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  1. The gaslighting by the MIC and neocons is almost as bad as the democrat's.
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  2. It is suggested that the information that the russians got suggest that the UK was responsible for the nord stream pipeline breaches.
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  3. It is just amazing how all of the US's and Nato's efforts to sure up the dollar and western hegemony are creating rivals that are eroding the dollar and US hegemony. It seems like every single tactic are antethetical to Nato's goals.
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  4. I am not sure Gaza is worse than I think. I had a siatic nerve issue that I knew was temporary..... I can't even imagine what that was like now.... I am not sure I can even imagine how bad Gaza is after listening to the head of the hospital in Gaza city....
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  5. But he did us such a big favor by spelling it out.
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  6. After a four hour press confrance I would think Putin wants some time to himself.
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  7. According to Western media Kiev is an insignificant village with no strategic importance
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  8. I like the way Marco Rubio puts it.... Candid and to the point... I am not sure he connected the dots and atributed people trying to get away from the dollar to sanctions...
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  9. Congradulations to Ben Norton for snagging the best of the best and thanks for introducting me to Proffessor Radhika Desai, I hope to get a lot out of her.
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  10. Thanks for staying on it.
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  11. The US is also insisting on deindustrialization of the west...
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  12. Modern US equment is designed to be the most expensive in the world... That is their pimary function.
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  13. You need to get Michael Hudson on this one.
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  14. Russia doesn't have any mercenaries... Uless you call Ukrainains mercinaries.
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  15. I am so relieved that Harris and the democrats lost. I tend to respond that I am a democrat and I was motivated to vote aganst the new democratic party.
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  16. I hope he gets better and his injuries arn't debillitating.
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  17.  @MiddleEast-4Ever  Zelensky is lucky if he walks away with his life.
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  18. If it was not obvious I don't think there would be an objection..... It seems like most things that he says are mostly obvious lies.
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  19. Michael Hudson!
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  20. I have the impresion that the Russians will keep on with their grinding attrition until there is a clear safe way to advance... Those realities will be analized if and when the Ukraine army is showing signs of colapse.
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  21. Let it be said "late Mr Bolton... Mr Grahm"
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  22. He was of frail health, revovering from pnumonia a couple of weeks earlier... Prey for his health.
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  23. Sadly it is only used to pump up the price of assets....
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  24. Remeber? Putin was supposed to be runing all of the US... According to Rachael Maddow, he had the keys to turn off the gas and electricy during a cold snap in Montana. He was the malevent deity.
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  25. To open up the democratic party primary would invite people who arn't part of the neoliberal fold. The democrats decidedly would prefer to lose than be represented by a non-neoliberal.
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  26. It is a fact that M1 Abrams tanks are in MOSCOW!
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  27. Bingo! It is a differnce in values.
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  28. It is another way to bifricate the geopolitical landscape.... Problem is that the east is creating capital where as the west is destroying capital and those who create capital inevatably win.
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  29. It is only when a strike is effective that it is illeagal.
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  30. Belarus will come out really well..
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  31.  @pausereflect5911  Arguably the 'brown countries" are the global majority in name as well as in fact.
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  32. Mirda is not compleatly usless. He is a perfect bad example.
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  33. I be a Yankee and I was disapointed when the $61B was approved for the conflict in Ukraine. 'Wishfull thinking that it woudn't be.
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  34. Bernie and Occupy Wall Street are the turning points that took on the neoliberal Reagonomic lexicon.
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  35. They have no heavy arms there. They are also decomitioning the plant. The area has been shelled by US supplied Himars..
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  36.  @DARKSTAR-mn8ee  Some people who support Ukraine don't know how to orient the flag.
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  37. Putin is sharp and well coached to make those calls.
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  38. And Mexico has the option of joining the SCO along with stationing Chinese and Russian troops... Hey, it's a free world.
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  39. Is russia still losing the war because of lack of equipment, planning, incompetence or low moral?
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  40. Don't you just love to listen to Victoria Nuland as well?
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  41.  @historylegends  Blade Runner is perhaps my favorite movie.... You would be a very good Roy Batty.... Perahaps even better than Rudger Hower. You do some very good writing...
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  42. The war is about sanctions, not about Ukraine.... Ukraine doesn't even have a say in weather or not they fight to the last Ukrainian... They are a kind of colony of the west.
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  43. When the war in Ukraine broke out in February 2014?
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  44.  @user-es8si3cv8b  Chechenains are to russia as texans are to american. An alnalogy..
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  45.  @theimperialist2686  I found them frightening.... I actually believed that MSM could say such a thing. What had me incredulous is that anyone beleived them.... I felt as if I was living in a dystopian science fiction story...
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  46. I rather like the way he is so candid. He is not saying 'human rights' or anthing other than raw power.... I like the way Trump says things like that as well. People have to talk in real terms in order for the real deal to be examined.
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  47. The Ukraine millatary should clear the mines they are blockaiding their own ports with. The russian millatary cleared other ports east of there that ukraine mined.
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  48. They are reporting that there is resistance to the Myamar goverment. The US is fomenting resistance against the belt and road initiative and the development of south east asia.
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  49. ​ @papercitadel4221  Europe was a happier place with Russia. We had to stop that because Europe was getting cheap energy. US oligarchs wanted to sell them the energy so they had Europe sanction Russia which is why the Ukrainain war started.
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  50. Adam Smith wrote, "The rate of profit is always highest in countries going fastest to ruin." ~Michael Huson qotes Adam Smith
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  51.  @tomdziczek9676  They crushed Ireland financially with the sub prime mortgage crisis... They crushed russia in the late nineties with the help of Yeltsin and they were fine with that... When Putin came in he reversed that process and that is why they don't like russia. Ireland and much of europe is going along with the sanctions to crush it's self and in doing so they are OK by the US.
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  52. Controling the oil..... DUH!
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  53. ​ @FraochFlanagan  Victoria Nuland brags about the destruction of the pipeline “Like you, I am, and I think the administration is, very gratified to know that Nord Stream 2 is now, as you like to say, a hunk of metal at the bottom of the sea,” Nuland said. She noted that she had been involved in negotiations with Russia prior to the conflict in a bid to “prevent this war.” Arguably the west's interest in the war was to institute sanctions which was almost universally thought to be able to destroy Russia..... US economists can't ballance a ledger in a cany store.... Sactions were sucessful in that they brought Europe to heel under the monopolistic interests of the US.... Perhaps she is not as entertaining as Trump.
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  54. @tomamarillo6458 As an American I find it painful and disturbing.
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  55. 'Too painfull to even think about.
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  56. The expansion of nato into ukraine was known to be a cause of a conflict with ukraine back in the late nineties... Russia had a country at it's border that was killing russians... As a bernie fan, I hate it when bernie is disingenous... I was livid when bernie was a supporter of the idea that putin installed trump.
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  57. Zelenski in the same spech: "We don't need anything foreign" Is that is a plea for the US, EU and Nato to stop sending mercinaries and millatary hardware?
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  58. Bricks and the global south is expressing this frustration as well.... Bricks is in it's infacty compared to where the world was during Brenton Woods. The Brenton Woods kind of stuff which included the monetary policy as well as world bank and IMF was made by established collonal powers. They also were responsible for the EU, UN and Nato.
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  59.  @Wezwp  Everywhere all the politiians seem like success hinges on knowing less and less.
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  60.  @societyreborn33  Sometimes it is easy to rise to the occasion when the adrenilin kicks in but later become somewhat shy or shell shocked.
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  61. ​ @RETl0N The fact is that the US has nothing to do with Human Rights, Press and freedom of speach or country's democratic soverenty. Q) What is the difference between Killary and a barracuda?.... A) LIpstick
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  62.  @ДмитроМанжур  If it was a Russian bot don't you think they could spell the name of a Russian city? I don't have a spell checker in English and it is hard for me to type sentances without a spelling mistake. I don't know Slavic from Greek.
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  63. Mercinaries are not covered by the Geneva Convention...
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  64. My understanding is that they took much of the Ukrainain SS unit to Canida.... Much of the others were slaugtered by the Russians. What happened since in Canada is they wound up jusifying their early positions and actions as Ukrainain nationalists and not members supporting Germany's extermination policies.... As well as political leverage in Canida...
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  65. Perhaps Michael Hudson?
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  66. Thanks for staying on it.
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  67. What we need to know is protecting the rich is not really capitalism. If you want to make capital then you have to give more money to the 'makers' and not the 'takers' as reagan used to say. There is no industry or production without workers. They make everthing and if you want capital you have to let the workers keep more of it.
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  68. We need to get Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai in here to explaine the problems that have to be overcome to make this a reality.
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  69. It is not clear to me what the heckler's point is...
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  70. @keefrazak In what world is Trump any worse than Biden?
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  71.  @basook6116  It is interesting that sancitons, which is what the war was about, are really doing a lot of good for the russian economy.
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  72. From questionable presidential endorments to this.... This is much much better.
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  73. Zelinsky's contry has been in a civil war for nine years and his faction, supported by Nato is losing very badly.... Where as Ukraine was mostly devided by people who spoke Ukraine local dialect and those speaking main stream Russian, his faction oulawed Russian and went to war with them nine years ago.
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  74. Why you bring in such partisans to discuss this case?
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  75. I think russia returning control of Luhans and Donesk to the LPR and DPR is a more realistic way of thinking about it. They have been under occupation for eight years and the occupiers have to give up or die.
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  76.  @d3m3n70r  I am in the US.... My goverment gives yours directions. I am not sure their instuction set is any good for anyone.
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  77.  @Andres-m2u  You feel that they had no choice? Perhaps they could switch to an economic system that builds capital rather than destroys it? Is that possible?
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  78.  @seshadri.j  Expanding nato and the forever wars are by design to support the military industrial complex.
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  79. Russia is lucky... The sanctions took out the garbage for them and it serves as protectionist.... It is frigtening how fast the world is changing but even if, perhaps particularly if, it wasn't changing so fast, the sanctions would have worked for them.
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  80. If you knew how much trouble Wall Street was in, you woudn't wounder why the US is acting this way.
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  81. If we were to discourage rent seaking and speculation it would deflate asset values but we could get on the right path soon... We SHOULD expand our advantage with industrial policy that includes debt reduction and the reduction of asset values... The US has long complained that China was giving it's self an unfair advantage with those policies...
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  82.  @luckynyaa2826  I think that is the neolibralism to the external neocons.
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  83. I think they gave them orders not to surrender... My feeling is that there are people in there that will embarrase the Ukraine operation... The US is sending another 40billion worth of millary aid... This is one of the greatest boons to millatary hardware contractors in the US ever... And that is what US policy is about.
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  84. My recipts increasingly say $6.66 . The world is over.
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  85.  @alexandervantricht2189  How did Zelinsy play the piano?
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  86.  @bogdanmeleszczenko1271  Won the compitition for the most stupid comment on the internet...
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  87. Michael Hudson!
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  88.  @johnnydeppsky3510  I think it is the golden rule: Those with the capital who actually make capitali rule..... The East is industrialising while the west is deindustialising...
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  89. The only way to not regret voting for someone at this point is to vote in advance for the eventual loser...
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  90.  @krisxxxxw  I am very tired of the democratic party's gaslighting and I am voting for Trump.
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  91.  @basook6116  When was EU democracy alive?
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  92. Price gouging by electricity monopolies is a huge part of the problem as well.
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  93. Maybe Victoria Nuland would be a better choice.
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  94. ​ @donalddon5  Maybe if we re frame the stament in that China is succeeding because they have more of a focus on industrializatoion than impiralism then that stament makes sense... It is arguable that militerism and impiralism is an outgrowth of the anchient non art known as neoliberalism that the 'Iron Maiden' and Ronnald Reagan described so effectivly..
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  95.  @thecomment9489  Not anymore. Their tactics in trying to hold onto world trade and finance is actually isolating them.
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  96. I suppose so.... I don't follow him closely... This time it looks as if he spoke some truth that very few others that support those things for the same reasons would never say out loud.
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  97. @user-mq1no3cq8u Boeing was so pumped with high quality planes.... Vulture capitalists call that waste and dumped that capacity... They had value and now they need to rebuild for the next pump and dump.
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  98.  @gabriellee6898  Europe would be able to stand on it's own with the support of the east.... That is not the goal of wall street that is in huge trouble.
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  99.  @TheLooking4sunset  What about the innocent Ukrainians that were being slaugtered in mass before the "full scale invasion" and the fact that Ukrainains didn't want to join Nato and in fact favored Russia?
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  100.  @allydea  Is there any possibillty for DW to end it's hellucinatory machinations? When russia dictates terms in the Ukraine, do you think DW will be able to acknowledge that reality?
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  101. A war crime.... Prime suspect is brandon who said that Nord Steam Two would never be operational.
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  102.  @tinaforbes1059  Bingo..... I am in Chicago and I am amazed about the abject incopentence here, in the UK and EU.
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  103.  @justarandomname420  That's NOT OK.
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  104. He isn't even canadian... And he ain't whiney.
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  105. Watch it or democracy will come to your country as well.
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  106. I rememember Dasai and Hudson talking about CBDC... I apreciate a discussion on that.
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  107. That is generally what the pundits that I am listening to say...
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  108. So why is Blinin' in such a hurry to destroy the reserve currency?
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  109. I don't think these guys know anything about economics.... Yellen' is getting on my nerves.
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  110. @user-mq1no3cq8u We are in between two huge bodies of watter, our currency is the reserve currecy of the world... If we followed Reagan's advice and 'let those who produce keep more of what they produce' instead of destroying our curency advantage we would be fine.
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  111.  @solaroid4442  I have a feeling that Isreal has some staying power.... Over the past seventy years they have managed to run off all most all of the Palistinians, they have the support of the entire west who doesn't ever blink at their every day repression. I feel as if when the ballance of power in the world changes they will also find a way to remain...
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  112. I used "fuck off" in the original comment.... It essentially means the same thing.
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  113. I didn't see the interview.... I am getting all this secound hand..... I figure these eyes are really good at picking things out.
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  114. Time to get Michael Hudson on for this issue.
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  115.  @anjazapico6380  It is really frigtening.... I live in the US where a lot of other stuff is frigtening as well.
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  116. I thought for sure Galloway was in London.
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  117.  @alexdetrojan4534  So we did it all wrong in the US when we were industrializing and China shouldn't do what we did?
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  118. In the US we don't have a 'left' and some of us are voting for Trump.
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  119. He certainly has a way with words.
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  120. They pumped up asset valuations so high that the balloon will burst.
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  121.  @mamacryright5740  That is the way I like them: Cute and dummm.
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  122. Zelinsky is doing a good job of confusing the Ukraine army... Russia doesn't want him gone just yet.
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  123.  @zezenkop412  The Wagner group is an arm of the russian military... My understanding is that blackwater is now known as Mozart group... It is mostly funded by the US government but my understanding is that it is also a contract military group... Other contractors for the US include ISIS who has a little bit of a muslim Jihad flavor to them... They have what I understand to be a new Wasabi[sp] paradigm which is a Suni[sp] derivative... My feeling is that displaced Ukraine men will become a new ISIS in europe as a contract group or idle terrorists with a traditional Nazi flavor.
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  124. It isn't like they need to issue bonds but in this case it serves to keep the value of the chinese currency lower in value. Meaning they can sell things from their economy cheaper. Norton's explantion of Purchasing Power Parity is precious as well.... I seem to slowly be getting it.
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  125. There is a world economic forum in St Petersburg that the US is aghast about.
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  126. I be sitting in the west.... These people give me indigestion... It is hard not to hope for their defeat even while sitting in the west.
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  127. Sevedonesk fell in like three hours... It seems like most of the city is still in good shape.
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  128. It takes time to train on these intergrated weapon systems.... Ukraine has some people traing in germany and in polland on a nato standards four month training regimon. It is hard to imagine how they can get those heavy weapons and personel on the battel field in the break away provinces at that time... If I were a betting person I would say that by the time the personel is trained, russia will have liberated the donbass.
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  129.  @SvetlanaVladimirova8590  I think you said you were from Moscow before.... Seems like a very nice town.
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  130. Wolff and Hudson are pollar oposites. Wolff's world view, although anti-neoliberal, is as realistic as a neoliberal world view.... Hudson takes the time to describe where the bones are burried without a lot of sloganeering and virtue signaling.
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  131. They don't seem to miss anything and when I disagree with them, I turn out to be wrong.
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  132.  @TheDAT9  Why won't it work forever once the sytem is installed?
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  133.  @TuanTran-h5f  Jon Stewart thinks that human shit on the sidewalk is the price we pay for freedom.
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  134. There is a duapoly of thoght on the issue of sanctions. Hudson feels that sanctions were to separate Europe from Russia where as the Duran people feel that sanctions were to destroy Russia. Were the sanctions expected to destroy Russia or did they work as intended and only isolate Europe?
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  135.  @davidboi4025  Agreed. He ain't canadian and he aint' whiney.
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  136.  @7owlfthr  And the answer is: The US has been reverting to Fudalism....
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  137. He was worse than trump who turned out to be the best X president in forty years because trump was not anywhere near as effective in fucking things up.
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  138. Tax 'wealth' held in assets.
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  139. Ukraine, the dammage these weapons did and are doing in Ukraine.
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  140.  @alangunningham5667  While the tanks and boots on the ground determine who wins the ground game, the ground game never seems to effect whether or not the US supports the military effort. Historically and of late the US has supported 'forever wars' where the US lost. Why do you think that the ground game in this case is different in that US support is contingent on gains on the ground? As for 'trolls' I prefer 'russian bot' . I had a russian bot avatar for a lot of years during the time when the US media said putin installed trump. While the media's narratives of late are not as outrageous they are consistent in that they are almost universally wrong.
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  141. It is like when someone blocks you on social media and you don't notice....
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  142. Maybe he knows that it is unlikely that he will survive this?... I suppose he is taking it day by day, with a pinch of snow.
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  143.  @atulmamtora  In GDP statistics it includes preditory ecnomic activity like an increse in private debt.... My point is activities that shrink the economy is included in GDP statistics... So as the economy is in a phase of quick shrinkage the GDP will show some growth.
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  144. I didn't find a Stein group in Chicago to collect signitures for.
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  145. Is Juan Guido attending?
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  146. It was probably a goverment plane and not Maduro's personal property... The point is to confiscate as much as they can after Citco in the US, some $50B in UST-bonds and two or three tons of gold in London.
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  147.  @32shumble  Despite those issues russia will continue to hammer away at the donbass untill it is controlled by the DPR and LPR... Ukraine will continue to suffer 10 to 20 times the death of millatary personel as russia. The mamoth task of finding and identifying Ukraine millatary personel's bodies will fall on the russians... 'One way to lose. The question at hand is "IS russsia causing a world wide shortage of duct tape?"
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  148. They did beat back the ukes from the donbass who has been digging in for eight years, armed by nato and killing thousands... They died in the thousands.
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  149. How is Netenyahoo keeping Isreal and Jews safe?
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  150. Siemens, the german company that services the pumps, signed off on the maintence issues that the pumps were expiriencing causing an emergency shutdown of the single pump in operation.... Siemens has been working on a work around from the sanctions but has failed to get the nessessary equipment to service the pumps.
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  151. I was always interested in the democrats and how whacky they have become. I was surprise to see rebuttle by a republican had as whacky contrived themes that were equally out there.
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  152. From Chicago.... With indegestion.
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  153.  @studiobauhaus7740  On a broomstick?
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  154. What is frustrating is that those who know are cosidered odd.
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  155. ​ @cityguyusa  That was the feature not a by product..... The idea was to make Europe buy US oil and gas...
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  156.  @fox2004yuan  What? Macron is hated in France.
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  157. Sevim Dağdelen best guest EVER
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  158.  @SvetlanaVladimirova8590  Greetings from Chicago!... I said something silly.... Levity is censored on Youtube as well.
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  159.  @sexynelson100  Wolff thinks that all we need to do is have democracy at work.... He don't know nothing... Most of my comments are deleated on subject like these.
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  160. Maybe some latent shyness will kick in.
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  161. It took China about fifty years.... Russia overcame western colonialism in twenty to becoeme part of the rivalry to western hegimony.... Russia is demostrating a go slow approach in Ukraine and advocating a careful aproach in Africa. With the break up of western hegimony it seems inevatable that Africa will gain it's independance.... Something that we have been dreaming about for hundreds of years.
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  162.  @StefanWeber-n6e  Odessa has no strategic significance.
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  163. Ever listen to Zelinsky? He makes you feel dizzy trying to figure out what he means.... I need to listen to this kind of speach more so that I get tough to it.
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  164.  @truthseeker2648  Very frustrating when the democrats stop Bernie, take some of his policies as campaign prmises and not fullfill any of them. Trump is better.
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  165. Tio!
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  166. If they had fullfilled some of their campaign promises they woldn't be the greater evil.
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  167. I wish he had the verbal agresiveness of George Galloway or Donnald Trump.... Stuck to his guns policy wise like Galloway or Corbyn. US citizens need a fire breathing advocate.
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  168. I am a Bernie fan who is not blind to Trump's actions or the Democrat's actions.
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  169.  DDd-gm8uz  Not a resaonble goal because everything that they predicted would happen with Trump happened with Biden.... I am a tradtional leftist as well.
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  170. What ever happened to "Never Again!" and what does "Never Again" evin mean?
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  171.  @maxheadrom3088  So far she has been wrong... While the invasion met all of the goals of the west, the rubel picked up value agaist both the dollar and the euro since. One of the most important western goals was to sanction europe away from russia's and china's economic sphere of infuence.... My impression [speculative 'cause it is in procces and not happened yet] is that will prove to be politically destabelizing of the goverments in europe that were on board with sactioning europe... An example of the kinds of destabilization is that Le Pen almost won in france.... This will cause europe to be a mix of western and eastern market influences. This will cause the US does more antisocial proxy kinds of things to keep market influence over europe and the east sweeting the pot.... The east has a lot of sweet things for econmies: Energy, efficient IT, manufactered goods.... They are the biggest trading parner all over the world.... They got what we need and they are compeating to be able to sell it... That is what the proxy war in Ukraine is about...
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  172. Yes it is... But the democrats are terrifying as well.
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  173.  @Vidalin11  I am not sure he has a choice at this point... Zelinski is lucky if he survives the war.
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  174. It seems like nothing compared to what is comming... My understanding is that BASF has left germany because of high energy prices... I am not sure where they are going.... As more industry leaves because of high energy prices and germans cant afford the basics, what do you think will happen? Who do you think destroyed the nordstream pipelines? To be sure Germany must change it's leadership in order to avoid a major distater.
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  175. I done read many of Hudson's books as well.
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  176. Professor Desai is entitled...
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  177. He lives in China.... It must be a challenge for us english speakers.
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  178. We are lucky fucks arn't we?
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  179.  @antediluvianatheist5262  I think he means presenting arguments....
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  180. "Greatful for the Professors" BIngo!
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  181. My understanding is that the russians have brought in bunker buster misles... The plant will be destroyed.
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  182. I can't resist chiming in with the accolades.
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  183. Many don't know a proper definition of capitalism which we are losing to feudalism.
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  184. I don't think we will be ready when the financial melt down comes.... We really have to study people like Michael Hudson so that we know what is going on and how to solve it.
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  185. Does Nuland have a bad reputation in the Sahel? Does this mean that the failing upwards creates abject incopentence?
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  186. Nuland?
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  187. My impression is that these naval exersises are to guard against piracy.
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  188.  @paulaheady8990  Really! I really thought that most americans know that Guatanamo Bay dentention facillity is in Cuba.... Anyway..... I wouldn't cry for Cuba at all because most cubans are doing quite well as it is.... It is the common US citizen that is really suffering.
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  189.  @ryanwalters6184  U really think the US public is on board with the end of humanity?
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  190. No one in the US really knows.
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  191. I needed some support to think that Russia gate "Trump was installed by Putin" crap woudn't continue.
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  192. Michael Hudson!
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  193. Would they have an argument?
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  194. The general dynamic is that if you agree with everything in the PR realm, no matter how inacurate or stupid, you are considered an expert in the next round of PR. It is called failing up.
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  195. Trump does a better job.
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  196. If they were discussing economics at the university everyone would know that the sanctions would further strenghten Russia.... These people can't ballance a ledger at a candy store.
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  197. Please prey for us and thank our leaders for the sanctions that are giving you such a boost.
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  198. With the proposed Korean-east German style armisist, the US can clame, as Alex speculated, that the war in Ukraine was a victory because it stopped Russia from taking all of Ukrane and going onto Poland..... What will the US do before the US presidential election cycle to show any retorical victory in Ukraine otherwise?
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  199. I can't for the life of me imagine who in the US is benifiting from what the US is doing.
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  200. What is the dynamic with all the immigrants in Chicago? I done listened to Anya Parampil who didn't seem to have a firm opinion as to why so many Venezuelans are welcome and why they get accelerated social services that are denied to US citizens.
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  201. When the yahoo came to washington they removed the tents from in front of his street.
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  202.  @moonovermiami9787  My historical knowledge dosn't go back that far. Obama was a huge falure and that is why we have so much homelessness.
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  203. Especially as defined by the 'rules based order' where it means fealty to the US.
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  204. Congress doesn't seem so adept at times.
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  205. I disagree. The best marketing for Trump is the fascism of MSM and the democratic party.... I haven't been paying all that much attention to Trump but I suspect that in general he is the best marketer of the undemocratic party.
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  206. The grain deal included an unimplemented part where Russia was allowed to receive payment for wheat and fertilizer from Swift and have those ships protected. Russia's wheat and fertilizer production not only dwarfs that of Ukraine but it is offering to send sanctioned grain to food insecure countries for free..
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  207. When will Berine call out democratic party lies? When will they ever fullfill any of their campaign prommises?
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  208. Professors in the natual sciences are as informed as entertainers when it comes to current evetns.
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  209.  @inconvenientfacts8896  I think I outined my impressions... The sanctions were origionally targeted at europe to isolate europe from russian and chinese markets and make them more reliant on ameican monopolistic cartells. It is an ongoing project for the US... I can't imagine that they have a bigger effect on russia than europe. Still taking 300B in bank assets has to hurt... The probem with that is eventually it will hurt the US more when more contries get isolated and have to do buisness in other currencies. I haven't crunched the numbers myself.
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  210. That doesn't address the query of whether or not the US will continue to support Nato efforts in Ukraine. Win/Loss makes no difference at all.
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  211.  @JAREDPLY1  Zelelinsky has been a big ally of russia.... He is not really a manager and his orginizational style has been a big part of the west losing for various reasons.
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  212. It sows confusion among it's own citizens as well.
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  213.  @Dorian_sapiens  Soverenty is consitantlhy against US policy for a long time.... Those polices are enforced by US proxies some of which are listed in official US goverment documents which I quoted in the earlier comment... For more information on those consistant policies you can refference Michael Hudson "America’s Neoliberal Financialization Policy vs. China’s Industrial [capitalism]"
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  214. I am still interested in Latin America...
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  215.  @Rawdiswar  It seems as if they can easily censor the internet as well.
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  216. My impression is that the pandemic provided cover for the flagging US hegimonic economimy...
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  217.  @jamesmorrow1646  I suppose most expect that Europe and especially Ukrane will be abandoned to the US empire... Professors Hudson and Desai describe the empire as a throw back to the good old days when there was a genetic aristocracy that ran things in their own interest who arn't even creating capital but destroying it. Its an oldy..... but it ain't a goody...
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  218. They kind of echo what I am reading and my biases but it is also very exiting... Ben has been doing good work before this as well, but this goes to the kernel.
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  219. Didn't you know it? If anyone would say something like that it would be Graham.
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  220.  @BarkWhoGoesThere  What is inevatable is that those who industrialize will win over those who deindustrialize....
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  221.  @Kitiwake  Callories are good for you.... It sucks not to have enough... Ever done it?
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  222. Capitive democrats seem like they have to listen to democratic party gaslighting... This motivates some former democrats to vote for Trump.
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  223. Yes .... The article raises more questions than it answers.
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  224. If you hid weapons like a squerel, how can you find them again, especially when so many Ukrainain service members die? This is because when they die their knoledge of where the weapons stashes are dies with them.
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  225.  @rocky137  I still doubt the effects of chinese impiralisim [or what ever you call it] All the chinese have to do is give people a better deal than the west who has perhaps given them not a very good deal.
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  226. The greatest threat to nato is nato.... I've seen the enimy and it is we.
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  227. OK. so lets run brandon.
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  228.  @sands7779  It is a ridiculous statement to say that Ukraine has not targeted civilians in its very long war against the Donbass... Early on Ukraine targeted Ukraine civillians in Odesa by throwing them in a building, cealing it up and burning it... There is however an alternate reality that is easily quoteable.
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  229. Fourty years.
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  230.  @bernventer5949  Most of the dollars printed went in to asset value inflation.
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  231.  @sinaoladeji3555  My understanding is China dosn't have a history of pirioting on the high seas.... If the ports that they are building as part of the belt and road initiative are to have any value they need to guard against piracy by one of the most powerful militaries in the world...
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  232.  @arnoldsaunders6073  Alexander said there was a warning.
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  233. It was the strongest ruling that the court could have made against Genocide in this part of the case.
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  234. It is because Russia and China embrace industrial expansion over giving profits to banks. It is use value over excange value or industrial engineering over finachal engineering.
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  235.  @me_josh  I like to follow Alex but he posts long after I wake up.... Usually sometime after 11 Am to 3 Pm.... I tend to think I will wait for the folling day soon.
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  236.  @buttercuptaylor7135  My assertion is that Wolff doesn't understand Marxism.
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  237. A US proxy woudn't say much.
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  238.  @Eventual-Visitor  Their statistics on the economy is how well the 1% is doing via asset valuations.... When that falls we will be aware of it and things will chanage but it is not assured that it will change for the better.
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  239. I think they would have a hard time...
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  240.  @steveogle3679  86 that crap.
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  241. You have a way with words.... Great writing.
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  242. But they are not working together.
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  243. There are so many like her. I am glad her story got aired.
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  244.  @NewsStripper  Lower the cost of living by nationalizing natural monopolies and tax asset valuations... That would go a loooong way toward re capitalization.
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  245. Duh! ... We knew that the expansion of nato into ukraine would cause a conflict with russia as well. I hate it when bernie lies.
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  246.  @stevenginn5352  I don't remember downing of the piece of hardware you referred to... Do you remember all the flap about the nord stream pipelines? There is also the flap about chinese IT infrastructure and hardware... Both gas and IT as well as food represent special interests in the US... The war is about the proposed sanctions.
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  247. Europe is likely to assume that russia destroyed the pipelines.
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  248.  @damn6  Russia has the best world currency increase this year. This suggests that they are gaining from the sanctions that are imposed ostensibly on europe... Many news sources suggest that not only did they switch to sell more gas in their currency but they got more money for less gas that they sold.
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  249. I am not at all sure that they have freedom of speech in the UK.
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  250. This is sure to convince Victoria Nuland.
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  251.  @samstone4320  To me Wolff doesn't even aknoledege debt and rent... When I listen to him I feel dizzy.
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  252. .... 'Not sure that GDP is a good marker of production/consumption cylce.... Imagine a body where an area takes blood and don't return it? Otherwise where is this argument documented?
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  253. Destiney of civilization is not a big deal to read and it has a great payload as well.
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  254. I have two main questions... Why they use they dub these emerging economies 'socialst' rather than 'industrial capitalists' I would swear the west's model is more of a feudalsit modle? After multiple discussions with Professor Michael Hudson, I wounder why Norton hasn't made that shift. And What does he mean by multi-pollar vs bi-pollar? I really am confused as to what he means by mulit-pollar and what that would look like.
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  255.  @nemojedermann2845  They spend a great deal on navel vessles amd they have the biggest navy in the world. So they DO spend on militarism.
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  256.  @donHooligan  She sounds as if she has been asleep for twenty years.
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  257. Arguably China is employing techniques developed during the capitalist-industrial revoution in the service of creating capital where as the west is more interested in reverting to the few owning less of a shrinking pot... The west model has been tried [feudalism-impiralism] and leads to distaster.
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  258.  @ovidiudraghici9941  If money dosn't matter that much, try living without it.
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  259. That is because we have monopolites in control of all the key choke points in our economy...
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  260. Your everywhere,
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  261. Yellen' : "Chinese capitalism works too good. Slow down." Chinese: Stuff it.
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  262. Shananagins.... That is what Hillary said to Wall Street: "Hey stop your shanangins" And it worked.
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  263.  @hermanvonshaft4662  Russia is gobbling them up.... It is one of their three main goals: demilitarization. Now that Nato ain't got no more to give them, ukraine is pretty much demilitarized... That goal along with recognizing the sovereignty of Lugansk and Donetsk as part of Ukraine was spelled out in the '15 minsk accords, which russia has been harping on for years... Those areas along with another two are now part of russia. Another goal, not sure it was in the minsk accords, is denazification of Ukraine... The real question that we need to answer is if goebbels had gerbilles? youtube.com/watch?v=4txmBNCAXg8
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  264.  @lottat6003  The west aknoledges that russia is in control of a hundred miles to the north as well as the the sea in that region... My understanding is that the Ukraine admin said that anyone who is surrendering will be sumerily exictued by their own commandos and mercinaries.
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  265. If the Ukrainians wanted to use the port in Odesa, why did they mine it?
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  266. If they have the russian battle war breakdown why don't they publish it? Why don't they upgrade their map? Putin has a 90% favorable rating in russia.... Why does he have to make the millatary flatten a lot of towns to show a victory?
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  267. Like the democratic party unhinged whacky narratives, the repubican narratives are just as out there. That is what I got from listening to some of her dribble.
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  268. Residential area looks like it needs a grounds keeper...
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  269. I am a US citizen who is outraged about Hillary and her lies about Assange... To me Assange is a hero... The shit against free speach and even on line interpersonal relationshiips is just getting so think it is amazing.
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  270. ... To get out the invading Ukraine forces who station themselves there... I fixed it for you.
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  271. Too funny.
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  272. Who benifits from this? Brandon actually said he would shut it down. Some posit a theory that, in the word of one very good comedian, dark brandon did it.
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  273. There is considerable question about what realestate will be considered 'Ukraine''... There is also considerable question about if/when the EU will recover from the sancions.
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  274.  @rogersmith8480  The producers of war machines and amuntion are mostly US interests who make their equiment in the US where energy is cheep.... Even if it weren't the political pressure of the millatary industrial complex has had the US alocates about a trillion dollars a year from the US treasury alone.... The expansion of Nato is a way of insuring US exports and is one way to keep the dollar stable.
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  275. It is probably better if russia wins and implements minsk+. Sanctions are not related to the war in that the goal was the sanctions and war was the means to the sanctions.
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  276.  @marshmallowpuff4899  ... All I am saying is if china wants to expand it's industrial base, like they have been doing, china need to keep the cost of living down... They can't do that by giving away natural resources to a tiny few and bailing them out, not if, when they fail... We do that in the west and we know what it is like.... It leads to the tiny few having all the assets, asset price inflation, debt deflation and the cannibalizations of industry [deindustrialization] .. What we are seeing in the west.
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  277. I am disapointed that Alexander doesn't seem to understand how fiat curency works, how it is issued and what gives it value. It is notable that popular impressions are a very big part of how currencies function but some of those popular impressions aren't for reals.
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  278. Amazing that the Europeans don't have economists that can balance a ledger in a candy store.
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  279. I didn't even know he had an ailment.
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  280.  @panchovilla5940  No we don't respect Dictatorships and ilegal invadors. We have no self respect.
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  281. I also talked with an Indidan aqueantence in Chicago who had the same impression.
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  282.  @MercuriusHibernicus  Isn't there a Zombi film that works just as well?
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  283. You do seem to need to escalate every where you are in every thing you do.
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  284. With Ukraine people as well.
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  285. I really like this guest.
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  286.  @somjrgebn  How do you think dollars are created? They are printed or issued on computer spread sheets...... Interest bearing dollars are just issued dollars.
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  287.  @louise_rose  Ben Norton has a piece speculating on what would happen if [we are going to say when] the dollar ain't hegimon no more... My take away is that finachialized capitalism [feudalism] would wain making industrialization more attractive than deindustrialization.
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  288.  @louise_rose  I tend to think the dollar is going to be a bit more hegimon for a while longer... I tend to think it would start to change if there was an asset valuation squeeze in the US.
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  289. Isn't the belt and road intitiative something like the monroe doctrine?
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  290.  @anjazapico6380  If you come up thinking that your society or your civilization is stable and that changes, that is enough to frighten anyone.
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  291.  @eagletalons5333  It is the Lord's Prayer: "Give us our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we forgive the debts of others.... In escence, the Bible is more of a secular document that litterally strengthens societies rather than something abstract devine...
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  292. Why would the US ask the US to get out of Syria if that is what they are doing?
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  293. Do big meetings indicate a change in tactics? We know that there is a huge number of commando units that are going to be on or near the front line soon but the offiencive around Bakmut[sp] is drawing much of the Ukraine millatary in to destaster....
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  294. Garland has a lot of Garland isms..... They are quite colorful.
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  295. As seen through the eyes of clasical ecnomics they are all of great benifit.... It is no surprise that the data shows it.
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  296. They are going to tell us Ukraine won.
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  297. Amazing.... Fired for falsifying police reports. Are there any police reports that are for real?
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  298.  @pscoolguy  My experience is that cops lie all the time..
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  299. ​ @notarmchairhistorian7779  Who determines what oil is illegal and which is not? It is interesting that the Venezuelans got all of their money in american banks impounded as well as the gold they held in London... Then they arrested their diplomat for sourcing food for Venezuelans.... My understanding is that the americans did a similar thing to Iran a couplie years back as well as doing that when Mossadegh was elected. Similar piracy is happening in Europe with the banks.. It is not enough to say that we are powerful, we support these international cartels against other groups and we will say what goes. Balance of power is changing.
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  300.  @_Wai_Wai_  Because they lost their industry to economies that do the minimum to support their labor like keeping their natural resources out of the hands of monopolists who do nothing but raise prices, create false scarcities and raise the price of subsistence. Another thing that the US does is actively cannibalize industry. Capitalism has moved on to other places.
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  301.  @LeroxYT  It makes me dizzy.... I am not sure what he is saying... I don't know how to stop that dizzyness from happening...
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  302. How is AOC still popular?
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  303.  @barnabasigari3109  After world war two... for a veriety of reasons... I argue that we were in the buisness of abandoning capitalism as Bernie describes.
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  304. As a life long democrat and a Bernie Sanders supporter, I am much more afraid of Harris ending democracy and freedom of speach more than anything I expect of Trump.
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  305.  @lawsonj39  Before the apex of clasical economics there was a group of french pysicitans known as the 'physiocrats'... They were interested in the ceruclation of money and pointed out that when the aristocrats pulled it out of cerculation it stopped both the consumption AND production side of industry... Yes if you give the workers more money they will spend it but they will ALSO be able to produce more because they are well rested and housed, eductated, not in stess... Those workers kick the low paid workers asses.
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  306.  @thefilthelement  If you missed the memo that Sanders needed you to vote for Trump I am not sure what to say.
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  307. So we need to get a copy of the new york times and send it into the justice department?
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  308. Dark brandon doesn't want to look weak in the face of defeat.
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  309.  @84Actionjack  The US millatary is essentially fiscally free to the US.... The reason they want the EU to spend more on their miliatary is becasue they want to extract everything out of the EU.
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  310. If Italy sopped sanctioning it's self off of russian energy, it is possible that it could take away energy businesses from germany and emerge as the strongest industrial economy in europe....
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  311. It is also aledged that chinese computers and cell phones are not alowed to be sold in the west because they don't have a 'back door' where intelegence agencies can see what you are saying and track your conversations.
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  312.  @corin164  Russian wheat is sill not moving as well... Ukraine launched attacks from the protected grain corridor as well... Russia put a stop to the corridor...
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  313.  @joshtep6784  I listen to Scott Ritter on matters like these... He seems to think that the russians will be looking at footprints and tire tracks in the snow and taking advantage of the lack of leaf cover in the woods.... ... When they see something moving in the theatre of opperation, they will send mortor rounds and missles... The tricky thing is that the cities have been rendered uninhabitable where as there is wood in the forest... Regugees might be in much of the forests as well.
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  314. That is so stupid.... How could the US run out of the dollars they make?
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  315. My instincts say it is all about the bengimins.....
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  316.  @crytow5071  What I think I mean is the way adam smith and ricardo, perhaps mills described capitalism... Then how world hegimons like the US took off taking into account real economic realities rather than generalities... Lula did a as well as Ben Norton covered a lot of those things here... Michael Hudson describes a lot of the properties of what the 'physiocrats' would call 'cerculation' ... To me the spisifics are better than the generallities..
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  317. Objection. Speculation.
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  318. The US seems to be isloating it's self.
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  319.  @Allpro007  Deleated comment after deleated comment... It is hard to get any dialog into the conversation.
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  320. I am a bit on the short attention span order but... If ben is talking I am listening...
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  321. Lots of luck with that. The US would deindustrailze even if their labor wasn't loaded down with debt.
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  322. ​ @cavebabybezerkers  Not really. It is all about the resources and monopolies.... Their hegimony is very threatened and it is striking out. To think that buisness, what we do everyday to survive, ain't a spiritual query is odd.
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  323. She is evil and stupid.... Obama didn't look evil but he was.
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  324. The US can't produce as much and as good stuff economically because of neoliberalism.... Supliers in the US have to keep the pressure on the goverment to keep their monopoly markets.
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  325. ​ @DemiGod..  My impression is that this is an admission of the reason for the war[s] is to preserve western hegenomy.... Perhaps western hegemony now a days is partly fiction compared to the Brits back in the day...
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  326. I don't know what Ben means but I am sure that his definition of capitalism is debatable. He is very clear with his examples but not so clear when he employs words like fedalim, captialism, socialism.
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  327. Incompentent as well.... I am not sure when or how we will ever get into making capital rather than destroying it.. If we don't it will spell the end of our civilization. That there are so many assets about suggests that there was a time when we were making capital...
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  328. A jorney of a thousand miles begins with a single step....
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  329. So frustrating.
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  330. Why not? Many are industrialists. If Russia is at full employment they can afford to have western european enclaives.... Here in the states we have Mexican and Polish enclaves... I rather like the Mexicans.
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  331.  @UNRELATIVE  They also seaze food on the high seas that they say were illegaly obtained by Venezula.
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  332. 'Parked in the wrong spot.
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  333.  @petertwiss4215  Funny... It apears as if the majority of the ukrainian nationalist build up in armements and personall the donbass over the past eight years have been destroyed, 75% of the donbass has been liberatied. It also apears that Ukraine has a great deal of difficulty rearming and making anything like an effective strategy to either hold teritory or rout the russians from what teritory they have ceased. The US task of destroying russia millatarily or economically as well as isolating euope, as well as the rest of the world, from russia and china seems to have failed as well.
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  334. This is not a team sport... There are people on both sides who are losing their lives. Regardless of who wins/loses this war is very sad.
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  335.  @therationalnational  Police killing people during a wellness check is actually quite common.
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  336. Kiev still has over 90% of it's beutiful buildings and infrastructure. With any luck it will be a thriving metropolis in the future as well.
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  337. Did the US decide to tell the germans which lies to tell about china as well? Are you going to pay us back for the lend-lease equipment we are sending to Ukraine in dollars?
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  338. Mercinaries are not covered by the Geneva Convention.
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  339. Who dug in to the russian region for eight years with the support of the US? Who shelled the nucliear power plant?
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  340.  @patrickribeiro9167  That tends to be what Ukraine does.... I am not sure that I can counter the assertion that they were using the plant as an amo depot.... That seems very unwise. Why would they have to use it as a depot while the allies have a clear advantage in the LPR, DPR as well as almost all the way to Odessa in the south?
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  341. That is not clear yet. If they want to keep their industry they need to intervene on behalf of the people.
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  342.  @sebastianwrites  True... Ukraine didn't instigate the war and they had no choice in the matter... When they had a goverment that wanted to have closer ties with russia they had a CIA led coup in '14. That goverment stepped up shelling in the war in the east that was going on for eight years in febuary. Those were orders from the west.. Now the west is interested in making a stable war in Ukraine but they are running out of Ukraine conscripts to do so.. The main reason for the west's interst is to sanction europe... It may seem like a werd conspiracy theory but most things sound weird to people who don't know anythng.
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  343.  @TruthSeeker1511  I can't beleive that I am wishing for Trump... Again... I believe Bernie wants us to vote for Trump.
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  344. I kind of trust Desai, Michael Hudson and Steve Keen...
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  345.  @stephenconnors7380  I voted for Jill Stein in '16. They told me it was Two votes for Trump.... Then I voted for trump in '20.... I think I am going to have another chance to vote for Jill Stein.... That is FIVE votes for trump.
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  346. I am not real clear on this dynamic.... I bought the book but I don't really unerstand how currncies are valued although I have been taking some information in...
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  347.  @danacameron7416  I love the way trump waid it "We have the Oil" We are there for the Oil.....
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  348.  @MrMandelsohn It's like the UK's Maxwel Smart.
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  349. This is a very serious prediction that we will be at war with Iran..... I don't think it is a reasonable summary [or at least I hope not] but the last time I thought you were wrong I was arguing something somewhat less serious: That Pregozen was a harmless head of the Wagner group with no real millatary or cammand authority or intention. Pregozen turned out to be a lose cannon..
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  350. Russia felt that Europe would behave in it's own best interest.... That was a blunder of huge proportions.
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  351. I am not sure those are descriptive of someone who knows their subject and can talk at length eloquently on what they are passionate about. I am not sure what the meaning of erudite is.
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  352.  @WebAccount-y3e  Ben Norton is a good source of information but his delivery dosn't have the reflective style that the Duran is noted for...
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  353. Lots of luck with that.
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  354.  @KassandraFuria13  Why? The americans woke up and kicked the bums out.
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  355.  @louise_rose  I am not familliar with Fukuyama... So my framwork is that in the states we are sattled with high asset values where the banks get everything as well as the fed reserve that backs up asset values.. In addition we have international investors who park their money in US assets and T-bonds... We had an asset value crush in like '08 and the fed came in to bail them out... With another fall in asset values and the rest of us not being able to keep up as well as flight from the dollar the fed might not be able to prop up those values much.... This could lead to a bit of a shift from financhalized capitalism [feudalism] to idustrialization like we saw at the beginning of capitalism... I don't have a clear picture of the tipping point or what would come after.... Michael Hudson, Ben Norton and Steve Keen are trying to explain these things to us.
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  356.  @arnoldsaunders6073  If latent humanity is stopping being shy about being physically accosted, perhaps I will find my humanity someday. Maybe I can overcome my other shyness as well.
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  357. The west needs to abandon neoliberlism. Then things would really move.
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  358.    Dependance on cheap Russian energy was replaced with dependance on US energy that costs five to six times as much money... It is a protection racket for US energy monopolies. Unfortunately, as a Chicagoen, I don't get none of the benifits because the same monopolies that are victimizing the Europeans are victimizing me and my people as well.
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  359. It sounds like a state in Africa as well.
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  360.  @Shadowless_Kick  The machines know more than you do.
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  361.  @fraochflanagan-km1ou  I think if you mention the most famous economist then you can't get through.
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  362.  @Shadowless_Kick  Alex has a lot of Alexisms as well.... They are fun..
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  363.  @katerina_m6643  I done got most of that from Michael Hudson....
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  364. Obama marketing for Harris was the begining addd... He is just as effective, for me, as Hillary...
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  365. I was dissaopointed when Tucker Carlson didn't ask Putin about Boris and Natasha [Fatalle] Badinov.
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  366. Not at all we will be held to account... How many before and nothing at all?
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  367. 'No idea why he would argue it isn't a genocide. The court even took multiple instances of intent into evedence and intent is the hardest thing to prove in genocide cases.
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  368. So what you are telling us is that Israel, that could station it's command centers anywhere, is stationing them in urban areas?
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  369.  @MrDude826  How you think we can survive giving all of our natural resources to the tiny few who make false scarcities, raise prices and have to be bailed out? When Venezuela tried to stop that shit and created their own industry they had their assets ceased and a blockade put up.
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  370. Pokrovsk is of no strategic significance.
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  371. We can't. The CIA don't like him regardless of where the money in campaings go.
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  372.  @Leto2ndAtreides  Reagan said: "If you let 'makers' keep more of what they make and not give it to the 'takers', you get more" The policies that you cite do the opostite and have lead to the colapse of many a civilization.
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  373.  @ericwendlandt7808  I can't believe people who follow Sanders have so much tollerance for democratic party gaslighting. Are they just trolls?
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  374. The tollarance of democratic party gaslighting by reported Sanders fans is AMAZING!
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  375.  @MorphyBDubov12  The alternative is NOT WORSE.
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  376. Thanks Bernie. Lets hope that Trump comes up with more of these zingers in the future so that we can examine our policies.
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  377.  @nowthenzen Check a map. Ukrane shares a long border with russia. Like 40% of the people in that region speak russian as their primary language which was outlawed in the country of late. Some in the west want to elimiate russians in the east... After the CIA backed coup in '14 there was an eight year long civil war where some of the people of the west went to the east and shelled towns and cities, killing tens of thousands...
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  378. Now a days I think he is supporting his base.... Cheerleading from behind or doing his best to get in front of the parade.... He was effective in chalenging the narrative before.... A lot of people wish he were the messiah and are angry that he is not..... He ain't going to be what you need all the time.
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  379. Nah.... Biden isn't going to get much support from Sanders supportes.
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  380.  @imperialmotoring3789  I am in a cafe at 35'th and Halsted. I don't love Trump but recognize him as the lesser of two evils. I do love Bernie.
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  381. They are tiny group.
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  382.  @RHINOTEJAS  The fed split with the treasury in 1913. That was one of the very biggest first sins that destroyed capitalism.
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  383.  @24tommyst  You haven't looked in your own back yard? The EU is a vassle state of the US and twice as stupid.
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  384. These actions are totally consistant with the rules based order.
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  385. I tend to think they are lying about Le Pen.
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  386. So who among us voted for biden without any conditions? Who are the idiots?
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  387.  @angrypatata7084  You have never been hungry.... That is why you can say that.
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  388. This is like a bad ethic joke.... It is not true that lacking food makes you lose weight long term. Many even in the US are food insecure as well... I like ethic jokes but it has to be understood as a joke.... This sounds very uncharitable.
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  389. I am not sure why we have to say that china is being agressive in the south china sea... Needless to say, the US put war ships in between parts of china.
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  390.  @andyhughes1776  Ukraine means nothing at all to the powers that be.... They have no say in the war as well.... I am not sure why the generals are speaking out of turn.
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  391.  @johnynoway9127  That the WWII was not fought on US soil is one of the main advantages that the US had.... It didn't do the bulk of the fighting but it was certainly the victor economically..
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  392. Ukraine minister of defence has many out in the field and said openly that they were fighting for NATO....
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  393.  @investor615  Why? Western investors built up chinese industry because they had the best labor rates in the world. Now that they have come up with their own production in new markets to meet demands, supported by infrastructure and services that keep down the cost of labor, western monopolies are calling foul. Why all this vitriol for industrial capitalism?... Capitalism works... You should try it.
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  394. They recovered in record time from the neoliberalism of the late nineties. My feeling is that europe is going to have difficulty recovering from what they are experiencing right now.
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  395.  @FrankTheChrank  The news in the US is quickly being restricted and we actually have a formal 'minstry of truth' which is part of 'the department of homeland security' I find the whole prossess outragous. My impression is that it will continue until, in my case, I will have nothing but information given by official channels.... I consider stories by these sorces to be indications that the oposite is true.... My understanding is that in europe the process is compleate and that the europeans have no such traditon like we have of 'fredom of speech' which is enshrined in our constitnution.
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  396. I read the heart wrenching Killing the Host first.... I would recomend reading Destiny of Civilization first or J is for Junk first although I havn't read J is for Junk.
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  397. It is going to be a slow slog.
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  398.  @atulmamtora  Thesis die with the death of prognostications.... Biases change.... There are many things I don't understand well and once understood it is OK to develop nunances or contrary biases... The above makes no points... It is method over subtance.... A struggle to make sense of stuff.
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  399. The most important subsidy of Chinese industry comes from subsides to labor to keep labor prices down.
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  400.  @CptNemo-l3s  The truth is if the US was on an industrial footing we would have plenty of high quality millatary equip and supplies.... Right now we are reggressing, some say regressed, into a deinustrialized finachialized postion.. China don't have to carry that cross...
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  401.  @ZappyOh  Very funny.... The truth hurts. Shortsightedness is our core compentence.
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  402. My impression is that much of your audience is in the US..... Hudson has a myriad of examples where debt here to other secors of the US economy is sinking the US economy as well.... ... If you wish for equity, explain how it will produche more wealth.
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  403.  @dehua-2730  I don't think Boeing and Airbus will be badly effected in the short term because they have a lock on the market... It will be some time before Chinese airplaines are cleared for take off in the west. Airbus has a problem because the Euopean energy market is dependant on the US.
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  404. If we see a dip in asset values and we will get on a different track. Like Ben Norton points out both parties and canidates are accelerationist.
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  405. I don't think it is over yet.... Old habits die hard.
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  406.  @charleshinton8565  'Got to figure that the Chinese want to the people to keep the value. If I can come in with forign direct investment and expect a return then I am keeping their value added.
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  407. @moneytruth org And? How do we create capital? Is a 'capitalist venture' one that destroys capital? Can you call a society that destroys capital capitalist? "So the United States is a rentier economy. And when left-wingers – or people who call themselves left-wingers, they’re really not left-wingers at all; they’re, I don’t know what, post-left – very few people who call themselves left-wingers distinguish between industrial capitalism and finance capitalism. Well, that’s the distinguishing feature of the last century" ~Michael Hudson
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  408. @moneytruth org Stupid thing to call it 'capitalism' The meaning of capitalism has morphed into what is known as finachialized capitalism which don't really create capital. The clasical definiton of captialism is more likely industrial capitalism which many now think of as 'socialism'... I know it is popular vernacular but saying that it is captalism that does this makes me feel like they don't know what they are talking about.
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  409. Another illustration that these guys can't ballance a ledger in a candy store. What are they doing running a country, making war?....
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  410.  @hhheee3939  Hudson could describe capitalism as the things you need to do to make capital.....
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  411.  @ovidiudraghici9941  I embarked on an engineering career. I probably would have been just as happy or more making bombs as making electical transormers. Swards resemble plowsheers...
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  412. I am reading destiny of civilization.... It is not that hard intelectually or emotionally.... If you want to start with baby steps Stephany Kelton has a book 'Deficit Myth' .... Eighth grade readling level... Not emotionally challenging as well.
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  413. I listened to Wolff and Hudson interviews... Wolff still don't get it that it is rent and devaluing of industrial economy that is causing the crisis and in the end Wolff did his 'democracy at work' routine. There is, of couse, the neoliberal model that is based on "If the market worked this way" or the hope strategy. Other models that are seem to be anti neoliberal are also based on faulty "If marx one was all there is to understanding economies" then things would be better if you had "democracy at work" not understanding marx two and three... It is notable that the Soviet Union all they though about was marx one and as a result were sitting ducks for the Chicago school Pinochet policies of the 90's
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  414.  @BarkWhoGoesThere  Brenton Woods was a system where centuries established impiralists got together to develop an economic system. Brics is a group of industrialzing countries, who have been industrializing for 40-50 years, are developing an INDUSTRIAL policy.... It ain't gonna to happen real fast as some project but there is an inevatabillty where those who IDUSTRIALIZE win over those who DEINDUSTRIALIZE. If the west wants to stop it they need to take idustrializing policies of their rivals.... These policies used to be called capitalism. Now some, including Ben Norton, call these policies socialism...
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  415. Everything they said would happen with Trump happened with Biden.
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  416.  @UNRELATIVE  They arrested a Venezuelan official that was sourcing food. I think he is in prison in Florida.
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  417.  @cheshireket3132  I do fear Harris and Hillary. 'Massively disapointed by Reagan replicant Obama. If the dems decided to actually be the party of FDR they would never lose and wouldn't have to gaslight their base.
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  418. Democratic party gaslighting is certainly motivating me to vote...
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  419. Remember that they pinned russia between ruthless and evil and innefective and hapless when the russians liberate the donbass and ask for a treaty... They have been showing maps that show russia's liberation of the donbas but they have been saying at the same time that the russian goal of liberating the donabass is impossible.
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  420. With Vanderlin saying that Ukraine has lost 100K, literally she said 'officers' I hope he runs and survives the war.
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  421.  @Mwwwwwwwwe  How did murdering, by estimates in Iraq a million ded, not imperialism... Six months into the conflict and Kyiv is intact but the power grid is out... Shock and Awe in iraq on the first days the power grid as well as infrastructure was flattened.
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  422. Not a mental crisis... She is trying to escape something where she gets some kind of anxiety attack.
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  423.  @Dapper_Dean  Bden was as unhinged on the senate floor.
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  424. ​ @Bishop46066  Yes and they have three times the tanks and armored vehicles that they started the war with.... Ukraine will win everything back within the week.
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  425.  @rene8445  The war is about the PR not about the war it's self.... The war is to institute sanctions against the EU and russia....
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  426. Has S. Korea already delivered the 500K 155mm artillary rounds that the US got the commitment for?
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  427.  @hhKJgf1M8a0rzt8hP  How is Ukraine a sovereign contry? They got couped in '14 and Victoria Nuland installed the person she wanted, Russia was winning on the Donbas battelfield in '14 and got a peace agreement that was never followed. Then on April 1'st of 22 they were ready to sign a peice accord that was the original agreement that they came to in '15 when they were instructed by the west to not sign. Ukraine is taking all of it's instructions from the US. Close to a half million Ukrainan young men have died in this conflict.... The weird thing is that the war was about sanctions and the sanctions atually stenghthen the Russian economy... I am looking here to see what the western press is saying... It is amazing how many people have the impression that Ukraine is winning and soverign.
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  428.  @Groggybandito  Ukraine has been mining the ports in Ukrane that are not occupied by russia. At one time it left a lot of grain stranded for months....
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  429. There is a prediction of famine and starvation of millions of people, mostly children, because of sanctions against not only russian grain but more so russian fertilizer. Stories like these break my heart. I hope it can be avoided.
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  430. Please refference Earl Grey who claims to have found a rand report on these issues before the start of the russian offensive in ukraine. While you point out that there is great deal of interest in building war machines for profit, that report suggests that is not the only consideration behind the push to create the EU and expand Nato..
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  431.  @saveriodipoce2201  Sendibg weapons to Ukraine is an end in it's self.... I am a mechanical designer in the US... Please send us money in Dollars so that we can make more.
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  432.  @TonyA-ex1sj  Russia won in Ukraine and turned around and won in on the economic front... It feels good to laugh anyway.
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  433.  @jacktenrec63  Generally when people talk about capitalism they mean industrial capitalisms which is a state that was admired as a goal of the classical economists including Adam Smith, Mills, the physiocrats and Marx. Early classical economists were endeavoring to establish capitalism from the ridiculousness of feudalism where private owners [lords] owned everything and made more invasive laws to extract more from the people. That is pretty much the definition of financialized capitalism where agan very few people own everything with the help of grants and loans from the fed. Financialized capitalism DESTROYS capitol as it folds back into more profound monopolies and exploitation similar to feudalism where as industrial capitalism expands capacity. Industrial capitalism is what people mean by capitalism. Most people who call themselves capitalist and those who fancy themselves socialists think we are in industrial capitalism. It is not true and if we don't wake up to, thee will be civil unrest and we will lose world hegemony to the chinese.
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  434.  @SvetlanaVladimirova8590  What provance are from?
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  435. Europe's push for monetary soverenty could be good for Europe as well...
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  436.  @trumanhw  I belive it was Alex who reported that he is out of the hospital... 'Not much news otherwise or I don't know none.
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  437. Neither link pops on my computer.
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  438. Too funny...
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  439.  @rainhazelton5164  I would hope the war will implode before Novermber.
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  440. Wow! What to my wondering eyes should appear? A new Bretton Woods, and eight tiny reindeer,
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  441. I tend to think it decrases the threat of nuclier weapons being used.
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  442.  @tokinabootyammaddy  'No refferance to 33... I don't know what that means.
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  443.  @useryggfdcc  Power is 9/10ths of the law.... If you wish to say stealing you can say stealing.... In the future when the deindustrializing west folds they will say it WAS stealing. Right now it is our oil, it is just under other peoples feet.
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  444.  @dunzhen  They sold the dream.... Then it grew old.
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  445. Seems like a good thing to do is to get all coked up and paranoid before you go into a hopless battle..... The Germans did it.
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  446. What is the avatar? The Fugitive?
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  447.  @JacekBoczarski-p8b  He is sounding like a crazy grampa... Perhaps it is a negotiating tactic.
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  448. Wish Lula good health.
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  449. Yellin' always sounds like she has been asleep for twenty years.
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  450.  @Kenji1685  That isn't good enough. It is always possible to kick up too much dust with these weapons...
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  451.  @John-or9ccUndauntedRaceCars  As an American I can only hope that the US will get away from the horrors of impirialism as gracefully as the Brits did. There is like five or ten years we have to come to terms with it.
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  452. Ukraine's land? 80% of the people of Ukraine were against joining Nato in '14 but the coup goverment set up a civil war conflict with the Russian ethnic regions of Ukraine and killed many...
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  453. Michael Hudson!
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  454. Michael Hudson!
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  455.  @alexdetrojan4534  20% exportof cars is modest compared to South Korea, Japan and Germany... Capacity is moddest compared to the dmand because there is models of cars that havn't been bult and are sold out for a while. The economies of the west are centrally planed from wall street. The problem in the west is that cars, IT and planes are threatened by the chinese hord. Industries in the west are sattled with 'profit taking' by vulture captalists who dismatle opperations as well as having to deal with huge cost of living increases because labor in the west is in debt to healtcare, education, transportation, housing... China is selling special sauce called capitalism. We should buy it.
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  456.  @keithknight42  Maybe Trump is a bit of a dufface but he isn't as mentally challenged as democratic party group think.
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  457.  @238act  That was a refference to forgiving debt and it describes contemporary nations just as well as it did back in the day. But those in trouble are many of the nations that call themselves Christian and some who aren't don't refferance the bible. In escence the bible is refferencing somthing that isn't even supper natural.
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  458. There are impressions from video captures on the front lines that Ukraine has unints that are all women. The GI's seem to be retreating with women's gaits [they run like women]
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  459.  @TheDuran  Is Russia gate over? I found it most frustrating. I had an interest in geopolitics and economics and frustration from this and other things pushed me into studying it. My main mentor is Michael Hudson and I take day to day summaries from Alexander Mercouris.
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  460. I am still getting through this one.
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  461.  @norbertgeorge  I find Trump endlessly more entertaining that Nikki, Killary or Kamila.... To name a couple of clowns that are close to the white house.
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  462.  @SvetlanaVladimirova8590  I seem to remember a discussion with you.
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  463. I believe he could have done such a thing about a year ago and lived in peace for the rest of his life.... I feel like that boat has sailed.
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  464. I rather like Alex as well.
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  465. Is the statue at the end Arminius who lead three legions of roman troops through the Teutoburg forest?
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  466. So Ukraine won?
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  467. I am not sure war in Ukriane is a huge issue with the American people.
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  468.  @richardcarlyon241  Entertaining to be sure.
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  469. He has my vote.... I want to see the elites freek out. If we can't save the union, at least we can be entertained.
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  470. 'Got to figure he never expirenced lack of food in his life and don't know how it feels.
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  471. @Coma White Russia just liberated the donbass via refferendom and millatary means, the russian ruble is gaining strenght against all other currncies, russia is making more money from less oil & gas and the russian economy is stable...... Economies in the EU, UK are in trouble... How is russia losing?
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  472.  @anythingunderthesun5003  Russia seems very paitnent, consistant and transparent. After watching comanders do something it is easy to think how any idiot would know how to do that... Perhaps that is what it is like to be a leader.
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  473.  @jeremyj5932  I agree. The US shouldn't be makinig coups in Ukraine to annex Russian lands.
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  474.  @clarkkent4075  I din't even read the article... I figure that the war is going very slow in Bakmut because russia is getting everything they want... Do you remember the roch motel add: Roches walk in but they don' t walk out... Bakmut is like that when it comes to russias goal of demileterizaiton: Wepons and nazis walk in but they don't walk out. The war is not a very good specator sport.... Russia is getting everything it wants so very few changes are comming in the next two or so weeks.
