of scotch and tells the truth - and makes you laugh...
It’s amazing how the host doesn’t understand at all what Hitchens is clearly pointing out.
He cannot understand and makes jokes; it’s quite fascinating that that is his defense mechanism (even if he’s doing a show).
The saddest day that Hitchens died.
Mother Teresa was not so good after all, thanks to RUclips.
I can only repost......quite possibly the most articulate and honest man that ever lived. I have always been in awe of Mr Hitchen's intellect.
We miss you Christopher
Haven't seen this clip of him before and i feel like I've seen them all. Awesome.
My lawd! Wish this guy had infinite revivals
Damn I miss Hitch
3:13 and 7:34-Woohoo! First time I have seen Hitch this chill and letting people get away with calling him "Chris."
A podcast with hitchens today would’ve been legendary
Hurt more sacred cows than a bombay cab driver 😂😂😂
Epic
Yet chose the safety of a studio to do it. Never heard of him criticizing Islam in a mosque or when visiting an Islamic country. He was a crashing bore.
"It's been real" What a closing line 👏
God damn I miss Christopher so much! 😢
Just a beautiful genius.....
I have a position in society to keep up. I bought the urine sample to prove it. 🤣🤣🤣
Gawd damn I love the almighty Hitch, comes out drink in hand, smoke in the other, and a wit you could cut with a knife.
faith is not a virtue
Yes it is.
It is to most believers...
Depends on what it is you have faith in. Faith alone is belief in the unseen, but the unseen can be anything you want it to be. Faith in Jesus Christ is the virtue. Faith by itself is simply a verb.
@@ChristAliveForevermore it’s a noun. A thing, not an action.
Christopher is stupendous!
I definitely didnt always agree with him, but i respect his intellectual prowess & tenacity.
Missing Hitchens dearly.
He lives on. Always here. Just think. That is his legacy. Use your mind.
Shall I genuflect after lighting a candle to his memory or before? I just want to be sure I got the Hitchens worship session correct.
@@killyourtelevision999I don't know. Probably think for yourself.
Yes he is sorely missed we need him more than ever in today's world , religion still has to much of a vice like grip on people's lives
I think religion should not try to tell the general public how to behave, true. But I think the opinion, the world would be a better place without it, is naive at best. People don't need religion to bash each others' heads in. Greed, lust for power, nationalism, etc. will do just fine. I'd say tribalism is the biggest problem of not only our time but of all times. How you define in-group and out-group might include religion as a factor but not necessarily.
@@MrSeedi76 Yeah, because religion has nothing to do with lunatics who behead people and chant 'death to the west', etc. 🙄
@@MrSeedi76well have I got a book for you called god is not great how religion poisons everything
Perceptive about MT, and brought to light the hypocrisy. We need skepticism more than ever before.
How did Dennis Miller ever get a career? 🤦♂️🤣
My thoughts exactly.
Hes a dimwit theres audience for that.
hes funny and charismatic
@@behindthebarwithjr157 funny to whom other than you and himself?
@@donshingondonvergonio2247 how about the entire og cast of snl, norm, and most comedians who have watched his stuff? hes funny. people just dont like him because hes conservative and not a raging lefty
We need to be more like him.
Now this is a guy who is the smartest guy he ever met
He was spot on especially with the criminal.
I never saw the appeal with Dennis. Still dont.
Quite interesting to see him talk with someone who has much less knowledge on the topic and views Hitchens as a skeptic, and even thinks honesty is the most overrated virtue. Perfectly likeable guy but not exactly an intellectual challenge for Christopher, or someone he has any particular beef with, like with the priests and bishops etc. Seemed quite taken aback by the confusion at the Nancy Reagan statement, as if that was something that needed explaining. It also got painted as Christopher’s POINT, which it wasn’t, it accompanied his point about the Sacred Cow’s trips to Haiti.
Sadly missed. We need him more than ever now
We want to see more of this side of America. All I ever see is low demographic idiocy in Walmart, pro-oranugtanism & evangelical madness
What's the most over-rated virtue? Nope, it's not honesty. It's faith.
such a lovely voice
His speaking voice was key to his success in the USA.
Miss him so much
Love what he said about Clinton
The product of the sex scene in Deliverance 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Can you fathom how mercilessly Hitchens would have dismantled Trump? My goodness.
Hilarious when people on here think he’d have liked Trump.
What an awesome man,you are missed Hitchens.
Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it ain't true.
Nothing more I Hate than Hitchslaps to the most Honest man who was 1 of the most truth denied country's today
Penn and Teller did a great show on Mr. Theresa, Chris was star guest on that.
Legend.
This man is solid 👌
We have Douglas Murray at least.
This Chris is brilliant thanks again Daniel
Oh man, Chris is my friggin Hero.