Comments by "justgivemethetruth" (@justgivemethetruth) on "The Real News Network" channel.

  1. I have to say, the Democrats appear to be being handsomely paid off to put up a good front ... and lose.
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  2. Yeah, he did try, but he was not able to get people to listen to him?
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  3. 16:47 - It's Wallace that says that America's fascists are those who put Wall St. comes first and the American people come second.
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  4. I wish more people knew and understood the significance of the Smedley Butler coup mentioned at 4:29
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  5. The more I find out about the Kurds, the more I respect and find them admirable. Being attacked from all sides by toxic festering corruption of the various Islamic sects who dominate and enslave any and all non-Muslims within the borders of their states, the Kurds have held on and fought for their freedom. Why should they have to fight and die for their freedom ... the whole world should be united against the Islamic countries who all abuse their people, even the Muslims, because it is all about greed and lust for power with the Muslim states. Their governments do not care about human values and rights.
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  6. Phil Donahue was a great journalist and American. He is courageous, smart, and I wish he'd get back on TV
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  7. I like the idea of public banking, just a safe place for regular people to put their money so it doesn't get ripped off and they are safe - and also does not give your information away.
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  8. No kidding ... all of these guys are not Republicans or Democrats, they are solid plutocrats ... and the American people should not bend themselves out of shape to twist facts around politically. Lionizing Bush, or Comey, ... it's stupid.
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  9. In Treatment was brilliant ... and what was brilliant about it was the eventually uncovering that the doctor was just as clueless as the patients.  It's seemed like a whole attack on orthodoxy and assumed authority.  A truly amazing program that I wish had gone on longer, and Byrne played the part perfectly.  One of the most mature and intelligent series I've ever seen.
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  10. Even Kucinich and Hedges have to make a living. They give speeches and write books, and get interviewed, but they don't really challenge the system in real constructively critical ways that can lead to political change. A lot of people have the courage to reform, they just don't have the brains or understanding, and I am not sure either of Kucinich or Hedges does anything to change that. They just tell their "customers" what they want to hear, and in turn their customers give them money for making them feel hopeful. Meanwhile things that might possibly lead to more democratic change - like perhaps Twitter, are bought up and rendered useless when they show a possiblity of bringing about change, or even getting information or ideas out there. I am sure global oligarchs all over the world are cheering Elon Musk's work and destroying Twitter, and under the absurd rubrick of free speech. No wonder the Left never gets anywhere and the oligarchs fear them and want to disempower them. Not saying this is right or optimal, just that it should be discussed openly and analyzed and a strategy openly arrived at to bring about change that helps people.
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  11.  @jasondelvaux3036  In retrospect too? Kucinich just did not have the poltical mojo, or the people did not trust his sweetness and light talk without a long history of proving himself. For me, I knew I was a socialist way back before Kucinich was popular, so I liked what he had to say about a few issues, but it was just talk. It didn't help that he was very short, dressed like a little boy, talked like a little boy trying to be taken seriously. It was not until Bernie Sanders that the Left really had a credible candidate, and all people can do is criticize him. UNLESS, it's not really the people it our privately controlled media making us think people are more skeptical of Bernie than they are. Oh, and the wife is like the dreams of every little boy who gets a peek at a Playboy. ;-)
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  12. Greg Palast is an idiot. His film was not right, he did not say anything about Clinton being so bad and getting slammed in the media. Also, this dumbass Palast released his "film", idiotic and discontinuous as it was, a couple of weeks before the election. What a useless idiot.
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  13. 29:35 - Canada would be very smart to get the heck out of NATO.
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  14. The branding should be Western Exceptionalism ... to which the US lags the rest of the developed world now.
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  15. A really great talk for understanding what this book is saying. The book is really good. Maybe not perfect, but it is a ground-breaker when it comes to changing one's world view and considering what's been going on in our country and world for a much too long time. How much sickness is the injury and trauma from people doing hurtful things to us all our lives? And we think it is all random and just due to someone pulling themselves up by their own bootstraps, when a lot of what is going on is the stomping down of people to make way for the bullies and reinforce the bully syndrome of life.
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  16. I really like Wallace's vision, along with FDR's second bill of rights. He was way out ahead of his time, and not only that but he was a real business man too ... the company he built today would have been a billion dollar company.
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  17. The people in the Democratic party actually are being paid to herd Democrats to the right, over to the Republicans - because it doesn't have to be for very long. The Republicans are almost locked in now everywhere with the gerrymandering, and the Democrats in on the fix. It is all window dressing. This is revolution territory, at least according to the writings of most of our Founders ... they would never expect Americans to sit still for this screw job.
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  18. Clinton's choices for VP shows she is weak, and does not have the positive points of a real women leader. If she were a leader should be not be scared of Bernie and get him to be VP, but she intends to break her words and support a pseudo-Republican agenda is my guess ... that is what she's been paid for.
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  19. Wallace would have been an amazing President.
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  20. Gee, I bet Israel is just so happy to have her as a citizen.
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  21. Wells Fargo is typical ... the whole banking industry is full of people who know how to pull these scams and that is the only reason they in the banking business. the rest of the banks are doing the same things.
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  22.  @honey_badger1968  I'd vote for him if he was in my area and the only choice as a Democrat or Progressive, I'm just saying he has not been very effective. The Left often gets stuck with candidates that are like cartoon figures. Finally we got Bernie Sanders years back who has more experience that most of the House and Senate and has served in both as well as in local government. The other thing is that I know you are a Right-wing person because of your rhetoric. Or at least dishonest.
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  23. This idiot being interviewed is doing just what everyone expects ... another nonsense movie ... another set-up "fart-in" to make Bernie look bad. We the people, cannot trust whatever we see on the media or internet anymore ... all of it could be preconceived to move us based on focus groups and polls. The bottom line is that Hillary has sold out the left now and gone back to the establishment right-wing Democrat, and expects us all to vote a big landslide for her because we are so scared of Trump. I am not so scared of Trump because I think he would be impeached in his first year in office, so I am willing to take the chance and either support an independent run by Bernie Sanders or do a write-in for Bernie and hope enough people in the rest of the country get the message and do likewise.
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  24. Jill Stein is not a Bernie substitute.
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  25. I really, REALLY, appreciate the persistence and energy of these Sanders supporters ... this is the hope of the country, and maybe the world ... hang in there, know that lots and lots of people are with you, and the vast majority would be if they could hear and understand Bernie's message! Wonderful!
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  26. Bernie's the man - Bernie 2020 !!!
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  27. --- Bernie Sanders is an ethno-nationalist and imperialist warmonger who supports the $1.5T F-35 scheme. hahahahahahahaha , Bernie's never said anything like that or done anything like that in his life. Funny
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  28. I do think the DNC sabotaged Bernie's campaign. Bernie was the best candidate I have ever seen in my lifetime, and I would have loved for him to have gotten the nomination and run. I don't know if he could have won, and I suspect not because of how the media has smeared Democrats and Liberals. The thing about the DNC sabotage is that for Bernie to do anything as President he would need a real mandate, nothing like how Trump won, and I do not believe even if he had won the primary nomination he would have had that, so I don't know how he would have done in the election. If Bernie runs again, and I hope he does and I will support him, he needs to get an overwhelming support of the nomination, 60% in order to justify the huge changes he wants to make - otherwise they just get reversed, and we do not want that.
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  29. This is good reporting, and Real News is capable of that, but they always have to slam Israel. Israel is not the problem or at the bottom of this. IF you want to fix this problem in US politlcs - 1. Remove the money. 2. Reinstutute progressive taxes so billionaire play their fair share.
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  30. There was not alternative ... Stein is an airhead and would never win because she was not even on the ballot in all states ... grow up. Democrats making bad decisions is why Republicans win.
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  31. Russia is not really capitalist, but even if it was, what makes you think that all capitalist countries are the same or have the same agenda or can get along? Russia and the US increasingly diverge from the civilized principles of Western democratic tradition. Russia has never really been about Western society or economics, it has been about building a military structure to hold all its lands together ... that is more the same kind of thing the US has been doing, but in a different way. The US began to go off the rails after WWII when FDR had more or less the same agenda as the Western democracies. The rest of the West held the course with a partial socialist, partial capitalist democracy, while the US diverged into a military superpower, slowly corrupted by the secrecy, money and power inherent in the need for the military industrial complex. The US put all its energy into defense, offense, empire, and played a game of competition with Russia, and Russia at the same time. The US took on more than it ever could have done, and so bankrupted itself, as it claimed happened to Russia, only instead of going broken it just sold off its internal system, taking from its people, as China has done, but in a different way, while the same with Russia. All 3 systems have been on the edge of war because the military industrial complex in each system has taken over each system, but in slightly different ways, and they have all different mechanics of expansionism. This is complete idiocy, except that the US clings to its freedom to point to its superiority even as it is now the least free country in the West. The US relies now more on propaganda and coercion to keep people inline and working and paying their taxes, while it has no intention of balancing its budget by taxing the people with the money or the stake in its power.
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  32. I wonder if they have barf bags at the UN behind the seats or something ... seeing this disgusting display from Trump would make me want to puke.
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  33. Hey, thanks for giving Scott Ritter a place to put out his parsing of this situation. I don't know what to think, but much of what he says rings true - and it is useful for everyone to be able to hear and critically analyze in real time events that really could bring about a major war, if not a nuclear war. These events are affecting people all over the world, and we should have a right to know what is going on - and not to be BS'ed by some massive PR or Media Manipulation machine.
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  34. Great political insights.
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  35. I think Bernie could take this election if right in the middle of the DNC he decided to say both sides of this system are corrupt and will do nothing for the people, and make an independent run for the Presidency against both the Republicans and Democrats! I think he leaves the extremists and Republicans, about 30% of the electorate out, and grabs about 60% of the people who are sick of what they have seen for the last year. What do you think?
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  36. The Democratic Party machinery is determined to take the party away from the people and represent corporations and the rich while pretending to be Democrats trying to exploit the old branding of the 60's and 70's when that is gone. Today, working and middle class people really have no one to represent them and all political forces are against them trying to use them.
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  37. Yeah, Israel is doing what anyone with half a brain would do in that environment - so shut the "F" up and quit the never-ending lying and attacks on Israel. RNN was just interviewing Thomas Franks about the Democratic Party dismissing the middle and working classes for the Professional class ... but what happened at about the same time was the Democrats were trained to put people off by attacking Israel and siding with the worst human rights abusing countries in the world. This is orchestrated with vast amounts of money to make nothing acceptable to vote for people who really want change. And RNN is a part of it for sure. What does attacking Israel have to do with democracy ... do you think the Muslims countries are democratic ... do you think they have more equality? Think again.
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  38. Yeah, the Electoral College is a problem. The Electoral College is one of very many problems. But a problem of higher priority than the Electoral College is listing all the problems, putting them in some kind of effective order, and then discussing how to move on them and then FOLLOWING THROUGH. All our Left Wing talk channels have all these lone voices all talk their own kind of sense and most have a point and can tell us something ... but they never get together, form a coalition, make a project and get anything done. When was the last time the Left had a victory? So long ago if you can even name one? That was because they were unified and willing to work for the benefit of everyone instead of just sitting on their rear ends complaining. I think more important than the Electoral College is getting money out of politics ... but that requires getting the right Supreme Court Justices installed, and that requires taking back the House and the Senate and getting a decent President. See how badly we have screwed ourselves by letting all that earlier generations have worked for fall apart?
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  39. Don't throw BS URLs and Twitter feeds out as any kind of proof. You're attacking Bernie because he disagrees with the only thing you seem to care about really - that Israel is destroyed and that Islam can take it over. I stand with Bernie on that. The one-state solution would force Israel to accept more terrorists in its boundaries even than now. The problem about all of this is the hate of the Palestinians for Israel and their refusal to live as equals with non-Mulims It is the voters that expect their representatives to support the military and actions abroad. That is a education and propaganda of the population - not the votes of the Representive, and Bernie has a fairly non-military record. Every state gets military budget and pork - that is the system which Bernie would attempt to change. Your whole twisted argument is only anti-Bernie because you hate Israel and Jews so much you don't care what say or lie about.
