Comments by "David Ford" (@davidford3115) on "Sky News Australia" channel.

  1.  @primordialarchetypes2927  What are you talking about? Hamas was ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE. At some point, the Palestinians have to reject the people who use them as pawns. "We can forgive [the Arabs] for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with [the Arabs] when they love their children more than they hate us." -Golda Meir.
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  2.  @goji059  Which is why it STILL needs to go to court. So that a legal precedent is set that the government cannot ever do that before the act is officially ratified.
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  3.  @jonathandantonio649  Indeed. Which is why those cases STILL need to go to court. So as to set a precedent that until the act is officially ratified, any actions taken before it becomes official is unlawful.
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  4.  @rickygarza2005  You are correct. Obama has his hand in this. Do keep in mind that in 2016, pallets of cash were sent to Iran. Three guesses as to where it went.
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  5.  @benguensche  I think Ukraine is handing itself quite well dude. Maybe you need to get better talking points.
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  6. Not just wrong, they want to be able to run their con-job again and again. These people HATE free will. They hate democracy which is why they try to subvert it every chance they get.
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  7.  @manmanman2000  Germany was devastated by Angela Merkel making the country critically dependent on Russia, particularly in the energy sector.
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  8. @@ghassankanafani2837 Israel has not occupied the Gaza since they pulled out in 2005. Try again.
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  9. More like neck stretched for high treason.
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  10. Cincinnatus preceded him. So did Sulla. But you are correct that it is the exception rather than the norm.
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  11.  @aflyingcowboy31  Thank you. Seems like Youtube doesn't like me pointing that out. Nor a certain other dirty detail about Angela Merkel.
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  12. The Greens put them into this mess with their foolish policies on energy.
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  13. The government still needs to be taken to court so as to prevent this from happening again. The defendants need to demand their cases go before court so as to set a precedent that any actions take without ratification are unlawful and those who do will be held accountable for their actions.
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  14.  @joebryniarski6698  When a number of precincts reported 120% of registered voter turnout, you know something is wrong.
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  15. I am all for the humiliation conga line.
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  16. Hence why the international law on war stipulates that you do NOT execute or mistreat prisoners.
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  17.  @martin_9774  I think you grossly underestimate the intelligence of the audience. It is pretty hard to NOT understand the iconography they chose to use. You excuse only works on sheep herders in Afghanistan or rice farmers in North Korea. The entire Western World and much of the Global South know exactly what they were doing.
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  18.  @superchuck3259  I'm not sure he is necessarily a "traitor to the rich". In the classic "old money vs. new money" , he certainly fits the mold of a Nouveau Riche(meant as an insult, but could be a badge of honor, think unsinkable Molly Brown). And yes, those who subscribe to "Der Wille zur Macth" (the will to power), cling to it like a man hanging over a cliff. Power is a drug more addictive than Heroin. The analogy of Gollum and the Ring of Power is apt.
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  19. They should still hold his feet to the fire. Don't let the matter drop just because he retracted it.
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  20. And as the soon to be AG, he will have the resources to do so. But it should be part of a larger push against the monstrous Sullivan decision.
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  21.  @nn-dj2nu  Indeed. The WEF folks at Davos are like the fools in the movie Idiocracy who think that putting Gatorade on the fields is good, not realizing they are salting the soil (depleting the soil in this case). There is a reason why people alternate with alfalfa: to PURPOSLY restore nitrate into the soil.
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  22.  @napsclub  It was once said that the victors write the history. And that is true to a certain extent. The victors trying to minimize and downplay what they did wrong while emphasizing and often exaggerating the wrongs of their opponents. Classic case I like to use is Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. He was quoted as saying "you have to dictate terms to the US from the White House". American media for decades played this up as a jingoistic brag. In reality, he was warning Tojo and company the difficulty of making war on the US. Another example is that he is quoted as saying to his men after reading the after-action report on the Pearl Harbour attack: "Gentlemen, we have just kicked a rabid dog". Again, American media made it out to be an insult. In reality, he was making the observation that the sneak attack will have the same fatal result as if a rabid animal had bitten you. And there are several more examples littering history of such disproportionate analysis and hyperbole of the situation. Genghis Khan's brutality. The excesses of the Julio-Claudean dictators of Rome. The "peaceful and noble" nature of the heart eating Aztecs. et. al.
