Youtube comments of gerhard7 (@gerhard7323).

  1. Galloway was actually kicked out of the Labour Party for his views on the Iraq War in 2003. Views which turned out to be absolutely correct. The British establishment hate him because he's more often right than wrong on the really big controversial issues. Our two main parties, like the US, are two cheeks of the same backside indeed.
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  2. Neil is right again on every aspect here. Sometimes some truths are SO big and SO terrifying that most people refuse to believe them nevermind understand them.
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  3. 'Those who make £1000 per hour somehow managed to convince those who earn £30 per hour that those who earn £12.50 per hour are the problem'
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  4. If someone like this gentleman who is clearly well-meaning was advocating the jab before is now flagging up serious issues with it then they should be lauded for having the balls and decency to do so.
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  5. Love economics because nobody really knows anything.
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  6. "We have liberated Europe from fascism, but they will never forgive us for it" - Soviet General Zhukov.
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  7. 'I wasn't mentally competent to go through with this sort of thing' - Chloe 'You were a child' - interviewer. 'Exactly' - Chloe. Nuff said.
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  8. 'I'd rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.' Richard Feynman
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  9. Born of a 'misplaced kindness'. Sums it up Helen. Think that's why so many reasonable, decent people are becoming exasperated with this. They don't 'hate' anyone. They don't wish to discriminate against anyone. They certainly don't want to make anyone's lives uncomfortable or miserable in any way. They just don't want to be forced to believe what they know to be a lie. Made to feel like they're bad people for not playing along and know, even if it's on a subconscious level, that if they submit to this lie it could lead us ALL to far, far darker places.
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  10. It's bitterly ironic how the West made such a song and dance for decades about tearing down the Iron Curtain and The Wall and yet its spent the decades since that was achieved trying to put up new ones.
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  11. Venezuela wasn't exactly Trump's finest hour either.
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  12. As Mussolini, Fascism's founding father, helpfully pointed out almost a century ago, fascism can be defined as when the interests of government and [big] business can barely be separated by a cigarette paper.
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  13. An accuser is NOT automatically a victim. What's happening to Brand is disgraceful.
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  14. This should NEVER have taken so long. It wouldn't have done without a complicit media in point of fact.
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  15. Starmer's willingness to share a stage with Blair well and truly seals the deal there. A Faustian Pact there if ever there was one.
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  16. The fact that this is all went on under global governments' noses and in most cases these weren't ever 'currencies' as such merely taxable capital assets always smelt funny to me
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  17. My god, I never realized quite how brutal the Australian police had been during this. Horrific.
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  18. Economically speaking, this has been brewing since 2008. This is unfinished business. Massive, inevitable financial crisis was deferred back then and now we have over a decade of QE, covid and Ukraine to add into the toxic mix.
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  19. Go DeepSeek! Corporate America's ultimate aim has never been to solve the world's problems, real or imagined, but only to maximize the potential for profits from any 'solutions' it might offer.
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  20. Patient: Does this provide immunity? Doctor: Only if you're the manufacturer. Patient: I'll take the jab when the likes of Pfizer forgo their rights to immunity then thanks.
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  21. Potentially, there is no limit to US debt creation just so long as there is a global appetite for it.
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  22. This is why phrases like, 'my truth' come in so handy for those passive aggressive types who've become addicted to victim culture and now, unfortunately, see it as a way of life. Denying an unassailable truth is one thing and takes a 'special' kind of human being to do it, but also denying it whilst affording yourself the right to change your mind from one minute to the next as and when it suits all whilst asserting this manipulative behaviour as some kind of fundamental human right is beyond absurd.
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  23. It is extraordinary how some of the more vociferous Remainer-types like Campbell behave. The label 'Remainiac' well and truly applies.
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  24. Iran WILL prove to be the West's graveyard if they choose to land troops there. Iranians might well have their own fierce internal differences, but there aren't the same internal 'tribal' differences that allowed Western powers to divide and rule in their confected state of Iraq. They were completely incapable of subduing Afghanistan over decades so why on Earth they imagine an Iran with a highly educated, patriotic population of 90m, many young men, would be a possibility is beyond me. And that's not even factoring in the Chinese and the Russians. This is a fool's errand..and that's being polite.
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  25. 'Now there's one damn wreck next to the other wreck for the same damn reason" Says it all. Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it.
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  26. I used to watch Newsnight religiously when it was on. Whilst its journalistic integrity slide began in the latter years of the Paxman tenure, Emily Maitlis regular hostings put the final nail in Newsnight's credibility coffin for me.
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  27. As an in principle supporter of publicly funded, ad-free, impartial broadcasting the bitter, depressing irony here is that 'BBC types' like Maitlis are seemingly making sure that future generations are deprived of the privilege many of us previously enjoyed growing up.
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  28. To provide further context the early Zionists even seriously considered Uganda and Argentina for the future Israel.
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  29. Speaking as someone largely indifferent about monarchy I think it would be nice if people just let those who are monarchists have their one day of pomp and circumstance unmolested.
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  30. ‘There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning’ - Warren Buffett
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  31. You DON'T give money to a political party and NOT expect something in return at some point. The biggest surprise is that British Politics is for sale at such a low price.
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  32. Strangely, I've long had a lot more respect for people who say they don't care what's going on than I do for those who consistently deny it.
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  33. The US has been involved in nearly 400 military interventions since 1776. It has helped or attempted to overthrow the governments of numerous other sovereign countries in the last 25 years alone including, FR Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Iraq, Libya, Haiti, Syria and Bolivia.
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  34. This looks like a meeting of the Knights who say Ni. Despite the posturing, Western sanctions are self-defeating, certainly in the immediate to medium term. This is a war that should never have been allowed to escalate in the first place.
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  35. "The goal is an endless war, not a successful war" - Julian Assange.
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  36. 'If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it' Mark Twain.
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  37. Ukraine was constitutionally neutral when Dubya pushed for its NATO membership in 2008. Think about that. Outrageous.
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  38. If people haven't yet woken up to what's going on here by now, what this means is that these companies are private in the good times and public in the bad. Much as the banks were in 2008. Profits are privatised and losses are socialised and nobody YET seems to have any objections to this. Hence it continues.
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  39. There will NEVER be cheap or free energy. Governments almost invariably are drawn to taxing anything they think they can get away with particularly necessities like energy, water and shelter for obvious reasons ie they're things most people have to use and access regularly in a modern, civilized society. What we're currently seeing with renewables is a carrot and stick approach - a combination of appealing to virtue, fear and guilt plus forcing up prices - in order to cajole people into changing their habits. Once those habits become embedded then the energy prices will gradually rise along with the taxes attached to them.
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  40. Irony of ironies, but one wonders if anyone could pinpoint the moment when the anti-racist movement essentially became racist and sought to define people primarily through the colour of their skins?
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  41. When science becomes commonly referred to as 'THE' science you know we're living in dangerous times.
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  42. Word to the wise. Terrorism isn't terrorism as long as its perpetrated by a state that respects the US defined 'international rules based order'. Simples.
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  43. Up until a few years ago I used to think 'Communist' China was a crypto-fascist state, but largely thanks to the Ukraine war I've come round to the idea that label far more accurately describes the US.
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  44. 'The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness' John Kenneth Galbraith Replace 'modern conservative' with 'neoliberal' or 'liberal' elites or even 'neoconservative' if you like, but you get the picture. These people are a breed, a type, a kind and they exist in all our societies and the big problem is far too many of us listen to them too much for too long usually for own own selfish reasons.
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  45. Diesen's knowledge and understanding blows my mind and all delivered with complete modesty.
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  46. Thank God there are people like Greenwald out there not only prepared to call this blatant anti-democratic BS out they're also prepared to cite very clearly their good reasons for doing so.
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  47. Very gracious Peter, but shadow banning isn't 'a form of very soft censorship', it IS, or amounts to, censorship. Making sure your algorithm as good as buries a story or a view (that isn't criminal) in the internet age is the NEW censorship.
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  48. It's also worth noting that the globe is becoming greener according to NASA satellite data from over the decades thanks to these CO2 increases especially at desert margins.
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  49. When it comes to the women's football it's the absurd paradox that's being reflected across wider society. Much like the dreadful Stonewall's efforts this is little more than a divisive grift. When black women were over-represented in the previous decade of English football it was not an issue. In this current era they're apparently under-represented and it warrants serious consideration. Maybe how much melanin you have in your skin isn't the sole indicator of how proficient you might be at something? Just a thought? The late, great Martin Luther King must be turning in his grave at this seemingly interminable virtue signalling pantomime we're enduring today.
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  50. The UK, like the US, has evolved into a uni-party system whereby the interests of the establishment are always broadly represented by the two main parties. This is more or less ensured each time by our two party FPTP electoral systems. What we have then is the illusion of choice and an essentially performative democracy where meaningfully challenging this status quo via the ballot box - as we should be able to do - has been removed. *Reposted as previous attempt was removed.
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  51. Thank goodness for people like Chris Hedges.
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  52. He's sticking to his guns. Just as he should. Thank God there are people like these two gentlemen that do
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  53. 'Banks and finance are different' - Larry Summers Wasn't Larry Summers the architect of ending Glass-Steagall back at the end of the 90s?
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  54. As ever, you can choose your friends but you can't choose your family.
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  55. Although we're not there yet, Mussolini famously said that the definition of fascism was when you could barely separate corporate interests from those of the state by a cigarette paper.
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  56. Iran, I'm sure, wouldn't be daft enough to throw everything it had at Israel in such a first response. It gave ample warning, despite claims to the contrary, and then primarily sent slow moving low cost drones which then spent hours getting to Israel before being shot down at great expense via its 'Iron Dome'. This was a measured response in the circumstances, particularly given how yet again it was Israel who broke international law by bombing Iranian sovereign territory in the form of its consulate. On current form, when history is written, it's not difficult to see who the warmongers are here.
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  57. The British Army General who all but threatened a mutiny over a potential Corbyn premiership should, at the very least, have lost his job. The MOD must have known who it was.
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  58. A good journalist is someone who leaves their own biases at the door and who pursues a story without fear or favour. Unfortunately 'good journalism' has become increasingly rare, if unheard of, in mainstream media today.
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  59. Mussolini described fascism as when the interests of corporations and the state could barely be separated by a cigarette paper. We seem today to have dispensed with the cigarette paper even and the real genius is we've all been sleepwalked into this with barely a shot being fired in its name on our streets and without a jackboot hitting the cobbles.
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  60. We in the West love 'a rebel'. 'Terrorist' not so much. Still, what's in a name?
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  61. It's not Russia invading Eastern Europe after Ukraine we need to worry about it's what US led NATO does after it.
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  62. Like him or loathe him, Salmond makes for a great interviewee.
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  63. The outstanding theme here is being echoed across the Western democracies. The mainstream media is consistently failing to do its job by genuinely holding those in power to account and who fiddle to their heart's content whilst Rome burns around them. It is nothing less than a dereliction of duty and it is shameful.
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  64. Freddie Sayer proved yet again to be an exemplary polite, patient, unflappable interviewer here. KK is irritable, irritating and needlessly chippy about just about everything throughout.
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  65. The one thing that most people seem to agree on is that this rapid 'shock' conquest of Syria and sweeping away of the Assad regime could not have occurred without the full blessing of Turkey's Erdogan and was likely some time in the planning. The other, I think, indisputable fact is that this is more wretched news for the benighted Palestinians. Both of those assertions, if nothing else, particularly given Erdogan's recent shedding of crocodile tears for Palestinians in Gaza confirm what has been long thought about the Turkish leader and his complete untrustworthiness.
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  66. That man didn't see 7bn people whose lives he was looking to save, he just saw 7bn entirely expendable consumer units he could turn a profit from. He's sick, quite frankly.
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  67. If you extend the current logic of 'trans' in this instance then this makes perfect sense. Currently, being 'trans' means asking the world to accept something which it categorically knows not to be true ie usually that you're the opposite of what you were born as. Saying you're 'trans' whilst still remaining a fully intact male and still wishing to referred to as 'he' makes perfect sense in this Alice meets the Cheshire Cat context. 'Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, “What road do I take?” The cat asked, “Where do you want to go?” “I don’t know,” Alice answered. “Then,” said the cat, “it really doesn’t matter, does it? There's only a contradiction if we apply the pre-existing, traditional, rigidly defined norms, not if we apply the new 'trans' norm which basically says you can be whatever you yourself want to be on any given day and you're perfectly at liberty to completely redefine yourself tomorrow and the day after that and the day after that and so on. 'You' get to define (and redefine) what you are, nobody else ever does. Genius.
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  68. Speaking as an agnostic, God or gods aren't the problem. It's organised religion.
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  69. True, but at least he might do something for Ukraine unlike the Democrats.
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  70. The Nightingale Hospital scenario was utterly farcical. The VERY worst form of PR fluff.
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  71. Machado, backed by various highly dubious Washington based NGOs, has, I believe, supported 3 coups in Venezuela. The first, again with US backing, in 2002 when she supported the overthrow and replacement of the democratically elected Chavez. She belongs in prison, not as Venezuela's US backed kingmaker.
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  72. Sad fact is there's no profit in peace for some. Not by accident is 'peace' called 'strategic peace' by these people now.
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  73. Crowdstrike founder already had previous form with McAfee. These people have NO shame.
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  74. Condoleezza Rice stated in 2014 in a German TV interview EXACTLY what the US plan was vis-a-vis European reliance on cheap Russian energy. It is the ultimate smoking gun for what followed and it is still on YT for those interested.
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  75. When the official stats start to show the inconvenient truth it's time to 'improve' the methodology.