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  40. That movie was so late and completely confusing and disjointed ... it took him almost 20 years to do that? What an idiot.
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  41. This video is a pathetic commercial for a movie that was out of date and way too late by the time it was released. Seems to me Palast is probably in on all this mess. These movies get people all riled up emotionally, but dribble out the facts and often do not tell the whole story.
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  42. This smart lady nailed it ... business as usual ... unnacceptable.
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  43. You can put that comment right back in your ass where you pulled it out of.
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  44. The United States is held back by what our monied elites can do without losing their grip on power, the media and the culture. They would rather go backwards and shoot people in the streets than lose their grip on their power and money - and "F" democracy and "F" the Constitution.
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  45. What a bunch of weasel words ... if the Palestinians put half as much effort into making peace as they put into justifying their terrorism and attack the US and Israel they would not need to prove anything to the world. Since the 70's these people have been bringing terror to the world in the name of the Palestinians, but really it is in the name of destroying Israel and the Jews. Over and over there are resolutions and statements condemning Israel from the US, but never a statement against the Palestinians. Anti-Israel bias ???? well ,only if you care about facts and reality.
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  46. 21:58 - Discussion of the Bucha atrocities, how reporters were escorted by Ukrainian officials to see the Russian atrocities.
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  47. This dude's book is really amazing. I've always thought this. There is no logical explanation as to what depression is biologically . There are no real studies that shows they are effective ... and no theory as to how they work, or the theory of how they might work temporarily. A lot of medicines are like this, or the arguments to support their high prices are bogus and a form of corruption. This is all about money, and I wish the author had pushed the political side of this argument to the brink, because basically when you look at the American economy, taxpayers, and workers should be able to GET THEIR MONEY BACK - with the main motive of build a new government and economy that actually works and not totally corrupt and criminal.
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  48. At the level of idiots it hard to disagree with that. As a Liberal I particularly find Liberals who are apologists for Palestinians and terrorists repugnant. I don't see that as a Liberal issue, or if it is Liberals should be on the opposite side. I just think that most of this kind od idiocy comes from the idiots, but what I see in the media is a lot of otherwise intelligent people passing off lies as what they believe when they are really playing a part to buttress their status.
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  49. Israel is not "aggressively colonizing the West Bank". Palestinians claim that Israel is an apartheid state that treats Arabs differently from Jews. Well, Jews cannot even be in Palestine ... so who are the ethnic cleaners now? Just listen to this guy and apply some thinking and facts and he contradicts himself with BS every minutes or so. The Jews are going to be living in any Palestinian state to ensure that Israel is safe. The Palestinians want them all in Israel so they can continue to fire rockets, send bombs, snipe into Israel and stab people on the streets. Who wants a group that is completely based on such hate and lies to have a country of their own? Only insane people in my opinion.
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  50. Only 413 views???  How sad.
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  51. I have problems with the idea of American exceptionalism, whatever the "F" it is supposed to mean, but it is not an idea that has gone away or turned into a joke.  There is something about America, if it is just its place geographically or historically.  We seem to be doing our best to make the concept repugnant, but the US and the idea of the USA has been a beacon to a lot of people in the last 100 years.  Today a lot of people I talk to that have emigrated here tell me they would rather go to other places but it is so easy to get into the USA.  No more melting pot, not more classless society, so it is valid for people to question this idea today, but relatively in the past the US has at least held up the ideals, even if we have not carried them out.  It is sad, I wish I could say the US was even more exceptional that we claimed, but in a predatory capitalist system the number one first lesson to learn is bait and switch, brand and exploit the brand.
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  52. This country is gone .... we need to build a new country from the fascist ashes of what we have now.
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  53. Frank has really nailed the political changes in the last 30-40 years
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  54. I hate that expression, "Let's agree to disagree". You're not agreeing to anything, you're just disagreeing, which means that communication broke down somewhere, or in most cases that someone has a greedy, selfish, toxic, Right-wing attitude that they don't see they have to renounce or give up. I can mean sometimes a silly, goofball Left-wing idea, but mostly problems in communication come from people on the Right who don't care about anything or anyone but winning.
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  55. The power "geometry" of the world is complicated and all wrapped up with psychopathy and military and violence, and some people who talk shit and cannot bring others together to challenge it without dividing them are not serious about anything but their own egos - just like those they spend the most time criticizing.
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  56. How would you know anything but what someone tells you?
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  57. The leaders of the Progressive movement seem to have as their goal creating a movement that is so offensive to the moderates and Conservatives that the Right is also mobilized to fight and offend the left ... thus keeping the people out of politics and bickering between themselves while the elites make off with all the loot and capture legislation and policy. If you divide politics into two reasonable factions, right and left, they both have their constituents ... basically the right is for institutions and corporations and the left is for people. The left should limit its scope to human rights, social and economic justice issues. Quit trying to tell the military what to do and how to act, geo-political realities are not the purview of the left, except in special cases, such as Viet Nam in the 70's, and Central America in the 80's, and the Middle East in the 90's and on ... the Left can speak up, but it will end up fragmenting the society and it does no good. We need both sides of the country to work together. They don't have to agree, but they need to balance their needs rationally against the other side. Right now the US is tilted way over the to side of the rich and corporations to the point that people are hurting, and the corporations are acting without constraint - and hurting the people and the environment.
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  58. It's not the Jews you idiot ... you are just a Nazi stooge.
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  59. I wonder if he could do a massive write-in campaign? I don't think he would do it, but what if the people did it, or at least enough to show Clinton they do not want her or respect her. I think Trump could be impeached or lead to the end of the country he is so unstable, no one wants him, at least Republicans say they don't. It all comes down to the Supreme Court. Hillary is just like Trump ... they both cynically say, whether you like it or not I am your only choice.
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  60. hahahaha ... no kidding
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  61. This is pretty good ... where are the other 5 episodes of this series?
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  62. I don't think that is true. As correct as Hedges might be and I agree with most, maybe everything he says, until there is a workable plan or strategy to take over, like the Republicans developed, nothing is going to happen. So asking Americans to listen to this and get depressed and miserable because there is nothing they can do is unrealistic. I don't mean to be negative, but if there is something concrete that can be understood and done I think most Americans would do it, but they are tired of wasting time, energy and money supporting people like this who don't get anyone closer to anything.
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  63.  @CaravanseraiSouthValley  In theory, I agree with much of what Hedges says. The problem is Hedges has no real experience of understanding of our government, how it works and why it is impossible to change. Sure, if there was an upswell of activism across the country a the local level things might change - but what things and how? Furthermore, the people are so fragmented that they don't even go out and vote. Another thing about Hedges that disgusts me, along with Chomsky and most of the far Left pundits who I used to follow assiduously, is they are constantly side with Palestinians 100% and 0% with Israel. I consider myself far Left, but Palestinians have no claim to a role in the Left ... and that is disgusting. Whenever you hear these pundits, and organizations like Democracy Now! never reporting both sides of this issue, you know they are fake. So in political theory the Left is great, and reporting news with respect to the Liberal, Progressive, Tolerent, democratic point of view, they are great, but they shift over to Middle Eastern horror terrorists 100% and never report on Israel, or what the Palestinians do to bring police actions against them. I have no interesting in Hedges, Chomsky or any of this clique. They are liars and cannot be objective. They only tell the truth to establish a base, and then they corrupt them with lies.
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  64. So true, this hyperbolic fear-mongering is for idiots who like scary movies. They way they always tie local domestic policy in some way to defend Iran and attack Israel is so transparent ... this agenda is underwritten by the CIA would be my guess.
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  65. The thing is we do not know what is being faked in the media and what is not. Both the establishment and the opposition is owned and run by the same people today. This show could be run by the CIA to keep the Left demonized by always showing negative images and scary images. But he is right ... there is no public anymore, or at least that is what these Right wingers want to convince us is happening, only rich people and their kids are human, the rest of us are farm animals.
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  66. So, your answer would be yes then, right. That's what I asked. So, Iran's Shia Muslims are voting FOR all that religious oppression then? You do understand that the religious authority has more power than the President as well too, right? The NYT article said Mr. Rouhani has promised economic growth and greater freedom of speech and of the press. So, if Iran has all this freedom and democracy that you say, why do they need to promise greater freedom or speech. Because you and I both know that in Iran if you say the wrong thing and get attention for it you can end up dead or in prison. But, you are fine with that and argue that one election means that Iran is as democratic as Israel, right? You and I might agree that Iran is changing, but that is coming from pressure from abroad as more Iranians become city dwellers and are exposed to outside ideas. I am sure Iran will get there eventually, but Israel is already there and has been since its inception, so I guess we can agree to disagree despite your daring opinion. You know the reality of Iran just like most other people who follow it, and you know that you get nowhere in life unless you are a devout Shia Muslim, and on women's rights Iran may be ahead of Saudi Arabia, but that is not saying much. But you can amuse and shock people by making such claims.
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  67. Bernie did not ask people to vote for Jill Stein either.
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  68. Liberals/Progressives forming another circular firing squad ... what a bunch of useless blather.
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  69. This is great ... we are all entitles to the legacy of human civilization - PERIOD. And every day we are kept apart from it is an expanding crime against humanity.
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  70. You mean the Liberal media that is pushing communism?  LOL ... the opposition is owned and controlled by the establishment ... straight out of Orwell.
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  71. The organizations that claim to be Liberal are just dummy decoys that create these identity issues that at the same time create groups that are anti-identity policies and get the fighting so no one is watching or participating in politics. The US is pretty much dead except for a military corporate state ... that sadly is corrupt.
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  72. You have a point, and I even agree with you. The flip side of that is that Palast, for some reason, perhaps his weird OCD or mental issues has been completely ineffective at everything he has done. He has only contacted a narrow group of people in the far left. Somehow with amazing lies the Republican party has everyone doubting Barack Obama is a Christian or was born in the USA ... while Palast with incontrovertible proof cannot get out to inform America of the facts?
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  73. Great job ... label this one different than you labelled all the other sections? Come on!!!!!
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  74. I think there is a certain stability, which has good and bad points, to having two parties. The problem is not the number of parties, it is that the parties are run by money and rich people, and they pretty much always were, but because of technology and inequality it is a disaster now. Changing random variables is not the answer ... getting money out of politics, and regulating the media are two things that might ... I don't see another party as helping, in fact it can cause instability and volatility that our country may not be able to take.
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  75. LK ... Where did you get your alternative fact that you can call Bernie Sanders pro-war? Jill Stein has never been a leader, she is an air-head. An air-head with values that I respect, but that does not mean that she would be an effective leader and that I would want her for President, or that there is any chance that she would win. So dishonest people like you resort to stupid accusations against Bernie, and we can all see that you are most likely a right-wing fraud working against Bernie because the right wing knows that he will probably win if he runs in the next election.
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  76. What does pro-drone mean. I am pro-drone if it means not having to send soldiers into deadly places to find ISIS. Anyone dumb enough to be recruited by ISIS is not going to give a damn what Bernie Sanders or anyone else thinks about drones. Are you daft? Sanders is not even mentioned in the article you cite. You shift you argument from idiot point 1 to idiot point 2 and back and forth to attack Bernie Sanders. Like I said, where does it say Bernie is pro-war. You know he's never uttered anything remotely like that, or that could even be interpreted to mean that. Stein is an airhead. She knew she was not going to win, and she could have saved the country and the world, or at least made an attempt to by asking voters to support Sanders or Clinton. If all you care about is the anti-war agenda fed to you by the alternative media, and you do not bother to look at reality then you will come up with ineffective behaviors like supporting Stein. I don't say I dislike what she says or stands for in large part, but the net effect of her candidacy and what the Greens are doing is sadly ineffective at best and destructive at worst. The Democratic party needs a huge overhaul, Bernie proved that and got way more votes than Stein, and he has leadership experience. Stick with Bernie and the Democrats to see what can be done and you have thousands of times more chance of changing things for the better.