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  475. Is this the person that comissioned the football hoolagans to do the coup in '14?
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  476. I don't believe he would use those words... They are the third rail in the west.
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  477. ​ @hanshuber1875  This is true. Russia didn't win anything and lost a lot but they now have the best military in the world, their economy is booming and Ukraine is destroyed.... Perhaps they got a good outcome even though they tried to avoid war.
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  478.  @GarthNader  I am a bernie fan and I will probably vote for Trump.
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  479. ​ @EricForney-uz4iz  Still I wish Bernie wouldn't chime in on democratic party gaslighting... I'm voting for Trump.
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  480. Wars in Afganistan and Ukraine with desasterous results.
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  481. Sorry kid.... They would rather have an economy that tanks than to give you anything.
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  482.  @mascadadelpantion8018  I am woundering why you think it is OK if Biden wins. How is it that between the two of them, Trump isn't the lesser of two evils?
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  483. I am a former democrat, always voting, now voting republican for the first time in my life. I am voting today.
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  484.  @lawsonj39  Not only that but workers are always trying to prefect their trade.... If you give them the means to do so they are on it...
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  485. I fea like I am following Bernie's directions and I feal like I fellow bernie fans are tying to shame me for it... Maybe they are just paid trolls?
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  486. I am a Bernie fan and I am voting for Trump.
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  487. And.... And the lesser of two evils as well.
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  488.  @chadk2525  Bernie did a lot to challange neolibral narratives and he still is. He put a lot of effort into it and then he went back to being a politician. We got a lot from him and I am greatful.
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  489.  @tschorsch  It is also very arrogant to think that Bernie doesn't know enough relevant history and isn't lying... Bernie is very sharp... He knows and he is lying... I hate it when he does that.
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  490.  @RobinHerzig  It was defacto part of nato... it had been couped by a CIA backed coup in '14 and had been supported by the US in it's civil war against the substantial russian minority in the east ever since. The war was to be justification for the sanctions that the US wanted to control europe and diminish russian influence... Sanctions are a double edge sward and will almost certainly do more to fuck up european and american populations and is very unlikely to make regeme change in russia.
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  491.  @lindapietrasz8070  Obama was like the most charming guy alive... His implemented policies were the very worst especially for black and latin working class wealth... Best for criminal real estate cartells and bankers... This truth is particularly painful for Obama supporters but effects are more imporatant than apearances. Sometimes the truth is annoying.
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  492.  @jrkarmagetubih  BINGO! and if you are trained to vote for the lesser of two evils, do so.
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  493.  @whiskeymonk4085  While Trump's policies are almost indestinguishable from the democrats, he puts them in hard line terms so that they can be examined. As a society we need to see clearly where we are.
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  494.  @justaplainspokengirl  I just vote Trump.
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  495.  @chrisko6439  I figure we have to get the neolibs out of the democratic party even if we have to destroy it.
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  496. I feel sick when he says Biden is better than Trump.
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  497.  @VintageSoloHarmony  I am a former democrat forever.... The policies that the democrats favor are whacky right wingnut by every measure.... That is why I am voting for Trump.
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  498.  @tsunami770  Both the democrats and Trump seem to have their cult followings.
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  499. The republicans were never saine... There was a flicker of hope in the democratic party quite some time ago that perahaps they can return to.
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  500. He is lying his head off to keep within the Overton Window.
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  501. The stoat has a choice in getting tired or not.... If it get's tired it takes a break.. If the rabbit gets tired during the chase.. It dies.
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  502.  @davisluong2060  Background: Mariupol is part of a break away area in the Ukraine that has been in a civil war with Ukraine for eight years.... Tens of thousands, mostly civilians and ethnic russians have died in this conflict. The area has been liberated by the DBR with suspport from russian regular army... It is the occupying Ukraine army that refuses to surrender.
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  503. If he didn't want to draw fire, he wouldn't have taken the rifle.
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  504. Trump just called for 2000 for regular people... That is more than pelosi got.
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  505. Why would anyone care what Q thinks?
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  506. Force The Vote or shut up.
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  507. Kleptocarcy against capitalism and democracy.
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  508. You stab 'em we slab 'em.
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  509. How is it that they have damages assesed in dollars they can go broke? They can print the dollars.
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  510.  @billgreen576  The nordstreem 2 was the reason for the war.
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  511.  @haroldcruz8550  Is the idea that she has political ambitions speculative or has she expicitly said that she has ambitions? Is it fair to speculate that the anti russian millatary postion is because she is hitching her wagon to those interests?
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  512. This is something that MSM and the liberals can work against.. Put them in the service of resisting Trump's policies... That is one of the things I like about Trump.
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  513.  @williaminnes6635  So you feel that this war is more than a reason to give gifts to the military industrial complex? I feel that way myself. I feel that the war was a way to isolate europe from russia and china in the service of US's favored international monopolies in several markets.
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  514. As an american, I have mixed feelings about europe crumbling economically because they are sending some of their high energy businesses to the US where I am a mechanical designer.
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  515. There weren't enough weapons to fight russia to begin with... That is the saying "Yell loudly and carry a little twig".
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  516.  @ernestspanjers7240  Are you an american? Don't you think people like Bush, Hillary Clinton, Obummer and so on that destroyed infrastructure and societies all over the world by bombing them are the psychos you are referring to as well?
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  517. What happened to the Saud promise to sell oil in dollars? Absent that, it feels like the Saudis are on the west's shit list.
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  518.  @hilite975  If Zelensky is doing what he is told to do, then it isn't nessesarilly the US that is pulling the strings because he has been being a bit eratic even for western standards.
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  519. Good catch... They make it sound like components already optimized for the specific project...
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  520. Thank Obummer for the way he handled the sub prime mortgage crisis.
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  521.  @beatricepastor218  Needless to say, pain causes changes in behavior... I don't know enough about energy dependent industries or energyu infrastructure to know in what time frame they can set into motion self survival.... Russia survived the neoliberal deindustrialization onslaught of the ninties, turned it around.... Euope is not russia... Africa might emerge as the new industrial marvel like china and leave europe behind.
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  522. 100,000 is the number that Vanderline EU mangler quoted... Spisifically she said it was 'Ukrainain officers'.... With civillains killed as well as russian GIs... 150,000 seems reasoable.
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  523. On a lighter note, the war is driven to support sanctions... Mostly against europe. Who benefits from war, deindustrialization and feudalism? It is easier to see the behaviors, I do, than to see who is benefitting from it.
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  524.  @SeattlePioneer  Too funny... Swedes are tough... No sacrifice is too great... "I know that most of you will die but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make"
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  525.  @SeattlePioneer  I heard it was chillier in Sweden than it is in Cuba or Sri Lanka... Perhaps it is darker in the winter as well.
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  526. What became of the steel plant?
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  527.  @alankeungz79  Tuck295 says we are 'bots' Do you know where to go to pick up your check for being a russian bot? More money would be nice.
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  528. Arguably the european experiment was based on US hegemony. The idea is that the EU would catabolize it's self and be weaker so that the US and the dollar can remain hegemon. The sanctions against russia and china were planned well in advance of the russian invasion of Ukraine, they were supported by multiple administrations in the US and the point behind the sanctions were for the US to maintain dollar hegemon and protection of US multinational monopolies.
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  529. The supply lines to the Ukraine front are tenuous at best... My impression is that fresh troops with plenty of toys on the russian side will keep russian GIs active during the winter... ... I hope they end the sanctions as well...
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  530.  @gingef5197  I tend to think it will be much less than a million. Russia had to deal with the neolibs austerity agenda in the ninties... They survived.... Africa survives.... Russia learned something from their failings.
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  531.  @anshukumar-dn3hx  The idea that the west cares about gender issues in pakistan or even human rights in general is laughable.
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  532.  @mick20227  There is an argument that if you have a dictator who keeps the banks and the preditors away from monoopolies that is the only way to prevent a return to feudalism.... Maggie Thacher said we have no other choice besid a slow slide into hereditory aligarky...
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  533.  @UvaldeSalter  You get an E for effort...
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  534.  @cstevenson5256  Good catch.... That is what I be thinking... It is a 'currency manipulation' thing to keep their currency in ballance while they sell all kinds of things for less... I don't really understand this well... I don't understand the 'dutch deseease' and I find reading Super Impiralism frustrating 'cause I don't get a lot of it.
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  535. How does, or will, the global south transiton from the IMF to other banking structures?
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  536. I would like to know the corilaries between CBDC international currencies and Keynes' international currecny proposal in Brenton Woods.... The day is short and the mountain is very high.
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  537. Damn! My spanish is not strong.
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  538. Wasn't it? .... Wasn't Russia our contry as well?
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  539. I am kind of confused about how people say "building socialism" Could it just as easily be said "Building Industry" Industry needing to be distinguished from finachialized theft?
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  540.  @Allpro007  It is possible that he will show progress in freedom of speech, lawfare and peace.
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  541. Such old news.
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  542.  @wnklee6878  Maybe the Wicked Witch of the West would be a better choice.
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  543.  @johnwebber750  Yep... He seems to know the real deal and explains it in an amazing way.
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  544. Thanks Norton.... As an American I look forwrd to the end of asset price inflation now and perhaps I will feel comfortable reading Super Impiralism soon.
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  545.  @samstone4320  Not all economic models that are anti neoliberalism are reasonable... Wolff's economic model, if you can call it that, is not..
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  546. I never read Krugman....
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  547.  @wenkeadam362  Good... I thought it was a finachial vehicle that I had no hope of understanding.
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  548. Forks Knife?.... Is that a financhal vehicle that I don't understand?
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  549.  @JohnT.4321  He cuts to the heart of marx 2 and 3....
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  550. Economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson, mostly Hudson, are my primary sources for understanding these very sad dynamics. I am not sure how the US can gain a footing in creating capital again... It is a crying shame.
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  551.  @miliashalim3705  Thanks for your warm wishes.... In Chicago I am not sure what is coming...
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  552.  @sa3891  I am not sure there is anything really special about Chinese culture in that it has an innate advvantage over other cultures..... The difference is in how the society is orginized around industry rather than theft.
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  553. Very good presintation.... China is cheating because it supports industrial investment and keeps money and debt control in its goverment rather than private hands. China’s economy is incompatible with the main premises of the global economic system embodied today in the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and a long list of other free trade agreements. These pacts assume economies that are primarily market based with the role of the state circumscribed and micro-economic decisions largely left to private interests operating under a rule of law.
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  554.  @Dorian_sapiens  I looked at your youtube account... It looks like you are thinking.... but what are practical solutions? How do we come to some agreement on them? How do we implement those solutions? My meantor is Michael Hudson.
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  555.  @patricialongo5870  The tighter they try to keep control the more they lose it.
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  556. I like the way he is candid about these things. It is refreshing like when Trump said we were in Syria to take oil.
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  557.  @rafaelsantos-nl9jd  I actually really like Marco Rubio for his candor... I find it refreshing. I put a video link in the other comment... It is from something that Ben Norton put together. I am not sure if you can post youtube videos.
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  558.  @bubamaranovichok4901  I feel like the days of the dollar being hegimon will change at a glacial pace for a while.
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  559. Typically countries list where the money NGOs come from and if they are more than like 20% they have to declaire as significant funding from a forign entity.... They just passed such laws in Georgia and Slovakia. Here in the states we have such laws but they don't apply to US's imprial allies.
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  560. Some speculate that the ruling class in Europe knows what's up.... That they are responding to a population that is coming to terms with the fact that the ruling class has screwed them on behalf of US interests for years and they are protesting... That the grumblings of the ruling class is a response to those protests.
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  561. Some speculate that the ruling class in Europe knows what is up.... That they are responding to a population that is coming to terms with the fact that the ruling class has screwed them on behalf of US interests for years and they are protesting... That the grumblings of the ruling class is a response to those protests.
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  562.  @MrZullekiflee  I hope the US sees a return to industrialization...
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  563. The US empire is propped up by the univerality of the dollar.... The dollar ain't going to die.... And the universality of the dollar will be slow to diminish.
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  564. I am not sure why we are paying attention to Krugman.
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  565. Correction: Professor Michael Hudson... Perhaps DR Hudson. Good catch... The MIC has to buy labor from the most expensive labor in the world... That is because it is deeply in debt and isn't the most efficient because of other problems where solutions are otherwise stream lined in other civilizaitons... Hudson sites Simon Patton who said that a high paid, well fed workforce can out compeate any work force in the world...
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  566. Got to listen to it with the sound up and subtitles on.... It is editied but they speak slowly but they pack a punch with every sentance.
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  567. How can you say these dynamics are capitalist when the financial system is destroying capitalism by destroying capital? Michael Hudson in his own words: “The financial sector [read aristocrats] aren’t about making loans to build factories and employ labor so that they can produce more goods [read creating capital or capitalism] it is about making loans to gamblers because that is where all the short term gains are made.” Hudson then goes on to describe this as a conflict between capitalism and democracy when the actual conflict is between feudalism, which he describes as capitalism, and capitalism, which he desribes as socialism or democrac. Hudson describes what is happening but refuses to assign appropriate labels on these dynamics.
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  568.  @sixsixsix9289  Exactly!
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  569.  @hhheee3939  Hundson describes a simalar system in the past as capitalism where the language has morphed to call those policies 'socialism'... To those of us who are paying attention it may seem simple sometimes. To those who arn't it is fairly complex. A lot of nuance.. I think you can confuse people by calling a sytem that systematically destroyst capital as captalism.
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  570.  @hhheee3939  I would agree with the way Hudson emplo;ys the word capitalism but I don't think the way you are thinking about it is at all helpfull... Captialism as employed by Marx and other clasical economists is a good thing.... There is also a misconseption that capitalism makes capital as well as an impression that socialism destroys capital even among those who think they are fallowing Marx... Captialism as of the 1940's was soemthing that created capital... Now the same group of policies that creats capital is called socailsm.... In escence the terms don't really mean anything.... The simpler the better.
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  571.  @markmahan38  It seems challenging to me but I did master much of popular mathematics.....
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  572.  @bohemianharvest  As far as I know there is only an english version.
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  573.  @cristinasalazar9293  Rent basically means interest or asset price inflation. It is important to understand words like rent and neolibralism.... To do so you can easily undertand more about economics than Yellen'
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  574. Example: Is it socialists to decrease rent so that industrial capitlists can make a profit?
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  575. I am not sure anyone knows what you mean by "socialist"
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  576. Someone talks sense... Definately a man bites dog story.
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  577. Proffessor Hudson has some verbal communications issues.... I am not as familliar with Professor Desai... I get the feeling that there are some subelties that they disagree on...
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  578.  @AcidProphet  I have a copy of killing the host.... Maybe I should review it.
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  579. What does she mean by industrializing economies in europe on the gold standard pre WWI.... I done read 'killing the host' but I don't really understand how the german standard of doing buisness was going to kill the sterling...
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  580.  @geraldcazden7102  Someone who worked so hard all of his life to explain stuff in a simple way?
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  581.  @phillipmorey8864  Hamas was doing what Israel and the colective west paid them to do.... It was predictable. The idea was to make a wider conflict.
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  582. I really trust that guy.
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  583. The dollar is not lost as the dominant world currency.. It may have lost it's long term advantage. It is possible to slow the delcine of the dollar by policy decisions.
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  584. I am not in the mood for ben Norton right now..... I need to review this though
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  585. I am trying to get deep into the weeds of it..... Ain't easy being cheesy...
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  586.  @andrewreynolds912  Last comment seems to be deleated. My impression is that the US has pre-approved spin that all of Irainan missles were knocked out by Patriot air defence systems. That fullfills the wests war goals because it raises the profile and profitabillity of the defence hardware which is what wars are mostly about.
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  587. I am not sure that the US goverment is identifying Iran as the agresseor in this case. My understanding is that as soon as the embasy was hit, the US told Iran not to attack US assets because we didn't attack the embasy.
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  588. ​ @kyunhwoarang  Sounds good to me.... The idea I think I was trying to convey is that if neoliberalism is described as privitizing everything it is the driver and millatary intervention to take stuff is a tool of that effort. Another aspect is that Thacherism has to PROVE there is NO alternative.
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  589.  @kyunhwoarang  Nocons are people who want to enforce neoliberalism by war. I blieve that Hudson describes describes it here. He quotes Thatcher: "There is no alteirnative" and that neolibealism needs to be backed up world wide by force of arms to prove that there is no alternative.
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  590.  @kyunhwoarang  Neolib is both in the democratic and republican parties.... Neoliberalism was best described by Reagan-Thacher where everything is owned so that it is exchanged for money... What that did is edge out industrial capitalism and went to a kind of fudalism. Both parties support neoliberalism and it is not apposed to fascism..... In fact the clasical idea of what fascism is was described by Benito Mussolini is exactly what we have now and is not at odds with neoliberalism.
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  591. It is a language that predates the US idea of what "LIberal" means.... It means liberal markets and it is an apt description... Perhaps it is a term or language that you need to get used to because of it's utillity.
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  592. I have read several books by Hudson....
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  593. Why is it that finachalized capitalism is called "real capitalism" where as industrial capitalism is now known as socialism? These words arn't serving us well.
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  594. Hanging on every word... As clear as an unmuddied lake, As clear as an azure sky of deepest summer. I think I got it.
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  595. ​ @rmcoi53  I have no idea what the russians are going to do but gut speculation is that when they have liberated the two provinces in the east, known as donbas, secured watter for crimea, both of which are certain from the beginning, they will continue as long as there is no peace agreement. Like wile they are there they will walk slowly west or if a defencive postion by Ukraine has alterlery they will hammer it and take ground that way... A peace agreement don't seem to be supported by the US. They want a stable war so something has to change beside millatarily for the war to stop. So what can happen to make the war stop? I have heard two or three speculations on failures of a stable war in Ukraine. One, Ukraininans get tired of war and rebel... There is a speculation that the Ukrainians will get tired of sending all their men to die. Two: Instabillity in europe caused by one of the primary resons that the US wants war: to isolate europe from russia and china... This sanctioning of europe causes ustable economics and unstable goverments in europe... Three: The generals balk at sending troops to die and do millatary coup in Ukraine.... Can I ask you a question? What do you get when you cross an elephant with a rinosorous? A. El-If-Iknow.
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  596.  @rmcoi53  He left out that Ukraine blockaided the Odesa port with mines that are floating all around the black sea. Suposidly they mined the port to prevent an amphibious landing by the russians.... The russians don't got enough assets in the region to do an amphibious landing...
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  597. Venezula ain't got no consulate here so they are sitting in whearhouses getting mumps and measles waiting to be evicted.
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  598. This week she posted somethign on her channel where she is testifying in congress... She roars like a lion and comes out swinging for freedom of speech.
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  599. Interesting that Ukraine seems to be more interested in the narrative than their massive loss of life.... Ukrainan millatary people are important and can live long lives.... So many gone. Reality is important...
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  600. Thanks for covering this...
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  601. Strong interview, though questions..
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  602. Certainly the americans made regeme change in Kyiv in '14
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  603.  @edwardbernthal160  It feels like russia wil defend the annexed territories and dig at ukrain's offensives until much of ukraine is russian territory...
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  604.  @captainlockes2344  I am an FDR leftist who voted for Trump as well.
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  605. ​ @debbiethompson14  I know.. It is good that she admits it to herself and avoids it.. She has to focus on the field... And the most stressful part is off field... It happens.
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  606. ... There is a balance. My senator, duckworh, said she will not vote to confirm anyone who is not 'minority' as if 'minority' is a stand in for economic progressivism until an asain is appointed to go through the approval process. Most of the 'minorities' that were appointed would just assume kill others to get in positions of power...
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  607. Revisit this in April....
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  608. A doctorate in voodo economics means nothing at all.
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  609.  @Nick186  I suppose these are just suggestions.... If you really want to know you have to chase it down for yourself.
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  610.  @Jones1236-p  Some suffered for years.... Somehow he thinks that his attack after years of begging will prevent things like syria, lybia, iraq and so on from the borders of russia and china.... So far there are about 200K Ukrainains died as well as 40K russians.... It is a huge tragity.... The tragities in the 2000 from the US are much bigger...
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  611.  @ObjectiveAnalysis  I am not sure anymore.... I used to think I was a liberal but I don't like what liberals think is liberal.... They traded with conservatives with the minstry of truth.
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  612. Tell them to pay us back for the weopons we made here in the US... In US dollars.... Do they think their security is free?
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  613.  @scottball6431  They pick off Russian POWs and russian civillians and 'colaborators'... I don't think that is good PR...
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  614. It was how the US won WW1 and 2... They beat the UK and Europe... I am not sure russia wants to do that.... Ukraine is the poorest contry in europe.
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  615. And they need to reimburse the US in dollars for the weapons we sent and buy more weapons from the US... As a mechanical designer this profits me personally...
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  616.  @Surfbird11  Russia explicitly said that there would be a price if ukraine attacked it on the main land.... Ukraine attacked critical infrastructure for crimea, which is in russia and was used both for civilian and military use. The electrical grid in ukraine is also used for civilian an military purposes. Russia had the option of destroying this critical military infrastructure earlier and/or any time they chose to... Evacuating civilians from a war area and declaring martial law in that area prevents ukraine from using civilian clothing or vehicles for cover in attack or supply operations and for using civilians as human shields. Ukraine's innocent military personnel will continue to pay the highest price.
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  617. Typical for DW to say that russia destroyed the last bridge when it was done by Ukraine.
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  618. The social media war might turn to how unstable Putin is and what he will do if russia loses.... "We could win but what would that do to the unstable putin?" ... "What would he do if we embarrase him?"
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  619.  @Nine-Signs  I like that. You characterize financialized capitalism as prioritizing rich men's dogs over commoner's children.
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  620. Too funny...
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  621. Not sure.... They will have to clean up after their pipes freeze and so many people die.
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  622. They think for what the US wants and make promises to them...
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  623.  @ricardosoto5512  So the CIA coup in '14 was not a factor in turning Ukraine west facing and the start of the civil war? Who knew? Then have the call for sanctions to isolate europe starting in '21 and the lack of the US being able to save the europeans from those sanctions as well as the loss of the war in the Ukraine on the ground. Does no one in the US run any simulations or have any strategic planning either economically or millatarily?
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  624. They thought Sievierodonetsk would be liberated in a week, then they sudenly planed on three days.. Turns out, the ocupiers left to the other side of the river in three hours. That quick retreat could save much of Sievierodonetsk's infrastructure.
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  625. @M D The war has been going on since '14 when Ukraine was shelling civillian Ukrainians... Russia only got involved in the past three months.
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  626. I am pretty sure it wasn't the Isreal loby that orginzed this... It isn't a good look for pro Isreal people.
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  627. I am lefist.... I don't care at all abotu Lemon.... Tucker is a huge loss.
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  628. Good catch. Now we need to get rid of Medi Hasan.
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  629. How is that dynamic playing out in Ukrine?
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  630.  @RMJTOOLS  There is also a corersive ecnomic component to the millatary wherethe US buys bases all over the world and/or pays off officials in other contries... That is argably free [to US taxpayers] because the wealth extracted from those places is bought by money that the US crates by fiat.
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  631.  @sarahbrown5073  I do seem to have some inkling of some of these dynamics... It is a slow slog. What do you think I could understand? Can you get a comment in edgwise [past YT censorship] that points me to what you feel strongly about?
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  632. The offensive around Advietca in Donesk was about securing Donesk City.... Ukraine has been bombing Donesk City for ten years from that location.... The Russians did show some risky behavior for which lives were lost.... But one of their primary goals was to secure Lugansk and Donesk.... They will not be that foolish in the future.
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  633. Svetlana! We have TRIED to bring democracy to Russia but so far unsuccessfully.
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  634.  @adinahaun6001  Scott Ritter and Alexander Mecurous think that he is beholden to the 'right wing faction' that has been known to be inttrasegent against his commander in cheif status in Ukraine.... They think that if he says things like 'negotiate with the russians' they will put the last of nine punches in his life card.
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  635. Zelinsky is lucky if he wakes up on January 1'st of 2024.
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  636. You got cliff notes for Yankees? What is the 'take away'? Here in the states we say 'to go"
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  637.  @stlouisix3  It is too soon to tell what this new Bretton Woods will be about.
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  638. It is amazing that almost everywhere you look sanctions against Russia have supported the Russian economy... My impression is that the war on Ukraine was for the sanctions...
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  639. I kind of think that inflation is driven by monopolies hiking prices... Another dynamic is that the bulk of the spending is in asset price inflation which causes real inflation 'cause we all need a place to stay and work. A tax on capital gains is a tax on theft.
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  640.  @Mrfpsara  Best wishes with the family... It sounds very frustrating and I hope you and yours comes out alright.... I believe Alexander has a considered proposal..... It is twisting in the wind because it isn't at all what is being implemented.... That proposal would be over all much better for the Palistinians in Gaza as well as the rest of the world. If you have a proposal as to how it would of should have could have gone..... I would would read it for sure.. I am in Chicago.... I intend to meet up with some protesters tommorow to do what little I can...
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  641. ​ @lynnelavery4415  Alexander's analysis is based on what would have been best for the US had the US been working in it's best interest.... The muslim brotherhood is a creatation of the Brits and is supported to devide the Palistinans against the PLO...
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  642.  @shuathe2nd  It is also notable that when Russia was insisting that the Minsk acords were going to be implemented the west thought they would never attack. That was a red line that was crossed and there was hell to pay.
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  643.  @shuathe2nd  My understanding is that the west pretended that some of the things they did were Russian red lines and jusify their idea that Russia won't do anything based on those red lines when Russia didn't say they were their red lines.
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  644.  @ryanwalters6184  He has to stop missles from being employed all over and stop nucliear armageddon. Fear is in order.
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  645. Attack on Russia!!? NO!
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  646.  @mik71  Is sky shield a term for unrealistic expectations when you are high on coke?
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  647. The idea is why these stories are planted.... The press is keeping us guessing.
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  648. What is professor musude?
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  649.  @SvetlanaVladimirova8590  Good to see you heare as well.... Western Duran viewers are under the same pressures... I suspect that YT machines are employed to imediately deleate phrases or words. This makes explanations of one's postions not possible. Dialogs under these conditions sound like grade school kids spouting off divergent opinions with no explinations.
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  650.  @SvetlanaVladimirova8590  'Good to see you again... I thought you were gone.... Americans don't really know... I have been following but I get these names mixed up.
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  651. What is the republican strategy? Do you pass the $61B onto Ukraine knowing that it will crumble anyway, do you hold out for the border security and pass the bill with that attached or do you kill the bill and blame project Ukraine on the democrats?
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  652. I voted for Trump because of fear of censorship as well as death and distruction.
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  653. The effort to bankrupt Trump was not as clear cut as the effort to destroy the Russian economy. Efforts to destroy the Russian economy were objetively good for the Russian economy from the get go where as efforts to bankrupt Trump could have worked.
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  654.  @humanactivated1017  I know what is going on in Ukraine. Putin has never sounded belacose until now.... If you listen to parts of his speech and how it is being portraid here you can hear a change in tone.
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  655. By this time Brics is slow go but equally inevitable.
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  656.  @donaldmedlock7412  It really isn't true that Education and Healthcare can solve Homelessness... What the end to homelessness takes is a drop in real estate values, ending life long indebtedness and a reversal of deindustrialization..
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  657. How can Zelinsky survive this?
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  658.  @SvetlanaVladimirova8590  I actually DO think you all should be greatful not only to the Putin turn around from the late nineties but for western sanctions..... From the US I would hope we would abandon our feudal trajectory and join the modern economies.
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  659. Scottland ain't got no more fish?
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  660.  @Magnet423  Neoliberal is a fondness for feudalism.... It is termed Reagonomics or Thacherism where everything is monopoly owned and the owners get to charge what ever monopoly prices they want.
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  661.  @marekgebski3555  You spelled Lech Wałęsa wrong.
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  662.  HunterBiden2032  The Trumpster has applied for public acomidations. [public housing]
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  663. I am in talks with someone who is actively hostil toward me and scared. I figure you just have to be affirming and let people be who they will be... That said, I do doubt that these idiots are that dumb.
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  664. Ukraine didn't want to join Nato so it is Nato that is saying Nato want's it's land back.
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  665. Best comment Ever
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  666. I am a bit high energy myslef...
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  667. That is the way he is.
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  668.  @crusader2.0_loading89  I think they are allergic to Russian cabbages and nuts, particularly hazelnuts....
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  669.  @richm4848  Maybe we will have to reestablish capitalism [as in the captialis revolution of old] to keep up with the rest of the world.
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  670.  @SvetlanaVladimirova8590  I don't know if you saw my original comment.... It was levity... I didn't see your response.
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  671. Ever heard of Stephany Keltron and 'Deficit Myth'?
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  672. How is their debt denominated? If it is in the Euro they are in deep shit unless the EU really get's it's shit together.
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  673. The people of Palistine see death at the hands of Isreal every day.... When they act a fool themselves, they do it at close quarters..... Needless to say, even though huge bombs kill more people, it is less grusom and more humaine.
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  674. ​ @Qiangyu  Me Sorry.... I forgot the Proffesor
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  675. Blinkin' blinked and missed the main game... How did that guy get on base? I didn't see it.
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  676.  @РафаэльСаркисянц-ъ2т  Dude.... That was the main game since Brenton Woods... I am reading 'Super Impiralism' .... It is all about US economic hegimony and the dollar.... Please excuse my spellling...
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  677.  @juanfgonzalez2039  China is not letting an expanding property values owned by the US keep them down.
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  678. My impression was that the war was about sanctions and that sanctions fullfilled their purpose of isolating Europe from Russia on behalf of US monopolies..... That proved a great success.... China was to be the secound target for sanctions in support of US monopolies... The crazy idea that sanctions and war were to destroy Russia and roll it back to the late ninties and perhaps breakk it up, proves to me our goverment here in the US is compleatly incompentent.
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  679.  @av40229  The effects of a drop in asset values are that owner oligarchs won't have as much valuation [rent] and the rest of us can afford to live. It is kind of like what happened with the industrial-capitalist revolution from a feudal economic system.
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  680. ​ @av40229  What the rest of the world running away from the US will do is to deflate local asset valueations. This is becaue assets in the US are as much owned by international capital as anything else and we can't actually afford those asset valuations. My impression from listening to Ben Norton [who is one of the Americans of of which we speak] is that would cause a drop in the cost of living and an an actual reversal of deindustrialization.
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  681.  @Sternvogel007  Got to figure that these orginizational structures would eventually compete in the way you say Americans compeat and the ones that produce results would become the dominant systems. Reagan said, and I paraphrase, "if you let the makers keep more of what they make and don't give it to the takers you get more." Which economic system creates and which ones are unstable?
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  682.  @zoltanbarath7371  His focus is those who make the decisions, not those who are morally supiror...
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  683.  @zoltanbarath7371  I tend to think Alexander's point of refference is as if an advisor for those who can manifest things. They are the ones who make the decisions about what the rest of the world will do. Alexander talks about how they COULD act.
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  684. How you think he is wrong?
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  685. My understanding of impeaching a US president is a two part process. The first part the house [lower chamnber] votes to impeach by a simple majority followed by the senate [upper chamber] removal or conviction by 3/4 of the vote.
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  686. Where is Alex ? He has dropped 10 of the last 14 before this hour in the day.
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  687.  @richm4848  Van Der... Got her job renewed because she was in compitition for clown of the year.
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  688.  @amandamcauley  But Zelinsky is lucky if he sees 2025.
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  689. Is Obama even a word in your vocabulary?
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  690. He was a figurehead for the US goverment. Once and future king.
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  691. Old school batman and robin are the best.
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  692.  @bosse641  When Thacher said "there is no alternative" she meant that the US war machine would make damn sure there was no alternative. Absent a nuclier war, an alternative will be readilly apearent... Me thinks that is our 'amasing grace' moment.... And in fact early christianity was a critisism of the economics of the time.
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  693. Please tell me you are entertained.
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  694. Wow! Wolff is really out of the loop.. It is sad.
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  695. Yes. We get bored and confused by Russia's constant nagging for peace.
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  696. I supose the west shoudn't have made such a big deal about the nucier missles in cuba....
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  697. We need to get rid of economic liberalism also known as neoliberalism or de industrialization and reinstate capitalim that actually creates capital.
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  698. Russia has no choice and it's economy is growing by leaps and bounds... In my case what you say makes no sense. I am an American.
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  699.  @J.M.254  Never agian means never again... We will not forgive the US or Israel ever.
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  700. The grain deal included an unimplemented part where Russia was alowed to recieve payment for wheat and ferterlizer from Swift and have those ships protected. Russia's wheat and ferterlizer production not only dwarfs that of Ukraine but it is offering to send sanctioned grain to food insecure countries for free.
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  701.  @terjeoseberg990  Maybe they have about a million in the millatary but it is unlikely they will supply a million to Ukraine...
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  702. What is he talkkng about? He should be hitting places where the enimy sits for a spell anywhere in theatere.
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  703.  @Jeki_toki  To be sure it seems too much of a convienient gift to "Russian Popoganda" I mean propoganda not in a derogatory way. I don't believe he used those words until I see it.
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  704.  @fulltonefulltone  Everyone has a bias.
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  705.  @NickDrinksWater  I can't get a word in edge wise 'cause my comments are deleated.
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  706. I would like to thank everyone who knows for sure that the democrats haven't been on our side for twenty years, refusing to fullfill their campaign promises economicaly and that their war, servailance, censorship and persecution agendas don't serve us anymore.... Including former democrats voting FOR Trump.
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  707. Why is AOC so barberic against freedom of speach?
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  708.  @TheReaverOfDarkness  " What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. [through comments on Youtbe because they are deleated] So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it. . . well, he gets it. I don't like it any more than you men."
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  709.  @TheReaverOfDarkness  'Don't know if you can see this one but what we think of as capitalism now is essentially a counter revolution from the capitalsit revolution. We think of what the capitalist revolution brought as socialism.
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  710.  @TheReaverOfDarkness  I respoinded to this with an extended comment that was deleated. [twice] At least I got practice.
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  711. Most people don't know what socialism or capitalism mean.
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  712. Bernie describes the counter revolution to the capitalist revolution very well. "Since Reagan their has been a war against working people." "Post office has a hard time doing simple things." "Medicare under savere attack." Public education under savere attack." "All of this is done by big money interest [counter revolutionaries] who want to make money every aspect of our lives."
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  713.  @debbieknight8901  It is the right move to save our democracy.... Yes democracy is on the ballot and one person was anointed by a pulit buero and the other one went through three open primaries.
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  714. Never vote Harris.
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  715.  @Drumpf-4eva  A lot of people are very angry at Bernie for the way he is navigating but he did change the narrative.... He gave and now he is just being Bernie.
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  716. ​ @dorothydotson7154  I voted for Stein when was running but I would have voted FOR Trump if it had made a difference in that election... It is the democratic party's gasslighting that I am angry about.
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  717.  @plastered_crab  Remember A vote for Trump is a vote FOR Trump.
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  718. The democratic party would rather lose than support the economy.
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  719.  @PetalPunkFairy  It looks as if much of the world will dedollarize in the next couple of years, putting fragile Wall Street in parel.
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  720.  @truthmatters1950  How can you call yourself a captialist if you don't make capital and in fact destroy it. The GDP measures ALL trasactions even fines and charging intrest payments, The FIRE sector is the biggest part of the GDP and they actaully take money out of the economy and don't give none back... Where you have an accelerating decline in production as well as an accelerating differential of wealth you are leading not to capitalism but to feudalism.... As Ronald Reagan used to say 'when you give money to the makers instead of the takers you get more wealth'.... What he did was misidentify who is making and who is taking. There is no value made without the labor that goes into it.... If you want to decrease the cost of labor you must get labor out of debt by making things cost less such as healthcare, edcutaion, transportation, housing, food.... Then their is more money for the things you produce as well as those things become affordable so MORE is produced.... That is capitalism. The US has done it's best to stop capitalims all over the world... Capitalism is now called by other words like 'socialism' as apposed to feudalism-impiralist model which DESTROYS or dosen't bulid capital and is known by the modern name of capitalism. It is important to be consistant with the words you use.... Using a word like 'socialism' to describe 'capitalism' gets people confused.
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  721.  @corpsefoot758  Agreed. The problem is that the dumbocrats got the reagan revolutinary bug and are giving all the money to the 'takers'.... This has been going on since almost before reagan.. A good example is Oummer who was 'More Reagan Than Reagan' [refference to bladerunner where the replicants were 'more human than human']
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  722. Please support Proffessor Michael Hudson... He has been on it for 50 years.
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  723.  @amb7440  There are some contradictions among Sanders goals and his statments.... I am doing my best to support Sander's goals...
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  724.  @indigoscyberspace  I am a supporter of Sanders.... I voted for Trump the first time by voting for Stein.
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  725. The fed has been charged with a dual roll of keeping inflation down and employment high... For at least forty years they have been using "natural full employment" an estimate on how much unimployment will keep prices from rising as their cotrolls on inflation... A much better model would be to offer economy expanding employment to all citizens... ... Conservatives would say "you think you are ENTITLED to a job?" .... Before it was "You are lazy and don't want to work"
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  726. At least we have Trump as the lesser of two evils.
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  727. In what world is Biden better than Trump? I don't understand why Bernie dosn't get more static for this... And as a democrat all of my life and a bernie fan, I am trained to vote for the lesser of two evils.
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  728. Vote the blue race to the bottom.
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  729. Good catch...
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  730. It is Trump's redicoulous staments that give Bernie these oportunities to examine real policies.
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  731. Western civilization on the edge.... If you look at the homeless population we are already over the edge... We have so much to do to salvage anything.... Maybe this can be our start...
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  732. Bernie is lying by omitting that fact.
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  733. I tend to think he is describing the counter to the capitalist revolution.... A reversion into feudalism.
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  734. ​ @imperialmotoring3789  I don't have an opinion about Brandon Johnson and I have mixed feelings about immigration. All of the loves of my life are central american immigrants who had deportation issues. If I may voliteer an opinion about the democrats, they have become more reich wingnut than anyone who has been brought up a liberal can evin imagine... The presidents who were considered most to the left are the most twisted in that way. I lived on 18th street during the late 90's while I was at the engineering school on State Street. As part of what I like to call the 18th street diaspora there is a shit ton of stuff that I miss.
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  735.  @imperialmotoring3789  I am in Chicago and I doubt that Chicagoens have the wisdom to vote for the lesser evil in this case.
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  736.  @whiskeymonk4085  The way Trump frames out his policies in hard line ways the poicies can be examined. Trump is also endlesly endtertaining.
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  737. I voted for Trump. Before I voted for Jill Stein.
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  738. Why would that be any more entertianing than the lies he is telling about Biden now?
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  739.  @carlvargas7911  I am NOT blind. Bernie is doing what he thinks he can to change the narrative.
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  740. And what would pass? Are you a true believer in Ronnald Reagan and Barak Obama?
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  741.  @donHooligan  I do respect a Stein vote but if you want to vote for Trump do so.
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  742. Wars were not the only problem with the democrats.
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  743. He is right in his heart but he is lying now.
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  744.  @namai2773  My understanding is that the Azof batalion has been active in the east of Ukrane for eight years. The opperation has killed tens of thousands in those break-away provinces in that time mostly ethnic russians, some with russian passports.
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  745. I heard that the civilians are not surrendering to their own local DPR army because the invading Ukraininans wont let them.
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  746.  Cyber Bully  It does seem like satire but much of the western media sounds like satire....
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  747. sadness all the way around.... They wrecked their lives.
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  748.  @Tamara-nn1wr  Perhaps he hasn't been here for the past twenty years..... 'Didn't see the crash of '08, didn't see the democrats say puting installed trump, didn't see the evacuation of Afganistan.....
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  749. I can't find the add... Got a link?
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  750. Zelenski in that same speach said he didn't need anything 'forign'.... Perhaps he needs to declare nutrality and prosecute the war crimes of the Ukraine millatary... That fullfills all the critiron for ending the war.
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  751.  @JohnBolender  Perhaps... There will be another oportunity when aset values fall... It is going to be tough.
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  752. So much for the link to Klippenstein's disclosures as well.
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  753.  @0055ford  If you want democracy you vote for who the demoratic party tells you to vote for.
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  754. I don't think they have lost their focus in on truth and justice on other fields or other issues.
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  755. I am glad that someone is following that can make the claim... I haven't been following as closely.
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  756. Way to the left of the democratic party...
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  757. Very strong bias... My bias is 180 degrees... My bias runs contrary to MSM...
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  758.  @williaminnes6635  Got to take care of yourself first. I often question my wisdom in understanding these things... What I seem to be getting from it is a more realistic understanding of human nature... I believe that understanding will profit me personally. Perhaps it steels me to the fact that somethings/people are fucked up and not to take it personally..
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  759.  @alangunningham5667  I chose a russian bot identity all the time we were being told that putin installed trump... I wore it as a badge of honor.
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  760. Not if your an ameican... They are sending all of their industry over here.
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  761.  @bertanelson8062  I ain't never heard of the US giving back the gold, assets on american soil and the dollar resaves that they confiscated from Venezuela. These confiscations that are done if you do something that disturbs the US empire make the dollar a risky investment. The US tried two coups with commandos from Columbia. Columbia is now attempting to assert it's sovereignty. They also did loads of piracy in the high seas. I don't know how the Caribbean can prevent that or if there is a work around.
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  762.  @VIAGRA465  With a cost, if they focus on the real dynamic and realistic paragdms. Examples of where realistic speaking can get you in trouble: Ukraine, imiralism, economics and the corona virus.
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  763.  @andyhughes1776  The war is all pretense to justify sanctions... Zelinsky and Ukrainians don't seem to have any say at all in the war...
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  764. Not in the industrializing east....
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  765.  @tomdziczek9676  To answer your query the new world order was thought to be the end of history and a unipolar dollar hegemon world at the fall of the soviet union and the installation of Yeltsin in Russia. Because the neoliberal agenda, which is essentially feudalism, which included central banks floating speculation in asset values was deindustrializing the west has a great deal of trouble keeping that hegemony.. That is what these conflicts in the 2000's are about... Of course, it is a study like watching a horror flick , that instead of being a diversion is reality and happening in real time.... It is football [american football] day in the states.
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  766.  @pookiewookie7679  ... The goal of Nato was the sections.. Mostly to keep europe in the western hegemony.... The war put an emotional face on the euopean sanctions.
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  767.  @dichaelovic  The idea of rights is a red harring.... Example: Ukraine has the right to join nato and send nazis to kill as many of their russian citizens as possible.... But is that good? Will there be consequneses? Perhaps serbia has the right to do buisness with russia.... What is the cost benifit to serbia? The EU has the right to try and boycot russia, which was planned before the invasion. But what are the consequenses of not doing buisness with russia? What are your rights in these things dosen't seem to make any sense.
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  768. Yes... Things between people get heated and people talk in pointed ways... Normal stuff.
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  769.  @beatricepastor218  'Not sure of the critical time frame for heat and electric in europe. It is possible that the major disaster will happen next winter not this winter.
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  770.  @arthurmurphy2000  Play stupid games, get stupid prizes.
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  771.  @BR-kq7kt  Why you think that the politicians don't have a choice in how the money is spent?
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  772.  @h.m.siesel7363  It seems impossible that the US wasn't involved... The US president was in a press conference with german PM Shultz and said that if russia invades Ukraine, and he was specific about what he meant by that, he would put an end to Nord Stream 2, when pressed by a reporter on how that would be accomplished, he said "Believe me, we will make it happen" Later US secretary of state Blinken said that the destruction of the pipeline was a tremendous opportunity for the US.
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  773.  @Emtbsloveniatours  I suggest getting your own house in order and showing US labor how to do it..... Not condemning common US people who don't have power over these things.
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  774.  @barbmartell7901  Truth be told, I am an english speaking mechanical designer.... I wanna go where things are being made... That is why I have an interest in the plant....
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  775. The 'HE' that you refer to is no longer the benifit of the people of the US. Reagan sanctified neoliberalism and Obama made a home run with it.
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  776. I hope she can resist the european sanctions, buy cheep energy from russia, save Italian industries and relocate industries from the european stupid block.
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  777.  @michaelsaint9181  Got to love Zaleski the ultimate prankster... Deserves a heroes welcome in Moscow as well... Lot of 'snow' there as well.
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  778.  @peterlamin8363  It is getting obvious that the US empire is in huge trouble but it is not because they put dollars in cerculation.
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  779.  @privateAcc0unt  The dollar ain't ded yet but it is stuggeling. One reason it is stuggleing is because it isn't really a safe place to park resorces because those resources can be taken away if a country decides to go industrial for it's self instead of liberalizing the economy for US extractie intersts... [Venesula, Russia, Iran] Other reason is because of pirodic trade bariers, like the ones that trump raised keeps the cycle of dollars from flowing... The petro ruble [another fiat] is the best preforming currency this year because russia insisted in being paid for it's energy, and other commodites in rubles, which it can actually print via fiat. There is a great deal of distruption in everything... .My impression is that the dollar will hold on for a while as the main international currency but that as the antics of the US become untenable as it tries to hold on, other emerging fiat currncies will become more popular to settle purchaces world wide.
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  780. Good catch.
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  781. Perhaps the weapons that Ukraine is shedding will show up in antics like this.
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  782. What happens when the german industrial economy fails as was planned by the US? My understanding is that german industry is what makes it able to dominate the EU in it's interests. If that fails will much of europe find it's self in the same situation necessitating reasonable proposals by the southern states?
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  783.  @KAITH_007  Dedolarisation will show up first in a drop in asset valuations [stock market and real estate] The initial drop will create problems for the average American but it will tend to stablize their life there after. I got this from listening to another video by our emphatic friend Norton.
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  784. I wish they had a summary of the differing focuses...
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  785. 'Lot of very astute mexicans. I know one that was deported to Morelia.
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  786.  @petersepall2590  What we can say is that both of them are intelectually honest unlike Wolff who I think might be CIA.
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  787. Desai is great. I wish Hudson had her presentaion skills. I tend to read Hudson books but his verbal presentaion isn't as smooth as Dasai.
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  788.  @a.randomjack6661  My understanding is that Hudson argues for Industrial Capitalism which is now known as socialism. It is also more accessable and a better description for the masses and the imediate road ahead....
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  789.  @a.randomjack6661  Good catch..... I belive it was Hudson who distinguished Rent from Profit in that Rent was a gimme for no value added where as Proffit had a component of industrial production. Perhaps there is some well accepted definitions floating about.
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  790.  @blackfreud9048  Fairness? Justice? Rules based orders are anything the west wants to say it is.
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  791.  @pearls1626  When and If Venezuela has the power.... They will own the resources under their feet. Otherwise those who have the power to do so will. With the elction there might be a Midan coup.... If that is thwarted in the next weeks and months Venezuela will get more interest from the emerging Brics...
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  792.  @Userof-d4b  Venezuela has to prove it is their country and not ours. Somehow you think we will give it to them? We can't even own our own country.
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  793.  @Bookworm214-y3d  You better vote for who the democratic party tells you to or democracy is finnished.
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  794.  @thechi2848  It really isn't replacment but replacement of labor 'cause our labor can't afford to have kids.
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  795. How is mexico doing on food sovereignty? This is critical because Ukraine food production seems to have been taken off line.
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  796. Radica says that calling regression from the industrial [capitalist] revolution should not be called a return to fudalism. I disagree because we need to attract an audience that dosn't really know the difference between induistrial captialism and the financhailzed captialism [or feudalism] that we are discuissing here. To get their attention we need to say that those who are counter capitalist revolutionaries are reverting to feudalism. It is an aped description that we need to drive home.
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  797. @Meme Memeson Maybe.. I am sorry if he did make a mistake... Most of his reports are solid. This report is consonant with my biases and I am positively predisposed to Norton.
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  798. Why is the US in such a hurry to destroy the dollar as the reserve currency?
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  799.  @dialecticcoma  Looking for clues.
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  800. Transcript is not avalable yet....
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  801.  @loveblindhate9318 Good response... Do you know by chance how Norton defines it?
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  802. What is the difference between multi-polar and bi-polar?
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  803. I not really awake yet.
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  804.  @davidgmaloof  Is it still China?
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  805.  @ronniechew6566  Are you are pointing out the difference between priced to produce and priced for profits?
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  806. ​ @Porelcaminitoyotellevare  Agreed.... How do you express that in the American lexicon? My proposal is that we are consistant with Marx two and three which are an analisis of value and value added. Arguably when people say 'capitalism' now a days they arn't even refferencing what marx meant by capitalism.
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  807.  @Porelcaminitoyotellevare  I believe we can make the same arguments with different words and not lose our American audience..... What you and I are saying is exactly the same but what you call 'captilism' is actually a feudalist counter revolution where as what you call socialism could just as easily be called capitalism.
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  808.  @Porelcaminitoyotellevare  I think it depends on which 'captialist' class you are referring to. If the industrailists who actually do value added like what Ben Norton is talking about were more in the drivers seat here in the states we would have capitalism. Arguably we can't really call what we have here in the states capitalism and we really can't call the reactionary feudalists who are in the driver's seat here in the capitalist.
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  809.  @Porelcaminitoyotellevare  I beleive you could say 'embrace captialism' without changing the meaning of this stament AT ALL.
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  810.  @AnimeCleetus  Another point is that the west has been objecting to the kind of capitalism that China is pushing insisting that China is cheating because it supports industrial investment and keeps money and debt control in its goverment rather than private hands.
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  811. China’s government is cheating because it supports industrial investment and keeps money and debt control in its own hands. China’s economy is incompatible with the main premises of the global economic system embodied today in the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and a long list of other free trade agreements. These pacts assume economies that are primarily market based with the role of the state circumscribed and micro-economic decisions largely left to private interests operating under a rule of law.
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  812. I live in Chicago.... I have mixed feelings.
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  813. The US did a great deal of research and action to make the dollar the world's reserve currency, a currency that everyone had faith in to sequester value in... Ironically those who deside to take the savings of dollars out of the accounts of others via sactions [as Senator Rubio suggests] is the fastest way to erode the faith built up over eighty years in the dollar.
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  814.  @DailyBeatings  Got to have empathy for everyone... White males are under a great deal of stress measured by many metrics.
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  815. Isn't she terkish or something? Imigrants and not people of german blood are sticking up for germans because they can't.
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  816. ​ @walterbrownstone8017  The media can spend their entire existence lying to you as well.... We seem to be on our own plagued by direct censorship of ours and others speech and fabricated facts and omissions on MSM. These authoritarian measures are also being supported by so-called progressives as well. We need to be armed not only with facts but with reasonable narratives. Example: How can you understand the Ukraine war without understanding that it was sanctions that inspired the Ukraine war? The war is to support the sanctions not the other way around. Those are the kinds of narratives that Garland Nixon touts.... Meanwhile on MSM: Trump was in illegitimate president because he was installed by putin... Evidence: He has multiple russian housekeepers working for him.
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  817.  @walterbrownstone8017  Indeed. That is why you need to find comedians that confirm your biases, your biases being informed by people like Norton and Michael Hudson.... Rachael Maddow or Alex Jones have a kind of opposite effect of reinforcing narratives driven by fabricated facts.
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  818. World peace through superior fire power.
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  819.  @mackone8035  Absolutly! He is like a trump who who often speaks in 'gaffs' where the real deal gets exposed. You can contrast that with the ever 'appropriate' Obama who has boundless polish and is one of the worst presdents ever..... There is very little redeeming about Obummer.
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  820. Let us see if it has the support of a strong fiat currency from a central bank... Other problems that have to be overcome are that the IMF is demanding payments on their fictious debts and the debts and itnerest are often guarinteed by the US goverment.... Assets on wall street are held up by debts that are usually backed up by the federal reserve bank.
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  821. Porn star forced to do war propoganda... youtube.com/watch?v=RIAJCJuGpkE
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  822. I don't get why Ben says that it is a contrast between finachalized capitalism vs socialism when he could say finachalized capitalism vs industrial capitalism.
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  823. @Frank Lee Dontcare What was called capitalism in the past is now called socialism. Now capitalism is thought of as control by wall street. That is all over the world but it isn't really capitalism. It is more like feudalism. Only those contries that are trying to break away from wall street are making capital...
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  824. That is the neoliberal impiralist agenda all over the world.... 'Democracy' means liberal economic policies. Tirents and communists and dictatorships means that they are rivels of the impiralist agenda and they make capital....
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  825. I am not at all sure about the relative values of currncies.... If the US spends so much on the millatary who's recient team name is 'the dirty rugs' 'cause they always get beaten.... Perhaps that shows that the dollar is over valued... Quen Sebe?
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  826.  @Guitarpima  My argument is that while China has a work force that is paid less, the amount of money that is nessesary to survive in China is much less because their labor force doesn't need to go into debt to survive as working members of the labor force.. That is because the 'rent' , which is a marxist consept, is lower. In that way capitalism survives in China where as capitalism in the US isn't surviving... What you are pointing out is that the 'rent' doesn't stop at what you have to pay the workers and that monopolies take a bigger cut when they are paying their employees while they are engaging in the process of real production, which is also true. In other words after the non productive [arguably non capitalist] processes in the FIRE sector have taken their purely paricitic cut out of the economy, in the case of the capitalist ventures of millatary production, the monopolies take a bigger cut than the Chinese public or non public companies that produce millatary equipment. I argued that paracites have indebted us. You argued that productive capitalsits monopolies in the US take a bigger cut of what is left over than Chinese companies. Both can be demostrated by the data.
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  827.  @L98fiero  Rediculous.... I follow Ben Norton, Scott Ritter, Brian Berletic as well as Professor Michael Hudson carefully as well as being a mechanical designer and I have worked for the US MIC as well... I know something about what the US MIC does, where the gear and equipment goes and what it is used for...
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  828.  @L98fiero  I am a mechanical designer... Do you know where I can work for the MIC?
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  829. This is not your father's capitalism where utilities like housing, food, energy, eductaion, transportation, healthcare are kept low so that your labor can be competitive in the global market place. It is a kind of capitalism where you hike up the debt on everyone so that you can own everything and make nothing while everyone else owns nothing and is "happy" ~Hudson paraphrased.
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  830. The query I have is how is eastern economic model for the "global south" going to be consistantly much better that the west [England and then the US] in that it will create industry in the global south rather than slavery?
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  831.  @patricklarsen8078  Perahaps we should switch to Hudson and Desai... I got 'Colapse of Antiquity' right here.... It is a lot thicker than I thought.... Maybe I will be happy that it is thick..... I read Wind Up Bird Cronicles and I wished the translation was the size it should have been...
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  832.  @patricklarsen8078  Chompsky is fried.... I suppose that back in the day he was abled.
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  833.  @CP-sz1bm  .... I take issue with those definitons particularly becase I wan't to describe these things to others... If it gets too tecnical meaning some capitalism makes capital some captialism desroys capital, some socialism creates capital some socialism destroys capital, I don't really think I am saying much. Hudson has established that taking money away from productive processes destroys capital, like in impjrial-feudalism and it happens for three thousand years. Hudson provides examples of that.
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  834.  @corbynite2004  I thnk my adviser in these matters told me somthing about a book on austerity and when people decide to rebell against it and Panzi Scheme about inflation in asset valueations and how stocks are bought and sold.. I need to be able to recite how so-called capitalism in the west is destroying capital... Captialism is an amorphous term which is lionized in the US... So I feel that I need to say is good in as much as it makes cpatial...
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  835.  @corbynite2004  I done read Hudson's 'killing the host' ... I believe it is a similar book to Desai's book.... She refers to the nationistic rise of Germany and the US during the end of the English empire... That is covered by much of Hudson's work... I am not sure what will profit me.... Not knowing things can keep me curious if I was to ever speak with someone in preson....
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  836.  @corbynite2004  Funny... I hardly know what trotskyist means anyway.
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  837.  @johnsmith5139  Exactly.... I don't know if it is edited. I kind of know what Hudson will say myself. For me it is OK to get a sligtly different take on it...
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  838.  @dannygonzales7923  I imagine you in boots and cowboy hats listening to rachero.... I am a city boy. youtube.com/watch?v=jJMxwBmQWHA
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  839. Now-a-days they are comparing the potter model to capitalism and the stewart way to socialism.... But it ain't so... The stewart way is the way the US and other devaloping economies took off..... I ain't read it but Prof Hudson has a book that he was writing for some academic cred somewhere 'america's protectionist take off' where he describes how america got rich on simillar polices to china... The american-english-dutch moddle is de-industrializing and they call it capitalism.... The Chinese model is industrializing and they call themselves communist... I think words are important.... The geniouses in congress just put through a bill to condem socialism... If they were armed with the understanding of how to create capital they would be condeming de-industrialization as feudalism and be talking about creating capital in glowing terms...
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  840.  @satyendraranjan4255  I don't know her as well.... I think she makes a great contribution... I have a great deal of dificulty keeping up with the new content she brings.... Hudson focusses on the same ground.... It is good to hear a new voice.... Even if I am not as familliar with her and don't trust her as much yet.... I think she makes a great contribution... Hudson does have some verbal communictions issues where Professor Desai is a bit smoother in her delivery...
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  841. They be doing it bi weekly...
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  842.  @valorieya  I ain't read capital.... To me, sticking with Hudson and Norton is challenging enough... To be sure, there is one branch of economics that don't take no bullshit. It is the flavor that you elude to known as clasical economics.... Adhearents include Norton, Kelton, Keen and ofcourse Hudson.
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  843. I have gone over some of these speculations... I don't think Ben got the beginning right and stopped watching. Ben is The Shit! when it comes to the economic ideas he puts across... He always feels right and brings on Michael Hudson as well. Hudson ain't always right with his predictions as well.
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  844. I think it is sad for the americans when world leaders say 'socialism' because socialism is a bad word in america... A more descriptive term is 18th century feucalism-impiralism... It is not the all the responsibillity for those who don't understand to get a clue... it is ALSO the responsibillty to communicate to those who don't understand. That means using words that help explain what is happening clearly.
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  845. Is it even legal to obtain anything Huawei in the US or Canida?
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  846.  @mythili..  Sounds good.... I tend to think we are experiencing a counter revolution to the industrial or captial revolution.
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  847. What would you propose to slow the decline of the dollar?
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  848. Special interests in the US decided that manufacturing in China was the way to create a lot of short term profit... Others thought that they could influence China to become part of the world neoliberal [rules based] order once their economy became strong. The US made spisific requests over the past forty years that were consistantly ignored...
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  849. I wish I knew more about Mexican economy and politics.
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  850. I don't think they are asleep or if they are they are waking up.
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  851.  @Teddyclaws  If we were more enlightened we could have slowed the decline of the dollar.... In any case the dollar will decline slowly even if our policy speeds up the process,,,, Needless to say policy has...
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  852.  @troywalkertheprogressivean8433  Things are dire but what can we do to strenghten the US economy?
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  853. What would you propose to slow the decline of the dollar as the dominant world currency?
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  854. The G7 politicians are going to lose their next election.... They are said to be dead men walking minus Maloni.
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  855. Arguably neofudalism has a history of deindustrializing and destroying capital and is a reactionary movment to the captialist revolution.
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  856. Thaks for listening.... We need to warp more young minds and have many more people who understand this...
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  857. Learning things is great but you can learn a lot of stuff that is wrong... You really have to go to what the west is now calling "russian disinformation" to find narratives that have any descriptive, predictive and proscriptive value at all.
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  858.  @a.jzz8585  Sometimes it takes having the right energy to listen to Norton. Now I am in a time of difficulty and anxiety...
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  859.  @TheSpiralnotebook  I cry... Yellin' don't know shit about economics.
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  860. I am off of FB for a long time because of a query about the war in Ukrane early on.
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  861.  @VickiNikolaidis  .... The spisific tatctis of sanctioning russia have strengthened russia and destroyed Nato.... It is possible that they don't have economists who can ballance a ledger in a candy store... Like it takes a lot of faith to believe that if you can 'invest' dollars you can get more of them indefinately even if those 'investments' destroy real capital.
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  862.  @theresabarzee1463  Rashita[sp] suggests that there are no efforts that the Neo cons libs can take that don't result in burning dollar hegomony....
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  863. Love from the US... I have mixed feelings.
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  864.  @andrewreynolds912  Israel is at a disadvantanage in the region because the west is out of everything because of project Ukraine and didn't have an army to begin with where as regional armies are ready with people and hardware ready to fight and take losses of personel.
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  865. I believe he explains this at 25:16
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  866. I am not there yet but can you eleborate on that idea?
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  867. What changed to make "The global age of capitalism" in the US where labor was valued to neoliberal financhialized capitalism where labor was reviled? I am guessing that at the end of world war two, we were thinking we were all one people [many of us] and that we valued our sacrifice during world war two. Needless to say, there were many socialistic programs during the war.
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  868.  @kyunhwoarang  I blieve that Hudson describes how they can be conflated.... They are like heads and tails on a coin.... Is the trunk the elphant?
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  869.  @kyunhwoarang  We sometimes think of neoliberalism and neocolonialism as something new. It's not. It has brought down all of the impiralists powers since Rome.
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  870.  @ConradNeill  Maybe political persecution will come to an end with Trump.
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  871.  @ConradNeill  I done listed out [some of] everything and it was deleated.... Everything means EVERYTHING.
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  872.  @csg1337  I read some books by Michael Hudson... In the 90s Russia was taken over by Wall Steet and life expectancy dropped by five years. Since then Putin came to power and russia is in good shape and can challenge the west when it kills russians at their border. The general russian population doesn't seem to be that interested in this conflict but they support putin because he stopped the 'democracy' that Yeltsen had installed in the 90s. My understanding of the millatary mechanics of this conflict are informed by Scott Ritter.... The war part of the conflict is in no way important as the economic issues involved.
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  873. I am from the other media echo chamber. I come here to see hype that I don't believe. I was scared when they told me trump was installed by putin... Since then I feel better because there are other media echo chambers that are consonant with my biases.
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  874. The blockade of Ukraine ports that are loaded with wheat is due to Ukraine it's self mining the port obstensively to keep an amphibious landing by russia in the Odesa area... Russia has compleatly inadiquate naval assets in the black sea to mount a amphibious invasion... If this conflict goes on much longer there is going to be food insecurity in much of the southern 'developing' nations... Those who have been on board with the western 'rules based' , IMF order will be at risk of instabillity and default. Especally those in the south who have followed the rules of the west, which include not creating food security will be the hardest hit.... Time to adress russia's security anxieties and stop this madness... Time to reinstitute real capitalism in the west and save western civilization.
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  875.  @rmcoi53  A discussion on the failure modes of war stabillity in Ukraine is... CrossTalk 'on Ukraine' from this week.. CrossTalk is always discussing how to end the war.
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  876. If he didn't make his biases sound like the media's he wouldn't be invited to speak on CNN. He is projecting anti russian biases.
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  877.  @mateobaysa2055  Na. Maduro just parked in the wrong spot.
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  878.  @dustinsindledecker154  That russia approves nulifies any veracity of anything forever and ever.
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  879. Peace proposals by russia and china sound like nagging. They have the same message for many years and they repeat it like a whine every chance they get..
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  880. Is it possible to take this video down because it is saying things that are factually wrong?
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  881.  @ttoo144  Althogh the russians are suffering from this war they are doing a fraction as much suffering and dying as the ukrainains. It is also terrable...
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  882. Have a heart for all the Ukrainan GIs... They are really suffering and dying.... It is so sad.
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  883.  @peekaboopeekaboo1165  Unfortunately for US in the US, not for long...
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  884.  @irresistablejewel  Too Funny....
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  885. I thought that an invasion is where one country sends the millatary into another country.... If it is within the same country it is called a civil war.... Both are terrable...
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  886.  @VlD3adly  I don't think russia has a choice in decoupling from the west as well. They have been supporting the ruble by demanding payments in ruble since the money they made off of their other stuff they sent were impounded by the west.
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  887.  @rockrabbit253  Why would Nato coup Ukraine if they wanted Ukraine to be peaceful democratic?
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  888.  @rockrabbit253  Yes it did.... What bothers the russians is not the expansion in nato by name but the build up of arms and millatary at their border... The provocation of a step up of 10 times the shelling of ukraininan targets in ukraine by ukraine, mostly russian ethnics... Pre capitalist feudalist-impiralist modles are going the way of wind born cargo ships, pallace intriuges including behadings, buring people in public squares. Supporting industry by supporting people and infrastructure is winning out over neoliberal-feudalist models.
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  889.  @rockrabbit253  To me, the expansion of nato is empty because they arn't able to fullfill the goals of rolling back the capitalist espansion of russia, china and the rest of the world to 'democracy' , deindustrialzation and feudalism. To me this is the inflection point where pre-captialst ideologs are going to lose.