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  76. Whilst I love listening to Max, and I mean this both generally and literally, the word 'literally' is 'literally' overused and very often doesn't mean 'literally'.
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  77. This country, from Thatcher to the present day, has had a succession of expedient, self-serving execrable leaders. We have in the UK been consistently betrayed by our political and financial classes mortgaging the country's future for their own miserable ends.
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  78. I'm not American, but if I were and it looked like Trump was heading to prison over this weaponisation of the US justice system I'd consider it my patriotic duty to vote for him.
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  79. The Nazis didn't lose WW2, they just relocated.
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  80. That's pretty shocking when he's talking about his own Wikipedia entry. Someone tries to change an entry about themselves that says they're anti-trans and it's almost immediately changed back again. Presumably anonymously? Shades of CRT where a claim that you aren't racist automatically means that you are. These are truly worrying, dystopian times.
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  81. Bizarre how Neil, I think quite correctly, cites the reasons for the anger and malaise today in 2023 being rooted in 2008 but then rather than attack the causes and beneficiaries - the cosy self-serving constituency of which he is resolutely a member - he chooses to make his comfortable living attacking the victims and the people who stand up for them.
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  82. I watched Sachs live getting unceremoniously cut off on Bloomberg. Needless to say I no longer watch Bloomberg. Shameless and shameful.
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  83. Where are NATO's missiles placed, where are they pointing and how long have they been pointing there?
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  84. As the saying goes, 'the Nazis didn't lose WW2, they just relocated' 😊
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  85. Excess 'pissy doctors' seem to be a common theme in cases such as yours when the jab's possible role in their symptoms is mentioned. 'Anything but' seems to be the goto response.
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  86. The Euro will survive for as long as Germany is willing and able to underwrite it. That is as much a political question as it is an economic one. France gave Germany the single currency lemon in return for it not opposing German reunification and Germany has made lemonade ever since. Hence the 2008 Greek bailout wasn't some huge act of Franco-German generosity, they were effectively a backdoor bailout of French and German banks who had lent recklessly to countries like Greece with very little monies subsequently actually going to the Greek state.
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  87. The stock market is NOT the economy. Remember that. Sure, it's arguably a bellwether, but it's still only a secondary market.
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  88. Germany was traditionally one of Italy's main competitors industrially speaking. The introduction of the single currency basically rendered Germany's industrial exports cheaper than they would have been under the DM and Italy's more expensive than they would have been under the Lira. Italy volunteered to become uncompetitive by joining the Euro and permanently surrendered the monetary levers with which it could previously adjust its course to the ECB in Berlin.
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  89. Why does Julia never let on whether she's been jabbed or not?
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  90. ​ @janmorgan7435 Dublin's in the Republic of Ireland not Northern Ireland.
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  91. Certainly edging that way.
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  92. Now that WAS highly suspicious to say the least.
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  93. GG talks the talk AND, far more importantly, continues to walk the walk. Bravo, Glen.
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  94. The golden rule here to remember is that a vast number of social media posts are generated by a proportionately extremely small number of people.
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  95. As Mussolini, Fascism's founding father, helpfully pointed out almost a century ago, fascism can be defined as when the interests of government and [big] business can barely be separated by a cigarette paper.
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  96. 'They hate our freedoms -- our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other' - President George W Bush 2001. Who are 'they' I wonder?
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  97. 'Show restraint' is code for 'don't you dare retaliate'.
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  98. Christopher Hitchens on Israel, 'If Jews born in Brooklyn have a right to a state in Palestine, then Palestinians born in Jerusalem have a right to a state in Palestine."
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  99. China's turbocharged economic ascent was powered less by the West's lofty desire to seed democracy there and far more by the desperation that followed the financial crash of 2008 and its need to keep its massively over-indebted consumer economies afloat on the cheap.
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  100. The great tragedy is how relatively few Americans will ever see this excellent piece of journalism.
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  101. Thatcher did the same to the unions in the 80s in the UK as Reagan did to US. For some reason some people still imagine these two performed much needed overdue tough economic reforms, but really it was just the deliberate systematic gutting of the working classes.
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  102. Mistaking deference for respect when it is really fear is the true mark of a bully.
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  103. A very suspect individual, no doubt. Raises serious questions about the source of the story that led to him and his partner becoming so revered in the first place.
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  104. Corbyn never really stood a chance did he.
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  105. Iran's democratically elected leader was overthrown by a CIA/British backed coup in 1953 precisely because he threatened US and British oil interests by threatening to nationalize them. The US/CIA were initially reluctant but were persuaded by the Communist domino theory argument that later led to Vietnam and other US led disasters/atrocities. What followed the 1953 coup was the brutal, vicious, bloody oppressive regime of the Western backed Shah. You say the West later backed the Ayotollah? The US-backed West not only needs to get its story straight, it needs to stop meddling in other countries' interests.
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  106. Grim. To Israel's credit at least this footage has come out and has been shown to the world. As ever it's always the innocents who suffer.
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  107. Like so many on here I've been telling people about my serious doubts about these insufficiently tested jabs since they came out. It rarely makes you popular I can tell you. One of the biggest issues, I guess, is that once you've had them you can't 'unhave' them or get them sucked out of you so this partly explains why some people's views have become so entrenched in support of them.. What's telling though is that it's crystal clear that fewer and fewer people are very quietly electing not to have more of them and this is born out by the sales data released by the vaccine producers themselves.
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  108. We're told condescendingly that the Houthis would be nothing without Iran's support so where does that leave Israel in relation to the USA?
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  109. Ukraine's neutrality was enshrined in its constitution right up until the US sponsored coup in 2014 when it was revoked by its parliament. This begs the question as to why Dubya's US in 2008 was trying to get a neutral Ukraine to join a military alliance openly hostile to Russia in Bucharest .
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  110. 'Why then, if your big thing is feminism or abortion or gay marriage, are you so certain that the cult of tolerance will prevail once the biggest demographic in your society is cheerfully intolerant?' Mark Steyn.
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  111. It's a deliberate, significant and sustained wealth transfer by the debtmongers and their political lackeys designed to leave ever more younger and poorer people perpetually struggling, their existences perpetually precarious and in perpetual 'highly profitable for some' debt. Asset prices like property keep rising rendering them either unattainable - shades of you will own nothing, but be happy - or only purchasable over increasingly longer (thus again more profitable for the debtmongers) time frames. Meanwhile, the widening wealth gap also quietly helps to push up the price of even the most basic of services like dental or eye care for those who can increasingly least afford them. These are, in fact, chosen political policies masquerading as inevitable economic ones with a suitable BS, if still frustratingly widely accepted, narrative attached to them. Frankly, it's a scandal happening in plain sight.
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  112. After watching Smith's nauseating quasi-messianic acceptance speech any sympathy I had for him evaporated.
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  113. Poor 20 year old lad out near Canberra recently attacked by a dog. Face savaged around mouth and nose and 100 stitches required. Horrific and hugely upsetting for him and his family. Due to see a plastic surgeon in nearby Canberra for vital consultation. Guess what? Can't. Canberra just gone into lockdown. A victim of covid? No.... Not officially anyway.
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  114. I think I'm correct in saying that the world isn't actually producing much more than it was in the 1970s, but the only thing that's changed is the growing debt that's been attached to it. Really, in many ways, the last 50 years have been a great swindle and I'm sure that history will come to see it that way in good time.
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  115. Western Europeans' decade's long ties with the US effectively allowed them to punch way above their weight safe in the knowledge that they could speak softly if forcefully to the world with the US's big stick always there to back them up. As a result dominant for decades myopic, expedient European Atlanticist establishments effectively neglected their basic housekeeping duties and have ultimately failed their own populations.
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  116. Why would somebody (of sound mind) who supported the invasion both vocally and in very practical terms from its very beginning suddenly do a volte face and say it wasn't justified?
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  117. YouTube has demonstrated it is absolutely A-OK with hate speech and advocating violence as long as they're directed towards its pre-approved targets.
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  118. More than a decade of low interest rates, though perceived by many as a good thing, were essentially maintained because our economies have been built upon rising asset price values, most particularly land and property. Assets purchased primarily through debt. Keeping the price of that debt affordable has been the tightrope that our central banks have been attempting to walk for years now. A toxic combination of covid, a worsening global trade situation, the Ukraine invasion and rising energy prices is likely the proverbial tide going out on this intensely fragile model. Might be time to see who is swimming naked....
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  119. I never knew TikTok was SO influential...
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  120. And the biggest worry here is that there's no serious political opposition to this madness and what there is is bemoaning that the government still isn't going in far enough or hard enough.
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  121. There existed, from 1997, a Friendship and Cooperation treaty between Russia and Ukraine that agreed that neither country would seek to threaten the security of the other. It was, I think, renewed every 5 years. Perhaps unsurprisingly, 2014 was a gamechanger as was the prospect of NATO membership and Ukraine refused to renew it in 2017. Make of that what you will.
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  122. Not often I agree with every word Piers Morgan says. Whether you're a royalist or not, Elizabeth was a truly great and decent woman who served her country's best interests tirelessly and to the very end, often at great personal cost. May she rest in peace. She deserves to far more than most.
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  123. Read your excellent comment and everything you say IS, as far as we currently know, factually correct.
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  124. I won't lie, I've long become increasingly sceptical of Niall Ferguson, but he's certainly firing more than a few resistant synapses here.
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  125. This is a prime example of how stories are twisted and deliberately taken out of context. It was a pretty solid attempt at dark humour from someone who's survived to assault attempts. Suck it up people and see it for what it was.
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  126. Can't speak for DW, but tragically the BBC lost its credibility years ago.
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  127. People have alarmingly short memories. Up until around a decade ago Russia was the reliable cheap energy dynamo powering EUrope's greatest industrial power and not asking much in exchange other than payment. What changed? The US, around 2014, sought to disrupt and end that successful dynamic that had hitherto lasted for years and served all parties well. Apparently no-one seems particularly interested in asking the question as to why.
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  128. The term 'political correctness' is not a relatively recent term. It apparently stems from Stalin era Soviet Russia and the Eastern bloc where, should you wish to remain untouched or, ideally, progress in your career you had to be deemed by the party to be 'politically correct'. This exceedingly brave, upstanding learned gentleman would not have been deemed to be 'politically correct' in Stalin's Russia I'm afraid.....
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  129. Under UK law now hate speech is effectively what the subject defines it as. Basically if you 'believe' you've been the victim of 'a hate crime' then you have. I kid you not. This helps to explain why England and Wales had over 130k incidents of 'hate crime' reported in 2021 whereas the entire USA had under 10k that year. It also helps to explain why over 90% of actual crimes go unsolved in the UK as our police forces are spending an inordinate amount of time recording, investigating and prosecuting these types of subjectively defined 'crimes' rather than actual crimes.
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  130. When, EXACTLY, did subscribing to a religion of ANY kind suddenly permit someone to describe themselves as being part of 'a people' or 'race'?
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  131. Hitchens echoes the point that's been made repeatedly for years about Western cherry picked moral relativism vs moral absolutism. Little wonder that much of the world outside the West, certainly in terms of sheer numbers, refuses to outright condemn Russia's actions in Ukraine.
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  132. Yep. You'll notice how seamlessly ACC proponents segue from one to the other deliberately conflating the two. One is bleeding obvious, shameful and undeniable, the other is highly debatable and currently amounts to a highly profitable for some article of faith. Can you guess which one is which?
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  133. All these years I genuinely never understood the alleged genius of Seinfeld. I'm feeling more than a little vindicated now.
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  134. Great interview. Goodwin on point. The old British elites, though far from perfect, could best be described as far more benignly paternalistic than today's. There was still very much a sense of shared values and a shared future, whereas today's really only show contempt for those 'below' them and toward the very idea of being 'British' any longer. I find this particularly distasteful when you'll hear them quite cheerfully waxing lyrical about the richness, sophistication and beauty of European cultures and histories say whilst they so very clearly despise their own and feel extremely comfortable, nay superior, in doing so. David Goodhart's summary of the Brexit vote as a vote between the competing interests of the Somewheres vs the Anywheres neatly described what has been going on here.
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  135. Fully identified within an hour too?? If he wasn't on a criminal database how was this possible? If it were his parents where and when did they ID him?
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  136. Posie Parker? Good on ya.
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  137. What I find bizarre, particularly as this question was asked (and settled) just over 8 years ago of the Scottish people in a 'once in a generation referendum, is why ScotNats are intent on asking it yet again secure in the knowledge that it could deliver a roughly 50/50 split result either way. This is, at its heart, a hugely divisive, reckless move by Sturgeon that can only sow bitterness and rancour.
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  138. Since his election, Trump has been the lightning rod for all America's ills for many. Win or lose, those ills will not go away. The so-called 'liberals' have, through there ceaseless hounding of Trump, created a seriously dangerous precedent for American democracy.
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  139. The Bible isn't a title deed.
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  140. Two titans IMHO.
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  141. I worked throughout 'the pandemic' seven days a week providing food for those who couldn't or wouldn't access supermarkets. Throughout it was quite apparent that some (but not all) of the laptop classes and elderly apparently believed that they were somehow selflessly saving lives through their actions. Never once did it occur to them that had a good many of the working classes adopted their exact same attitudes (or been able to) then there would have been zero food on the shelves and no vital services for them to avail themselves of. Covid taught me a helluva a lot about human nature in a short space of time and most of it wasn't good sadly.
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  142. Worth mentioning that the once also wayward Sach's granddaughter forgave Brand (though not Ross who has not apologized) for that granted shameful episode. He apologized profoundly and later paid for her to enter rehab. An act which she believes likely saved her life.
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  143. The Nazis didn't lose WW2, they just relocated.
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  144. Yep. And truly wicked.