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  77. Let's say it's true the Democrats have little to offer ... that means 1. You either vote Republican or you help Republicans win. 2. You vote Democrat to counter the Republican party, but you must also get involved and fix the Democratic party, which used to the party of the working class. Take it back. Be a cooperator and uniter within the framework of what already exists because at least in the last election would have let to less stupidity like Trump's health care and tax proposals. Why would you want to act in such a way as to give Republkicans more power so they can cement their party in the top position and make it that much harder to unseat them? I can only imagine you are either disingenuous and working for the Republicans, or you are stupid, or you could just be blinded by reckless idealism
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  78. Why are you a wife-beater?
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  79. Love these videos and these stories, but people have to realize that RNN, Real News Network, uses these progressives stories to brand itself Leftist solely so that it can propagandize for the Palestinians. Palestinians are not the 1%, Islamic countries are not Liberal. The problem in the US is all the media outlets that support the Left also have this poisoned terrorist pills of being designed to ultimately blow up the Left by association with terrorists. This has been done by the CIA in other countries, why not here. The status quo designs the political opposition from the Left with terrorist or some other bitter poisoned position at its heart that makes it unacceptable ultimately. That is why Bernie has been so great, he is outside our CIA/Right Wing totaliarian propaganda state.
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  80. It makes me sick that Palast did his original work all the way back in 2000 .... almost 20 years ago now, and nothing has happened and so few people know what this was about and that the voter fraud thing was being funded by Conservative criminals like the Kochs ... and with the Clinton and Democrats assistance.
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  81. Frank is right about ideas.  As a kid I lived inTexas and was never really exposed to any ideas but the BS from the status quo.  My life began when we moved to California and I began to learn about the real history of the world ... and that is exactly why the Republicans are trying to make education so elite and expensive - they want to monitor and control what ideas people are exposed to, and keep track of who knows what.  Republicans are the totalitarian fascists ... and somehow Franks is right again, the Republicans figured out a convoluted logic that makes Liberals the bad guys ... probably from taking over the Democratic party and having them do things they can be attacked for and provisioning the party with people who were bought and really do not care about Democratic values. Look at Clinton, a Republican in her youth, Obama with a mother in the CIA.  The Democratic party is full of people who have been co-opted for money to take down the party.  That is how the Republicans won.  They had enough money to begin with to bring this about and start it, but now they own everything.  Those who want to have a happy life working for the man just say you are Republican and accept their BS ideas, and you will be fine as long as you rip off everyone else in the country to keep the hierarchy of money and power intact.
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  82. He talks about the CIA "getting away with things". What sorts of "things" is he talking about the CIA getting away with? And to what ends ... for whom? Who is setting their agenda, their activities and boundaries or limits?
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  83. 9:15 - Who says India wants Palestinians to go there? No way, everyone does not want Palestinian or radicalized Muslims anywhere near their country.
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  84. This guy and his family, the Barghoutis, are rich as hell. They go around the world,get the best medical treatment, the best education, eat the best food and can do what they like while they beg for money for terrorism against Israel, all the while their fellow Palestinians live with violence the terrorist thugs supported by these people have to endured, poverty, lack of health care, lack of education, while these Barghoutis blame it all on Israel. Nice gig I guess if you are a Palestinian and you like being a fascist.
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  85. In that case ( Palestinians ) there is a reason.
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  86. WRF is wrong with TRN .... they have this labelled as 1 of 4, and no other videos by the same name or next up?  Part of the conspiracy maybe?
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  87. If you have not, to get the real view, from altitude, about what is going on in the US that is screwing things up, read Thomas Frank's "The Wrecking Crew".  After reading "Listen Liberal" last year and hearing videos of him speaking and answering questions I wanted to read more and did not know what to get. "The Wrecking Crew" lays the whole mess that is the USA today out bare, the who and the why.  It is a non-fiction masterpiece, a fantastic piece of writing, but ideas explained so well.  After that book I am not surprised he has not been asked back on mainstream media TV shows ... that book explains the nightmare and the doublespeak. The Wrecking Crew should really be read by everyone, twice or more and made into a multi-part documentary it is so important.
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  88. Show me where a mosque has been torn down in Israel. Also, show me where any synagogue has been built in Palestine? Jews cannot live in Palestine unless they have heavy military protection. Building housing doesn't even compare to murderous terrorism ... that is why Palestinians are so terrified ... now all of a sudden time is not on their side and they will lose out completely if they do not change. Basically nothing you said was true or complete. Though you did manage to evade and ignore every point I made ... which probably means you are a Palestinian.
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  89. Thanks, this is an excellent series.
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  90. Yeah, those poor Palestinians have one of the highest birthrates of any group in the world, and when they are born they are brainwashed into terrorism. These Palestinians, this family the Barghoutis are not the Palestinians that need the support or the world, they are the supporters of the terrorists.
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  91. Who cares about what John Meecham says? Not to mention his hypothetical attack on the Baltics? Stephen F. Cohen is the voice of reason.
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  92. 15:56 - where do these old videos live, and how can I find them and watch them? There is damn little stuff about FDR these days, even on YouTube, and I know there were all kinds of radio shows and NewsClips of FDR ... where is it all?
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  93. These interviews on America's Untold Story are the best I've seen on RNN. I always disgree with anything about the Middle East because there RNN seems arbitrary and biases against Israel, but this is very good. Of course I wonder if the alliance of the Palestinians with Hitler during WWII will be covered and Haj Amin Al Hussayni, Palestine's Grand Mufti.
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  94. Not only do socialists not have any voice in American politics, but they are oppressed and it is made very hard for them to be heard and when they are the thug minions come in to swamp every discussion, name call and ridicule then, even though the basis for these attacks is wrong at best and often ridiculous.
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  95. Looking at what is going on this is, for the average American, complicated math .... they are too stupid to understand what this means, not to mention the media makes no effort to explain or illustrate this.  That is why they are so easily hoodwinked and cheated.  Woe is this country.
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  96. Obama was a much better liar than Trump oddly enough.  Maybe he was not as stupid or ignorant, but that is what got him elected, but he puled the wool over everyone's eyes.  He let everyone read into him, with his radical pastor, he faked us all right out.
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  97. Thomas Frank is really great. I think in more recent interviews he is showing some real frustration with politics and especially the Democratic party. Plus, there is now some clown with the same name as Thomas Frank that makes it harder to find videos related to Thomas Frank like this one.
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  98. Poor guy, he looks terrible. I never thought I'd say this, but I think Chomsky is wrong about fascism - we have had covert hidden fascism as we have pretended our elections were free and we were the greatest country in the world. One little virus has shown that to be untrue. It doesn't matter what we call it ... totalitarianism, fascism, oligarchy, tyranny ... or whatever ... we have an elite few that uses the rest of us like farm animals and beasts of burden. The only upward mobility there is if it something up there takes a liking to you and decides to treat you fairly ... and only if they see in your someone who will not go against this vicious order and blow the game ... a whistle-blower.
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  99. So many things to distrust and criticize this country for, but one big one was the planned assassination of Fred Hampton ... why would they do that?  The guy was very bright, and he talked a lot of sense.  Who knows who the FBI has either killed or determined was a threat and ruined their life in hundreds of ways.  Get people kicked or flunked out of college so they cannot get a job, get them fired from their jobs, frame them for crimes, give them sicknesses ... who knows, but almost nothing is out of bounds looking at what we have seen.   This country was willing to go to Vietnam and kill millions of people and defoliate the entire country to test weapons and look macho ,and to keep lower class working people down politically.
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  100. I like that - "Reducing a liars speech is not the same as censorship". I think it was totally correct for Twitter not to enable Donald Trump to lie to the country. It was totally the correct thing to do.
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  101.  @drewm9903  No one is a worse liar than Trump, but even if they were, Trump was the fricking President you fool.
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  102.  @UltraSaltyDomer1776  That's not a rule, that is a heuristic ... never let yourself fall into reflexive non-thinking, always listen to the facts.
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  103. 3:12 - The De-Nazification of Ukraine. Very strong points about how the US Aid was specifically forbidden to go for training the Azov Battalion. Of course, like all the other laws and agreements around this they are all mysteriously ignored.
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  104. I did not intend that question as an opening for a right-wing nut to blather on about.  You need to grow up and watch this series on history and maybe learn something
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  105. There are some "opponents" that will allow you to have a dialog with them. Then there are vicious toxic people who have no intent to have a dialog and they have certain telltale patterns and habits that once you get a valid sample - I don't feel bad shutting them, or seeing them shut down - in fact it is the correct thing to do. Continuing to waste time for a toxic verbal terrorist make you a victim, and everyone in your audience or around, and also elevates the toxic point to view to give it some kind of credibility.
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  106. I can sympathize with that, and I am glad you believe it, but in my opinion, no one really knows that for sure, and the last time the Democrats veered to the Left was with McGovern it was the worst loss of any Presidential candidate. The world has changed since 1972, but no one knows for sure ... and what I do not really know is if our elections are even real. It begins to look to me like this is all a huge reality TV show that is managed by the largest and most powerful corporations who control all the money. They are not going to let Bernie just waltz in and take that away from them, no way.
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  107. Where the heck can I see this series without having cable TV? Can I see it on streaming services anywhere, or even buy the DVDs? I already have read the book, but I'd like to see the video too.
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  108. One really great thing to push this forward would be to have some sane people to both manage the defeat of the billionaire class, and people smart enough to have something to replace it with.
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  109. He's right, and Thomas Frank's book Listen Liberal talks about this as well as some of his others - how totally money driven the government is, and especially the Democrats. What else could they do though, unless they were prepared to go full socialist, or whatever you would call this - because it would basically be taking money from taxes and funding government elections. I don't know if that would be good, or bad, or whether it would work or not, but it is a huge change, and how can you make a decision like that, or a change like that, against the basic American system that it is all about money? Clearly being driven by money has its "defects", in the same way that having government policy being driven by the average ignorant people would. At a time when we have a population that has some large percentage of people who support a criminal like Donald Trump, it tells us there is something not right or unworkable about pure democracy. We hear about going back the to Powell Memorandum, and that is a powerful argument, but how else can this would work? You have to prove it, and to prove it to a plurality to the people who run the country that it is a good idea - democracy and voter representation be damned. They are not going to listen, but there is also nothing to listen to. I mean, personally I find the argument that national universal health care will be much less expensive and much more effective, but how can a change like that be made? And the people we have on the side of the Left, like this gloomy looking guy with this thick propaganda and blues music with only poor black people marching? Not that I have anything against that, in fact I support it - but it is a good PR move to start all his shows like that, appealing only to poor black people, and behaving like race really is the issue with the implication that white people in general are to blame. Both Hedges and Kucinich make their livings off the backs of a certain political group that they will not alienate - same with the Republican, though the Republicans are pals with the people who really make money and the make the policies to back them up. I don't think in all Hedges life he has ever done anything to empower the "Left". They are placeholders in our political system that talk a certain way, but in the end divert the energy and discussions of the Left and Progressivism into dead ends while pretending to be Progressive. Are they incompetent or working against the Left in their own way?
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  110. Real News is so anti-Israel ... why wait for any news at all, or any facts, just - out with it, tell us all why you hate Israel and think the priority in all of the Middle East should be to vilify and attack the single democracy and the country with the highest intelligence and productivity and ignore all the human rights abuses and terrorism in the Islamic world? Please explain that to me and your audience.