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  890. Russia makes huge claims of destruction of the majority of weapons sytems that were supplied since '14. My impression is that they will be slowly taking teritory until Ukraine desides it doesn't want to send more poeple into the grinder.
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  891. My understanding is that putin anounced that the donbass was the millatary's pirmary target for the next few months. Soon all of the towns in or near the DPR will not be strategic at all.
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  892. @3395ZHQ There really isn't any fighting going on in Mariopol... There is some milatary personel in soviet era bomb shelters that seem to have orders to shoot if they surrender... They have been there for like two months... I am thinking that there are some poeple among the ukraine millatary personel that they don't want the world to know about... There are unconfirmed reports that those Ukraine personel are negotiating with the russians to send food for letting civilians free.
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  893. My understanding is that they are shot if they try to surrender... They have also gone into negotiations to free some non combatants in excange for food.
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  894.  @delanoscorpio9652  I think it is more like 80% of the area's that declaired independence from Ukraine, where Ukraine forces had been digging in for eight years... Positions never to be restablished again, men and boys that will never breathe again.... Generally when people enter into a course of action and suffer losses they double down on those actions.... Now the sponsors in the west seem to be backing down because they didn't seem to get what they wanted from the conflict.
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  895.  @des_smith7658  I am not happy about this at all.
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  896. American football anyone? Ukraine got the ball on their five yard line and now are fourth and ten and are lining up for another forward pass instead of punting.
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  897. I doubt it will ever happen that there will be a summery of his, and Sky New's prognostications and characterizations of this war... I believe they were saying that ukraine is winning and will win in the end and that russia was alternately weak or evil and will will be soundly routed from ukraine, including the crimea. The western idea of news is a pro western bias replete with inaccuracies and without history or context.
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  898. Is Syria a victory for the US?
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  899. We need to sacrifice everything for freedom.... Future generations as well.
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  900.  @strafniki1080  So sad about the Ukes and orcs.... Many won't live to fight another day.
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  901.  @strafniki1080  Seems like russia had to give some stuff up that the west wanted to take away in the first place but the west seems more desparate than the east.... The east includes russia, china and the Shanghai Coop agreemet group...
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  902.  @Writeous0ne  Her horrible take is that the resilience of the Ukrainians is crucial.... She is with the cabal that feels that Ukraine should fight for Nato to the last freezing, starving, burnt out Ukrainian.
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  903.  @Lilla88able  To be sure the Russia that existed before the start of the conflict dosn't exist anymore. Russia has taken New York and there are M1A1 Abrams tanks storming Moscow.
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  904. Did he stop saying that?
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  905. At the time I write this, Severdonesk has already been delivered to the LPR.
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  906.  @anotherhappylanding4746  I suppose it is annoying for some who want to observe something happen but it is probably best for those on the ground on all sides... I thoght they would be on a two month schedule so that they could come up with a proposal but it looks as if they are camped out picking targets very carefully. I am not sure that the russians can sue for peace because the americans seem have gotten everything we want.... If europe is being such dupes, I wounder if they can pay us back for the weapons in dollars for keeping them 'safe'
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  907. Fail upward.
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  908. "They need heavy millatary equipment" Maybe so but how are they going to get it into the theatre without petrol? How are they going to move if they get shot if they get out in the open? No theory... Just a map after the fact.
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  909. ​ @roadent217  Russia didn't want offencive weapons next door and didn't want the coninued butchering of the russian population next door as well and they said so but non one listened... They had a way to comunicate their desires and they did. The goal posts were moved after the 'special operations' began now that Nato [the US] is training and equiping an army in neighboring Nato states... They are being shelled from west ukraine so they have to take that over as well... It is very sad.
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  910. ​ @cameronspence4977  He recently replaced his security commanders in mass... I get the impassion that he is probably going to be killed by military commanders or others....
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  911.  @govidiotsheep  I think I got a stomach ache.
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  912.  @govidiotsheep  Not really funny....
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  913. I have no idea about Carlson... I know the liberal press lies all the time.
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  914. There is NO news on FB about the vax or the virus. YouTube has been censoring news about the virus and vax until very recently.
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  915. Yea... He is probably right... I have social anxiety my self... Dave is painful to watch. youtube.com/watch?v=l5OQMvb25AE
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  916. To me it is not the same when I am on stage... I do Karaoke. The critic that I am watching for is myself... No social anxiety there.
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  917.  @rcg9573  I don't know much about the MAGA cult but I know that if you don't believe Trump was installed and controled by Putin you are definately in the MAGA cult.
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  918.  @janmay7961  Another way of describing at democratic party narratives is orwellian, where words mean the oposite of their dictionary deffinitian... How to discuss tings with these kinds of cult members?
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  919. ​ @janmay7961  Yes, democratic party enthusiasts have become, by every metric, whacky reich wing. I haven't paid attention to the repubicans but they seem equally unhinged.
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  920.  @janmay7961  I am not sure I should spend much time discussing things with people who subsribe to the whacky reich wingnut narratives of democratic party cult members. I was not as fahmilliar with the whackieness of the repubicans. My point is that they seem at least as odd.
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  921. @@Mindvirus-dj4ro Last night both the democratic party and republican party preformances and contrived narratives were equally unhinged.
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  922.  @belkyhernandez8281  I just voted for Trump in the primary to make the dumbocrats panic..... I wasn't really aware that the repubican narratives are as whacky and contrived as the democrat's because I wasn't paying any attention to it.
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  923.  @Terry-lh8cn  Three and I done corrected them.
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  924. She almost outdid the outrageous democratic party narratives biden speed out of his pie hole.
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  925. What about antibody tests?
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  926. I am glad that they mentioned Sanders but the 'varient' was not found to be as annoying as the manufactured hysteria would have suggested. The hysteria drives how people feel about the valuation of the stocks... Also the new 'varient' is not a varient of THE Coronavurus.
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  927. I suppose anyone would be frustrated with the war...
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  928. The whole point of the scanctions and war was to get russia to colapse....
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  929. The sanctions were not for invading Ukraine. The west wanted the war so that they could justify sanctions that were all ready approved.
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  930. In another video there was a discussion about Hwawai[sp] that tried to describe why the wast doesn't want to buy their products.... Most of these videos on anti-china tech raise more questions than they answer...
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  931.  @roninnotasheeplikeyou.2631  I tend to think the dollar will be strong for a while... It isn't going to be so easy to replace the dollar.... Even if the US stays on the santions path it will take a while.
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  932. I don't get it.... If the personnel were 'partly' responsible for the loss of the ship, the engineering and procedural designs had to be the cause of the fire... It is outrageous that a ship could go out with designs and procedures that can destroy it as well as risk lives.
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  933.  @BMotz-ym1fn  Good choice but otherwise engaged.
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  934.  @305jett  Ukraine and the collective west has lost contol over the air and air singnals... Ukriane has been asked to do a major offensive against overwelming logisitcs and fire power.. It is a very sad story...
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  935.  @The_D_Man  In order not to be a russian bot you must believe putin insalled trump... Are you there?
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  936.  @johnwest7993  Ukraine buys oil from the russians for the purposes of these conter offensives.
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  937. Arguably his game is to get as much resorces and good will for Ukraine as he can win or lose, good manager or not.
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  938. The war has been going on for eight years since the coup in Ukraine... Mostly it is against russians in the east of Ukraine.... Imagine mexico shelling an english speaking area of mexico and outlawing english, the secound most popular language in mexico?
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  939. Sadly it is US and EU banks vs the rest of the world...
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  940. Context? I thought you were giving the CIA line on everything.
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  941. Arguably DW is full of more nonsense than Lavarov or Putin... What has happened is that russia is occupying much of the russian ethnic areas of the Ukraine, will take the rest of the Donbass soon and is in better shape economically than the west... ... The west has lost economically, millarily and continues to blame all of it's calamities on russia. The west's policies lost and indicate that they can't do an analyisis of a ledger in a candy store.
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  942. The idea that they are demostrating that they can blockaid computer chips seems like a more sobre explanation than the one's that are floated by many in the leftist circles that I listen to... I would hope that nothing bad happens here like it is happening in many parts of the world.
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  943.  @gluteusmaximus1657  A lot of alternative facts in the west...
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  944.  @shashankinamdar7670  Biden has an analogy to the cuban missal crisis. I believe it WAS in the US's best interest to get the missals away from US borders.... There could have been a war over it. Is it in Russia's interest to get a nato army, with missals off of their border?
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  945.  @shashankinamdar7670  In twenty years the EU will look very different.... Much of Ukraine will be called russia and will be rebuilt... The part of Ukraine that russia left behind will have a lot of trouble catching up....
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  946. Russia has huge quantities of materials, people and technical skills.... They will find out how to rebuild most of Ukraine which by the end of the war will be called russia.
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  947.  Jim Stewart  My understanding is that Ukraine had the secound most powerful millatary in europe. It was certainly being deployed to kill Ukrainians before it was destroyed.... Russia has consistantly asked for that to stop, for Ukreane to be nutral and for Ukraine to denazify.... For seven years agreements were signed that to that effect and violated by Ukraine and the west... That ask is still in effect and is unlikely to be softened during the coflict that was designed to achieve that political end. The west's goal is to keep the conflict going... How does it stop?
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  948.  @avibhagan  It has already been going on for eight years... The west wants it to go on indefinately... How does it stop?
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  949.  @cybourne5910  My impression is that it is leading away from the failed economic and millatary proxy war in Ukraine as well as the general econonic malaize in the west.... The next manufactured mainia...
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  950.  @redakteur3613  Isn't it 'funny' the way everything we thought would happen under comuninsm [a theoretical economic state of being] is now very real and happening under 'capitolism' [a word coined by an admirer of captiolism marx].. What is really happening in greese and other contries is we have a state of feudalism.
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  951. @John Brower I struggle to get some understanding of how the chinese will conduct their oportunity to become the new hegimon... Needless to say the US, who essentially owns the EU, has laid waste to much of the near east, africa and latin america.. Ruin everywhere... This leaves the world open to china's rapid imperialist [gain of hegimony] expansion... All china essentially has to do is make a better offer than the US...
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  952. I was here to see if the EU was going to blame russia for the spike.
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  953. The war in the Ukraine is eight years old....
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  954. New reports surfaced that the Azov stuck in the steel plant are offering to give up their civilian captives for food.
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  955.  @ccchan10  Probably true. Why do they need foreign direct investment anyway when they hold more than a trillion and their export market is in dollars? Do they have a meter that makes more sense than western style GDP and if so why don't they publish it?
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  956. ​ @benghazi4216  I suppose you are talking about the basic rule of 'law' that bails out criminal cartels and throws the victims of those cartels out on the street.... It is reasonable to expect that that is the basic rule of 'law' because it was instituted by a former editor of the harvard constitutional law review. The money and the 'law' work differently in china.
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  957. If they invested in the west over the past twenty years their investments would be backed up by the fed...
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  958.  @snaz27  My prediction: US marines in Moscow by March.
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  959. Senseless afgnainsan war for the 'defense' industry.
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  960. Siemens is a german company that services the turbines.... Siemens has signed off on the mechaical failures that are not reparable because there is no work around the sanctions against russia as they are now.
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  961. Exactly! But who do we have to replace him with?
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  962. You mean Family Guy?
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  963. In the US we have a new minstry of truth for that...
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  964.  @drmorcoch9338  I think it is like the greed of particularly the green politicians in germany... All of europe is a bannana republic to the US....
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  965. In the west we call them Iraq, Afganistan... Lybia, Syria.....
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  966.  @sergeyb8  A regon on the russian border that is primarily russian speaking that voted to cecede from urkraine and join russia.. There are/were laws on the books to outlaw russian language and there was shelling of civillians.... Bucha, north of Keiv, demostrates that urkraine is more than willing to mass murder it's own people...
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  967.  @bg1616  I think Ukraine forfited its right to be a contry when they accepted a color revolution orchistrated by the CIA elevated traditional natzies to political power, dug in millatarily with the help of nato along the russain border and started masecering their own.
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  968. I forget their asks in febuary.... What were they and have they canged at all?
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  969.  @bluecardholder  In other news biden's minstry of truth has been disbanded. Sorry, not sorry, that your favorite goverment board is gone... Perahps you are holding it together... I am a former democrat myself.
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  970.  @bluecardholder  I made bunches of statments... You ask for proof of which statment?
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  971. ​ @navinkumar6388  Iran captured a UK ship? .... Try not to throw out factual staments that may not be true.
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  972. ​ @jonathanwilson2363  You got to figure that a defending army seeks shelter.... But do they deliberately target one kind of shelter over another? I figure you can make corilations given enough reliable data.... thinking out loud.
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  973. When you have an alterlery piece, small arms base, command post of the occupiers by the hospital then sometimes russian civillians get killed... Russians are reticent to kill other russians.
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  974.  @viperabyss  Russia has many times the artillery and delivery systems that Ukraine and the collective west has... Not to mention the capabilities of these systems. They have a safety priority with their military personnel and a go slow approach.
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  975.  @viperabyss  Maybe if t the russia hits the dam the ukrainains will have to back off because ukraine, and the collective west, doesn't have the arterlery for a sustained fight at those ranges.
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  976. It neither proves or disproves that russian millatary was behind those deaths. The UN said they don't need any investigation or proof.
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  977.  @Nine-Signs  Very good observations [good catch] My meantor in these issues is Michael Hudson. He wrote 'supper imperialism' in the early seventies which was about establishing a world currency. He got no interest outside of the CIA who used it as an instruction manual and successfully established the dollar as the world medium of exchange. Now-a-days he has interest from the chinese for the same reason... I have bunches of hunches by listening to Michael Hudson... One of them is that the chinese won't sink dollar investors because the want cheap resources from contries that don't use chinese currency yet. The international chinese currency area ain't much yet and if they stiff dollar investors there might be some retaliatory measures that will make dollars harder to come by for chinese companies.
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  978.  @oyekunbiadams8742  The US has been arming and training Ukraine nationals for years. The war from the west's prespective is, arms sales, issolating europe from russia and drawing russia into a forever war... Russia seems to have taken much of that to it's advantate and helped create a dual pollar world economically.
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  979.  @Kartoffelsuppe_m_Wursteinlage  Perahps Zelensky will have to ask for money from the russians?
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  980.  @MrJdsenior  That and they were dug in in around russian populations who they didn't allow to leave...
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  981. I feel like there will be a minie industrialization in the US....
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  982.  @tonyatgoogle6076  Not really, dave said brian dived down the steps on purpose.
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  983. Many of the sanctions are supporting the russian economy... The real target is the EU and they are suffering.
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  984. Russia is not profiting from the war. It is profiting from the sanctions....
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  985. I get the impression that there is a point of contention that has to do with money that is not being discussed.
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  986.  @rickybunch36  Ukraine had the secound largest and well equiped army in europe. Secound only to russia.
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  987. The conflict is between US hegimony and anyone who could rival that hegimony.... Now that the hegimony has been broken, the US is acting out self destructive...
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  988.  @MarkMiller304  My feeling that MSM are hiding most of the information comming out of Ukraine is because they never go against US policy that supports millatary contractors who profit from forever wars.. A lot of informaiton about Ukraine is in the documentary 'Ukraine on fire' from like '19.. Emotioned pleas about issues that the US media gets wrong don't seem to be effective...
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  989. It seems as if the west would be embarrased if some of these people got captured.
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  990.  @beyondz55  I don't remember what she said but I remember thinking this person is a fool.... I wish I wasn't getting notifications on it anymore.
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  991. I hate the way the first amendment is a threat to our constitution and democracy... We need to make sure people can silence us.
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  992. She is also one of the leading propoinent of the most redicouls conspriacy theory of all time.
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  993. Then Neera should get along well with them.
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  994.  @GameDevChad  Bernie changed much of the lexicon when it comes to politics and economics. It was 40 years ago when Margret Thachher and Ronnald Reagan changed the narrative to a stict version of neoliberalism. Are you saying that Bernie didn''t change the govement by winning the presidency and he is responsible for our continued slide into feudalism?
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  995.  @SvetlanaVladimirova8590  Where are you from? How did you snag eloquence in english?
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  996. It is possible that the push for monetary soverenty in the EU could ultimately be good for Europe.
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  997. Prigozhin gave them a talking point already.... I tend to think they would forgo bombing the ZNPP.
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  998.  @SvetlanaVladimirova8590  Great descriptions of the dynamics of democracy in Russia are in the book 'Destiny of Civilizaiton' by Michael Hudson. I lent my copy to a Russian-Ukranian couple and have yet to get it back.
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  999.  @SvetlanaVladimirova8590  Thanks for remembering me.... To be sure you are quite memerable... I am from Chicago, and yes we did bring Wall Street to Russia in the 90's. The reason we hate Putin so much is that he did a big part in exorcising 'democracy' from Russia.
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  1000. Parts of this sequence just got picked up by Jimmy Dore...
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  1001. It is hard to imagine how all these actions by the west havent continued to degrade the reactionary, read feudal, oligarchs postion and that missle strikes will strengthen Putin's hand against them.
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  1002.  @tomrobbins5242  I was in the African Student's Union in the eighties... I am going to say We were very passionate about supporting Afica.... The key is that I am a white American... I saw many who were arguing about what to do in and about Africa.
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  1003. To be sure I shattered my tibia and fibula, convelesing, waiting to walk again.
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  1004.  @f1aziz  I tend toward your way of thinking but I have had a fear of reading 'supper impiralism' because I don't really feel comfortable with my understanding of the nuances of how fiat currencies are valued against each other.
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  1005.  @Sedona-cl6eg  You really feel that Nato is supplying a lot of people rather than just advisors?
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  1006.  @Wildweib  The media makes these things up so fast and goes on to the next big lie.... Those who are paying attention will always be thought of as odd.
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  1007.  @davidcritchley3509  It feels as if you are responding to another comment on another thread.
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  1008. I don't like it.
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  1009. That is not true at all. What you think people can do if they have their own country, trade support and the abillity to repudiate onerous debt which won't be paid anyway?
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  1010.  @SeattlePioneer Sanctions were as if designed to help; Russia. All of them worked in Russia's favor.
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  1011. Like Alexander said on another show; the sanctiohns against Russia are similar to protectionism in the US in the mid late 18 hudreds that assisted the US ipn being the manufacturing hub of the world. It isn't clear to me that we don't have economists that know that... What IS clear is that sanctions cornered the Europeans into the US spere supporting many US monopolies....
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  1012.  @interovic  The CIA and Bari Weiss ,
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  1013.  @jdursoesq  Hudson made a point that Stalin made a study of Marx one so the Soviets had no real background in ecnomics or Marxism..... All they said is that Capitalism is exploitation of the workers on the factory floor with no understanding of rent seaking..... Wolff is very similar in that he doesn't understand economics and thinks all we have to do is make "Democracy at Work" to make eveything right..... Coops and Comunes are not a threat to rent seaking now-a-days.... I think Wolff is a CIA plant because he ignores the main issues with "Capitalism Bad".
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  1014.  @lunaridge4510  Wolff pretends like Capitalism is the way that Marx described it: as industrial capitalism and pretends like all we have to do to overcome is to have "Democracy at Work"..... Is Wolff a CIA plant?
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  1015. I would wait for my analists to translate whathe said. I am trying to get up to speed with MIchael Hudson's orthodxy so that I can imediately run anything anyone says about economcis through that lense.
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  1016. How does this looming finachial catastophy compare in magnitude with the protection of the criminal real estate cartels, banks and real estate valuations in the 2000's, say 2008?
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  1017. I feel real bad about that.... That I know why it is happening dosn't help.
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  1018. NO!
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  1019.  @trudykhaleq2940  All they wanted was access to their own resouces..... The Romans would agree that was immoral and the Americans would as well.... America will change after the bubble bursts because we are hooked into a civilization that hasn't abandoned Capitalism. They actually make capital in places like China and Cuba where as we have left that process for dead in favor of hiking asset values... Now bubbles.
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  1020.  @miophx8283  Huberis, racism, sanctions, wars are all in the service of western monopolies.
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  1021.  @chick930  The US has always maintained a presence in the Mid East regon for the OIL.... Sanctions and wars are only support western monopolies..... That is what they do.... They take after the great Roman empire... The great Reagan-Thacher-Obummer neoliberal traditon....
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  1022. Is that a term for being coked out or on meph?
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  1023. What is professor musude?
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  1024. What is the acronym?
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  1025.  @davidlazarus67  Vader what? ... The big news story is the US election and no one knows Vander what ever it is.
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  1026. I feel like shit.
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  1027. Why does Trump have to be so hands on in Ukraine? Last time everyone seemed to think he was installed by Putin…..
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  1028.  @Khayyam-vg9fw  Needless to say there has to be a lanugages that is understandable to those using it and has to be based on language tradtions. How do you feel about the rate of death of languages? When was the rate higher/lower?
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  1029.  @Khayyam-vg9fw  I don't understand how you can say that english has all these influneces and isn't a hybred. To be sure I am not really aware of many of the details but in HS I studdied root words. They were Latin and Greek [I think] root words. My understanding is that there is a lot of German in English. The only other language I know is spanish and I study a mexican dialect.
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  1030.  @RealPolitik-dy4it  It is awkward when you are told something that you really can't verify... To be sure english is a hybred languge as well but you are talking about two slavic languages neither of which I know at all.
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  1031.  @Brolin1  I am so sick of people who do that stuff...
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  1032. I am not sure how anyone can believe anything the media says after Russiagate.
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  1033.  @SvetlanaVladimirova8590  Did you express an idea? That could be why it was deleated.
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  1034. Wall Street HATES Putin because he was taking back Russia. They hoped that they have an alternative so that they can steal Russia.
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  1035.  @bigben8272  Hillary also plays super villain very well.
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  1036.  @bigben8272  Schwab is the most beutiful Batman super villian ever. Other real super villains don't have that going for them.
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  1037. HIllary!
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  1038.  @SvetlanaVladimirova8590  With any luck the people of the west will share the fortunes, once we get through groveling...
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  1039.  @Kenji1685  Dust events ha been world wide cooling sy impression is that the nuclier activity [polution] is not the long term issue so much as the dust events that cause coverage of the sun and ice age like conditions where very little survives.
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  1040.  @justarandomname420 What is the saying from Blade Runner? "I want more life.... "
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  1041.  @paulodekina7144  I havent been paying attention to where Russia came from... Did it really start at 11'th? I do understand how sanctions really worked for Russia but I don't understand the magnitudes.
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  1042.  @michaelbetsch9700  He showed a lack of understandinng of the American audience. They ain't Erudite when it comes to world history and they ain't gona sit still for it.... As for me, I know what Putin [capital T] would say, I look for others to pull out the jucy bits.
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  1043. I would be happy if they sent all their industry to the US.
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  1044. Don't you figure that the escalation in the mid east which the PR will be genocide Joe is presidential will conincide with the general election?
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  1045. I don't get it. The west has huge advantages, now acting like the Austrian-born corpral who was the commander of the world war two effort of Germany. Two days after this video dropped, Alexander makes such a comparison.... He finally listened to me.
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  1046. The war in Ukraine was about Sanctions which predictably strengthen Russia.
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  1047. It is difficult for her to entertain herself with any economic knoledge.
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  1048. If you don't skim off profits for the banks you can grow indefinately.
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  1049.  @dompapp4396  I believe if you study the basics of 'clasical economics' and keep to the orthodoxy you could understand.... 'Takes time and effort.... 'Best place to start is Kelton and Hudson. There is no space to discuss this in YT comment section. Best wishes.
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  1050. ​ @BoyBoyhaere50  I never got Wolff... To me he focusses on the idea that capitalism has run it's course and has created the strogest that capitalism can and there for we need to turn to the continuation of Marx's proposals in Marx 1 and the Commuinist Manifesto... Those proposals were expected to be implemented some time ago and Marx was wrong. 'Not in a malicous way....
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  1051.  @applebee9060  Hudson comes from a canon of knoledge that is tight.... He studies geopolitics and is very adept in explaining the reasons behind them.
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  1052.  @applebee9060  Zha definately has his place. To compare him or to say his hame in the same sentance as Hudson and economics is kind of out of place.. I do like Zha though.
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  1053.  @ZhenYae  Zha don't seem like the right guy on this issue. I don't know Foo.
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  1054. All he does is take observations on front lines... There is no real point to that.
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  1055.  @louiscypher4186  Israel isn't going to be around forever.
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  1056.  @cf2851  Lets hope for the best.
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  1057. Why?
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  1058. She isn't Sarha but a forign ethic living in Germany trying to save her adopted German people.
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  1059. I thought she was Sarah Wagenk...
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  1060.  @DemiGod..  I have no clue... The thing is that small women can be very good protection if they are well trained and well orginized.
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  1061. She is one of the biggest motavators for votes for Trump.
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  1062. For many years I thouht the retoric out of the democratic party in the US was whacko. It was so distracting that I never paid attention to the republicans but republcan marketing makes me want to vote for Harris and that's crazy.
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  1063. Excuse me poetry but we are definately fucked in the short term.
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  1064.  @somjrgebn  But it is debt to the national goverment who can print money... There is a problem with printing money in that it must be able to buy the things that the goverment wants.... An example of inflation is that all of the west can't produce enoiugh 155 mm shells to fullfill all of it's murderous commitments.... Shells that were costing 2K are now costing 8K.... You got to figure that the Russian goverment is bu$ying their equivelent at much less than $2K because they have the capacity and arn't relying on monopolies and instead are relying on goverment run plants for their supplies.... And, according to western sources, are making that amunition at 7X the rate of the collective west.
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  1065.  @SvetlanaVladimirova8590  No worries.
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  1066.  @SvetlanaVladimirova8590  Anyway... Good evening... Don't let the bed bugs bite.
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  1067.  @johanhallgren  But the deficit is payed for in dollars that the US issues.... I owe you papers that I can print...
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  1068. I'm not sure that economic integration would nessesarily be bad for Europe.... It is possible that a strong central bank could kick out US capital markets, issue money for infrastructure and forgive debts. Forgiving debts, mostly to Nazi creditors is what gave Germany such a huge advantage after World War Two.
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  1069.  @LuisNunes-ps4sl  It could work out if they institute a central banks that actually supports infrastruructure in Europe instead of priortizing ownership by the oligarchs.
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  1070.  @kathylarson8876  Biden is one of the very worst presidents.... Reagan was very bad all the way through Biden.... Trump was better but not because he was good.
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  1071.  @SymphonicEllen  When I listen to Wolff I am get kind of dizzy waiting for the key words that never come... He seems as if he is in darkness... Not all economic models that are against neoliberalism make any sense at all. "Democracy at Work" would be in a wider environment that is dominated by incresing debt on labor....
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  1072.  @sexynelson100  Wolff reads the communist Manifesto and thinks we are in Capitalism and all we need is 'democracy at work' .... He needs to read marx.
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  1073. Here Hudson attempts to answer my query "Is a win-win business relationship between domanant and less developed contries infinately sustanable?"
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  1074. The Nobel prize is like a counter prize; economists who know nothing about economics, peace makers who expand war. Let us hope Trump dosn't fullfill that pattern.
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  1075.  @anjazapico6380  What seems to be happening is that all of the value of labor is being extracted.... Reagan said: if you give the 'makers' more of what they make and not give it to the 'takers' then you get more... Which is true... But he idenified the Takers as the makers and the Makers as the takers... So they take from those who make and give it to those who take.... It makes for an unhappy and unstable society... It is comming to a head.
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  1076.  @richardscathouse  Generally when a US proxy talks people listen.... But proxies: IMF, World Bank, ICC, UN, Nato, EU always take the side of the US...
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  1077. I tend to think that the military brass are the peacenicks in all of this.... They tend to know what war is and they know it dosen't solve all problems.... I tend to think the culprits are the Millatary Industrial Complex and the Neocons.... I don't really understand the Neocons.
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  1078.  @sarahbrown5073  Perhaps that isn't the most flattering thing in the world to say, but it's true.
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  1079.  @sarahbrown5073  In the US we have a tendency to use low rates to fuel scavanging industries and shutting them down. Recient example: Boeing.
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  1080.  @sarahbrown5073  My understanding is during the beginning of the conflict with sanctions they had some flutter in currency values.... She done put an end to that by raising interest rates so that the currency was in demand.... 'Stabelized the currency and the rest is history.... Again, I have no idea what her capabillities are or what she is up against.
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  1081.  @mrishka5  What do you mean by that?
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  1082.  @РафаэльСаркисянц-ъ2т  To me, the struggle against impirialsm will be a bit of a slow go... Brenton Woods, and the institutions that were enshrined by Brenton Woods including the dollar were a bit easier because the impiral powers were established over centuries. Brics and getting away from 'finachialized capitalism' is slower beause they are starting from a much humbler postion... Growing industry ain't easy as well.
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  1083.  @РафаэльСаркисянц-ъ2т  It is the difference between 'Industrial capitalism' and 'finachialized capitalism' .... If you are living under 'finachialized capitalism' you are fighting with an arm tied behind your back. The 'global majority' is trying to get rid of the financialized hegimon and it is possible to get a running start because they don't have to pay the banks for everything.
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  1084.  @РафаэльСаркисянц-ъ2т  You know what? Read 'The Desiny of Civilization' by Michel Hudson. I am quite sure there is a copy in Russian...
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  1085. What did Keynes say? What was his take on it?
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  1086.  @mindmybusynassm1645  Americans are far from lazy.... Saying "mony can go anywhere where it makes money" Is in the words of Reagan taking money from the makers and giving it to the takers. Are we to let the hereditary aristocracy take over?
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  1087.  @NotAPacifist825  Smith's theoretical model don't exist in realiy? Maybe you can say the same for all of marx's theories and models because marx takes after Smith, Mills.... ??
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  1088. As China reduces it's exposure to western confiscation, the west will have ballance of payments issues.
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  1089.  @alexdetrojan4534  It has adopted neoliberalism.... It is following the Reagan-U of C model: central planning from wall street. That ain't capitalism.
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  1090. If we were to ditch wall street and neoliberalism we could fucking flurish... Reagan said "If you let 'makers' keep more of what they make and not take it away from the 'makers' and give it to the 'takers' you get more. A more marxist thing has never been uttered.
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  1091. Lucky you. You get to see Diesen...
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  1092.  @johnstrawb3521  Pretty much but there was a break during the first Trump admin but not really... Obummer was the worst.
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  1093. The global majority only spends 1/3 as much as the western aliance on military matters and the US is by far the biggest spender. Where did all the money go?
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  1094.  @keithknight42  It is difficult to imagine how Trump could be any more mentally challenged than democraic party group think.
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  1095.  @TheTaoofEternalWar  The meat grinder has been going on for two years... Either you laugh or you cry.... We be sitting in the back not able to do nothing about it we should have some levity.
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  1096.  @jihigh482  Not sure we are in the dark ages but headed there..... What I done thoght is that we are connected in a sort of civilizational way with Russia and China where they are industrializing.... I tend to think that they will save our sorry asses from decending into darkeness.... We will have to emulate them and not emulate feudalism to get the fuck out.
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  1097. Not only is that not true but both the lands that Ukraine and Palistine took are very temportary.
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  1098. ​ @timmy-wj2hc  What is the University take on Russiagate? Is it "If only big tech would csnsor more we wouldn't be in the situation we are in?"
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  1099. The new liberals always want war even though the last one ended in destaster.... They are as fickle for war as hitler was.
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  1100.  @yurichtube1162  The German goverment officials are the stupid clowns in this case because they destoyed Germany's industral base. I am sure their population will rebel...
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  1101. It is amazing that there aren't economists in the west that can ballance a ledger in a candy store.
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  1102.  @SvetlanaVladimirova8590  "all civilizations and empires fall sooner or later." You don't think nothing can be built to last? Arguably if there is a strong central government that can squash rent seaking and build the sky is the limit.
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  1103. Wow! To be a friend of the west is fatal [Wall Steet's take over of Russia in the 90's] but if you are an enemy the west showers you with economic oportunities out the ass.
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  1104. Go to the bathroom and look in the mirror.... Now scream at that guy.... YOUR AN IDIOT!
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  1105.  @johndowds5770  I grew up in camp singing a Russian song: May there always be mama, sunshine, me...
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  1106. The war has been wildly succesful to MIC as well as others who have laundered the billions of dollars spent on it.... Sanctions have also boosted the Russian economy,
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  1107.  @jibsmokestack1  I tend to.... People have to specify if I am to know what they are talking about.
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  1108. My study is economomics and no one seems to get it.... Ever heard "no one gets me 'cause I'm an artist"?
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  1109. I think I remember the cookie monster saying such a thing.
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  1110. ​ @Mona-ew8fp  Where do I get my little bottle of Elinsky #5?
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  1111. Arguably the colapse of the neoliberal expirement will be a prerequisite for joining the growing international community.... In Rome it was compleate colapse with no bright spot anywhere. Now we have are part of the industrializing international civilization that have our back when we fall.
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  1112. They actually marched into Moscow and stole everything during detant durining the early nineties. Motherfucking Putin reversed that...
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  1113. I really hope they are wrong this time.
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  1114.  @katerina_m6643  Empires through out history have condemned people who don't do as they say as tirants, infidels and 'un democratic'.... The thing is that democracies have tended to degrade to oligarchies where the rich find a way to become hegimon in thier societies. The US is a good example of that as well as Anchient Athens. This war has conclusively proven that there is no democracy in EU states. That is revieled in the fact that the EU is pretending not to know who blew up the Nord Stream piplines as well as other actions.
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  1115. Really? Referance.
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  1116. If they aren't saying they would negotiate they could spin that as well.
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  1117.  @FrankiePo89  It is the leaders who want to be at the head of the regression into feudalsim... While the civilization falls they are fine during their liftetime.
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  1118. Sanctions seem to be helping Russia gain moniteary and food soverenty as well as increasing maufacturing. They also seems to get rid of their 'oligarchs' who have been embezzeled billions from the Russian economy....It is amazing that they don't even have to rrebell aganst the oligarchs themselves. Freed up, the Russians seem to be taking advantage of preponderance of the many aspects of these gifts. The samctions seem to be aboiut keepting the Europeans and the collective wst under the neocoloinal sevatude of the US.
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  1119. It is amazing how reviled I feel when I listen to anything the democrats or repubublicans say during this silly season. Who I should vote against?
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  1120. Berlin had no strategic significance.
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  1121.  @moonovermiami9787  I am decidedly NOT a professor. To be sure my wrench turning professors didn't got the historical knoledge and perspective that I had even when I was at what the madda U.
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  1122.  @moonovermiami9787  I am also hoping to give a lecture on economics from a clasical ecnomics artform perspective..... Jokes informed by Mell Brooks and Three stuges.
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  1123.  @moonovermiami9787  Some memerable recient books I read are "Killing the Host" and "Destiny of Civilization" By Michael Hudson.... The one that gives a historic running start is "Super Impiralism" in process. It is a dence read.
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  1124.  @johnmcternan4157  All these guys richly deserve our dirision.
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  1125.  @bosse641  Engaged? Frightened? Annoyed?
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  1126. That was a gimme question. Wolff desaturated that he doesn't understand how money is issued by the fed.
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  1127.  @joeanthony7759  Wolff never acknowledges where we are. The fed gives money to banks to make monopolies and false scarcities. That isn't really capitalism because it doesn't make capitol or habitat and it isn't what marx meant when he said 'capitalism' I wait for Wolff to catch up but he never does...
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  1128.  @joeanthony7759  It ain't about making industry or habitat. If it don't change it will end in tears, civil unrest and possibly the chinese taking world hegemony from the dollar.
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  1129. ​ @sheryllovell822  Wolff talks in other tropes as well... It is frightening.
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  1130. Is there any value in Wolff? I find it very frustrating... He doesn't get other things as well.
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  1131. So what is the alternative? Voting for the democrats who universally reject anything that can make the situation better? Obama who single handedly gave us to criminal banking cartels? We need to open an alternative to the republicans and if the demcorats are closer we need to vote out the neoliberals in the democrats midst even if it means voting republican.
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  1132.  @goeast12  The Ukraine project is similar to the project in Georgia in that it is meant to 'contain' or destroy Russia.... The objective this time was to institute sanctions.... Russia has had expirence with sanctions since '14 and they were a neo colony of the US in the early ninties... Russia not only overcame their neocolonial status in the eighties but had found out that the sanctions from '14 have served to diversify their econmy and strenthen their economic independence. The further sancitons are serviing to strenthen the Russians... Right now they have no imprialist ambissions...
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  1133.  @goeast12  The fact is that Nato ran a collor revolution where they contracted with Nazis to persecute and kill Russians at the border of Russia. The collor revolution was an extra constituitonal coup started in Odesa with masecres that were encouraged by Victoria Nuland. When the Russians in the east of the country decided that they wanted to withdraw from the union they were shelled and their language was outlawed. Peace proposals and agreements based on Russian proposals were signed, ignored and the war agaisnt Ukrainian Russians continued. A build up of facts does sound like nonsense to peopole who are not familliar with them. Those who refference different 'facts' come follow different narratives.
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  1134.  @goeast12  Needless to say there was a push to put US nuclier wepoins on the border of Russia but there was also a huge effort to eradicate russians on the border of Russia as well. So yes, Nato built up the capacity to attack Russia but it was also killing Russians...
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  1135.  @cmtwgrdk2748  Is it true that Ukraine gets more tanks as trophies from russia than they lose in combat? How is it that the russians are making any progress on the battle field at all if that is the case?
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  1136. ​ @riparianlife97701  Russia's goal is to demillaterize Ukraine and Ukreaine is running out fo millatary capiabillity and Russia is not in a hurry to lose Russians on the battle field.... Ukraine was couped and armed and built up defencive postions for nine years, eight before the invasion by the russians and Russia didn't want to destroy Ukraine... . Right now Russia's goals are to take the four regions, especially the donbas which is two of those regions. The millatary industrial capicity of Russia is relatively infinate compared to the capacity of the west. Ukraine has access to almost all of the western stocpiles of amuniton which is running out. The west just sent 300K rounds of artillary amuntion which the west produces at 15K/month. Ukraine squeezes off about 6K a day.... That amuntion will be gone in a couple of months.... Russian supplies of amuntion are by comparison infinite.
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  1137.  @4kbirdpalace628  Is that why Ukraine has less than 300 tanks or about 1/4 of what they started the war with?
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  1138.  Луми Чирк  Generally we [US] are all around the world.... Now we just don't have the artillary to do what we say we want to do. The war was about the sanctions, obstensibly against russia.... I actually think the US thought that they would work.... They don't actually have any one on staff that can ballance a ledger in a candy store... I can't really say what the mission was about because the west is losing on all fronts.... Meanwhile china is making peace between long term rivals Saudies and Iran and banks in the US have to be bailed out. I wish we had a way of solving out problems without exaserbating them.
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  1139. Regardless of their personal charicteristics, the US is sending them to die in a fools errand..... We need to quit now.
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  1140.  @clemratliff3866  The Russians are tiptowing into Ukraine and have taken over most of the teritory where Ukriainains killed Ukrainains... The civil war was fomented by a US sponsored violent coup where a lot of people died. Then the most partisan peeps in the Ukraine formed an army that was trained and armed by Nato to kill their Ukrainan targets on the border of Russia... The peace proposals that were ratified by Ukraine, France and Germany were ignored for eight years in order to arm Ukraine as to start a proxy war with Russia.... The war was designed to justify sanctions aginast russia that were planned well in advance of russia's millatary intervention.. Since then Ukraine and Russia were about to ratify that peace proposal in Aprel first of last year when the west stepped in to stop it. Now some 300K Ukrainian troops and 20K russian troops have died and Ukraine has little left... Needless to say the CIA's facts are all wrong on this issue where as the alternative to those facts are called 'russian disinformation'.... So needless to say, you must parce 'russian disinformation' to parce the facts and understand what is going on in Ukraine... Many 'russian disinformaion' analysts think the whole sorbted affair will come to an abrupt end by the fall of this year because Ukraine is running out of amunition and people..
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  1141. Even if Ukraine could have long range precision guided weapons, russians jam the GPS and they will have to have someone come in and opperate them because there will be no more Ukrinians to opperate them because they will all be dead.
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  1142.  @danielbb8570  WHy don't we just launch tactical nuclier wepons?... That will give the people of Russia a taste of what could happen if they escalate.
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  1143. There is plenty inside Ukraine to let Ukrainans know how it feels to be on the reciving end of US supplied rockets to Ukraine. The market in Donesk city Ukrane pirodically comes under attack by Ukrane as well as the ortidox church there. The attack on the orthidox church killed a pregnent woman.... Two for one.
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  1144. Good catch. Economics via sanctions were the reason for the war. Negative economic effects are the result of sanctions but they are mostly protectionis and postitive for the Russians. Europe and the US will suffer... It's sad.
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  1145. Actually alll the sumary maps say that there are Ukrainains in that bog.
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  1146. So why did the Russians not bomb the peers? I think it is because they wanted to get Ukrane assets trapped in the bog.... When ten year old Russian peace proposals arn't enough.
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  1147. Wish you well... 'Looks like the colonial order is crubling.... The Sahel region and Ganna[africa] just said they won't sell raw latex no more.... Biden sucks... Maybe Trump will be better for the world.
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  1148.  @lancecahill5486  About half of mexicans are native to the states.meaning that they lived in the 48 for more generations than your family tree did.
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  1149.  @WildBikerBill  The real problem is that the dollar hegimony is dying world wide... Dollar hegimony has been propping up asset values as well as giving the feudalists in our society a free lunch... We need capitalism. We have decended into feudalism... It realy isn't as complex as it sounds once you know the basics.
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  1150. DueDisonance took this recording ... I woundered where it came from.
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  1151.  @tz7813  I tend to think european economies are much more fragile. Most don't have their own curencies, they are dependent on russian oil and gas and as we saw during the obummer admistraion and now they will do whatever the US wants. .... I do think there will be some knock down effects in the US ecomy but it won't be as severe as in europe. This whole thing is very sad.
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  1152. Altough the Ukraine war is full of pretences, some of the outcomes might lead to a central bank.... Am I right?
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  1153. What no one seems to understand to this day is that the sanctions against europe but ostensibly against russia are the reason for the war in Ukraine...
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  1154. I am not sure it will matter by that time.... If she is happy and healthy... While it is a war crime to kill the family and take the baby away.... At least the baby has a chance... To me that matters.
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  1155. How has that been verified?
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  1156. It is all bluster and mostly by the US who's domestic and forign policy is failing... What the US values in this case are; to support its millatary, distract the population from the failing economy... Blame someone else for failing hegimony including the domestic econmy...
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  1157.  @eispaipersfrostmage9766  Siemens is a german company that was to supply and service for the pumps for the piplines.... Some evidence was presented that Siemens couldn't work around the european imposed sanctions to service and supply the pumps. Another issue is that the russians were having problems with payments...
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  1158. ​ @KingNetSystems  Interesting take... seems like you speak farcy 'cause I didn't see no detailed reports on the chain of custody.. 'Lots of tolerance on the english learning side as well.
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  1159.  @jonahblack6417  Got to figure in both theis case and the case in the east where the screen flashed pure white, there was secoundary blasts.. To me this means that they were ammo dumps. To be sure I thought that the increase in radiation was proabably an indication of a huge quntity of very low emitting nuclear material... I was primed to think that beceuse the UK had said that they were sending depleated Urainum shells to Ukraine.. Like most of these cases I tend to defer to the analysis of the people in my news echo chamber. What each of them thinks isn't always the same... I challenged one of their assesments and I am trying to figure out where the truth is in that matter.
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  1160.  @jonahblack6417  It took me like a week to imagine the size of the blast. By looking at the houses in the istance there is some indiction of how big it was. There was an earlier report that there was a spike in radiation. When they said it was gamma I felt confused... Now I am getting the impression that the spike was not at after or during the blast... Intially I thought it was an indication of a huge amount of depleated urainum... Needless to say, roumors can do a lot of dammage to the value of the agricultural commodities comming from that region. About the size of the blast. The Ukrainians are under a great deal of pressure to have the world's biggest super dupper 100% success offensive against the Russians.... Up unit a week ago the ground was like a meter or more thick in mud.... They needed to store huge quantities of amunition and they needed to store by railways and roads... The Russians were always watching where they put it.... With no air cover, the Russians can bomb anywhere they want.
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  1161.  @fikarrusdiawan9562  It is possible that Ukraine stores it's munitions and it's military personel in different locations..
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  1162.  @bobgonzales9680  Have a heart! Wall Steet is in big trouble and will have to take a drop in asset values... You can't even begin to imagine the magnitude of indigestion that will cause.
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  1163.  @waldensmith4796  Ukrainians have been killing Ukrainains for so long... Yesterday they bombed their fellow Ukriainans while at easter mass.... I am not sure that bombing your fellow Ukrainains is a sign of good faith.
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  1164.  @VeggieRice  Your consern for Wall Street asset valuations is heartwarming on this auspicous easter orthodox occasion where russian orthodox churches in former Ukraine were bombed by their fellow Ukrainains. Wall Steet may be suffering but what about the rest of the world which is suffering for them?
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  1165. That is my understanding... He was facing some unethical orders.
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  1166.  @barrybarnes96  Arguably you are right. The wars have enriched the US millatary industrial complex and up until this point have destroyed the world's abillity to resist vulture capitalism as an extention of colonialism... The changes we are seeing in both the abillity to expand mulitiantional monopolies asset value growth along with the exesses of the use of the dollar as an insturment of war have nessesitated creating alternatives to the destruction of capital in the west and it's proxies.
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  1167. They should just quit. If they were to quit as of April of last year all they would have had to do was to ratify the Minsk accords from '15. With these coninuations they are likely to lose access to the Black Sea through Odesa...
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  1168.  @quietus13  The Donbas has been figthing against Ukraine for nine years now and the Russians have considerably more military industrial copacity than Nato as well as more advanced weapon systems.
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  1169.  @joshuamitchell1733  I doubt that Russia is going to agree to the outcome where Ukrine is owned by Wall Street and is being continuously armed by Nato. Russia has already said that they will create a buffer zone where the weapons that Nato is sending Ukraine can't attack Russian teratory and Ukraine is at a serious disadvantage when it comes to Nato's millatary industrial base.
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  1170.  @locoporelcine1  Ukraine has a slick advertisment for the couter offencive... The weather that firms up the mud won't last forever... I tend to think there will be an offnsive before the weather gets bad agaain.
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  1171.  @farzana6676  That is just the problem. There are very few of us that bennifit from the neoliberal-neocolonial order... You impress me as someone who really dosn't understand those dynamics. If you liked reagan, you must be a real fan of obummer.
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  1172.  @farzana6676  Got it... Let's revisit this in two months.. As a mechanical designer, I personally profit from the distruction of millatary vhicles and the bump in defence spending.
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  1173.  @farzana6676  The weapons industry would win even bigger if russia invaded the US but unfortunatly for them, russia is a very long way away. Ukraine will have to do.
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  1174. Why so much attention to a political figure that is not in the Russian millatary chain of command?
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  1175.  @johnsmith1474  The US hasn't formally attacked Mexico in a very long time.... I am not as familliar with the neo-coloinal stuff the US does there since.
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  1176. I think this is going a lot faster... . I wish it would be visably over before the end of the democratic primary... So that we can give Biden some of the shit he has dished out on the american people over fifty years.
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  1177. Did hillary call the suicide hotline to place an order for Zelinski?
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  1178. ​ @snowmoon7385  Yep... I am not sure what he feels in his hears of hearts... But he certainly has become a US proxy...
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  1179.  @snowmoon7385  Best wishes.... He has fired all of his special security aparatchics... It seems as if his life is in danger... I am not sure what the result will be if he sudenly dies.
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  1180. Don't be an asshole. If you are not laughing at the west's antics by now you are fucking crying... Only way to deal with it is to laugh and quit following... Because this story has short time horizons and is changing quickly it is OK to laugh.
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  1181.  @mememorii.  Paristroka was a HUGE game changer for Russia and eastern Europe. The Ukrain conflict is a HUGE chage from Paristroka undoing the 'gains' from Parstroka.... Riddel me this.
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  1182.  @RomanHistoryFan476AD  Many thoudands young Russians died....
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  1183. If they made millions of these objects, modularizing them so that they could be twisted together with a few tools or by hand they could be more retrevable.... ???
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  1184.  @JorgeGonzalez-np2lx  More efficent archetecure?
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  1185.  @depilot2035  Do you really think they will give Trump an option of negotiating anything? More likely they will tell him to shut up and sit down.
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  1186.  @Jeki_toki  That dosn't say that Zelinski said "Human Shield" ... Human Shield is employed in the west when any civillians are killed in any US or Israeli operations including in Gaza where many thousands are killed.
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  1187.  @woopwoop-pc5dk  Yes maybe slightly less than 100K KIA but very sad none the less... Gains by the Russians in economic development, egged on by sanctions, as well as developing the strogest army in the world.... Ukraine became toast.
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  1188. The main reason that the grain deal is dead is because the west cuts off Russia from supplying their stockpiles of grain and fertelizer to the world.
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  1189. This shit has got to stop.
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  1190.  @Bluecolord  I suppose if we had a bias that Ukraine would break through to the sea of Azov then it would happen.
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  1191.  @Iorvethfox  There is a bias if you follow anything and make observations.
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  1192.  @JohnSmith-vu3dw  I am a yankee as well. My comments almost always get deleated by our US tax dollars.
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  1193. I wish he would do a summary of the eastern front over the course of several months... He is an eloquent fuck.
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  1194.  @NickDrinksWater  Bernie does a good job of strengthening the lexicon and he covers both elecoral ideas [not really the way I would like] and economic ideas.... I suppose I am not alowed to do the same.
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  1195.  @NickDrinksWater  They make it very clear what consepts and ideas they are censoring. The goal is to make sure these ideas don't spread. I have two ideas that I am selling. One is an elecoral idea and the other a historic lingustic idea. If the first gets pop it will further embarrase the oligarchy. The secound would strenghten people's understanding of economics.
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  1196.  @NickDrinksWater  There is a reson for it. Language is important. They look for spisific language and deleate the whole comment if that language shows up. Without language we can't discuss the issues we are bringing up with that language. It goes a long way toward controling the narrative.
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  1197.  @NickDrinksWater  Some of the language that I advocte for is deleated.... Let me try anyway: We are in a counter capitalist revolution back to before adam smith.... Only a hint.... If I say the whole thing it is delated.
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  1198.  @NickDrinksWater  Bernie is right when it comes to economic issues...
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  1199.  @NickDrinksWater  I am hugely disapointed by the democrats.... We need to make choices that Benie is advocating aganst...
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  1200. Blue team Red team have the same policies and they are against Bernie and his retoric.
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  1201.  @brendabowen3877  Stein or Sanders is not on the ballot in Illinois... Who do you think I will vote for?
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  1202. The early christian movement was about economic justice.
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  1203.  @TheReaverOfDarkness  She calls everything she disagrees with violence and calls for those things to be cesored.
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  1204.  @TheReaverOfDarkness  Still the meanings of socialism and capitalism arn't solid.... The capitalist revolution was what we would call socalist now a days.
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  1205. Congradulations... In '16 the DNC told me that my vote for Stein was two votes for Trump.... Best marketer for Stein and Trump is the democratic party.
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  1206.  @cartoonraccoon2078  Vote for Stein all day long. Trump is better than Biden.
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  1207.  @aylbdrmadison1051  I am a bernie fan who is frustrated that Bernie is saying Biden is the lesser of two evils when Trump is much better than Biden.
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  1208.  @Qrowbar93  Unfortunately we have Biden and Trump and as a democrat I am trained to vote for the lesser evil.
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  1209. I think we better consintrate on a return to Capitalism from our slide into Feudalism... I believe Bernie is supporting Capitalism..
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  1210.  @9211goat  When the democrats threatened to fullfill some of their FDR style campaign prommises I thought for a moment that Biden was better than Trump. It is the same way with AOC. Had she lived up to some of her advanced billing I would have been a supporter, but when she came out against free speach as well as some of her other antics, I was dissapointed.
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  1211.  @9211goat  I was positively predisposed to a lot of stuff about her, not the least of which she is a cute latina.... It is her behavior that really disapointed me...
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  1212.  @apoc519  AOC was point person against force the vote, calls for curbing speech that goes against government dictates or makes people feel uncomfortable, speech that make her feel uncomfortable or are against the democratic party she calls violence, she effectively changed the narrative surrounding her from what she could do for us to how the environment on the hill aggravates her psych issues.
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  1213.  @jeffashields  I figure they don't want the civilization to fall apart..... They LIVE here.
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  1214.  @polydex108  If they don't got no society or civilization to live in they don't got materials...
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  1215.  @debbieknight8901  Hillary also suggested that Bernie was acting in Russia's interests.... More gaslighting..
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  1216. It is the right move for Bernie.
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  1217. Bingo!.... Harris is scary and much more scary than Trump.
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  1218.  @debbieknight8901  Spisifics are deleated.... If you arn't more afraid of Harris there is something wrong with you.
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  1219.  @debbieknight8901  The democrats went after trump for a lot of stuff that the democrats themselves did on a regular basis. I left the tribe.... I am for older tribal values not the new ones.
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  1220.  @debbieknight8901  Democracy and freedom of speach is important. A vote for Trump is against a group that is all about censorship and servilance.
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  1221. And the democrats want to increase censorship and political persecution.
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  1222.  @perlovgren919  To be honest I don't pay that much attention to Trump. It is the democrats that scare the crap out of me.
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  1223. I am very conserned that Harris could win. Trump is much better.
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  1224.  @thanoswasright999  Don't forget that everything they said would happen with Trump happened with Biden. Democracy is on the ballot. One canidate went through three open primaries.
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  1225.  @lindamurray9990  The democratic party made some very small retorical movments toward some of the issues Bernie put forward in their campaign promises. When they got in offices they promply fogot about all of them. Now they are saying "I know we are very bad... But TRUMP! Do you think ignoring their voting base and asking them to vote for the 'lesser of two evils' is a winning strategy? What if Bernie fans feel Trump is the lesser of two evils?
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  1226. How do you vote for bernie?
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  1227. Their is plenty in the Bernie base that know the Donnald's lies and will vote for him anyway. When will the democratic party fullfill ANY of their campaign prmmises?
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  1228.  @jeremiasrobinson  I am so angry about the democratic party's gaslighting that I am voting for Trump.
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  1229. Another democratic party hand picked canidate hiding in the basement running against the republican party canidate that won three open primaries. Democracy is on the ballot. I am sorry I missed you in Chicago.
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  1230. More likely Biden and his team will continue to do union busting giving the impression that Trump is better for Labor.
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  1231.  @ladyliberty5771  That is what I am talking about. If you don't believe that trump was installed by putin and you don't believe that not sending arms to Ukraine like Adam Schif in trump's impeachment in '19 " the United States aids Ukraine and her people so that we can fight Russia over there and we don't have to fight Russia here." The democrats have become war mongers who are heart and sole taken by the reagan revolution... They gaslight their supporters... Just like you do.
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  1232.  @verstraetenandre  I just looked up my sample ballot... Many Ds are running unopposed. I am voting against my senator and for an acquaintance and another democrat that represented at a bernie rally...
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  1233.  @ladyliberty5771  Why vote for the democrats when they won't follow through with the simplest of campaign promises.... They support a new cold war and losing hot war after hot war which is deepening the neoliberal morass we are in. In escence they are not a substitute for the republicans, they have internalized the reagan revolution... Moreover they have gas lit us into believing that if we don't believe that trump was installed by putin we are putin puppets ourselves. I am ashamed of myself because I was a liberal... Now liberals behave like this.
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  1234. Wealth can't be accuratly measured in asset valuations because they are over valued.
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  1235. I would say that Biden is part of the whackiest right wing policy and conspiracy nut cabal in US history and needs to be defeated by the lesser evil.
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  1236.  @MrBrock314  Bernie used to say that if millions of people stand up to the reich wingnut stuff that both parties spill out of their pie holes, then we can take our country back. He has since been saying that one cult is better than the other.
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  1237. By nullifying the upcomming election results.
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  1238.  @greenthumb8266  There are some who think there is a duality between equity and capital production.... They think that if there is more equity, less people will die but industry will suffer. Both liberals and conservatives are guilty of this false dichotomy... If we give more money to labeler that makes everything and less to the 'takers' who sit back and collect what they can off of the sweat of others, we will have more....
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  1239. He should consider running green.
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  1240.  @AuntieMamies  I don't understand many liberals tollerance for democratic party gaslighting... I feel as if the people who point out the gaslighting become lightning rods... Perhaps that is what Sanders is trying to navigate and he picks the tak of saying as little as possible about it or even paroting the gaslighting...
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  1241.  @yummydragon8533  By following Bernie sanders directions.
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  1242.  @ANDR0iD  I follow Sander's instructions.... He said he wanted to move the democratic party left.... Trump has out flanked the democratic party in that way.
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  1243.  @michaelbeerbados3291  They prefer Trump to Bernie and he knows it.
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  1244.  @anthonyhughes8026  But many are just as willing to put Sanders and Democrat is the same sentance....
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  1245. How are the democrats different? If I am not sure that a democrat isn't neoliberal I will vote for a republican...
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  1246. It would be good if the democratic party could campaign on economic issues but they never do any of the things they said they would do.... Trump has an advantage in that issue even if they did.
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  1247. To be fair, I did too.
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  1248. Maybe Bernie, with out help, can succeed where Jeasus failed.
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  1249.  @donHooligan  Can you say Obama?
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  1250. Bernie points out what I like about Trump. Trump says shocking things about horendous bipartisan policies and gets opostion to those policies. In this video Bernie then goes on to use these rediculous staments to callenge terrible bipartisan policies eloquently.
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  1251. Trump is making redicoulous statements that give Bernie these oportunities.
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  1252. ​ @13bustah  As if we need examples of people dividing us up.... Remember Trump was installed by Putin and more than half Americans are on Russia's payroll.
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  1253.  @twelvenation6393  No he isn't because Trump is better than Biden.
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  1254. You can agree that Trump has no compassion and still think he is the lesser of two evils.
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  1255. ​ @alice1374 Neither of us like Trump. The subelties are in that he is the lesser of two evils....
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  1256. Yemen is the shit.
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  1257. Isreal funded Hamas and they knew what Hamas would do.
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  1258. They had 75 years as examles as to what would happen in the future.
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  1259.  @PaulADAigle  Reagan said that if you let the people who make things keep more of what they made you get more..Which is true.... The problem that Bernie points out is that we are giving everything to people who don't contribute to the economy. That is the process of rolling back capitalism.
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  1260.  @PaulADAigle Comments are deleated if they exhibit spisific languge including or especially about economic issues.
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  1261. How to discuss these issues when there is a goverment, supported by the democrats, that deleates us?
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  1262.  @archiemcberry7102  You can hardly say Killary, Pelosi and Bernie in the same sentance.
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  1263. Now he is parroting MSM talking points. He didn't ever contradict the Russiagate narrative where Trump was insalled by Putin and half of all americans were Putin Puppets and he was since accused of being a Russian agent. Now he is saying Trump is the biggest threat to democratcy when Trump is acutally better than Biden. .... On the other hand he is doing more than anyone else to change neoliberal narratives.
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  1264.  @letosgoldenpath1993  Bernie is very smart. 'Very adiquate to assess many kinds of situations.... Maybe he doesn't know evrything Ritter knows but right now he is telling a general lie..
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  1265.  @55dionysus  There was a group of conspiracy theories that were called the russian narrative. Part of that narrative was that trump was a russian asset that was installed by putin.... Another part is that bernie was a russian asset as well. Bernie gave creedence to that as well. Now we are ingauged in condemning russia for stopping a civil war on their border that killed tens of thousands over eight years and are supporting ISIS and Nazis to fight against russia for their efforts to stop the civil conflict and Bernie is getting on the popular band wagon.... It is not as redicuoulus as bernie supporting people who just assume call him a russian asset but it is still a lie.
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  1266.  @MundaSquire  The dynamic of woundering why they create poor people denies the value of the people themselves.... This paragdm misses that wealfair for the ubber rich is causing deindustrialization impoverishing the whole society. When arguing the value of economic justice it is important to equate economic justice with increasing economic production. Neoliberalism is essentially feudalism where owners deliberatly create false scracities. We can argue that in contrast to feudalism-neoliberalism that capitolism is where we INCREASE captitol and human habitat rather than destroy capitol and human habitat. Do you have an idea as to how to sharpen this language?
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  1267.  @MundaSquire  I suppose it would be possible to support some of the theft on the outer reaches of the empire if the american people were to profit as well from it.... Many of us live in third world conditions and not like those that live in many europenan nations [to date].... Not only that the previous expansions havent really boosted US populations but this intervention will wind up hastening a kind of economic armageddon in the west.
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  1268.  @CybershamanX  Yes... If you have to vote for the lesser of two evils within the two parties you have to vote for Trump by a long shot.
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  1269.  @CybershamanX  OK.... I take it that means you will be voting for Trump as the lesser of two evils.... I would say way less.
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  1270. I don't want to see those theives happy... Trump may be just as neoliberal as the democrats but perhaps less so.
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  1271.  @thanoswasright999  The WWF spectical of politics in the US has us beliving that our fellow americans are the enemy.
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  1272. I am thinking he is too partisan sometimes.... If I don't vote for Trump, I will vote for Stein.
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  1273.  @TimecastGaming  I am from a blue state and I agree with you 100%.
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  1274.  @quinnrandall2882  If bernie ran again he would get 'trumped' again meaing that the media would be lined up against him, calling anything that was pro bernie and anti who ever the establishment canidate is missinformation, mall information or they would say the information came from forign or qustionable sources. It is notable that Killary called Bernie a russian asset.
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  1275.  @imperialmotoring3789  Did you done did get my last comment?
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  1276. Thank god.
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  1277.  @imperialmotoring3789  I feel the same about the White Pallace on Roosevelt, some taquarias on 18th steet as well as grocery stores and bakeries on 18'th street. Clearly our habitat is shrinking.
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  1278.  @gravegaming2023  He was known to Justin Trudo [Prime Minister of Canida], met with him, his unit was tasked with masecres in the hudreds of thosuands, were not as good at fighting for the Germans in battle as others and his group gave birth to the traditional n... in Ukraine. To be fair the traditional n... in Ukrane were on the west's side in the coup and initmidation of people like Zelinsky and others that the west incouraged, they fought to the death in Mariopol and they populate what is left of the Ukraine elite units.
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  1279.  @caoimhinbenjamin9998  Half of the comments don't load so I don't know what your "I know you are but what am I?" comment is about.
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  1280.  @dennisreed3382  Canida parlement had a two chamber standing ovation for an SS member who pledged to the third reich during world war two.
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  1281. This lesser evil crying wolf don't hunt no more. The democrats and liberalis have become right wingnut by every meteric and the Repubican canidate has become the lesser of two evils....
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  1282. Get off of it Sanders. Trump has become to the left of Biden.
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  1283.  @whiskeymonk4085  I do respect your tack... It is notable though that not only is Trump more compentent than Biden but his hard line policy announcements not only make the elites uncomfortable but when he says those things we get to examine the elite's [wjho are abjectly incompentent] poliices.
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  1284.  @whiskeymonk4085  I intend to vote for the lesser of two evils.
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  1285.  @thanoswasright999  What did they did with all that power other than gaslight their base?
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  1286. She won't. She will lose to Trump and it won't make no difference in policy at all.
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  1287. Of course good policy is good politics. If the democratic party returned to it's FDR roots they would never lose. Meanwhile I will vote for Trump.
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  1288.  @MakeSomeNoisePlaylists  He changed the economic language from that of Reagan neoliberalism to that of FDR or industrialism. When people get what they need they can function better and the economy becomes more effective. When companies arn't shuttered, like boeing, by vulture 'capitalists' they can continue to make value.
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  1289. Not really. He told us in the beginning that he was going to go back and play the game. He is still working on the lexicon or narrative.
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  1290.  @MakeSomeNoisePlaylists  Trump will make very little difference in policy. What he will do is drive our democratic party and media tormentors crazy and to me that is a good thing.. He also has the tendancy to avoid hot wars. As a lefist, I am voting for Trump.
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  1291. Too funny.
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  1292.  @mbjasniewski  The president decided not to do anything about it. He could say that he wanted the hardware back because there was a clause in it where it is not to be used for Genocide as defined by the UN. He could askk the UN rep to stop vetoing the Cease Fire... He could also do what he did in Ukraine and say we will stop giving you money and arms util oui do as we say.. Each one of these would go a big way to stopping the court decided genocide.