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  23.  @megaglock22  Sadly, it will take force of arms to do that. And it is now or never. If the people of Canada do not take action now, they will never have another opportunity to save their country from totalitarian dictatorship.
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  24.  supernovaaust  Pot meet kettle. But I expect that from fascist bootlickers.
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  25. Indeed. Which is why the defendants need to demand that their cases be heard instead of dropped. Don't let the government get away with this. Insist that the courts hear the cases so that a precedent is set that such actions taken before ratification are unlawful and those that do will be held accountable.
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  26. Funny how fascism took root in Anglosphere nations, isn't it? Even the US is not immune. The English-speaking world needs to take a long hard look at how it betrayed the principles of basic English Common Law and held the precepts of the Magna Carta in contempt.
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  27. I am wondering if her license to practice was revoked just like Bill Clinton's.
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  28.  @hopliteluke1452  Pushing Trudick's propaganda are we? Nobody is buying to lies.
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  29.  @dereksbooks  When the shooting starts, that will not be a problem. Keep in mind that the US-Canadian border is the longest unguarded boundary in the world. You could put the entire US and Canadian military and border patrol along it and still not stop a flow of small arms across.
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  30. Yeah, I was kind of hoping that Putin would castigate Trudick for his hypocrisy. It would have been an epic excoriation.
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  31. Which is why these cases need to be taken to court. This will happen again unless a precedent is set that the government cannot legally act until AFTER final ratification.
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  32. Indeed. This is corporate oligarchism not much different in practice than a monopoly, hence the anti-trust statutes as you point out. Interestingly, using your example, if Coke and Pepsi pull out, that in theory does let another cola company like Royal Crown to step in, but to your point, they are so much smaller that the damage is still done.
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  33. Just proves that much like the Oscars and Golden globes, it is the industry patting itself on the back. The foxes guard the hen house.
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  34.  @BLUEYGILA  DNA says that the "Palestinians" are indistinguishable from the Jordanians, Syrians, and Lebanese. The Aaron Y chromosome however.....
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  35.  @patrickt601  And yet that was a hallmark of their platform. One does not have to be in power to be a kingmaker.
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  36.  @charliegraham2789  Denial is not just a river in Egypt. You KNOW it is, yet you make excuses to justify the indefensible.
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  37. Agreed. Which is why the defendants need to demand that their cases be heard in court. So as to set the precedent that such actions without ratification are unlawful.
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  38. This still needs to be investigated, and the defendants should still demand that the cases go to court so as to set a precedent that such actions taken before the act is ratified are unlawful, and that those who carry them out will still be held accountable for criminal acts taken on behalf of the government.
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  39. Japan didn't truly regret until after the two nukes were used against them. Not advocating for nukes on Gaza, but a similar level of devastation may be required.
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  40.  @brawndothethirstmutilator9848  Something tells me it won't work this time. Among other things, Israel has gotten better at the counter-propaganda game.
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  41. Except anti-trust laws come into play. This isn't free-market capitalism, it is corporate oligarchism, the antithesis of capitalism.
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  42. Actually, that is what the people he is taking to court are doing. To are accusing the wrong side.
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  43. Ah, but if they independently do that it is one thing. If they organize together to do that, it because a violation of anti-Trust Laws.
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  44.  @bil8647  No it isn't. That is corporate oligarchism, the antithesis of free-market capitalism.
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  45.  @richardsaunders3743  Because the leadership of "democratic socialism" have always been about power rather than the working class. Take a look at what happened to the Russian Democratic Socialist Party after 1917 when they took power.
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  46. Michael Crichton had a number of biting quotes regarding the wisdom of experts. In particular, he excoriates the "consensus" that said Pellagra was caused by a germ rather than nutrition deficiency.
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  47. Tell that to the builders of the US Navy Nuclear Reactors, particularly for the nuclear carriers.
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  48. I agree. The "Aryan Princess" look is so 1930s. I prefer the East Asian beauty.
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  49. My ancestors were proud rebels having fought with the Green Mountain Boys under Ethan Allen.
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  50. Yeah, the people who obsess about slavery seem to forget that the Pharaohs kept Hebrew slaves in bondage to but the Pyramids and Temple cities.
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