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  145. Being on the side of what is right and what is decent sometimes feels like a thankless task and one the hardest things in the world. Just imagine for one second what the world would be like if we didn't have people like this brave, brave woman.
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  146. The US led West simultaneously urges Iran to show restraint and then, just as with Russia, views any restraint as a sign of weakness. They're damned if they do and damned if they don't basically.
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  147. 'The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.' Salman Rushdie
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  148. Shame Foster is no longer leader of the DUP. Smart woman. Far, far smarter than most of her peers.
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  149. Murray is a mighty brave man.
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  150. Macron is about to embody the phrase, 'be careful what you wish for'.
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  151. For the love of God just leave people be.
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  152. Don't know why Neil is nodding in agreement with Shriver's pithy assessment of the utter catastrophe and shameful piece of political theatre that was lockdowns. If memory serves he'd have had us all frog marched down to the centres and held down to be jabbed if he'd had his way.
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  153. I personally consider myself to be a natural Labour voter. Thank you for articulating so perfectly why I have never voted for them since I have been able.
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  154. Not quite the same thing as Farage's individual case but Gina Miller, quite rightly, also now asking questions as to why her party was refused a bank account by Monzo with no proper explanation offered at the time. Ditto Tice's Reform, I recall, by Metro. If these banks have certain policies ie they don't and won't bank trusts, charities, political parties or whatever then they should say up front and save everyone a load of time, grief and potential problems elsewhere.
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  155. James Lovelock might be long dead, but he did admit to being alarmist about climate change in the past, previously predicting billions of deaths and humanity only surviving by moving to the Arctic. “The problem is we don’t know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books – mine included – because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn’t happened,” Lovelock said.
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  156. Yep. And they should be called out for it. History is littered with 'good' people believing at the time that they're on the right side of it when they very clearly aren't.
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  157. Communism and fascism aren't at the opposing ends of two poles, they are rather more like the two points that almost, but don't quite meet on a horseshoe.
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  158. The ladder puller upper extraordinaire.
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  159. There's no real rhyme nor reason to its algorithm it seems to me. People say the most shocking things and there they stay and yet frequently have I typed things that I would regard as factual, verifiable often innocuous statements and they're removed. Emoting, positively or negatively regardless of the issue, seems to be acceptable as long as actual facts or points of contention aren't included. It's incredibly frustrating as it either intentionally or unintentionally squashes debate.
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  160. This is a great discussion. Too sad, that so few people will get to hear it. Where we are was inevitable and our politicians and our institutions bear the bulk of responsibility for it.
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  161. I'm ashamed to say that I live in a country that is patently on the wrong side of history. Truly depressing.
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  162. Kids read this stuff and read it for what it is. They're mostly sweet, whimsical tales. Why does everything 'good' have to continue to be picked apart in this manner?
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  163. Patrick is living proof that people often pay a price for their non-conformity - particularly in the immediate sense - and why the path of least resistance is so often most people's first choice. The fact that there might be unforseen negative consequences for making that choice and only 'potentially' positive ones for those who do doubtless informs these on-balance choices. It is, in effect, the choice between the tangible and the intangible, instant guaranteed gratification vs delayed unguaranteed gratification.
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  164. Same here.
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  165. 'We're in danger of leaving an evidenced based world' Andrew Neil certainly left it when it came to covid and the jabs. He's sure got a brassneck this one.
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  166. Meanwhile, in this parallel universe which we live it is Iran who is being told not to escalate this conflict????
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  167. Good journalism is about digging, and often digging hard, to find the best version of the truth that you can possibly find based on the evidence available before presenting it to your audience in good faith. Though previously an admirer, Fraser Myers seems to have forgotten this fundamental principle as evidenced by his exchange on GB News with MP Andrew Bridgen the other day. Bridgen didn't exactly perform brilliantly IMHO, but Myers' 'la la la, not listening and not interested' reaction in relation to the facts presented did his professional reputation no favours I'm afraid.
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  168. Mortgages account for, I believe, around 80% of the new money created in the UK economy each year. They are now, more than ever, integral to the UK economy. Money is debt and mortgages are the economy's turbocharged wellspring. The last thing a UK government wants is enough housing with everyone securely, comfortably and affordably housed. Mortgage lending is the 'engine' of our debt based economy. The 2008 financial crisis proved that.
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  169. Illegal migration has become a darkly cynical political football throughout the wealthy West. Any objections or simple calls for at least some level of control have long been cynically reduced to charges of naked 'racism' by the perennial virtue signallers of the well to do left. All the more ironic given that it always most impacts the poorer ends of society in terms of wage suppression and increased competition for limited resources like jobs, housing, education, access to health etc and largely serves to benefit its upper echelons without them directly experiencing any of its downsides.
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  170.  @lisamills161  Maybe, but then are you saying that it's better that nobody knows about it? I've know this for years and once I found out it completely changed my perspective on politics and how the world works. This is so much bigger than Neil Oliver, but would you rather it just got put back in its box and it never saw the light of day again?
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  171. Maybe I'm paranoid but why did Glen scratch his neck there when he was talking about sending secret video signals?🤔😁
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  172. MLK cornered the market on this definition years ago... content of someone's character etc How much melanin you have in your skin has got f*ck all to do with the price of fish. There are good people and there are bad people and lots in between, but if society actively allows you to constantly weaponise your skin shade then it's often just another in for bad actors, splitters and race grifters. Bombshell, but most people in the UK seriously aren't 'racist'. Most have far more real and pressing everyday concerns, but having this endless identitarian sh*t constantly pushed down their throats doesn't help. Lots of people from across so-called 'racial divide' are rightly concerned about the affects of unchecked mass immigration and that is a perfectly acceptable POV, particularly if they're the ones constantly and directly on the sharp end of its downsides. Let's, please, have a more grown up nuanced debate about this rather than forever reducing it to the colour of someone's skin.
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  173. Le Pen probably dodged a bullet here, but maybe doesn't quite yet feel she has in the moment.
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  174. What used to be called 'weather' is now called 'climate change'. The former largely untameable and unpredictable, a force of Nature, and the latter apparently controllable, preventable and apparently man-made. Capitalism can be a dynamic force for positive or negative change, but the one thing that is common to either is the ability of some to monetize and profit, often significantly, from those changes if enough people buy into them.
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  175. The electricity metering reference is an interesting one here. From salt to corn to fossil fuels governments will tax whatever they think they can get away with basically and those who get to own and control those things will endeavour to maximize the price they can charge for them at a price the populace and so-called 'market' will bear in cahoots with government. All the better if those things are deemed to be fundamental to our existence and used by pretty much everyone. There's a reason why electricity in India is about 0.05p per Kw/h and in the UK it's currently around 34p on average, nevermind the additional standing charge.
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  176. Nail on head. "Culture is about appropriation. It's how we grow." The English language is the most successful language in the world precisely because it is so adaptable and far more adaptable than others. Other cultures 'appropriate' it and adapt it to their own needs.
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  177. Mysteriously, Sleepy Joe seems to have completely ignored his paternal historical links with England.... ...and for that we can all remain eternally grateful. Mercifully spared his dewy eyed jabberings . Knob.
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  178. And they're sometimes found in the most unexpected places.
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  179. Guest is 100% right there. Banks are the antithesis of propriety and this BS is little more than a highly useful, highly conspicuous distraction from much of their usual far shadier dealings.
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  180. Great interview.
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  181.  @laurenceBDontYaNo Er, because we've actually left and left as the result of democratic vote. A simple majority democratic vote the rules of which everyone understood before it took place. Had it gone the other way, even by the same margin, those who voted to leave would have accepted the result. Old fashioned to some, but it's kinda how democracy works.
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  182. Not sure he's correct at the beginning there. Lovelock originally predicted billions of deaths and the small remnants of humanity surviving only by moving to the Arctic. In an interview in 2012, a telephone interview with MSNBC, he said, “The problem is we don’t know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books – mine included – because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn’t happened,” Lovelock said. “The climate is doing its usual tricks. There’s nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now,” he said.
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  183. Tony Timpa, who was white and died in similar circumstances to Floyd's earlier in 2016, never received the attention that Floyd's death drew. In fact his death at the hands of Dallas police officers only really came to people's attention latterly because of the Floyd case. Nor did his family receive the compensation or justice that the Floyd family received. Ryan Mills, writing in the National Review noted that, "There was no national uproar after Timpa's death. No national cries for justice and reform. The city of Dallas paid no settlement to Timpa's family." - Wiki
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  184. I'd be SO angry with the West if I were Ukrainian.
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  185. German Greens possibly advocating nuclear and coal fired power stations? Speaks volumes about the decadence of Western political thinking that.
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  186. I'm certainly not anti-nuclear, but the French nuclear plants built in the 70s and 80s, initially spurred by the 70s oil crisis, are now experiencing serious legacy build quality issues. This had not been helped by the fact that they were all built in a relatively short time span, on similar specs using similar, often poor quality materials.
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  187. To be honest, we're incredibly lucky in the West that, thus far, Russia has been so restrained in the face of extreme provocation.
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  188. Well said, as ever, George.
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  189. De Gaulle, whom I'm no great fan of but no-one can deny that he wasn't a French patriot, basically said that politics was rarely ever a simple choice between right and wrong and more between two bad options and choosing the least worst. Europe has, or at least its grandstanding politicians have, stupidly chosen to make the worst possible choice of all here. Barring a commonsense miracle, it's going to be a long, hard winter for many of us and perhaps beyond. Dumb.
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  190. Nellie Bowles' main redeeming feature is her knockout smile but beyond that I wouldn't trust her further than I could throw her. Her and her partner Bari Weiss are well suited.
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  191. “Open the pod bay doors, HAL.” “I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that,”
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  192. This is essentially child abuse being sanctioned by the state, its institutions and its so-called professionals. Unaddressed psychological issues aside, deciding to fundamentally and irreversibly change who you are when you're a consenting adult might be one thing, but doing so when you're a child effectively with the support/coercion of the state is entirely another.
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  193. ​ @Thorsted67 It certainly makes one wonder. The sad fact is that most of us have good intentions and this is what we're trying to avoid and yet it appears that this is precisely what others are trying to invoke.
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  194. 'If Jews born in Brooklyn have a right to a state in Palestine, then Palestinians born in Jerusalem have a right to a state in Palestine." Christopher Hitchens.
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  195. As the old saying goes, 'Anyone who wants to be politician shouldn't be allowed'.
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  196. Lineker has been happy to take the pieces of silver offered from Walker's owner Pepsico since 1994 which doesn't exactly have a stellar ethics or human rights record and nor could one argue that it's selling products that are exactly compatible with a healthy lifestyle or aren't aimed at predominantly younger people in an age of recognised spiralling obesity. He was also happy to take a king's ransom from Qatar between 2009 and 2013 presenting part-time for Al Jazeera, but he obviously had an epiphany more recently on its holding of the World Cup there although it didn't stop him entirely.... He's now worth an estimated £30m so it's hardly surprising that he feels all but untouchable, but Lineker is just another wretched celebrity example of someone who can afford to hold what are essentially 'luxury values'. Hopefully the BBC will ditch him and any of those who've yoked themselves to his self serving virtue signalling caravan and he can bugger off and become a social influencer and say whatever he likes. He won't get the audience and he won't get the prestige, but he'll likely get way more of the money he clearly loves than he would at the BBC and most of us will be largely spared from his ill-inforned headline grabbing smug blatherings in future.
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  197. ​ @sabinereynaudsf Like how to spell CIA?
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  198. Interesting to hear that companies which invested in vaccine development during previous coronavirus outbreaks like SARS lost money when they fizzled out before they could be administered.
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  199. Where on God's earth would you find 'a medical practitioner' with a shred of human decency to perform these barbaric acts?
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  200. Referring to someone as a rapist or murderer online or in print when they haven't been convicted of being one is not 'a right' it's actually potentially libellous.
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  201. MSM always asks the question of people like Corbyn as to whether they condemn the Hamas attack because it's the perfect damned if you do damned if you don't question designed to manufacture consent for what the IDF is now doing in Gaza. The massacre of innocents, whoever they are, can never be condoned of course regardless of context, but that was never the intended purpose of this question.
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  202. I'm amazed that we're hearing very little reported as to how the Chinese and Russians feel about this unprovoked attack.
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  203. Noticed that too, but there is a predominance, albeit personally anecdotal, that 'Remain' voters are more skewed towards this way of thinking. I remember as the Brexit debate unfurled around the 2016 referendum that one passionate, I think rather naive, prospective Remain voter proudly said to me, 'I'm much happier to live in a benign dictatorship than anything else to be honest' To which I replied, 'Dictatorships don't usually stay that benign indefinitely I'm afraid'. Still, perhaps someone should be paid vast sums of money, from the public purse naturally, to look into this?
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  204. Me neither. I lived in and went to college in West London in the early 90s. Lots of black and brown faces there and 'race' - I hate that word - was never an issue really. The two coolest kids on campus were 'Indian' fellas. Perhaps the only instance I recall was that during that time I had a Sikh Indian girlfriend who swore she could never tell her father that she was going out with 'a white boy'. No biggie. Found it a little odd, but didn't have a major problem with it. She had her reasons and it made no real difference to us at the time as we were both living away from home.
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  205.  @Jean-rg4sp  I've just let Google know. I'll let you know when they rectify things.
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  206. Nice to see a voice of reason on this for a change. It should be a bleeding obvious statement that, but there's always someone out there desperately trying to virtue signal. It's the curse of our modern age.
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  207. 'The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.' - C S Lewis.