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  1293.  @mbjasniewski  Genocide Joe? Why?
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  1294. Trump is WORSE than Biden? Outragous!
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  1295.  @ajlogomanthecreepysusiefan5502  In an alternative world where Biden is better than Trump.
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  1296.  @donHooligan  "The right wing is bad" Yes it is. By what metric is the democratic party not whacy right wingnut?
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  1297. I am a supporter of Bernie's but I am crabby and trolling today.
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  1298. Meanwhile Bernie agreed to endorse Harris because John Bolton did.
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  1299. Bingo. Democrats argument has been for decades that they are the lesser of two evils until they arn't anymore.
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  1300. I am not a Trump supporter but the democrats don't let any conflicting information confuse their cult mentality.
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  1301. Everything that they said would happen with Trump happened with Biden. The democratic party is going nowhere real fast....
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  1302.  @davebartosh5  Perhaps there are other reasons that Biden will lose including that he NEVER fullifills ANY of his campaign promises.
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  1303.  @tsunami770  It seems like both the democrats and Trump have their cult following.
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  1304. Agreed. The democrats NEVER do what they say they will do when they campaing.
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  1305.  @KRIGBERT  Unfortunately the democrats have already dismantled democracy. In every measurable way their policies are similar to typical fascist movments.
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  1306. I am a single issue marxist [idustrial capitalist] and I think trump is better and not because he will accelerate faster to decline.
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  1307.  @meepk633  The US, UK and EU have a real similar war policy to the corpral from Austrial that you refer to... And that policy, if not changed by Trump, will fail in the same way.
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  1308. Sometimes he indorses Biden. This is better.
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  1309.  @TheMisterGriswold  Everyone drank the coolaid. Bernie has to talk to the true believers.
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  1310.  @saadusmani78  Everyone drank the coolaid.... Bernie has to talk with these people.
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  1311.  @lopresti4559  Arguably we need to veer back into capitalism that actually MAKES capital like the east has.
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  1312. There is nothing like Fox News to bash Capitalism and are cheeladers for the counter to the capitalist revolution.
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  1313.  @usfrandy6564  When are you going to do your homework about the capitalist revoluton and stop being a cheerleader for the coutner revolution?
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  1314. Ever think Bernie is promting capitalism while fox is cheeleading for it's downfall?
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  1315. This region has been under attack from Ukraine for eight years... They are not allowed to surrender to their local army supported by russian liberators because Ukraine thinks it is going to further it's propoganda war.
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  1316. In this case it is Ukraine who is occupying and the local army is liberating.... The ocupiers won't give up the town.
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  1317.  @nouriaasrorova8945  The west has had short term goals for a very long time that are being met by the war.... Sell weopons and isolate europe from everyone beside their banks and vendors.... Gas/oil to europe: Lybia, Iran, Syria, Iraq has largely been shut down.... Wait for it.... There is going to be a western economic armageddon.
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  1318.  @QWERTY-gp8fd  I suppose everyone is entitled to their narrative backed up by any factual statments imaginable.
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  1319. Why arn't the mariupol civiians alowed to surrender to their own army?
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  1320.  @thersawilliamson7804  The US is ocupying a third of syria for the oil.
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  1321.  @danieldach4697  In Syria, Libya, Iraq, Afganistan, Egypt.... There I fixed it for you.
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  1322. When Wall Street goes bust then we will see our democracy.
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  1323.  @bryandimery6509  My understanding is that Ukraine is on it's third army since the start of the special millatary operation...
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  1324.  @davemathews7890  Do you have any content?
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  1325.  @davemathews7890  I am running windows without spell checker.... I suppose if you can't address the content... Ad homnym works.
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  1326. Too late... Russia already won. The war was about the sanctions and the sanctions seem as if they are designed to help the Russian economy....
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  1327. If he didn't want to draw fire, he wouldn't have taken the rifle.
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  1328.  @Mini_Mii98  Perhaps it developed gasses when it started to decompose.
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  1329. He has some dirty deeds to do.
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  1330. What will you all say in a few months when Nato is forced to leave Ukraine?
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  1331. ​ @richardrobinson9534  I am not sure commandos should be worried about the wider reasons for their missions... 'Not thier job... Their job is to compleate their mission and come home at the end of the battle. I question the reason for the war.... I feel that having a nutral Ukrane in europe would be good.... That the sanctions are targeted at the EU and will cause economic devistation in much of the world... It is a school of thoght supported by many people... youtube.com/watch?v=3qrtb021NVE
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  1332.  @richardrobinson9534  Why are these people hanging out in a basments that are being systematicaly destroyed with no weopons, watter or food? It is a 100% difficult death probabillity. Is it possilbe that some of them fear prosecution if they surrender?
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  1333. Russia claims that there was a comunciaton issued by Kieve that anyone who surrenders will be sumerialy exictued by their associates.
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  1334. My understanding is that teams need to be trained to used these tanks [three weeks] that they need to make it 70 miles across Unraine [one week] and they need to get be rehabbed before they get shipped [six months to two years]...
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  1335.  @dioghaltasfoirneartach7258  Problems with the west, along with doomed millatary adventures like 100%, are that the millatary industrial capcity is much smaller than russia and probably china... That 100% of late includes Venezuela, Lybia, Afganistan, Syria, Iraq... Julian Assange quips that these wars aren't intened to be won, they are intended to make money for millatary contractors in the US... Ukraine is not as successful as Afganistan in that it is a much shorter war... It might be successful in that it may strip europe of their industry to be sent to the US...
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  1336.  @johnroche7541  The US takes part in combat by giving real time images of targets and targeting missles.... It also funds the operation in Ukraine as well as stopping peace deals. I am not sure how muich more they need to do to be identified as combatants.
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  1337.  @chaosXP3RT  The "Mozart group" a western based mercinary army was in Bakmut and claimed they were in Backmut.... Not to be confused with Wagner group wich is russian... Mozart name was not a fluke...
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  1338. Very sad.
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  1339. ​ @CenkZappa  The are a tiny minority..
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  1340. Q is very small.
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  1341. Who is the dreadlock guy that looks like predator?
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  1342. Is there any value here at all?
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  1343. I am sure that will be the winning tune... From Chicago.
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  1344. The tactic of the Azov stuck in the steal mill seems to be exchanging their civillian captives for food.
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  1345. I don't like Sachs' hiperbolic retoric.... I don't listen past his headlines.
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  1346. Word criminal sancuary for the criminally inane?
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  1347. Calrson was agaisnt the war in Ukraine and didn't support the whackiest conspriacy theory of the century: Trump was installed by Putin. Democracy Now said again and again and again that Putin installed Trump. If you are in a glass house don't throw stones.
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  1348. ​ @ryanstone2677  Yes.... Ukraine was a coup that ended in persecution of the Russian population of Ukraine.... When the Russian federation stopped it and agreed to a truce and an agreement signed by Ukraine and Russia, the west decided that they would nullify that agraeement to push the issue to war.... Syria was many masecres and many false flaggs put together by an invading army that contracted with ISIS to disrupt the area and to take the oil.... When Trump decided to pull out US troops he was told NO... Now Gaza is being bombed and Isreal is trying to kill and diplace as many non combatants as it can so that they can have the land, mineral rights.... The conflict in Palistine was set up as a trip wire to make a wider conflict in the region. The administration feels that this conflict as long term set up as it was is comming at in inoportune time...
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  1349.  @tcalip2968  They have expirience with massive failures and failing upward.....
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  1350. It is very possible that the strake was on a base in Syria....
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  1351. Package the build back better plan as a fire wall against chinese hegemony.
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  1352. I think the most imortant part is to make utillities such as banks, healthcare and real estate [make the FIRE sector goverment run] off of the backs of real indsustry, corporate owned or not... You can make a co-op [Industry Free from corporate ownership].but you are still at the mercy of these paracites... And.. .and.. and if you get the paracites off the backs of value making industries they don't have to relocate to other places...
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  1353. The biden's are intimatly involved in Ukraine corruption.. They know where the bones are burried... Ukraine has bunches of problems including a kind of ISIS which the CIA encouraged to take over... That ISIS is inspired by tradional Nazi's that revere Banderis, a WWll Nazi... A sircharge on gas would be paid by Europe... I am sure they can also pay for the weapons we are sending, in dollars, as well.
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  1354.  @FM-ln2sb  I support your vote for Jill Stein... I will be voting for Trump because a vote for Trump is a vote against the DNC and FOR Trump.
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  1355. Still policy wise Vance is way to the left the vast majority of the democratic party.
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  1356.  @Rustea314  Are you referring to the democrats?
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  1357.  @JoAnnaDale  I am not sure how to comment without being deleated, but on spisific policy Vance is way to the left of the democratic party...
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  1358. ​ @inconvenientfacts8896  This strategy was no thought out well by the west. There is signals that they are toign to try and back track on the economic sanctions... It is clear that I don't really know what is going to happen... In general the US needs to reverse it's neoliberal stance or it is going to lose hegimony post haste. We have gone from a industrial capitalists base to a neoliberal model, more like feudalism... This war is symptom of that policy... One were we are destroying capitol and creating false scarcities. That is why china is so competitive... They are creating capital.
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  1359.  @ronthered138  I think you are missing a few presidents...
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  1360.  @adamhartley3482  What are the economic actions of the World Bank and the IMF [which are set up to support dollar hegemony and US monopolies] Sanctions, war and other things that the US does to support hegemony.... How often do those things deplete those goals?
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  1361.  @williaminnes6635  So much energy divining reasonable narratives.... My feeling is if you by some coincidence and dogged curiosity come to reasonable narratives you have accomplished something.. It certainly is human nature to think so after the fact...
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  1362.  @williaminnes6635  So all you know is that they are lying to you? That is not enough because for every false narratives they give you there are a myriad of possible narratives, most are not reasonable. There are very few that are reasonable. While we do appreciate academics, some fields favor fake narratives as well. Scott Ritter's narratives about the realities on the ground in this war are reasonable and based on a lot of experience.
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  1363.  @jibee9755  It is curious to me why former democrats care if the democrats or the republicans win anymore. I voted against my reagan revolutionary democratic senator.
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  1364.  @TrippyVerse  Russia did it after the neoliberal revolution of the nineties... I don't think europe has the same advantages: large contiguous land mass, homogenous smart as fuck ethnics, huge resources...
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  1365. How to do that if they have forever and for a long time given up their monetary sovereignty and other sovereignties to the US?
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  1366.  @mamacryright5740  Switserland is like the old off shore banking.... It made it's money by hiding money.... That function has been taken up by Delaware, Crocodile Islands, irland... Some place in africa.... It is a fuction of devolving into feudalism where the oligarchs can have whatever they want via stealth... The guy that describes how capital is made/destroyed is Michael Hudson. You still think that someone who isn't fabulously wealthy.... Can do it with the fresh faced snaggle toothed [dumb] cuties like her?
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  1367.  @mamacryright5740  I am torn between staying and going.... I am sure europe is populated by really cute really dumb girls.
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  1368.  @voltydequa845  Not that I mastered much economics.... My meantor in this case is Hudson.... I be reading his 'destiny of civilization' a bit slow.... Some of his books are dificult to read because of distressing content....
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  1369.  @voltydequa845  I tutored all of popular math at university along with psychics... And basic chem, computer applications.... Videos are assembled by people who know how to do things as well as liars and fools...
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  1370.  @faharoon357  It is sad... There is plenty to go around but the bankers don't really want that so europe freezes and deindustrializes. I am somewhat less sheltered than I wish to be my self, so if some of those industries come here my life is better... It doesn't have to be the zero sum game but it is.
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  1371.  @killerbeuk  The idea of the sanctions are to isolate europe from china and russia so that they have no choice but to buy from monopolies in the west.... If they send the production to china that defeats the purpose. Not that the US has an integrated economic plan. I really think that US operatives thought that the sanctions would destroy russia and this year the rubel is the best preforming currency in the world. As a mechanical designer myself I would hope that they would be able to bring some of those industries from europe to the US but I am not part of high energy production industries.... Not steal, not chemicals not paper... I don't know how those ramp up.
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  1372.  @MetaView7  Russia as well.... In the states the biggest percentage of the increase is because big companies are taking profits...
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  1373.  @Lorenzo-ew6so  Free trade with russia wouldn't impede the american people... Putin, like Yelstin was expected to give all of those assets to americans that 'count' When he reversed that process he was public enemy number one.... Don't you know that putin installed trump?
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  1374.  @RatieM64  It is hard to say anyone knows that much about africa.... I am not even in africa... I went to an AU meeting where I didn't even find that much out about africa but I am sure even those in active in the AU [i am not] will admit that they don't know all that much about africa... My understanding is that the IMF don't want anywhere in the world to get food sovereignty.. My understanding is that the fish in the congo could feed half the world, which has a huge apatite for sea food but their ain't no fish industry there....
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  1375.  @hansdekorver7365  So eat more if you don't want to disappear.
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  1376. The US can just make the foreign dollar reserves come into being.... They ain't going to pay it 'cause they don't want to... So it is in the rules based order.
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  1377.  @stevenginn5352  There was a big push for sanctions before the invasion of Ukraine... They included the nord stream piplines and chinese IT... Nato had been arming Ukraine and Ukraine had been shelling their citizens who spoke russian at the border of russia for the past eight years, stepping up shelling in those provinces ten fold leading up to the invasion.. The stated reason for the war and the sanctions is to weaken russia... To be sure there are many references to the proxy nature of both the sanctions and the war. It is also apparent that the sanctions and the war don't weaken russia. Blinkin, after the destruction of the Nord stream piplines that it was a tremendous opportunity for american firms. While these facts arn't all evidence that the war is about sanctions in a new cold war, proposals for sanctions predated the invasion and the invasion strengthens the tendency for the EU to strengthen the sanctions...
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  1378.  @johanstinson  Look up Natasha and Boris Bandinov.... They got the goods.
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  1379. I predict US marines in Moscow by March.
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  1380. Someone in nato thinks the sanctions are worth the war.
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  1381. He must be a very good comedian to play such a joke on the west.
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  1382.  @ilovethisworld3059  It is a bit confusing that the US stated goal of this conflict was to weaken russia when what it seems to be doing is weakening the US position and growing the Russian postion... I am not sure who is winning this conflict in the US.... I find it difficult to believe that we would continue on when no one was benifitting here.. Perahps we will see who wins in the years to come.
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  1383. ​ @dontworry6795  Those are US service members... No! we aren't going to give them to the russians.
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  1384. If there is a conflict that the americrans care about that would change radically.
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  1385.  @willia3r  But the US is so good at empire colapse as well as a decent into feudalism....
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  1386. They are THE SAME...
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  1387.  @ponkepeter7848  I like the way trump gets static from the media for everything.... It is possible that he will have the power to stop wars if he appeals to the people to act...
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  1388. If the democrats stood up for their brand name and supported the people, they would win handily.... The problem is that they are the same neolibs as the republicans..
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  1389. Anything you feel is apealing is good.
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  1390. The USA is playing cop with their own people.... The most interesting example is the war in Ukraine where there are two narratives in the US: CIA talking points and 'russian disinformation'
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  1391. The west is based on protecting it's dollar and economic hegemony They are quickly deindustrializing and need other places to pick up the slack.... Yeltsin cooperated with that process and deindustrialized as well.... Gave everything away to the west... Putin stopped and reversed that process and that is the reason they put sanctions more on europe than on russia... A conflict with china is in the works as well.
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  1392.  @satishidury7114  I also chose my news sources... My group is a kind of echo chamber... 'Tends to agree with my biases and the facts they present tend to closely align with the truth... ... Just like most who are interested in the news...
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  1393. The oligarchy is putting these clowns in office... We don't have a voice in the matter.
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  1394.  @tomdziczek9676  Much of american football is a curiosity to me.... My collogues at the pub have experience with football but I am clearly fascinated... Some of them have owies. It is a crying shame.... It's football day today...
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  1395.  @taoboxer7  A lot of people think that the europeans are going to experience the same kind of economic deprivation that much of africa has experienced.. The argument about who is in power in germany is who feels the east is the enemy.. Annalena Baerbock directly challenged Shultz about doing business with china... This after the west bombs german infrastructure.. The german moto: "We haven't begun to wimp out yet."
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  1396.  @briancarno8837  Sad... As a US citizen and a mechanical designer, I think I will profit personally from the millatary build up and the energy intensive industries that will most likely create a mini industrialization here in US in the short run.
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  1397. Half of america believes that trump was installed by putin... ... Not said in sarcasm.
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  1398. It does seem as the collective west is tired of the war. The sanctions are the main point of the war and it may be a year or more before europe wakes up to find it has been destroyed by sanctions... When that happens, europe will look completely different and they won't be united against russia in this war. Meanwhile russia has achieved a goal they have been taking for several years: Demilitarization of the border of russia. Ukraine's considerable build up of military has mostly been destroyed.
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  1399.  @stone420  If I can invent money, there has to be a reason it is valued.... The US dollar will be valued for a very long time and the US can print it.
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  1400. What about other sources, Norway, Garbage Burning?.... How is everything else in Sweden?...
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  1401.  @robertmarsh6673  That they are a dictatorship makes them vulnerable to some nasty P&C when people are freezing, not eating and without any house.
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  1402.  @ridwanrabiukano6973  Perhaps it should be a french tradition with a lot of P&C.
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  1403.  @harrytorrealba2655  I am quite sure they have a lot of millatary junk that they need to process.... Maybe they can turn over the turret heads and keep them for hutches for preditors like small wild cats, foxes or ccoyotes.
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  1404.  @barbmartell7901  The steel plant was Azov headquarters... They were holding many non combatants there and they surrendered those Azov that survived as well as the non combatants... The query was more about how they are rehabbing the steel plant than that event... My understanding is that on the other side of the black sea, Terky, is tends toward Russia and Russian buisiness. That is where all of the prossessed steel has to go out through ships... Needless to say trade and wall street world domination is the real war. This hot war that is killing 250K plus within a year is a side show.
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  1405. Putin's ultimatums: Denazification and Demilitarization are far from compleate....
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  1406. There was an attack on Crimea....
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  1407.  @Patt12  Reports of the demize of stupidity in europe are greatly exagerated...
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  1408.  @rogerleonard5351  There really is no way to get rid of the MIC without replacing it with some other form of income redistribution in the states.... The dollars in your pocket are made by decree meaing they can just be created out of thin air by the US goverment... Yes money DOES grow on trees.
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  1409.  @tuck295q  Do bots get paid? I want to know where to pick up the checks.
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  1410.  @Ossie786  After negotiating for peace for eight years, you really think that the russians will play the same game that the UK played with the Suez canal that lost them hegemony? The thing with extractive economics is that it deindustrializes and outsources all of it's resources and production... This was tried in the 7'th through the 4'th centuries BC where there was fierce imperials competition between the athenians and the spartans... That ended in going into a kind of dark ages because the people with the land holdings were not able to produce much...
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  1411.  @RajVivek  I share your predciton that the US dollar will follow standard valueation laws in the future, perahps in my lifetime. It doen't right now... The Korean war was faught because the US wanted dollar hegimony and needed the alies to pay off their war debt, specified in dollars... My meantor in these things is Michaeil Hudson... Who went to work for the CIA in the seventies explaining his book 'Super Impiralism"Another is Stepany Kelton and her book 'Deficit Myth" .... I should probably re-read that... It is written at an eighth grade readling level and has many of the basics. There is a Youtube lcture series in Geopolitical Economy Report with Professors Michael Hudson and Radhika Desa that we can get in the states. It just starated but I tend to think they will be covering currency valueations as well.
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  1412.  @RajVivek  You are correct that I don't have a basic understanding of currency valueations... I was reading Supper Impirialism and I don't understand how currencies were valued and the dynamics of 'the dutch desease'... What is clear is that the Korean and Vietnam wars were because the US needed to deficit spend and that up until now all countries would take US 'printed' dollars for anything gladly.. Not understanding something clearly doen't make any of my staments not true...
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  1413.  @watcher805  All of the dollars in cerculation were printed by the US goverment. That is exactly how much debt there is.... The dollars that are printed go to wall street and they are pumping up rich peoples asset values which is causeing rent inflation... If the money goes toward other things that create value it can cause the money to be worth more.
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  1414. So that the industry that they have built up over a long time can be relocated to the US so that the US can have a mini industrialization. Thanks, suckers.
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  1415.  @damiancitobarbanis7575  They were the most effective army Nato had... They were effective to a point.
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  1416.  @anshukumar-dn3hx  Even so...one of the biggest compontents of the arms industry is employment in the US.
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  1417. So now we outsource our millatary production... ???
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  1418.  @rommelcorbito808  Arguably russia will be in the most powerful economic/military block in the world, along with China and Iran, within the next ten years... The US has set the pace for how the game is played and that the chinese block will probably follow many of those rules for a time.
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  1419.  @UvaldeSalter  I don't read books on Africa.... I went to an AU meeting in Chicago where an aquantence was the MC, in Africa as well as Chicago and I like West African music [too many kinds to mention] and I am following changes in [former] French Sahel. As a kid I was part of the African Students Union... If we are lisening to people like Norton and Hudson we are interested in these things as well.
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  1420.  @UvaldeSalter  You failed to get your point across. If you got something to say you better hit the books and try again... Not that you didin't hit the books but I have no idea what you done said.... You failed... Failure is not a bad word... You tried.... Try again. I try to undersand these issues myself and I got books on it...
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  1421.  @VTuber_Central  To inspire people to keep the T-bonds the fed needs to hike the interest rate paid on those bonds. How will that effect you?
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  1422. I do like Votemort but in this case it is stuff I covered with Hudson and to a lesser extent with Desi. Desi did mention Kiens[sp] credit defalut swappes over in Danny Haipong's show.... Voltemort wrote it into his fanciful 'another now'
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  1423.  @birdyashiro1226  Lula and Dilma Rousseff are surprisnigly cadgy....
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  1424.  @haochengzhai7156 It isn't really easy to talk spisificts but "government investment will ensure prosperity." Is getting there.. I am not really a good comunicator of these ideas... I am a student of Michael Hudson who is better at popularizing the spisifcs... Still at the same time the meanings of the words 'socialism' 'feudalism' and 'capitalism' have changed over time.. As an american I like to use popular names.... Capitalism that creates capital is proabably a good descripter of what china does.... In order to do that you basically got to atenuate paracites like we don't do in the US.
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  1425. ​ @haochengzhai7156  You can put 'capitalism' in front of that and it could convey the same meaning.... Lula went through many of the mechanics to put spisifics on what he meant.... I am not sure he talked in generalities as 'capitalism' or 'socialism'
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  1426. Socalism and Capitalism arn't really good discriptors.
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  1427. Bingo!
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  1428. Bingo!
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  1429. Good sumary... Sometimes I feel confused. I proably should review Deficit Myth to get back to some of these basics.
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  1430.  @petersepall2590  There is a lot of trees that we get stuck in... I don't object to Desai's agressivness... .. Hudson is hyper focussed... Desai has a slightly different focus.
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  1431. Fellow south sider...
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  1432.  @christopherdaumec738  It is a return to feudalism and it is a process that is thousands of years old.
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  1433.  @a.randomjack6661  Perhaps there is these booggy words... Rent that we can coilesce around? How we communicate what Hudson say? I tend to think that the neolibs are counter to the capitalist revolution... As a realistic definition as well as spin. Captialism now known as socialism.
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  1434.  @gelinrefira  Now we call capitalism socialism.... I have no idea what you mean by "utopian capitalism" unless you are refering to socialism.... or capitalism... ??
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  1435.  @a.randomjack6661  I think we need to distinguish profit from rent.
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  1436.  @flyrodmike  Arguably these things: watter, healthcare, education, housing should be free or at reduced cost so that industries can make a profit. To me that is capitalism. Giving everything to the bankers and Wall Street is highway robery or feudalism.
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  1437. Never forget Hudson.
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  1438. Why would they return the gold?
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  1439.  @GeorgeKelmeris  Perhaps it has been soverign in name only.... Perhaps we need to revew neocolonial techniques....
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  1440.  @peted7687  Have you checked a globe map yet? The poximity to Eurasia isn't there.
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  1441.  @lazaromora8263  He is also a very sharp guy... He has an understanding of macro economics that preceeded mine..
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  1442.  @1984Captive  It does roll of the toung like it is fun to say....
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  1443. Whacky!
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  1444. Who wins when one nation is stronger and one is weaker, to help out the weaker nation? Is that an imediate win-win and for who?
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  1445.  @kp6215  If you need to read one, read Destiny of Civilization.... It ain't that intelectually or emotionally challenging.
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  1446. A vote for Jill Stein is a vote for Trump.....
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  1447. There was a general mobilization order while you all were eating lunch? Ready on a moment's notice? That's crazy.... I wounder how many were AWAL.. youtube.com/watch?v=CGXvyoKipGw
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  1448. We are all from somewhere.... I am sorry for your loss.
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  1449. I want to know how mutual support is in the stroger party's self interest or not..... Could China become the new western style impiral power or is their building of infrastructure and strengthening other economies in thier own self interest? Hey Carian.... What's your game?.... Can anybody play?
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  1450. Best comment EVER
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  1451.  @hz240  It is so sad. The Chinese make cars, computers, popular aps and can do it because they arn't sattled by having to pay and be stollen by wall street.... Now we are stealing dollar assets held by entities outside of the US.... It is estimated that we will suffer a drop in in real income of about 30%
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  1452.  @o0GrayMatters0o  We got to get ready for the zombie appocolipse when asset values in the west fall. It is during these crisis times, like 08, where we need armies of counter zombies to set us streight. Listen to Norton!.... Hit the books! Become our army!
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  1453. I tend to think it will take a long time for these economies to get intergrated with an alternative to the Swift... I tend to think these institutions will take a long time to take off.. Meanwhile the dollar will be supported by many other nation's reserves.
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  1454.  @kweiyongtam309  We are trying to determine whether or not she believes such drek.
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  1455.  @qwertyuiopzxcvbnm9890  It is unbelievable I am sitting in chicago and even though I am in the west I hope these people fail.... I hope the west gets back to making capital, like china and stops acting like feudal states.
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  1456.  @wenkeadam362  Peerhaps Fork Knife is a deindustrializing finachial vehicle they are describing?... Like the ever popular pump and dump operations. 'Eating the corpses of former industrial processef for dinner.
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  1457. ​ @TheGenerationGapPodcast  I have serious problems understandnnig Professor Desai and it is not for the audio quality.... I read a lot of Hudson and some Yannis Varicaucus[sp] Yanis is all over the kensian world currency.... I don't get that... Nor do I realy get the 'dutch desease' that Hudson writes about, which is discussed here.
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  1458.  @JohnT.4321  What my crystal ball says is that there will be no change in the US before the finachial bubble bursts. Our economy can't afford our inflated asset valuations and will eventually burst. What happens after that, if China will favor a finachialzed economy, I don't even know.
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  1459.  @JohnT.4321  I see you got your crystal ball working.... On a very basic level if you keep 'standard' wages down by giving us free stuff like housing, transportaion, food, education, healthcare then you have a happy workfoce that can produce. Those are the most important subsides to the [industrial] capitalists. What is the Reagan saying "If you let people keep more of what they make, you get more" That is what China is doing by letting value added [captalists and labor] keep more.
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  1460. ​m @JohnT.4321  China's stock market isn't going to be able to compeate with the west for a while. That isabsentee ownership is typically not productive. China done aready let the private housg market implode and isn't coming to bail out it's owneres. That is becuase China values use value more than exchange value... "Housing is for people to live" is what they say.... Obummer did the oposite. He kept the exhange value of housing, gave those properties to the banks that and kicked people out of their houses. How do we compete if we can bearlykeep ourselves housed when many of us cant?
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  1461. ​ @JohnT.4321  Are you saying that they give more to the makers [industrial capitlists] than to the takers [anti capititalist counter revolutionaries]? There is something to be said for anyone doing value added over hereditary aristocrats who don't do shit. That is the point of marx two and three. The economic losers in the US include industrial capitalists who are being victimized by their feudalistic counter revolutionaries. That is covered by Marx.
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  1462. Wars are essentialy ecnomic intervention for monopolies. . Economic interventions of late have been trying to isolate companies that don't pay into political coffers.
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  1463. The US is active in keeping asset values so high that no one can afford them. Because we need assets and capital to live and create that is why we can't compeat with China.
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  1464. Everything has a price and no value....
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  1465. China cheats by giving labor free stuff. US labor is suffereing and not having kids where as Chinese labor is happy and growing.
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  1466. China cheats by giving labor a lot of free stuff. Labor is happy and having kids... In the US labor is suffering and shrinking.
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  1467. Buying and selling patets are like buying and selling housing. It only values the use value and forgets that people need things to survive and thrive.
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  1468. Musk's main industry can't compeate with China and he knows it. That is why he is asking for protectionism.
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  1469. They have a short term speculative model... It can't win over china's 'cheating' ...
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  1470. Musk is in a buisness that he admints can't compeate with the same Chinese industries. He knows it and he said so. Why is that arrogence?
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  1471. They haven't banned US commodities. It is documented that the CIA and FBI have weaponized social media companies to do collor revolutions here and everywhere else.
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  1472.  @Dirk-o9s  If Canida decided that they would persecute english speakers and send them to the US there might be a problem like the one in the Donbas.... Turns out the Donbas Russian speaking areas have most of the oil that the big three oil producers spent $10B a piece to exploit.
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  1473.  @giorgiocooper9023  Korea was about getting dollars into WWII alies hands when the US was in surplus.... When the US transitioned to deep deficit during the Vietnam war they figured out how to make the dollar hegimon.
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  1474. Funny.
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  1475. Alright... I have no idea how currencies are related to eachother.... I don't understand things like 'the dutch desease' as mentioned in 'super impirialism'...
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  1476.  @Kid_Ikaris  Recapitulations?
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  1477. If you are so smart what is the dynamics of relative currency valuations?... I don't get it.
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  1478.  @simonlee8889  Desai-Marandi seems like people comming from compleatly different frameworks....
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  1479. Where is Hudson?
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  1480. What this is showing is survival of the fittest..... Eventually econmies and companies that create affordable capital will win over those who destroy or create captial that is not affordable.... Before competititive econmies were known as capitalists. Now they areknown as socialist.
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  1481.  @davidgmaloof  It feels like it is a bit exessive when Russia is in an active war with like 40 nations and only has a million... Do they employ those guys in dual purpose missions?
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  1482. ​ @刘焱-p1y  Spending money to give our millatary industrial owners proffits is different than building an industry designed to produce equip and supplies... If you must know much of our engineering labor in millatary matters is Indian ehtnic and to a lesser extent east Asain ehtnic... So they are getting involced in this profit making center... My feeling is that it is good managment that causes production.... If you have managment that is gear head rather than how much money can I steal than you can get results...
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  1483.  @coolorochi  The BRI as apposed to BRICS is a good bull work aginst NED collor revolutions... To understand the US you must understand where the 'growth' industries are. When you privatize stuff that was formerly for free you get more GDP... It is a tried, perhaps not true, method for imediate if not long term growth in GDP... This process has a 3,000 year track record that leads to dark ages, but in this instance it may just lead ot a down turn untill we adopt real captialism by immitation and help from the wider civilization.
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  1484. The western world was busy deindustrializing and prentending they had hegimony.
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  1485.  @adamiskandar5107  Yes.... We can learn from the way China is keeping banks in the pubic sector and not letting them fleise the econmy... We need to return to a kind of capitalism where we grow capital rather than pilfer from it... That means letting the makers keep more of what they make and not letting the takers have it like we are now.
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  1486. The US don't want war with Iran. You got to figure that if Iran gets baligerent it would shut down the Iranian Gulf and knock out all of the US satalite military bases in the region. That would not only spike the energy prices and inflation during Biden's presidential elecion bid but it would kick out the US military infractructure in the Middle East. The US almost certainly is trying to keep Israel from attacking Iran for those reasons.
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  1487.  @zhengwenping4764  That's all folks!
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  1488. ​ @ZweiZwolf  Marx was compleatly wrong in his assesment of the march into increasing ecnomic efficiency and economic jusice.... He felt that once capitalism was established it would lead to increased econmic efficiency and economic justice... What we did was revert to feudalism... There are many lumpin leftest who's views of how to proceed are as majical thinking as neoliberalism. They read the communist manifesto and/or marx one and think they have the answer.... It is notable that the former soviet union had that very problem and that is why they took a radical turn into a kind of Pinochet economy.. ere were other times in history where feudalism crushed civilizations.... Marx didn't didn't seem to read those chapters.
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  1489.  @AnimeCleetus  I kind of object to what you describe as being capitalism.... It is not how the US got it's industrail start in the 1860's... Arguably it is a reversion to an earlier economic system known as feudalism.
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  1490. Colonmia is not fun to pay attention to...
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  1491. @micro-organism-pv5gd Nationalism is the first step to wresting control from the big tech monopolies and monopolies like them and keeping the booty for yourselves. Think the Sahel.
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  1492.  @cavebabybezerkers  'Got to figure a poor guy sitting in a Chicago bar don't got much to do with monopolies and genocide for dollar and other hegomony in the west. If what you do every day to survive is fucked up then your spirituality is fucked up... New age and LGBTQ stuff don't feed the bulldog.
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  1493. Unfortunately the west is making this inevatable.
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  1494.  @pbworld7858  Obummer was eloquent but not at all as candid as Rubio.... Trump was candid but not as effective as Obummer making Trump a much much better president.
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  1495. The US did a great deal of research and action to make the dollar the world's reserve currency, a currency that everyone had faith in to sequester value in... Ironically those who deside to take the savings of dollars out of the accounts of others via sactions [as Senator Rubio suggests] is the fastest way to erode the faith built up over eighty years in the dollar.
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  1496. Good way to say it.... How is this one? The US did a great deal of research and action to make the dollar the world's reserve currency, a currency that everyone had faith in to sequester value in... Ironically those who deside to take the savings of dollars out of the accounts of others via sactions [as Senator Rubio suggests] is the fastest way to erode the faith built up over eighty years in the dollar.
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  1497. The US did a great deal of research and action to make the dollar the world's reserve currency, a currency that everyone had faith in to sequester value in... Ironically those who deside to take the savings of dollars out of the accounts of others via sactions [as Senator Rubio suggests] is the fastest way to erode the faith built up over eighty years in the dollar.
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  1498. I find his candor refreshing.
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  1499. Here is a riddle for you. Did the US really feel that santions on russia would weaken russia or was it to sequester the EU for US monopolies? I really don't know myself. Professor Michael Hudson thinks the latter but I think his working assumption is that people are smart.
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  1500. The US did a great deal of research and action to make the dollar the world's reserve currency, a currency that everyone had faith in to sequester value in... Ironically those who deside to take the savings of dollars out of the accounts of others via sactions [as Senator Rubio suggests] is the fastest way to erode the faith built up over eighty years in the dollar.
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  1501. All these measures seem as if they will strengthen China's economic advantage and accelerate a new Brenton Woods..
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  1502.  @DailyBeatings  White mails are under a particular kind of stress... One of the most stressed out in the society... Mostly because of the expectations build up after world war two and faling after the eighties.
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  1503.  @atsedap  How do you propose to roll back the capitalist revolution? It is not really probable because the global majority is actually industrializing and making capital.
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  1504.  @atsedap  I think your project of destroying capitalism would be very difficult in the current enviroment were the global majority is creating capital... What is your proposal?
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  1505.  @atsedap  Anti capitalist revolutionaries have been destroying civilizations for 3,000 years. How do you propose we defeat capitalism?
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  1506.  @atsedap  So we need to identify aristocrats and go back to feudalsm? That caused the ruin of the Roman empire as well as the holly Romacn empire during the Crusades. It crushed civilizations. Still that dosn't seem to be even a remote posssibillity in that there is capitalist countries in the global majroity that arn't deindustrializing.
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  1507.  @atsedap  It points to a property of economies. Reagan said, and this is a paraphrase, that if you let the makers keep more of what they make and don't give it to the takers then you get more. They both point to the same dynamic of the capitalist revolution where they did land reform from the aristocracy to make things... That revolution is being rolled back by counter revolutionaries one of the most promenent counter revoutionaries is Ronald Reagan. How would you describe that dynamic?
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  1508.  @bowenb9336  So if you put the greatest rate of profit in China with the highest rate is a road to ruin, it seems as if China more safely than before.
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  1509.  @walterbrownstone8017  For years the media presented that trump was installed by putin... Yes they backed that up with facts... Facts that didn't support the narrative....
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  1510.  @walterbrownstone8017  There has to be a way of understanding things on an emotional level as well. Journalists publish the information, pendants and comedians make the emotional language clear. Without the comedic effect people will tune out and not act on what they know in the first place.
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  1511.  @walterbrownstone8017  Norton is great.... He presents the right ideas.... Garland Nixon captures these ideas fairly well and presents them in emotion evoking entertaining analogies....
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  1512. He is a good presenter.... He really needs comedians with a more entertaining spin like Garland Nixon to describe the dynamics in biting language...
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  1513. Sanctions in '14 were essentially protectionist measures of russia's budding industries.... The example that Prof. [Michael] Hudson likes: when the US sanctions kept russia from buying food on the world market, it created a blossoming wheat industry and now it is the world's leading producer of wheat... Now the wheat is under sanctions so it can't get out, while putin, otherwise known as DR EVIL, is depriving the 'developing world' of Ukrainian wheat..
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  1514.  @annarock8966  Many IMF loans can't be re paid. I am quite sure this new bank isn't going to be about financing dept piled up by disengenous means owed to the west. The only way to get rid of that debt is make the people who forced it on you eat it. Otherwise we are still in feudal-impiral times that have failed into dark ages time and again... There be some challenges and I have no idea how or if they will be solved...
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  1515.  @rafaelsantos-nl9jd  I actually really like Marco Rubio for his candor... I find it refreshing. youtube.com/watch?v=TumX4cMSlwo
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  1516. Damn! I din't know Delma Russoloff and Lula were that cadgy..
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  1517. Where is Hudson the heavy?
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  1518. Why? I don't get it.
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  1519.  @0055ford  It was both an accident of history and a plan that put the USD in place as the reserve currency.... Since the west has become deindustrialized with no plan to revive industry so it is inevatable that the dollar will be dethroned as The resever currency someday.
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  1520.  @annarock8966  They have been screwing over europe for years on behalf of US special interests.... Arguably they knew it.... Now that the general populations are protesting, this is a response to their populations.
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  1521. The US has a lend lease for the Ukraine conflict. Could you in Norway please pay us back [In US dollars] for the millatary support and equipment we are sending? It would make a big difference.
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  1522.  @Mearex_  Capitalism came from feudalism and when people say socialism they seem to mean capitalism. What we have now is more like feudalism...
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  1523.  @George-k6o9t  Arguably these "everyone" you refer to are reactionary fedalists and cant be thought of as capitalists in the former defintion of captialism.
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  1524. The problem is that neolibs don't make capital. They destroy it. Yet we call them capitalist?
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  1525.  @miophx8283  They just got on step one: a payment system like Swift... When they can buy what they want through the payment system and everyone has access to it that would be step two but still not dominant in the world. Need I remind you that Brenton Woods weren't easy even though it was an agreement between established centuries old imperialist?
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  1526. Carlson can deliver us a huge win in this case. Some villify Sanders saying that he is leading us into the democratic party that is arguably more conservative in a classical republican sense than the republicans are now. Yet Bernie in the past went a long way toward changing the lexicon and put forward the message of Occupy Wall Street. If this changes the dynamics of the conflict in Ukraine we can consider this a huge win even if Carlson wants to get us in a wider war with China.
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  1527. I think Hudson wrote a book about this 'Destiny of Civilisation'.... So if you want to know why, review Hudson's work.
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  1528. Millatary spending in the US is an end in it's self... The millatary industrial complex's other goals are negledgable compared to how much they make in the last or the next qurarter.
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  1529.  @Guitarpima  To be sure I have a badly shattered tibia where the fibula was also shattered... I have never had a broken bone and I am annoyed at how much time it takes to heal as well as having some fear about how it will turn out. This despite having no joint dammage... I am feeling 'special'... Self depricating derogatory joke about being disabled.
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  1530.  @Guitarpima  Ageed again... My wisdom is derived from Prof. Hudson... I vary with Hudson in that he uses the what economists call socialsm post the neoclasical take over of academia of economics departments... What is commonly termed socialism is what Adam Smith, who is credited as the 'father of modern capitalism' would call capitalism. To simplify, be more descriptive and effective; I callcapitalism as systems that create capital rather than destroy capital. I was born on the day of ireverance, meaning I am reverent to another set of standards... To be sure I get the spisific arguments to back up this descrption entirely from Hudson and people like him.. The large part of the motivation for this description is that the word socialism is not well understoood as well as having a negative connotation in the US... I am from Chicago. 'Passionate about that.
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  1531.  @Guitarpima  I was agreeing with you and trying to explaine the economic dynamics behind the disparities that you pointed out. It is notable that my meantor is someone Ben Norton has on this channel; Professor Michael Hudson who carefully explains these dynamics. He not only explains these dynamics but that capitalist civilizations as defined by those who make capital will survive and those who destroy capital will disapear.
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  1532. Labor.. You are talking about Labor... Labor in the US is in debt and has other problems that make it less efficient.. The work force is the moste expensive as well as not the most efficient... Not our fault.
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  1533.  @L98fiero  He is from Ghana... He is talking about impirialism... It is possible to look up his interviews on Youtube..
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  1534.  @L98fiero  I was not well paid for direct work with a MIC contractor. I was well paid for work with General Electric... Fastenig work but good enough..
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  1535.  @L98fiero  "In order to have impirialism big private capital would have to dominate the state and the state works as a PR firm and an iinforcer for monopoliy capital interests." ~Kyeretwie Opoku 'Facinating interview...
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  1536.  @L98fiero  Like I said. I am a mechanical designer in the US with a US passport. I rather like mechanical design and I like to get paid. I would jump at a relationship with US MIC...
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  1537.  @TAL142  Arguably 'high profit' does not equal 'eaning' or captial developnent but it it more a designation of paricitic operations that de-industrialize.. I like to designate capitalism as an economic system or a civilization that creates capital... China has it. The west doesn't Sad is not the word.
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  1538. If you notice that this is a war agiainst all of capital production. This war is as much a war against the industrialists as it is the working class. It is as if we went back to the old feudal system and put the family aristocracy in charge of de industrialziaton so that they can own everything... Then, as protectionist measure we start war with those who are creating capital. Those who say socialism is the answer seem to feel they are enlightened becauase they read the communist mainifesto and think we are in capitalism and all we need is 'democracy at work' when the work places have people there that are up to their eyeballs in debt and those work places owe evrything to the banks.... In escence cooperatives are just like every other industrialists who owe everything to the aristocrats and can't afford to pay themselves...
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  1539. Chinese don't really work harder than Americans so much as they are given the oportunity to live good for less. They don't carry much debt.
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  1540. I see what I can catch... I am considering reading something else about social economic movements.
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  1541.  @corbynite2004  Hudson covers much of this this material and I have read his book 'killing the host' I am not sure what information would profit me so I am not sure what to study next.
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  1542.  @corbynite2004  Cool, but your mama wears army boots..
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  1543. How does she compare with Hudson? Is her content more upbeat and varied? Does she infomorm a realistic bias? How is she on the basics? Does she have any misconseptions?
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  1544. Prof. Hudson is prolific... It is good to have another voice....
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  1545.  @dannygonzales7923  I suppose it is a human instict... My mastery of african history is not great but my understanding is that the Zulu were on the imprialist side as well.... I am not really sure about the far east as well.
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  1546.  @dannygonzales7923  Toby Keith is kind of hard to take. Yes he supports the myth of bombs going off and fucking people up so that we can have freedom here.
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  1547.  @dannygonzales7923  I can't stand the star spangled banner but I got a soft spot for Toby Keith.
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  1548.  @dannygonzales7923  So you like the talking heads or the cumbia cowboys.... Maybe it is the cumbia queers or Candaleria.... I actually like cumbia.
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  1549.  @dannygonzales7923  Down on the bayou youtube.com/watch?v=tdFn5X8TFpg
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  1550. I figure we won't get in the streets and stop trafic.... We won't pay that price.... We will just die.. youtube.com/watch?v=LCZMhs_xpjc
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  1551.  @heaven9378  I glad you like my corte qjup.
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  1552.  @BettBeat_Media  I just don't know her as well... I am massively dissapointed at Wolff. He don't get the basics...
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  1553. What do you mean by Land Leasing?
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  1554. We certainly are lucky to have these professors.... I have read books by Hudson and follow him extensively... My understanding is that Prof. Desai was more agressive. To me it is good to hear a new voice.. I like what she says.
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  1555.  @valorieya  I would say that I am in the process of studying economic theory... Hudson and perhaps Harvey are the way I understand much of what is happening... Ben Norton tends to stick to the ortodoxy as well.
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  1556. Was Washington's goal to weaken Russia or keep Europe supporting US hegemony in Europe? Possible outcomes of the war in Ukraine are that the west will recognize a Guido type figure who they say is the offical soverign of Ukraine, further isolating the west.
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  1557. Will electronics even be allowed on planes?
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  1558. Arguably banks are the reactinaries to the captialist revolution and are essentially fudalist.
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  1559.  @mythili..  I done wrote three paragraphs that don't seem to post. It is frustrating .. We need a lot of people able to step up when the next asset bubble-zombie apocolipse comes.... We need to understand these things...
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  1560. ​ @mythili..  Sounds good. I tend to think we are in a counter revolution [as described in words like impiralism, finachialized capitalism, neoliberalism] to the capitalist revolutoion. If you listen to Hudson these counter revolutions havre been destroying civilizations for about 3,000 years as well as restance to these couter revolutions like the bible. In my earlier comment I was expressing disapointment with Wolff who seems to think that if we proliferate co-ops then we can wrest control of the over arching economy... Even a reading as simple as Deficit Myth by Stepany Kelton and you see the results and techniques of these over-arching institutions. I believe it was Obama that stopped the Occupy Wall Street movment where we were training people for the next zombie apocalypse- asset deflation. We definately need a lot of people to understand these processes so that we are ready at the next inflectionm point.... Wolff don't feed the bulldog.
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  1561. Arguably they are talking about the couter revolution to the capitalism revolution or fudalism.
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  1562.  @aliciaczechowski3281  Part of the neoliberal language is that inequality creates growing economic value. It is not true but that is the fiction. In escence increasing equity creates capital, wealth as well as stabillity....
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  1563.  @aliciaczechowski3281  Absent intrenched attitudes.... If you were an economist, what do you think would be practical in the international arena?.... Needless to say the intrenched attitude is pro the failed neoliberal policies that have failed over the past thirty centruies..... But what would you do to keep dollar hegimony and a real growth economy in the US?
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  1564.  @freespeech515  THe truth is that the neolibral order thought they had a contract with China in that when they had thier econonmic take off, the bankers would be able to come in and take advantage of that... They betrayed Wall Street or that is the way Wall Street feels intitled to it.
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  1565. What do you think would protect dollar domanance? Is it possible to protect dollar dominance in a way that creates real growth in the domstic economy?
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  1566. What would you propose to create more ballance in policy?
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  1567. As a US citizen I would hope that these kinds of hearings would create ballance.... Sanctions obstenibly against Russia are a real boon to the Russian economy as well as weakening the dollar.... When Russia was our [Wall Street's] 'friend' in the 90s the Russian economy bearly survived... Sanctions in terms of confiscating assets are a real motivator to get away from teh dollar and the Swift. Funding terrorists seems like very bad PR as well. If you own a bank, the threat of removing one's money from the account is a good motivator to stay away from that bank and not in the bank's long term interest.
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  1568. I am not sure there was a real proposal that they put on the table to sanction China... It is clear that for a very long time China has been challenging US neoliberal economic order, which is something that they need to do to grow and so that their civilization doesn't seccum to the malidies inhearent in neoliberalism. The west opened up economic relations with China with the hope of China not challenging the ancient neoliberal order [3K years] that is how the US econmhy works or don't.. It also has been destroynig civilizations for that long as well.
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  1569. What do you think would be more ballanced arguments about how to preserve dollar domanance?
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  1570. What would you propose to slow dedollarization in a way that really benifits the US economy?
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  1571.  @troywalkertheprogressivean8433  This video is a bit of a review of how Hudson was employed to create dollar hegimony and how dollar hegimony works. In this hearing there was one economist: Daniel McDowell who shares some of Hudson's consern about dedollarization... youtube.com/watch?v=g9qjnl6jcx0
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  1572.  @troywalkertheprogressivean8433  I also agree that the Monopolies that you speak of are destroying the US economy... What I object to with liberals is that they have internalized the neoliberal maxum that as inequality decreses so does the productivity of the economy when decreasing inequality would definatly be a boon to the economy...
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  1573.  @troywalkertheprogressivean8433  Good.... You must notice that China has the wisdom to listen to Hudson.... It is a relationship that doesn't work without the Chinese. It is also notable that the US has been complaining about China not playing by the rules and it is clear that they arn't playing by those rules.. Rules that are clearly spelled out and are similar to the rules spelled out by Rome as in The Holly Roman Empire or the Crusades.
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  1574. ​ @troywalkertheprogressivean8433  I wish there was more ballance to US policy.... The rejection of clasical economics is taking the eyes off of all the economists in the US... It is notable that the Chinese know these dynamics and are implementing policy to create continued growth... Also interesting is that US economists didn't seem to understand that sanctions against Russia are a real boon to the Russian economy... I am of the beliefe that real understand coupled with long term planning would restore some ballance to US forign and economic policy.
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  1575. @Dean Clark Figureing out why they are doing and thinking like that seems impossible. I am in the US where the democrats were calling half the population 'russian bots' and 'putin puppets' ... What they objeted to is those who didn't support Killary Clinton... Anyone who questioned or debated anything that she said was a woman hater influenced by Russia. They wound up saying Trump was installed by Putin again and again... Those who disagreed were 'putin puppets' and 'russian bots'... It was another thing where I couldn't for the life of me figure out why they were doing that. I never payed any attenton to the repubicans but I wound up voting for trump in 2020 because of the behavior of the deomcrats.
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  1576.  @TheRaymooney  Hudson is my meantor in understanding what is happening in politics and economics... world events... I think she is really sharp as well but I don' tknow her as well.
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  1577. I think it only matters when there is a drop in asset valuations or a market crash.... Then we need lots of people to understand what is going on when the zombie apocolipse happens. Otherwise nobody cares.
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  1578.  @sciagurrato1831  It feels like comments like 'capitalism has failed' and 'keynsian economic theory is dead' .... No one seems to tet it... I do disagree with Desai in her wording. I think it sheds a light on things to be calling industrial capitalism, capitalism and finace capitalism a reactionary counter revoltion.
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  1579. I studied this for a while... She is quit eloquent...
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  1580. Brenton Woods was a system where centuries established impiralists got together to develop an economic system. Brics is a group of industrialzing countries, who have been industrializing for 40-50 years, are developing an INDUSTRIAL policy.... It ain't gonna to happen real fast.
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  1581. I was woundering what ever happened to the Evergrand bubble. I have the same queries that Proffessor Hudson has.... The curiosity was inspired by reading "Killing the Host", how whacked out the housing market in the US is as demostrated by how hard it is to remain housed. How to get credible answers for queries like these?
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  1582. Too silly...
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  1583.  @TacticalMayo  I suppose if we wish hard enough, Ukraine will cut the land bridge by an offensie that takes Mariopol on the Sea of Azov..... Becaus there is doubt it is why it didn't happen.
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  1584.  @TacticalMayo  What does it take not to be a tankie or a putin puppet? My impression is that you have to believe that Ukraine is winning and that Trump was installed by Putin.... I just want to know what it takes to get on the right side of US law.
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  1585. It feels like doing reps of the same thing...
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  1586. Can't you say that much of europe is Slavic but much of it is not?
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  1587.  @hotstepper887  I am a student of Hudson... It seems like early tactics to make the dollar hegomon worked... I feel like I need to read Desai's book to understand contemporary econmics profoundly... To me it is a lot of work.
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  1588.  @hotstepper887  You are certainly thinking... It ain't easy being cheezy... Hudson say that the only way there is hyper inflation if a country has to pay back money in a currency of another country... He explains that in his cretique of Paul Krugman... It is certainly on Youtobe.
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  1589.  @IzitAllGoUnder I see stupid people... And they don't even know they are dumb.
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  1590.  robertblando6725  I are the enimy as an American. I want them to adopt....
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  1591. There are so many others to watch that say the same thing.
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  1592.  @luckynyaa2826  Brics looks like it is doing good.... Although it will be a slog despite all of US's tactics that support it and despite all the efforts like Russia and Brazil... I was not one to benifit much from dollar hegimony. I always wanted to do engineering even for US millatary industrial complex.... Mixed feelings.
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  1593. It is hard to imagine that a war can be waged in Disney regardless of the half a million Ukrainains dead on the battelfield... Russia is slow to commit Russian GIs to die and that is why they advance so slowly.
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  1594.  @andrewreynolds912  I kind of disagree with the stament that Iran reverse engineerd, it did, but it also made enormous R&D on missle and drone technology.... I ain't on the inside of the process but third hand that is my understanding...
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  1595.  @andrewreynolds912  Please see Alex Christoforou's analysis on this today. He gives the recipts.
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  1596.  @andrewreynolds912  'Too soon to tell if the US is setting up a wider war. Let us hope that they don't escalate. I am listening to Alex Christoforou's analysis ritght now.
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  1597. So the attack was compleatly symbolic?
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  1598. My understanding is that the US isn't as belacose as this report suggests.
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  1599. Odviously we have a world civilization where we developed a great deal of mechanical and electrical techninquies. If Rome was not the genisis of that civilization where was it?
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  1600. I talked to a lumptard the other day.... She felt that communism [I don't even know what that means] without money is the only way.... She had not read Marx two or three and had no idea about the creation of money or anything else. We need more information than that....
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  1601. I figure it isn't compleatly useless it is a perfect bad example..... I also figure that we are intimately connected in a civilization way to the east so that when neoliberalism-fudalism-impiralism fails, like Rome did, we are connected with the capitalist, the kind that MAKES capital, east.
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  1602.  @MichelleHell  I had the impression that Smith went right into what I thought of as the capitalist revolution that ma thought was a kind of end of history.... Where as Hudson describes here, natural monopolies are given to the workeros for free or chap so that it holds down the cost of labor making it more compeditive on the world stage.... By what you are indicating, did Smith break with that idea? If so why?
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  1603.  @MichelleHell  You refer to Adam Smith who also wrote "Wealth of Nations"?
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  1604. I am trying to understand 'Supper Imprialism' by Hudson.... I didn't feel as if I had a handle on how currencies were valued against eachother and how they were valued around commodities... This presentaion is much about those dynamics.
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  1605. It is as if to climb up to a mountain and ask the sage there what time it is.... Radica got your back.
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  1606. You are supposed to control for stabillity.....
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  1607.  @zedrah7732  If you are in the US, putin installed trump and has absolute control over everything he did... That cover story was fabricated by the democrats. Many on the 'left' here believed it and if they found out you didn't they insisted that you believed another battery of conspiracy theories known as 'trumpian' ... I am not as famillar with the 'trumpian' cannon but I am very angry about the abuse and actually voted for trump against biden.
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  1608.  @zedrah7732  My feeling is that clarke knows what is going on but he has a punch list of western talking points that he has to get out... Most of those talking points are outright lies. It makes him look like a real fool.
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  1609. I hope progressives can take credit for the loss of demcorats that don't serve their constiuents. I always vote and I have taken to voting republican of late. I am voting against my senator... I wish I had voted against my other senator in the last election.... Biden and the democrats abandoned med for all so I voted for trump last election...
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  1610.  @SurajGupta_3D  Millions but Zelinsky is lucky if he survives.
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  1611.  @derrickjoe1872  He also believed the hype that the US could defeat Russia in Ukraine... He believed his PR in his 'servant of the people' character...
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  1612.  @ConradNeill  The democrats and the news media is abusing their base by saying Trump was installed by Putin again and again and again.... I was their base.
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  1613.  @ConradNeill  I am ashamed to think I once considered myself a liberal when liberals are so dumb.
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  1614.  @ConradNeill  Trump was conviced one 34 dor so fellony counts that relate to not d reporting campaign finances in order tohide or distort information related to a campaign. It was related to an afair with prostitute that arguably he didn't want to get out for problems it could cause his family. In the democraic party camp, Hillary paid for the Steele Dosia[sp] out of campain money and didn't disclohse that it came from campaign finances. dosia was a bunch of lies about Trump's dependance on Russia for his campain in order to discredit Trump and win the election. Hillary was fined some $8K for what was clearly a campaign finace iregularity that was magnitudes worse than what Trump was convicted for.
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  1615.  @ConradNeill  In order not to be a Putin puppet you must believe Trump was installed by Putin.
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  1616.  @ConradNeill  US internationally isolated, censorship, servailance, lack of goverment trasperency, wars, genocide, political persecution, economic disaster, possiale nucliar winter, persecution of unions, privitizing public services... You know, typical fascist disfuction.
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  1617.  @刘东刘-r7s  US elecric vehicles can't compeate with Chinese EVs.... 80% of Chinese EVs are sold in China and some modles are on back order. Even so the US declaired that China has 'over capacity' in EVs along with IT and we forbid US citizens to own China IT and tax Chinese EVs at 100% terrif.
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  1618. There was a coup in Bolivia where Morales was elected and thrown out. Who does the US recognize as the president of Bolivia now?
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  1619. What is strange is that Youtube suggests CNN which I feel always always lies.
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  1620. Perhaps the growth that you pointed out that they had with the Morales agenda is the reson they are intersted in electing Morales for a fourth time.
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  1621. Who does the US recognize as the president of Bolivia.
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  1622.  @SomeBodyThatYouUsedToKnow303  The interesting thing is that Putin saved Russia from the Wall Street invaders... Now Russia is sitting up and making the west take notice..
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  1623.  @csg1337  They thought america would look out for them... They claimed to be marxist... Wall Street and the US hate Putin becaue he cut Wall Steet off in order to save russia.
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  1624.  @csg1337  Did my other comment get lost?
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  1625.  @Balanar6236  Bingo!
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  1626. After stepping on black people, obama is asking something from black people?
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  1627. These kinds of seizures are accelerating the west's decline in hegimony. Next time Venezula want's to buy a plane they will buy it from Russia or China.
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  1628.  @emilypenfield5075  Nost comments deleated for their accuracy.
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  1629. ​ @emilypenfield5075  Here in Chicago and nation wide Venezula ain't got no representation in the US. Elections in Venezuela are parenially called by the US for their prefered canidate and the US is going to auction off billions of Venezuelan assets in the comming months.
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  1630. ​ @reubenj.cogburn8546  CNN can as well... They, and MSMBC are the ace up Trump's sleave... To be sure republican retoric makes me kind of fear Trump as well.
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  1631. In proccess.
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  1632.  @dustinsindledecker154  I am not sure Russia is as radical as Gabbard when it comes to freedom of speech.
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  1633. She has a lot to grow before she gets my vote for her instead of against something.
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  1634.  @ttoo144  I think russia's peace proposals are boring the crap out of the US... They have been the same for ten years.
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  1635. i actually think BJG [Joy Grey] is cute as a bug.
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  1636. He has about as much as Zelinsky has to say about it.
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  1637. Good catch.
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  1638. I am sure there is a certain amount of skill to it.... It feels like it is easier to present the truth than to have to worry about an odd paragdm.... Telling reasonable narritives seems easy.
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  1639. I came here from another echo chamber.... His is the CIA's. Mine is informed by another echo chamber that is 180 degrees.... 80% of the world's population and much of the world that is creating capital is on the side of russia-china. The mission that the west is on is destroying capital. We are ALL DEPENDENT ON CAPITAL so there is little sence in weening the world off capital and capitalism.
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  1640. He is a good communicator.... Clear and clearly wrong....
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  1641. He now has a machine with 80% of the world that makes capital where the west is destroying it.
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  1642. I think the US has army bases in Texas. Does that mean the US invaded Texas?
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  1643. I am glad you wern't disaponted. I am here from anothe echo chamber.... Maybe you should take in some 'russian disinformaiton' which is what the west calls anything outside of CIA talking points.
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  1644.  @Angry_Dinosaur  Sanctions relief is leverage for russia.... Because the sanctions are effecting the rest of the world worse than they are russia... The war from the russian perspective is to insure some security conserns. From the west it was to destroy any rivals to US econmic hegenomy, especially the EU.
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  1645.  @mrrey8937  If you saw the interview with Zelinsky, if you like girls you would be transfixed.
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  1646.  @mrrey8937  One of the most incredible intnerviews on MSM was the one between Burnett and Zelinsky.... Burnett definately earned her keep with that one.
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  1647.  @tuleebird4637  You should see Burnett's interview with Zelinsky. It is definately a porn clasic. She is the master.
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  1648. Yes but Erin's inerview with Zelinsky and porn star Burnett is more interesting.
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  1649. Did you see the interview between Zelinsky and Burnett? After I saw it, I wanted a date with the master Burnette.
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  1650. Yea... I got him but I lost my arm and the tree I was standing next to...
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  1651.  @fitz27486  Fear of the democrats are motiviating me as a former democrat to vote against them.
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  1652.  @BeatBoxBrian  No one seems to know what would get themselves killed or murdered... If we live to tell the tale most behaviors where we got injured or almost killed are kind of begnine.
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  1653. ​ @ham6303  It is a matter of feeling safe in your own hood... ... Kind of a walk around in a place that you felt safe.. Some of us got murdered..
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  1654. The neighborhood watch group was on high alert about some thefts or misplament of objects that were reported in the neiborhood. People were excited...
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  1655.  @Smithsj82  The russian generals know very much what is happening.... They are not part of the PR campaign that the west will continue regardless of the outcome... It is sad that so many GIs are dying... As if they don't have the right to live. Needless to say, the point of sending weapons is to prop up the US weapons market... The query is who would use those weapons in the future if there are so few Ukrainan GIs avalable to be slaughtered?
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  1656.  Sign In At least they show the teratory map...
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  1657.  Sign In  Everyone goes on the best information that they have... If these guys have information they are not allowed to say...
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  1658.  @Alice-vc3hj  Yes, No respect... They are self surving little pricks.
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  1659.  Андрей Тымко  Notable that Zelenski said earlier that he doesn't need anything other than Ukraininans themselves, 'no forigners' to defeat russia... Now the west is sending more than a years budget of Russia millatary to fight russia and it is turning the whole thing upside down. They are arming training Ukrainians in places like poland and firing on the russian millatary from western Ukraine.
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  1660.  Андрей Тымко  Scott Ritter seems to think that Ukraine is going to mobilize refugees in Poland and other places to train on advanced artillaery sysems in... The US is giving more aid to the Ukraine project than all of Russia's yearly millatary budget... The stated goal of the US is to 'blead russia dry' economically... Russias only real 'first strike' capabillity in a war is to cut off oil and gas to europe... .... Not fun.
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  1661.  Андрей Тымко  Scott Ritter is the person that I look to to describe, via informed speculation, what is going on in Ukraine. youtube.com/watch?v=m4SlSILtlpc
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  1662.  Андрей Тымко  Germany gets low pressure zones during the winter where there is no wind and no sun.... They have no power then.... So perhaps they could have more energy soverenty but not compleate energy soverenty.
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  1663. And to have fewer of them... Let there be a peace setelment...
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  1664.  @rockrabbit253  They had videos of a strike on two Himars along with the extra rounds when they were setting up in Ukraine. Of course all Ukraine needs to do is get twenty times the altelery that they have been able to get in theatre there, along with copious amouts of technicians trained for years, again in theatre, to repell russain advances and re occupy the donbass region, which they occupied for eight years diggin in before they were repelled.
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  1665. As an american and a mechanical designer, I am proud of the opportunities that the weapons grinder that russia has afforded me. I expect to be hansomly compensated for replacing them.
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  1666. Meanwhile Mariopol MPs join the DPR... I am not sure they want to fight against nato as well.
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  1667.  @alessandrovittorini6706  Ritter says it is strategic to make a rapid advance after the so-called 'Zelinsky' defence line which is headed by Bakmut falls.... ... I am not sure if what the russian decision will be on this... Russia has behaved in ways that confuse Scott Ritter.. It is their decison to make.
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  1668. Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, in russian controlled territory is being bombed by russia, just as they bombed the nord stream pipelines.... Biden threatening to bomb then just gave the russians cover to bomb the pipelines.
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  1669. I get the impression that the shells will last a week... Do they have artillery pieces that can fire them?