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  111. Why waste your useless breath. I could say the same stuff to you. You support barbarism, I support civilization. Crimes elsewhere is what you call Islamic religion wide genocidal impulses towards every non-Muslim on the planet, and especially Jews who stood up and attained independence from the oppressive Muslims and their phony religion of peace. The fact that there are so many ignorant trolls such as you that try to twist reality by only focusing on the misery of one side and completely ignoring Israel's right to exist, or human rights in almost any Islamic state is a sad pity. You are too stupid to realize your immorality and ingorance are being used by the establishment right-wingers to make Progressivism look evil and unpalatable to many Americans who only see your ugliness and hate when they see Progressives. You are a lying agent of evil.
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  112. The problem I have with Hedges is that he talks a good talk theoretically, but at some point then he tries to transfer all that over in support of the Palestinians. I don't buy it. I feel sorry for the Palestinians, they don't have a choice, they are stuck in a bad situation, but whatever they are they also decide every day to be terrorists. They still have as their number one goal to destroy Israel. Whatever stuff you carry a banner for does not change that.
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  113. I don't know what you mean when you say "majority are socialist"? But I am for Kurdish independence.
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  114. Roger Waters of Pink Floyd is an expert on the Israel Palestine question? How is that? Why is it that every Progressive/Liberal ... whatever you want to call the Left these days always is about being Anti-Israel and Pro-Palestinian and by extension Pro-Islamic Terrorism? I think this is a right-wing plot to fragment and discredit the Left to make them looks stupid and part of the terrorist fight against the West. This is the Right's wet-dream, that they can combine people in the West wanting Liberal/Progressive reform with terrorism and call them all terrorists and then even put them in jail or shoot them. Enough of this crap! Real News Network should be ashamed to be a right-wing espionage operation against the Left, and not the News Alternative it pretends to be.
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  115. And who ends up owning all of this is the largest most powerful, unelected, anonymous blocks or block of capital ... MONEY. And do we know who or what that is, what is their goal? NO. Do we know where that capital came from ... how far back it goes ... conquest, slavery, genocide, the Mafia, the Nazis, The Bankers, the British Royalty ???? Doesn't there need to be some kind of transparent system that keeps an eye on everyone and everything ... but as powerful as we are today ... who do we trust to run that ... and even if we trust did or do trust someone, how easy it is to attack them in the media for some other power block of capital or power? It is time that we all need to wake up, to accept responsibility and meet and minimize demands on us all to be able to manage in a distributed, fair and just way the resources of the planet to the equal benefit of us all.
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  116. They aren't - until we get our own house in order, we have no business telling other countries what to do - but if we set a good example, they will line up to emulate us. GFY
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  117. I can't help it if you are not smart enough to understand and too stupid to ask a question.
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  118. Like I said
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  119. Interesting ... the number 1 priority was the TPP? I think single payer health care needs to be number 1. TPP is a problem that can be solved by taking money out of the system ... meaning that money out ought to be higher priority too. Not to mention lots of other stuff. The problem with the Democrats and Liberals is that they are unable apparently to prioritize or think straight about how to rank problems relative to the number of people.
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  120. This is a problem ... a big problem. But still, the solution to the Presidential election is to vote for Hillary, and then try to do better next time. If you want to complain ... you - ie the Left ... have nothing to complain about until you can rally enough people for Benie's reveolution ... period!
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  121. Lots of fake Bernie voters lying about stuff .... it's just not smart to vote for Jill Stein. She is not a bad person, but she is not a leader and is not qualified for the Presidency. Bernie for VP!
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  122. Just start right out there calling me names ... that is what is crazy. You can vote status quo or you can vote crazy right wing idiot. It's not a hard decision for me, or for Bernie. I am mad and disappointed I have no real candidate to vote for, but it does not mean I am going to vote for Trump or someone who will not even register or makes the debates.
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  123. You have to be able to balance two or more variables in your head at once. The most Stein could accomplish is to get in the debates, but it is almost too late for that. She is not going to get elected, she would not make a President, and she will not be allowed to be President. So, the result would be to take away votes from Trump or Clinton. If you hate Clinton, you are a Republican. If you are blah about Clinton, you have to realize she is better than Trump, and with a Bernie VP might actually follow a more New Deal agenda. What is going on with Trump is tricks, lies, and vapidity. Trump has only really come out solidly for more tax cuts, even as he has talked about fixing the budget or defaulting ... and you can bet if he defaults it will be to cut everything but the military ... the road to fascism and militarism. It is like you have to vote for either Trump the Dr. Evil from the Media, or nothing ... autopilot for 4 more years. I prefer nothing, anything but Trump.
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  124. Just because someone agrees with you does not mean they are qualified. I think also that in most issues Stein agrees with me much more than Hillary, but that is not the issue for me. You cannot just behave with total emotion ... I see and read far too much of that ... so much it makes being on You-Tube mostly a waste.
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  125. I'll repeat to you as well ... Just because someone agrees with you does not mean they are qualified - and vice-versa.
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  126. Chump? Give me a break, you are making the chumpish cheap arguments here. We almost got Bernie through this time, and we see the problems and logjams. Bernie united the Left more than anyone else. Jill Stein's been around for a lot longer and has never made headway. What is it you don't get that is going on here. Bernie's message is not Jill Stein's message. To go back to Stein's message is the problem with you in the political extreme Left ... you don't understand the world or politics ... period. Keep calling me names, but make some kind of effort to at least understand what I am saying. If people wanted Jill Stein they had a long time to vote for her ... 12 years I think. They don't. Trying to jerk reasonable Sanders voters to Stein is just playing political games. You say Clinton is the same as Obama ... would you rather have had Romney or Obama in the last 8 years? Nothing has changed much from that. What is your strategic reaction to it ... whine and name-call??? Give me a break!
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  127. Bernie is a new deal democrat, so - i doubt that.
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  128.  @CaravanseraiSouthValley  > "They are liars and cannot be objective," is not exactly what I'd characterize as an objective statement. It is 100% objective. You're just balking at the intensity of the statement, but the proof is right out there in public in what he says.
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  129. What I am saying is that if you bother to listen to Hedges, and others, they are the ones that lack logic. Very similar to what happens on the Right, the icons of intellectually weak and ignorant people who don't understand the issues just follow those who have built up their trust based on "words and editorials" on non-related issues to an agenda that doesn't work. My logic would try to ask people - with the leaders we have on the so-called Left, what have they gotten done, and what do they have a prospect of getting done in the future if you listen to and follow their current rhetoric. You snap into defensive mode and start insulting me shows you are brainwashed with this reaction which is as unproductive as anything on the far Right. I would not be a bit surprised if Hedges, Chomsky and other "progressive" political icons were actually working in, for or with the far Right military industrial complex - because to me, all that matters are results. I've never seen any of these people actually working to brainstorm, discuss, plan and lobby in a reasonable way as a business organization would do to pursue its goals. They just show up to tell you pretty words, and sell their books, videos and collect speaking fees. When nothing gets done and the government moves more to the Right and these people don't do anything different, you should at least be willing to be critical and maintain an open mind. Does this sound like someone with an open mind?" >> you've decided to waste your life on peacocking, all feather & no fly. Whether I decide to invest the time to argue with you has no bearing on my critiques of Hedges or anything else. You have not demonstrated your ability to do anything but insult and task me with answering questions you will just disagree with.
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  130. Possibly, and using security and outsides threats as the justification for such.
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  131. Abyss ... I have no idea what that means.
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  132. Yeah, Trump is a "tool" allright.
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  133. It's the content, stupid! At least this on not one of those videos where they just bash Israel and talk about how great the Palestinians are.
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  134. Journalist != pundit/announcer
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  135. I did not forget, it just happened, we all saw it. He did what he promised he would do as a responsible Democrat. I don't see what that should have to with anything? What is he supposed to do, lay on the ground and pout like a baby? The reason I don't want to vote for Clinton unless she proves she has some skin in with Bernie is exactly that. I respect Bernie, and what he is doing is reasonable. In the regular political game if he can deliver support to Hillary he will be helped and his supporters will also be helped. It is really up to you how you want to interpret that, but I am sick of being called names for posting my thoughts in the subject by people who have been following politics very long and have simple minded ideas about things.
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  136. Oh, and I can see you are just a nasty Trump supporter trying to manipulate Bernie supporters ... it is not going to work, no one buys your kind of BS.
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  137. How do you define realistic? The world is the way the world is. If we had a country and people were socially coherent in what they want in the world this would be no problem ... but the people are clueless, and desperate - not to mention that this racism and sexism doesn't come from nowhere - it is the way we are. A few civilized people cannot just stand back and criticize a mob of racist bullies. The issue is how do intelligent Liberals take power in this country? I don't think Jill Stein will ever amount to anything .. and every vote for her might have stopped Donald Trump from getting elected.
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  138. I don't have to know or listen to this ... I know all news is biased. I find I am in line with much of Real New Network's bias, except when it comes to anything to do with the Middle East and Israel. I am offended by the hate mongering towards Israel and Jews that is being tried to be associate with Progressivism. This is a bigger question ... why does Real News Network have to be so biased that they both have the anti-Israel propaganda and also have the cynicism to operate a CIA level disinformation campaign against the US military. I feel that RNN is a guerrilla operation against the Left and Progressivism in the US by the CIA or huge wealthy private and corporate interests. It's the same with Pacifica.
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  139. The dynamic is that as Trump alientates people, he has to hold on to the people who remain all that much harder, meaning he will be driven by the likes of unelectable fascists like Rudy Guilianni and Newt Gingrinch .... and he will be too proud to try to get out from that. Look what happened to Reagan ... remember that scene in the Michael Moore movie that we never got in the media where Donald Regan is contemptuously scolding the childlike Reagan to hurry up at the opening of Wall St. Trump is going to be putty in their hands. he ust be resisted with all the energy we can muster ... and it would be better if he could not take office, like the electoral college does not confirm him.
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  140. That's like saying that all workers must accept third world wages. You might have some wild theoretical basis for saying this, but for people - no way they would agree to this, it's a race to the bottom.
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  141. NS - actually 57% is very high. Remember we do need defense, we do need training, we do need R&D and we do need to keep the peace around the world. The amount of money for the military used for purposed even you probably deem unworthy is relatively speaking not that huge.
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  142. The new paradigm is that the economy needs to work for everyone. It has long been a joke that the country is socialized at the top ... that is we all have pay for the mistakes and greed of the elites and corportions, but it is cold hard capitalism at the bottom. In the developed world workers who work should get the guarantees of citizenship - health care, legal protections, education, etc. That would be the way to develop the world the quickest. We see nothing but extortionary pricing and tyranny with laissez-faire capitalism. Your jingoistic claim about workers is what is ruining our country and driving all our metrics down. What you said is useless really, The freedom to starve or to be a slave is not a freedom at all.
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  143. It's called Trump and the Enablers of American Authoritarianism This is typical stupidity ... not to name the two parts of one show the same title ... RNN is dumb.
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  144. Hillary Clinton's foreign policy was not to assassinate Khadaffi ... and his death, murder and torture was not an American operation as far as I have read. I am sure there are those that would blame the US for everything. The thing is that no Democrat is going to get elected on a more or less Progressive agenda without them not being a threat to the military industrial complex. This is the fulcrum of the power structure. The left so far as been so unpredictable and verbal on very delicate matters of global stability that they terrify those in the country and the world who want to make sure the West is militarily secure. This is one reason Bernie did so well. He and Hillary are both pragmatists.
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  145. Why does the icon image of this video show someone aiming a rifle inside an airliner cabin? This does not show up in the video - Real News ????? Real bullshit!!!
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  146. Come on ... the write the laws with a wink-wink to the very rich who know how to evade whatever law before it even goes into effect .... that's our sick system.