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  208. I'd vote with my feet if I were you and leave. I've just left the SDP as they were and have admitted in writing to shadow banning my posts despite making such a song and dance about the importance of free speech. I strongly suspect they're ALL at it.
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  209. Supporting Ukraine has "become an article of faith that you are a good person'' for Western politicians. Couldn't have put it better Freddie. And it's not just our politicians either.
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  210. Bit of a cart before the horse argument that one. Are you seriously implying that the continued existence of NATO ideologically pretty much in its unadulterated pre-Soviet collapse Cold War form with Russia as its raison d'etre has got nothing to do with this?
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  211. This is why an open internet is SO vital and why there are constant moves afoot to try and control it often under the disingenuous claim of disinformation prevention. Imagine how many conflicts and deaths might have been prevented pre-internet had more people been more cogniscent of what was actually going on?
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  212. The US Constitution is not there to protect the government from its people but the people from their government.
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  213. Great recent Short showing Starmer being shown the pub door in Bath for this very reason. Utter humiliation.
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  214. The central problem and contradiction here facing all minorities and therefore us all is that some people want to constantly draw attention to what should be a small aspect of what makes them 'different', perhaps even demanding special dispensations because of it, whilst demanding that they be treated and viewed exactly the same as the majority at the exact same time. In short, it's an impossible circle to square.
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  215. It's not called lawfare for nothing. NY came up with the recent law specifically to pursue Trump in the civil sexual assault case. Thus far he's the only person who's been prosecuted under it, funnily enough, which is why the state is desperately pleading for more women more generally to come forward in order to justify its existence and presumably to make it look less obvious. There is, I believe, some sort of window in effect whereby if the law isn't used again by others it will cease to be. By then, of course, it will already have long done its job....
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  216. The BoE 'moment' last week was a major central bank moving in to prop up the UK pension market as it tried to sell its plummeting in value bonds in market where no-one was buying after an effective margin call. Yes, it was triggered by an insane 'mini budget' move by the UK government, but it doesn't change the fact that those Defined Benefit pensions were highly precariously funded and vulnerable in first place. To imagine that similar scenarios in various otherareas aren't occurring across the vastly indebted financial world is fanciful.
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  217. Tblisi, Georgia's capital, has a street named after George W. Bush and some wanted to name one after Sen. John McCain ffs. Nuff said.
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  218. It's OK! Everybody stop!! Keir Starmer has just called for 'peace and stability'.
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  219. He has done and said some daft things too, but I would still agree with you.
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  220. Give me 8 to 10 years and, if I last that long, I suspect I'll look like Rod Liddle. Only difference being no-one will give a flying f*ck what my opinion is on anything.😁
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  221. Presumably UK exporters can align their products' specifications to whatever market they're exporting into in order to comply with their rules?
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  222. In a way this gets right to the heart of why the BBC has become a problem in so many people's eyes. It arguably began during the Paxman era, perhaps before, whereby 'personalities' felt that rather than just doing the jobs well that they were paid well to do like the 'show don't tell' Days and Waldens of the previous era they then felt that the audiences somehow needed to know where they stood on any given subject all the time. I accept it can be a fine line, but fast forward to today and one can't turn on the BBC without feeling that one is being preached to all the time about something or other. Lineker is, I feel, one of the last stands at the OK Corral for the BBC if it wishes to very belatedly reassert its journalistic integrity and professed neutrality.
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  223. This is of course tragic and deep sympathies to the families of these hostages, but why would Hamas have killed them after all this time? They were worth far more alive to them than dead surely?
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  224. President Yanukovych was the democratically elected leader of Ukraine when he was deposed in 2014 during the Maidan protests. A protest with known far-groups in evidence. He was elected in what were judged by independent international observers as free and fair elections at the time. Victoria Nuland's recorded phone conversation with US ambassador to Ukraine Pyatt tells us all enough about what we need to know about what was going on.
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  225. The USD still remains the least worst looking horse in the global glue factory.
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  226. Not to deny that bigotry doesn't exist, but we mustn't forget that many of these darkly cynically engineered grievances can actually distract from other, far bigger, wider societal ills and that they are so often just lucrative grifts for those individuals and organisations that insist on propagating them.
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  227. You don't have to be championing Putin or his actions in Ukraine or elsewhere in order to see the far greater sense in putting an end to this war. A war that should never have started. Deliberately conflating things has become a modern day ruse whereby arguing for x automatically apparently means you're condoning y when this so often clearly isn't the case.
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  228. The hottest temperature ever officially recorded anywhere in the world was in Death Valley. It was 56.667 degrees celsius or 134 Fahrenheit way back in 1913. According to The Guardian on 20th July 2023 Death Valley is one of the, 'hottest places in the world' and it, 'reached at least 121F (49.4C)' this week. A 71 year old man just died there and apparently, “Heat may have been a factor in his death,” ...officials said in a press release. So, some way to go then in our ever warming world to match that 1913 record and it looks like Laura with her 'Truth Illusory Effect' is bang on the money..
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  229. JR is an amazing and fascinating storyteller but that doesn't make him either right or wrong. Basically we're ALL at liberty to pick and choose what he says. Unfortunately there's always an element of the Life of Brian's crowd looking for the Messiah and ALL the right answers. Remember, 'we're ALL individuals'.😊
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  230. Both Syria and Ukraine, as Mearsheimer would say, have been led down the primrose path.
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  231. Stephen Cohen is sadly missed. A great mind.
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  232. Really just goes to show how elastic some people's principles are. A principle is sometimes something you adhere to in spite of yourself. This, if nothing else, has shown many of them them up for the grifters they really are.
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  233. The mRNA vaccines now being recommended for use in young people, a group that statistics decisively show are barely remotely vulnerable to the serious effects of covid, the Pfizer, the Moderna, the Curevax and Walvax ones, are mRNA vaccines which essentially employs a relatively novel delivery technology that was hitherto 'unsuccessful' in the numerous, disparate applications in which it had been tested over the decades and, though around for twenty years or so, had remained resolutely globally unlicensed until December 2020, right up until the advent of covid last year... These aren't some nutty, out there, tin foil hat claims. It's actual, unassailable, verifiable fact, so if YouTube see fit to challenge this assertion I'd love to know why.
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  234. US using Nato is playing a zero sum game against Russia with Europe at the forefront.
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  235. Fully complicit.
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  236. So often the very premise of a question is not challenged nowadays. What, exactly, IS 'a jew' for example? 'Jews' aren't exactly a homogeneous bunch of genetically similar people any more than 'whites' or 'blacks' are and yet we're all expected to fully accept the premise that they are and whatever, good or ill, comes from that extremely dodgy premise. The rabbi, I thought, was really great until the very end when Chris challenged him on Corbyn's alleged anti-Semitic views where he flapped and floundered and admitted to his limited knowledge. Views Corbyn, at least officially, was cleared of advancing incidentally and led to him being effectively erased from the Labour Party and yet most people STILL cheerfully and fully associate him with in part thanks to this gentleman's above previous ill-informed pronouncements.
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  237. The now unelected Zelensky who allegedly decided this is no longer the legitimate leader of Ukraine ergo he is, by definition, not a democrat and Ukraine is no longer democratic.
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  238. Don't forget CO2 only makes up 0.04% of the atmosphere. Water vapour makes up to 4% and is a far greater greenhouse gas, but we can't do anything about it basically. With that in mind, CO2 been rising from around 280ppm at the beginning of the industrial revolution to over 400 ppm today. And that's if you fully trust the science and also the absolute accuracy of the temperature measurements going back then. A correlation has been made between carbon based fossil fuels use, this rising CO2 concentration and relatively modest, gradual temperature rises in Earthly terms. Look at the carbon dioxide record from the Vostok ice cores. Temperature-wise we're on an upward trajectory sure, but in the last few million years the earth the earth is a helluva lot cooler than it has been and CO2 levels are way lower. Climate change is a grift, an article of faith or both.
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  239.  @torengallagher8368  Case in point. My reply to you has disappeared.
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  240. The right to free speech is ultimately there to protect those with whom you disagree not those with whom you agree. What I'm seeing more and more are people, and not just in the USA, willing to see what should be inalienable free speech rights suppressed simply on the basis that don't agree with what is being said. THAT tells you all you need to know about what is going on here.
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  241. ​ @Mob135 On current evidence you're both right
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  242. Yep. The Somewheres vs the Anywheres and the Anywheres won. It's no surprise that we've apparently grown steadily wealthier as a country, but that wealth creation has been being steadily concentrated at the top and the alleged benefits not felt by those at the bottom. Quite the reverse in fact. This is why GDP is such a disingenuous metric of growth. Designed to hide much more than it shows.
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  243. You don't have to an apologist for Putin to realise that this war was agitated for by the West and should never have happened in the first place. Innocent Ukrainians and Russians are the main victims here. A bloody waste.
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  244. Particularly good episode this.
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  245. "WELCOME TO SCOTLAND: HATE CRIME CAPITAL OF THE WORLD" Great sign, Freddy.
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  246. She's a very good interviewer. Balance just right. Show, don't tell. Just goes to show how bad most of the others are.
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  247. People seem to forget that a still economically broken, but still militarily powerful Russia around 1994 made positive noises around joining NATO. Though many Europeans were reportedly keen on the idea the US dismissed the idea out of hand.
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  248. Just for the record J6 was a riot not the 'armed insurrection' that is often deliberately mischaracterised as.
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  249. This aged like milk. I was under the illusion that Young Turks used to refer to rebellious insurgent types not a bunch of bedwetting establishment shills like these two.
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  250. Hebrew, pretty much up until the foundation of Israel in 1948, was essentially only an ancient written language not actually spoken. It was only after 1948 that there was a concerted effort in the new state of Israel to turn it into an everyday spoken language.
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  251. Not just Germany, we ALL, both in Europe and the US, have much to be ashamed of both in terms of Ukraine and Gaza.
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  252. It was certainly a mistake for Bridgen to reference the Holocaust like that. Daft. The rest of what he said wasn't remotely daft. Still, much more comfortable for most people to talk about about his ill-judged comparison than the actual facts of his speech.
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  253. Just as nobody has the monopoly on wisdom, nobody has the monopoly on stupidity either. These two are both deeply flawed, less than savoury individuals with their own axes to grind, but that doesn't make them wrong on everything either. People need to learn to park their personal prejudices at the door and take what people say on their merits, not on what their opinion is of those individuals themselves.
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  254. No such thing, but it strikes me as more reliable than most.
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  255. How many of these peoples in Europe were actually given referenda on joining NATO and how many were simply bounced into it by their political elites off the back of some alleged threat?
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  256. Mandelson: The Mince of Darkness.
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  257.  @pinkpanter1208f  They're an estranged family where his ex-wife and kids don't share his 'left wing politics'. My wife and kids don't exactly share mine. Where's the proof of Arab money?
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  258. You can't on the one hand defend free speech and fight the policing of thought crime and then on the other endorse it when it disagrees with your position. Words and thoughts are not actions. The law, and it is quite clear, should be there to protect everyone from the threat of actual physical harm not rigidly police what people might say, think and believe.
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  259. Good on you.
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  260. Still struggling to understand just what it is US and Nato are playing at here in the grand scheme of things and how they believe that it can possibly end well???
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  261. Netanyahu doesn't want a ceasefire and never did. One of the reasons why Netanyahu actively seeks out Hamas negotiators and kills them even amidst negotiations. If this 'war' ever ends then his own troubles will only just be beginning and he knows this. He, along with his wife, is up for serious corruption charges. Hence the reason for his desperate attempts pre-October 7 to 'reform' Israel's judiciary. This, for those of a more conspiratorial bent, raises further questions....
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  262. Why on God's earth should your profession define your politics? If your politics doesn't fit the majority mindset of your profession why should you effectively be deprived of your right to practise it?
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  263. ​ @proselytizingorthodoxpente8304 So these places are, presumably, infinitely better today than they were before specifically thanks to US interventions to your mind? Point being that invading other countries, often under proven entirely false pretexts, for your own ends isn't a good look nevermind particularly pleasant for those on the receiving end of it.
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  264. Has the Syrian thorn in both Turkey's and Israel's side truly been 'taken out' by HTS's success and Assad's overthrow?
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  265. Some journalists still care about just that, journalism. Call it an art or a craft, people like Rod Liddell clearly just care about it for what it is ie not a blunt tool of propaganda to bludgeon people into submission with.
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  266. The harsh lesson to be learnt here is that 'the state's' interests aren't necessarily (and very often aren't) in the interests of the majority of its citizens.
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  267. JDV's artful Munich speech, despite not being entirely without merit in its criticisms of Europe, was effectively a massive red herring cynically designed to deflect attention away from the US's central integral role in fomenting, funding and arming the Ukrainian proxy war for years. Notably, for a such a summit on European security, he didn't mention Ukraine once and there's a VERY obvious reason for that.
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  268. Not a Conservative voter myself, but given what's left of the runners it's fast looking like Kemi is the best bet. Brave and outspoken without being crass like her predecessor.
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  269. In a democratic system freedom of choice is paramount.... The way round this, of course, is to ensure that there's very little to choose between the deliberately restricted choices on offer. THAT is the MO used as a sop to placate those naïve enough to actually believe they still live in 'liberal' democracies.
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  270. Nice to see two people from different sides of the political spectrum have a respectful conversation with each other and, just as importantly, make each other laugh.
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  271. The bank bailouts of 2008 marked a Damascene moment for me both politically and economically. It was socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor I'm afraid and nothing I've seen since has changed my mind one iota.
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  272. If governments effectively keep giving ever more money to already rich people in order to keep these equity and asset bubbles inflated - that's where much of the damaging inflation is - then something has to give somewhere in the system. Any 'growth' we're seeing is largely an illusion and mainly just benefits the relatively wealthy few. Trouble is this is then used as the excuse for wider tax rises, as we've seen recently with NI increases, and raises the prospect of ever more cuts in public spending in order to allegedly balance the books.