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  1670.  @des_smith7658  This is something that the head of the Minstry of Truth put out... youtube.com/watch?v=lNcEVYq2qUg To be sure, she was part of the team that insisted trump was installed by putin.
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  1671.  @boink800  Here is some more poetry about lying by Nina Jankowitz: former head of Biden's 'minstry of truth' ... They had to walk back her as head because of public outcry but the minstry of truth still exists with no public face... youtube.com/watch?v=lNcEVYq2qUg
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  1672.  @boink800  It seems as if the west has taken over that kind of poetry.... Poetry out of a distopian science fiction novel or movie.... Example: In the US we have a 'minstry of truth' which was formerly headed by 'scary poppins' ... Nina Jankowicz who was part of mutliple teams who insisted that trump was installed by putin for six years... The tanks are only steel cofins for the Ukrainians... The west is in big troube because the mask is about to be lifted.
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  1673. Her comments suggest a strong unresonable bias like everyone I have seen do a recap of the evensts on the battle field... No significant advances along the Ukraine fortifide line [the attakc is going at relative lightning speed over a very big area] , Russians not sticking to the cese fire on the steal plant [after several cese fires, with humaintarian coridors I get the impression that no russian troops are watching the plant and farmed that out to local malicias], 10K people burried at this mass grave [digers on the ground show each grave with markers of who was burried in each sight, manitude maybe not even in the hudreds] Second phase of russian operation thoght to be an anexation [my impression is that is soon to tell]
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  1674.  @LornaC474  I am not sure.... These are the reports I have heard... I am not at all good at verifying sources. That leaves me with a group of impressions based on my biases... If the western media says it, to me they have impeached themselves over and over again with the most extreme whacky conspiracy theories that even I could never imagine... But they said it and now I think they are almost always lying.... So I do try and verify things that have given me an impression but I ain't all that. Needless to say, war is not fun and conditions are not the same "White flag means surrender" and "POWs will be treated with respect" and so on don't always apply...
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  1675.  @LornaC474  The russians clame to have intersepted an order to shoot on sight anyone surrendering in the plant. My impression is that there are people there that would embarass the Ukraininan operation, and that the order is real and that is was given to save Ukraine from some shame.
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  1676. If he were in ecenomnics he would get a nobel prize.
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  1677. The main part of the story is the sanctions aginst russia... The main target is keeping the EU in the US sphere of influence and have the EU buy from western cartells everything they need and to refinance everything.... These are tactics that can't win the economic war but can stop the advance that is slowly grinding on the west... The west would have to adopt some of the east's economic weapons, like capitalism, to stop it's decline independent of the east.
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  1678.  @maw4734  Interesting.... It was speculated that russian intelligence was operating on the assumption that if russia showed military might, ukrain would surrender.... That offer to surrender was rebuffed and ukraine is claiming victory ever since. In football terms... It is like declaring a game won when the opposing team didn't execute an attempted touchdown on kickoff.... While it may have not been wise to attempt a touchdown on kickoff... The assertion IS that they lost because they didn't achieve that goal. It is innocent ukraine military's personnel that are paying the highest price... The sanctions on europe, planned by the US before russia's invasion of ukraine are also destroying europe. The sanctions against europe in the interests of US military contractors, monopolies including IT, banking. energy and pharma are going to destroy europe... The US is trying to be protectionist against industrial polices that can strengthen europe and make europe an economic rival of US hegemony.
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  1679. Much of the so called trench systems that the russians are putting up are trenches then huge concrete blocks... They are in long lines and very effective in keeping vehicles from going through them. Trenches like the ones that Nato has been building for years are in zig zag patterns where if one part of the trench is hit by artillary the other parts are safe..
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  1680. My impression is that much of the 'russian occupation' is natives defending their teritory from the coup goverment of Ukraine.
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  1681.  FC  Unguided when it exits the barrel but carefully targeted rounds...
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  1682.  @dirremoire  I am not sure the weapons are meant to be ulitmately effective....
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  1683.  @shaunlovett1565  I think the right word is 'tip' because I think the russians have a clue.
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  1684.  @xpact83  It is a sick exersise.... I am in Chicago and people think I am crazy when I say the war is lopsided.
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  1685. @edgar zarate Did russia win the economic war? Would the economic war be as virolent if the invasion hadn't happened? Who wins there? Odviously the west didn't have the capabillity to ballance a ledger in a candy store... US objectives were to liberalise the economies of russia, china, iran, venezuela... Their objective was to make those economies los, to break up their goverments and have their vendors take the rent and natural resources away from those economies... That didn't happen... Sadly Europe lost and willingly lost.
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  1686. @edgar zarate Yes.... Entirely unacepble.. Still too many russians dead... Was it in russia's interest to invade? Here scott ritter discusses that... youtube[DOT]com/watch?v=zsiXJcKnGO4
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  1687.  @TheInfamousMrFox  The scuttle but says that russia thought that it would be popular in the Ukraine to join russia and institute the minsk agreements and all they had to do was knock on the door.... Putin fired like 150 millatry intelegence officers after those 'battles' If it were the US invading Iraq, Kieve and other western cities would be flattened... Russia has more than enogh assets to do such a thing.
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  1688.  @Harrywilkinscornwall  Arguably the 'world community' could be pulling away from russia. That is the world community comprized of the five eyes. The one that the US had stubornly insisted that they are with us and not four russia before the invasion. The 'world community' comprised as well by 11% of the world's population. It is possibel that will be the the new 'western block' in the new cold war agaisnt russia and more importantly china. My understanding of what russia wants is that they want to enforce the minsk agreements signed in '15 and haven't backed down from that 'bright red line' ... The ‘special military operation’ [russia prefers the leagal definition as apposed to 'war'] is the enforcent of that agreement... Or at least that is my understanding. So.... If the war is about the economic clought with the west, where the west was trying hard to get russia to invade to strenthen, mostly to issolate europe AND NOT russia, is lost... Yes then europe is isolated... And EUROPE lost. If the plan was to weaken russia economically.... That would assume that US intelegence can't ballance a ledger at a candy store, whch is probable, then that STUPID plan didn't work.
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  1689.  @paulbrady4579  100K dead is terrible news. We need to quit killing people... ... Somehow it has become vogue all around the world to kill people... It needs to stop.
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  1690. It sounds funny in a way but the whole world is at war.... Many people all over the world will die becaus of foodstuff shortages.... It is fun for the US millatary industies to send wepons but Zeleski says he dosn't need any forign help... I am pretty sure US sending weopons is one of the primary resons for the war.
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  1691.  @WinterXR7  Are either of these places of any stratigic significance?
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  1692. Nato is attempting to expand to the south china sea... Is nato a defencive alinance?
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  1693. Maybe it is good because it will train reciently unimployed fins...
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  1694. The russian narrative is that Ukraine has been dug into the donbas by setting up command centers to control local russian ethnic populations as well as setting up ordenence postions in urban areas... Russian narratie is also that they have done their best to preserve civillians and civiallian infrastructure as well as opening up humanitarian coridors so that civillians can leave... Coridors that would be shelled by Ukrainian nationalists...
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  1695. Many seem to be scratching our heads wondering if this is satire.
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  1696.  @evechurchill424  Actually how profound the west lied about the Ukraine war is breath taking.... I suppose I should have gotten ready for this since the democrats insisted that trump was installed by the russians.... The lies in this case are just as weak.
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  1697.  @evechurchill424  Sometimes there isn't really another 'side' sometimes there are carefully placed lies that are meant to croud out the truth... More reasonable narratives are biased as well. They are just biased toward the truth. They are doing their best to censor the truth as well.
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  1698.  @johannjohann6523  Much evidence for some of these allegations have been published. Russia had the english PM Truss's personal phone hacked that suggested that the UK was involved in the pipeline destruction... I have not seen others, but russian intelligence will probably present some evidence for each of these allegations.
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  1699. I thought it was a good interview... If there were edits they looked legit.
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  1700.  @randomdude2832  That is exactly what I be thinking... I also be thinking that there is not a currency that can take over from dollar hegimony in the very near future.
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  1701.  @octaviantimisoreanu5810  Try apeasing the russians by stopping slaugter of russian civillians and stop shelling russian army positions and perhaps they will be so kind as not to advance. That was the russian demands eight years into the conflict before russia invaded.
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  1702.  @dvsfreek Advikka's civillian shelling capiabillties have been destroyed and the Russians are going back to their defesive doctrine where they are using it as a trash compactor. The sad thing is the quanity of Ukrainians that they threw at places like this. Now they are throwing women GIs at the wall.
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  1703. Archimosk was used as a place where they shelled Donsesk City for ten years.... The Russians are taking casualties and doing some uncharicteristic risks in that direction because they want to make the Donbass safe.
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  1704.  @gregorylouis617  It is not true that Russia is an artillary army more than the US exept in this case they decided not to burn Ukraine to the ground, but if they find consintrations of personel, feuel, armiments and amunion they will send in a rocket or two... Now the Russian millatary is increasiingly killing women on the front lines.
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  1705.  @nvelsen1975  I don't know that they can suffer ten times as many lives lost because the magnitude of lives lost in the millatary of Ukrain is 1/2 million.... Ten times is Five Mega deaths, which gets to look like world war two Jewish and Russian death toll.
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  1706. The west is out of weapons and amuntion as well.
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  1707.  @alexb6631  It is a difficult operation for the Russians.... They lost a huge number of men, perhaps 50K and they want to lose as few as they possibly can to the end of the millatary operation.... It should be over in about a month.
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  1708. Granted, after the fact they seem to be able to throw up a relitively accurate map... The have no predictive value at all though.
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  1709. I know the Sky guy is an idiot which is nothing new, but did Mirandi have to be so belacose? He usually is more mild manored. In this case when Iran shows a definate advantage he could fall back on his mild demeanor.
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  1710.  @roadent217  Yes...The russians may have to take westrn Ukraine.... And with the US shock and awe method... Which they have been reticent to emplloy.... The russians are being shelled from western Ukraine and the US is supplying weapons and training thousands of Ukraine and perahps others to use the integrated weopons systems that they are sending [at a rate more than russias yearly millatary budget] It is all very disaponiointing... The US economic goals, which is what it is about, won't even trickle down to the people of the US of which I am a member... .I think there is reason to believe that the accountents didn't look at the consequences of this conflict for the intersts that the US suports.
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  1711.  @erivers71  It is kind of weird... They show a map where russia has almost entirely liberated the donbas, which was what the 'special opperation' was about then they say russia can't seem to do anything right.
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  1712. As an american who sees glimpses of these state run news networks, I think they are equally misleading... Sky seems to be a bit less emotional. We also have a new 'minstry of truth' in the states. What I think is better about Sky is that it shows a map of Ukraine where the russians seem to have almost achieved their millatary objectives, althogught they don't have the outline of the DPR and LPR. But he characterizes everything they do as either evil or incopentent.
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  1713. They fail upward, provided their nework in in operation.
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  1714. Perhaps he should be more conserned with democratic processes in the EU.... Democracy might break out across europe...
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  1715. ABT. Ukraine, he continually said how russia was losing and that they will be beaten back to the pre 2014 border, while showing maps of Ukraine that showed steady progress of russia through areas of Ukraine that had been fortified since 2014.
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  1716.  @deriznohappehquite  In the past it was considered capitalism to support the population with housing, education, healthcare, education, transportation for free or at reduced prices... It lowered the cost of living in so that the workers were able to support industry... Now it is considered socialism but is it really? It was replaced with the idea that only things that are OWNED by atomized people made any economic value at all and that collective efforts were not adding any economic value at all. That model, touted by reagan in the reagan revolution, is known as neoliberalism. What it lead to is a return to the new gentry owning everything and keeping the rest of the economy in debt to them as well as deindustrialization. A break from this form of central planning in the 18'th century was thought of at the time as freeing the market.... A return to it is actually feudalism.... It is the east, as in the east in the new cold war, is actually industrializing. Again that is what was formerly known as capitalism. This is the clash of civilizations of our time
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  1717. @dennislions1 Maybe we shouldn't make matters worse by sanctions.... And justify those sanctions by fighting to the last Ukrainian... Other than on the battle field where ukraine is getting severely splayed, what the US is doing don't make a lot of sense to me.
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  1718.  @AndyM_323YYY  Some narratives are yet to be realized and posited by others... Others are solid narratives... Bucha was said to be a ukrainain massacre according to Scott Ritter... As I am not a forensics expert, I defer to people who are familiar with it, like Scott Ritter.
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  1719.  @AndyM_323YYY  "Conspiracy theory" only means theory or narrative... Example: it was considered a right wing conspiracy theory that trump was NOT installed by putin... That was when the left wing was saying without stopping that trump was installed by putin for years and they backed it up with both fabricated and tangential [impertinent] facts. It is better to take what I posit one at a time... As I remember I threw out a number of narratives.
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  1720. ​ @AndyM_323YYY  The US owns the Hague and they aren't subjected to any court.... They have been funding multiple millions of deaths, refugees and resource extraction since the fifties... and old school piracy as well as outright canceling of gold and dollar accounts... They have been arguing for what they call the 'rules based order' which is separate from what others call international law... How is it not 'might makes right'? How is it that the russians arguing what is legal and what is not sound silly?
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  1721.  @AndyM_323YYY  Russia argues all the time about what is legal and what is not... It makes no sense because the only thing legal in international law is might makes right... By that measure what russia is doing is legal.
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  1722.  @andrew30m  My understanding is that the democratically elected person at the time, pineapple face because of some toxins that were thought to be an assassination attempt, read both the proposals of the EU and russia and was leaning toward the russian proposal.
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  1723.  @fredmccready9940  I feel like it is better to give examples of how people's narratives don't match with reality than to call them fools.
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  1724. The russans have huge quantities of very good weapons... They also have a tendency to hit their targets, not town squares and community centers with shrapnel hymars. ... Supposedly hymars are being guided by the americans and that is what they are hitting... Harassing populations generally makes radicalizes the into cohesion against the threat and that is exactly what is happening in eastern ukraine...
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  1725.  @edwardbernthal160  I have heard it argued that the civilian population is scared of the Ukraine troops... It is often deadly to be seen as a supporter of russia in Ukraine and many have died.... An example early on is Bucha where, according to military forensics expert Scott Ritter says that all evidence points to that as a Ukraine massacre. Many of the annexed territories have electricity and water... Kyiv and other cities not so much so I am not sure why anyone stayed in northern Kirson... It is also getting cold....
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  1726.  @edwardbernthal160  The Ukrainians arn't going into Kherson... They want to stay away from that caldron... Now a caldron but most of the population went east before hand.
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  1727.  @coffeewithbleach6168  I like to think of myself as a russian bot: the kinds of people who never believed that trump was installed by putin...
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  1728. Russians are cry babies... DPR, LPR and the russians are occupying 2/3 of the donbass region... That was their primary objective. Is it the russians who are crying or is it Sky news that thinks they should crush everything with mortar?
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  1729. There is not mixed messaging about the state of the virus and the vax... There is NO messaging that shows statistics on the virus and the safety and effectiveness of the virus.. Discussions are all censored on FB and youtube in both print and video. No information, No misinformation ... NOTHING.
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  1730. You do good work... Check the appearance. You look like shit today.
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  1731. I be riden' with biden WHEN the democratic party shamelessly plugs medicare for all. And that is no Malarkey.
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  1732. The capitol police are poster child for DEFUND THE POLICE.
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  1733.  @Janpre2001  What fibs is liberal MSM reciting? Coronavirus doesn't really effect kids. about 700 died since the start of this coronavirus. Weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Kadaifi was a real bad guy.. The chinese and the russians are being aggressive by sailing ships in their near by waters or flying airplanes in their airspace... Venezuelan, Bolivian and Nicaraguan elections were rigged. Trump was installed by the russians... Chemical weapons' attack on the people of Syria by president Assad who just won another election..... The support of the american people by the corona virus relief is causing inflation. I am not sure if the liberal media; MSNBC, CNN, NYT ever tells the truth... I can't attest to fox news.. I don't follow fox at all.. I don't have a 'side'
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  1734. I don't know anything about fox news. I know the crap that comes out of MSMBC, CNN and NYT.
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  1735. The time to put pressure on the democratic party is now that we have the vote. After we vote it will be too late. It is annoying to me to try and distinguish the difference between the synonyms neoliberal and fascist. We are not party insiders and many of us seem to feel strongly that we need to get rid of trump. I am not moved by getting rid of trump, I am moved by getting rid of his agenda. The neoliberal [read fascist] democratic elite are not as passionate as some of us about getting rid of trump or they would stop their divisive opposition to medicare for all, which 88% of democratic voters are for.
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  1736. I don't know anything about Ivermectin. I don't think you do as well.
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  1737. It is actually quite common for police to kill people who they are doing wellness checks on. In chicago I got adds as well.
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  1738. Doesn't everyone know that jokes and comedy groups and pages are not allowed on social media?
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  1739. Trump just passed medicare for all.
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  1740. No link to kim kelly.
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  1741. Yea! Maratise... One of my favorite people.
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  1742. ​ @JorgeHernandez-oh7xv  I think it is just a comparison but all of the presidents since and including reagan have actively done evil. If one attenuates some evil he is better than those who have pretty much broken the society and the world apart... Is it enough to save our civilization? Not yet but we can hope it is a start.
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  1743. With the caveat that US presidents have been evil for more than forty years, Biden ended the war in Afghanistan and he is trying to force through the reconciliation package. The best president since Reagan was better because he was ineffective. It is possible that through these two initiatives biden is a better president for real effects. Pain in the ass but some good effects.
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  1744. The democrats themesleves have a strategy for LOOSING that has NOTHING TO DO WITH VOTING RIGHTS. The democrats are determined to give us NOTHING to vote for... They only signall that there is a boogy man on the other "Side" They will get crushed in '22 and '24. youtube.com/watch?v=XnU8RG6QcxY
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  1745. Q is actually on the magnitude of people who think the moon landing was staged.
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  1746. It is like an endless war. The pandemic is a social constructiion that is not meant to be over, it is meant to be permenent.
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  1747. It is like an endless war. The pandemic is a social constructiion that is not meant to be over, it is meant to be permenent
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  1748.  @orionishi6737  Perhaps the increase in people who say they are gay is because of three factors: People say they are gay and they except it, being gay is more accepted and there is affirmative social sanctions [like being hip] to say you are gay... Perhaps there needs to be an examination of these factors to understand what happens... In my case, I figure that there are things that I don't know.
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  1749.  @gerrykerr598  I just noticed because I have abandoned MSM.
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  1750. They just didn't want to die.
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  1751. Were reunited with their families?
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  1752. The youth put the gun down a full second before he had his hands in the air... A second is like an eternity... If one is interested in no accidents it should have been enough time for a professional with the goal of no accidents to get get to safe.. But the cop that would have been better off not even being in pursuit to not even be there... He was beyond his limits... He needs to respect his own limits and feel comfortable in his own skin but he didn't... No respect. I got hit by a car and went 40'... I can tell you it was less than a second before I knew the car was going to hit me.. How fast your mind moves when you don't want any injuries.... I had to put up with being injured for a month but I was focused on no injuries.
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  1753.  @JeeperCreeper-h1j  The new democratic party is much scarier than Trump... I am hopeful with Trump. He is calming down world war three as well.
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  1754.  @ashtorith  You are calling the democrats much less common sense than a paper bag?
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  1755.  @karimaogden3875  Biden transfer lots of Ukraine into his pocket, pardon his bagman and he pardoned a kids, jail for cash scandal. He also bomb Russia directly to keep a war that is lost going when Trump gets in office.... How could Trump be worse than Biden?
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  1756.  @shambhugangwar7900  But they resisted Trump as well.
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  1757.  @karimaogden3875  Remember there were two serious attempts on Trump's life, one where he got nicked and someone next to him died... Not all people who voted for Trump were/are Trump fans but more afraid of the democrats and their odd brand of justice.
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  1758. He has some other things going for him that the democrats don't.
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  1759.  @AwkwardPain  And you wanted nuclier war and didn't get it?
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  1760.  @jeffreyhanc1711  I am not on the so-called Trump train but he is much better than the democrats that left the station for the destination you describe. 'Much less scary than the democrats.
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  1761. It is not the same if you are not interacting with the crowd....
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  1762.  @SG-es2hf  Policy makers should be more interested in making it easier for people to make ends meet, not padding their own pockets, like Obama who was black, Elaine Chao who is asian.. Obama not only let real estate crime syndicate who targeted africann americans go but gave them money that they lost on liars loans and foreclosed on their houses as well. As much as I feel I have in common with obama, I am not a thief or black... I suppose that makes me not 'progressive'
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  1763.  @rcg9573  A better way of looking at who democratic party cultist say is a dictator, oligarch, facist or anti-democratic are leaders who don't go along with the deep state or appointed leaders. In europe those appointed leaders are the EU/Nato appoinited leaders. In the US it is finachial Fed, like when Obummer was president. Also in the US it is the neocons like Victoria Nuland FBI, CIA. Democratic party cultist also believe in forever wars, consintrating wealth in the hands of the 0.1%.... In escence the democratic party has become whacky reicht wingnuts by every measure... I never ever said that Republican party cultist are any better. Nikki Halley is not better than Biden or Killary. Trump is better because of his matter of fact, hard line way of speaking. "We have the oil" Trump said about the US GIs in Syria. Trump was trying to get the US out of Syria but gave up and said "We have the oil"
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  1764.  @rcg9573  It never happened that the "autocratic fascist leader" of Turkey, Erdoğan, visited Trump at Mar a Lago altought I can appreciate your criticism of the president of Turkey, Erdoğan, but for different reasons. Erdoğan is not consistent and is constantly wheeling and dealing between the EU/Nato and Russia. Orbán is PM of Hungary who is considered by the west and democratic party cultist to be fascist or Trumpster because he don’t go along with what comes out of US, EU/Nato pie holes [people as rationally challenged as Biden].. While Biden is whacky right wingnut born off the reservation but there are democratic party cultist world wide.. Justin Trudeau, PM Canada, invited a literal German ‘naughty’ who had given a pledge to the corporal who was running Germany during world war two a standing ovation with both houses of parliament and little Rishi Sunak, PM UK, gave an amazing speech accusing George Galloway of being right wingnut and supporting Hamas when he won a seat in the lower house of parliament.
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  1765. ​ @rcg9573  My understanding is that in order to be in the Democratic party cult and not in the MAGA cult you must believe Trump was installed by Putin. I don't even know what the Republicans think other than the unhinged contrived dumpter fire response to Biden's uninged contrived dupster fire. I was supprised to see them just as whacky.
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  1766. I am getting some interst from those who are mesmerized by the reich wingnut narratives that the democratic party has embraces of late. By every metric democratic party narratives, along with their 'facts', are outragously reich wingnut and their military narratives and strategy are as 'interesting' of those of a corpral who ran the German war effort during world war two.
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  1767.  @badhombre4184 I am not shure how to communicate with democratic party cultish reich wingnuts. My point is that the republican party seems just as unhinged.
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  1768.  @santiagowechsler  Bidens speach aas mostly intelegaptble in describing democrat's whacky narratives. Britt did a good job of showing how republican narrativs are as much of an unhinged dumpster fire.
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  1769. ​ @Terry-lh8cn  If you don't believe Trump was installed by Putin you are a Putin Puppet... I tended to vote democratic until the democraptic party proudly announced that they won't fullfill any of their campaing promises. It is notable that the western miliatary coilition is spending 3/4 of the money that is spent on 'defence' in the world. That is three times as much as global majority is spending on 'defnece' and Russia is spending a very small fraction of what even the global majority is spending on defence. How many Trumpers do you know that are conserned about these things?
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  1770.  @sobroed  Watch. Tonight she will get an Oscar...
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  1771.  @rexfordmorgan7552  Yes. They each convey whacky right wing crap. I am not sure they are different 'sides' other than it is what goes for political discourse in the US. They support almost exactly the same policies.
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  1772.  @jamesNKYI3806  Trump is the lesser evil. Nikki Haley is even worse than Biden, comparable to Killary.
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  1773.  @carrieullrich5059  So did they with the russian narrative. I know some mechanics of this... My impression is that the anatomy that MRNA vax targets is a necessary part of the virus and if it gets corrupted the virus doesn't faction. But if you are more comfortable not knowing and taking someone else's word for it, good luck with that.
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  1774. "There WILL be a variant that WILL render the MRNA vaccine ineffective" You need to know more about virus mechanics, and to present it, to make such a claim.
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  1775. There is a problem with censorship, who's champions are on the so-callde 'left' , particularly on youtube...
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  1776.  @kamilm5614  I don't even know what is wrong with talking about tits. I figured they were saying something like populations under stress don't develop big tits or something... I ratioed him.
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  1777. As bernie fans, after being ignored, marginalized and blamed for trump for four years, it is tempting to vote for trump. There are lots of reasons that bernie fans would vote for turmp. Not the least of which is that trump will win in a landslide, he is just as bad as biden and it would destroy the 'electable' argument.
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  1778. I get my information from independent media Rising and others. I was a huge fan of bernie.. Early on I was not going to vote for biden if the democrats did not support medicare for all. I wound up voting for trump and local progressive democrats in other races. If you did not want people like me to vote for trump you could have made the democratic party aware of my demands.
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  1779. Arguably that is what the US is saying to the rest of the world as well as russia and china.... The plan was to isolate russia and china from the western world and hopefully from each other in order to maintain dollar hegemony and support western business monopolies. The proposed sanctions that were planned well in advance of russia's invasion of ukraine were supposed to do that... The war was to justify the sanctions.... .... The 2014 coup in Ukraine was orchestrated by the CIA with traditional nazis was a way of telling Ukraine what to do and they are telling them to fight russia to the last Ukrainian to this day....
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  1780. The democrats want to lose.. Why vote for biden?
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  1781. This is the wrong move. There is mu;ch more crap that goes down because of parrent's nurotic issues than kids that are experiencing some discomfort..... There is at least three orders of magnitude where parrents are conserned over stuff that is not deadly or not even a problem where they put their progeny in corersive situations.
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  1782. Gosh.. I worked with people in chicago.. They talk a lot of shit about their supporters.. Only supporters... With no other motives.
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  1783. Did David Doel video straight ahead about medicare for all? I am in a group that will not back biden unless and until the democrats shamelessly plug medicare for all. In my case I will vote for trump unless the democrats shamelessly plug medicare for all.
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  1784. The same Chris Hayes that swears he was controlled by russia.
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  1785. This is the only comparison that matters: Biden is fighting against 15/hr Bowman won't fight for it.
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  1786. Perhaps the democrats lost because they were seen as not supporting trump's direct cash to their constituents during the pandemic.
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  1787. If the democrats got off their asses and fulfilled their campaign promises, the GOP would be a distant memory in two to four years. The democrats are demonstrating that they don't want that by missing the mandated layup they were given early in the biden administration. This has been their modus operandi for forty years.
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  1788. Why should young and or healthy people get the vax? There is tones of missinformation in the MSM.. It is impossible to discern that through the din of missinformaiton, censorship and a lack of published sudies.
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  1789. David Serota: "There is a word for that" "It's called Lying" The democrats are lying when they say that minimum wage can't go through reconciliation... Their goal is to lose the midterms to the republicans and blame the voters. youtube.com/watch?v=vnIh9ai__MM&list=WL&t=238
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  1790. We are now scared to be without mask even if vaccinated. Big pharma has taken over your brain and you need another shot to feel confident... IDIOT!
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  1791. The demented squad.
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  1792. AOC should ask about debating 15/hr and accept if Greene takes the challenge.. She won't because AOC sucks as well.
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  1793. Is she freestyling when she goes up there? Making stuff up?
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  1794. Vote Mad Dog 20/20
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  1795. It does sound like biden was condemning the US.
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  1796.  @zalayashpalsinh5427  I am not sure when it will end.
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  1797.  @a.t6066 Russia don't got too many wars...
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  1798. It is s sick game.
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  1799. Putin never said that he plans to extend the conflict into Odesa....
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  1800. In this case they are parroting the Washington Post crack stenography corp. To drag the war on is wishful thinking on the part of US neocons. The west will run out of amunition by mid summer.
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  1801.  @jaqalenabrooks8499 Got that right.... It is not even fair to have to go to war.... Sad... Many Russians die and multiples of the many Ukraine lost...
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  1802. It is kind of hard to protect minority languages if they are not related and very small.
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  1803. He got them on an esthetics charge because he knows nothing else in life beside looking like really really good.
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  1804. The big reform would be to stop having nations with veto power... The US is the hegimon over nato, EU, IMF, World Bank and the UN... The US created those institutions.
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  1805. The Griner thing is not in russia's best interest... ... But russia is kind of literal and sometimes not that interested in being liked.... It goes to show you that russia is a mixed bag... I suppose it is good in the way that at least you know where you stand.
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  1806.  @saveriodipoce2201  Much of the war efforts after world war two were to spread dollars so that allies could pay back their war debts... Admission of such a thing would have caused political problems between US elites and the populations ergo the american lexicon regarding communism and humanitarian bombs.
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  1807.  @joshuabecker5154  Just another manufactured villain, Kadalfi, Sadam Husain, Nicolas Maduro, Hugo Chavez.... Americans will believe ANYTHING!
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  1808.  @robertareynolds2124  You really have to look at what he does, not the hype... Perahps the most carismatic of them all, obummer, is many more times as evil for what he did/does not for the carisma that he had at one time.
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  1809.  @fantozzi2444  I don't really follow his personal life... He has a huge work load this year as well as made many coruse corrections... Heart wrenching...
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  1810. Maybe he is not a religous guy but wanted to show solidarity... He also probably needed the solotude.
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  1811. I am from Chicago... This is very sad to me.
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  1812. Perahs it would be a good idea to stop?
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  1813.  @billyandrew  The EU was set up to maintain US hegemony.. Get on it.... Get you a copy of "Super Immoralism" or "The destiny of Civilization" by Michael Hudson. It might make you sound like you are on drugs but at least you will know what you are talking about and know what is going on... Maybe it won't profit you to know.
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  1814. The war is more about the anti russian PR... The war will go on as long as the west feels like it feeds into the PR campaign. This means that they can add another 100K Ukrainians to those who died or replace them with foreigners indefinitely.....
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  1815.  @darkcloud164  The debris seems as if it had been growing for years... It also looks as if it has been put through a food pulverizer and is in small enough pieces to burn...
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  1816.  @darkcloud164  Yep, but they need the stoves...
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  1817.  @swift_learn  Yes.... Russia is getting hammered... But they are giving ten times what they are taking.... Nato has no more artilery so if they show up they will get hammered as well.
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  1818. They don't fear... They just want to break russia up because they want to keep their resources and enslave their people....
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  1819.  @samdowner1792  I fantasise that he would be doing the world good if he just said publicly what he was doing...
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  1820.  @quatjohn4375  I just keep thinking of the kinds of things he leaked..... DWS suported Hillary all the way to cheat the american people out of their democracy and economy and when she was ulimately not elected they said 'putin did it'.... So it be like 'law and order' 'cause the law causes stabillty... And the law is sometimes followed.... Think Obummer and the sub prime mortgage stuff as well as letting the banker theives major criminals go free...
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  1821. It is amazing what kind of shit hillary and the ministry of truth in the US is putting out.
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  1822. It is like a war that we lost... We have to move on somehow. Maybe think about things that are hopefull.
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  1823. Gosh... Do you really have to shell naked pedestrians?
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  1824. I was into other things... I didn't have time to feel about that or even look at it.
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  1825. I don't see how the west sending mecinaries to distrupt the building of infrastructure by china in Pacastan, Arica and the far east is not straiging US-china relationship.
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  1826.  @The_D_Man  So Putin installed Trump.
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  1827. They are reporting about 500 IDF killed.
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  1828. Hamas got everything it wanted. Women and children were being taken hostege for years and years as well as being killed. Now the world knows.
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  1829.  @shadowboxer3583  That is what I was thinking.... He fell into the US's trap of trying to widen out conflict and the PR from the genocide in Palistine isn't doing safety for Israel any good.
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  1830. Trump was the best president since before reagan, not because he was effective but because he was feckless.... He was inefective in stopping sensless wars that he promised to stop as well.... He will probably become president again.... But don't expect much.
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  1831. ​ @Tintan435  There are two sorces of informaiton about the war in the US: the CIA and russian disinformaiton. In this case the CIA has a group of factual statments that are factually wrong and always wrong. Russian disinforamtion is anything that goes against CIA narratives which contain factual statments that are true.... So if you wan't to know what is going on in this case, there is only one way to get the truth and it is called 'russian disinformation'.... It is among the disinformaiton somewhere.
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  1832. Where is Mell Brooks when you need to fill in a diplomatic corp?
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  1833. They will pay us back for the US made weopons in dollars that we sent to keep Germany free.
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  1834. Please send us money for the US made weopons... Send it in dollars...
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  1835. Russian bot or not, the west seems to be losing the economic and millatary war... The driving force behind the offensive is to isolate europe from russia so that western interests can buy european assets at a fire sale as well as weaken russia... Weakening europe worked but it is possible that europe will become nationalistic and kick out the americans.... Weakeing russia failed. Russia decided that it will not accept payments to made in accounts in western banks and insisted that they be payed in rubles.... The ruble gained 50% since last year against the dollar. Soon all the flap will turn to china.... It is not clear that people will forget urkraine-russia like they did lybia, syria, iraq, iran, venezuela, afganistan... What will we be called when we notice that china wins that conflict? Chinese Bots?
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  1836. The only goal of the US is to have a stable war... They have had false flags before for chemical weopons in Syria, WMD in Iraq as well as some questionable claims in the case of a province outside of Kiev... Germans are nothing but sock puppits to the US... My understanding is that they have no expectaion of freedom of speech that we have here... And freedom of speech is beaing challenged here as well.
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  1837.  @leachimy24  POWs who are russian often get killed... Those who are partisans [Ukraine nationalsts] get through a russian POW intake process... Civillians often get targeted dirrectly by Ukraine light arms and shelling.... Lie dead in the streets...
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  1838.  @briancollum1060  Indeed there is no jusification for targeting hospitals, schools, residential blocks uless you have an occupation that is dug in to those residential areas... The russians did some shelling of the positions of the nationalist partisans and brought in the Chechins to do the mop up in Maripol... Reports are that the nationalists were keeping civillians in those areas and not letting them leave... Vidoes of the nationalists killing 'colaborators' and russian POWs as well.
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  1839.  @alexflayz3600  ... After Ukraine wins the war and kills every russian on the planet that is....
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  1840.  @The.Curious  I dispute that Zeleinski is in charge of the millatary and his country. My impression is that the ultra nationalists and the US are asserting control... Just as the US has control over the EU and nato. It is arguable that the crushing economic sanctions to isolate the europeans will cause political instabillty there by winter
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  1841. He is a hack... .Russia withdraw from Kiev, Ukraine nationalists kill suspected russian colaborators there and blame Russia.... It is possilbe that the russians are giving proposals during a supplying opperation in preporation for an offincive in the russian eastern part of Ukraine.
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  1842. Is it true that the report by Seymour Hersh that Biden, along with a team of four including Victoria Nuland, blew up the Nord Stream piplines has not been covered in the German press?
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  1843.  @AstroGremlinAmerican  Is it true that the report by Seymour Hersh that Biden, along with a team of four including Victoria Nuland, blew up the Nord Stream piplines has not been covered in the German press?
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  1844.  @catalinxnecula  My feeling is that the EU is not in charge here.... It is we americans who are calling the shots... Stay warm.
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  1845.  @Crmson117  I don't think Siemens is lying... They have the commision to service the turbines.... They just want to get paid.
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  1846.  @Ukie88  OK.... I am not sure who is doing the project mangelment of this... But Siemens signed off that the single pump was not working....
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  1847.  @Ukie88  Siemens it's self is signing off on their inabillty to do work arounds for the sanctions so that they can maintain the equipment. They had redundancy before the sanctions took hold.... Now they have a single piece that has some issues where they can't put it back on line... It is notable that the main target of these sanctions is not russia or china but to keep western monopolies financialy stable by subjigating europe in the new cold war.
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  1848. Siemens, the german company that services the pumps, signed off on the maintence issues that the pumps were expiriencing causing an emergency shutdown of the single pump in operation.... Siemens has been working on a work around from the sanctions but has failed to get the nessessary equipment to service the pumps.
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  1849.  @DSan-kl2yc  .... In an alternative universe.... There I fixed it for you. It is difficult to agree on a narrative when looking at different sets of facts...
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  1850.  @Jahvec  They have a tendency to be soverign.... Sanctions have been strengheing food, money and other economic soverenty.... When Russia was our [I am US citizen] 'friend' these were things that were in serious doubt. Homelesness as well as a decreasing life span were huge problems... If you are German you are probably about to experience the soverenty that you turned over to US as German manufacturing is relocated in the US. With respect to Russia Putin became a huge boogy man in the US because he stopped the kinds of things that Germany will most likely be subjected to.
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  1851. Biden thinks it is similar to the cuban missle crisis when russia put missiles on the US border.... When the US puts missiles on the Russian border there is a way to remove those as well... The destruction of the pipelines and the attempted destruction of the bridge leave the infrastructure that takes more mentions to the russian border vulnerable. It is not an operation similar to the one in Iraq, that was termed 'Shock and Awe' where the US tore the place apart.... These are russian brothers and sisters.... But infrastructure that is used as logistics for destruction of other russian teratory is vulnerable to attack....
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  1852.  @attsealevel  I suppose it is better to add to the US's war chest.... As an american and a mechanical designer, I am sure to benifit from that.
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  1853. Mostly US millatary pirates oil that the US deems illeagal. They only stop and make amends when there are millatary assets that threaten the offending contries oil tankers.... The prime example is Greese. The empire is crumbling...
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  1854.  @OleksandrBarraniv321  The US and russia seem to be willing to figth to the last Ukrainian man... Is it possible that Ukrainians will be tired of getting killed and stop?
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  1855.  @lancerevo9747  Russia avoided the attack on infrastructure for a long time... In the first iteration, their strategy was to present an army to Ukraine and hope they surrender, the second have several control centers that were relatively well supplied.. Now that they know there is no hope of sewing for peace, they are setting up a unified command structure and doing stuff that is nasty to ukraine in order to liberate their targeted areas. I don't know when the west will have to give up it's PR strategy... The west is really looking elsewhere hoping that the war will inspire sanctions that are going to be killing the EU...
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  1856.  @chrisbrown4002  The stated goals of the west via the Ukraine war is to weaken russia economically and milatarily. Killing some russians in Ukraine with the weapons we are sending will not fullfill those goals.
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  1857. It has been going on for eight years.... Lets hope it stops.
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  1858. These lies are more about US domestic issues and supporting millatary contractors than it is about russain behavior or creating a hot war. The real reason for the US reporting on this is to distract from the democrat's inevatlbe loss in '22 and '24 because the democrats won't fullfill any of their campaign promises.. Their campaign promises are where they could save the western world and they are maknig all kinds of excuses not to.
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  1859.  Olaf Sigurson  Acording to former marine officer and WMD inspector and wistle blower, scott ritter, sanctions agaisnt russian grain and fertilizer WILL, not might, cause millions of starvation deaths next year. Ritter has been keeping up with the ukrane issue for personal interest..
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  1860.  @headoverheels88  I think they are dupes... The US cut off the EU's oil and gas, stopped them from doing buisiness with russia and china.... Iran, Venezula, Cuba.... When you steal peopel's dollars they won't what to do buisiness in your banks and with your currency.... That is a direct action against dollar hegimony done directly by the US. The only bright side is that they will be employing mechanical desigenrs for defence contractors..... I gonna get me one of them postions.... Manufacturing has been shrinking in the US and western europe.... At $50/hr and it is not as if you have to be part of the disinformation industry making war.
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  1861. There is no problem in the west about sending weapons... The point is to send weapons and have another profitable forever war. Unmitagated victory.
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  1862. Again... Just as the mines that are discuraging ships from leaving Odesa were laid by the Ukrainians, so too the bridge from Sievierdonetsk was destroyed by Ukraine... Both actions by the Ukraine goverment were blamed on russia. DW news is like reading Riplies beleve it or not by the way they are telling fantastic lies.
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  1863.  @andreasschmidt5857  I am not sure how mercinaries fit into intergrated millatary systems and command structure... I am sure russian commanders have their hands full trying to orginize local combatents... Patrick Lancaster visited a LPR or DPR encampment-command post the other day... They impressed me as a group that could occupy an area and not so much for an offensive or mop up opeations... Needless to say it, there is little information getting out on russian command structures and offensive opperations. The only one I listen to about that stuff is Scott Ritter... I am not an expert.
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  1864.  @sebastianperez759  The US is employing ISIS in syria.... So much for the war on terror.
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  1865.  @Coldpines28  Checians are russian... It is like New Mexicans are americans.
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  1866. Russia is going to find out how much it costs to rebuild most of Ukraine.
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  1867. Perhaps more russians lost their lives than Ukrainian nationalists. Lets hope this nonsense ends soon.
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  1868. The war started eight years ago...
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  1869. Russians are reporting that the lefovers with no food, water or weopons are under orders to shoot anyone who surrenders... Very charming.
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  1870. Sadly this war has been going on for eight years... Yes we certianly need the foodstuffs from the Ukraine and from russia or a lot of people will die.
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  1871. The EU is a bannana republic of the US. They are willing to do more than what the US wants to destroy their economies and societies.
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  1872. The history is that Yelsen was strongly incouraged by the US. After that the life expectancy in russia declined by three to five years because of privatizing mostly by US interests. After that putin was thought to be an ally of the US's liberal economic policies. When he wanted to make russia strong russia and putin became a target... Ukraine was one of the tools that they used to target russia.
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  1873.  @krollpeter  It would be better if we acually stood together and stop stealing...
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  1874. As an american and a mechanical designer, I stand to benifit from this war because of the hardware that is being thrown into the grinder. I don't wan't to see western civilization die at it's own hands like this. The west has declaired war on russia and it's people. When russia brings out the biggest guns in it's arsinal it is considered unfair.
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  1875. The past couple of years have been a big eduction in double speak for me.... As ubiquitous as the west's narrative is, the US doesn't seem to have great narrative control.... My impression is that the people of the US mostly don't believe them any more. We had years of going to war for humanitarian purposes, other international actions based on questionable evidence.... 'Trump was instaled by putin'... Now we have a department in the goverment that is commonly reffered to as 'the ministry of truth'...
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  1876.  @aslampervez2294  Sad is what it is.
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  1877.  @katealeksen4168  It is NOT TRUE that russia can't finance their war machine because of the sanctions... Their commodities [read COMMODITIES] are selling for more than they did earlier and the russian currency is the BEST PREFORMING this year... I wish the west would come with a plan that makes things work... How is it that they don't have no one [HERE] that can ballance a candy store ledger?
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  1878.  @howardnguyen8257  You are probably right.... The guys that bombed the nucliear power plant in Ukraine may have been rouge actors or had the blessings of someone in Nato... How many thousands will die because of the pipe line being bombed?
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  1879.  @bubbasmith179  There is no difinitive proof that the US did this... It is odviously a huge war crime against europe.
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  1880. Russia had problems getting paid for the gas as well as Siemens getting equipment that they shipped to the west. Definately a war crime against europe.
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  1881.  @FAL87  I don't have a spell check on this and my spelling was never all that.... When the watter pipes freeze in german domiciles, we will see what happens... I am in the US where things are better than the bannana republics of europe. As a US citizen, I certainly stand with my interests and the interests of my countrymen..... We are in for a rough ride as well.
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  1882. Yep.... Useless.
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  1883. It seems as if the EU is paying more for sanctions than anyone can imagine.
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  1884. ​ @ccchan10 .... Do the chinese have a metric similar to GDP that measures production? What are those relative assessments? ..
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  1885. And what is the density and stability of such mountains? We are to believe that chinese growth is built on asset price inflation as if there is no other way.
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  1886.  @sanjarsocool  Not necessarily.
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  1887.  @aredub1847  The original poster is suggesting that he has specialized knowledge about this.
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  1888.  @grahambaker6664  Interesting... U got the word on the ground with the protests and Siemens techs.... 'Warping young minds at warp speed... About the bubbling in the baltic. There ain't no investigation or the findings are the state secrets of the danes, sveds and.... 'Cause the godfather said so... I feel like it is unlikely that our suspicions aren't true... I think the suspect is guilty or the researchers would publish their findings.
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  1889.  @grahambaker6664  You seem to understand some nuances about the protests in Germany as well as the problems associated with the Siemens pumps... Although the story out of russia was that the pumps needed servicing... R U german? I am firm in mine and perhaps your belief that the Hegemone was responsible for the destruction of the pipelines. They did threaten and celebrate the destruction of the pipelines... If so that is a war chime against major infrastructure... I can't see how this ends well.
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  1890. Yes.... President Biden held a press conference with Shultz that if russia invaded ukraine, nord stream two was toast... When asked by a reporter how he proposed to do such a thing, he said "Believe me we will get it done" He was directly threatening German's essential infrastructure in the presence of the german PM and the PM just sat their and took it... Then when there was protests in germany against shutting down the pipelines... The pipelines spontaneously exploded.... Blinkin then said it was a tremendous opportunity for the US.
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  1891. My understanding is that the russian fleet was insuring the security of the grain shipments when it was hit by it's ukrainian counterparts in that effort.
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  1892.  @49525Bob  See... I told you.
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  1893.  @Kmdr_Robotnik  Best comment EVER! Too funny... What is REALLY happening is Siemens, a german company that services the gas pumps has not found a way to work around the sanctions and get the pumps working again. . Let us hope that europe don't face crisis of such a magnitude and recovers from the santions, neoliberal order and new cold war soon.
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  1894. ​ @richardnixon7248  I think it is resignation. Trump is very similar to biden and hillary.. Trump was much better than obama because he was less effective....
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  1895. No good options... Time to become nihilist-accelerationist.
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  1896. Good catch.
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  1897.  @baronvonlimbourgh1716  The joke is on the whole world for obama... But they don't seem to get it yet.
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  1898. Good catch.
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  1899.  @danielgriffin8132  She is quite cute... .
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  1900.  @JMAssainatorz  In the future I feel as if I will not have access to other news sources.... I will be feeling that everything on the news is lies and I won't have any access to anything true.
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  1901. ​ @JMAssainatorz  I tend to think everything the west puts out is a lie... .... If you do a deep dive into any news story it is almost certainly a lie... I got real tired of it for five years when the media said 'putin installed trump' again and agan and again... Now in the US we have a new minstry of truth [literally a cabenet level department] that is throtleing journalism and the US has been trying to extradight Julian Assange for years to face prison for the rest of his life for revieling the truth..
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  1902. I suppose if it was the US that attacked Ukraine, Kiev would have been leveled by now like bagdad.
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  1903.  @rogersmith8480  I am quite curious.... It is clear that I have very little power and no one cares what I think.... Michael Hudson seems to know what the heck is going on, having written the documents that lead to dollar hegimony after Breton Woods.
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  1904.  @rogersmith8480  I am confused about these crazy schemes myself.... Who are the owners of the cartels that control the US goverment?.... My meantor, Michael Hudson, suggests that it is the banks that loan against assets and not to bulid industry that is one of the interests that is bringing the west to it's knees... The iron maiden in the eighties said that there is No Alternative to owning stocks in everything and extractive polices of the west.... She and Reagan framed out neoliberalism so well; "There is no economic value in somthing that is not fully owned by someone." Then they assembled a very powerful machine to inforce that... A machine that is now craking... It is true that if you bill someone for something that was formerly free or cheep, it raises the GDP but it also causes poverty and instabillity...
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  1905. There is an eleged rand report [january 2022] that lays out the controlled demolition of the german economy pushed mostly by US controlled green party pols as the reason for the war in Ukraine...
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  1906. Only by listening to russian disinformation can you tell that russia won both the economic war and the ground war.. Russian disinformation comes from many sources. Here in the states we have independent journalists who do their best to get the story right. We also have the ministry of truth who can't imagine anyone having an opinion that someone didn't pay for. The idea is that everyone's opinion is based on who gave them money to believe it.... If you have an opinion that varies from the main stream media narrative then someone paid you to believe that.
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  1907.  @juliuszkocinski7478  I can throw out a speculation... Ukaine had about 200 civillians trapped at the steel plant as well as many GIs marked with swasticas... The GIs wern't really doing anythning effective other than saying that Mariopol was constested and in theory if the russians blew up the plat they would give it as an example of where the russians killed civillians. It was a strategy during world war two that germans wouldn't retreat and would be anialated holding ground... My thory is that they blew up the bridge so that they could hold GIs in the area on the other side of the river. Some claim the russians have between 10 and 20 times more alterlery than the Ukrainians.
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  1908. Ukraine is willing to fight to the last ukrainain and kill everyone in the east.
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  1909. ​ @Gypsum179  weapons systems... They hire US citizens first.... I was a bike mechanic over the summer.... I favor databases and computer assisted design.
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  1910.  @Gypsum179  Chicago is considered 'out east' if you are on the west coast of the states. I am also a mechnanical designer... I believe we will be paid handsomly..
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  1911.  @armenrastgouian2988  The grid wasn't taken out and the dams stopped Ukrainan equipment and troops from reaching the front line.
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  1912.  @namur-iq6ih  It is sad to see so much distruction.... 'Notable that the destruction in Syria, Afganistan, Lybia and Iraq dosn't get as much media coverage. [Or any]
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  1913.  @bg1616  Ukraine had a choice to do whatever the USA and Nato wanted... By coup... Until russia stopped them... Imagine if China was digging in in Vancover BC Canida, killing US citizens? Yes they coud do that until the US stopped them.
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  1914. I get the impression that Z is fighting just to stay alive. He is not in contol of his own secruity services and continually fires them...
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  1915. But they are US resources and we intend to get those resources from both russia and china.... Otherwise our banking sytem can't even survive with massive bail outs.
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  1916.  @firbolg  Iraq, Afganistan, Syria all targets of NATO as well as economic stanctions aginst many contries in the itnerest of the US and against the EU... Nato is targeting the EU with economic sanctions in the interest of the US...
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  1917. Russia hasn't invaded any contries in a very long time... Nato has many times, the US even more.... The idea behind the war is to separate europe from russia and china economically so that US cartells can take advantage of europe.
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  1918.  @DianeMerriam  Nato has been all over the middle east and north africa defending US hegimony... They are the same guys that support econmic warfare against any target the US deems a target... Now EU is targeting it's self for sanctions for US interests like they did in '08.
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  1919. They used their technical term 'millatary technical response' meaning that they will be doing what they have to do to defeat armies and weapons systems at their door.... Russia is pretty much done with their 'special opperation' in Ukrane.... The war was mostly for sanctions against europe...
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  1920.  @bluecardholder  You pulled 'your a liar' out of thin air....
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  1921.  @bluecardholder  Be out with it... What are these riddles in which you speak? Say something... Anything.
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  1922.  @glenndickson7627  Too funny...
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  1923.  @alberthenriette8976  Imagine an army occupying a hostile area.... The first instict you might have is to use the available infrastructure for transit and housing.... My understanding is that Ukraine also had consintrations of civilians that they shelled or baited the russians into shelling... This stuff is so much fun to think about ...
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  1924.  @BlutoandCo  Russians have very little assets there to do like an amphibious landing.... The only thing they have is boats that can off load equipment on a peer.. Ukraine had been killing it's own civilians for eight years on the border of russia. They stepped it up as a provocation for war... The main asks from russia for seven years was nutral ukraine and stop killing russians... That was signed by all parties in '15. Now they have a few more asks but it looks as if they don't trust any of their negotiating parties.. Russia has defeated the force that was killing russians and they took more ukraine... If it was the US Kiev would have been flattened.
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  1925.  @kaltenburg2637  We also have video of a lot of russian tanks being blown up.... Most are videos of Nato tanks.... We also have video of bodies in Bucha, north of Kiev... The bodies were killed by Ukraine. Speculation is that they were suspected of colabarating with the russians. Good luck with the MSM narrative... I wounder why anyone believe it anymore.
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  1926. I am not sure it matters what happened anymore.... They are doing the typical 'can you prove russia didn't do it?' Technicque... When they start making possible allogations and ask people to prove them wrong, it seems like the facts don't matter anymore. They have done this with the most outlandish allogations imaginable.... The technique is this: they make a claim that is outlandish, they back up that claim with a bombarment of factual statments, some of wich are clearly true and others that are clearly fabricated, if some of those claims are adjacent to the allogation, they keep on saying that they are proof that the allogation is true because it is adjacent to the allogation.
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  1927. ​ @netzoned  The point I was making in an earlier comment is that the video IS a deep dive into facts that don't address how those bodies got there and how they died.... Or it doesn't address the central issue.
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  1928.  @netzoned  I tend to think it follows the similar pattern as the other reportings in the western media... False flag, justifcation for war for dollar dominance, natural resources... I listened to scott ritter's assesment of the bodies here as well...
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  1929.  @netzoned  There is a deep dive into facts..... Like there is a fly on a dead human body... or they were wearling a certain brand of paints. Not that that addresses anything pertentent... The main narrative around the bodies is that they were extra judcial pont blank range killing by russians. There is no independent varification of that claim... From the video evidence there are people who claim that the bodies were less than two days old and that there was no on line evidence of bodies before that... That was after the retreat of the russians. You can be sure that the russians won't retreat again unless there is a treaty to do so.
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  1930. Biden made an analogy of the cuban missal crisis when russia was arming a state at at the US border.... That threat was removed... When the US arms a state that borders russia, that threat is being dealt with as well.
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  1931.  @uilnosaj  That is why it is so sad to see so many of them die.
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  1932. @Herman Lutzer Would you please pay us back in the US for the US weapons and aid to Ukraine we are sending after the conflict is over? in US dollars of course.
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  1933. Forgot the ground game.
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  1934. The ground game was lost a long time ago... Ukraine is running out of men... The west is saying that they need to stop because they have no idea what an embarrassed Putin will do if he loses.
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  1935.  @sew_gal7340  Europe is the new US's africa and/or latin banna republics in the americas. One image in my crystal ball has the US over extended trying to keep control of the energy crisis chaos in europe and not have the resources to try and control africa, so africa can utilize their resources....
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  1936. Germany is determined to make the world safe for banking and other interests that are supported by US policy.... To the distadvantage of germans.
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  1937.  @epaminon6196  If europe stays the course and swears off cheap energy, keeps it's energy monopolies then water pipes will burst in the north.... Big towns will be in huge trouble with hunger, cold and lack of mobillty... ...What do you think would happen under these probable sercomstances? Historians tend to think that uprisings happen when people are under that kind of critical biological stress....
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  1938. Only thing they can do is to pray for a mild winter.... . Right now they are struggeling with the energy crisis theory.... When everything shuts down in the middle of winter and the pipes start busting they might have to reconsider their postions or there will be nasty coups.
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  1939.  @bobhabib7662  I tend to think china will follow through with their industrial capitolist agenda. That means that they need to keep down the cost of, among other things, housing.
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  1940.  @thevan4476  I is not clear that china will take the west's approach.. If china wants to remain competitive in the world labor markets they need to keep the vulture capitol at bay and keep the rents low. If the chinese take a nationalized restructuring approach they that will raise huge alarm bells in the west.
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  1941.  @fernandocruz4877  My undersanding is the intersts that own the US goverment want to sell weapons, gass and oil, pharmasuticals, IT and want to continue to 'liberalize' economies so that the banks can own infrastrucure and assets. . Other sources: china and russia supply some of these things at lower cost...
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  1942. What does occupieing donesk serve? They have been occupying it for eight years, digging in, killing and torturing people and digging in.. Time to give up and save ukrainan lives.
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  1943.  @evamasters5028  I am a proud russian bot who changed my FB profile picure to a literal russian bot two years ago when everyone insisted that putin installed trump... Again, after fighting russian disinformation about the war in Ukraine for months the US media has to give way to the fact that russia is winning all of their millatary objectives and that the forever war that the US wanted will come to an end by next year.. As well as being a russian bot, I am a mechanical designer in the US. I stand to profit from the increase in spending on millatary hardware in the US because of all the weapons we sent to get ground up... Sorry about all the Ukrainians....
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  1944.  @evamasters5028  What is a russian bot? In the US it was someone who didn't beleive that trump was insalled by putin.
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  1945. My impression is that most of the war crimes infliced on Ukraine are by the Ukraine millatary aganst russians and russian 'colaborators' As an example, one of many, there is some evidence that masecres in Bucha were an opperation carried out by what the Ukraine millatary called a 'clensing opperaiton' or 'safari' by a batallion known as 'safari' to rid the area of 'russian colaborators'
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  1946.  @paulblichmann2791  Looks like the new cold war is the 'world community' against China-Russia-Iran-India... Orwell was a genious.
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  1947.  @elbibwen3019  I suggest Garland Nixon... He has a more commedic way of explaining... He also has Ritter on at least once a week.
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  1948.  @vettemuziekjes  Terrorism is a term coined by 'the world community' .... Falls under 'rules based order'.... This is a minority of the world defined by US hegomony.... What I think you mean is that these explosions whiped out much of the evidence.... It was a war crime as described by international agreement, an attack on civillian infrastructure.... It is also an attack against nato and nato is supposed to respond to that with a unified front against the attacker... We all in agreement as to who we think the actor is that destroyed the pipelines... It is important that we get some proof.
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  1949.  @machismo4256  So far we don't have any proof... Deliberately destroying civillian infrastructure is a war crime and this is a very serious attack agaisnt many nato members... Although the head of a nato state threatened to do such a thing and it happened is not proof.
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  1950. This guy has to be a comedian: Relentless russian propoganda: " Russia is accusing nato of conducting a proxy war with russia"... If you are to believe US forign policy people who have a descripion of their goals in this coflict "To degrade Russia's milaltary and economic capabillities in the world" ... ... What is the definiiton of 'proxy war'? ... Is it arguable that the US controls nato? ... Does 'propoganda' mean it is NOT true? ... Is this a literal lie or is it 'literal lie "ajacent"'? I have been studying us media linguistics... This guy seems to be a mester from our 'ministry of truth' ... And in the US we have a new official minstry of truth.
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  1951. European politicians gladly sanclin themseleves to keep the US happy... Anything like an economy in europe will cease to exist next winter because they want to service US and european vendors...
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  1952.  @sjishah  Democracy is doing whatever the US wants even if you are unimployed, broke, cold and homeless...
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  1953.  @jesusaguilar4585  I feel like it was a massive intelegence failure on the part of Russia. The kids were taken as POWS to Ukraine, they wern't supposed to be on any part of a hot zone, my undestanding is that some of them died. Many who were captured have nasty injuries and are not happy at all.
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  1954.  @jesusaguilar4585  Yes... The draftees in Kirsk weren't alowed to be in direct combat or a combat zone... It was a huge failure of Russian intelegence that they were caught in the middle. It is notable that a bunch of mechanics and cook enlisted held back the onslaught in Kirsk for a short time.
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  1955.  @sebastianwrites  That it was a putin installed goverment isn't an impression that I got... If it was a putin installed goverment, it was a soft coup and not the unconstitutional coup that the west employed.... My information comes from the documentary in '18 "Ukraine Burning" which I believe is now censored in many places but I belive it is still available where I sit. Yes loads of people are dying in Ukraine and most are Ukrainian GIs killed by orcs. Those Orcs will have to collect, identify and transport all those dead conscripts.... So the orcs didn't raally win the war... One of the off-ramp speculations are that there will be marketing that putin is so unstable that it would be dangerous to embarrass him. It's all bad...
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  1956. ​ @eddiebravo5593  We have a huge advantage when the world runs on dollars and we can print dollars... How ever far away, industrial powerhouses are even more of a threat today to feudalistic economies as they were two hundred years ago when Adam Smith wrote The Wealth of Nations.
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  1957.  @eddiebravo5593  What I seem to think is if the shanghai coop agreement group, which includes russia, china, iran, india... can join with other economic engines, some of which have had their assets in dollars and oil stollen by the US... Can they become a hedge against US hegimony? Sure china can mostly function all by it's self but it also has a world wide belt and road initiatives where they are making ports and rail lines all around the world.... This is what the real threat to the US is... The US's modle is economic liberalism, meaning they want to be able to own everything and charge what they want... People keeping their capital in house, not charging exhorpentent rents on it is a real threat to that model.
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  1958. ​ @ricardosoto5512  On the flip side... Those who accept weird popular conspiracies are maybe too satiated in things that really matter in their own lives to pay attention to the world around them. From responding to this kind of scollarly weirdo, I am sure that you will forget this disussion and not revisit this in two months time...
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  1959. You need to set economic policy that serves yourselves, not US impiral interests.
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  1960.  @owenb8636  I don't know what will happen but it is clear that russian can take the donbas.... There is no indictation that that alone will be enough to end the war... My assumption is that russia won't budge on demillatarizing, ukraine and having hostillties that have happened in the donbas for eight years stop.... The US won't budge on controling the narrative in the west and sending more weapons they want a stable war. So what are the failure modes for the US's goal of having a stable war? These are speculative: Ukraine people get tired of sending people to die or going to die and have a grass roots effort to stop, Ukraine generals do a coup and stop the war [this was attempted during world war two in Germany] and political instabiallity in the west because the sanctions are causeing economic hardships. It could turn itno a ten to tweny year war like Iraq, Afganistan, Syria.... Which goes to show you that US policy is not racist. They will kill who ever they have to to make their political/economic objectives. I am from chicago..
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  1961. So much for the western narrative.
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  1962.  @timtench3334  There is a skill to stonwalling.... It seems like it would be easier to just state the truth and/or formulate reasonable policy.
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  1963. Seems like a skill.
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  1964.  @mattrussell8309 There are many kinds of capitalism. Neoliberalism or feudalism, where we are right now, is not built to last. If we don't switch, internationally we will get our lunch eaten by the Chinese.
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  1965.  @AssMcBlast  JR highschool students don't care what fables you tell them.. You need to tell them stories..
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  1966.  @TiredofLies  She dosne't make any sense. She sounds like she is talking in tropes.... There are huge numbers of people I just don't want to listen to. She is one of them. I don't troll people I disagree with or who arn't admirable. I tend to listen to people who make sense...
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  1967. I think she doesn't make a lick of sense.
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  1968.  @paulgibby6932  In this kind of interrogation she needs to speak clearly and slowly...
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  1969. It is a good rant, I am mad as hell myself, but I am not sure how it shakes out leagaly....
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  1970. After saying that trump was installed by the russins for four years, how does anyone believe even the 'facts' that are presented in 'the news' Now we don't get no news and we are uniformed about things like the virus.
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  1971. Stupid and innefective, exept in getting elected... Inefective would be give the american people an more of an advantage that Biden.
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  1972.  @OptimusPrinceps_Augustus  A lot of times the only way to get a point across is by confrontation.... Problem is that not all confrontations have a cohearent point. Example: The economy has been taken over by Oligarchs or Aristocrats. They are destroying capitalism, making out economy not competitive like those economies that create capital [China Russia]... Now the goverment is going to bail out those who don't make capital and will be indebting the rest of us. The only way to get the point across is to be confromtational.... Not that those who are confrontational will be understood but it is the only way.
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  1973. Putin is gulity of not following through on wall street's takeover of the russian economy and that is why we are at war with russia and china.
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  1974. He repeats the "Iranian Proxy" myth.... Yes, the neocons are putting all kinds of trip wires in the middle east. One of them is Palistine... The language is designed to destabelize the region and make trip wirers everywhere.
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  1975.  @nona-sb6ky  Who is more pro censorship, Republicans or Democrats? I tend toward democrats..
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  1976. It is the FBI-CIA that is out to get the bidens... It was their operatives that blew up the Nord Stream piplines as well as Killary's connection with then that elivated 'trump was installed by putin' for years...
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  1977.  @advike9882  How is the walmart or Michigan Avenue a local business? What are we supposed to do when the police won't stop killing us?
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  1978.  @jimbo5973  I suppose you had to be there.
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  1979.  @advike9882  What are we supposed to do? Let the police continue to harass and kill us? ... Yes the russian narrative was fake... But I don't like being hunted down in the streets and stuck up by cops.
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  1980. Now anyone who says the word NAZI on any social media about anyone other than who is approved by the US goverment to call NAZI has their post restricted, taken off and or their account restricted. Who are the approved groups that you can call NAZI? I believe they are Russians and the Chinese.... If you say it about or even question our approved NAZIs your account is restricted...
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  1981. Why is it that republicans are becoming the left wing?
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  1982.    Medi Hasan shits on the first amencment unlike Calrson... Medi Hasan is really hated by the left.... Really hated.