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  147. You cannot have equal rights between Israelis and Palestinians, because the Palestinians will outbreed the Israelis and vote democracy out ... only a fool would let that happen. Bernie Sanders is not a militarist, no matter what you say. The military spending problem in the US is a different issue ... you supporters of the Palestinians always want to point somewhere else to make some irrelevant point, because you are wrong. If you do not like religious states, and Israel is mostly secular now, then you must be crazy about the 50 out of 200 countries in the world that are Islamic Republics? No? I thought so.
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  148. Why is RNN censoring comments?
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  149. Palast is BS ... he wrote his book that the movie is based on over a decade ago and still he could not get it together to get this movie out a decent time before the election to make some kind of difference, and there is no way this idiotic movie could be used by anyone to point to as an information source. There are huge forces at play within the very rich and powerful sector to deny the birthright of all Americans to people, and that is why they are starting not to vote and believing all this fake news nonsense.
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  150. What a bunch of total BS. Even as they pretend to be uncovering propaganda, this whole presentation is completely propagandized. Lay out the facts and history of this conflict, going into the coverage of the war is second hand information. Hamas is not unclear, their aim is not peace, it is the destruction of Israel. Go watch the documentary Inside Hamas and you can see in graphic video how the people are Palestine are under the gun of these terrorist. The bottom line is that Islam cannot stand to have any successful movement of non-Muslims demanding their rights or wanting independent free countries, such as Kurdistan. Millions of people live in Muslims lands as second-class citizens, and even Muslims do not have human rights, such as women and gays. The absurdity in this day and age to have another idiotic documentary that blames Israel for trying to fight a massive movement of Islamic terror funded worldwide by Iran and Saudi Arabia is unbelievable. You people are idiots, and however much you combine what is good reporting, when you get this subject you are way into Right-Wing propaganda territory of villifying the Left. Go to hell.
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  151. Is that a toupee ?
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  152. All this trouble Ryan is talking about is because of de-regulation ... more de-regulation will not help, although Dodd-Frank at something like 40,000 pages long is a mess for anyone to really understand and should have just gone back to Glass-Steagle. How stupid is this government, and how much do they really hate, us, the people?
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  153. Who is driving us to this sick disgusting evil vision of the future ??? We need a name and address !
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  154. I work and must as it annoys me I pay taxes that go to you ... I am net contributor, you are sock-puppet loser making minimum wage who doesn't know anything about all this stuff you are posting about.
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  155. I agree, permanent war is to be avoided, but only when it is possible. What other attitude can a state have to Islamic Fundamentalism ... I mean, come on, talk about permanent war, those guys are the inventors of it, but why in the "Real News" does the West and the US get blamed for everything ... maybe only because we won because we make better use our freedoms in our culture ... though it is not perfect.
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  156. Well of course when you only ask Republicans.
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  157. Bernie for VP!
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  158. How is Bernie going to get associated with Hillary's policies? You make no sense at all other than to show you are not thinking and reacting emotionally. If Hillary fails Bernie will be there to challenge her.
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  159. Better than nothing.
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  160. Love these videos and these stories, but people have to realize that RNN, Real News Network, uses these progressives stories to brand itself Leftist solely so that it can propagandize for the Palestinians. Palestinians are not the 1%, Islamic countries are not Liberal. The problem in the US is all the media outlets that support the Left also have this poisoned terrorist pills of being designed to ultimately blow up the Left by association with terrorists. This has been done by the CIA in other countries, why not here. The status quo designs the political opposition from the Left with terrorist or some other bitter poisoned position at its heart that makes it unacceptable ultimately. That is why Bernie has been so great, he is outside our CIA/Right Wing totaliarian propaganda state.
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  161. Basically if you were for Bernie and thinking straight you have to admit that the best thing is to show solidarity with Bernie, giving him more power and draw in the media than he initially had. The way to do that is to follow what he thinks is the best path, which sadly is to support Clinton. It is not perfect, but the logic is unassailable ... Greens pull votes away, and if Clinton wins with a landslide, then Bernie will get the credit and Clinton may, or will have to give attention to the Left. If they split off and are all over the place the Democrats will just keep ignoring them. Then there is the Supreme Court as well. I have been trying to find a way to avoid it, but I cannot, the only thing that makes sense is to show up for Hillary, and demand she follow a more Progressive agenda ... what else is there to be done?
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  162. It is not my logic or anything other than the power of the very rich and the corporations that let them "run over us". It is because they set the agenda because life is mostly about business and people like you either do not have the time, or the education or just refuse to pay attention to politics and get involved in a coherent way. Given that, more parties and more candidates are not going to help, in fact they will hurt. If people gave more money and more support to Bernie he would have had this election. And once Bernie's ideas started to be known the people would be on the rise again. The difference in the US and the rest of the developed world is that the US the people do not care and do not unite in the US, and the people are stupid and uneducated. That is the major difference.
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  163. The war is a horse of a different color. In the case of the war a lot of Democrats voted for it to show national solidarity. You can try to make more of that than is there, but it was going to happen, and to not vote for it would have lots more people dismissing Bernie or even Hillary on less shaky grounds. Voting for the war was the thing to do, sorry to say. The American people overwhelmingly demanding their representatives vote for the war in this case - whether it was right or wrong did not even enter into it. Bernie has disagreed with Clinton on plenty of things as well, as he mentioned in the debates. To namecall Bernie a sheepdog make you dogshit SB ... pure dogshit, and you have no good intent or peaceful intent in any of that.
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  164. Because as you found out, but still don't seem to understand, when you do not vote, or when you vote for a marginal candidate that is statistically not in the running, it is like giving free votes to the worst candidate. I suppose of some of my fellow Liberals are too fucking stupid to figure this out, I am the intelligent Liberal just have to pound sand because you are not going to learn shit or help the cause. In fact, there were actually plenty of trolls, and you may even be one, that egged people on to not vote, or vote for Jill Stein, or even the nutso governor or Arizona, Gary ??? something I forget now. You cannot look at and grab at what you prefer, like a little kid reaching for chocolates ... because in the case of a vote you cannot get something ... you can only help sway large numbers. There were two choices - Clinton or Trump, It was easy to see what was going to happen with both. - Tax breaks for the rich vs. the middle class - Some evolution of ObamaCare vs. end ObamaCare and throw millions off insurance, and cost others many billions more dollars. - Some evolution on student loans and college versus Trump University. You'd have to be an idiot to tell me you do not get that. The problem with Democrats is that they are lazy and stupid. They stupid for the reasons above, and lazy because they usually do not even vote in off-Presidential election ... and that is why the house and senate are full of republicans.
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  165. I'll insult you again too, because if you are even reading you are not comprehending. I am not defending the Democratic Party, I am against deserting the short cut to getting power in this system by taking it back under control of the people, instead of trying to re-invent the wheel. Trying to get the Green Party up to the power and branding of the Democrats is not going to work, and meanwhile every election the Liberals/Left will lose. How much longer do you think that can go on? The Democrats are practically gone in terms of representation. Again, most people vote for President and then whine for 4 years without doing or following anything,. You want change, you have to find out what is going on and tell other people. You have to fight the power, not go over and play cookies and milk with the Green lady who has no political experience. You see how even people in his own party are attacking Trump ... what do you think it would look like if it was Stein, who has no party solidarity behind her? You know I am right, but you refuse to accept it, that is what makes you that name that I called you.
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  166. Even if that was true, it doesn't rationalize not voting, voting for Trump or voting for a marginal candidate ... no way you can look at it and think that is going to help anything. What a third party needs to succeed is something to decimate one of the other parties, such as the Democrats, by moving their voter base and changing their loyalties. Bernie Sanders might be able to do that, but not Jill Stein - no way ... she did not even register on the needle in terms of national votes, and she was not on the ballot in all 50 states. You can call me clueless or whatever, but the fact is you don;t know what you are talking about and you cannot logically analyze what is happening in politics, you can just toss around accusations.
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  167. Does anyone realize just how much of the "news" here is the thinnest of innuendo, the use of the word "bragging" with respect to President Obama ... this is the opinion of Paul Jay and sets a whole antagonistic tone from the start ... without any reasoning, facts or proof.  The "Real News" just imposes its framing, that it never questions ... just as say Noam Chomsky tells us about the hypocrisy of the US state, there is also hypocrisy and propaganda coming from these organizations on the Left, but there is not answerability or codification as to what is the "Left", what it believe and what criterion it uses to decide if something is positive or negative, except each individual announcers opinion.  They talk about a Right-wing conspiracy, while they are just as uniform in their opinions and do not allow anyone to have a different opinion.  This is not politics, or demcracy ... I don't know what this is, but this is not an opposition or contrary view.
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  168. The state used to do the right thing ... set off by FDR ... and it has lasted a long time ... but ???? what happened.
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  169. -- If you support Sanders as the Democratic nominee for VP, which looks to be the case, and if Sanders is added to the ticket, then that demands you vote Clinton for president SO? I would rather have Bernie in a prominent spot than not. Of the two, Clinton or Trump, the lesser evil is Clinton. I have a feeling you are really a Trump supporter, and your whole point is to attack and undermind Clinton while pretending to be a Bernie supporter. No real Bernie supporter would vote for Trump.
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  170. I get you ... my first election was 1976. The reason to vote for a mainstream candidate is that unless you think the system is going to be torn down or seerely modified in the near future, then the supreme court is a big problem. Trump is an obtuse regressive idiot that if given the chance will pack the court with more idiots.
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  171. Lots of Trump supporters pretending to be Bernie supporters and trying to get Democrats to vote for Trump or anyone else other than Hillary. This is Trump's guerrilla tactics, and the billionaire part of the Republican party. I don't like the choice any more than anybody, but one term with Trump and a Republican Congress and the country is going to be beyond hope.
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  172. Good points but tone it the fuck down or no one will listen to you but the people who agree with you
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  173. I just feel like this is going to up to Hillary Clinton. If she is doing this for herself, Bill, Chelsea, and the corporations it will be business as usual. If she really gives a damn about the country she would get Bernie Sanders on her side and work with him to activate the New Deal Democrats against Trump ... because I think Michael Moore is right, Trump does have a chance, depending on how hard he can sock Hillary in his commercials and in the tricks in the debates. I think he has some really nasty things he can say, and unless Hillary already has the audience for her, people will listen and Trump will get validated. The only way Hillary can mobilize support is to BOTH ... 1. Live up to the left leaning stuff she said to match Bernie Sanders during the debates, and 2. Get Bernie up front and center in her campaign and quit screwing around with promises, because no one believes her anymore.
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  174. Or at least blame the DEMS for your silly post, huh?
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  175. Nothing ever collapses, like nothing is ever in order ... it might be more productive to think of a way to evolve towards some kind of order, but the people with power usually benefit from the way things are now ... kind of a syllogism or order comes from the people and the people come out of the order.  The problem is that most of us are made irrelevant, and there is less and less place for us in a world that is getting smaller by technology, rising population and pollution ruining what there is. We are well on the way towards turning this planet into a desert as we chew up everything of value so it can be used against enemies and denied to others - it is a complete war mentality.
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  176. Oh, great argument.
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  177. Clinton or Trump ... it is not right for Wikileaks or anyone else to play the part of bringing down a candidate right before an election and Wikileaks would be acting in a partisan way to do that.
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  178. There are multiple levels of truth ... whatever they say might be "a" truth, or part of "a" truth about Clinton, but that does not mean the absence of truth on the other side with Trump is somehow balanced. This thing of slamming with Clinton with newer and more ridiculous accusations for 20 years is unfair and wrong, and it would not be happening if the right-wing did not own all the money and the buy all the power. There is a lot known and just not even talked about with Trump.
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  179. That is a bit much, I think if you fight and believe in the American people, that is the true patriotism.
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  180. Her ugliness and incoherence could be a by-product of her total falseness as a political activist, and the fact that she is pushing a non-NATO narrative in order to assist with demonizing Russia?