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  273. "Natwaste". He said that on purpose.
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  274. Simple. Ever more desperate people scrambling for less and less affordable housing helps to make them hungrier (in both senses of the word) and helps to drive up the costs of the properties they're all forced to fight each other for. It's social and financial engineering at its worst and ugliest and unfortunately we have long had a constituency in the UK that's long become addicted to the ability to make money from money in their sleep.
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  275. Two brave men. Good on yer both.
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  276. The prevailing low interest rate environment off the back of 2008 has been a serious error of judgement from central banks and was always going to bite us on the bum eventually. Factor in QE, covid and Ukraine and it starts to look reckless if not borderline criminal. 'Financial wizard ' Bernanke, along with a good many Nobel winners incidentally, should be handing back his award with immediate effect.
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  277. Shout out for Glenn Greenwald and George Galloway also.
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  278. Not doublechecked but according to AI overview, 'The US military industrial complex is a significant part of the US manufacturing industry, accounting for over 60% of the total. The US defense industrial base is made up of over 200,000 companies, including large corporations and smaller businesses'.
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  279.  @KeithWilliamMacHendry  Speaking as a unionist I always found much to admire, as highly effective politicians at least, about both Sturgeon and Salmond. Sturgeon proved to be pretty abysmal in actual government however and what she and Murrell cooked up against Salmond, a broadly principled man I believe, should haunt them to their graves.
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  280.  @markhutton6055  For over two decades Russian leaders from Gorbachev to Yeltsin and now Putin warned about the West meddling with the status of Ukraine and Georgia. If you're interested - many are not, and simplistically like to see this as a struggle for freedom and democracy - US International Relations academic John Mearsheimer outlines the long established roots of this conflict. A conflict he has been warning about for many, many years.
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  281. THAT'S a monumental understatement sadly, but I concur with your sentiments.
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  282.  @H4CK61  Tax avoidance is not tax evasion. Everyone and anyone tries to mitigate the tax they have to pay to the state and Benn was no different. I'm sure you wouldn't be either. He did not act improperly ie he acted within the law and that's nevermind the widely held, wilfully misleading mistaken belief that our collected taxes somehow directly go to pay for things. They don't. Wishing to see a fairer more distributive tax system as Benn once did whilst in office is not the same thing. If he can be criticised for anything it is that he left literally everything in his fortune to his family and bugger all to the various causes he supported throughout his life.
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  283. Isn't that extreme reaction to covid ie falling down escalators for fear of holding on to the handrail just Darwinian selection?
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  284. The US choosing (or not choosing) to use its own strategic reserve of weapons in order to fund their foreign misadventures presents quite a politically sensitive conundrum. Not that US politicians would ever talk about it openly and nor would its complicit media, but they are now effectively rendering the 'Land of the Free' itself arguably more vulnerable in pursuit of their fomented wars in the Ukraine and the Middle East.
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  285. We're all tempted by or guilty of overusing the word 'populism', but it's basically an insult thrown at anyone whom we disagree with nowadays. Like the words 'Nazi', 'Fascist' or 'racist' it's been overused and abused to the point where it's fast becoming meaningless.
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  286. Best summed up by, 'When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals.’ - Edward Snowden
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  287. And apparently that's still either controversial to say or studiously ignored sadly. Who'd've thought that 'saving lives' - the average age of a 'with covid' death remains at 83 - would have proved so costly both economically and socially? I certainly did.
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  288. Pick up any halfway decent dictionary and you will find separate completely different definitions of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism and yet, apparently, this is STILL a controversial statement.
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  289. The one thing that almost everyone says you can rely upon when it comes to dealing with Erdogan is that he's completely unreliable. He's a chancer and a survivor, but one day his luck will run out.
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  290. And so the existential battle between the Somewheres vs the Anywheres enters its next phase.
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  291. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, I'm a data analyst.
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  292. Very eloquent young man with a lot of value to add.
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  293. It's a well known fact now that in the UK both Chinese and Indian ethnic groups, relative to their size, are far more likely to achieve more highly academically and professionally than indigenous UK whites. Black, Bangladeshi and Pakistani people far less so. This automatic assumption that these outcomes must be purely down to 'white-led racism' as opposed to other cultural factors is utterly absurd.
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  294. Nonce Sense.
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  295. Journalists no longer supporting freedom of speech and of the press? Who'd've thunk it. At least they've had the decency to finally let us know for sure what many of us long suspected.
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  296. When exactly did having immigration controls and an actual immigration policy become a racist concept I wonder? Immigration isn't automatically either just a good or a bad thing, but that doesn't mean that it shouldn't be subject to proper oversight according to a country's needs and that defining those needs shouldn't be constantly debated.
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  297. I know! Can't believe Biden is STILL getting away with it.
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  298. Brilliant show. Only thing I would disagree with regarding identity and people's 'rights' to claim to be something they're patently not or it stretches credulity is that it has been allowed to become weaponised. That's the point. Playing along with someone's role playing or delusion, be it out of kindness, humour or whatever, is not the same thing as forcing everyone to believe in what they can see and know to be a lie. Worse still, when that 'identity' is 'fluid' and can effectively change from one moment to the next on a person's whim and people are still forced to play along for fear of being called an oppressor or worse then we know that something has gone well and truly wrong in the world we live in. Little wonder that it is often called 'the post-truth' world.
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  299. Speaking as someone who never enjoys sport but can still see its social and economic purpose, either sport transcends politics or it doesn't and if it doesn't then it's lost its purpose. The habit of turning literally everything into a virtue signalling opportunity nowadays is becoming beyond tiresome.
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  300. I'm not dismissing him out of hand, but this chap definitely talks a good game. If he could bottle and sell his self-assuredness he'd be a zillionaire. He reminds me of another great Trigger guest, Jim Rickards. Fascinating to listen to, supremely intelligent, vastly knowledgeable and a great storyteller but, as ever, I still subscribe to the old adage that, ultimately, in the grand scheme of things, nobody really knows anything.
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  301. The parallels between the US Democrats and the UK Labour Party are uncanny.
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  302. America: The richest poor country in the world.
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  303. Both Norman Finkelstein and Chas Freeman are the good guys.
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  304. The grass is always greener, but it still needs mowing.
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  305. Great to see him get so obviously animated over Newsom and keen to take him on in a face to face debate.
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  306.  @afritimm  Opinions vary on who exactly broke the Minsk agreement depending on whom you ask, but it's notable that Germany's Merkel, as one of the brokers of that agreement along with France, recently claimed that it was only ever designed to buy Ukraine time, presumably prior to a Russian invasion. Another point of note is that the Budapest Memorandum was signed in 1994 after prior promises were made and noted, recorded in the US National Security Archive I believe, to Gorbachev by James Baker that NATO would not move one inch further to the east after Gorbachev agreed to the Soviet military not intervening in the collapsing East Germany. The 'Ukrainian' nuclear warheads that it surrendered to Russia for decommissioning as result of that memorandum were, to all intents and purposes, property of the Russian state and were effectively useless anyway as they did not have the necessary Russian codes to use them. Now call me old fashioned but the 2008 Nato declaration paving the way for Ukraine and Georgia's accession to Nato was a deliberately provocative act as was the well-documented US CIA led attempt at regime change in 2014 that led to the Maidan massacre. No one comes out of this smelling of roses, but the original sin here looks to me as if it began in the 1990s when the US, starting with Clinton, and the West generally started to treat the end of the Cold War as some kind of victory over the former Soviet Union to be exploited to the max. We are reaping the bitter seeds of that hubris and shortsightedness today.
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  307. If true Rob's a Knob then isn't he.
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  308.  @petermclelland278  Can't reach everyone.
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  309.  @victoralejandrotrimmerestr3672  I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt on that absurd remark and assume you're being sarcastic.
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  310. The sheer fact that so many people still aren't sure about who did this much less even care is the most worrying aspect of this.
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  311. All or nothing, throwing the baby out with the bathwater, you're either with me or against me etc Trouble is in today's societies all nuance has been lost in terms of debate.
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  312. ​ @freyatilly (Or)well?
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  313. FOI request to SW ambulance services who attended Sturgess address asking for a recording or transcript and who made the call that fateful day was refused. Merely reported they were 'found' by emergency services.
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  314. I thought exactly the same thing. He's not 'a bit of a hardliner' as he claims when it comes to vaccines. He IS a hardliner. Covid so very obviously is not smallpox and when we're arguably on the cusp of forcing people to have a 'vaccine' which is clearly nothing of the kind ie Israel is about to deploy it for the fourth time in a matter of months with questionable effect, then one has to ask whether it should just be called 'a jab' from hereon in. Starkey definitely seems a little confused here. Lockdowns are to his mind completely morally unacceptable and the tool of the elites but only on the basis that everyone must first be forced to have said 'vaccination' in the first place and then willingly submit without question to multiple untold applications thereon after with no end in sight.
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  315. This is a person who just wants to do their job to the best of their ability. Bravo, Glen.
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  316. How could this be anything other than what it appears to be? NYT shame on you.
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  317. Not just a genocidal state, but also a rogue nuclear state.
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  318. 'The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices....and, of course, Victoria Nuland.
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  319. Without Western military support it would have done.
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  320. A program on this subject is long overdue. Well done for picking up on this Chris and that scathing intro was scorching.
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  321. US economist Wray is, famously, an advocate for MMT. MMT is fine as long as the economy is forever reasonably robust, growing sufficiently to absorb the debt/money creation and isn't overly reliant on borrowing in a foreign currency as others often are. Thus far, broadly, the US for numerous reasons, including most pertinently its exorbitant privilege, is able to pursue the MMT path but that path, VERY obviously, isn't open to others. To conclude then he isn't 'wrong' per se, but what he's claiming here can really only be applied to the US and not to others for, I think, glaringly obvious reasons.
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  322.  @rebelmango2141   NATO forces went into Iraq as 'NATO' after the illegal US-led coalition invasion and bombing and remained there for years as a 'defensive alliance'? Seems like a moot point to me. Whether the NATO bombing of Libya had UN approval or not again is not relevant in terms of its status. It was effectively another Western led regime change that demonstrably caused far more harm than good. Thus, again, what exactly was NATO defending its members against in that instance? NATO's 'defensive' bombing of Belgrade, including targeting civilians, was undertaken WITHOUT UN approval. The UN did, however, approve of the US led invasion of Afghanistan and, again like Iraq, 'defensive alliance' NATO forces then ended up forming part of the occupation force. This not only raises serious questions about NATO's self-proclaimed 'defensive alliance' status it also raises suspicions about both it and the UN's role after and before these US-led 'defensive' actions have occurred.
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  323. Trump is the expert at saying the quiet parts out loud in terms of voicing genuine US foreign policy aims.
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  324. To be fair, at its most basic level, feminism was and is broadly about women achieving equality with men not about affording them unique choices. Nobody could ever promise that achieving that equality was necessarily going to be a nirvana for the vast majority of women. Within the existing paradigm it isn't for the vast majority of men so why should it be for the vast majority of women?
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  325. Modern economies thrive on exponential debt creation and punting it further and further down the road the closer it becomes due. A large proportion of that debt is created off of apparently ever increasing property and land values. If belief in that debt-based model starts to fall apart then so will the economic fundamentals that support all this froth. The uncomfortable fact is is that, globally speaking, the economy has barely grown at all since the 1970s. What has changed exponentially is the size of the debt and the lengthening terms attached to that barely changed fundamental.
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  326.  TheDaltsonDoily  We should all be responsible for our own decisions and our own actions. I've never had a problem with people having different viewpoints over this (or pretty much anything else for that matter) but once there was a concerted effort to suppress those different viewpoints and then state sanctioned mandates were touted then my opinion changed. Campbell is not personally responsible for the choices people made either before when he was advocating this jab nor after when he's started to feel uneasy about it.
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  327.  @leopoldsoderpalm-berndes3599  inflation is, by definition, an officially previously agreed overall measure of prices over a period of time. That some may go up and some down over time misses the point. A river's level may both rise and fall over the course of a year, but it's quite easy to see, all things being equal, whether it has risen overall over that time, fallen or stayed the same compared to the previous year.
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  328. She's already gone😊
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  329. I think we all have a special person in our lives like that. For me it was Tony Bliar.
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  330. We must never forget that almost invariably academia is being paid by someone somewhere to be entirely objective....
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  331. No one does branding and marketing quite like the Americans.
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  332.  @lapun47  Hardly. We're talking about human beings in both cases. For the most part civilians and innocents and, in the case of Gaza, a vastly disproportionate number of women and children. Like I said. The former is dwarfed by the latter in terms of sheer humanity lost.
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  333. 2009 onwards was as much if not more about bailing out the French and German banks through the backdoor which had recklessly lent to Greece. Greeks shouldn't be so hard on themselves and your creditors shouldn't be so lenient on themselves. You can't have an irresponsible borrower without first having an irresponsible lender.
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  334. He made specific reference to the grooming gangs and the cover up in one of his victory speeches.
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  335. ​ @pinkpanter1208f And you've been asked to provide proof of that claim.....
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  336. Aye, a proper gent.
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  337. As with everything in life always be careful what you wish for. Women's equality undoubtedly bought with it great benefits both for women and society at large, but one shouldn't ignore that there were often pretty significant downsides too.
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  338. Just read that the roughly 10% inflation experienced across much of the world today would have measured 17% in the 70s and 80s by the metrics used back then. Sobering if true.