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  1983. There was a lot of charming things about Tucker.... I ignored him when he was whacky
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  1984. They still think trump was installed by putin..
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  1985. Very dissapointing that Hawley was bought off by APAC.
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  1986. I voting for him but he dosn't know what he is talking about here.
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  1987. The democrats are doing exactly that policy of sanctioning and high terrif walls. What it does is serve as protection for emerging industries in stronger states and accellerate dedollarization world wide.
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  1988. There is a german MP who is sticking up for the german people. She is terkish by blood.... Germans have compleatly wimped out.... The US bombed their pipline and all they can say is 'THANKS'.
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  1989.  @takeitasacompliment.  I misunderstood Michael Hudson on this.
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  1990.  @takeitasacompliment.  You got me... It is not true for weapons procrument but it is true for millatary bases around the world.... The money spent on millatary bases is essentally free becasue that money is held by the US governement when they buy US bonds with them... US bonds are another form of fiat currency... Local millatary bases, prisons and weapons procurment are a way of redsitributing wealth geographically around the US.... We don't really have like a Grese in the states because of these redistributive functions.
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  1991.  @sinistersilverado965  Arguably the MIC is more designed to extract proffits and redistribute income from richer states to poorer states than it is to defeat ANY threat.. The mission of the MIC is ecnomic not combat. The industrial millatary machine in this combat mission is a public utillty of russia that is producing three times the artillary as the west as a whole.
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  1992. The argument is that the west has ALREADY crossed Russia's red lines when it was the west's sposings that it was Russia's red lines? Now that Russia is demarking clear red lines the west says they have already been crossed?
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  1993.  @mariannorton4161  A quick review of the MMT manual is what I am talking about. Liberals don't believe in MMT where as Republicans vouch for it.
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  1994.  @sarahbrown5073  People are really suffering. I don't think that nothing can be done to fundimentally change the dynamics of banks and debt until after the fall but we need to be prepaired with the tech information.
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  1995.  @nledaig  They deleate comments about left leaning people voting for trump.
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  1996. The rockets up the backside of the establishment is the flatulance that actually comes from their mouths as well. The establishment democrats have convincingly convinced this long term democrat to vote for a republican presidential canidate and I have never paid any attention to the republicans in my life.
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  1997. Why bother to blame the proxy puppets for the failed plans of the impiralists? They hand picked the group. They are who they are.
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  1998.  @tomwhittaker9461  Part of their risky behavior where they suffered some serious losses was to secure Donsesk City..... The coldron that they have now is now not effective in shelling Donesk City.
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  1999. I am not sure that would be the best way to make Z the black sheep.... It could marter him.
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  2000. I believe that Brian Berletec covered this but he never said what the new narrative as to how Ukrane won would shake out.
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  2001. So how did Ukraine win? What is the new narrative that proves it won?
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  2002.  @SvetlanaVladimirova8590  Let me know when you get to Chicago.... I show you the beach where they live. They don't like to talk about Ukraine at all.
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  2003.  @TruthSeeker1511  Many critisize US constitution because it dosn't have a provision for the popular vote for president. Allthough I come from a popular blue rich state I feel that the constitution gives rural people more oportunity to engage... Bernie Sanders is from a small rural state...
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  2004.  @michaelhorton1350  Constitution has more than one meaning.
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  2005. I always thought that Obummers bail out of the banks and throwing mostly black people out of their houses was teh worst thing he did....
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  2006.  @bck481  Too funny.
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  2007.  @bck481  I have no idea waht 'dinges' is.
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  2008. Trump-Sanders
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  2009. I feel like Trump is our bast option now that Sanders was kicked out.
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  2010. That is why they are so pissed at Putin because he kicked out Wall Street and they thought they had Russia in the bag.
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  2011. I don't know the details about the world war two camp.... My understanding is if you give starving people too much their insticts can't keep them alive because they eat and drink too much for their conditon and die.
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  2012.  @AnnaMarianne  Captalism was admired by clasical economists who thoght that once achieved would never revert to earlier ecnomic systems... Historically when the rent gets too high societies fall apart. In the time of globalization is a time when the Iron Maiden forcing us into ruin was wrong when she said "There is no alternative" other civilizations show us that there is value in creating capital.... So what hapened last times was the whole of civilization failed. This time it is the clash of those who want to create capital and those who want to rase rents... The capitalists will succeed and those of us who are in ainti capital places will suffer until we listen and lern. Words of wisdom from the global suth south: I was wondering for a long time how China could be a better business partner to Africa than the west... Then I came upon this quote by Kyeretwie Opoku of Ghana. "In order to have imperialism big private capital would have to dominate the state and the state works as a PR firm and an enforcer for monopoly capital interests.". What I think I am gaining by these emotional outbursts is real understanding of the kinds of issues we face. Otherwise I went out to the beach today and looked at a huge fire pit that I made in an urban area that is sheltered from people who call the police if they see any one having a good time.... Emotinon isn't really something you can control... The Buddha said: Suffer what there is to suffer, enjoy what there is to enjoy...
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  2013.  @AnnaMarianne  I am one of those rather sad people who waste their time and rise their own bloodpressure by watching videos that make them angry, and by arguing with the other commentators, as if that would change anything in the world.... Yep... Got a bashed tibia and fibula... I am convelescing and doing exactly as you said. ... Yep... Uke comanders are procrastinating... They have been charged with doing stupid shit and they know it. What is your trade?
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  2014.  @AnnaMarianne  The Duran is a cuiosity. Most of their positions are consonant with my biases and the rare times they are not, they are curiosities as well. Best wishes with the thesis. I hope the thesis is not as hopeless as the Ukraine spring offesive as you suggested... I also hope the artform you engage in is of tremendous service to yourself and the world.
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  2015. It is highly speculative but I think Uke commaders don't want to talk to western pin heads about their psycotic offensive plans so they don't answer the phone.
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  2016. ​ @harrymills2770  When they say that land is the biggest wealth creator what they are really saying is that the asset value inflation is the biggest creator... All most all of that is owned by the banks.... Commoners cant own land no more... The banks can sell to anyone for anything they want and Obama proved that they will always be bailed out...
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  2017.  @Sedona-cl6eg  What the fuck are these mercinaries doing there and who is sending them? It is a shit show beyond beliefe.
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  2018.  @giuseppeleveroni1914  It is going to bring down the western empire...... It has been shown that empires don't pay over the long term.... Fortunately civilisation includes the idustrail/industrializing east otherwise we would be fucked for good.
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  2019.  @deadpoolguy283  What I think I heard people telling me on this thread is that saving this group of SS people and moving them to Canida was part of a stategic operation where they were sent there to glorify killing Russians.... And that they thought that Nazi ideology would be an asset when trying to destroy the soviets so instead of letting these people lick their wounds of concious, they glorified them.
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  2020. How to increase capacity without increasing the cost of things that increase capacity? Perhaps by keeping interest rates low for certain sectors of the economy?
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  2021. The international institutions of Brics is going to be a slow go. Think how Brenton Woods was between centuries old impiralis powers and what Brics got.
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  2022. Ukraine will be finnished with the addition of these trolls.
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  2023. Ukraine is sunk.
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  2024. There IS such a thing as Vibrainium.... It is the resources of Africa and the energy of their people.
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  2025.  @spinhater3  I think I let it be known that it was one of the whackiest cospriacy theories I have ever heard. Coc Ku for Coco Fuffs...
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  2026. They have used their minds to be stupid for a long time.
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  2027. ​ @100c0c  This is what is going on as described by Hudson: The west decided that rentier ecnomy [wealth creati] is the one they were going with.... Reagan said that if you give more to the makers and less to the you get more, and it is true. Then he, Cliton and Obummer cratered out the US economy and gave everything to the takers. All the wars and sanctions are stop gap measures to protect western monopolies. This is an ever failing economic model that has been destroying civilizations for thousands of years.
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  2028.  @jdursoesq  Is that the Physiocrat apporoach? Do you speak French?
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  2029. Listen twice, on normal speed with captions on....
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  2030. agal @jdursoesq  You seem to be well read. I don't understand well any of that.... Closest thing I seem to understand is Glass- Steagal. The key is that what is now known as socialism was once thought of as capitalism. Capitalism now a days is thought of as a monopoly financhalized neoliberal economic system that resembles feudalism more than capitalism. Proffessor Hudson is always talking about Simon Patton. I believe he wrote about it in his book "America's Protectionist Take Off" My understanding is that what was once called Capitalism as defined by Adam Smith and many of the clasical economists and was described in Marx's Capital is now known as 'Socialism'.... I believe you can also find that wisdom in Hudson's "J is for Junk Economics" I ain't read eather of those books... One of Hudson's easier reads is "Destiny of Civilisation"
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  2031. Only if he gets some traction.
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  2032.  @davidcritchley3509  It is the theft of the economy iby indebting people [private debt] that is causing the local [american] melt down not misguided military adventureism.... The local economy is devolving from capitalism [industrial now known as socialism] that was present in the mid 19'th century to the begining of the 20'th to feudalism [finachailized capitalism]
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  2033. Nah! He farts a lot.
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  2034.  @Mrfpsara  They are demostating for genocide ad war.... It is weird.
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  2035.  @Mrfpsara  They are saying that they sould arrest those who protest against genocide in London....
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  2036.  @Mrfpsara  He wasn't explaining what was good for the palistianians long term, he had a proposal for what would be better than what we did for the US and the world including the Palistinans... Not perfect, just better for the Palistinians.
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  2037.  @WinstonSmithGPT  Hamas is a kind of creation of the Muslim Brotherhood.... It was supported by Isreal as a foil for the PLO... The idea was to devide the Palistinains so that they didn't get credibillity for a two state solution... Alexander's idea of how the Americans could have isolated them seems as if it would work out better for the US in the region.... Now they have to deal with an exited, unianted Muslim-Arab population that is ready to make a regional conflict and tank the entire world. That is not in either Isreal's or the US's long term interest.
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  2038. I tend to think he is dealinig with a cold real politic rather than the coded definitions [like who is a terrorist] that you abhore.... To be sure they arn't fair and to be sure a prizon gard that is being abusive to innocent people dosen't have a leagal case if that person rebells in any way... Outcomes for everyone including the Palistiinans would be better had they followed his strategy..
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  2039. The tasks of the Russians; food soverenty, monetary soverenty, industrialization seem so easy given to them by the Sanctions the west has given them.
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  2040. I figure the game is the impiralist ambitions of the US which the US is destroying by sanctions that support the more advanced economies in the global majority and gold, currency and asset forfitures...
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  2041.  @ryanwalters6184  Putin has to prevent indescrimanant bombing of Russia and nucliar war. It is kind of a scary buisness.
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  2042. I have disagreed with you all before about Pregozen... I was wrong... I tend to think the advance on Avdivetca[sp] is at least in part to secure Donesk City because the bombing of Donesk City has been from Advivetca for ten years... Part of the millatary operation as stated by Putin is to make life in the Donbas normal.
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  2043.  @des_smith7658  "As god is my witness I will never deindustrialze again."
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  2044.  @amonamon7096  If you are not sad by this you are stupid.. You will never profit from this.
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  2045.  @silenciothequiet3471  I am from Chicago.... How do I benifit from incompentent and evil leadership?
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  2046. ​ @inkbold8511  I think Youtube posted your comment in a place that you didn't intend it to.
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  2047. It looks as if they failed to expain how the sancions against Russia for all intents and purposes seem to be designed FOR the Russian ecnomy.... Almost all of them seem to be targeted for Russian econmic growth in both the short term and long term.... Sanctions as well as the destruction of the Nord Stream pipline seem to be designed to destroy europe as and destroy dollar hegimony....
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  2048.  @jacekboczarski6698  The grean revolution is being manufacured in China.... Companies that do anything in the west are gutted for a quick buck and their populations are under strict austerity where they are loaded down in debt making thier labor more expensive... Welcome to the 3000 year old neoliberal-impiralist world... This time our civilization is connected with those who make capitalism and industry so we will be fine after a long while.
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  2049. Part of the German economic miricle is that personal debts were wiped out after world war two... No one was to pay back the Nazis...
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  2050. My impression is that Russia has both very good targeting and a hell of a lot of good targeting compared to the west.
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  2051. I am not sure what is going on.
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  2052. 'Got to figure that the accelerationist polices of the west will cause it to colapse as well as the imipiralist order that they are supporting. Big big clouds.... I propose a silver lining.
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  2053.  @MrMandelsohn  What number was the prisoner? Maxwell Smart hung out with 99. She's cute.
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  2054.  @des_smith7658  Don't say that to him. He's the prisoner... 'Takes himself entirely too seriously.
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  2055.  @hairlessape5107  I suppose the prisoner was not contrived at all.
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  2056. WhHow do you think the pivot to China will shake up? Will it be tariffs and sanctions or do you think there will be some kind of Midian in Korea or somewhere?
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  2057. Were daft.
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  2058.  @FunnyBunny-pd5xx  It was war one and war two alied debt to the US and the capitalist take off in the 18 hundreds that caused the US to be hegomon.... Everyone wanted dollars and in the begining they were backed by gold.... Hudson in Super Imprialism describes this in excruciating detail.
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  2059. I am not sure Putin is running the war....
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  2060. Putin: The spuds will be reuninted with Russia.
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  2061.  @Khayyam-vg9fw There are whole languge groups in the americas that have compleatly dissapeared, some that are disapearing as well as european languages like Danish that are very minorty and don't seem to have logevity... I there are odviously times and places where whole languages die and rates of languages dying very from time to time.
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  2062.  @SvetlanaVladimirova8590  So we know one more thing that the machines are targeting for censorship...
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  2063.  @SvetlanaVladimirova8590  Lets see if this works.... Western economies are really deindustrialization machines. If making everyone in debt to the banks don't work they actualy destroy industries in mass. Think how Boeing was taken away from the idustrial engineers and given to the bean counters makings us all less safe.
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  2064.  @TheDAT9  The Swift and the Brenton Woods institutions have lasted for about 80 years so far...
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  2065. If a European state gets, say, 60% of the vote against Brussels can they change national policy?
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  2066. My understanding is that Mearsheimer is also an economic hawk on China.... China has surpassed the west in terms of industry and perchasing parity. In many fields such as IT they have produced supiror products that the west is so afraid of that they regualarly arrest SR executives of those corporations.
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  2067.  @larynOneka8080  Putin got Wall Street's and the west's nod. He betrayed them.. With outrageous insolence, he refused to continue to grovel to Wall Street. That is why he is hated.
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  2068.  @thecomment9489  That's an anoying thing to say.
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  2069. So sad.
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  2070. I believe that the Cubs will win the world series.... Next year.
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  2071. I think we saw this before with Briton and earlier with Holly Roman empire and Roman empire..... It is the neoliberal project that always fails..... It is possible to get another goal....
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  2072. ​ @davidlazarus67  Ben Norton and particularly Michael Hudson have the orthodoxy on this... I am not sure what the asset colapse will be mainly diriven by. All the markers are there... One thing is for sure is that nations are taking flight to safty because the dollar, along with assets in the west can be confiscated... That will have a tendancy to drive down the dollar and the assets within dollar regions...
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  2073.  @davidlazarus67  The Brits were destroyed by world war two. Ben Norton has something on dedolarization... The first effects will be in a cronic drop in asset values bu the long term effects will be a better off working class.
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  2074. You all still seem to think that sanctions were supposed to balkinize Russia. The sanctions seem to be designed to strengthen Russia... Are western economists idiots?
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  2075. Do you think the election of Trump will kill her?
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  2076.  @HAITI-1804  What?
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  2077. It is worse than that. For example companies that make things, like Boeing, are being evicerated by the vulture finachial capitalists...
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  2078.  @orcaflotta7867  Russia and China are a threat to the 1% because they arn't letting them do wall street takeovers of their economies as well.
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  2079. You all think you can do clips of Berletic show you did yesterday?
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  2080. US efforts are a boost to developed economies and accelerate alternatives to the dollar and Brenton Woods institutions. My impression is that it won't be as easy as Brenton Woods 'cause the woods was a case of established impiralist powers vying for domanance where as the new Brenton Woods is takes place among a wide veriety of economies that are struggeling to industialize.
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  2081. The expansion of industrial/design engineers is because they are more interested in value added than skiming value to bankers.... Because they discourage profit taking by the banks they are the biggest threat to the US.
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  2082.  @marilynhudson7182  steinbauge4591 done said //China does not keep debts on the books, and it does not believe in clearing problems through economic crises - the latter is the method of the West which is dictated by its own finance sector. According to the economist Ellen Brown China has pretended to run things according to a Western model, and actually kept debts on the books for show while in reality it writes off debts as needed. This then gives rise to the fantasy of an impending Chinese meltdown in Western fiance press. Rentiers will obviously demand that debt is kept on the books but this is not allowed in China. Rent seeking is a serious drag on Western competitiveness
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  2083.  @KaiserHooray  Yes Norton keeps to economic othodoxy and explains it well... Outside of economic ortodoxy, I heard him talking about Israel a moment ago. I found him not only jarring but I found Ritter's perspective, again a moment ago more nuanced... Norton's idea was that the US leadership supports Israel where as Ritter says Israel has rivals in the area that could shut Israel down.
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  2084. @GuilfordHancock While it is true that Alex and Alexander very from Hudson's orthodoxy in critial ways, Hudson appeard on The Duran with Alexander and Diesen at least twice in the past six months.
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  2085. Some channels are reporting more news on China that isn't reaction to western propoganda.
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  2086.  @applebee9060  Zha has his place and is very useful person.
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  2087. He is a thrill seeker... He is always very exited.... He seeks out war zones just 'cause.
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  2088.  1RedDwarf  I did and it is up to trading at 90 but if I understood the reasons for relative currency valuations I would have read "Super Impiralism" by Michael Hudson....
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  2089.  1RedDwarf  Last time the Ruble traded at 100/Dollar was October and August of this year.... Now it is trading at 90. I don't understand the dynamics of this at all or I would have read Supper Impiralism by Michael Hudson.
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  2090.  1RedDwarf  Refferance for 100 rubles to the dollar?
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  2091.  @johanstinson  Putin's degree in neo clasical [neoliberal] economics is usless. He has some very good advisors around him and/or some understanding that is not described in any neoliberal univerity coriculum....
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  2092. It is possible that the sancitons were to decimate Europe and that they still cant say such a thing..... Otherwise western economists are abjectly incompetent.
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  2093.  @davidmoss2576  Again.... Very good point[s]... To me the best way to understand this is to listen to people like Michael Hudson...
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  2094. The problem stems from the neolibral impiralist model... If we give all the power to a very few to extract resources from all over the world we are going to have migrants...
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  2095. If they raise the interst rates many banks will fail.... The banks that have failed were banks for the uber rich and they were baled out.
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  2096. In an ad on this channel, Obama is asking for money for Harris.... Trump was a better president than Obama.
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  2097.  @louiscypher4186  Most explinations deleated by machines because they includ explinatons, but I would say five to ten.
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  2098.  @louiscypher4186  It really isn't more complicated than Israel's neighbors hate them and they are a western collony.
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  2099.  @louiscypher4186  Isreal is going to have trouble in the transition from US domination to a time when the world accepts the Brics institutions... Isreal is associated with Brenton Woods institutions...
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  2100.  @cf2851  'Certinaly an improvment over the desasterous democratic party.... If nothing else than that the American people said Nein to democratic party gaslighting...
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  2101. Trump IS president.
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  2102. I wouldn't count on it. If Kenedy gets through the demcoratic primary which is not likely, he is possible he would be aposed by the powers that be and Trump would be lionized by the media....
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  2103. My feeling is that kind of retoric is against FB policy... I left FB after questions about the war in Ukraine early on got me kicked out.
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  2104. Yes, the EU has gone along with US domanance but the US doesn't know what it is doing.
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  2105. It is sad.... We will welcome Trump to the whitehouse but his policies mocked, over riddedn by the deep state and the policies that were implemented are copied by the democrats.... Sad that is all we have.
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  2106.  @maryhuckaby2239  I believe it is prabable that Trump will win. It won't make any real difference in policy but it will drive MSM and our democratic party tormenters nuts.
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  2107.  @WagnerWithShovels  Harris is reasonably more unpopular than anyone... What makes the difference for me is that electing Trump will piss off a lot of the democrats who have been gaslighting me for years.
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  2108.  @GeoffDay-t4g  How do you define world debt? Where do you get these statistics?
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  2109. Wars have started and Wall Street has trained western economies brittle and unresponsive to the needs of their people. The zombie apocalypse of a precipitous drop in asset values is apron us. There is some hope after that.
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  2110. Dima of Millatary Summery Channel is very interesting with his ideas about the millatary rediness in all it's aspects.... What he seems to miss is that the war was waged for the sanctions. The biggest driver of the sanctions how wall street dominated russia and feels that the system needs to be the strongest in the world in order to dominate the world.... And they miss dominating russia.... Economics is driving the conflict...
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  2111. It sounds like good news for me as a mechanical designer.
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  2112.  @oliveeisner8964  Natasha [Fatale] Badenov! 'Huge fan.
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  2113.  @SvetlanaVladimirova8590  Democracy is on the ballot. Don't you know Trump was installed by Putin? Greetings!
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  2114. Democracy is on the ballot. Don't you know that Trump was installed by Putin?
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  2115. Get your self rigth with the basics.... The sky is blue every G. D. day @johanhallgren 
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  2116.  @johanhallgren  Real debt is debt that is in someone else's currency... That is where hyper inflation can fuck you up...
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  2117.  @johanhallgren  The EU is similar in that they can actually print or allocate Euros that they can either print or credit to an account... It depends on how the debt is enumerated... It is possible that they can get their sorry act together.
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  2118.  @captainblake4574  It could happen.. Maybe not tomorrow.
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  2119. The west's war strategy is much like the German corpral's during world war two.
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  2120.  @wyliamulayye7534  The west's war strategy is so much like the crazy corpral it is amazing.
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  2121.  @yurichtube1162  They will lose their jobs in national elections but they are going to very nice bashes right now and ;making currncy that they are trading for unimaginable genraltional weath... It is possible that he guiatines will be the P&C that puts an end to this era.
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  2122.  @buttercuptaylor7135  Hudson has much more respect for western economists [who didn't study clasical economics] than the Duran suggests they deserve.... They odviously set Russia up for success.
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  2123.  @puppets.and.muppets  Try reading his works.... Here he is explaining why Russia is gaining from sanctions... He THE shit.
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  2124.  @whatwasithinking-jt9nz  I don't know. It seems like they die because of monopoly overhead. When trying to revive their industrial-monopolistic advantages they destroy themselves and loft their 'enimies' into higher forms of industrial capitalism. Impiralism seems like it is the big destroyer of many civilizations for like forever.
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  2125.  @Rwswal  Arguably Obama could get the prize for saving the US and world economy for his work supporting real estate cartells and banks. That is a gift that keeps on giving.
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  2126.  @alxdava2004  While we aknowledge Trump's failures, we can still feel like he is not as failed as Biden.
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  2127.  @alxdava2004  Perhaps he will get the prize...
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  2128. If we elect Trump will the EU try and sink our economy?
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  2129.  @flyrodmike  I'm trying to wake up... Monroe doctrine 'sea to shining sea' in the Americas... Owned and operated by the whites who kicked out the Cheroke... That isn't what I meant... I think I was referring to the Martial Plan in Europe after world war two and asking if it was a good analogy for the belt and road initiantive.
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  2130.  @l.w.paradis2108  It looks like my third comment was weird as well when I was responding to a troll... The first comment was crypic.
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  2131. The problem is that the west is disinvesting in indusry while the east is growing industry.....
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  2132.  @eagletalons5333 The bible is something of a Marxist document.
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  2133.  @sarahbrown5073  I am a neophite when it comes to currency values... I stuggle to get a handle on it.
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  2134. 'No clue... I have no clue what she is going through or how she is dealing.
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  2135.  @РафаэльСаркисянц-ъ2т  Please excuse the misspellings.... If any caused a problem.
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  2136.  @РафаэльСаркисянц-ъ2т  Hudson illustrate the contrast between financialized capitalism by comparing it to Russia during Perestroika and industrial capitalsm by what china is doing....
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  2137. The west is abandoning capitalism where as the global majority don't want to be under the thumb of herediatary aristocracy on Wall Street.
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  2138.  @besovereign2032  I figure Batman and Robin; Obama and Reagan were worse.
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  2139. Doesn’t everyone know by now that Trump was installed by Putin?
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  2140. How was Trump right? I generally don't follow Trump.
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  2141.  @TheTaoofEternalWar  Little levity.... Goes a long way...
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  2142. When is the western media going to cacth up to this 'russian misinformation'?
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  2143.  @johnnydeppsky3510  What I am trying to specify is that the takers in the west get all the money from the makers and think they are making it..... That destroys the capacity to create capital.... It is the same process that happened as far back as ancient rome.... Now we are connected with other societies in the east that are making capital so I think we are safe from a major dark ages.
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  2144.  @timmy-wj2hc  The refference of war started in '22 seems to be Ukraine and the... What was the presentation? I was watching PBS news and all of congress was ready to kill tick tock... It seems as if they can't control the narrative on these platforms they will destroy the platforms.
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  2145.  WinnieThePoohisGay  I am sure I willl watch Alex's video with a weird sense of amusment.... It is still Holloween season in the states.
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  2146.  @vaska1999  I think it is the Germans who are being vicitmized by the US and their goverment.... How can anyone be so abjectly incompentent? Maybe it is outright theft.
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  2147. At the end of the presentation there is an add to donate to Biden reelection campaign.
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  2148. ​ @MelittaFilter-c4g  This is where I usually pour cold watter on Germans saying "Congradulations you are sending all your industry to the US".... But I feel bad for Germany.... The US has internal problems own neoliberal making that we could have sorted out after the banking crisis if not for Obummer.
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  2149.  @liamthompson9090  I voted for Trump but I thought that Biden MIGHT do some of his FDR kinds of things via his campaign promisses. That would have made him the best president since Reagan [inclusive]. Unfortunatly we have the absoultly fabulous example Trump to be the best president for like forty years...
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  2150. ... Wich is actually counter to the capitalist revolution or a reversion from the capitalist revolution.
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  2151.  @SvetlanaVladimirova8590  I think the answer is in the word empire. Imprialism seems to be a poison pill leading to what we call now a days neoliberlism.... Rome, Holly Rome... The dizing array of modern impiral groups including England and the US... 'Got to figure if there is industrial focus rather than a rentier focus and there is a goverment in place to enforce it, there can be something that is bult to last.
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  2152.  @Sternvogel007  Good catch.... Arguably Neoliberalism is a return to feudalism.... "If you let "makers" keep more of what they make and don't give it to the "Takers" then you get more" is attributed to Reagan and is actually Marxist if you are actually identifying makers and takers correctly.
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  2153.  @c.p.b1165  After the fall in Asset values, there is another '08 and we have another oportunity to make a change. This time it won't be with the forign money...
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  2154.  @Sternvogel007  Good catch... Arugably Neoliberalism is not so much capitalism but a reversion to feudalism. Reagan said, and I paraphrase, If you let the makers keep more of what they make and don't take it away and give it to the takers you get more... A more marxist thing was never said.
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  2155. ​ @SvetlanaVladimirova8590  I seem to remember it being copacetic... I like your take on things. I done rad 'destiny of civilization' by Michafel Hudson.... You know how the Roman and Holly Roman epire's fell and those civilizatoions were destroyed? I feel like we are in a compleatly different situation. while the west takes after the impirialst model that destroys civilizations. I feel as if the west is intmately connected with the the east or Urasia and that the ocrginizational system [which tend to be more cooperative] that creates capital will win out and become addopted by the world that had the impiralist project.
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  2156. It is as if all of them are designed to give the Russian economy a bump.
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  2157. I am not sure he could plan to get off a stage he was on... He wears earphones that tell him what to do, he has cheat sheets for what questions people will ask, he can't read a teleprompter and he has people designated to lead him around... Don't blame me. I voted for Trump.
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  2158.  @LVArturs  Sadly Ukraine has lost sometthing on the magnitude of a half million millatary personel to death.... That is how many the US lost in all of World War two. Up until a couple of days ago, the fields were not passable. Ukraine had their logistics trafic jams bombed... One looked like a nuclier bomb went off and the devisation was like a tornado...
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  2159. Are you all real people?
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  2160.  @alexanderhaakan8829  Best regards from Chicago.... We have so many Venesuelans here that I even know the accent witout really knowing spanish. from Chicago.... We have so many Venesuelans here that I even know the accent without knowing spanish.... We have many native homeless as well.
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  2161. ​ @vaska1999  I get the impression that Putin is so hated in the western media because he stopped and even reversed the colonial status of Russia. It is notable that sanctions obstensibly agaisnt Russia has strengthened Russia's food, monitary and economic soverenty since '14, Russia ows us a lot of gratitude in the ineptitude of sanctions which were sold as hurting Russia. It is clear that we don't have economists that can ballance a ledger in a candy store.
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  2162.  @alicasmally871  I think his bias is with the people who make the decisions on what will happen.... He sees things through the lens of the people who make things possible or not possible.
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  2163. "новому мировому порядку" Going to be a slow slog... If you compare what happened around Brenton Woods to what is happening now.... Russia don't got that much organization behind it...
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  2164. "новому мировому порядку" is going to be a slow slog. Brenton Woods was the established impiralists makeing the rules. Russia ain't got all that much power and have to create many of these institutions from scratch.
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  2165. It is quite the silly season in the states. If you listen to either the democrats or the republicans they will embarras you into voting for the other party. About the 'new world order', please study the end of world war two and how the impiralist allies carved up the world and created a currency [the dollar] to hold it all together. Russia ain't got that much pre orginized to do such a thing so fast. It will be a slow slog no matter what.
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  2166. The US seems to be aimed at isolating Europe from businesses that threaten the markets of their monopolies..... It seems to me that a goverment in exile [that Alexander describes] that isolates Europe frm Russia and perhaps the rest of the new silk road would be only effective thing the US has been doing and could do in the future.
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  2167. Best wishes. I hope you all have an election..
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  2168. The neocon project is an extention of the Reagan-Thacher neoliberal project... It is an kind of impiralism where you keep others disorganized and not able to defend themselves so that you can take everything they have.... For the very few there was some utillity in that.
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  2169. Yep..... I believe Alexander speaks too soon.... It is iffy that the Russians will give all the evidence 'cause they don't want to revieal their data collection techniques. They tracked the vehicle, v, ia cell tower datathat the terrorists were in all the way out of Moscow toward the Ukraine border, Ukraine had opened an escape hatch into Ukraine and 11 were arrested in the Moscow area..... The ISIS cover story broke down in other ways as well. ~Via interview with Scott Ritter.
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  2170. Yep..... I believe Alexander speaks too soon.... It is iffy that the Russians will give all the evidence 'cause they don't want to revieal their data collection techniques. They tracked the vehicle, v, ia cell tower datathat the terrorists were in all the way out of Moscow toward the Ukraine border, Ukraine had opened an escape hatch into Ukraine and 11 were arrested in the Moscow area..... The ISIS cover story broke down in other ways as well. ~Via interview with Scott Ritter.
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  2171. I feel like the idea that Kirsk would be not good for Ukraine was a done deal for those of us who are paying attention. Other predictions on the Duran I sometimes quible with...
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  2172. I don't get the feeling that no one got a peace plan or exit strategy.
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  2173.  @jaimhaas5170  The biden admistration is all puppits and clowns and don't need people who are skilled in any way.....
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  2174.  @OutragedPufferfish  A kind of clown tocracy that we have had in the US for a while...... As a long term democrat, I find Trump both more entertaining and less distructive over all than the democrats.... Democrats are trained to vote for 'the lesser evil'.
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  2175.  @hm-kq2mq  I think you all are the secound comming of Edith Massey... "Going nowhere real fast.... All you punks get off the grass"
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  2176. Glenn Deisen is essentially the duran at this point. I rather like it when Hudson is on.
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  2177. Alex argues that project Europe security is about having a unified army to quell decent withing Europe.... Very scary.
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  2178. Is it possilbe if the French go into Ukraine, that they can have a compleate safe surrender?
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  2179. @FunkyWinkerbean Any mention of the world's most famous economist even if it is misspelled will get your comment removed.
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  2180. I think Alexander didn't mean that the Russians and the Iranians are adversaries but he never seemed to catch that.
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  2181. They called the POWs that Hamass had "hostages" ..... They are not amune to the derogative language the western media hangs on it's rivals.
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  2182. The Russians are having some real issues with placing the 3000s.... Their tollerance is like two football fields or like a 500M diameter.... If they do make a hit on target it is devistating.... I have no idea what the distruction radious is.
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  2183.  @agamemnonofmycenae5258  Who from the US admistration would best play "Cong Rides the Bomb" in Dr Strangelove?
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  2184. The EU, UN, World Bank, IMF..... Are all inventions and puppets of the US and it's neoliberal-neocon expiriment.... The expirment is failing.... It is scary...
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  2185.  @davidboi4025  For Wall Street... There I fixed it for you.
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  2186.  @GenghisX999  Better the devil you don't know when Biden is War.
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  2187.  @rayc59  I have been democrat all of my life.... If the democrats fullfilled any of their campaign promises they would be much better than Trump but alas they have similar policies and are willing to get out flanked on the left by the republicans.
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  2188.  @joelturley4847  We need to aknoledge that the Chinese stock market won't rival the US's until long after they are the aknoledeged industrial capitlaists of the world.
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  2189.  @joelturley4847  Romor has it that Evergrand will be alowed to fail. China isn't looking to price labor out of housing. That is why they will continue to grow in INDUSTRIAL CAPITALISM after becoming the biggest manufacurer in the world. In the US if the goverment finds criminal realistate cartels not only give them money and don't prosecute them but they throw the people they swindled out of their houses and give the housing to the banks. The impiralist-feudalist model is a 3000 year old recipe for disaster that has been destroying civilizations for that long as well.
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  2190. It is disapointing that you, Alex and Alexander don't really know how money is issued... Deficit Myth by Stepany Kelton is a good start to understand that process.... One can acutally go on to study Michael Hudson.... If your language dosn't represent that orthodoxy you aren't representing what is going on at all.
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  2191.  @katerina_m6643  They said something telling: that when the russians paid off their debt they were thought to be autoritarian by the US.... It seems to follow what they call the 'wolfowitz[sp] doctrine where no nation or groups of nations can become equal or stronger than the states.... That was impossible to maintain...
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  2192. My knee jirk reaction is that he is getting the support of his commandos although he is not a commander.... He seems to feel their pain deeply and has become something of a screemer who forgets his tirades.... In that he is a valuable asset to the Russian millatary...
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  2193.  @heatherconner1125  If it were me and I was interviewing Putin, I would focus on US Russian 'PR' and laughing about it.... Of course I would have teams on both sides crafting the interview and focussing on the American audience... I kind of knew what Putin would say otherwise...
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  2194. He farts in the bathroom.
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  2195.  @johnbodman4504  What is the strongest narrative in the wold?
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  2196.  @johnbodman4504  How did Ukrane win?
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  2197.  @janefirn1328  I would agree that in many case, the democrats are to the left of the repubublicans when it comes to retoric. But tell me: How are the democrats are less right wing than the republicans when it comes to policy?
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  2198. ​ @totallybonkers2447  The democrats are right wingnuts who persecute anyone who doesn't agree with their whacky edicts... And those edicts are; more war, more money for wall street, kick people out of their houses, villify whole ethicities, no healthcare.... And when they do have some good ideas that perhaps would save western civilzation they don't follow through on them... Then they say that they are the best thing since FDR and thank MLK for everything they think they are.
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  2199. What you all think about the western response to the coup in Niger? It is notable that Bakina-Fasau[sp], Mali and Algeria have made overatures to come to the defnce of Niger and that Nigeria is being considered as a western backed miitary invasion force.
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  2200. ​ @paulmartinson875  Like the results of institutitons set up in Brenton Woods and domiated by the US?
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  2201.  @joeanthony7759  I am not sure the fed is quasi private but their behavior is to give private banks all the money they want at very low interest rates. They do this as a kind of scaffolding to hold up the stock market and other asset valuation and when the valuations fall the president and congress get involved to give them grants to prop up those valuations after they fall. In the process they make monopolies, destroy industrial productive processes and create false scarcities. This is not really what Marx, Adam Smith, Mills and other classical economists were speaking about of when they say 'capitalism'. Adam smith was indevoured to create capitalism out of a system much like the one the fed is enforcing. That economic model is more popularly thought of as feudalism. Ronald Reagan's Neoliberalism is essentially feudalism by another name.
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  2202. ​ @joeanthony7759  I am very frustrated with wolff... I wonder if he has been coopted like the black block or something. He has one word for capitalism as if it was the one that marx, adam smith and mills had.... And all we need to do is to go on strike at the local level to demand higher wages and control over the work place and that would SOLVE THE PROBLEM. That indeed was the idea behind marx who thought that capitolism would be an evolution to making more capitol while reducing rents... Marx was wrong. The capitalism that evolved from feudalism can and did revert back to feudalism via the neoliberal project of the last forty years. Now we are in a centrally planned economy by vulture capitalists.. Wolff can't see that.
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  2203. Obama made it worse as well and neither party want to get out of it. What they want to do is give everything to the uber wealthy.
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  2204. I like the click bait.
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  2205. If biden kept his campaign promises, a dialong about trump running and if he did inevatably winning wold make no sense at all.
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  2206. It is also aknoledged that the wheat is rotten as well as contaning toxins.
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  2207. Obviously this is the genesis of the inevitable zombie apocalypse.
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  2208.  @alicenchang1944  The US seems confused by constant consistant peace proposals that never change year in and year out...
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  2209. ​ @FarmerSchinken  U don't live in germany or the US midwest... The western 'new world order' is finnished...
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  2210.  @DMZDMX1  I am not even sure the CIA thinks uikraine has more tanks then when they started although it is the kind of thing they say... There are many choke points on Ukraine's side of things.... One is artillary rounds. The west just gave them 300K rounds. They use up 4 to 6 [K] rounds a day to Russia's about 20 [K].... The west makes 15K rounds a month... In contrast Russia has INFINATE amount of amuntion. When the artillary rounds are gone Ukraine will be without anything to stop a russian advance. You know when you have a process like in a computer or in a manufacturing plant there are diffrent processes that take time?.... The macine works at the speed of the slowest part of the process. It is possible to show where the Ukraininian war machine has a choke poinit.... Artillary rounds are one that will make the machine stop but their might be another that gets there first.
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  2211. Weopon systems and amuniton in this rail line logistics hub was hit in this region. Ukraine has very little air cover that the west can't replace.
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  2212. As the west is bored with montonmous Russian peace proposals and refuse to move people out of areas of the Ukraine millatary rail lines... People will get hurt.. It is a crying shame where a half a million Ukrainan service members lose their lives. Time to dust off the peace proposals.
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  2213.  @QRAFTtube  Balderdash! 'Time to make a few observations that contridict your percieved millatary impirialst intetions of China. How can you say that China has any millatary designs on Siberia when they are geeting economically and millaterilsy cozy with Russia who's map shows soverenty over Siberia? I believe that you can divine China's real estate impirialist intentions by asking yourself "How many millatary bases China has around the world?? In answer to the question of millatary bases the answer is NONE! The new game of hegimony is being played out ecnomically where the US is percievng dollar hegimony as slipping [it is].... So they are making causes that make dollar hegimony slip faster by confiscating dollars held by forign banks...
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  2214. Into the bog they go.... There is about a mile of bog to the next river in the delta. No... There ain't no Russian troops in the mud.
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  2215. It's a trap.
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  2216.  @haphazardprism  I have answered three questions, and that is enough, don't give yourself airs! Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff? Watch out before I kick you down stairs.
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  2217.  @haphazardprism  It does seem like a squishy answer.... What ever happened to "Can Ukrane win the War?" Answer YES... Because... Or Answer: No... Because? Does AI really know? If a tree falls in the woods and no one sees it did it happen?
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  2218.  @haphazardprism  Is the comment all corectly spelled? How do you know it is an AI that made this comment?
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  2219.  @Icantkeepout  I am not sure what the AFU is doing... The maps show that they are occupying a kind of in-land delta in the Nepro river.... It is much easier to take observations than to understand why someone is doing something or predict what they will do next. An example is when the democrats were calling half of the citizens of the US 'putin puppets', rong, hard to imagine what they would acomplish by that and impossible to say what they will do next. I am not a millatary analist but it is hard for me to imagine why the Ukrainain defece force was doing on that bog...
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  2220.  @Icantkeepout  I am not that mature.... I have a rivalry with my brother.... He thought for sure that Ukraine was winning after last fall when they took some teritory saying that Russia lost three times as many GIs to death. when I knew they were losing... The ontly way to keep score at that point seemed to be real estate on the battle field... I happened to know the west's dog [Ukraine] had lost the proxy war by that point. Now I follow genral positions on the battle field. The other day the maps showed that Ukraine had taken up postions in bog, or delta, in the southern area of Kirson[I think that is the name] on the south or east side of the Nipro river... The bog is about a mile wide... The landing looked to me as if it was a landing on that bog... Today I have a broken leg that is healing... After a month I am not moving much... I hope the broken leg imparts some empathy on me for all the Ukrainian GIs that are getting killed.. Now I know how it feels to get broken up.
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  2221. Look twice, jump once... Now they stuck in the bog...
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  2222. Let us hope....
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  2223. There are two narratives here: CIA talking points and Russian Disinformaiton.
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  2224. Was Graham who said that we would fight to the last Ukrainan?.. I used to think I was a liberal democrat but the democrats are now for the war, pro censorship, for strengthening the banks, anti union, pro servailence state, for monopolies and won't fullfill any of their campaign promises.
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  2225.  @chucknorris277  How many Nigerians do you know? Can you name a town in Nigeria or a single ethic group?
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  2226.  @AzurePursuer  Yep.... Nikki smells exactly like Hillary.... They both suck.... I am tradtionally a democrat who wanted trump to win that time....
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  2227.  @SouthernGal5534  Fox is just as daffy as the rest of MSM..
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  2228. ​ @alisonhouse2929  If 3/4 of us don't want trump we will vote for trump anyway because, you know how democrats are "lesser of two evils"
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  2229.  @edvice00  He said that the republicans made very few requests where as the democrats were on board with censoring the american people... AOC was one of them.... Marie Newman also said that there was a bunch of bots as well.... I got tired of the hype and voted for trump who probably would have been much better than biden.
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  2230. I hate Laura Ingram.... She has a all the wrong things in common with Joe Biden...
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  2231.  @razz-8031  Yes.... It was mostly waiting around on boats.
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  2232.  @dantheman6607  Watch out. Asset prices are over valued.
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  2233.  @prayup2  Joe would give them guns and tell them to kick you out like he does the Palistinans.
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  2234.  @dhayden1981  Foreigners? Like the tens of thousand Palistinians Joe is sending to their deaths?
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  2235. Yea! Demexit.
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  2236. Wrong! We are in a compitieion of industrial capitalism vs feudalism and we are losing.
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  2237. You guys can talk for hours and say nothing at all...
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  2238.  @gunterthekaiser6190  Very bad... Damian is right about how many nazis are there. .
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  2239.  @damianmcgowan3614  Even nazis are people... Lets wish them all well...
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  2240. I suppose so... But the GIs will be dead.
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  2241.  @GnosticAtheist  We have to give the soldiers that luxury... Their lives matter as well.
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  2242. Let us hope she doesn't do that too often and gets killed.
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  2243. I would be more conserned about the eminent colapse of europe... The reason for the west pusing for war was that they wanted to isolate russia and china economically... That puts europe in a bind that they seemingly willingly put their head into the lion's mouth... The next sounds we will hear are a crunch.
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  2244.  @christopherwood2290  I just live in a major city... I work for the federal goverment as well. Is there a reason why the cops SHOULD be lying in court? Have you ever seen them say the truth to you in person or in court?
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  2245. It feels like Yemen can negotiate with the Saudis to shut down this rout...
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  2246. If more Israeli civillians are killed by the IDF then by Hamas, are Israelis used as human shields by Hamas?
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  2247.  @cjmann3033  Most of my comments are deleated... I don't like the democrat's gaslighting and neoliberalism.
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  2248.  @punapeter  So painfull.... "Democracy is on the ballot" ... "Trump was installed by Putin"... Gasligting is like everything the democratic party and MSM says...
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  2249.  @cjmann3033  I am traditonal democrat on board with what I thought was the democratic party of FDR.... Now it is more Reagan than Reagan or turned to neoliberal... In general the republican party is proundly neoliberal but they have a lot of room to outflank the democrats on the left.
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  2250.  @cjmann3033  I do pay attention to Hedges.... The democrats have taken on all of the properties of arch conservatives of the past.
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  2251. Yet it OK to kill hundreds of millions in Ukraine?
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  2252. Isn't it that most of the death on October 7'th was due to Israeli ordinace including Israeli death?
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  2253.  @josiealvarado2296  I don't know.... It is very possible that she could live happy and healthy..... Or not...
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  2254. Paitience is nessessary.... I am sure they won't hold out for a few months.
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  2255. They should quit this stupid war with Russia, find out who destroyed the Nord Stream piplines and get europe back on an industrial footing... That way they wouldn't have to destroy their homes.
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  2256. As of late may, early june this region is the last of the milatarized line in the donbass region. It is compleatly cut off from any re-suply from western Ukraine.. There is said to be 15,000 Ukraine regulars in this region surrounded by russian altelery... Being blown to bits...
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  2257.  @bolianpinch-sj1mc  What are your favorite 'shovels'?
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  2258. Arguably the US has a navy.... Yemen dosn't have a navy and they can sink US navy ships at will.
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  2259. They fabricated the whole thing, lied to the FBI and got indicted by the FBI for lying about it under oath.
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  2260. Get used to it... How many people see it?
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  2261. It is hard to imagine that it will be over soon.... It has fullfilled the US goals of increased weopons and isolating russia and china from europe... Europe is not in charge or they would have balked at the isolating sanctions that are mostly directed at them.... They do what the US wants.
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  2262.  @akm824  China came out of a hudred years of shame by engaging in the economic activity of the world. It is the same way that Russia overcame it's desent into colonialism in the ninties.... Now that both contries are industrializing and the west is deindustrializing, who do you think west Africa can work with to get out of their more than two hundred years of shame?
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  2263.  @ah6121  Millions of people, hundreds of years.... The Chinese show that it can be done.... I beleive that the argument that you, we, need to make is that equity causes not only genral prosperity but MORE prosperity... I believe that if we step out with industrialization and creating capital that we are better off than saying equity alone... It seems as if there is an air of inevatabity that slowly regions in Africa will start to stand up... It is important that we represent our interests in a way that is palatable to the retoric of shall we say 'capitalism' ... A captialism [indsutrial capitalism] that the west has abandoned.
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  2264. @@doesntmatter7739 Why they ask to be connected to the swift so that they can sell grain and fertelizer? That was part of the grain coridor deal... Their grain dwarfs Ukrianian grain... The coridor was being used to attack russian ships that were guarding the coridor and the Terkstream pipline. It was also used to attack Crimea and the kirk bridge as well as running arms to Ukrainan ports. All of those were the agreements. The west never worried for starving people and made IMF loans to indebt those contries and set terms that they were not to grow their own food but buy from the US. That is because they are supporting international food monopolies... The west lements that they don't have as much power when it comes to confiscating dollars that they used to have and they can just print those dollars. Russians were food sanctioned starting in '14 and created the biggest wheat export in the world. I don't really understand all the dynamics of China but they have been building infrastructure around the world... I figure Russia functions in a similar way and after the grain deal was never implemented they offered to send grain to several African countries for free.
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  2265. Very solid: The US is willing to fight to the last Ukrainian... The US got what it wanted; it is giving loads of arms to [sombody anybody] and it is further able to isolate europe from russia.... Of course it going to fight to the last Ukrainian, afghani... It is consistant in that.... Of course China doesn't want to have it's currency destroyed by taking nations reseve yuans in their banks. It wants to make it the world's medium of excange... I am not sure why the americans arn't more sensitive to destroying the dollar.
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  2266.  @billnikola2463  I like the way Trump said that the US annexed part of Syira to steal the oil... It is refreshingly candid.
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  2267. The depleated uranium is very toxic and never goes away. It is very serious..
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  2268.  @jonahblack6417  Ukaine is insisting that they suffered no losses of Patriot bttary systems from the missle attacks in Kyev. Ukraine is insisting that the Russians trained six hyper sonic missles around Ukraine that were shot down by Patriot systems. Zelinsky's assesment is Ukraine was able to shoot down these hypersonic missles because of Ukrainian people having resolve and determination. My impression is that the people of the US tend toward the assesment that Ukraine can win aginst evil Putin because they have this kind of resolve. I have the feeling that eventually there won't be any more weapons that the collective west can send... The war was waged to institute sancions aginst Russia. Those sancitons as if designed to strenghten Russia in a lot ow ways and Russia seems to be doing it's best to take advantage of this huge gift by the west. Internationally Russia is also taking advantage of the loss of reputaion of the dollar's safety.when the US can confiscate dollars and gold if they put their money in US dominated banks. Russia tends toward not taking a lot of ground. My assement is that they will slowly expand into Ukraine when Ukraine is in colapse.... So slowly that the west won't have to aknowledge the colapse of Ukraine.
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  2269. ​ @fikarrusdiawan9562  I can understand why under the cercomstaces that Ukraine needs to have massive amuniton dumps and massess of personel; they have been given a goal of an offensive within a few months as well as some of the amuniton to achieve that attack. That amuniton starts at the pollish and or romaian border and must be transported by land more that six hundred miles. If they step off road or rail they are knee deep in mud the only exception to the mud rule this year is like last week and this week. That causes a real problems when they don't have any, or adiquate, air cover. The russians know where all the ammo dumps, their masses of personel and equimpent are and can pick them off any time they want. It is little wounder Russia maximizes their targets and taragets that are ammo dumps look like nuclier blasts. The sad thing is that many of their targets are thousands of Russians and Ukrainains that are serving as Ukranian military personel.
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  2270.  @cravingtuna1561  Russia never bombed the capital of Ukraine.... Ukraine has no such restraint.
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  2271. Kind of surprising... I thought Al Jasera[sp] was a reliable source.
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  2272.  @SpecialMuppetOperation  Very thoughtful... It is possible that Russia could have saved more lives of their contry men by being rude....
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  2273. Ukrainains prefer that they stay in place and suffer artillary strikes and lose their legs while stepping on pettal bombs...
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  2274. It is possible that he was facing orders that were not ethical as well.
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  2275. What to do?
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  2276. I don't understand the commentators conserns. Sanctions have been a big boost to russia and for the most part Russians are happy about that.... People who are otherwise engaged don't reach out for war.
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  2277. A lot of beutiful critters figure out how to live here... cyotes, coons.
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  2278.  @terjeoseberg990  Russia has punched the citizenship card of more than 100K unkrainain service men and has on the order of 10 times the artillary of the collective west... It doesn't matter anymore how much personel Ukraine sends to the front, they will be ground up by russias lopsided preparedness.
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  2279.  @paulgibbon5991  Is Botski a source of 'russian disinfomraion' that tends to be more factually based than the main stream medai that tends to think that trump was installed by putin? Do you have a refference for the Botski report?
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  2280.  @clarkkent4075  My understanding is that Zelinski said the Crimea is owned by Ukraine and that the people or Ukraine are mentally prepairing to take it back. A more effective strategy of anexing the Crimea is to have the millatary and the machines that could go up against a general mobilization of the Russian army... This is a nato or world operation that would take ten years to prepaire for.... After eight years of preparing for an ivasion by Russia, it is unlikely that Ukraine will be able to keep much by spring.
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  2281. Very interesting skit by Ukraine comedians.
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  2282. They bravely voted for Putin like 90% with people voting in Russian consolites in the US for Putin in wide margins. Did we get back the results from Lugansk and Donesk?
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  2283. As President Putin is increasingly popular and the economy of Russia has some powerful long term eassitance in it's growth via sanctions, perahps most 'regimes' are relatively fragile compared to Russia's
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  2284.  @teleguy5699  Yes the Russians have air Supriority as apposed to Supremicy.... This means that for the most part they can see whatever they want to see and decide when and if they want to target it.... The biggest exposions in the region have occured since Ukraine took down it's comunication devices where local people can up load the videos of the explosions... I am sure recordings of amo depots will come out of Ukraine some day... Ukraine has a probem in that the ground gets vehicles stuck Ukraine needs to use the roads and train tracks to move stuff.... This and the long supply lines make it so that here is tactical consintrations that the Russians can see... In the long term, allmost every aspect of sactions strenghtens the Russian economy, food, monitary, manufacturing..... This is in contrast to how the 90's, when Russia thugth they could profit from being a friend of the west and it destroyed them... In being an enimy of the west, Russia is proffiting.... Sanctions usually kill many hudered thousand people, in Syria, Venezuela... They are a real assist for Russia to thrive...
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  2285.  @teleguy5699  Ukraine dosn't have the equimpent, amunition, personel or air cover.... Russia is benifiting massively from the sanctions that were the reason for the war... Sanctions are shaping the main battlefield where all the wars will be faught.
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  2286.  @gregbeyer9507  The russians started a defensive industry not long after Putin got rid of the kleptocracy that Yeltsin left....The US and allies have a millatary industrial complex that is more based on short term gain than on production and defence. The collective west is at a disadvantage going up against Russia. Western armies arn't ready to go to war against Russia. The West will lose.... That is the army that they have.
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  2287.  @vigilante8374  There is two choices about the war: The Truth as told by the CIA, US main stream media and US funded Ukraine goverment.... Earlier itterations of what it took NOT to be a 'comrade' or 'putin puppet' was that in order NOT to be a Russian Bot you had to believe Trump was intalled by Putin. So if you profess not to be a 'purin puppet' your an idiot.
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  2288.  @gregbeyer9507  I think they are going on the analysis of Lindsay Graham or John Bolton.... A wish is not a plan.
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  2289.  @quietus13  It is like rates of capital investment.... The Russians have the military industrial capacity as well as the social millatary capacity to overcome Nato over time.. Perhaps their peace proposals are borring you to tears? The point is that they have the capacity to get rid of a threat at their border... This includes political capacity, industiral capacity including the socal capacity in terms of millatary orginsation to get rid of this threat... The odd thing is that the war was an effort to have sancitons obstenively against russia odd that they seem to be designed to streghten russia over time... The contridictions of the western strategy and tactics are enough to take your breath away... Don't think about it too much... People can be abjectly incompentent.
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  2290.  @bluskytoo  Indications are that the Russians are ploding along with an offesive of their own.... Sanctions have also been a huge boon to the Russian economy, just as the west has issues with their millatary output.... So the Russians are all good on that front as well.
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  2291.  @CornPopWazABadDude  There really wasn't' an 'offensive' by the Russians in about a year.
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  2292.  @777Revlon  Perahaps we need to let the people of central and south america make their own industry and economy... Then the 'invasion' of refugees on the southern border would stop. I have mixed feelings about that... I like them a lot and will miss them if they don't come.
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  2293. This has got to stop now or the vast majority of them will die.
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  2294.  @johnsmith1474  What are you talking about? He should figure out where the enimy is and attack if he wants to win... That is the general idea.... War is stupid but if you are doing it then you do it.
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  2295.  @RecoveringAhole  Prgorzion is NOT IN CHARGE of Wagner... He has no place in a Wagner chain of command at all. He is not in any Russain millatary chain of command... He is a non combatant.. I figure he is a good cheering section for the Wagner group..
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  2296. Russia produces many times the grain of Ukraine and they can't sell the grain because of sancitons... The war is not about saving Ukraine it is about sanctions that have a devistating effect everywhere but in China and Russia..
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  2297. He would be lucky to keep his head on his body over the next year.
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  2298. I think he is trying not to lose his head.
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  2299. Why are we doing this?
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  2300. And the rank and file in the democratic party is getting very tired of democratic party gasligting.
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  2301.  @SteveSMAE  It ain't stumping for Trump when you voted for Obama twice and Bernie in the primaries...
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  2302. If they could put his real spirit on the thumbnail it would hurt worse.
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  2303.  @obeastness  Much of that orginzation was run by industrial engineers who passed it off to financhal engineers... Western industry is heading toward finachialization over production.
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  2304.  @obeastness  I think I heard of Ford. The probem with that orginization is that while it was run by industrial engineers it got taken over by finachial engineers.... The tech got trasfered to the industrializing east where as the west was couped by bankers.
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  2305.  @obeastness  So they just dump them off on the battle field and hope to get spare parts when they are done? They need a hight degree of standardisation to be able to quickly twist up another bike from parts.
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  2306.  @joelee3716  It is crazy hard to take any town.
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  2307. My understanding is that the rebs and the government in exile is funded by the US in a kind of collor revolution to destroy transportaion systems and economic engines that are close with China.
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  2308. The 'democratic' govement in exile along with their war machine was a set up by the US to stop south east asia from industrial development. All it is is another color revolution.
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  2309.  @NeostormXLMAX  Max Bluminthal and/or Brian Burletec[sp] report that the Chinese are not supporting the Chinese ethnics in Burma and that is a CIA op. They are consistant with Michael Hudson and the behavior of economic subversion where the US blew up the Nord Stream pipe line.... No one can rival the US in economic power because the US is working for Wall Street and they want ownership of much smaller economic engines to skim them. This is also consistant with the behavior in the US where there is actually economic sabatage of industries like Boing as well.
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  2310. These big arrow ofensives are annoying.
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  2311.  @dsfgdgfgfhfh4690  I think he misplaced a decimal point.
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  2312.  @generalpanzerfaust2387  It's a joke.... Stupid!
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  2313.  @roddeazevedo  I am sure that is a quloqual saying that means something... Not to English speaking Americans... I never even heard it as a spanish speaking saying.
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  2314. Abrams MIAI tanks are in Moscow as we speak and New York has fallen to the Soviets.
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  2315.  @Jeki_toki  My point is that it would be a huge PR victory for the Russians if Zalinsky actually said that he was interested in using the population as "Human Shield" So big that I doubt that Zalinsky actually said that his intentions are to acutally have "Human Sheilds" to retard the Russian advances.
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  2316. ​ @Jeki_toki  Point well taken..... My query is if Zelinski actually said that he was using "Human Shields" ? ... I doubt that he used that language even if that was in his plans.
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  2317. I don't get it. Why don't they do the open cauldron seige that was so effective in other places?
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  2318.  @KirkoKirkov-slavaukraine  Where do I get paid?
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  2319. Putin said that the US controls the narrative and there is nothing he can do about it.
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  2320.  @Derna1804  Anyway.... I tend to think bias means what point of view you have.... If you have prejudices against say, jusice in America..... Are Juilan Assange and Trump being persecuted because they arn't part of the establishment and express things that the establisment want? Is Hunter Biden being treated with kit gloves becase if they wern't it would destroy Joe Biden's chances at the White House? There is another word 'propoganda' .... I tend to think propoganda is something that instills biases or information in someone... To me it is a nutral term...
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  2321.  @Derna1804  But we could have a bias that Ukraine is going to go to the sea of Azov.... Otherwise we migh thave a bias that they arn't... Isn't there anything like an objective bias?
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  2322.  @31mAyMgaYanga  I believe that if we be believe hard enough, Ukraine will break through Russias three defensive lines in the south, reach the Sea of Azov and cut off the Russians in Zaparosha[sp]... The only way this could not be possible is because we don't believe it.
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  2323.  @Derna1804  Could you introduce us to the 'objective bias'? Is there such a thing?
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  2324.  @historylegends  Pulling out great narratives with amazing writing.... It is clear you are devoting lots of time and energy into it...
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  2325. Interesting to look down at the weeds... So sad about all the death.
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  2326. You been hitting the books....
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  2327. ​ @Finnbobjimbob  My lmpression is that the war was about sanctions. Remember when Germany didn't open the nord stream two pipline at the US's request? Many resonably feel that the motivation behind the santions were to destroy the Russian economy.... Which is amazing if you consider econmics through a historic lense.... That economists would actually believe that the Russian economy would be destroyed by inforced protectionism, the kind that kick started the US economy in the 1860's or there about... It gives me the impression that those who call themselves economists cant find their hind end with both hands. As for people being delusional it is scary how many people really feel Trump was installed by Putin. Economists are out there as well.
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  2328.  @CreepBoot  You are right about the russian advances that they are slow. In other news Russia is producing 7 times the shells of the global west as well as 10 times the tanks and is recruiting 10 times the recruits..... Some of which are going to the doctor to reverse cronic condition diagnosis so that they can join the effort.... No good death on both sides but ten times the attrition on the Ukrainan side... Pehasp a colapse will come and there will be a leasurly advance.
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  2329.  @1345sgv  Now going off to certain death is considered patriotic...
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  2330. It is OK to have personal character when the last alterlery you will ever see is incomming. It is better to avoid your last moments a bit longer than that moment affords.
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  2331.  @niklaspetersenn5055  You said hopfully this madness ends soon... The goal of the US is to have this as another stable war. Palistine has been a very stable war....
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  2332. Unfortunately the only impact they will have here will be your memeories, regardless of the impact they have on heaven.
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  2333. The new life must be based on a religous faith because we know where he is going...
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  2334. The democrats easily do to the economy the same kinds of things. We don't need to give more to the wealthy.... Asset values will fall and they will get greedy and tell us we don't deserve anything at all.
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  2335. The democrats are just as bad as Trump or worse.... We TRIED and Tried and Tried with the democrats...
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  2336.  @NickDrinksWater  We have tried and tried and tried to support the democrats. They become whay out whacky fascist. Time to try Trump.
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  2337.  @NickDrinksWater  Trump is new. The democrats have become whacky way out fascist out the ass by ever metric availabe. Time to try something new.
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  2338. Which campain promises will the democrats fullfill this time? This time can't because they won't have the house senate or the presidency. That is becuase they NEVER want to fullfill ANY of their campaign promises.
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  2339. The democratic party's mannaged Reagan replecants are going full Reagonomics forever.
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  2340. And the new democrats.
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  2341. And we were lucky that Trump won...
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  2342. Even if she did, she wouldn't be as good as Trump... That really doesn't say that much for Trump though.
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  2343.  @TheBlackDogChronicles  Every time he says Harris is better than Trump, Bernie is lying. He knows better.
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  2344.  @brendabowen3877  The trend of rejecting neoliberal globalists in favor of nationalists in the sense of returning to local soverenty is happening in elections right across the 'free world'.
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  2345. I hate it when Bernie lies... Trump is certainly better than Harris.
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  2346. Why does Bernie lie?
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  2347. It doesn't matter.
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  2348. No one to vote for... I voted just to irritate them.
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  2349. ​ @TheReaverOfDarkness  Reagan said "If you let the 'makers' keep more of what they make and don't give it to the 'takers' you get more. I can't think of a more marxist thing to say.
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  2350.  @TheReaverOfDarkness  Jen Psaki’s MSNBC.... MSMBC is not responsible for the veracity of their content as well.... Comment deleated.
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  2351.  @TheReaverOfDarkness  AOC on Jen Psaki’s MSNBC's one on one compaling that Tucker Carlson insights violience. Again MSMBC is not responsible for the accuracy of it's reporting as they push the "Trump was installed by Putin" fib for years.
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  2352. I can't even listen to her when she is into censoring voices.... Those voices with those ideas can save the society and she is telling them to shut up.
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  2353.  @chetsenior7253  The real deal is that trump was the best president from before reagan inclusive.. The democrats have been there to enforce the barbarism [otherwise known as neolibralism] of the single party state and tend to be more effective barbarians.
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  2354. As an American, we will not collapse. When pumped up asset values fall and we are not the hegimonic nation we will either become barberic or we will chose captialsm [industrial capitalism now known as socialism] but we won't collapse
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  2355.  @TheReaverOfDarkness  good idea... How do you feel about land value taxation? How do we get there from where we are?
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  2356.  @TheReaverOfDarkness  I am obviously an evangelist of these ideas. The devil is in the details... It is possible to read "Destiny of Civilization' By Michael Hudson to get the details.
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  2357.  @TheReaverOfDarkness  That is just the point. Socialsits call what is actually capitalism socialism.... Actually and for reals.
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  2358.  @TheReaverOfDarkness  If we were actually making capital, rather than inflating 'asset' valueations and leveling austerity people would be happier no matter what you call it. Yes the capitalist revolution [idustrail capitalism] is called socialism now a days. What we call capitalist now a days are actually the anti-capitalist reactionary conter revolutoinaries.