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  181. WTF is wrong with these American progressive channels that spend all their time pleading for the Palestinians? This is why I don't care much for the RNN ... you are complete phonies. The Palestinians bring on themselves the pain they must endure - thanks to their government which is most closely related to the Taliban. Palestinians are not democratic, Palestinians are not Liberal, Palestinians are not socialists, they will do or say anything to destroy Israel ... and then take it over and drag it down like they drag their own people down. Virtually every serious reaction Israel has taken against the Palestinians has been provoked and justified. If the Palestinians actually wanted peace the details could be ratified in under a week - but they do not. It's been in their charter for 50+ years ... do not disarm, do not press for statehood, do not build a country ... the Palestinians are just all about destroying Israel for religious hatred purposes. Get a clue RNN
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  182. Bernie is awesome. Warren is wonderful ... the others can go jump off a a cliff for all I care.
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  183. Hedges is the one face that will turn millions away from Progressivism. But at least RNN is doing a story about something other than the victimhood of the Palestinians and the "evil jews and Israel". Bravo Kshama Sawant! ( 1 question though, could she win re-election if she tried, and who is she going to give up her seat on the council to? )
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  184. The Palestinians are not in the situation they are in and get the treatment they get for no reason. If the Taliban was doing ... well, they are doing about what the Palestinians are doing you would not defend them, but somehow there is there twisted absurd dynamic where this little population across the world somehow has something to do with Progressive Politics in the US?????? Why? I don't care about the Palestinians any more or less than any persecuted minority in the world, and the US has persecuted a lot of people across the globe. Why is it Palestinians gets so much attention ... such that, all we see in the news from that part of the world is when Palestinians get retalliated against. Do we really ever see the first steps which is when Israel or Israali citizens are attacked and Israel has to figure out what to do about it? Why should it matter who is for or against this BS term "apartheid" anyway .... what matters are the facts, and this woman is not telling them, and the Real News Network doesn't tell them objectively - they pander to the Palestinians in a way that reflect bad and bounces back disgust on American Progressives..
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  185. 14:11 - Frank is making a long point here and Jay just walked right over everything he says.   This is something that would not happen on a Conservative talk show to those on the same/conservative side.  The people in the opposition part of the US are stooges.  The media, the politicians might as well be republicans.
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  186. The "nowhere else to go" thing is the genius of the American Plutocratic establishment, and the media over time figured out how to herd people from that basis. Nowhere else to go means set up the system as rigged, and then the media in concert reports on things a certain way ... and then the FAKE opposition media - like here, in general makes anything farther left than the mostly FAKE Democratic party looks disgusting and repugnant ... and that my fellow Americans is how you establish totalitarianism in a free country using billions of dollars stolen from the people - just like using money from slavery to entrench racism and slavery in America's society. We would not be seeing this crap if the Left was not just as much rigged as the Center and the Right.
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  187. It's great to attack the US and criticize it, but what makes any of these people think any other country is better?
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  188. good point about the insurance market. obama is basically a moderate republican, and romney is an extreme republican.
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  189. In general I really like Paul Jay's style and take on things, but this is pure bull- well you know what bull. Roger Waters is a talented musician for making music, but not lyrics and not sense. Sure I thought he was great in Pink Floyd when I was 16, but that garbage does not hold up today - but more to the point about how he has such an axe to grind against Jews and Israel - like all of Real News Network. Why doesn't he take a look at who funds RNN, because that is consistently all I hear are there hate and criticisms of Israel and never any investigation or news on what life and culture is like in Palestine. Israel is a democracy. Israel is multicultural. Arabs and Muslims live in Israel. If a Jew was in Palestine what do you think would happen to them. In Saudi Arabia, Jews must get the King's approval to even be in the country. Fact after fact and historic event ... and it is all just ignored because ... why? Waters is an f-ing hate filled fanatical anti-Semite.
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  190. It was a blue wave, it was just suppressed still Republican Dirty Tricks and Gerrymandering as well. I am surprised anyone would vote Republican any more.
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  191. @Eraser7622 Real News is Anti-Israel, apparently you are just anti-brain ... maybe you are jealous because you are missing yours.
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  192. These are edge cases that there are reasons for. The men who came to arrest Avery should have been identified cops, and it is curious they were not, and also had an arrest warrant. Were we shown the full story here? As far as Amazon I think one guy getting fired without a really clear story about it also does not mean much. This is innuendo whipped up to get people angry ... and that is the exact problem - whether on the Left or the Right - the media needs to stop always going for the most sensational spin on stories to get attention.
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  193. > And what ideas have you come up with ??? I have plenty of ideas. You might even look through my comments to find them, but, you really expect me to have a conversation with you when you can't carry on an intelligent conversation. You are too stupid to listen, then you are not smart enough to talk.
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  194. this chained cpi thing also makes social security more like a welfare system - he is full of crap.
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  195. Great report, thanks.
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  196. Only in police states do we have police telling people where they can stand, speak or film. But, you do have to tell the police who you are. Why did he lie and impersonate a police ... what an fool. How did he not get what he deserves?
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  197. One thing that comes to my mind every time I hear the term "Income Inequality" being used is the default mental framing that many people summon when they hear Income Inequality. The psychological framing is the networks that fire off that are close by in our brainspaces that affect how we then process a situation or argument. This framing is invented to spur argument and disagreement, to no useful end because it is ambiguous and emotional. Income Inequality , the term itself colors the frame of the argument in the opposite sense according to what is intended. In other words if we hear "income inequality" being mentioned by homeless guy outside of the super-market, I imagine that many Palo Altans would sigh and ignore it - which is part of the problem that has nothing to do with Income Inequality. In any case "Income Inequality" is an inexact term. The problem is not income it is justice and fairness. The problem is not inequality is it empowerment. Empowering people of their rights and realizing their Constitutional right to be free of exploitation, coercion, extortion, threats to survive and prosperity - especially which gets institutionalized into the system of government. The use of the term Income Inequality begets its own counter-argument as the opposing case always brings up the false argument of equal outcomes, which again is not what is intended. Defining a problem is more than half of the solution, but when a problem can be force-defined by repetition in the media, we even have more of a problem than Income Inequality.
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  198. Katie ... Q - Do you think Hamas deserves punishment for its planned premeditated vicous cold-blooded massacre of Israelis on Oct 7th? Y/N?
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  199. Look at it this way instead of thinking I am demanding the poor be given money of the rich- Nature has been in the process of being fought over and owned since the dawn of humanity, What some have done with nature has been to lock it up, excluding others from those resources. Take that to the ultimate limit and there will be a small minority in control of everything ... so what is their responsibility to everyone else ... money, but far far more than money, but money is the only currency.
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  200. I predict this will happen before the halfway point of the Trump administration, if Trump even lasts that long.
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  201. You care about slavery? Where is it in Israel? Now ... where is it in all the Islamic states ... much more of an issue. Why do you never say anything about that. Typical nonsense, whenever something bad is the subject- blame Israel ... but never mention what is going on in the Islamic world. You people are nuts ... no wonder you cannot accomplish anything but war and terror
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  202. How would you describe people who for 8- years have openly proclaimed their goal as destroying Israel, and who have not pursued a nation of their own, are not a democracy, will not recognize Israel's right to exist, will not renounce violence or lay down their weapons, and if they could get enough weapons would end your life. Palestinians are no Progressive and have nothing to do with America - except as a albtross around the necks of Progressives when people like you pretend to be Progressive but support the terrorist Palestinians.
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  203. What BS. I appreciate this guy's point of view - many Asians have been horribly treated in the US. But not all, and not all Asians are being accused or picked out. Having worked in Silicon Valley since the 80's I know a lot of different Asians from a lot of different places, and there are Asians that pose a threat to other nationalities in a corporate context as well as a security threat to the country and corporations as a whole. I would be less concerned about this if not for the belligerent behavior of China's military in the South China sea and China's continuing hard line on human rights. I don't like seeing the things that can inflame racism in the US, but we are not the only country with racist or chauvinistic behavior or history ... including China much more than US right now.
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  204. Come on ... if this is Real News ... it's gotta be ISRAEL's FAULT!
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  205. Until this guy or socialists have a detailed project plan for how to get any of this done it is a big waste of time to feign self-righteousness and sell books and take speaking fees for doing anything, because they are not.
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  206. I don't think he has dementia. If he had dementia he would not be able to be coherent, and these constant accusations of dementia are nothing more than a just as ugly version of the Republican echo chamber. I don't support Joe Biden and want him out of the race, but these underhanded tactics are the same thing as making fun of Bernie continuously for his age. The thing about Biden is who he is, and what he has done, and YES - how his children and relatives ended up in such high places. As I say, I don't want Biden, but should he somehow make the nomination, I have to vote for the Democrat.
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  207. romney also slipped in that he wanted to get rid totally of the estate tax! unbelievable.
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  208. You cannot impersonate a police officer ... is that not obvious? This is such silly stuff. But what is worse is that this video is out here with no explanation of where, when or what is going on or why? This kind of garbage is exactly the kind of thing that happens when an organization is owned by the establishment and they want to discredit them and the followers.
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  209. Well, clearly having statesmen in our government did not make it strong enough to live up to pursue the vision that most people had of the potential of our Constitution, and now we seem to have let the system slide into oligarchy and perhaps fully into fascism. There is an argument to have here, though it cannot be had because our system does not care or want to know what the average person thinks, because the average person is an idiot and cannot be entrusted with the power to discuss or improve our system.
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  210. Very good interview. Thanks.
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  211.  @watchman6989  Don't usually go for Byrne. He is a good competent actor, BUT he's just another actor, a good-looking and well spoken person who just says other people's words, and I don't think much of them. Didn't like Smila's Sense of Snow, it made no sense to me, and what little sense it did make I didn't care about. In Treatment was very good and struck something true about people, which is the kind of move I like. Here's a tip for you, if you search YouTube you will find a reasonable resolution version of the movie "Chilly Scenes Of Winter" from the late 1970's. It is a brilliant movie, I think you will like it. Check it out.
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  212.  @michellelekas211  If you think so fine, but my opinion on celebrities, especially really rich ones is that what we see of them is totally fake, manufactured PR industry hype. That is just another way the system maintains its version of what is acceptable to think. it is only when actors say the words and ideas of someone that resonates with the people, and half they time they don't agree with what they are saying.
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  213. Someone please tell me what "Reality Asserts Itself" means????
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  214.  @bloodybonescomic  No one cares about your lies.
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  215. How do you know Hedges is surprised that they are poor? But implicit in your comment is the assumption that all poor people are lazy and irresponsible and that is not true ... in fact read the book Nickel & Dimed and you see the poor are hardly lazy as most of them are working multiple jobs. I think what Hedges is trying to highlight to people who look at things in a simple cruel way is that there is a war on poor people exploits the attitudes your promote, which are false.
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  216. Instead of speculating about dementia ... lay out the facts as to what Biden stands for and has done.
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  217. Any interview with Thomas Frank is great, and FDR was the best President.  Dodd-Frank was a bust from the start ... 40,000 pages of impossible to use regulation that would have tons of loopholes for lawyers to spit in the faces of Obama and the executive.  Wall St. has this country by the balls.
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  218. FDR tried to save capitalism and democracy for the US by making government's role to control large corporations, break up monopolies and help citizens ... but I just think Americans were not up to the challenge. They tried to energize Americans with lofty ideals, movies, books, church, etc, but a heck of a lot of Americans are just lazy slugs, or mean SOBs and just do not really get the idea of democracy of what it takes to keep it. The Founders would be so revolted at today's America.
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  219. Speculative capital is the way bribes and political operation money is passed around without being tracked.
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  220. So, assuming the big powers are not going to go to war, for all the reasons they say ... the shark and the elephant scenarios ... then why are we doing all this military spending and focus on war in the US? I think it has to be to keep the people down, and the current power structure in place ... it is a big fake, like our idea of democracy is. It keeps people working, it keeps people from complaining, it keeps people out of the political sphere, or at least a real democracy. It is used to scare our own people, not China ... China has its own people it wants to scare, and its own system to stabilize in its own way.