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  339. Granted at its most rudimentary level current UK housing supply, one could and some do argue strongly, is actually entirely sufficient to meet current demand, its just who owns a disproportionate amount of that supply and gets to control the finances associated with it. The 'drastic' 20% plus fall in house prices in Germany to me actually points to a far healthier, functioning market than what we're seeing in the 'plate spinning' UK. Ultimately more healthy economically, socially and politically.
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  340. The Police have been next to useless when it comes to tackling JSO. Perhaps they're hoping for a conga photo op? They have essentially forced the public, out of sheer frustration, to resort to potentially illegal, often violent acts in order to clear the highways whose free access the police are charged with protecting. Obstructing a highway is an offence and in JSO's case it's a very clear offence. 'The offence is committed if a person without a lawful excuse or authority wilfully obstructs the free passage of the highway. The 'highway' is not just limited to roads but also includes pavements, grass verges and private property used as a public thoroughfare.' TLDR? Police DO your effing job.
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  341. Yep. It's YouTube.
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  342.  @calicocat8213 Yep. The unpublished but leaked Wolfowitz Doctrine. 'Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival, either on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere, that poses a threat on the order of that posed formerly by the Soviet Union. This is a dominant consideration underlying the new regional defense strategy and requires that we endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global power.' Subsequently rewritten by Dick Cheney of all people for public consumption because it laid a little too bare the US's blatant imperial ambitions for some.
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  343. I'm still gobsmacked that Obama still gets the free ride he largely does today.
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  344.  @Jean-rg4sp  Can't see anything, but I suspect it's because your comment has disappeared too.
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  345. Absolutely fascinating discussion.
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  346. This is driven by a toxic combination of money and misplaced compassion.
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  347. Love Chris Hedges mostly but this is a subject upon which I part company with him. Wild fires in the US have, arguably, increased since the 1950s but not exponentially according to US forestry service records according to acreage burnt. What's interesting is that by far the worst years were in the 1930s, but invariably you'll only ever see a graph showing a steady if highly erratic increase from the 1950s, but it'll be nothing compared to the early thirties which they don't show. Also notable is that there is roughly the same acreage today, if not a little more, of forest in the US than at the beginning of the 19th Century so we are, in effect, comparing like with like.
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  348. As far as I understand things, Iran has a longstanding fatwa/religious decree against developing nuclear weapons. Its primary driver for wanting to develop nuclear technologies is, I believe, as an alternative source of domestic energy. Let's not forget, amidst all of this, that only ONE country has EVER used nuclear weapons in anger - in that case deliberately on civilian Japanese populations - and that Israel's PM Golda Meir threatened to deploy Israel's nuclear weapons in the ME during the Yom Kippur war in 1973 unless Western support was forthcoming.
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  349. If I were Ukrainian I would be SO livid with the West right now.
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  350. Looks like your brother works for YouTube!! My comment's disappeared.
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  351. For someone to be constantly and predominantly defined by the colour of their skin, their ethnicity, their sexuality, their gender etc is not only offensively reductive it is also just plain dumb, whoever does it.
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  352. I demand that you ALL constantly acknowledge and create special dispensations for the fact that I'm different whilst simultaneously completely ignoring it and treating me exactly the same as you would anyone else. If that's not too much to ask?
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  353. 'We've institutionalised speculation'. Great quote.
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  354. However deep and dark the depths of depression Campbell personally sinks to they will never be deep enough or dark enough to justify his pivotal role in the Iraq war.
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  355. Labour has its mandate to govern, but it's far weaker than it looks at first glance. Starmer's own vote in Holborn and St Pancras has pretty much halved since 2019 from 36k to 18k.
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  356. 'The adults in the room' wanted WW3 all along. Who knew?
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  357.  @rebelmango2141  Greetings. I am an earthling. I mean you no harm. What brings you to our planet?
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  358. Tech stocks tend to thrive in a low inflation environment and suffer in a high inflation environment. Looks more like wishful thinking, moonshine and self serving hoopla from Cathie Wood than anything else.
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  359. Ooh look 59 comments.... That probably means there have really been at least 150 so far. Nice to imagine the YT censor machine has been hard at work😂
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  360.  @BaileyMxX  The US economy today is around 26% of global GDP, around 16% by PPP and it accounts for a 60% share of global stock markets. That's an overextended financialised economy punching WAY above its economic weight right there.🤣
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  361. ​ @Dread_2137 A BRICS' national currency isn't the only alternative open to them if they can all agree. A bancor supranational currency or gold based currency are two options.
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  362.  @laurenceBDontYaNo  So in your opinion there should never have been any subsequent referenda anywhere in Europe by any member once they'd joined presumably?
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  363. How on God's earth, let alone how bizarre this lady is, is a jury foreperson legally allowed to go around giving interviews before a trial?
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  364. Aris is, of course, saying the long deemed to be unsayable here. Identity politics has long been a highly useful means for 'the elites'to divide and rule accentuating differences over common interests. This approach has also allowed for the unabated flow of low skilled illegal immigration to continue under the false premise of tolerance, decency and inclusivity. Absorbing huge numbers of people who look different and behave differently and then effectively dumping them in areas which are effectively already severely economically and socially compromised through policy and then telling those people to get on with it and, worse, demonizing them when they push back has been an act of supreme recklessness and a dereliction of duty by our political and economic masters.
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  365. I identify as a zillionaire and I expect society to respect my wishes and treat me accordingly.
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  366. ​ @rebelmango2141 So when it bombed Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Belgrade etc it was because they were about to attack a NATO member presumably? Do you have proof of that?
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  367. Easiest way for elites to rule with as little opposition as possible is to manufacture external enemies. Rule 101.
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  368. Well, lets be honest, it's a worry.
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  369. Slashing random Range Rover tyres on the streets simply means that the owners have to go out and buy more tyres. Not very 'green' basically.
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  370. Just look Stonewall in the UK. 'Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket' Eric Hoffer
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  371. In terms of Britain being on the right side of history, and it's up for debate Jimmy as everything is, but Britain was at one point the only country (in 1940) seriously standing up to Hitler.
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  372. Andrew Neil's obviously got a pub sumo gig lined up after this interview.
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  373. Aww, God!! Dougie shoots his beans over Armageddon.
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  374. The censorship levels on this channel are utterly insane nowadays. Can someone please tell me whether it's GG's own moderators or YT's and if GG's whether it's being done out of fear of demonetisation?
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  375. Sandwiches?😊
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  376. But I thought Bono just wanted to feed the world and promote peace, love and understanding???
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  377. If you look at global GDP, before the 80s even, it has barely risen since the 1970s. What has changed is the exponential amount of rolling debt that's been attached to it.
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  378. Absolutely love Lionel Shriver to bits, but can't believe how politically naïve she has been about Biden. Reassuring in a way. Proves nobody has a monopoly on wisdom.
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  379. Historians of the future are gonna have a whale of a time debunking the endless outrageous lies of this period.
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  380. Being ignorant here, but if Korean public opinion is so pro the ruling party and anti the opposition why was the last election so close, why can't the ruling party call another election if it's now sure to win more clearly and why were so many Koreans opposed to the declaration of martial law by the ruling party?
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  381. I remain SO glad to this day that I didn't succumb to the relentless state and social bullying that surrounded those untested jabs. It wasn't simply the untested novel jabs themselves that bothered me so much as the entire principle involved in forcing people to have them based on what most people are now only slowly waking up to were highly dodgy premises.
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  382. Thanks for saving me 20 minutes of my life there.
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  383. I didn't think Putin would invade until he did and then I started looking into the background of this conflict. Once I'd done that I realised, in retrospect, that he was always going to invade as this conflict had been brewing for years in no small part because it had been stoked by the West. The biggest mystery to me is why the apparatus of pretty much all Western governments didn't already know what I, a humble citizen, subsequently found out.
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  384.  @tufikum2633  Another historical nail in the coffin of Mutti's tenure.
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  385. Went into this with highish hopes for Steve Baker but came away rather deflated.
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  386. The charges, which were later dropped, were instigated by Sweden likely because it was deemed to be far easier to extradite Assange to US from there than from the UK particularly if he could first be charged with another crime. He sought refuge in the UK Ecuadorian Embassy breaching his bail terms specifically to avoid being sent to Sweden knowing what would then ensue. Charges were later dropped and then later reinstated after his eviction from the embassy only for a Swedish district court to effectively scupper them. All charges were later dropped amid bizarre claims that the passage of time had somehow weakened the evidence despite Swedish authorities allegedly having confidence in the complainant. By then Assange was then banged up in the high security Belmarsh prison attempting to fight his extradition to the US on trumped up charges.
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  387. Great discussion here as ever but on a more positive note, if I were Australian, 40% debt to GDP is perfectly manageable and not anything like the largely avoidable complete sh*thole the UK and others have just dug over the last couple of years. The problem here is that hard working people everywhere will ultimately and directly bear the brunt of this madness and the faceless global masters of financialisation will make a profit thanks to interest off this regardless.
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  388. Yeah, I think The Spectator belatedly asked him on because he actually knows stuff. Go figure?
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  389. It worries me that it worries you that he has a vote.
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  390. Some serious historical revisionism there. The Cuban Missile Crisis wasn't simply about Kruschev wanting to play the Soviet strongman it was originally centred around the US's first placing of missiles in Turkey and Italy pointed at Russia. It was de-escalated by the US very quietly agreeing to their removal in return for Russia very publicly removing its missiles from Cuba. To portray it as victory for Kennedy's diplomatic skills or as a purely Russian initiated aggression is a blatant falsehood.
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  391. This is embarrassing WTF are these two on about?
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  392. Speaking as a unionist ironically we likely have Nicola Sturgeon (and her husband) to thank for his utterly ruthless, vicious removal from the big political game. I find it strange how he's rarely asked about it.
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  393. Historians of the future are gonna have a whale of a time debunking the lies of this period.
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  394. The real question is if Ukraine tries to agree a deal with Russia will the US effectively veto it? Zelensky would need to get any deal passed by both the Americans and the Ukrainian right both of which would likely be on the same page. This is probably why he insists anything must be passed via a national referendum. Easier said than done in a war torn country amidst an ongoing war. Minsk all those years ago, though less than ideal, was aimed at avoiding all this unfolding tragedy.
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  395. The Philadelphi(a) Corridor is perhaps named after the place where Netanyahu grew up as he is, essentially, an American citizen. A 'man' also doubtless plagued by an inferiority complex over his dead 'hero' brother.
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  396. Yep. Concessions were apparently made by the EU assuring Ireland's neutrality. US Military flights out of Shannon Airport suggest this isn't going too well.
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  397. Whatever your opinion of his politics Corbyn is clearly a very decent highly principled man.
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  398. Bognor really is beautiful at this time of year isn't it.
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  399. The brutal facts of this matter are that heavily over-indebted, post covid governments want, nay need, the monetary benefits that inflation brings them whilst simultaneously not wanting the potential severe political difficulties it also brings.
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  400. Am I the only one getting a mighty creepy Joker vibe here?
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  401. Superb interview.
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  402. The Old Testament's Leviticus 19:28 prohibits tattoos, stating, “You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord” Pete Hegseth obviously didn't get the memo from 'the Lord' on that one...
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  403. Politicians don't get wealthy by just being politicians. It's the Golden Ticket to Wonka's trough FFS.
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  404. Big pharma isn't allowed to advertise prescription only drugs on TV in most countries in the world and in the UK only over the counter ones. The US is a rare exception.
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  405. You can't place live links on YouTube, but there's this thing called Google. 'As of 9 February 2023 a total of 12 reactors were shut down, 8 of which were undergoing repairs for or investigations of corrosion issues that were first detected at Civaux 1 in December 2021'
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  406. Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar probably said it best in response to criticism of his country’s neutral stance on the Russia-Ukraine war at a security forum in Slovakia in June, “Europe has to grow out of the mindset that Europe’s problems are the world’s problems, but the world’s problems are not Europe’s problems.”
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  407.  @grannyannie2948  The Gold/Nixon Shock definitely has a role to play here I'd agree and 2008 was an outcome of that. I'd also throw in Clinton's final repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act in 1999 separating speculative investment banking from workaday retail banking. An act specifically designed in the 1930s after the Wall St Crash to prevent what was coming coming down the road in 2008.
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  408. JFK might have been marginally better than his peers before or since but the bar isn't set that high I'm afraid.
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  409.  @murmillo666  Behaving like a disgraceful tw@t for years is not a criminal offence and if it were our jails would be filled to bursting... Furthermore while he was 'behaving like a disgraceful tw@t' he could apparently do no wrong in the eyes of the liberal establishment for nearly two decades. It was only when he became a family man and largely reformed character that said liberal establishment turned on him and that begs the question why exactly?
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  410. ​ @lapun47 I would certainly agree with that, yes. One doesn't have to in any way shape or form condone what happened on October 7th in order to condemn the genocide by Israel in Gaza now. Two heinous acts, but the former dwarfed by the latter.
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  411. Hopefully we'll look back on scenes like this chap with an industrial grade mask on in the open air doing his piece to camera and get to laugh at the complete madness of all these times... hopefully.
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  412. ​ @lilyann168 Doesn't it matter to you far more what he's saying than where he's saying it?
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  413. I must say I find it weird that many of my comments don't appear on this site when posted and yet if I'm some cryptospammer those comments remain up there despite me reporting them????
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  414. And this is why the FBI had Ritter's card marked.
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  415. Yeah, wages haven't risen in real terms since 2008. DO pay attention.
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  416. Ultimate hubris. Any 'normal' person spouting this would be carted off to the funny farm.
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  417. ​ @magnacarta9364 I wouldn't even describe myself as conservative. Interested in hearing anyone's POV to be honest if it's well put I personally subscribe to keeping it reasonably polite and always factual and yet I find multiple comments disappearing.