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  2359.  @TheReaverOfDarkness  I had a comment with three breif paragraph that represent the compendium of human knoledge. Those paragraphs were headed What capitalism is *Capitalism reverting to Feudalism*, *Capitalist er [burp] Socialist revolution*... The secound paragraph sites the bible.
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  2360.  @TheReaverOfDarkness  What capitalism is The interesting thing is that both england and the US dot their start with industrial policies that we now call socialism. They went on to become imperil powers which seems inevitably to lead to neoliberalism. Capitalism reverting to Feudalism The bible warns against usury which is essentially neoliberalism. In history the imperial powers that we can cite are the roman, holly roman, english and US empires all declined and the earlier empires went into a state of 'dark ages' This suggests that neoliberalism kills civilizations. Capitalist er [burp] Socialist revolution In order to institute capitalism classical economists, Adam smith, advocated for land reform to take the rent, tolls, ownership away from the hereditary aristocrats. Since then classical economists have strengthened their terminology which has been suppressed and an academic non discipline has been substituted. Wall Street has become essentially a counter revolution to capitalism creating aristocrats.
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  2361. ​ @TheReaverOfDarkness  What capitalism is The interesting thing is that both england and the US dot their start with industrial policies that we now call socialism. They went on to become imperil powers which seems inevitably to lead to neoliberalism. Capitalism reverting to Feudalism The bible warns against usury which is essentially neoliberalism. In history the imperial powers that we can cite are the roman, holly roman, english and US empires all declined and the earlier empires went into a state of 'dark ages' This suggests that neoliberalism kills civilizations. Capitalist er [burp] Socialist revolution In order to institute capitalism classical economists, Adam smith, advocated for land reform to take the rent, tolls, ownership away from the hereditary aristocrats. Since then classical economists have strengthened their terminology which has been suppressed and an academic non discipline has been substituted. Wall Street has become essentially a counter revolution to capitalism creating aristocrats.
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  2362. Sanders did change the oberton window or narrative... The fact that he went back to his ordinary life after that is what it is. AOC complained about how the environment on capital hill agrivated her psych problems.... No good.
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  2363.  @gottagowork  It is not a nessesary evil to destroy capital, like we are doing in the west. Arguably that is the feudalism that we have struggled for generations to free ourselves from and failed.
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  2364.  @deannaartzbennett244  Agreed.... Can I spcify that we live in a planned economy that resembles feudalism where the east more resebles what we formerly thought of as capitalism... That capitalism is sometimes termed industrial capitalism and industrial captialism is arguably what they have in china.
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  2365.  @preshisify1  Check out Michael Hudson.
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  2366.  @ADude-f3z  Arguably Bernie is working on the US lexicon and has been doing a good job...
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  2367. DOA?
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  2368.  @cartoonraccoon2078  In what world would Biden be a better adminstrator than Trump? If we can't have Bernie we need to support the lesser of two evils.
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  2369.  @aylbdrmadison1051  And what is the DNC and Biden? As I remeber eveything that they said would happen with Trump happened with Biden including nulifying elections, starting wars perhaps nuclier war... But if you are not a Putin puppet you believe Trump was installed by Putin. We are at risk of being drowend in a hooey nuclier winter brought by the DNC.
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  2370. Biden, Obama have already been tremendous disasters for the human race. Trump is the lesser of two or more evils.
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  2371.  @geegaw1535  Where is the FDR, Henery Wallace or Bernie Sanders at the top of the ticket? We don't have those choices.
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  2372.  @geegaw1535  Bernie is also the opposite of what the DNC has become.
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  2373.  @geegaw1535  Rediculous.. I can't even reply to your comment. It gets delited.
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  2374.  @geegaw1535  Whaste of time to argue the lesser of two evils when the goverment is run by think tanks and NGOs.
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  2375.  @geegaw1535  Bernie is also the absolute oposite of what the democrats have become.. He is lying to you. That is where your wires are crossed. A discussion about the lesser of two evils is a whaste of time. The US is run by a shadowy group and not by the president anyway.
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  2376.  @geegaw1535  Bernie is the absolute opposite of what the democratic party has become... Perhaps one could also say he is the oposite of Trump as well. Bernie is lying to you about Trump. That is where your wires are crossed. This is an argument about who is the lesser evil and it is a waste of time.
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  2377.  @kpokpojiji  I was positively pre-desposed to AOC. I was dissapointed by her behavior. She turned into Palosi in record time.
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  2378. I am not sure why Porter isn't being interviewed and AOC is.
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  2379.  @kpokpojiji  Deadly disapontment....
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  2380. I do like the way Bernie suffers the insufferable gladly. He is a crochety old man when he passes in the hall, not that I care, he is entitled.
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  2381. Sure Porter.... AOC can pound sand.
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  2382.  @9211goat  AOC also came out aginst online speach. There are many clips saying how on line spaces need to be suppervised and different kinds of speach are violence.
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  2383.  @9211goat  Let's try again. AOC was point person against force the vote. At the time she said that the hill agrivated her pre existing psych problem. I am sure working on the hill is annoying but she let everyone know she was annoyed and said that she couldn't do nothing for us no more.
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  2384.  @9211goat  It is impossible to get a word in edgewise on Youtube because they deleate most of your comments. But I did respond with content with examples.
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  2385.  @9211goat  I do like Bernie and I am amazed how he can suffer AOC gladly.
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  2386.  @9211goat  AOC walked away from the force the vote, parlementary strategy that is and was being used effectivly by tea party republicans and is still being employed by repubicans. She also came out with many staments against freedom of speach... Freedom of speach is important because many minority opinions are resonable and good for the society where as most of the narratives pushed by the goverment are full of crap. If the democrats could see it in their hearts to fullfill any of their campaign prommises, biden would actually be more like FDR and better than Trump.
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  2387.  @matt3024  Agreed that the moral argument for captialism that Bernie is making is lost on most. The real argument was laid out by Reagan: "If you let people keep more of what they ake and don't give it to the takers you ge more" The idea that a more equitable distributon of wealth, by leting people keep what they make then you get less is backwards. Now we are giving all the money to the aristocrats and destroying industry and headed for a crash.
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  2388. Arguably you are describing the counter revolution to the capitalist revolution where the market gives everything to people who contribute nothing while taking from the people who make things.
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  2389.  @ronschiralli8150  I am was never aware of the US ever ending impirialism. In fact the Europeans are eseantially part of the US empire as well as Russia during the time of perestroika. The reason we hate Putin is because he was part of ending that impiralism in Russia.
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  2390.  @donHooligan  Hillary!!? The name that causes so much discomfort?
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  2391.  @donHooligan  Hillary? Just mentioning that name causes me physical pain.
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  2392. 'Definately voting for Trump.
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  2393. Which one?
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  2394.  @pagandragon830  My feeling is that you are taking democratic party gasligthing when Bernie Sanders delivers it.
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  2395.  @pagandragon830  I have examined many of the facts that I express. It is that they are true and don't follow the main stream democrats or deep state's narrative is the reason they are deleated.
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  2396.  @pagandragon830  I have been respoinding with details but they are deleated.
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  2397.  @debbieknight8901  It isn't values it is policy to support endless wars, lawfare, CIA-FBI, destruction of the economy by raising prices on the working clases and destroying buisnesses like Boeing.... All the things we thought were republican back in the day... Gaslighting [russiagate again].... Leave the tribe...
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  2398.  @pagandragon830  Most comments are deleated. Riddle me this: One canidate is open to giving press confrances and capaign appearances and made it through the last three open primaries, the other was picked by the party, never got a single delagate in a primary and is rearly accessable to the press. but the one that was picked in a coup is the defender of democracy?
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  2399.  @debbieknight8901  Try this on Youtube by Glenn Greenwald :Dems Desperately Revive Russian Interference Hysteria Ahead of Election
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  2400.  @debbieknight8901  As I remember Trump was persecuted for hush money to a prostitute. The argumet was that the money was from his campaign fund that was not declaired. Hillary kicked off Russia gate, a group of allogations that suggest Trump was installed by Putin, with the Steele Dosiar. She paid for that document out of campain monies that she didn't declare. She was conviced and had to pay some thousands of dollars. Not only were we subjected to years of gaslighting from the democrats but that was exactly what Trump was conivcted on for 34 felonies.
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  2401.  @debbieknight8901  So we need to prosecute freedom of speach? Scott Ritter was detained at the airport when he was going to the economic summit in St Petersburg. Democrats are saying that any idea that is against their positions is motivated by enimies in other countries as well as against 'science'
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  2402.  @debbieknight8901  The democrats pulled an 180 on their values and I pulled a 180 on the democratic party...
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  2403.  @debbieknight8901  I am not sure that the lawfair proves that Trump did anything terrably illegal. The autoritarian is Harris who I believe will be in favor of expanding these kinds of persecutions. It is upside down that Democrats come down so hard on freedom of speach... There is much you don't see.
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  2404.  @debbieknight8901  That is just the problem. Lawfair, assasinations, censorship, servailance and persecution is not the way to save democracy.....
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  2405. We haven't been an empire for that long...
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  2406.  @debbieknight8901  Bernie is lying. In this case Trump is safer.
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  2407.  @JustMe-ec2ph  Real sad. If the democratic party was the party of FDR they would never lose. All they have left is gaslighting their base... They even are reserecting Russia gate out of the depths of hell.
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  2408.  @debbieknight8901  New democratic party values are 180 degree turn from the values we had before. The democratic party and the FBI are doubling down on the russia gate conspiriacy theory.... It is the democrats that are driving us apart and becomming authoritarian while acusing Trump and the republicans of such a thing.
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  2409.  @debbieknight8901  It isn't that Trump is good it is that all the things that they are saying about Trump is more true about the democrats.... and often it isn't even true about Trump... Time to leave the tribe.
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  2410.  @debbieknight8901  Spisific: The Steel Doser that lead to years of democratic party gaslighting as well as an allogation that Bernie was a Russian agent. It was paid for by Hillary out of undeclared campain funds. That was the same allogation that Trump got 34 fellony convictions on..... But wait there's more.
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  2411.  @JustMe-ec2ph  Trump is just safer than Harris.
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  2412.  @perlovgren919  The left has abandoned left for contrived divisive identity issues. It is a ruse.
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  2413. @whiskeymonk4085 Idustries are being destroyed by 'capitalism' but capitalism good so we have to starve?
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  2414. ​ @brianmarcum8306  They will respond to losing by censorship and persecution.
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  2415.  @brianmarcum8306  I don't know how they will respond to losing to someone who went through three open primaries. Probably they will work on censorsip and persecution of people they deem enemies of the state.
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  2416. It is embarrasing that he speaks at the DNC.
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  2417.  @Gaeliclass  Bernie is lying. Trump is better.
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  2418.  @whiskeymonk4085  You probably don't know what the word socialism means. Now it means how capitalism took hold.
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  2419.  @susanelizabeth2222  If you do pay attention to what is going on.... It is appeartent how 'accelerationist' the dems are.... The probem seems to be that they are also more authoritarian than the repubicans.
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  2420.  @susanelizabeth2222  What is your apitite for being disapointed by dems? Even the 'squad' has a rotating bad guy.... If you elect dems to congress, even the 'squad' has shown that they won't fullfill ANY if their campaign prommises.... Only thing they have left is that they are 'lesser of two evils' until they arn't.
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  2421.  @AndreasSonntag  Arguably Trump is an unknown that is probably a little bit more progressive than Biden.
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  2422.  @truthseeker2648  He is WRONG and Bernie is WRONG.. Trump has become the lesser of two evils.
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  2423. But they aren't.
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  2424.  @Drumpf-4eva  The democrats are more against Bernie than Trump....
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  2425.  @Drumpf-4eva  It is like Bernie is respoinding to how the democratic party is keeping the American people hostage.
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  2426.  @truthseeker2648  I wish I knew how. The 'leftists' are very difficult in Chicago.
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  2427. So.... Who is the lesser of two evils?
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  2428.  @PhattyBolger  Don IS fassionably a CON.... Too funny.
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  2429. The democrats arn't going to do it. Trump is better.
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  2430. I am [was] a tradtional democrat... To me you see like what democrats have become: Forever Wars, Censorship, pro CIA-FBI, Wealth hording, deindustrialization, constant servailance, not fullfilling any campain promises.... With war in Ukraine, it is like the corpral from Austria who managed the Germany's world war two effots. Sadly Trump is not opposite of this fascism but just the lesser of two evils.
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  2431. I dutifully voted for Trump in service of Bernie Sanders goals of reforming the democrtic party and changing the lexicon.
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  2432.  @plastered_crab  The only threat to me is that my anger about being gaslight by the democrats won't be avenged. I want to threaten the gaslighters. There will be little if any difference in any substantive policies or perhaps the republicans are a bit more to the economic left.
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  2433.  @plastered_crab  I voted for Stein in '16, switched to Trump in '20... This time one canidate won three open primaies the other one was anointed by right wingnuts. Democracy IS on the ballot.
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  2434. Yes but Trump says the quiet part out loud where as the democrats hide their agenda with gaslighting.
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  2435. My feeling is that LGBTQ issues are astroturfed in as divisive issue to distract from the economic issues that Bernie sells. Sadly the democraic party is on the wrong side of those issues.
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  2436. Amazing how I also hate Repubican talking points. Imagine voting for such idiots?
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  2437. Not even as good as Trump.
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  2438. Thanks Bernie.... If the democratic party was behind you they would win.
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  2439. The democrats have internalized the reagan revolution... That is why.
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  2440.  @Ron_Coletta  Catia seems like a nice tool, My favorite flavor is Pro-wildfire-Creo.... I also did database barn cleaning... Get you a pitchfork.
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  2441.  @Ron_Coletta  ... Please excuse the short hand.... I was making a lot of macabre points.... Expression, not veracity is in them there comments.
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  2442.  @Ron_Coletta  I suppose the german government is fashionable once a year [holloween] ... [Nightmare on Elm Street] They are the personages of your dreams. If you have great english skills Garland Nixon has some colorful words for the EU...
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  2443.  @Ron_Coletta  I am in chicago. As a mechanical designer I stand to gain personally from the follies of the german's war on russia.
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  2444.  @Ron_Coletta  I know you are but what am I? German representation is would class...
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  2445.  @Ron_Coletta  We certainly deserve much better.... The world deserves better.... Europe deserves better... What is very perplexing is how we get leaders who are so stupid?... Especially europe right now.
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  2446.  @doccarter5283  I voted just to razz 'em.
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  2447.  @jpablo700  I am not in a republican area or I would probably lean more democratic... A problem occurs when you are liberal democrat from a democratic area and has been lied to and gas light by democrats for a long time... Start to question my political identity... No, putin didn't install trump...
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  2448.  @jpablo700  What are you on about? Voting early is maybe not the best system... In the best of all worlds, it would be a national holiday where if you have to work pay is time and a half... I am looking at my sample ballot and I am about half dem, because of acquaintances and a bernie rally and half republicans.
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  2449. So vote for Trump as the lesser evil.... I go and do that right now.
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  2450.  @jabbu2449  The democrats never said that mexicans would pay for the wall. That was Trump. This pronouncment by Trump was examined because it was contrived and extreme.... Democrats have pronouncments that are at least as whacky and contrived and the news forces the whackieness down your throat. Democratic party policies are the same as the repubicans but and those polices arn't examined while the democrts are at the helm.
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  2451. Trump is a distant secound, so vote for him.
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  2452. Bernie did a lot to change the narrative. Unfortunately he didn't save the democratic party from being the greater evil.
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  2453. I don't think the world will take on the oligarchs until asset values get knocked off the humpty dumpty wall.
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  2454. ​ @PetalPunkFairy  What has been happening is that the forign reserves of dollars have been the way strong nations have regulated their currency. When that wains the dollar will fall against the other currencies.. I have a gut feeling that the dollar will be around for a few more years as an very important world reserve currency in trading and holdings.
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  2455. At least they lost.
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  2456. It really is a return to feudalism.
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  2457.  @indigoscyberspace  It is amazing how some democrats and bernie fans are so tollerant of democratic party gaslighting that they troll people who point it out... Perhaps they took the gaslighting as their identity. It is easier to fool people than convince them they were fooled.
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  2458.  @Dogrunningwild  I hate the democrats. Bernie would have had you vote for Trump aganst the democrats if he were free to say so.
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  2459.  @italia689  Needless to say he would propose things that would make things better and he would be able to employ populist tactics to get things gone.
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  2460.  @yummydragon8533  It isn't a choice between Bernie and Trump... It is a choice between the democrats and Trump and in that case Trump is better than the democrats. The democrats support different factions in the destructive deindustrializing ruling class than the democrats. A loss for the demcorats gives them a chance to see if they can ever find their footing with the working class ever again.
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  2461. @DanteSimoncini Perhaps Trump Exaserbates the problem but not as fast as the democrats.
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  2462.  @amb7440  Liberals and democrats have become the authoritarian, not curious conservatitives meaning neocons and neolibs of our time. Old school liberals need to resist this...
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  2463.  @KrispyCREAME805  The democratic party definately prefers Trump over Bernie.
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  2464.  @danddietz  Haters of the economy who think they are capitalists but are feudalsit reactionaries don't like Bernie's message at all.
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  2465.  @DaMoose13  Bernie changed much of the narrative... He went back into his comofort zone... Now he has an oportunity because the demcorats lost to continue to change the narrative but the democrats needed to lose.
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  2466. The democrats prefer Trump to Bernie every day.
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  2467.  @Axolotl_Mischief  Perhaps Bernie fans and the Best go togther? I am not sure because people who say they are Bernie fans don't nesseseraly follow his directions.
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  2468. Perhaps democrats are the cratures from under the swamp as well?
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  2469. I was more afraid of the democrats. Now I am hopefull about Trump. Neeless to say there are controls on some of his exesses. The democrats have embrased the neocons and there is no controls on that.
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  2470.  @thefilthelement  There is nothing worse than democratic party gaslighting. Bernie fans know that.
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  2471.  @grmpEqweer  Obumer definitely screwed you and black americans got the worst of it.. I am starting to feel like I should vote for reublican neoliberals over democratic ones. Democraic states are sucking the money from red states... It shouldn't be red states/blue states.... Much of it is a aesthetic violation... Like what paintings you think are flattering or if you wear loafers or work shoes... Support some sort of odd sexuality equality or kind of like to think boys are boys and girls are girls. Democrats constantly talk about racial and gender equality when they decide who will fuck you over.
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  2472.  @christinepark1398  Comments are deleated..... If you look at the results of a democratic party majority in the house and senate.... Democratic party gaslighting... If you pay any attention to the democratic party you know what you don't want.
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  2473.  @christinepark1398  Can the republicans mess up the election with their retoric the way the democrats did? Yes.... But listening to the democrats tells you what you don't want.
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  2474. ​ @christinepark1398  Why don't we have healtcare? Why do we have so many homeless even with vacancy rates? Did Trump acutally get installed by Putin? Why are prices through the roof? The answer is not in Obama's appealing apearance and speach. The ansers are in the behavior of the democratic party and yes even Trump can out flank the democrats on the [ecnomic] left while the democrats market 31 flavors of sexuaity and even more for ethic identity..
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  2475.  @USFighter  The whacky right wingnut DNC?
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  2476.  @weskridge  In general the liberal agenda is to build up industry so that it can be cost effective. You are right. This so-called liberal agenda is to deindustrialize everything so that the uber wealthy can own it.
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  2477.  @ubermenchlicheman  Accelertatoionists are people who want the society to colapse so that they can do something with a society on it's knees. Biden is good for that. Even if Trump is elected we are in shit shape.
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  2478.  @theresurrection33  When Trump speaks people [MSM] debate. When Biden speaks no one understands anyway.
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  2479.  @robertr798  If we can't have Bernie at least we can have Trump II.
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  2480.  @theresurrection33  The lesser of two evils.
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  2481.  @spiralpageturner  We don't have any choice. Why do you think Russia is doing better than us? It is because our elites and oligarchs don't know anything and we are suffering for it. Don't you think we would pick someone other than Biden or Trump for president if we could?
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  2482.  @huh9881 Bernie never said he was the masiah. He did what he thought he could to change the narrative now he is being a political animal.
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  2483.  @carolyndetemple  I feel like Bernie's goals were to change the narrativehor lexicon as much as he could by running for president... He is putting effort into changing the narrative but he is also being a political animal and going along and getting along. He is a resonable political animal and that is his comfort zone. Running for president this time would give him more indegestion and the stress would shorten his life. He wants to live in peace.
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  2484.  @ubermenchlicheman  Bernie did change the lexicon in a healthy way.... It has a long way to go.... The way Trump's policies get scrutiny changes the narrative was well. Trump is actually less accelerationist than Biden as well.
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  2485.  @57Strudel  What not a delusional is all the things that they said would happen with trump happened with Biden. Another thing that is not a delusionTis that Biden disregarded ALL of his campaign promises. The 'liberal' news media has gone in over drive saying how the next president will wreck the US.... When just about everything that that the Biden chite house, democratic congress and deep state is much like managment of the head of Germany during world war two.. And those right wingnut clowns call themselves 'liberal'? How could Trump be worse? Again comming up a democrat we were trained to vote for the least worse.
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  2486.  @themobilemage2137  Bernie is *LYING*. Bernie knows Trump is better than Biden.
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  2487.  @VeganSemihCyprus33  'Better study clasical ecnomics.... Sanctions on Russia are strengthening Russia's economy when econimsts in the US felt that they would destroy Russia. Start with Michael Hudson.
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  2488.  @Cove666  I tend to think the democrats, deep state and the shit libs are going fucking nuts. I want to vote for Trump to see them go crazy.... They can't manage a lemonade stand as well.
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  2489.  @isarose3136  Everything that they said would happen with a Trump presidency happend with Biden as well as unimaginable things. As a democrat we must vote for the lesser of two evils. This time it is Trump.
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  2490. ​ @isarose3136  They warned us a number of things would happen if trump was presidedent. All of those things happened and more than what was even imaginable. but with a Biden presidency.
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  2491.  @thend4427  It's democrats that want to do away with freedom of speech.... The only chance is Trump.
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  2492. I am more afraid of the democrats.
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  2493.  @quietdreams246  Bernie would have you vote for Trump because the alternative is worse. I am not sure why he is doing this.
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  2494.  @swn32  Kamla isn't but a democratic party appointed apparatchik... It isn't Kamala who is the problem but the democratic party machine and it is WORSE THAN TRUMP.
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  2495.  @taf0457  One of my issues is democratic party gaslighting.... It is about as thick and derogatory toward the base as anything Orwel wrote. Freedom of speach and the democrats are screaming at the top of their lungs that we shouldnt have access to information... This information is stuff they told you to ingore and you did.
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  2496.  @MorphyBDubov12  Trump is better than the new democratic party. Bernie knows that and he is lying.
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  2497. Bernie is lying. Trump is better..
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  2498.  @jacquesrock7102  Who is lying about Trump.
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  2499.  @MettatonUltra  Voting for Trump reduces the risk that the democrats take the whitehouse.
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  2500.  @HazbinBrainRot  Stein is off the ballot in Illinois so I voted for Trump.
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  2501. I rather wanted to defeat Hillary in '16 and voted for Stein. I skip democratic party gaslighting dialog by voting for Trump partially because Stein is off the ballot in Illinois... Ever thought that a vote for Stein is a vote for the democrats?
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  2502. Very Good Catch...
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  2503. I changed that behavior.
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  2504. You fucked up if you voted for Obama because he exaserbated this crisis which went world wide.
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  2505.  @Shelly-o5j  Kamala can't find her ass with both hands, Biden was never a bright light and Trump is having considerable difficulty finding his bearings and even if he did, he has limitations enforced by the deep state.
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  2506.  @Shelly-o5j  Obama had the power to right the wrongs of real estate criminal cartells and with his deliberate actions fucked up the banking system for the world.
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  2507.  @deadwingdomain  I think they gain people. I rather like George Galloway's in your face oritory style as well as his policies. I done voted for Trump in the primary but I wish we had someone who sold Bernie's policies with as much of a hard line as Trump.
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  2508.  @jvcyt298  I do like to argue symantics when people say 'socialist'.... Arguably what was a called capitalist back in the day is now called socialist... I like to say that what we are expiriencing is a anti-capitalist revolutoon which people now call capitalism.
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  2509.  @gdionwood  When the democrats never fullfill any of their campaign promises our only hope is for Trump to make staments like these so that we can examine policies that work against the American people.
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  2510. Unfortunately bernie doesn't address the fact that if we lower the cost of living or do redistribution, we can restart capitalism. That is what any good Marxist, otherwise known as followers classical economist theory, would argue.
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  2511.  @thanoswasright999  I was FRIGHTENED about trump being installed by putin dynamic.... With faint evidence like 'once trump had a russian maid working in a trump tower' being expressed as evidence that trump was installed by putin, I was greatfull that some like Greenwald and Aaron Mate kept on the myriad of tangential allegations that were sighted to prove that trump was installed by putin.
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  2512.  @thanoswasright999  Thanks... I still don't believe that trump was installed by the russians even now.
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  2513.  @thanoswasright999  It is not a big motivator that the republicans might be worse. What that generally does is make people not vote... If the democrats lived up to their promise or even their meager campaign promises they could easily crush the republican party... But that is not what the higher ups in the democratic party want... My avatar was a russian bot for a few years when the news was saying that trump was installed by putin. I have dropped that pic so I am no longer a russian bot.
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  2514.  @thanoswasright999  The news agencies and the media is going after us when we don't hold the party line... One of those party lines is that trump was installed by putin... How could republicans be WORSE on the issue of censorship? Liberal once meant to have open lines of communication. Now it means hold the party line or shut up. It would be different if the truth was easily identifiable and the US government wasn't the main purveyor of fake news.... But neither is the case. The main stream media is made up of mostly lies and the truth is somewhere outside of what they are saying... Divining the truth is not an easy thing to do in any field....
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  2515. ​ @thanoswasright999  Censorship really heated up because trump was installed by putin.... That being the case, how is it possible that republicans could censor more? If trump got back in office he is not a media darling like dark brandon... If his admin started censoring like brandon, he would be called out by the media... The same media that is calling for more censorship right now. In essence if your only issue is censorship and many of us have been visited personally by censorship, then trump and the republicans are your choice. .... There are other reasons for former democratic supporters to vote republican and that is because the democrats are enthusiastic reagan resolution supporters [most of them]... If you are not, then it is time to get rid of those who are.
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  2516.  Comment Auditor  Another argument that the republicans are worse than the democrats..... It doesn't seem to do anything to argue against getting rid of the neolibs in the democratic party... A vote is a very small gesture in the face of the corporate captured duopoly in the political sphere.
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  2517.  Comment Auditor  We don't have generations.... Biblical calamites in the west are almost a certainty as eruope crumbles under the weight of the unimaginable incompetence of their leadership... In my case I study Michael Hudson and hope for the best.
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  2518.  Comment Auditor  I don't really think of voting against neoliberals [this is a key word that you need to understand fully] or reagan revolutionaries in the democratic party as accelerationism. The point is that we don't have an open door out of this crisis. Some have a strategy of voting out those in the democratic party that embrace their cooperate masters against the interests of the people of the US. It is interesting that you cite the Cherokee who had no good strategies to overcome the persecution that they faced. It is also interesting that you also cite russia who was beleaguered by a neoliberal takeover during the Yeltsin years. Discussions like these are interesting... But I am not sure that our cabal can come to a workable executable strategy in the next ten minutes.
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  2519.  @thanoswasright999  My argument is that the democratic party IS doing what their right wing masters are telling them to do. Example: The democrats, including AOC, are arming for censorship to keep the american voters on the side of their right wing masters.
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  2520. ​ Comment Auditor  What I think you agree with is that the democrats are NOT a way out.... The argument that you seem to be making is that the republicans are going to hell in a bucket FASTER and that the democrats are going to hell in a bucket SLOWER. What the democrats are saying is "I know we are bad but the other guy is HORRENDOUS." In this case, a strategy for getting rid of neoliberal-neoconservative reagan worshiping democrats IS a tactic for making the democrats more in support of industrialization and sanity.
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  2521. Vote just to razz 'em.
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  2522. It makes very little difference right now. I started voting republican in the last presidential election... Before that I voted for Jill Stein who they said was a vote for trump... My strategy has turned to vote out every sold out reagan revolutionary [neoliberal] in the democratic party..
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  2523.  @cathycorrigan7106  Biden: Mean spirited, fellon, installed by the DNC.... If you are listening to MSNBC and paying attention to the democrats then you know anything has to be better.
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  2524. The democrats are actually really far right wing by 70's standards.... The republicans are likely to be able to outflank them on the ECONOMIC left maybe not in retoric alone.
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  2525.  @13bustah  As if we need examples of people dividing us up.... Remember Trump was installed by Putin and more than half Americans are on Russia's payroll?
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  2526.  @13bustah  Always remember: Democracy is on the ballot and Trump was installed by Putin.
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  2527. ​ @pattyanderson1199  I never saw any evidence that they threatened his family. I do admire Bernie for his efforts to change the narrative into a more populist ecnomic direction... Experts in law inforcement and millatary say that the assasination attempt on Trump was almost certainly planned... To be sure I wouldn't put it past the elites to threaten Bernie and his as well.
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  2528. I didn't watch it... MSMBC has considerable problems with veracity as well.
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  2529. What are the democrats going to do? Not fullifill any of their campaign prommises and expect to win? Trump is fine compared to Biden.
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  2530. They won't and Trump will win.
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  2531.  @An_Oddball  Trump is much better than Biden.
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  2532.  @An_Oddball  Biden's policies arn't really as good as Trump's and Trump's policies get scrutinized continually.. Trump is much better.
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  2533. Yep.... Trump is better than Biden.... Sanders would actually be a good president.
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  2534. They are both Corporate..... Trump is better.... He is the first republican I ever voted for in life.
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  2535. My impession is Hamas was funded by Israel to divide Palistine from the PLO.
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  2536. ​ @rowanroberts1851  We seem to be in agreement on most things.... We both agree that the american people would not pick either Trump or Biden and would much prefer Bernie... So when it is Trump vs Biden we are talking subleties. I don't really agree with all the democratic party charicterizations of Trump including that he was installed by Putin. One thing that I do like about Trump that you eluded to is how he says things off the cuff and those usually bi partisan policies are examined by the press...
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  2537. I suppose so... How does that difernetiates biden from trump?
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  2538. Man walks on watter... Yes Trump is the lesser of two evils.... But... What Bernie did was to change the lexicon... He may be right to lie, he may be wrong.
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  2539. Not sure... Let us wait for 20 years to see the outcome...
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  2540. He is lying but I think he has an agenda.... He thinks he can navigate something either to make himself comfortable or to push an agenda. It is certainly above my pay grade to judge Bernie Sanders. He has done so much to change the lexicon.
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  2541.  @MakeSomeNoisePlaylists  That is a lie....
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  2542. No... He is lying... Biden is WORSE that trump.
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  2543. It is a "I know you are but what am I" moment.... Vote blue 'cause lesser of two evils until it ain't true no more. Bernie is lying.
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  2544.  @PaulADAigle  That is a neoliberal talking point.... That if you give more to the poor or democratize the economy you can't produce as much but it isn't true... The capitalist revolution was where they did land reform taking the land from the aristocracy so that it can be used for idustrial production to support industry and happier populations.... The neoliberal idea is that the instituion of capitalism in this way is a bad thing and they want to roll it back... The neoliberals call themselves capitalists but they are really counter revolutionaries. Most people agree with these dumb neolibral taking points including yourself.
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  2545.  @PaulADAigle  I don't have a spell checker and I can't really spell well. My impression is that spisific language is being deleated.
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  2546. Of course if we do discuss these issues they are deleated on Youtube.
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  2547. It's a mixed story.
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  2548.  @hangerq5735  It is horrible to see bernie support these stupid neocons... .... A rocky road is already here... I am not sure that the US can change from a financialized capitalist [feudalist] ecnomy to a capitol creating economy.... We don't have the tools even to talk about it.... Without this change we are compleatly fucked.
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  2549.  @55dionysus  I suppose bernie has his reasons for lying... He is so smart that I wish I could take it that he is speaking what he beleives.... He knows more than I do but because he lies I can't ever take what he says as the truth. .... I wish I knew more but he can't tell me anything because he lies.
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  2550.  @55dionysus  Maybe you havn't been paying attention or maybe you are one of those people who can believe the whackiest things imaginable. Bernie knows what is going on [he is very smart] and when he says something that is outragously wrong and popular, he is lying.
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  2551.  @tschorsch  Where you get the idea that syria is not a US impiral war? They are sending ISIS to the Ukraine, the same way they sent ISIS to Syria including Chinese Uegar ISIS members.
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  2552.  @CybershamanX  I was on anther argument somewhere else about two hours ago... That is what I was thinking about... I should have refamilliarized myself with this argument.. It is not as well formed, just that we have been trying democrats who have backed us into a corner... It is not even as important as understanding economic fundimentals but it is where the rubber hits the road in the short term.
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  2553.  @CybershamanX  I feel like you have a very good start on understanding these proceses... My field is mechanicl design so economics is kind of new to me. I just picked the right professors. Reagan [yes he was the neoliberal to end all neoliberals] when he was selling his tax cuts "If you let people keep more of what they make you get more".... The real art form in creating more and strenghtening societies is letting the people who make things [labor] keep more of what they make... My meantor in this artform known as clasical economics is Michael Hudson... A very good book that is not that challenging is 'destiny of civilization'.... It describes the fall of the Soviet Unoion and how they didn't know nothing about marxist anaysis, what the very consistant US policy is toward the rest of the world [and internaly].... The book was written as economic advise to the Chinese where Hudson is a lecturer at a univerity... Hudson has many writings on his web pages as well as many interviews on Youtobe. He is not the only one that sticks to this ortodoxy but he is a good start...
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  2554.  @bertbaker7067  Better policies more scrutiny, funnier. He is definately a challenge to the deep state, neocons as well as the media... He will be someone who we can vote for in the primary and his own party is trying to stop him... Politics has been against most of us for thirty years and we are getting clobered. He isn't the one to turn that around but he will show us that we can have maybe a little bit of a democratic choice. The democrats have also been lying to us about bread and butter issues for more than fourty years... The only one who stopped lying to us was Sanders and he failed to become the massiah.
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  2555.  @CybershamanX  I also study marxist analysis so I ain't no reagan neolib.
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  2556.  @john2g1  Bullshit! The lesser of two evils is Trump.
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  2557. As tradional democrats we are trained to vote for the lesser of two evils... This time it happens to be Trump.
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  2558. I have started voting republican since '20.... Needless to say, bernie and stein supporters in '16 were shamed as russian collaborators in the installation of trump...
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  2559. Maybe and probably not. No one cares if capitalism survives. No one cares if the dollar remains the medium of exchange in the whorls. U R WRONG Mr sanders.
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  2560. Next Biden's union busting...
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  2561. How the democrats blocked uniions with the complicity of "The Squad"
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  2562.  @momothunder9544  ... As a democrat trained to vote for the lesser of two evils?
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  2563. Right now we need to defeat Harris.
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  2564. Yes. The democrats are the leading conservatives.
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  2565. Sad that Jedism is conflated with Israel but they are actually two separate entities.
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  2566. I think the democratic pary is a hoax.
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  2567. Freedom of speach is important as well... Vote Trump.
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  2568.  @thanoswasright999  Needless to say Bernie was accused of being an Russian agent by the democrats as well...
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  2569.  @thanoswasright999  Interestingly Bernie was said to be a Russian agent by Hillary. Is that true?
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  2570.  @thanoswasright999  You seem to know what FSB is. Are they paying? Do you know where to pick up checks?
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  2571.  @thanoswasright999  I do feel bad that explinations are deleated.
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  2572.  @thanoswasright999  I had every intention of responding with a explinations. I feel bad that my explinations were deleated.
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  2573.  @thanoswasright999  The truth is a bit hard to take, so try and respect those who seek it out.....
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  2574.  @thanoswasright999  It isn't propoganda that I was trained for by the elites. It is more lefist propoganda trained by real scollars and an attempt to understand what is really happening.... Again explanations are routinely deleated...
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  2575.  @thanoswasright999  If the democrats were the party of FDR they would never lose... Platitudes seem to be the only comments that get through becuase explinations are deleated.
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  2576.  @thanoswasright999  I am not sure what I was supposed to prove you wrong about. If there is an explination in my comments it will be deleated anyway.
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  2577.  @thanoswasright999  I would tell you to study economics but I don't think you could take the truth.... You can't handle the truth... It is difficult enough for me.
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  2578.  @thanoswasright999  Trump seems to be more FDR than the democrats now.
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  2579.  @thanoswasright999  Your precious democratic party is more Reagan than Reagan. If they were really about FDR style admistering they could save capitalism from feudalism and they would never lose another election...
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  2580.  @thanoswasright999  So goes the 'Russian Bot' or Trumper derogatories... We are a divided people who hate each other.
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  2581.  @thanoswasright999  That is what the elite want... They seem to have convinced much of America that the biggest threat to our country and 'democracy' is other Americans.
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  2582.  @thanoswasright999  You got to figure that the blue states are where all the money is...... I really think less advantaged people ought to have a sway in our democracy. Vermont residents are over represented in the elecoral collage as well.
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  2583.  @thanoswasright999  Now I am confused. Do I need to pick up checks from Russia or from the Trump campaign? If I give you my address in Chicago I will expect to see checks in the mail.
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  2584. It doesn't matter anyway. Trump is only the lesser of two evils and will be elected.
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  2585.  @riccidolan  Trump is not as evil.
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  2586.  @riccidolan  I suppose stealing houses from poor black and brown people and giving them to criminal cartells is evil. Obama did that.
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  2587.  @trickstergod9179  Bernie is lying.
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  2588. As a tradtional liberal, who always votes for the lesser of two evils, I would have to live in an alternative universe to think that Biden is a better adminstrator than Biden....
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  2589.  @alanhyt79  Biden's presidency was an unmitigated desaster.
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  2590. ​ @fedodosto3162  Perhaps it was a search for someone who was figting russains forever.... But the even an American knows about the sides during world war two. The guy was known to Trudo... Many of the command centers in Ukraine have 'naughty' simbals and pictures of naugty iconic people. It seems as if it is impossible to go around Ukraine and take pictures wihtout symbols and gestures in the pictures. Many people went to ukraine to fight because they were motivated by naughty ideas....
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  2591.  @imperialmotoring3789  There is a theatre with a wine bar and there is a sign that says there is a grill. I believe it the sign says Ramova.
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  2592.  @imperialmotoring3789  I am new to 35'th and Halsted. I went around and found the cafe you were talking about earlier on Hallsted just south of 35'th.
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  2593.  @PeterGriffin_3238  I just voted for Trump in the primary. The democrats don't fullfill ANY of their campaign promises and everything they said that would happen that is BAD with a Trump presidency is ocuring right now because of the policies, incompentece and lies of the Democrats. This is the real world where Trump is a better adminstrator than Biden... Perhaps even a bit to the left of Biden as well.
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  2594.  @PeterGriffin_3238  If the democrats could fullfill ANY of their campaign prommises, Biden wouldn't even be evil. Clearly Trump is the lesser evil... Tradinal democrats who know that will be voting for Trump.
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  2595.  @joebriere  I will have you know that George Galloway just won in Rochdale and he ain't no wimp like Bernie Sanders or Jerimy Corbyn.
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  2596.  @flatarthur3161  More reich wing than the Repubicans. That is the democrats formula for success going forward. I hope they lose.
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  2597.  @flatarthur3161  LOOK! The democats by every metric have become more reich wingnut than anyone who came up a 'liberal' can even imagine. The "Lesser of two evils" dog don't hunt no more.... And what do you know? I always vote and mostly for the lesser of two evils.
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  2598. I don't think I can forget how awful the democats are and give them another go.
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  2599. The audience is cheering because they are reich wingnuts.
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  2600.  @kimoandrews5802  Racheael Maddow and Hillary Clinton say that more than half of the US population is Russian Bots.
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  2601.  @kimoandrews5802  You simultaniously have to believe that Putin installed Trump and has compleate control over the US and that Russia can't afford to send more than shovels and computer chips taken out of dishwashers to Ukraine.... Otherwise you are a Putin Puppet or Russian Bot.
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  2602. I tend to think the Victoria Nulands of the world would prefer Biden.
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  2603.  @justaplainspokengirl  .... Like Rachael Maddow? You really have to believe that Putin installed Trump in order not to be a Putin Puppet or Russian Bot.
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  2604. He ain't running so vote for the lesser of two evils.... Bernie is lying.
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  2605.  @thanoswasright999  I will be voting from the country of Chicago wearing a bernie shirt that I got in the country of Ceder Rappids Iowa while I was canvasing for Sanders.
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  2606.  @thanoswasright999  The country of Chicago?
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  2607.  @thanoswasright999  If they wanted to win they would become the party of FDR.
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  2608.  @thanoswasright999  I don't really care if they win or not. I am voting against them.
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  2609.  @thanoswasright999  Most comments and explanaitons are deleated.
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  2610.  @thanoswasright999  The power of the democratic party is used to enact neoliberal Regonomic policies, destroying realistic policies & the people who support them, and gaslighting their base.
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  2611.  @thanoswasright999  While the democratic party takes the house, senate and presidency sometimes and more than the republicans, all they do with it is enact stuff their downers want and gaslight their base. They are Ronald Reagan managed replicants. "More Reagan than Reagan" their managers say.
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  2612. ​ @thanoswasright999  I am all for traditional democratic party values. The problem is that the latest group is all managed Ronald Reagan replicants who strictly adhere to neoliberalism and spend their energy gasligthing their base. Their wins are wins for the interests that have bought the democratic party.
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  2613.  @thanoswasright999  And what did they do with all that power other than gaslight their base?
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  2614.  @blipmachine  No one in the democratic party really seems to want to win anyhow.
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  2615.  @kingcrimson4133  From the perspective of a life long democrat Trump will piss off the media and the democratic party that has been gaslighting us for so long.
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  2616. Led Zeplins.
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  2617. You actually watched such drek?
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  2618. I added to the cost. There were like three cops for every protester at the event I went to.
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  2619. More Obama...
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  2620.  @Glimmmerra  If the democratic party supported us like FDR, they would never lose.
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  2621.  @Glimmmerra  I know one who has been a democrat all of his life.
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  2622. Not! Many of us that canvased for Bernie are voting for Trump.
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  2623.  @gushernandez25  Harris is a curated welcome mat. The reason Bernie is not presidet is beause those who curate our democracy don't think they can control him fully...
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  2624.  @gushernandez25  Harris is a doormat. Trump is better.
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  2625.  @gushernandez25  I know he is gasliting us. he is bringing value anyway. I will wait impatietly for the democratic party to change but meanwhile I am voting for Trump. 'Similar policies, pisses off the democrats and pundits that are gaslighting us.
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  2626.  @thanoswasright999  I troll Bernie when he endorses these Reagan repicants in the democratic party... More Reagan than Reagan said the creators of these neoliberal monsters.
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  2627.  @AlbPerNil  I think some people don't see the comment as irony.
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  2628. I am waiting for the chance to see all the liberals who fell asleep because Bidpn was president, wake up when Trump is elected. I am also looking forward to all the liberal whacky conspiriacy theorists in MSM go nuts as well.
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  2629.  @Notfunnysam  I hear sander's fans say that he abandoned his movment but in a way he kept at changing the lexicon... His lexicon is when millions of people stand up, that is when change happens....
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  2630. Trump is secound best.
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  2631. I voted for Stein and I was glad when Trump won over Killary. S They said it was two votes for Trump... So I literally voted for trump three times.
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  2632. No.... Sanders went a long way to change the narrative... He is lying to you about Biden being better than Trump but he did a shit ton of good.
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  2633. Biden is better than Trump... In an alternate unverse... Sanders is lying.
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  2634. Bernie has a nice ring to it.
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  2635.  @DowntownsUptown  And even though Putin and Sanders likes Biden. Trump is better.
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  2636.  @DowntownsUptown  He did what he could to change the lexicon... Then he went back to being himslef... And you were asking for the mesia.. Sucker! He told you you were a fool if you did that...
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  2637. Bernie, the legend, the man the icon turned tool for top democratic party opreratives. Biden better than Trump? Outragous! The progressive movment, if there is one, better move on from Bernie or we are sunk. We do love Bernie.
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  2638. Sadly that is all the democrats have to offer.. If that... Trained to vote for the lesser of two evils, many of us will vote for Trump.
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  2639. Bullshit.. He did what he could to change the lexicon... Then he went back to being a politician... He owes you no apoligies for lying to you when he says Biden is better than Trump... If you think Biden is better than Trump you are an idiot.
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  2640. Bull shit... Trump is much better than Biden... Sanders is lying right now.
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  2641. He can't... The democratic party that he says is defending democracy froze him out.
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  2642. Trump being sligtly more progressive than Biden.
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  2643. ​ @lordmusty  Infitalizing one of the most influential cultures in the world? Do you also hate the Chinese? How about Lybians or Afganis? If you must know Urry is a Scottish name...
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  2644.  @Mars-77  In 'A' Bernie world Biden is a better adminstrator than Trump.
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  2645. ​ @moranmike36  By what fascist metric [MEASURMENT] has the democratic party and Biden proven not fascist? Although it would be nice to have a real choice like Sanders, Trump is not at all as bad, or as you say fascist, as the democrats.
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  2646. And the 'lesser of two evils' is... And the envalope... Trump it is.
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  2647.  @donHooligan  Are you saying that Afganistan, Lybia, Iran, Iraq, China, Russia, Venezuela as well as Syira all dictatorhips? Needless to say, here in the states we have numerous Putin Pupits including Tulsi Gabbard, Jill Stein, Sanders and now Tucker Carlson. Needless to say Trump was installed by Putin. Most of the refugees storming the southern border come from countries that are NOT dicatorships. We need to deconstruct the language that we employ.... That is what Bernie Sanders was doing effectivly now he is stopping because he is saying Trump is the most dangerous president of our time.
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  2648.  @donHooligan  Is this a good analogy? "While the D/R duapoly has their holitzers trained on the US population, I tend to think that trump is a loose cannnon"....
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  2649.  @donHooligan  "The right wing is BAD" full stop.... By what metric are the democrats not whacky right wing?
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  2650. ​ @donHooligan  I feel as if we need t destroy the democratic party.... The duapoly puts on WWF show as democracy and we think the good guy is actually fighting for us.
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  2651.  @donHooligan  Arguably the repubican establishment don't like Trump no way. He embarases the duopoly, his poicies are better than Biden's and he is funnier than all get out... You odviously haven't been well trained by being a democrat all of your life like I have to vote for the lesser of two evils.... And when you vote for Stein and Trump wins they will tell you you voted for Trump anyway.
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  2652. It's not. Everything they warned us about Trump came true with Biden.
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  2653. We believe that the deep state should tell us what to think, censor our ideas and servial us as well as endless wars..... We are democrats.
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  2654. I don't even think it will be close... But it won't be the big deal in the same way Bernie professes it will be.
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  2655. Sadly we have a choice between Biden and Trump.... Trump will win and with any luck it will make a difference for the better.
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  2656.  DDd-gm8uz  Accelerationists believe that positive change is only possible after the economic zombie apocolipse. The US has pumped up asset values so much that the zombie apocolipse is enevatable. Real estate values as well as the stock market are fake and will evaporate. Who do you vote for if you want the economy and society to colapse? That is a good question. I Biden is doing a very good job with this project. Trump is a relative unknown. I tend to think Trump will retard that development.
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  2657.  @lesliemcgovern4724  Catagories: Censorship, political prosecution weopinzing the justice deparment against political adversaries, isolate US economicaly, Reicht wing economics for the 1%, ecomomic degradation, expansion of war, Genocide in "Shit hole countries" These are all supported by the democratic party and it was what liberals were against before Obummer.
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  2658.  @user-ip7qw5qe7g  I don't really follow Trump close enough.... But the democrats predicted everything that would happen with a Trump presidency and every one of those predictions came true with a Biden presidency. The democrats are right wingnuts. Perahps Trump is a different flavor of right wingnut.
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  2659. I don't believe it. The democrats don't do anything like campaign prommises and everything they warned us about Trump came true with Biden. It is a moot point because Trump will win anyway.
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  2660. ​ @dao8805  RFK los me on economics when he advocated cryto currency..... That shows some fundimental non understanding of economics. Economists in the west lost me when they said that they thought that Sanctions, which are the reason for the Ukonraine project, would destroy Russia. There are some strange folk ways going on with western economic ideas.... There are two books written about western economics entitled "Junk economics" One is written by Michael Hudson and the other is written by Radhika Desai...Those professors support Bernie Sanders proposals. Trump dosn't seem to have a better understanding of economcs but the democrats have been not only been at war with Utunderstanding of economcs but the democrats have been at war with the population of the US and we are loosing.
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  2661.  @dao8805  I am a Bernie fan but RFK Jr is not a good alternative if he was even one of our choices. He don't know nothing about ecnomics and that is our biggest issue.
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  2662. When democrats have to vote for Trump in the hope that any change is better than what we got, hope is dim.
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  2663.  @AwkwardPain  He is lying that Trump is worse than Biden. Everything that they said would happen with Trump happened with Biden.
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  2664.  @AwkwardPain  Bernie is lying that Trump is worse than Biden. Yes Biden is bad and Trump ain't really good but trump is gooder and Bernie knows that.
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  2665.  @meepk633  The corpral during world war two's strategy is if you have a battle fron't where you are loosing, open up another front that you will loose.
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  2666.  @meepk633  The world war II strategy of the corpral was if you are loosing on one front, start another fight that you can't win.
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  2667.  @TheStockwell  Give people a chance and stop being an asshole
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  2668.  @Klote3241  It seems like most people believe Trump was installed by Putin.
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  2669. You all are drinking too much kool-aid to see that much of what Sanders is saying is MSM balderdash..... Example "Trump was installed by Putin" I don't understand how anyone could have believed this, especially liberals, at all.
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  2670.  @Klote3241  How many 'hitlers' are there in the world? Have you ever noticed they are everyone who dosn't bow to Wall Street? We all have intelectual constructs. Some of them are disingenous or not thought out.
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  2671.  @Klote3241  MSM has force fed these unreasonable narratives.... He can't change all of them all at once. Example: How many leaders around the world have been compared to Hitler? The caucusus, Lybia, Iraq, Iran, Syria, China, Venesuela, Russia.... How many of those are next to the US border and how many of those arn't doing what the CIA wants?
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  2672.  @Klote3241  Everyone drank the MSM coolaid. Popular narratives are whacky conspiriacy theories or theories that have been crafted by MSM and the US goverment. Bernie can't challenge them all at once so he lies his head off.
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  2673. Bernie simply can't change lying narratives and has to lie himself and he knows it.
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  2674.  @francismarion6400  See what you did? You aknowledged that you are taking the fruits of others labor.
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  2675.  @olyokie  I am not sure about that because infrastrucure and energy have always been very important.... The basics are land, labor and capital
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  2676. She is probably getting permanent injuries.... Stupid!
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  2677. Draw the line at sprains and broken bones...
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  2678.  @moffjerjerrod1579  I am sure the stoat choses carefully..
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  2679. How is it that we don't see the decline of the US economy as the culprit for the crime problem? Reagan made feudalism cool.
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  2680. The problem with vacancy rates is neolibralism... Got to figure Fox has been the most pronounced purveyor of neoliberalism as touted by reagan, personified by trump and perfected in policy by obama.
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  2681.  @usfrandy6564  We had so much advantage after world war two but the anti-capitalists were already installed as the head of the goverment here. It took 70 years to lose our industrial and other advantages.... The process of overtaking the US by thers and and our efforts are accelerating that process. Yet many americans are cheerleaders for the distruction of capitalism and those who are the main culprits.
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  2682.  @usfrandy6564  Why do you think China beat us at capitalism? Yes we need to tax away the money the free loaders take out of the economy and yes we need to invest in capital from the treasury and stop the fed from pumping up asset values..... But what we have is an anti capitliast counter revolution...
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  2683. A better idea is to understand china's secret sauce for growing the economy. There is nothing wrong with americans and their productivity. Trying to win by military means over economic ones is a fools errand.
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  2684.  @joewoodchuck3824 Ukraine should stop occupynig Mariupol... It is posible that the occupying army is scared to surrender becase the Nazi batallion is unsure of their fate if they surrender.
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  2685. In occupying Mariupol? GTFO
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  2686.  @davisluong2060  You are entitled to alternative facts, Just like the US media, my media.
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  2687. What happens if the civilians surrender to their own army you mean.
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  2688. Why should civilians surrender to their own army, you mean. This region has been under attack by Ukraine for eight years. Now that the local army pushed back their tormentors the Ukraine army won't let them surrender.
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  2689. Mariupol has been part of a civil war against Ukraine for eight years.
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  2690.  @nouriaasrorova8945  As an american, I am sad.... It looks as if western civilization will fall again... We need a new paragdm and fast....
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  2691. What took her so long to be censured? Censorship is like a badge of honor and the Nobel Peace Prize is for genocide.
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  2692. So why is the US stealing Syrian oil?
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  2693.  @fyou4641  Ukriane and nato had eight years to bulid up their millatary for this opperation. They can't rely on others to train against the biggest ground millatary in the world who has 300K well trained troops comming on line. The collective west doesn't have the millatary industrial capacity to deliver enough artillary shells let alone replace the artillary pieces to the point where their will be a successful offensive aganst russian liberators.
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  2694.  @joshuapaul2022  Yes... The russian army isn't winning the PR battle in the west.... They ARE weak.
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  2695. Ukrain marines will be in moscow in two months.
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  2696.  @danieldach4697  In effect the war in Ukrinae was about sanctions that helped strenghten and divesify russia's economy.... Sanctions that have been happening since the war started in '14 as well as the sanctions that happened after the russian invasion.... The real victims of this war and sanctions are Ukraine and europe.
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  2697.  Marc Damon  Not to mention that sanctions since '14 have served to strenthen many industries in russia including cheese and wheat... Sanctions bumped the money russia recieved from hydrocarbon sales, Sanctions also helped Russia get rid of the oligarchs that the US installed in the ninties, it served to strenthen nationalized russian banks and the war trained thousands if not millions of people into great project managers....
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  2698. Could you make a contribution of your amunition? I am sure that would do it.
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  2699. All that millatary equimpent went to Bakmut and is there now.
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  2700.  @captainsunbear5472  I believe what she means by 'democratic community' is wall street who lost with the betraial of putin and why putin is so popular in russia.... She is thinking in a humanitarian way about asset valuations.... They need support of russia and china...
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  2701.  @kawa1755  Sanctions are almost as if designed to help the Russian economy.... Most of their atributes are directly leading to building Russian capital for the people of Russia. They owe US huge thanks....
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  2702. Russia has been given huge gifts by the sanctions....
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  2703.  @Paul.......  We should be proud to be russian bots because in order not to be a russian bot you must believe in something as out there as the tooth fairy, maybe more outragous: that trump was installed by putin. That means that everyone who isn't a russian bot is a whack job.
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  2704.  @chesslover8829  I guess you have to believe in the tooth fairy or that trump was installed by putin not to be a russain bot of a kremlin troll.
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  2705.  @asynchronicity  In order not to be a russian bot you must believe trump was installd by putin.... That makes you an idiot.
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  2706.  @Paul.......  In order not to be a russian bot you must believe truem was installed by putin... And in that case you are an idiot.
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  2707. @vhs quality It is your birth right to kill commies... I am a leftist and I don't know what a commie is and I have very little idea what Critical Race Theory is. Too funny..
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  2708.  @incomplexity  The research consistently shows that if you play stupid games.. Get stupid prizes..
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  2709.  @incomplexity Social research shows that if you are showing a recognizable weapon you draw ire and fire. It is safer for everyone, including yourself, to walk around un armed.
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  2710.  @maneco64  I wish they would speak in a more hard line way.... Confiscated could be replaced with words like stolen or ripped off....
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  2711. And why would the chinese goverment care about foreign investors?
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  2712. Paleontologist think that it was play but it also is a physicals and social training exercise useful in hunting larger prey; perhaps larger whales or sharks. It may have induced something of an oxygen debt and the orcas were showing off to one another.
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  2713.  @natethepc  I think it floats because of gasses built up in it's flesh from decompostion.... Otherwise these creatures have mechanisms for boyancy..
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  2714. In war, everyone gets hit... Even if you have an advantage...
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  2715. Stressed out for no reason.
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  2716. Very typical behavior... Nice as well.
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  2717. There are people in goverments with forign famalies making news all over the world. It is notable that a German congetional member is the only one sticking up for the German people against distructive sanctions war against Germany is from an immigrant family..
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  2718. I suppose stuff like that takes practice.
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  2719.  @raycope2086  Russian orthodox woman claims victory in Mariopol before Russian easter. She is very pleased about easter. youtube.com/watch?v=ICZkgZ-n4VM
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  2720.  @raycope2086  I am not at all sure what idea or proposal "It doesn't" is directed at.
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  2721.  @raycope2086  Yes... There are claims... One is that the poeple outside of Kieve were killed by the russians.... All evidence points to Ukraine doing that...
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  2722.  @richardrobinson9534  A wider argument is that of clasical economic theory where the west is deindustrialzing.... And China, who calls themselves 'communist' is CREATING capitol. How is it that people who call theselves capitolists are DESTROYING capital while people who call themselves communists are CREATING capital? Capitalism is great. I wish we had it in america.
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  2723.  @richardrobinson9534  Why are the russians so focussed on them? Can't they just chill and not let them distract them? Bombs kill people as well as destroy industrial infrastructure.
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  2724.  @richardrobinson9534  Russians claim that they intercepted orders from Kiev that anyone who surrenders is to be sumerily exicuted by their fellow Ukraine comandos.
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  2725.  @dioghaltasfoirneartach7258  There was a mission to Venezuela to take out the president.. That mission was started in Florida.... In Libya I seem to remember it was a NATO mission. Nato is a US proxy... Libya was the most sucessful country on the contenent and they had plans to be independent and take a wide area in north africa and mid east with them... The US don't like Putin becase he stopped turning over the counrty to wall street.
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  2726.  @nadezhdanaumova8959  Trump was not installed by putin.... It is an anoying political american style football that they have been trying to stuff down our throats for six years.. I sure wish Russia well and hope they get to stop killing Ukraine GIs very soon. I am not as sure of the prospects of the west...
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  2727.  @nadezhdanaumova8959  My impression is that the war was more about sanctions and destroying Russia... Sanctions were put obsessively on Russia and some on china for IT...The war was more about sanctions obsessively to destroy Russia and balkanize it… My impression is that the sanctions didn’t really have much of an effect on Russia… I believe this shows that the neocons in the US are abjectly incompentent. to the extent that they can’t balance a ledger in a candy store. I believe they really thought those sanctions would destabilize the Russian economy. My understanding is that the effects are that Europe will have to de-industrialize and send many of the high energy industries to the US. …. Other sanctions were earlier put on Chinese IT... My understanding is that there are two reasons for the IT sanctions that the US had IT monopolies that they were supporting and that Chinese IT doesn’t have a back door where the CIA can look at people’s correspondence. Earlier sanctions on Russia were protectionist for Russia that developed industries like wheat. This caused Russia to diversify its economy. Diversifying economies is expressly forbidden by the World Bank and IMF whose loans are designed to support US monopolies with commodities and labor. To make the sanctions they picked up shelling of Russian ethnic civilians in the eastern part of Ukraine which they hoped would inspire a response from Russia and it did. Rusisa invaded….The war was inspired by killing russians on russian's border, like 13K. That tactic worked but the US didn’t have the military industrial capacity so it is a lopsided fight…. Again incompetent. The contractors for the war in Ukraine were initially traditional world war two style Nazis who joined the ranks of the military early on..
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  2728.  @nadezhdanaumova8959  I am sitting here in a McDonald’s like place in Chicago. I am surrounded by people who think that the war was started by a capricious Putin, that it is part of a plan to expand the Russian empire and that the Russians are getting beaten badly…. The criticism of the Russian army is that they have given up territory, no dominant army ever gives up territory and that attacking armies always take three times the losses of defending armies… They go on to say that the Russians are supplying the Ukrainians with captured equipment… We have been bombarded with ‘trump was installed by putin’ six years or so… My impression is that there are more alternative sources of news here in the US than there are in Europe. We did lose my favorite which was RT america which had nothing at all to do with russian biases.... To be sure I was not paying attention at all to Russia before a year ago. Mostly the news before that was how evil china was...
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  2729. Thanks. I didn't know that.
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  2730.  @yiannimil1  The war has been very hard for the Russians. They would jump at the chance to save the lives of their Service members as well as looking at some way to stop this offensive.... They will prevail with the offensive but whatever they can save, they will.
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  2731. People typify my responses as 'russian bot' or 'putin puppet'.... I tend to think Russia blew a hole in the dam because it gives them a tactical advantage. During the land grab sussess in the Kerson offensive, Russia evacuated their millatary and much of the civillian personel. They have also been evacuating civillion personell in many of the areas that could be flooded by the breach. The high watter limits the line of contact west of the breach site and complicates Ukraianan supply lines during Ukraine's world's greatest offensive... People who are in my echo chamber tend to think it was definately Ukraine who blew up the dam... Some site that it may have been possible to release the torrents of watter without destroying the hydro elecric capacity of the dam...
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  2732. Not good... I have never seen the grayzone do anything STUPID.
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  2733. I can't watch anything with Ana Kasparian on it.
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  2734. What?... TYT ain't on their game? Seems like Ana is raging against Tulsi and the guy that had great insight this time generally does not do as well... Others are more clear.
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  2735.  Sebastian Thor  I checked it out... He is usually not on top of it as he is here... TYT does not seem to be on top of it as others as well... I am a huge fan of Tim Black who gives a completely different kind of analysis...
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  2736.  @frederikpedersen689  It is quite clear that Ukraine is launching revenge attacks on Donesk City because of Ukraine's errant S-300 air defence missles missing their target and hitting apartment buildings. Often they don't need to have a reson for reveng on civilian areas. Long term this is not effective because it further strengthens the animus aginst Uraine's government by former Ukrainains.
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  2737.  @Gary-Seven-and-Isis-in-1968  Just an allogation.... He seems to pull a lot of them out of the bag for his 'side' I am a mexican sympathizer, latins sympathizer.... There should be MORE sympathizers... The BBC, NPR, CNN, MSMBC.... Are CIA sympathizers... That's bad 'cause they are mostly lies.
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  2738.  @Gary-Seven-and-Isis-in-1968  Eearl went over the link... I am not sure of the story's veracity... The western media is saying that mariopol has not been liberated and that there are ukrainian natialists holding on... Do you notice the bias in the sentance that I just wrote? About the people in the holes in the steel plant... Russia claims that they stop shelling for days to let people leave and that the GIs will be treated with dignity if they surrender... The russsians do screan everyone who comes out of the plant, like they did when about a hundered non-coms left with the UN mission, but why are they keeping kids and so on who are clearly non combatants?
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  2739.  @Gary-Seven-and-Isis-in-1968  How can you say 'nothing he says is true' That is a redicouls statment... He an english guy in russia to be sure... Lancaster has been in the east of Ukraine reporting on the war for more than five years and he is supposed to be russian propoganda as well.... All he does is walk around the war zone looking at crap and talking to people... Needless to say people in a war zone don't really know what is going on more than what they just saw and how it effects them personally.
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  2740. ​ @Gary-Seven-and-Isis-in-1968  This is the youtube video where the allogation was forwarded in the first couiple of secounds. The link to the article isn't working for me... It is possible that I am on a heavily censored local network or the link is censored in the US.. youtube.com/watch?v=qKzE6QBu1D8
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  2741. There are reports that Ukraine nationalists stuck in the plant have offered to let civillians leave if they get food in exchange.
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  2742.  @monkegud6829  The whole of the west can't beat Russia's millitary industrial capacity and the west spends 3/4ths of the world's millatary budget. How can you even imagine that they can go half way around the world and dominate China? Weird is not the word.
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  2743.  @段光-m6x  I can't imagine what the US has to gain by these projects. It seems like we are losing faster by our efforts.
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  2744. I feel it is unlikely that the 'world community' will let Hoduras keep this election.
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  2745. I can't imagine that the 'world community' wil let the honduran people run their own country. They have been brazenly murdering people in the streets forever.
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  2746.  @tanyajstolp  There is some news in america.... It seems like the world outside of the 'world community' is comming to turms with what is happening.... Americans don't get it...
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  2747. "The city has been under seige for years" There I fixed it for you.
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  2748. I don't thnk the west wans peace.