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  221. What is with the eye patch?
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  222. Pretty cold-blooded quote from Harry Truman ... wow, what a different world. I can understand why they thought this though, America did not want to be attacked or drawn into Europe's problems again, after the horrible WWI experience.
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  223. @capclegg Everyone has brain damage in that case.
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  224. In the 40's
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  225. Did you look up any of this history, or just decide you don't care about facts? Don't care or can't handle them, one or the other.
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  226. All I can hear back from your side is how clueless I am, but not any answers. When that is all you can say it just makes it look more like I have a clue and you do not. But, bravo for knowing when Hamas was created, but it is not at relevant to the issue, it's a distraction, like saying I am clueless. Palestinians are just a gauge of what the hardcore Islamic nuts, a small but in power minority, would do to the whole world - constant aggression, terrorism and war. The vast majority of Israel's actions are justified, just as the vast majority of the Palestinians' are not.
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  227. This is always your side's argument ... look at the people suffering because their government makes it impossible for Israel to avoid hurting terrorists who hide in the middle of the civilian population. Why don't you go find some pictures of dead or wounded Israelis. How about remembering the Munich Olympics. Building and demolishing homes in Palestine still seems more peaceful and civilized than firing rockets, blowing up IEDs or suicide bombs, or stabbing innocent people in the street.
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  228. George Bush on late night chat shows?  Where and when?  I haven't seen him.  Byrne has a lot to learn.  Why is he doing this?  To try to be political relevant in a world where his acting cred is on the decline?  He's not making a whole lot of sense, but he is covering the bases someone set out for him.
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  229. Abusing protestors is not a big liability - they are few in number, marginal, and unsympathetc because people think they break windows whether they do or not. Bottom line is that there is no way to enforce democratic power, the people really have no voice, and these charades only begin to reveal what is already true. Budgets is an interesting point ... right now the marginal amount of big money is in the hands of "oppressors". But the budget can be privatized the next step. Feudalism.
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  230. I agree with you. Most of the people online who claim to be Conservative talk and write like they are insane. The constantly name-call and show they could not care less if you delivered a message to them straight from God. So, it's kind of borderline insane to continue to talk to someone as insane as that.
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  231. The Berlusconi analogy is a good one and I cannot undestand why we have not heard this more often ... other than most Americans have no idea who Berlusconi is.
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  232. I don't like Chris Hedges, but most of what he says I do not argue with. He nails down what is wrong, but he has no way to fix is, and we all seem to know this. People are corrupt and nasty, and you never know who the ones who are corrupt and nasty are most of the time.
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  233. I really hate the argument that these big philosophical questions result from people who don't know the history ... but if you fly a little higher and look at that argument from altitude - there is no history. History is lies agreed upon, so whatever the history people end up with - it is always a lie to make the status quo seem reasonable, and then they turn the history into a fairy tale mythology. Basing anything on history, or on personal experience or remembrance is BS. Of course the broad history can he discussed, but what is real and what is just is a better way to work at things, and who are the principals and what do they stand for.
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  234. dont know whether to like for Wolff, or to dislike for the other guy.
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  235. One thing is that over time every time you see anything that portrays the Democratic party there are tons of minority faces in it, but very few white faces ... it is a kind of reverse racism on the part of the Democrats.  It was of note to me, but did not keep me from voting Democratic, but I think to a lot of white people it was a warning sign to stay away and caused this kind of racial backlash.  The subconscious message was the Democrats are only representing minorities, and often only the poorest and worst samples of minorities, such as Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown - who whatever you think about their deaths were not the major issues politically in the country, yet they were raised to the highest and loudest priority.  We have a political bipartisan co-ordinated attack of bullshit against the people of the US to make the peoples' vote pointless and divided on issues.
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  236. No, Hitler made a lot of mistakes. Attacking Russia and then having to defend the whole Atlantic coast as well as fighting the Russians in a winter they were used to but the Germans were not. Pure insanity ... lucky for everyone. Anything to destroy socialism, and keep the major elite power centers. This was probably all orchestrated just to keep the average people down.
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  237. Obama was not what he seemed.  He was very active in being passive, and doing the Republican thing.  I think Clinton did not want to make promises that she knew she could not keep, and she thought she was going to win easily - so she tried to show pretend integrity and it just looked like aloofness and arrogance ... odd that it would overshadow Trump.  Democrats are consistently actively undercutting themselves.
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  238. I keep asking ... Q - Do you think Hamas deserves punishment for its planned premeditated vicious cold-blooded massacre of Israelis on Oct 7th? Y/N?
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  239. Yeah, Jay usually interrupts everyone he interviews.  I think he's afraid of Byrne who has a very imposing presence, but he also does not seem that up on things really.
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  240. I agree with most of what he says, but does it really matter? Until there is some kind of Bill of Rights or Bill of Responsibilities for what every person, no matter who, no matter from what country has a right to we are just talking and floating ideas. There needs to be teeth behind people's demands and that gets less and less likely as the system and its vulnerabilities are understood and defended from above, and the people are stupefied and brainwashed. It is only when people become doddering old people that they realize the scams that were pulled on them, and by then they either are rich and do not care, of they are too old and weak to do anything, or they are too brainwashed to accept it and retreat into fantasyland.
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  241. What the fuck does "reality asserts itself" mean.  This world is so insulated from reality, reality doesn't have a chance ... just like science.
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  242. If I don't have cable, and I don't ... Where can I watch this series. I went to the Showtime website and they have one full episode online to watch, and that is it.
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  243. I think you are wrong on the last point ... if you have a huge crowd that is not obeying a police order that is a breach of peace. Maybe not in this particular circumstance, but there is a need to in certain justified circumstances get people to move. Large groups of people can be a threat, and if one person in the crowd does something that is threatening or dangerous everyone else is jeopardized including police.
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  244. Can you read? i want access to his videos and audio files. I have plenty of reading material.
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  245. Thanks, that is a good thought, but I think I might have looked there in the past. I don't know why there is this very powerful motivation in the modern Conservative media to eviscerate the influences of FDR and replace it with Ronald Reagan. Reagan started these huge pointless deficits, so the strategy of the Libertarian Conservative movement even at this time put his plan in motion and we see it coming to fruition now. Instead of looking honestly at how to tweak these programs so they work better we find they are totally condemned and a brutal class war on the middle and working classes is raised as the moral alternative ... immoral I'd say. FDR's programs led to better growth than Reaganomics ... that is, voodoo economics, and a trend towards less inequality and justice, whereas Reagan's elitist, globalist regressive policies has led to low growth and killing deficits, and revealed a lot of the most activist people at the top to be of the ilk of Donald Trump, aloof, arrogant, rotten people who only care about amassing more money and power.
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  246. This is nonsense ... these people where central Americans who got caught and being ripped off and their families were being extorted for money. This is all just about South and Central America killing lots of poor native people and stealing whatever they can before they do it. How sickening ... American needs to legalize marijuana. We should have invaded Mexico, not Iraq.
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  247. No ... what's that?
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  248. Everything that the Democrats latch on to, seems to me to be developed by the right-wing think tanks to marginalize Democrats and make them lose. The right-wing has managed the Democratic party, and then partnered with lots of right-wing hate speech about Democrats any anything associated with the Left so that all they have to do now is to raise their voices and people walk away. Americans have to start realizing how huge the "brainwashing" conspiracy against them, called out as the Left and communists when in fact they are very American, to screw the people and turn them against each other strategy has worked, and that it does not serve them. The solution is to take back control of the economy ... the economy belongs to the billionaires and so therefore does the government. The only solution is economic reform ... democracy ... fairness. Note how the discussion in 2008 was sidetracked to "INEQUALITY" ??? We do not need, nor will the world ever have, or really even want EQUALITY ... what we need is fairness, justice and democracy, and to not be herded and controlled by those who have all the wealth and power.
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  249. 4:40 - the smartest and wisest thing I have ever heard out of Paul Jay about the leadership of the Democratic party ... well said!
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  250. EXACTLY!
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  251. No, the "wrestling model" is not good for economics ... what are you thinking.
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  252. There probably is a lot more skepticism, but our media may be far more powerful than we think and able to serve up an entire fake reality of what the American people think. I don't think that would be too hard if you have unimaginable wads of money and can buy up all the major media outlets, and then even the smaller ones. Then you can just say whatever you want, and hire actors of shills to go along with it.
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  253. Exactly ... make that point, not accusations of dementia.
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  254. Trump is the kind of person who understands that he is mortal, and resents the world going on without him, so he is doing whatever he can to "own" the world by trying to lead to its destruction. This is the sickest, more immoral, evil kind of person who can possibly exist.
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  255. Exactly - we are never consulted, and when consulted we are only listened to if we agree with the government, and our media tells us that we always agree with our government. Then in the same breath they tell us that Russia is such a totalitarian dictatorship.
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  256. This guy's narrative about what happened in Russia with Gobachev is the most believable story I have heard ... the creation by the US of a giant criminal totalitarian state run by organized crime ... and they are going to be coming for the US bigtime.  We have got to stop using the NSA to spy on Americans, and use it to kill the Mafia and organized crime totally, forever.
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  257. It's tempting to want to make a good-guy/bad-guy thing over this ... but both sides are wrong in different ways, and all the people of both countries suffer for it.
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  258. One thing I think caused people to not take Clinton seriously was the clown suits she was wearing in the debates ... big loud solid primary colors in bright red, white and blue ... she looked like a cartoon character ... she should have worn the kind of serious thing she is wearing in this video.  Clinton is tone deaf to what things looks like.  She is an idiot, but she is a competent knowledgeable idiot and so, acceptable, unlike the unacceptable Trump.
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  259. A lot of great comments here.  We stop paying insurance, and should be able to pay less taxes.   Sales tax is a bad idea since it is regressive.
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  260. Always great to see Thomas Frank participate in a political discussion. I hope he is right about Trump's tax returns, but it has been 2 months and not a whisper about that yet.
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  261. @toto9920 Perhaps I misspoke ... Islam has a lot of anti-terrorism spokespeople as well, it's just that they do not have the weight and flash of the binLadens, and the terrorists can threaten them so that people are afraid to stand up. In the Gaza conflagration different Palestinian factions were shooting each other in the legs to prevent inroads being made politcally during the turmoil, rather than helping their people. Of course terrorism and rockets do not help anyway.
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  262. The right of return .... what a farce. The right to live among the very people they are trying so hard to murder. This is insanity, and Marc Lamont Hill and Cornell West are full of it.
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  263. I always and still hated Ronald Reagan ... he was a stuffed shirt, liar and demented idiot that was used by the elite to oppress the people. When Carter gave his malaise speech ... interest rates were around 10% and unemployment was also high.
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  264. Obama was such a let down ... the biggest disappointment in the 21st century.
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  265. A lot of extremely important information in Palast's movie, but it is done in such a comical way it doesn't really make it in my opinion.  I saw it and it is hard to follow and seems frivolous, but it does have the important information there for all to see.
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  266. And besides, what is the vision these protestors are fighting for? As bad as the configuration of the world is, no one knows enough of has enough information to criticize it or improve it. The big power as a monopoly on money and government and just puts up with the people as long as they have to. The only way is to starve the rich as they say they want to starve government - neither side should be overwhelmingly powerful. The rich & corps are too powerful, the people too uninformed.
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  267. @BoredomCorner Good reason, like what? What is it you think I said anyway?
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  268. @WellIAMScottish >> Israel is a illegitimate state founded on lies. Well, that doesn't seem very impressive compared to the huge number of Islamic states that are founded on lies. Israel was founded on the truth that no group can live under Islamic domination and survive unless they have hope of freedom from islamic political domination.
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  269. The map for Interstate Crosscheck does not add up ... they do not have Michigan on it.