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  418. Whatever your opinion of Trump might be, it pays to remember where Biden's 'adults in the room' brought us to.
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  419. Wow!! She really has had an epiphany. Good on her.
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  420. This was a great interview.
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  421. Glad you've got this fella on. A fresh, unique insight on things.
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  422. Excellent if depressing summary and made it through without mentioning Brexit too!! 👌
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  423. It's an honour for you to be here. I assume that came out wrong?
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  424. Always, always, always follow the money.
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  425. Take a look in the National Security Archive under 'NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard'. The likelihood that the Soviet Empire's swift relatively peaceful 'collapse' wasn't accompanied by such Western reassurances and with such little internal resistance is inconceivable.
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  426. Empires rarely, if ever, do much good for the majority of indigenous proles.
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  427.  @mikelloyd520  Again according to NASA a quarter to half of the Earth's entire vegetated lands have shown a significant increase in greening over the last 35 years, so whilst I'm sure the Chinese are actively doing their bit I'm sure there are also other factors at play here.
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  428. They've been widely accepted for years by international official bodies and countries. Hamas provide verifiable names and official ID numbers of those deceased ie they don't just pluck numbers out of thin air. Thus the death toll in Gaza is likely massively understated as these numbers are related to confirmed 'morgue' deaths not those still buried under rubble.
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  429. It seems that the UK government rather than tackle real, long understood to be existing crime would rather invent new 'crimes' and prosecute and crow about those instead.
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  430. Today's workforce, be they indigenous or immigrant, effectively pay today's state pensions through their productivity. The problem, as France is currently wrestling with, is that more people are living longer to take advantage of those pensions and there are fewer people working to provide them. Nevermind paying for all the other services provided by the state and expected by its population. Hence the current controversial effort to try and raise the pension age there in an attempt to address the imbalance. Thus one of the major problems here isn't just the low birth rate in isolation, but the mismatch between it and the increasing aging demographics of most modern western economies.
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  431. Really struggling to understand why people thought this was a poor interview. If you want to try and at least understand something you don't approve of then talking to and listening to the people involved in it is a big part of that. You don't have to change your mind about the subject just open it up to be expanded. Even a little. The nub of this is that polite society is deeply hypocritical in its attitudes to pornography. It's a paradox. On the one hand feigning disgust at its mere existence and on the other consuming it with gusto.
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  432.  @s3ra9h1m  The only thing I do know is that nothing surprises me nowadays.
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  433. RFK is flailing here. He's deploying a false dichotomy to justify his position.
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  434. Bet the secular Netanyahu hopes there isn't a vengeful god more than ever now. This 'man' and those who actively support him doesn't deserve a moment's peace either in this life or the next.
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  435. Great conversation. Learnt some great expressions along the way too.
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  436. That, by today's UK standards, would be considered racism. Racism with no penalty however. Many might airily dismiss it as a social and cultural more in the circumstances. Funny that. I had a Sikh girlfriend many years ago and she would never have told her father about me because I was 'white'. This illustrates that of course racism exists, will always exist it and is, I think by definition demonstrably wrong and should always be challenged wherever it exists, but to effectively 'institutionalise' and 'weaponise' it as we are apparently doing and have us all running around as if it's a modern day Salem witch hunt is utterly insane and, I believe, to all our detriment.
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  437. Left a favourable reply, but immediately removed sadly.
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  438. The weird thing here is how the Russians are apparently, and I stress 'apparently', quite happy to now deal exclusively with the US here ie to the exclusion of BOTH Europe and Ukraine. The country which was the primary fomentor, funder and supplier for this war. A war which has left hundreds of thousands of Russians dead. ????
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  439. Big account advertisers, I'm sure, in the past may have occasionally expected some favours in return from their media platforms, particularly in terms of placement, but I'm equally sure they didnt try and fundamentally influence and dictate editorial content as they do now in return for their money.
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  440. There's that famous US interview with Al Gore and Richard Branson where the interviewer asks Gore whether he's a prophet and, quick as a flash, Branson chips in with, 'how do you spell prophet?'.
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  441. A big cut is bearish not bullish. The FED hoped to stave a cut off before November and held on for as long as they could, but they couldn't because they knew... They knew.
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  442. 'When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals.' -Edward Snowden The quote is everywhere now, but nothing quite sums up so correctly and succinctly what has been happening to Julian Assange over the last decade or more.
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  443. Two people speaking on a subject not in their native languages making a million times more sense than anyone actually speaking on the same subject IN their native language.
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  444. Megyn Kelly has plummeted in my estimation after this. If the allegation is true and a 31 year old brand did have a three month consensual relationship with a 16 year old then it is at worst unpalatable for many but it is NOT illegal. That is the crucial point here. A crime has not been committed. No one's saying you have to like it or approve of it, but that is no reason for a man to lose his livelihood and everything he's worked for 17 years after the event.
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  445. It took me till 2015 to finally realize The Guardian is not my friend I'm afraid to say. Larry Elliot is about the only journalist there worth his salt.
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  446. It's STILL not popular to say this - my comments on the subject have been taken down - but this is strongly redolent of Goodhart's 'Somewheres vs Anywheres' take on Brexit.
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  447.  @greasesicle  Not as much as dying needlessly.
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  448. The world at large, including Europe, still relies predominantly on fossil fuels despite all the years of Western green posturing and hectoring. Whatever Putin might be he's not daft. It's a crazy world where nobody really knows anything but perhaps, through the lens of history, Putin will one day be viewed as one of the greatest, if unwitting, enablers of the shift to 'green' energy?
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  449. Hooligans who know the state has got their backs hence they behave with impunity. The only thing missing were the brown shirts. Hoodies and V masks being the modern uniform of choice.
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  450. Being a Roman Catholic and being used to it, when it comes to all that diversity training was that Cataclysmic learning or Catechismic?
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  451. Sumption in his support for withdrawing from the EHCR effectively undermines his support for the UK remaining in and returning to the EU. Particular EU rules and regs were never the problem in and of themselves. It was where they were made, who made them on whose behalf and how ultimately accountable to an electorate they were. The ECHR charter he says he 100% agrees with is basically a load of unelected, unaccountable, essentially anonymous judges constantly reinterpreting and adding to a preagreed by its signatories set of established principles ie not necessarily upholding them. Like the EU, it's classic mission creep whereby an institution is constantly seeking to find ways of consolidating and/or extending its powers for its own self-serving reasons. This contradiction is further undermined by his view on being opposed to having a one size fits all pandemic policy legally imposed by a supranational body like the WHO.
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  452. It's true that we get the politicians we deserve unfortunately. More than ever today. At the moment it seems we're crying out for weather vanes that mostly tilt to reflect our views and most seem incapable of giving the time of day to someone who has some principles or policies with which we might, on the face of them, disagree. Maybe it's modern politics, maybe it's the sheer cost of doing politics today where expediency rules but setting your stall out, barking and hoping people will eventually come agathering around you seems like a thing of the past now and we're all the poorer for it.
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  453.  @mikeFolco  Feynman was humble enough to understand that neither he nor we have all the answers and never will. It shows he also understood the big danger lies in not being able to question what are claimed to be absolute unassailable truths. Not least because of the motivations that may lie behind them....
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  454. Great quote.
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  455. So you think it's entirely normal and acceptable for AIPAC to have the hold on US politics and its politicians that it does and there's absolutely nothing out of the ordinary there?
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  456. Even if that were true, that doesn't change the underlying fact here that Israel has pursued a genocide based on a trumped up propaganda narrative. Anyone who resorts to ad hominems and whataboutery rather than directly addressing the actual issues at hand is impossible to take seriously I'm afraid.
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  457. No disrespect, but stop saying 'like'. It's obviously getting up Chris's nose too.
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  458.  @siegeupon5894  The number of people lining up to defend Alistair Campbell, one of the principle architects of the Iraq invasion, would certainly suggest that they're not exactly 'good people", no.
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  459. One can't help feeling that many of us were gamed by Tulsi Gabbard. The woman has no shame.
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  460.  @scientificapproach6578  Electric car Batteries can't really be recycled - it's simply not economical to do so despite the claims - merely repurposed at the end of their useful lives for another less demanding purpose other than propelling a car. And seriously, the power grid is under constant strain as it is, particularly at peak times, and there are still relatively few electric vehicles out there and relatively few 'off gridders' relative to the still massive numbers of 'on gridders'. I suspect that somewhere like California has more than its fair share compared to most of the US though, but it's not illustrative of the US or indeed the rest of the world.
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  461.  @OnlineEnglish-wl5rp  Most of the Left wingers of the 70s understood this about unchecked unskilled immigration regardless of where it came from. A never ending supply of cheap labour suppresses and undermines wages. It's a no brainer.
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  462. The Nazis didn't lose WW2, they just relocated.
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  463. Truly awful. So sorry to hear this.
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  464. Anti-vax? As in anti-these mRNA jabs you mean? I've not heard him dissing any previous vaccines. Can you please elaborate?
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  465. Currently I'm still not sure which one of the uniparty I'm going to vote for .....
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  466. Yep. He wasn't removed by the establishment for nothing.
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  467. ​@georgesorosrules....and you're going to go on and qualify that.....
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  468. So if we're talking about the rule of law and honouring internationally legally binding agreements can it be said that China has truly honoured its agreement with the UK vis-a-vis Hong Kong?
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  469. 🎶Man! I feel like a woman.🎶
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  470. Upvoted but... I too am extremely circumspect about the circumstances around 9/11, particularly 3 buildings, highly unusually, doing the exact same thing in the exact same location on the same day. The only thing I would add though is that this phenomenon ie collapse by fire redolent of a man-made demolition, though very rare, has been filmed happening elsewhere in the world.
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  471. Amen. It's true, but from where is the quote? Mussolini helpfully defined 'fascism' as when the interests of government and corporations can barely be separated by a cigarette paper. Few would doubt that is where we are today, particularly in the US. The Nazis didn't lose WW2, they just relocated.
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  472. For all those numbnuts on this thread who don't quite get it, leaving the EU wasn't some pre-agreed homogeneous masterplan it was, first and foremost, a political choice, albeit with economic consequences. It was a long fought for, arguably pressing binary choice between our autonomy and the nature of our future governance. You don't get divorced and magically and instantly become better off than your peers who haven't FFS. The fact that remaining in the EU was essentially a vote for a status quo ie essentially changing nothing by default, doesn't exactly qualify for a great master plan for the future in my book either.
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  473.  @rodmarker2071 EU founding member Italy's economy pretty much hasn't grown in real terms since 2000, that's over 20 years, and the less said about Greece the better.
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  474. I have enormous respect for these two gentlemen and always listen intently to what they say but that so-called mini-budget cannot be seen in purely economic terms in the current febrile political environment.
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  475. Ahh memories....when C4's Jon Snow was actually a real journalist soley intent on doing his job.
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  476. Hopefully all this nonsense will finally collapse under the weight of its own contradictions thanks to this severely misjudged SNP cynical power play.
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  477. Jesus, yes, I forgot about that. Insane. Truly hatstand.
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  478. How does it apply to largely manufactured crises?
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  479. News just in!!! Costco is trialling Soylent Green in all good stores near you!!
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  480. I don't think there are quite that many, more like 10k, but you still make an interesting point.
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  481.  @jonathonpotts5666  Yep. Altruistic is probably the wrong word, but in the 'overall beneficial to mankind' stakes it's already beaten the US.
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  482. First Ukraine and now Gaza, America is gradually squandering what little credibility it has left in the world.
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  483. Why aren't there more people like these two relentlessly reasonably gentlemen in positions of genuine power across the world?
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  484. Don't know what happened to Paul Mason. He used to speak quite a lot of sense and now almost everything that leaves that man's mouth is completely hatstand.
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  485. Historians, like economists, are storytellers, usually with their own axes to grind, and should only be viewed as such.
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  486. This goes to show how powerful and concerted these forces are. There doesn't have to be a conspiracy as such but there's a clearly a group of people without any democratic mandate who now get to decide what is and what isn't ok. Call it corporate fascism or call it whatever. Something's not right here...
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  487. Never felt comfortable with the way Corbyn was treated. Smelt of an establishment operation.
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  488. If I were an American voter (which I'm not) I'd vote for RFK Jr in normal circumstances despite his shortcomings on climate and Israel, but if Trump were imprisoned I'd vote for him in a heartbeat.
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  489. To be fair it would only be an informed guess. The wheels are gradually coming off the hyperglobalised hyperfinancialised system - have been for nigh on two decades - but no one really knows how this is going to play out.
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  490. This is awful. My God.
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  491. She's right. Difficult to express your beliefs when you don't have any. Grim.
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  492. My biggest regret at 53 is that I chose to run my own business for twenty plus years. Should've got a nicy cushy public sector number. I'd be look at retirement by 60. As it is....
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  493.  @Ā-KDJ  Not sure if this is kosher, but if you want to see if a reply comment has been shadowbanned by YT view it in your comments. It's often not there in comments section, but if you re-view the original comment it's still there. Be interesting to hear people's views on this....
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  494. Freddie is bang on here. People will only go so far when it comes to indulging their guilt. This is why we too often adopt values that we can afford, in the case of the wealthy so called luxury values ie ones that won't fundamentally affect our own personal situations but might also, as an added bonus, serve as a useful stick to beat others, often less fortunate, with. In part this explains how the UK Labour Party was hijacked by the middle class metropolitan elites.
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  495. In the USA chips are actually called 'french fries'.
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  496. Think Douglas Murray hasn't done himself many favours on that front recently IMHO.