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  2749. 'Touched' Apt description.... Please pay your fuel bills in US dollars and pay us back for the american made weopons, then all will be right with the world.
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  2750. ​ @johngalt3566  I think there is a link to Scott Ritter in the my last comment that covers Finland... I agree that that stament that US policy is to keep the rest of the world economically week but it is also policy to support millatary hardware contractors. That is where this will give me an economic advantage personally... Although this confilct gives very few americans any economic advantages but as a mechanical designer, it gives me an economic advantage.... It breaks my heart to see the US and europe destroyed by these things anyway.
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  2751. ​ @johngalt3566  Via treaties in the past Finland had policies that were nutral to both the EU, which is now being dictated by the US, and russia. youtube.com/watch?v=5NftkuQCZKM
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  2752. Finland agreed to be nutral.... It might be better for your health to keep with that agreemnt.... Also might keep finland as a real nation state rather than a proxy, like afganistan or ukraine for the west to continue war with russia...
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  2753.  @eckhardt76  Putin doesn't have the guerntees that he won't be targeted bu Ukraine the way Zelinsky has with Russia... Mariopol is out of range of artillary fire as well.
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  2754. The housing shortage is due to the banks and deindustrialization not the immigrants.... An understanding of economics, and not univesity economics, is essential to getting what we need.
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  2755.  @alf-yummy-cats  If we were to be competitive, the commons: healthcare, education, banks, infrastructure would be free or at reduced cost.. That we have to pay for all of it makes it more like feudalism and is deindustrializing... Capitalism where industrialsts make things is the shit... It is what some call socialism...
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  2756.  @wren1114  I feel like the industrial-capitalist revolution should be respected if we are to convince the public as well as restore industrialization... It is the same process that many call socialism... I gonna give a lecture on this... I hope it is accepted by my very small audience, or part of it, at the time... My meantor is Michael Hudson.
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  2757.  @jansmitowiczauthor78  It ISN'T capitalism... It is a return to Fudalism, not a opening for more protuctive economy... We need to restore capitalsm.
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  2758. RT has a tighter report without a lot of the expected western spin etiquette.
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  2759. I think Sachs' nuclier retoric is oulandisly hyperbolic. I don't get passed the headline to read his crap.... I read stuff that doen't thow bombs like that.... Hudson, Garland Nixon, Multipoleresta, Grey Zone.... Probably Sachs is explaining the same content anyway.....
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  2760. So DN is supporting the ministry of truth?
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  2761. Not really... We are all from somewhere.
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  2762.  @whackamole4909  Always remember: Democracy is on the ballot and Trump was installed by Putin.
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  2763. Always remember: Democracy is on the ballot and Trump was installed by Putin.
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  2764.  @nitaweitzel822  Vote red cult or blue cult has nothing to do with you.... Meanwhile the democrats and the media have convinced me to vote against them.
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  2765. Always remember: Democracy is on the ballot and Trump was installed by Putin.
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  2766. Always remember: Democracy is on the ballot and Trump was installed by Putin.
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  2767. Good catch.... I done wrote something not as clear: //I am not a watcher of DN because I was easily angered about the russian narrative that states that trump was installed by the russians.... When in reality trump was installed by the failures of obama's 'hope and change' agenda... In America, the democrats claim that they have no power when they have a supper majority but claim that a win for the republicans would change things radically.... Perhaps the french are getting as tired of that narritive as some of in america on the left.... I have started voting republican because I am tired of getting gass lit by the democrats. With the freezing of europe by sanctions, one would think that these kinds of elecoral contests will be greater, if not now than in the future...
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  2768. I am not a watcher of DN because I was easily angered about the russian narrative that states that trump was installed by the russians.... When in reality trump was installed by the failures of obama's 'hope and change' agenda... In America, the democrats claim that they have no power when they have a supper majority but claim that a win for the republicans would change things radically.... Perhaps the french are getting as tired of that narritive as some of in america on the left.... I have started voting republican because I am tired of getting gass lit by the democrats. With the freezing of europe by sanctions, one would think that these kinds of elecoral contests will be greater, if not now than in the future...
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  2769. Calson had guests that were well to the left of anyone Democracy Now would ever have on. Supported the people from ST. Petersburg right to free speach, Aired the fact that ISIS chemical false flag operation that was used to bomb Syria.... Anti war in Ukraine, Against the whacky idea that trump was installed by putin... .... I never payed attention to anything he did that was stupid. It was when people who would dare to say things like "trump WAS NOT installed by putin"
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  2770.  @nelia039  All of them including Trump, Biden and Obummer.... Trump is the least worst, that we were trained to vote for the lesser evil by being democrats all of our lives.
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  2771. Wouldn't you know it. Democracy now is taking a strong stand against russia despite the eight year civil war against the eastern region of ukraine financed, equiped and trained by the CIA... This despite the clear extermination sentiment by the self-desribed nazis carrying out the carnage. If it were old time DR Who show democracy now seems as if they would be screaming EXTERMINATE! The russian strategy seems to be amassing defending army in Keiv and working to liberate the east.
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  2772.  @ChautamGancy  Apearently it doesn't matter who is in office. They can't do much... I was hoping that Trump would go after his enimies in the deep state who put himself and others, including MLK, in danger as well as persecuting them and now lawfair... If there really was an FDR or Sanders they wouln't have much choice other than mobilize huge numbers of people in civil disobedience.
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  2773. It is kind of odd that the only member of the German parliment who seems to be standing up for Germany and her people is an ethic minority in Germany. Imagine what would happen if ethic Germans could stick up for Germany and Europe in mass?
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  2774. I don't know. Arn't you suspicous when the same people who told you that Trump was installed by Putin for six years is making ANY claime ?
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  2775.  ArtemisSilverBow  Some forign born reps are managed by the neoliberal order, some are trying to be liberators.
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  2776.  ArtemisSilverBow  Generally that is the rule that these people with forign blood are manageed by neoliberal fascists but in Germany the only MP that is fighting for Germany is of like mid east decent.
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  2777.  ArtemisSilverBow  It is notable that a German PM with mid east blood is the only one in Germany who is trying to save Germany. I am not sure why the fascists-globalists missed her.
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  2778. ​ @zied6456  I tend to think that the 33% vote that the "far right" party got was a vote against the middle facsits and thier economic fragmentaion, support for killing Ukraine as well as Wall Street.
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  2779. ​ @Adam-zz2iz  Indeed you are right... The US goverment and the federal reserve doesn't actually print the money... I believe that is a more complex process that happens in another branch of goverment called the 'mint' where they literally make papper and coin money but I am not really sure... Most money is held in accouts where prodess is allocating money into accounts... It has been the habit of the fed to exchange other people's money for interest bearing money but both interest bearing money and regular money is still money... All dollars were created in this way. Republicans believe in expanding the moeny supply, democrats don't... You must be a democrat.
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  2780. ​ @lelandtsnyder9684  ​ @Leland T Snyder I am not sure DN is not doing value... DN has becoome more main stream and is odvioulsy making compromizes in the era of censorship. Putting a sir charge on russian gas to europe could bring down the eocnomic tension in europe.. Europe for sure is still going to be buying russian gas... It could be a compromise where the theft of russian assets in banks could be returned in exchange for.... In other words making europe pay for Ukrainian infrastructure could work depending on the package.
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  2781. How many people did she kill to get the prize?
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  2782.  @prometheus5700  I am not sure why you want people who are fighting for you to be gone.
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  2783. Ilhan Omar is so wrong about the presidential election. Without the result, we would not have had the opportunity to elect these four young women to congress. That would not have been possible with hillary.
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  2784. Too soon old to late wise.
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  2785. She is a partisan hack.
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  2786.  @Shockmeslow  Arguably the FBI's attack on free speach is a threat to the health and safety of Americans.
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  2787. Perhaps we should repackage the reconciliation bill as the american competitive advantage plan and sell it as a fire wall against chinese hegemony.
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  2788. ​ @ballenboy  Hope for what? I suppose ukraine should stop their eight year war agisnt russians in ukraine... I don't think we have a World War two kind of thing were the americans beat the UK... I tend to think the russians want a close ally in the Ukraine.... I doubt they will act like the Biden admisntration and embezle billions.
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  2789. She should have not drawn attention to it and just not signed it.
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  2790.  @JoAnnaDale  Those policies include banking issues, labor and international affairs. Sighting spisific instances gets comments delated.
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  2791.  @JoAnnaDale  Vance seems to be against the bank bail outs that Obama engineered.
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  2792.  @commonsense31  What did I get wrong?
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  2793.  @inconvenientfacts8896  And the US exited the nazis to coup, burning alive loads of people in Odesa... Then they desided who would be the leader and it hapened... See 'Ukraine Burning' for loads of details. But in any case the US got everything tactical that they were aiming for from the coup/war.... Again, either the US gets it's economy back to progressive capitalist or....
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  2794.  @inconvenientfacts8896  Sanctions were in the works before the invasion.... The US tried to get the nord stream two shut down... That is how the west is getting what it wants from the war.... It is the motivation for not stopping eastward expansion... Russia said 'no nato eastward' Ukraine to be nutral, no offensive weopns aimed at moscow and denazification... West says we are arming as quick as we can in an eight year civil war agsint russians in ukraine. That was known for thirty years in the west... How can you say that a beligerent state in a civil war against russian ethincs for eight years, increasingly funded by the wes was not provocative?
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  2795.  @hitreset0291  We were going to say putin is a villian if he didn't do exactly what we wanted and break up russia into different contries... Putin got mixed results. The west got some very bad results... Europe is in big trouble and we have high inflation in the US for a veriety of reasons, most not related to russia... It is probable that europe wakes up and stops supporting the proxy war. They are getting very bad results.
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  2796. Her biases don't jive with mine... I think she is a hack.
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  2797.  @ruizhang2452  I think people are speculating that she is hitching her political ambitions to anti russian interests... And this misleading presentation is part of that effort.
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  2798. What is the peace party? Republicans? As a democrat I am voting and I am voting to keep democrats and not republic;ans accountable. Not even the lesser of two evils..... Democrats must work in our interest or I am voting against them.
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  2799. @Filippo Cusini The US sent like six or seven times as many Ukrainans to DIE. The US is willing to fight as long as they can call someone a Ukrainian and shoot them out of a cannon. They have been at it for eight years.
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  2800.  @inwani  With the effort to institute the minstry of truth and further efforts to censor, it is possible that all we will have as an indictaion of what is true is the oposate of what the media indicates.... So if the media says it it is probably not true but we won't have independent verification after this big push for the goverment and media to shape the main narrative...
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  2801.  @Patpat-jd9fx  I voted against the democratic party... I am not surprised Trump sucks.
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  2802.  @Patpat-jd9fx  As a long term democrat, I voted aganst the right wingnuts in the democratic party.
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  2803.  @Patpat-jd9fx  My old school liberal valuses ain't changed. It is the democrats that have become to the right of the republicans.
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  2804.  @Patpat-jd9fx  I voted against the democrats wokism, censorship, wars, persecution, autoritarianism.
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  2805. They have are the victims of partisan capture.
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  2806.  @jozseftakacs2649  I think we are talking about people who 'matter' ... Only people who donate copious amounts to the politicians and make the laws count.... They are making some short term profits.
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  2807.  @margiemontgomery3528  The US chopped up the nord stream one and two, Isolated europe from russia and china, stopped russian food distribution, raised the price of oil.... They are relocating industries that were in europe to the US, stepping up military production, selling food at increased prices, selling LNG at inflated prices... When european economy folds they will be able to buy european assets at rock bottom prices... It is not like the PEOPLE of the US will be doing any better... This is a game for the elites.
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  2808.  @adamhartley3482  Those queries were exactly the kinds of queries I was asking. You done found what I think is the 'wisdom' of the west's actions: To leave everyone in debt to US interests in dollars... Via Michael Hudson... Where that 'wisdom' breaks down is that the western modal of neoliberal speculation, a form of feudalism, of the zero sum game where either you win or I win.... That wisdom doesn't take into account the creation of capital.... That is happening outside of the western sphere of influence and the west is trying to capture that creation through ownership [debt] of those capital creating processes... The west is entitled for others to be in debt to the west, otherwise there will be war... It is a big game of risk to them.
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  2809. ​ @lidiane6994  You should see dark brandon in action on the senate with Scott Ritter... He has always been a sycophant to the powerful and a shitter on collectors of facts. He has never had any facility for evaluating things for himself.. He threatened the nord stream two...
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  2810.  @trekpac2  I would argue that Trump and economic sanctions are going a long way toward ending dollar hegemony... When shaping the argument that the facts on the ground in a hot war are not well correlated with america's support for such a war I did forget about victories in Libya, Panama and Yugoslavia.... Perhaps a better collation is between commitment to a military conflict and supporting it, not the results on the ground.. A more interesting analysis is of the results US hegemony in terms of supporting international monopolistic cartels and the dollar correlated with US military action and sanctions. I am of the opinion that those actions in the long run erode the interests of keeping the dollar hegemon and supporting US hegemonic cartels.
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  2811.  @hitovaawomi8963  The Ukraine war was pushed by the west to isolate europe for US monopolistic cartels from russia AND china. The war was designed to push an economic agenda... It is not that the economic agenda was a result of the war. The economic agenda came first.
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  2812.  @TrippyVerse  The EU, world bank, IMF were all made to limit what europe can do for it's self and make it dependant on the US... If they want to do anything long term they need to develop their own institutions...
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  2813. If energy is cut off and there is a huge recession in europe, immigration is toast.
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  2814.  @Andrew-rc3vh  Adam Smith, known as the father of capitalism, started with land reform from the landed aristocracy... The reagan revolution is also a land distrbution project from the industrialists and home owners to the oligarchs... Obummer was it's ulitmate champion.
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  2815.  @Andrew-rc3vh  Perahps replacing the old soviet union in the way that production is centeralized into monopoolies that can charge what ever they want.... Think Meat packers and pharma.... ... But it is centralized in the way that the old roman empires were centralized in the hands of the merchants and oligarchs.... Our central planners are walstreet which is effective in creating debt deflation all around the world.... It is definately connected with the Ukraine thing: sanctions aginst russia and china... Marxist captialism is better than feudal deindustralization, also known as neoliberalism.... What is in a name? It is the descriptive and predictive capacity of the wisdom of what is known as 'clasical economics' that counts.
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  2816.  @Andrew-rc3vh  I am reading copious amounts of Michael Hudson.... Listening to Aaron Mate, Mat Tiebi[sp]... A pundent that I think is particularly fun is Garland Nixon....
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  2817.  @Andrew-rc3vh  So you have to pay cute girls to talk like that?
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  2818.  @Andrew-rc3vh  I was thinking I like them cute and dumb.
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  2819.  @faharoon357  In Iraq it was 'shock and awe' because they had weapons of mass destruction.... Millions of people die over crap like that.
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  2820. I got the impression that the perscribed reaction to the virus [lockdowns...] was cover for a lagging ecnomy.... 'Think they tin foil at Wendies?
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  2821. I get the impression everyone will eventually carry the virus for a time.
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  2822.  @attilamarics3374  There is proof that profit taking is driving 80% of price increases.... Facts are supposed to support theory.... Your statements states that theory disproves facts. Neo-classical economics supports the neoliberalism leading to austerity and the destruction of production.
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  2823.  @attilamarics3374  Monopolies don't answer to the laws of supply and demand... And they are driving 80% of the increase in prices. Neoclasical economics has quip that counters observed phenomena with counterintuitive religious ideals
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  2824.  @Aint_no_senators_son  Agreed.... But not having enough can make you fat when there is food about.
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  2825.  @RatieM64  I suppose that there are provinces in africa where what is beautiful there would be considered fat somewhere else. There is no one who knows all that much about africa.... Even africans.
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  2826.  @yukhym12  While less food or temporary hunger targets fat first.... In the long run it will target muscles.... If it gets severe it decreases everything.. When circumstances change it causes obesity.. I think I am hunger tolerant.... Also addiction tolerant... Rather skinny I recently gained some upper body weight..
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  2827.  @celticgold4028  Agreed that there are very few in the US that have gone to skin and bones... I have an acquaintance who did due to circumstances beyond his control.... Those who have to point to historical happenings to try and get others to understand what starvation is haven't even been hungry... "Americans should starve to death" Ha Ha.... Not funny...
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  2828. World peace through superior fire power.
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  2829.  @Octopussy1999  I have no clue... Why would european politicians destroy europe for the sake of the empire? I have been following hopeful nationalistics in the americas... The standouts are Venezuela, Bolivia and cuba.. There is another what is known as 'pink tide' in the americas where those nationalistic tendencies are growing.... The US says "We will manage your resources or you will die" some of the nation states that are resisting that are better off. I didn't realize what kind of banana republics europeans were until a few months ago... I have a book coming today that I think can answer some of my queries "The destiny of civilization' by Michael Hudson... I am hoping that it is not an emotionally exhausting read.
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  2830.  @Octopussy1999 So you be saying that if Italy tries to keep it's industry and economy together, and there-by out compete the rest of europe, Nato would start bombing it?
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  2831. World bank don't make loans for those projects and if you do land reform independently they send in the jackals.. Land reform was the starting point of capitalism but now it is thought of as dictator doing socialism.
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  2832. ​ @dilligafwoftam985  As an american I have mixed feelings about that... Americans didn't profit, very few did, from this economic war... If they made ameica pay... What would they pay in? US dollars?
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  2833. "Do you think stealing oil on the high seas reeks of hypocrisy?"
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  2834. The republicans are the party of world piece.
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  2835.  @thedolphin5428  My meantor in understanding these things is Michael Hudson... I am also listening to Yanis Varoufakis.... What is disadvantaging the west is it's definition of prosperity as the stock market and asset values as apposed to increased industrial oiutput and quality of life... A dynamic that is simmilar to feudal-impiral europe which was unstable. Hudson contrasts that with the east whcin is industrializing with the west which is deindustrializing... He says the conflict is between systems with expanding industrial policies and those with deindustrialzing policies.
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  2836. Most of these statements seem reasonable but the US or the EU are not sending people into the cannon fader of the Ukraine war...
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  2837.  @JasvinderSingh-wu5lx  Not... Intelligence by Natasha and Boris Badinov says that the marines will be covered by Moos and Squirrel. You can look that up...
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  2838. These generals have no idea what the war is about.. The war is to justify sanctions.... What happens on the ground makes no difference right now... The generals are talking out of turn.
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  2839. ​ @andyhughes1776  The powers that be.... can create the money them selves..... It is not as if they have to pick it off the beach like shells or pick it off of trees like apples.... They put it in a computer and it exists by fiat.. What they seem to be concerned about is how to keep others in debt in dollars.... Russia quit playing that game along with china..... This means war and it doesn't matter how many Ukrainians die in the process.
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  2840. Why is a settlement about what is happening on the ground?.. The war isn't about Ukraine at all. It is about the sanctions and as long as the US can convince the western world to sanction it's self because of the war, the war will continue.
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  2841.  @annebritraaen2237  I am trying to figure out why some in nato think the war is worth the sanctions.... Sometimes I think that they can't balance a ledger in a candy store... [they thought that they could crush russia] Other times I think that they have a plan of stealing all of industry of the europoeans and on shoring it to the US.. Just one thing you can be sure of... They think/thought the war is worth the sanctions... Why do you think they thought/think that way?
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  2842. It was always about sanctions against the east.... Someone thinks this war is worth it to extend the sanctions. It has never been about whether or not ukraine or nato could win against russia.
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  2843.  @jamiebeecham7020  Biden, Obama... All the way to Reagan.... They are all puppits in the service of criminals and theives.
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  2844.  @charliecan9603  Gosh.. .If you saw the injuries of conscious. Perahps we should hold the decrepit ancient impiralistic system and those who steal from the rest of the world, in cluding the US, accontable.
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  2845.  @charliecan9603  To be sure I had very little to do with it. I don't thnk we should suffer as well. This time it is europe that will suffer more than the US but we have been suffering from neoliberal polices for a long time.
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  2846.  @ilovethisworld3059  The population of the US won for a time... Now we give up on capitalism or more spisifcally creating capitalism... Buggered the name 'free market' to mean that bankers get money from the fed to crank up speculation and land values, making themselves a genetic aristocracy.... Capitalism was founded so that we could produce more in industry free from the landed aristocracy... Now Free Market means that we have to give it back so that they can suck the life out of our economy... There is no question at all that americans in general benifited from the US wining world war two... It seems like it is a long time ago in a land far far away.
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  2847.  @ilovethisworld3059  The US won not signle handedly but won the economic war... You need to review your history and my comments... The US won.
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  2848.  @abdv9908  The US is going aganst the bible because they won't forgive bad debts... Jesus saved his most severe critisism for the money changers. It is the same money changers that have taken control of many demon epires ever since... All of them were destroyed.
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  2849.  @abdv9908  Yes... The USSR fucked up.... I am not really familliar with all the details but they opened the door the US bull who told them how to run their economy.... It was deadly.... I am in the US where it is difficult to understnad why our leaders are making the desisions they are making... An example where I scratch my head is the democratic party's insistance that President Trump was installed by Putin and anyone who dosen't agree with democratic party luminaries, along with the media, that has been captured by the demcoraic party is a russian asset... In other words; in order not to be a russian asset one has to verbally agree that trump was installed by putin.... I don' t understand who is winning from this conflict in Ukraine...
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  2850. For those who doubt that the US won world war two... This discussion may shed some light on what happened... youtube.com/watch?v=vQSaKUM2h_k
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  2851.  @froodtube  Russia failed to instintute a goverment that could grow into the twentieth century... They were defeated in 1990's and regressed into a kind of feudal vassle state of the US.... It was a lot quicker than the US's painful demize but nastier and their recovery was very quick. Welcome to the inevatable zombie apocolipse.
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  2852.  @armanicharles5336  World war two culminated in the US winning economically world wide...
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  2853.  @armanicharles5336  The US was the single winner of the secound world war... Everyone else lost, even the alies.... England gave up it's empire to the US and the dollar become hegimon after world war two... There were times in history when the US had a clear goal and achieved it to it's advantage.... We won.
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  2854.  @pietjepuk9408  Stick with russian disinformation... There is copious amounts of it and it's narratives are backed up by facts.
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  2855.  @etienne_laforet  They had what they felt was no other way to end the slaughter of ethnic russians on theri border, despite international treaty, making argument in what is called interantional law, proposing alternatives to the invasion... The treaty, signed in '15 to end hostillites in the russian ethic are were not honored. Ukraine and the nato contcracted with tradtional nazis to build millatary infrastructure to threaten russia in the russian ethnic areas. The stated goal of this was to bring russia into a millatary conflict with the west and to extend sanctions against russia to CRUSH russia... Russia did everything it felt it could to end that occupation and extermination at their border absent an invasion and they promised an invasion if the occupation didn't end... So they invaded and have been in direct conflict with the west ever since.
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  2856.  @Mack2211  Some how the Ukrainians, French and the Germans are not in charge... They do need comedians.... I suggest Garland Nixon... Nixon '24
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  2857.  @tonyfernandes6978  I know the US is not subject to the international court.. Is russia?
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  2858.  @stevenmartin8828  I think the analogy is more like germany in world war two with it's counter part being russia... The scale is much smaller but there are a lot of similarities between the adminstrations... The war, and nato involvment has been going on since 2014.... IT is not a seriously sustained effort from the west... Russia has recovered from the 1990's US lead neoliberal austerity at lightning speed...
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  2859. It is the americans who want to fight to the end.... The recient relivations that mercle[sp] signed the Minsk accords to 'buy time' that she thought was needed to arm ukraine are indications that the russians can't negotiate with the west and have no option but to pound ukraine into submission. ... Sad is not the word.
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  2860. @Thomas Mckenzy To put it lightly, it is a work in progress. It is still a long slog for russia to meet all of their goals with the Ukraine offensive. While there are some difficult days for the russian army, we can be disappointed about the sufferings and deaths in the Ukraine army.. Unfortunately this will not stop soon.
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  2861. One theory is that Russians thought it was possible that if they showed up with a show of force, that their demands of implementing the minsk agreements would be ratified.... The theory goes that by showing up with a massive show of force, Ukraine would agree early to terms. ... In american football it was like hoping the apposing team would capitulate because of a successful first kick off touchdown return... They seemed to have a plan B 'limited millenary engagement' or 'special military operation' that they implemented, didn't get them what they wanted as well... Now they are moving on to plan C witch is a partial mobilization, consolidating command and destruction of ukraine's electrical infrastructure which is dual [civilian and military] use. It is Ukraine's innocent military personnel who are paying the highest price. Hopefully it will all end soon.
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  2862. Do you think Hillary will drop a line to the 'suicide hotliine' and place an order for Musk?
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  2863. Wickapedia is also controlled by the CIA....
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  2864. ??
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  2865. They sometimes don't say things like Bucha massacres was carried out by Ukraine, although there is much circumstantial proof.... I am not sure they have proof yet.. This is the crime of the century...
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  2866.  @aredtomato8957  Trump, although not good, was the least worst since before reagan... My strategy in voting is to get rid of the democratic reagan revolutionaries.
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  2867. Trump didn't do anything... He just wasn't as bad as the others because he didn't do anything.
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  2868. I think the republicans are better because the media is against them.... So everything they do is criticized. When the democrats get in they do the same thing but they don't get no criticism for it.
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  2869. I voted for trump because the demcoratic party gaslight us on the left... That and because trump's policies are almost identical to demcoratic policies.
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  2870. I am still angry that the demcorats blamed bernie people and switched to 'trump was installed by putin'
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  2871. Hillary Clinton just called the suicide hotline to place another order.
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  2872. The reason for the war was sanctions... It is sanctions that are causing the global economic crisis.
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  2873. That is not true at all. Sanctions are the reason for the war and the western media is on it to weaponize any conflict whether Ukraine is winning or not.
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  2874.  @solaris2015 Historical fact: It was actually Boris and Natasha Badinov that installed Biden... Any resemblance of Boris to Yeltsin is purely coincidental.
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  2875.  @solaris2015  In the US, putin installed trump... Yes we have gone out of our way to prove it but it is an up hill battle.
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  2876. Germany's economy is shifting from manufacturing to dreck.
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  2877.  @kachi2700  So you are an american...
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  2878.  @kachi2700  You are not a fruit booter? OK.... Say the story is about a football game and they are talking about a play in the game.... The question would be about whether the uniform should be darker or red or pastel red...
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  2879.  @kachi2700  I tend to look for news outlets that confirm my biases.... This one is a little skewed.... .... If the story is about a rollerblade trick championship and how the guy went 20 meters in the air in a jump, the question would be about why is he wearing prouder blue rollerblaedes.
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  2880.  @leoh6596  That is because we follow the 'rules based order' and if you don't democracy is comming to your contry.
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  2881. ​ @GaneshDevdas  Half of that list of putin's or russia's failures can't be supported by any facts... The truth is that Zelinski is in jeopardy of loosing his life in a political rivalry going on in ukraine or being assassinated by western operatives... The list of western operatives that have been assassinated include Kadaifi and Sandam Husain. The regime in Ukraine was installed by a western inspired bloody coup in 2014. Yeltsin also became PM of russia with the US's blessing and was replaced by putin with the tacit understanding that russia would continue pro-western policies...
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  2882.  @dpstrial  I didn't misunderstand your comment.... I was bemused by Haldayan123 "Better they fight once and for all. Mere threats and proxiy war isnt good" I thought that was cleaver and was responding to that.
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  2883.  @dpstrial  I like the way you make russia and the US sound like kids that are miffed at eachother and just need to blow off steam by whacking each other.
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  2884. @John Chapman That much maligned president is only better than the others in recent memory because he was ineffective.
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  2885. How is this new?
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  2886.  @Cyricist001  U seem to have some background that I don't.... My objection to the 'is it legal' argument is that their ain't no law.... If a nation has the force and can get away with it, it becomes law.... Might makes right and legal... ... I like to argue semantics.... I hate it when leftists world wide use 'socialism' as a stand in for good stuff and contrast it with 'capitalism'.... I feel like the west is descending into 19'th century style feudalism and dumping capitalists precepts.... The west is deindustrializing where as many places in the east are industrializing... So, how can you call people who destroy capital capitalists and call those who create capital 'socialists or communists' ? .... This is perhaps the argumenta I feel most strongly about right about now. Michael Hudson argues the same way then he reverts back to a more neo classical economic nomenclature...
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  2887.  @Cyricist001  ... I am not sure why we are talking about what is legal.... The west functions on what they call the 'rules based order' where they make up the rules to suite themselves..... Not based on a capitalist idea of personal property but on what the very few want right now. This has been going on for hundreds of years. About what is 'legal'.... Murder is particularly legal and encouraged under some legal paradigms.... Arguing what is legal seems to me not only abstract but impertinent and confusing. I can imagine that russia makes the argument that what they are doing is legal based on what was deemed to be legal before... It is reasonable to think they would...
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  2888.  @Cyricist001  Are they just arguments but not strictly legal?
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  2889. It is possible to open Russian grain and fertelizer markets so that they can sell their considerable surplus. A serplus that dwarfs Ukraine's.
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  2890. More like fourteen years too late.... They will be inspired by the US to fall back asleep soon.
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  2891. Trump is knee jerk against the policies of the democrats, just like the democrats, including progressive caucus, are against peace because it is a 'right wing conspiracy'. The US isn't in danger of getting it's act together.
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  2892.  @satishidury7114  Really? All the neoliberal news out of europe is full of these kinds of pronouncements. I am in the US and my brother thinks like it is a game of risk where the US has the upper hand along with it's allies... We [Ukraine] will win the war with russia and the economic block will destroy russia and china. For five years the US has had a diet of 'trump was installed by putin' and if you are not a right wing conspiracy theorist you believe it. You don't want to be marked as a right wingnut for advocating for peace, do you?
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  2893. It is possible that the hardware is stock electronic parts that are not specific to military hardware... Yes the pols are buffoons' and thieves but this might not be the best example of a failure to enforce a policy... A policy that I am not on board with myself.
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  2894.  @johnmandiram  The whole thing of expanding nato and the war is about the sanctions.... The US has been talking about having europe adhere to this for years. US goals are not to end the war or extend the war... The goal is the sanctions... The war has been effective in that tactic.
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  2895.  @somashekars7928  Michael Hudson writes about how the Irish economy was effected by the sub prime mortgage crisis... It is essential reading if you want to know the dynamics and trajectory of Ireland and the world...
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  2896.  @tomdziczek9676  A lot of these kinds of queries can be answered by Prof. Michael Hudson who wrote a book that was an instruction manual at the end of the gold standard [brenton woods] that was used as an instruction manual for people who wrote books like 'confessions of an economic hitman... The petro dollar standard replaced the gold standard then.... Getting answers to these queries is a frustrating experience, like watching a horror flick that is happening in real time.... I think the inevitable zombie apocalypses will emerge from a peat bog in Ireland.
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  2897.  @tomdziczek9676  Economic armageddon on the magnitude of the inevitable zombie apocalypses is coming to the continent.
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  2898.  @tomdziczek9676  Yes the US is looking for another war.... Much of the people who own the government are military contractors looking for more money... The war in Ukraine is the most productive in getting rid of military hardware... It will take a few years for the contractors to ramp up production, so they have more than they can do right now. Russia is not competing in the world cup... The US has created a racial bogy man of the russians in record time.... If they wanted to, jews would be bogy men over knight... The war in Ukraine is about the sanctions...... The sanctions are probably worse for europe than Obummer's response to the sub-prime mortgage crisis. If russia can get past the neoliberal policies it suffered in the 90's it is possible that europe, realizing they are in deep shit, can get over this crisis as well.... I am not sure that europe can do it as quickly because they are a divided people, they don't have the outrageous amounts of natural resources russia has and they have huge populations and population centers. They are going to be in a position like the developing world...
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  2899.  @tinaforbes1059  Aknoledging that Ukraine was/is a proxy war is defined as russian disinformtion by the US minestry of truth... Ukraine is still up against their proxy war and begging for more equiment... They are on a deadly fools errand.
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  2900.  @emiyashirou2752  The US is too expensive by design... It is not to create captial but to monopoize diminishing capital.. Again... Americans are some of the toughtest people on earth.. I have scotish blood... Amazing is not the word.
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  2901. ​ @emiyashirou2752  Not even true... We are tougher than shit over here... Determined, foccussed...... We are fucking the same as the chinese.
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  2902.  @emiyashirou2752  What the US is trying to do is keep the dollar market and their monopolies... It is hard to do that, or for american workers to compete, when they are overloading us with debt.... Perhaps, dare I say, impossible. I call bullshit about american workers. Americans are THE SAME as the chinese... We are tough and we work harder than anywhere else in the world.... We have more in common with the chinese than you think. My meantor in these things is Michael Hudson... He describes this better than I can.
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  2903.  @puhelimentili805  ... For europe..... Won't end well for europe which seems to be what the US is taking on in the first place... The primary US policy was to separate europe from eastern vendors [Chinese IT and Russian energy] and keep europe in the dollar zone... Because of the mixed signals that the US gives off, I am confused about what the goals were in the US playbook... I am a US citizen as well. My cursory understanding is that production that can't function because of lack of energy will often relocate to the US as well.
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  2904. The EU strongly asserts that they have the right to do what is the worst thing for their people as well. If you are in power in a country, might makes right...
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  2905.  @investor615  Just like the sanctions are the driver of the war in Ukraine, so are the allegations against the capitalist chinese because they are winning... Objections about how the chinese rigged the system were published during the reagan admiration... Yes the rigging is done in the west for speculating on fragile asset values in a system that is leftover from the 18''th century but the rigging in china is for industrial production, what used to be called capitalism.
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  2906.  @ulfseidl1216  It is still a sad solution if the US abandon's nato and does this war alone... The US has a long history of sad non solutions...
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  2907.  @beatricepastor218  People survived the mini ice age in the late 19'th century... Most will survive even if it gets very bad... If they stave off the worst of the worst this winter, the next will tear europe limb from limb.... Again most will survive but will probably be thrown back into the 19'th century when their industries are no longer in existance. Many of the energy intensive industries will be relocating to my nation, the USA. It is probable that there will be another mini industrialization in the US with the weapons industries to replace the weapons that were burnt up in the war in Ukraine. It is probable that I will profit from these dynamics personally because I am a mechanical designer from chicago.
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  2908. No proof... We need proof.
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  2909.  @ismaellara4007  As a US citizen can you recite the ongoing masecres by the US everywhere in the world? That is what you will have to do to live up to your expectations of not being selfish.
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  2910.  @ismaellara4007  What? How does not wanting to think about things that are sad and I can't do anything about make me selfish? ... The left will level aesthetics charges every time... 'Best to stay away from them.
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  2911.  Veles  Those ongoing attacks and massacres in the global south are so ubiquitous that that they are forgettable... Who likes to think about such nastiness anyway? What is new with this attack is that it is on europe....
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  2912.  @daddy9267  If you check the west is a minorty hof contries as well as now a minority of economic power in the world. That is why the west is expanding tensions to china which is now the world's industrial supper power. They can't do anything about the loss of hegeminy but they aren't going down without a fight.
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  2913. There are loads of 101 airborne in Romania... They could be part of occupying the west of Ukraine and denazifing it...
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  2914.  @brittalbach416  Jonestown was a south american Cristen evangelistic settlement who's leader ordered everyone to commit suicide via drinking spiked cool aid.. 'Drinking the cool aid' has been a saying for people believing stuff that is not good for them, or is not true, ever since.
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  2915. Putin did install trump.
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  2916.  @Kukaboora  There was a plethora of allegations like trump was a russian agent backed up by evidence like trump being in russia or talked to a russian or has dealings with russians... My understanding is that the over all narrative was that trump was installed by the russians. The Muller report was supposed to come with indictments on such things but what actually happened is there were indictments in regard to the lack of veracity steele dossier that made the allegations and was funded by hillary herself. As someone who thought of myself as a liberal before that, it was amazing that liberalism could believe that trump was installed by russians, an allegation that I d knew was dreck in less than twenty seconds I was not surprised that the democrats said that. What strained credulity is that anyone beloved it.. I am getting used to the idea that people believe it even now.
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  2917.  @gilberttessier1871  Trump was installed by putin.
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  2918.  @kuanged  That rout against the romans in the teutaberg forest had mixed results because the ancestors of the germans were at odds with themselves... It took many centuries for the germans to gain prominence, arguably they became a critical threat to the west because of their industrial policy before world war one.... That argument goes on to say that that is why they were stopped... The west wanted to keep it's hegemony and germany stood in the way at the time.
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  2919. I very much expect that his sons will be part of the supply lines or working with administrators in the rear.
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  2920.  @zezenkop412 That is a huge distaster.
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  2921. And when you mention this in afrocentric YT channels they call you a right winger... Yes I wish Africa well..
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  2922.  @barrysmart2389  It has been 100 years... Or a little bit longer...
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  2923.  @t4ac  This has been going on for a hundred years...
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  2924. It has been going on for a hundred years.. Now they notice? I am sure they noticed before.
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  2925.  @hootowl6354  I don't know if you know the story of the cuban missal crisis. The soviets stationed some nuclear war heads in cuba and the US freaked out... . Cuba had the right to their nuclier war heads but they didn't have the might to sustain that right... If they persisted there would certainly have been a war between cuba and the US What the US and nato did in ukraine was a coup with the help of traditional nazis. Ukraine then turned on their russian ethnics and started harassing and killing them, as well as a massive weapons' build up in the east of ukraine. Yes, ukraine has the right to have any weapons' it wants but it also has the right to destroy it's self in a conflict because of them.
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  2926. Like drop like a sack... Maybe there are better ways with more P&C?
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  2927.  @damn6  Everyone wants wheat, fertilizer, minerals, oil and gas. That is what backs the rubel, so it ain't going nowhere fast. The russians tried to play the western game after the fall of the berlin wall, .. they got crushed but they had the real assets to make a recovery.... It did take a long time... Increasing economic sanctions against russia was planned well in advance of the invasion of ukrain and russia was ready for it. The war was cobbled together to justify the sanctions.
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  2928.  @tovarco  Sure.... I agree that the red blue duopoly is really bad.... I am not sure who is worse.... I think it is the democrats... In another Youtube video, it explains how deindustrilization in germany will make an industrilization in the US.... I wounder if US labor can take advantage of this..
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  2929.  @tovarco  It is our responsibillity as labor in the US to insist that much of the profits from this mini re-industrialzation of the economy... US hegimony as well as dolar hegimony is more stable than some think.
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  2930.  @dukeford8893  There was an earlier rand report with a similar bent.
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  2931.  @barbmartell7901  So sad... The hot war was for the sanctions so that the US can maintain hegenomy so that they can raise the rent... Wall Street in big trouble. They might not be able to hold on to the assessed value of assets based on debt.
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  2932.  @ltw5957  'Better than the rediculous game of destroying frightened humans.
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  2933.  @olympia5758  I wounder what are buliding in the steal plant...
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  2934.  @ambercombs5346  Ukrainian military personnel are ALREADY cannon fodder... Sending ill trained ill equipped people to die in war is a recipe for disaster. Frustrated, hungry, scared GIs do all kinds of crazy things...
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  2935.  @johnvajcner20  What real value added do banks do? Can't the money be exchanged in a state owned bank for less of a fee?
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  2936.  @cg3.0_slowburning  I tend to think everything they say is a lie... When all this 'disinfomrmation' shuts off... I will only be thinking that everything that MSM says is a lie and will know nothing beyond that. We are living in the end of days.
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  2937.  @kgs_7186  Without other sources? I never listen to MSM anyway so if there were no other sources I would know nothing at all.
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  2938.  @solconcordia4315  While I do agree that the US economy is not designed to industrialize and imports labor that doesn't pay high eductaional costs and other labor that is better accepted in many industries for it's efficiency and cheapness... All that and the outsoucing of jobs to econmies that are based on industrialzation, holding down the cost of living and that my feduciary life would be compleatly different [I would be different].... Latins have become close friends... To be sure I struggle with spanish.. English spelling is difficult for me as well and my spell checker went out so my spelling here is intermittent. If the US is not involved in the Nord Stream war crime, why did they seal off the area? Why was the area in western control? Why were US undewatter drones known to be in the area?.... As witnessed by the stupid european leadership, they seem to have little knowledge and even less emotional intellegence... Yes we have had stupid presidents and so on... The best one since reagan had notoriously little emotional intelegence. It made him the least effective so he done did the least dammage. I also like that his policies were so similar to the democrats and got lots of scutiny... I think he will be president again... Not with my help because I live in a state that will almost certainly go to the democrats althogh I vote for him anyway just to raz em.
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  2939.  @solconcordia4315  You put a lot of effort into that... I also fancy myself a fassion leader.... 'Looking for followers... To be sure, last night I called my buddy from engineering school, she has two girls, lives with her mom in the relatively far flung suburbs, went from rails to structural at chicago transit... She is a secound generation mexican girl, single mother.... Mexicans and central americans have a soft spot in my heart, I don't have the same warm feelings for many imigrant groups, even natives.... About the pipe line[s]; the US president said that he would shut it down, Condalisa Rice [black SOS with Bush] said that the EU needs to stay away from 'dependance on russian' energy, A. Blinkin [official in Bidin admin] said that the rupture of the piplines presented a 'Tremendous Opertunity' for america... Russia kind of considers a text from the russian hacked phone of then PM UK Liz Truss sent a message "It is done" to A Blinkin before the media caught that the nord stream pipelines had baeen compromised... ... There was tremendous pressure from the US to keep nord stream two from going on line and it never did... A day before the nord stream two pipeliens were breached there was protests in germany about energy prices... One fo the themes of the protest was open nord stream two... .... I believe this kind of evidence would sand up in a court of law in the US; motive, weapons, opertunity, verbal threat... In the case of murder.. That the perp that professed that he wanted to do it, had the weapons and so on did it.
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  2940. ​ @solconcordia4315  To be sure, I rather like latins here in the states.... European leaders are destroying their industries and impoverishing their citizens... I do think the leaders know what is up and know what they are doing... Why didn' t they call out the US for destroying the nord stream piplines? I am not a big fan of diversity everywhere. There is enough to go around if there arn't the genetic airistocracies that have control over everything like we have now. "Free Market' means freedom from the rent or interest that they impose on all the capital we need to survive... That is what Adam Smith [also known as the farther of capitalism] and most clasical economists meant by capitalism. If we go back to being serfs that causes death, stagnation and instabillity. That is what the leaders in europe are setting up for their societies: austerity, stagnation, death.
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  2941.  @solconcordia4315  I am sitting here in the US up to my lower eyelids in homless people.. To be sure I did my penence as well.... It also really troubles me that europenens are destroying their habitat and the leaders are doing it willfully.. Ursila Vanderline[sp] said that 100K OFFICERS of the Ukraine army had died... Someone pointed out to me that she was actually so incopentent that she actually felt that it was literal 'officers'... My feeling is that they know whats up and they are selling their societies for something and they know what that is... Anyway... It's sad. The query is really troubeling me...
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  2942.  @Patt12  Give it tell March. By then the rest of the world will secum to 'russian disinforation'
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  2943.  @solconcordia4315  So why do the europeans want to destroy what they have? ... My first language is english... My meantor on economics and geopolitics is Michael Hudson, who is advising the chinese [国仁全球大学堂] on how to extend their economic miricle... Hopefully the chinese [and the rest of the world] learn to speak Hudson... Don't let the chinese fool you... I do speak ctrl C ... ctrl V...
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  2944. More like the war was a way to shut off the nord stream piplines.
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  2945.  @jasonfung9516  Germany is towing the line with deindustrialization and their own personal destruction as every good banana republic should. It is a sin to not take advantage of wimps.
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  2946.  @jasonfung9516  'Ain't CCP it is CPC... And germany is more than willing to give up their industry to appease their colonial masters.... The argument here is that a rival colonial apparatchik says "We haven't begone to wimp out enough, suffer enough. Please send more nato bombs, we still have infrastructure. We haven't wimped out enough."
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  2947.  @weissblau  How does the US occupy germany? With arguments about how to wimp out more to their colonial masters, who are also destroying infrastructure, they don't need to occupy nothing...
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  2948. So wimpy Shultz is getting pushback because he is not acting as colonel puppet enough, hasn't allowed nato to destroy german infrastructure enough... "We haven't begun to wimp out enough, to suffer enough... Please send more nato bombs to further break destroy germany" ~Analina Baerbock
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  2949.  @Ossie786  No... That is not a game that the russians and chinese are playing.... It is the west that is pirioting things, taking over from imperialistic traditions of the romans. Russia and china are industrializing and not receding into feudalism. They will keep their ships and merchandise from being parroted and that is what their military is for..
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  2950.  @redfish3204  Thanks... It can be noted that there are a lot of crucifictions and murders going on in Ukraine based on Ukrainians not being sufficiently Ukrainian enough or being russian sympathisers... An example of that behavior is north of Kyiv in an area known as Bucha where all the circumstantial evidence points to Ukrainians killing other Ukrainians. Scott Ritter also suggested that the bombing of a Azov prison-court camp by Ukraine was an attempt to destroy evidence that Azov members documented of atrocities. It is also suggested that the weapons from the west that are being diverted are falling into the hands of terrorist organizations... In separate speculations, ritter seems to think that there will be Ukrainian terror cells all over europe. One group that was planning a terror attack was arrested in Italy.
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  2951.  @redfish3204  Do you have a refence for that division?
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  2952.  @georgewashington90  There is a lot of cercomstatial evidence that the US bombed the pipelines.... It is important to have an international body aknoledge it and there is NO smoking gun yet. Let us hope that Nato can come together and address this war crime to civillian infrastrucure... No One Cares What U think.
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  2953.  @slawomirhering3770  To be sure the elites you are talking about are not monolithic... They are more uninted than we are.... The plan in the war was to do the sanctions... Part of the sanctions are to blead europe dry of it's industry and send it to the states.
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  2954.  @milangacik-repcik1224  I like Kimchi.... I don't know why it has become a stand in for murder. It is like a favorite food.
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  2955. He ran on a platform of peace..... But he has to deal with all the war mongering nazis..... He may be lying to stay alive.
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  2956.  @peterlamin8363  I don't undestand what you mean by that sentance.
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  2957. ​ @RajVivek  It is not true that "value of dollar bills becomes less with increase of dollar circulation in the market" Dollars can be "printed" for things that create value and in that way it can reduce inflation... If value was unable to expand or is contracting then every dollar that is "printed' would cause inflation or if there is dollars that are printed for a certain project that there is not capacity for for instance there is an inflation in millatary hardware. Vermine Suprime, who perennially runs for president, has a policy plank that everyone in the country would get a pony. If that policy was implemented the government could print as much money as it takes but the capcity for the expansion of pony numbers is finite so ponies would be very expensive... Right now inflation is driven by monopolies and asset value inflation [bubble].
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  2958. The alleged attacks on the turkstream pipeline were not substantiated in this article... To be sure I have never heard of such efforts until now... Me thinks that the conflict in Ukraine won't stop until part of the western alliance is pealed off because of the planned sanctions against them that were said by the west to be against russia and china..
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  2959.  @acerrome9672  I don't know enough about social psych but my feeling is that people who are nazi now can be consistently anti nazi in the future...
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  2960. ​ @dy6682  The idea that one shouldn't expect ones government to take care of them is odd... It is the neoliberal idea that we should all be individual automatons that aren't allowed, or shouldn't, make agreements as a group so that the very few can privatize and monopolize everything in the mistaken belief that it is GOOD that if things cost more and people are in debt, GDP goes up... It does go up but so does the 'standard of living' meaning the cost of the very base things that we need to function in society goes up. This creates a non competitive environment for industries that have to complete world wide... This was once thought to be anti-capitalist. Now it is know as financialized capitalism [or just capitalism] where as traditional capitalism [industrial capitalism] where much of life's necessities are produced or purchased by the government and given out for free or for subsided rates, so that labor can support industry, is thought of as socialism...
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  2961. It's a war zone.... Nothing works.... There is no trade in the basics as well as no water... You would expect the government to do it's best to save your life in such a cercomstance.
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  2962.  @privateAcc0unt  To be sure in '08 we had a huge crash in asset values, known as the sub prime mortgage crisis.... Obama and his team bailed out the criminal banking cartells all over the world.... They also put in place ways of protecting these ballooning valueations as to prevent the valuations from falling again... That does exactly what the Suabs of the world want... Another example of the neolibs taking over was the fall of the soviet union where all of russian assets were privatized....
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  2963.  @privateAcc0unt  Seems like a start... I am trying my best to understand.... Hudson done said that the billionares don't understand how things work themselves.... So studying what they do won't lead to understanding any more than looking at the democrats assertion that trump was installed by putin would reveal any wisdom 'cause their ain't none there... What he done said was that the goal of the capitalists was to have central control of the natural monopolies: Land, banking, healthcare, education, utillities so that the indstrialists could create capital and things that they could capitalize on... So for the Swabs of the world: Capitalists of the world UNINTE!.... Time for the revolution against the aristocracy...
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  2964.  @privateAcc0unt  It would go fast under the neoliberal feudalist model.... The aristocracy of bankers. Captialists of the world uninte!
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  2965. ​ @jochenarweiler9909  Please excuse... My understanding of Claus Schwab is that he is the neolib that proposed a goverment of central bankers run the economy with 'the great reset' "You will have nothing and be happy" was their proposal... I am on my way to understanding how the bankers actually need to have the rampent impiralism to keep afloat....
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  2966. Russia claims it knows where all the ATACUM missles are.... If so why do they exist in Ukraine?
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  2967. The sactions against russia were planned well in advance of russia's invasion of ukraine and the sanctions were more about keeping european markets for US and european monopolies... SO... The target of the sanctions were europe and not russia.
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  2968.  @LeadingIndicator  What do you expect them to do? Violent overthrow of their goverments? Welcome to the bannana republics of europe.
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  2969.  @mandrews1245  No... The US gladly buys russian oil...
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  2970. The war was about sanctions.... If Kyiv fell would the sanctions be any different? If so how?
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  2971.  @yurigansmith  My thinking is that europe will look completely different after the sanctions by the US bite... They are already experiencing run away inflation, political instability and civil unrest. Will the EU become reactionary in it's more than american, american alegiance, will it become tribally nationalistic and violent or will it become more worker friendly? I don't know... What is least likely is that europe will be more pro-US... More likely they will become militantly nationalistic or it will become more worker friendly... More likely the EU will break up...
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  2972. Can you call a economy that destroys capital capitalistm?
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  2973. How many subsribers does ben have? Most stations have the number under the trade mark.... MP doesn't have it and I don't know where to find it.
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  2974. They have really destroyed their credibillity..... The ICC endited Putin for operations in the Donbass where they put kinds in summer camp like settings without legal representation from their parrents. The reason parents didn't want to represent is because Ukraine was killing and persecuting them.... They were all returned. Now that tens of thousands died they can't even stop a genocide.
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  2975.  @theprophet489  The US worked with the millatary bases and wars for a long time becuse we [the US] had world war two allies that needed to pay back their world war two debt in dollars....
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  2976.  @UvaldeSalter  Your too fucking smart for your own good.... We can't even see what you say... I wish I could.
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  2977.  @NeostormXLMAX  I don't understand what you said.... Subsidies like direct aid to debter countries, like what war and millatary bases are partly about, or subsidizing industries like EVs?
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  2978.  @jjsamuelgunn1136  T-bonds are hold overs from when the world fuctioned on finite commodities [gold] . T-bills, bonds whatever are dollars that are issued by the US.... The US can issue as many as they want. In the broader sense if china holds dollars it makes the dollar stronger against the yan[sp] so that the US can buy chinese stuff and the chinese can sell... The derogatory that politicians say in the US is that this is currency manipulation. It is but one don't have to use that derogatory. China seems to be spooked by the US stealing the dollars if a nation don't do what he US. IMF, world bank wants. They are setting up trading currencies [like what Keynes suggested] and trading with other countries, setting up chain link or clearing systems as well as sheding dollars.
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  2979. You think Valtamort has us over a barrel?😀
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  2980. Above my pay grad.... I just don't know.
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  2981. Arguably it is a step up to capitalism from feudalism.
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  2982.  @birdyashiro1226  Michael Hudson has been consulting with china to assist china in it's continued industriaization... He is my meantor in my attempt to understand these processes. It seems as if Lula and Delma Rusaloff[sp] are already on it.
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  2983.  @birdyashiro1226  In growing an economy it is nessessary to keep natural monopolies in the service of the economy rather than having them privatized.... The only way that the world can get out from under paracities is to have national banks.... That they are doing such a thing, and seem to know what they are doing is cadgy to say the least.
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  2984.  @pauloziliani260  There is the Arn Rand idea that if you have more equitable distribution of resources then you don't have as much growth.... Many even on, now particualrly on, the left believe this but it is not the truth... In the US they are decreasing capital by deindustrializing... China is industrializing... Agreed we have to increase capital so we have to know how to acomplish that task.
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  2985.  @GETJUSTICE4U  Ben Norton is doing an exelent job at it.... There is gaps perhpas on explaining how wall street works but he brings on Professor Michael Hudson who breaks it down very well.... He has a writing on 'america's protectionist take off' and writings on Westfallian agreements that happened before Brenton Woods... .... What is happening is sancions agianst russia give russia a huge advantage. Advantages that the US earlier reserved for themeselves during it's industrial takeoff... To be sure I have gaps in my understanding as well.
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  2986.  @haochengzhai7156  Eggsactly... It is monopolies and speculation that are paricitic to economies... It wasn't always like that... Hudson worked on a writing about America's take off where they created infrastructure and natinoalized or socialized natural monopolies... That way they held down the cost of prodcution by keeping the things that you needed to survive modest and keeping workers debt to near zero. . During reagan they were saying that china was cheating because they had/have similar polices and won't 'liberalize' their economy...
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  2987. How do the global south transtion from IMF and private banks to the New Devalopment Bank?
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  2988. As an american, although I don't like that the US is causing mayhem around the world, I want to know if I am getting my cut of the loot... Please excuse me as I am under sheltered.
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  2989. I am not even sure what that means. Who or what is the UN and does that body have any power in a vacuum? .... While the UN is a puppet of the US, where I am from, the court there assembled a very strongly worded condemnation of Genocide which is a legal term and issued an injunction or cease and desiist order... It is up to us to erect the guillotines. The UN can't do that from there.
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  2990. My understanding is that Multipolerista got the report that there was US terrorist sleeper cells in Russia wrong....
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  2991.  @simonjlkoreshoff3426  A rose by any other name would be as sweet. The west's economic model is very weak 'cause it is only about ever increasing asset value estimates [bubble bubble toil and trouble]... That dynamic deindustrialzes [destroys capital]. The only way Wall Street is to survive is to take over the industrialzing economies of the world but even if we could, desaster would be just as inevatable... What the world needs now is capital sweet capital. Those who make it will dominate those who destroy it.
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  2992. I thought he was part of the whacky camp who thought that the dollar will complealty fold soon.... We all want stabillity. That causes the dollar to be somewhat stable and NOTHING THIS EVIL EVER DIES.
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  2993. The Korean and Vietnam wars worked because they got US dollars in the hands of the indebted world war two allies and in that way establishing dollar hegimony. I don't even know if the people in charge right now have any clue as to the effects of what they are doing.
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  2994.  @adamburman2337  Hudson has a series of books on the meaning of the bible.
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  2995.  @petersepall2590  Desai certainly knows the weeds as well as Hudson... I think I need to review 'Destiny of Civilization', 'Deficit Myth' and to hammer in the cournal of Hudson's focus so as not to get lost in the weeds. ... I wish Hudson had as good verbal presentaion skills as Desai.
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  2996.  @k.scottphillips8933  Arguably it is the anti-capitalists revolution that are reactionary feudalists that are destroying capitalism in the west.... Words make up the way we see the world... I believe you have the right description.
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  2997. It ain't new... I think it is called feudalism.... A return in during Rome crushed civilizations...
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  2998. They cut off a little more than half of their current natural gass.... It was the plan of the Uk war to do more than just decomission the newly laid source of MORE gas from russia through the Nord Stream two pipeline... Europe is in huge trouble.... We will see an inflection point in western civilization or the US western empire when european pipes freeze in the winter..
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  2999.  @psl7360  You got to figure that millatary industrial production rests on the industry and economy of the country involved.... If you count that the Chinese house, feed, educate, transport and provide healthcare for their workers that that can be conidered millatary spending as well.... Those workers will be able to produce more for less... In the US housing, food, education, transportation, healthcare has all been finachalized to the banks that we are all in debt to...
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  3000. Does the millatary budget of these contries, including the US, reflect the relative production of hardware and infrastructure? When people need lots of money just to survive: cars, healthcare, student debt, housing, in the US, then they need much more money to produce anyting.
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  3001. Isn't sending weapons an end in it's self?
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  3002.  @JohnJohn-rz7tn  I tend to think that robing is bad.... This time it is bad for the robers as well because it wrecks their credibillity.... Who would trust a western bank anymore? If you cant hold youir money in dollars in US tresury bonds then you need another place to hold your money..... Stealing money out of bank accounts does not further western hegimony.... It actually is part of what is destroyng it.
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  3003.  @JohnJohn-rz7tn  It is stolen property..... SO?
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  3004.  @garretttobin7451  The dammage to the UK banks can't be reversed as well as how that messed up US hegimony along with the sanctiosn agaisnt russia, china, Iran.... Now that they have discredited themselves, I doubt they will reverse course. It seems as if the neocons can't ballance a ledger in a candy store.
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  3005.  @donHooligan  Trump is safer right now. Most comments deleated.
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  3006.  @donHooligan  The most neoliberal president or one of them is/was Obama.
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  3007.  @donHooligan  To me, right now, Trump is much safer.... I am a traditonal liberal and I am against the new democrats and afraid of the new liberals.
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  3008.  @donHooligan  I am certainly an economic leftist.... Who is more far right; democrat or republicans?
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  3009.  @donHooligan  By the democrats?
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  3010. Safer but not safe.
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  3011. ​ @GeorgeKelmeris  Brics has been aroud for like ten years and is in it's infancy. We are fuctioning on what was set up during Brenton Woods where the world's imprialists carved up the rest of the world as their colonies. Brics is still a long way away from making the institutions and relationships that the colonial powers had before Brenton Woods.
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  3012. ​ @GeorgeKelmeris  How can you say that Neocolonialism is a thing of the past? Can you say CIA, IMF, World Bank, "Third world debt"?
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  3013.  @GeorgeKelmeris  Maybe you need to reveiw the stuff that Ben Norton, Michael Hudson and others review on this channel. Michael Hudson was the ballance of payments go to for Chase Bank during the early seventies when he wrote Super Impiralism which is out in it's third edition.
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  3014.  @GeorgeKelmeris  I feel like Venezula has a chance to gain some soverenty that it never had before.... But it is them that has to do it.
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  3015.  @Amidat  The powers that be need labor and Americans arn't having kids because they are in debt so they import other young people.
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  3016.  @lazaromora8263  It is particularly Michocan that they are talking about.... Scuttle but is that Avocado growers arn't producing becuse the rent, charged by ilegal cartels is too high.. My friend says Morales is safe.
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  3017.  @lazaromora8263  My buddy lives in Morelia... He was deported [with much wisdom] there and away from la guera spousa americana in chicago with two kids... I was thinking of visiting but I don't know about safety issues in Michocan or Morelia.... 'Aint never been to mexico.
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  3018. Not really.... The whole of the UN has a tendency to push old stuff like feudalism and impiralism... Marxist is more capitalist.
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  3019. Balls or not they don't got no theath. They might as well go for it anyway.
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  3020.  @fun_ghoul  Good question...
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  3021.  @rsuriyop  Fear of the democratic party is a huge motivator.
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  3022.  @Melinamiu007  I am just following Bernie's orders. Yes the pain of the democratic party causes behavior modification. I am there.
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  3023.  @Melinamiu007  Trump don't know nothing about economics.... He ain't no Ben Norton in that way.
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  3024.  @Allpro007  Examples of how Trump could be more compentent on our behalf than the democrats and John Boltons of the world are deleated in the comments.
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  3025.  @Allpro007  It is possible that Trump will slow or reverse both censorship and lawfare. He was targeted by the FBI and censorship at every turn and is motivated in reversing those things... It is also possible that he will be like the Victor Orban of the US in that he will be willing to talk with world leaders and not be shut out like the John Bolton's of the world. This can lead to peace and stop the risk of nuclier war. Lets hope for the best.
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  3026. This is a time where we need Mell Brooks.
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  3027.  @tomtube1012  I know that we can bitch all we want about how the UN is failing right now but what are the eventual outcomes? Is the UN compleatly inneffective? is it a sounding where popular sentiment might be effective in stopping the genocide? could a general assembly vote be binding and effective in stopping this genocide?
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  3028. ​@Meme Memeson Good catch... So you are saying that there is not enogh EVIDNECE to endorse the presented article... I will take your word uncritically 'cause I am on to something else. What has a bug up my but today, along with things that I am ignoring out of procrastination, is that the west is failing and their efforts to keep hegimony, like conficating the US dollar reserves, is hastening it's hegomonic decline... The breathtaking thing is that the head of the EU was the german minster of defence referred to Ukraine as loosing, and I quote "100K OFFICERS" ... Yes she was the head of german defence and yes she don't know the difference between officer and enlisted... More appropriate ways of spending time and money are proposed by John Klese in the 'Minsetry of silly walks' or by Vermine Suprime's "Prepareness for the inevatable zombie appocolipse" ... How did Vermine know the time would be now? Time to go for a nice walk: youtube.com/watch?v=FhRLg0IDyhM
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  3029. I am surprieed. Opperations like these are in central american and africa.... America is sanctioning it's self out of dollar hegimony and isollationg it's self as well as censoring it's self into ignorance. The stipidity is breathtaking.
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  3030. Are they going to get into the mechanics of the new Brenton Woods or the robustness/infirmness of dollar hegimony? Is there really a dicodomy between mutual aid and self interest? If so I don't think I can trust China or Russia and their intentions.
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  3031.  @Bazilhatz3773  China isn't working for free or shouldn't be..... If they are working for free it won't last long.... I waont to know what their game is.... I have a copy of 'destiny of civilization' in my back pack and I am reviewing it... To me it doesn't answer that question.... To be sure I don't really understand how fiat currencies are valued and I don't understand how the 'dutch destase' works.
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  3032.  @TheGoldenDonuttt  Old news that is derogotory and stable is annoying.
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  3033. I can't help but think that it is the western opinions that are driving this conflict that will determin the next steps and not all of us who think that extermination is a crime and is stupid.
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  3034. I don't think it is stable because it is based on votes from a population in revolt.
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  3035. ​ @trollpolice  Cash is essentially credit or debt that was made by kings back in the days of agrarian econommies. What happened is the merchant classes became oligarchs and indebted everyone... Reagan said if you let the makers keep more of what they make and don't give it to the takers then you get Marx describes how the 'takers' become in charge in Capital II and III.
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  3036.  @seanbeukman9563  Actually, wealthy people don't feel guilty at all, but they don't have as much in real terms as they could if there wern't this push toward feudalism-impiralism..... And they don't live in as happy a civilization so they ain't as happy as they could be.
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  3037.  @trollpolice  Arguably what we call capitalism is now slavery and feudalism. Capitalism is something else.
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  3038.  @carolynzaremba5469  'Got to figure that industrial capitalism is now known as socialism so socialism is the road to the future. Feudalism has a new name: Capitalism which it ain't. Who'd of thunk it?
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  3039.  @trollpolice  Capitalism is.... Capitalism is now known as socialsm so socialism is the road to the future.
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  3040.  @hz240  Good Catch
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  3041.  @cendrizzi  The neocons in Washington have been doing everything in their power to motivate people to find alternatives to the dollar.
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  3042.  @fun_ghoul  Get it out... Right now I am thinking, as a Chicagoen perhaps hoping, that the dollar will reatain some of it's stength and we won't have like 20% inflation.... All international instintutions are designed to support the dollar, much of the world's monitary reserve is still in dollars, old habits die hard and to quote our dearly beloved Margret Thacher[sp] "There is no alternative" yet. It is like F=M[dv/dt] or these properties of the dollar are inertial meaniing they are in process and it takes a lof of effort to change the process....
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  3043. How is the AU? I went to a meeting in chicago and I know the MC for the AU, a chicago native and Igbo ethnic... I still know so little about AU plans and all.... Next to nothing.
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  3044.  @Pomegranate_David  In the US we had a narrative that trump was installed by putin for years.... I was not at all surprised that the media, and Hillary Clinton said that but that anyone believed it had me incredulous. They are still calling people who don't believe narratives as ridiculous as that 'putin puppets'
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