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  270. '' Is Putin the Enemy or a Distraction? '' Putin is two, two, two dictators in one.  Russia has their legitimate and illegitimate points of view just as the US does.  It is the US that is encircling Russia and squeezing it, lying to Russia, etc.  Whatever our government says concerning military matters, I don't really believe them anymore.
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  271. I'm tired of hearing the comment, " none of which is technically illegal, but i raises questions" ... if you can not be definite about something it is a clue that maybe you should not be reporting on it.
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  272. @dhimmi12345 Yeah, where is the outrage from "The Real News" what a bunch of Nazi Racist SOB Bastard Fucks to constantly propagandize for evil killer nazi bastards ... and they have the nerve to call themselves "The Real News" SICKENING!
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  273. 4:35 - Kucinich nailed the death stroke of the Democratic Party ... by the way, under McGovern. Taking corporate money.
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  274. I, personally, am bothered by the Middle Eastern types on the RNN who always attack Israel and the US based on other stuff to prove that the Muslim nations are justified in what they do, or that the US is wrong.  Mostly RNN is pretty good, but on the subject of the Middle East it sucks, and that is the point.  You cannot trust anyone in the world, they are all corrupt, or you would not be hearing from them at all.
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  275. The problem with the US is its moral ambiguity
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  276. Americans need a massive clawback of all the taxes and wealth that have been stolen from us.
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  277. @BoredomCorner Change is certainly necessary, but is this change or just pumping up adrenalin confronting the cops? Certainly some of the actions of the police are obivous and some are pushing it a bit much, but if you just want to go out and protest why all the games?
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  278. All those fascist Brits who came to America to avoid supporting their native country by paying taxes are complaining that with Single Payer Health Care they might have to pay more taxes in the US ... what a bunch of creeps ... I mean you FOX NEWS!
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  279. @VozAlternativa in the United States and most of the west most Jews are secular. Even back as far as Nazi Germany there were very few Jews that segregated themselves from the mainstream. Where it not for IBM cards and the census the Nazi probably could not even have determined who was Jewish and who was not. You are just raving rabid Anti-Semitic propaganda. I'll wait to hear you condemn Saudi Arabia for aparthied to the 10th power, not to mention the built in oppression for non-muslims.
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  280. The mouthpiece of terrorism ... what a braindead moron. And how can Cornell West keep defending this kind of counter-revolutionary manipulation? In general I really like Cornell West ... and that is not what Marc Lamont Hill is saying ... he is saying that Islam has the right and duty to destroy Israel and oppose liberal and progressive values of the West. Cornell West is just stupid on this issue.
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  281. > LOL another pseudo intellectual,aka snotty liberal. Yeah, I sure am glad I decided not to bother with you, you proved me right in 14 minutes. No go fly off and insult someone else. You must be totally miserable without a clue as to why.
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  282. I doubt anyone outside of the global plutocratic cabal really knows the truth of what is going on, and i'm sure even they get surprised.
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  283. Thanks for explaining all of this Scott .... we would never hear this otherwise.
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  284.  @quakefan8810  Covid information was the best we had at the time for a reason. Quit your whining, name-calling and your MAGA BS. Nothing in this world is absolute., not even free speech.
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  285. By coming up with ridiculous ideas yourself are you really trying to say that you can't hear my ideas, or that you think there is no way to pay people fairly so it's OK if poor people live miserable inhuman lives? Read the book. Or just learn to discuss things seriously or fairly because hyperbolic exaggeration is not something I feel I need to rebut. What is a guaranteed outcome ... another BS AH term for treating people decently? Yeah!
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  286.  @Jessica_Roth  Sanders got a lot more done than Kucinich, and you need to re-read my comments if you think that. But I'm pretty sure you will never behave politically in a useful effective way because you're a nazi.
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  287.  @landontesar3070  I don't see you in this conversation or remember asking your opinion. You know nothing about Bernie Sanders or his inner motives or how he does his jobs - you are just a Right-wing scanning chat bot pushing out anti-Bernie nonsense. Get lost!
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  288.  @celticgold4028  If you so say so, you said it civily with facts to back you up, they make an odd pair..
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  289. There are a few things I learned growing up that strongly affected me at the time, but I got no indication that anyone else I knew or who was in my life or scope that it mattered to others in the least, or it was somehow quietly accepted. The Native American genocide ( I did not even know the word genocide as a young boy in school ).  Black slavery.  Then I heard about the Holocaust ( something that was not American finally ).  And then as a teen I began to hear about Vietnam, and not only that but that I might be forced by our government to participate in that conflict. How is that not enough to fuck up the minds and traumatize anyone in our society, whatever side of these issues you thought you were on, to know that instead of contemporary secular modernity we really lived in the past.  A past that included more war, thievery, sadism, rape, destruction ... more than is even imaginable. Then, living in CA I had the chance to meet people from Viet Nam when they emigrated to the US when their country was totally ruined. Given those milestones of monstrosity in history, if you pay attention and read you learn to fill in the blanks and come to some kind of understanding, or terms with the barbarism of the world, and the hypocrisy of the West ( because it is not just America, though we may have prevailed in power after WWII for various reasons ). Instead of the beacon of hope for the world, every evil, dictatorial or greedy actor in the world focused  on our country, came here to American, invested, grew their evil in a place that was historically just as evil or more - the new garden of the new fascism. So we have two Americas, the inchoate progressive state that Real News, Oliver Stone, Thomas Frank, and many other write about and hope for, and the hard reality of money and how it has been used as a bludgeon to make the USA the most hated and feared country, despite our leading visions and free speech for all the good stuff. I don't agree with a lot of what RNN says or editorializes on, I see the world as complex and in a pragmatic light, but RNNs videos and visions are important in terms of showing people another way to see things and facts they do not normally consider.
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  290. Thomas Frank is such an amazing intellect, he is amazing in his historical analysis and it seems to go way back and very much more coherent that what we hear from the media or other pundits. The whole Russia thing is like the Kennedy assassination in that neither side of the government and no one else either wants this to be cleared up or understood.
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  291. In your interview with Thomas Frank, Frank talked about the laws both parties put in place to obstruct the ability to create a new political party.  Until we understand and can over-ride that, we must try to take back the Democratic party.
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  292. Can someone please tell me what Reality Asserts Itself is supposed to mean?  One thing about the Republicans is that they really know how to focus group things and name them well so that people know immediately what they are getting it.  WTF is wrong with Progressives?
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  293. Well, that is about the best explanation I have heard of that phrase, but which is also not so common - I have never heard it before these videos.  Thank you.
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  294. So, in other words it means that things will eventually get better.  The way the Left always bases its failures on hope is really depressing.  The Left needs a bit of that Trump "winning" and not just talking hopeful.
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  295. What I am trying to point out in a implicit way is that "reality asserts itself" is a BS phrase meant to indicate that "truth will out" as Shakespeare wrote ... and it ain't true.  I get so disappointed in the illiterate ideas expressed on You-Tube and other internet discussion boards.
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  296. Why can't Ralph get a video camera?
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  297.  @jmonlive  Let's not get hysterical m12.
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  298. How old is this video ... looks like about 20 years old
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  299. The other thing is that if Democratic voters cannot even get it together to register Democratic and vote in the primary ... Bernie or anyone else has no chance. In our country voting is pretty easy. It is an effort and it can have a cost to poor people, like having to take off work, but that is nothing compared to righting the Revolutionary or the Civil Wars ... and still people do not believe, understand ... or their votes are being tossed out.
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  300. The moment is not going to come. Seems like these two fail to realize just what they are up against and how powerful it is is and how it can hide news and information from people.
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  301. This is really great. Frank's point about populism being upside down is so right on. The Republicans really have that BS garbage lying down so that it somehow appeals to uninformed Americans. They also prey o the racism of Americans, the inability to accept and process guilt and injustice.
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  302. Another right wing sock puppet trying to attack Bernie from the Left. What a shumbdit.
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  303. It's not a great comment at all, YM's ... neither is yours AM. Lot's of innuendo, but no there, there. You don't know anything about American politics, maybe you should butt out.
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  304. I have to admit, I don't care about and do not want to hear from Ralph Nader. I may agree with him on most issues, but his 2000 Presidential run changed the course of history and pretty much created the total mess our country is in today. I will never forget or forgive him for that.
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  305.  @RyanFeatherston  Oh, do I need permission from you to be here? Too bad. You should need permission to put out such distortions - the marginal number of votes for Nader would have dispelled any doubt that Gore won, and Gore did win after all that Republican coup. Leading right to the death of democracy, and proliferation of liars such as yourself.
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  306.  @RyanFeatherston  All the featherweight can do is name-call and contradict. Get lost.
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  307. Hersh doesn't sound too good here. He sounds like he has something going on with his memory or speech. Did someone poison him? After just mentioning Victoria Nuland, a few minutes later he cannot remember her name. Then he called the pipeline Gas-stream, which is conflating NordStream and Gasprom? We call Putin the poisoner, but our own CIA has had plenty of poisoning operations - like the several designed to kill or disable Fidel Castro.
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  308. Democrats would be in the White House now if Clinton had put Bernie on the ticket as VP
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  309. when he is talking apple and pears he is really talking about people doing things like not buying and eating meat and instead buying processed food like fast food ... this is a lying pile of crap.
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  310. In what way is this great Linda?
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  311. Who is talking to you ditship?
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  312. what kind of training and management structure do they have? if they know this much about us it is pretty positive they are manipulating us and trying to see what the effects of it are. Very creepy.
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  313. 1. Do you think the Palestinians are even worrying about the MORE APARTHEID STATE THEY ARE GOING TO BUILD? Palestinians raise hell about every Jewish settlement that goes up ... what the hell do you think that means? 2. Because of the nature of radical Islam, every place that is "radicalized" is at war by it's very nature with any other group that lives in its country, unless they decide to survive and be submissive to Islam. This video is ignorant, anti-semitic, racist, crap, as usual
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  314. romney was not wooden .. he was more plastic.
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  315. Israelite's atrocities?
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  316. I really really am starting to hate this channel, a channel that used and co-opts well-meaning liberals by providing a good Liberal/Progressive perspective on many issues, and then suporting terrorism on this one issue and trying to make the brainwashing connection, just as much evil intent and bad-acting as the CIA or radical Islam in my opinion. I just only hope that most Liberals are smart enough to look at this BS with the skepticality it deserves instead of just swallowing it as Liberal.
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  317. I think the Left, rank and file, fails to see that the first priority of any entity is self-preservation, i.e. defense. It is there we get into nuance and any discussion or understanding breaks down and we end up with the Military Industrial Complex taking over everything because from defense we go to world domination - in the name of defense. It's been the USA's goal since basically forever, coming into view only after WWII. The question for the Left ought not be how can it pander to the clueless like the Republicans do - but they end up having no choice. The goal of the Left should be to distill what is correct from the Right and then work for negotiation, as the goal of the Right ought to be to find the legitimate concerns of the Left and compromise .... but instead the oligarchs and plutocrats manipulate this massive social and political fraud by ownership of the media, and virtually everything else now and putting the average person into the role of basically being cattle, farm animals for the economy to exploit, and kill if they have to..
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  318. Great interview and insights starting at 0:53 . Obama never punched once. Never corrected once. Never reminded us who Romney was. He looked like he crapped his pants. Obama certainly did not look Presidential. If Obama gets elected we have 4 more years of the same. Obama is not a progressive at all. His state of the union speeches are total BS. Both of these guys have contempt for the American people, and I am not sure I even blame him for that. Obama's record is pretty sad, better than romney
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  319. this is word games remove the distinction of capital gains and earned income and tax them the same. AND ... make the income tax rate truly progressive .... we should not be taxing billionaires at the same rate we tax millionaires - and people who work hard and make $300,000 and above ... this does not seem to be on the radar of most people because they do not think of this. This chained CPI thing is just another way to baffle people with BS ... apples & pears - stupid.
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