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  497. ​ @magnacarta9364 Been shadow banned elsewhere for simply asking an open question. Bit of a worry that this is so obviously going on. Even weirder when I read some of the bile spouted elsewhere on YT and that seems to get through????
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  498. Frankly your assertion is as daft as saying that all Chinese are Communists. Not all Jews are Israeli and, by extension, nor are they necessarily ideologically radical nationalist Zionists even if they are Israeli domiciled. Galloway is in no way an anti-semite. He is though rightly highly critical of some of the vicious counterproductive policies conducted by the state and its government against Palestinians. This is so often a wicked conflation designed to deflect and discredit anyone who is remotely critical of the actions of the state in relation to its treatment of Palestinians.... ...and no I don't believe that Palestinians are entirely blameless here either before you say anything, but it's crystal clear who holds the whip hand here and therefore the balance of power. One final point, it's interesting that you yourself obviously only approve of Jews who share your political views and feel entirely comfortable voicing your own hatred for those who don't be they Jewish or otherwise.
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  499. This interview really reminded me of the Watergate journos still doing the rounds recently. Feted as gods, but really just trading on their long past Watergate glories, essentially seriously out of step with current events and lacking the vital objectivity that once informed their work.
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  500. That's a statesman right there.
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  501. Kate, we 'weren't being vaccinated' we were being jabbed.
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  502. I understand your anger, I really do. Just one thing I would add is that journalism has increasingly resorted to telling rather than showing. Freddie, at least I'd like to think, is in the business of showing this woman and her narrative up for what it is rather than telling her or us what to think. Granted it can be a fine line, but anyone with a halfway decent critical eye and intellect can see this woman for what she truly is after this abysmal showing.
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  503. Probably the last we'll see of Steve on GB News and UK media then...😊
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  504. ''Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety” Whether Benjamin Franklin said this or not or even if it was said in a different context makes it no less apposite in this particular context.
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  505. Where there's risk there should always be choice.
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  506. ....whilst wearing his trusty seatbelt, naturally.
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  507. You gave a great account of yourself regardless.
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  508. Luxury beliefs, by definition, are principally beliefs that someone can afford to hold. That's as opposed to someone else with a vastly different set of priorities who likely can't. What then happens is that a self-serving virtuous narrative is built around those luxury values that are designed very often to marginalise even further and browbeat those who can't afford them. Then that narrative might itself be paraded and/or cherry picked depending on circumstances. Someone might claim to believe that humans are destroying the planet, for example, and then purchase an expensive EV beyond the means of most to demonstrate their virtuousness but perhaps then, far less conspicuously, choose not to forego three foreign holidays a year. The brutal irony here is that invariably it is 'they' who are the primary per capita generators of all that apparently ails us NOT the less well off. Manipulative, dishonest and cynical doesn't even come close to covering it.
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  509. It's good that honest speaking people like you can put your two penneth in, particularly those in the thick of it, so to speak. We all see things through our own lenses. Informed (or not informed) by our own prejudices and preconceptions. Your comment is but one piece of the jigsaw and hopefully those who read it will see it as such.
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  510. That's how it works. Socialism is the preserve of the rich whilst capitalism is reserved for the poor. Private in the good times, public in the bad. The bank bailouts were certainly the original sin here. Leading to the introduction of QE for the primary benefit of the asset, debt and equity owning classes and enduring artificially ultra low interest rates designed to increase the money supply and keep the debt wheels turning. Despite the apparently low inflation rates inflation was always there, but rather than find its way into traditional avenues of consumption it was kept down in the post bailout battered economies largely thanks to the rapid rise of China and its timely supplies of cheap consumer goods. Inflation instead found its way into assets, particularly real estate and equities, as these were the most profitable way for the rentier classes with money to make more money from money in what was now a perennially low interest environment.
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  511. Lost a wee bit of respect there for Steve 'super lockdown' Keenan there. Utter tosh. Still, covid did show the world that the magic money tree always existed and now we've got face the financial, social and political consequences of those decisions for years if not decades to come.
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  512. The Mince of Darkness.
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  513. 'To understand is NOT to condone' - wise words.
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  514. Fear is THE most powerful drug. It made me painfully aware that the rise of authoritarianism wasn't unique to Germans.
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  515. Given that all these devices work on a bandwidth of frequencies, it doesn't seem unreasonable to imagine that ANY such devices that do are potentially lethal weapons.
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  516. Roubini invites predictable but certainly not unfair scepticism, but things ain't looking rosy at the moment regardless of his opinion.
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  517. Papa Musk trying a bit of nominative determinism?
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  518. Speaking as a gay black woman I find that offensive....
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  519. It certainly does seem like the USD owes its continuing primacy in no small part to the fact that the rest of the world can't even come close to agreeing to a viable alternative and that the imperfect global status quo seems to be the least worst option.
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  520. If this is a metric that you regard as all important, in the last five years the Pound has risen against the Euro by 3.5%. Yes, since 2015 the GBP has fallen against the Euro, but if you check the figures you'll see that the bulk of its fall occurred at the Euro's inception around 2000 when the UK was still in the EU. Are you effectively saying that EU membership was bad for the UK then, particularly at the turn of the 21st Century?
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  521. Politics is a horseshoe and the extremes, both left and right, are the closest points to each other.
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  522. Here lies nuance. RIP 2022.
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  523. There clearly needs to be an official independent process of appeal established in order to give both individuals and organizations recourse in these circumstances. Further to that banks must provide clear written reasons to clients as to why their accounts are being closed.
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  524. In terms of globally projecting America's soft power and propaganda it's also worth remembering the role Hollywood has played and continues to play in that.
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  525. Genuine question this. Is there anyone out there who can explain why a borrower gets to put a valuation on their own collateral when applying for a loan and the lender - in this case lending millions - doesn't perform any due diligence on those claimed by the borrower values? Is this something unique to the US?
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  526. 'You (both) smirked through a genocide' I certainly wouldn't want THAT as my epitaph I must say.
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  527. I often sell it and I can assure you it isn't.
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  528. @UCLmyRcYSb2DsUzJ4EbgD3Tw They pretty much all are. You're usually either an heterodox educated guesser or a shill employed to confirm the existing narrative. 'Economics is like driving a car blindfolded whilst receiving directions from someone looking out the back window' is the best definition I've heard.
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  529. From that speech it's blindingly obvious that either Speaker Johnson knows bugger all about the First Amendment or he's a manipulative liar. Of course, both could be true.
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  530. If this gets out of hand, which it potentially will as it stands, then as a 'Westerner' I, likely posthumously, apologise in advance for the psychopathy of our elected leaders.
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  531. Andrew Neil just seems to get more unhinged as he gets older. Whatever happened to wisdom with age FFS?
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  532. There are pros and cons to immigration and there should be a far more open, honest, factual debate about it. The problem is that this Tory government and doubtless any forthcoming Labour government is essentially permitting it to remain unchecked at levels which will profoundly affect certain communities far more than others. As soon as any in those communities see fit to point out these competing pressures they are immediately accused of being racist gammons by those in communities that will largely experience and choose to only see the net benefits.
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  533. Yep. It's a bitter pill but it looks like we're the baddies.
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  534. This was, essentially, how any covid/lockdown debate was shut down in 2020. That aged well....
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  535. Very wise too. The EU is heading for a fall I think.
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  536. The right to free speech is ultimately there to protect those with whom you disagree NOT those with whom you agree.
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  537. Do you know how long it takes to establish LNG as a major source of energy, nevermind whether you can get it?
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  538. "And in the next set of videos we'll outline how the UK leaving the EU profoundly affected the economies of Germany, France and Italy despite them all remaining in it, why UK wages have been stagnant since 2008 and were for the following 8 years whilst we were in the EU and, lastly, how most of the rest of the world somehow manages to survive against the odds by not being in the EU whilst still having 50 years out of date things like passport controls...."
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  539. A busted clock is always right twice a day.
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  540. Only 7 of 35 original sentence. Subsequently commuted by Obama. Manning cut a deal, perhaps understandably and the state paid for their transition. Manning refuses to discuss Assange in any great depth now which does make me wonder if they'll play a role in his potential prosecution....
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  541. The original 1991 Constitution of Ukraine did indeed contain within it its commitment to neutrality as Aaron says. "The Ukrainian SSR solemnly declares its intention of becoming a permanently neutral state that does not participate in military blocs and adheres to three nuclear free principles: to accept, to produce and to purchase no nuclear weapons". Its parliament only voted to end its neutrality after the CIA sponsored Maidan coup in 2014 which is particularly odd in timing terms given its previously stated constitutional aim to remain neutral and how NATO first mooted the prospect of it joining in its 2008 Bucharest Summit Declaration. 'NATO welcomes Ukraine’s and Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic aspirations for membership in NATO. We agreed today that these countries will become members of NATO. Both nations have made valuable contributions to Alliance operations. We welcome the democratic reforms in Ukraine and Georgia and look forward to free and fair parliamentary elections in Georgia in May. MAP is the next step for Ukraine and Georgia on their direct way to membership. Today we make clear that we support these countries’ applications for MAP. Therefore we will now begin a period of intensive engagement with both at a high political level to address the questions still outstanding pertaining to their MAP applications. We have asked Foreign Ministers to make a first assessment of progress at their December 2008 meeting. Foreign Ministers have the authority to decide on the MAP applications of Ukraine and Georgia'.
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  542. Basically under this debt based system the moneymen deploy an arbitrage system whereby 'they' aka 'the House' cannot fail to win over time.
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  543. Love GG.
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  544. Germany was traditionally one of Italy's main competitors industrially speaking. The introduction of the single currency basically rendered Germany's industrial exports cheaper than they would have been under the DM and Italy's more expensive than they would have been under the Lira. Italy volunteered to become uncompetitive by joining the Euro and permanently surrendered the monetary levers with which it could previously adjust its course to the ECB in Berlin.
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  545. Posted again and again all over YouTube but Benjamin Franklin's famous quote is depressingly apposite here, ''Those who would give up essential Liberty to purchase a little temporary Safety deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
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  546. Were Credit Suisse big into footwear?
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  547. Ideas only become dangerous to society when you can't discuss them.
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  548. That comment looks like it's aging well.
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  549.  @richsackett3423  Ahh, so you disagree. No dissent. No questions. No peer reviews. Just shut the front door and take your medicine right?
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  550. Venezuelans can have any candidate they want just so long as it's a candidate endorsed by the United States.
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  551.  @VaucluseVanguard  The size of the monarchy, the form it takes and how it's paid for in the future should indeed become a matter of future debate, I just think let people enjoy themselves for one day.
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  552. The biggest problem with that Kwarteng-Truss budget is that they didn't consult with the BoE and in the space of a few weeks almost wrecked the UK pension system, cost the country billions and sent our borrowing costs spiralling. I'm all for a bit of radical, outside the box thinking but there are still some brutal everyday realities that apply whether they're fair, right, decent or not.
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  553. It's all they know sadly.
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  554.  @kevinsmarts9953 It worries me that it worries you that it worries me that it worries him that he has a vote.
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  555. A modern day John Pilger would be substacking. No choice.
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  556. Literally in some cases apparently.
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  557. Why should your sexuality wholly define what you are any more than the colour of your skin? It bears little to no serious analysis. Common sense, along with Elvis, left the building long ago sadly.
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  558. ​ @boraborabob1 How many times does it have to be shown before enough ordinary Americans see it?
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  559.  @amraceway  Well, according to a relatively recent study by NASA the globe is actually getting greener. This is, in part, thanks to reforestation moves led by countries like India and China. That, as I said, in no way detracts from the very real local negative environmental impacts of deforestation itself.
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  560.  @amraceway  Mother Earth will be just fine. Glad to hear that you're one of the very rare exceptions I've encountered rather than the rule. Genuinely practising on a daily basis what you preach. I trust also that you don't have the safety net of a rich mummy and daddy somewhere in the background (or something similar) as that also seems to be a common thread.
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  561. Yep, but the rot started with Kinnock.
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  562. Demand for throwing away money is now at a 10 year low? How bizarre.
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  563. Neil Ferguson, whose computer modelling played a major part in 'informing' this and other governments' responses around the world, was heavily involved in making similar catastrophic predictions around BSE, bird flu, swine flu and foot and mouth remember.
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  564. Much as it pains me to say it this is day that I fell out of unqualified love with Douglas Murray. For someone on a show that actively promotes free thinking, intellectual curiousity and not swallowing the media narrative whole it's clear that both presenter and guest here believe that that approach should only go so far ie as far as they think it should. Douglas Murray knows next to bugger all about Ukraine for example and the events that led up to it, but nevertheless feels totally assured that his opinion on the subject is the correct and only one and one all right thinking people should share. Right or wrong, in effect he's become a contradiction of himself. I'll still enjoy his offerings in future, but I won't give them anywhere near the credibility I would have done in the past.
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  565. Jewish/Israeli/rabbinic law regarding burials, autopsies and exhumations is complex bordering on the impenetrable. It's also clearly a movable feast depending on whom you ask and their level of religiosity.
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  566. Kahn seriously overplayed his hand here. This was cynical populism at its worst. Publicly stating that he had no confidence in Dick rightly invited the prospect that the police officers' union said, in turn, they had no confidence in him.
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  567.  @laurenceBDontYaNo  Your own actions are to support the mainstream parties which are all attempting to thwart or dilute Brexit to the point of pointlessness. Read the Labour and Liberal 2019 manifestos on Brexit. THAT is why there is no UKIP equivalent of Rejoin, because there is no need. You're being disingenuous basically.
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  568.  @ocratest  Yeah, and they worked closely with Assange on WikiLeaks......
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  569.  @proselytizingorthodoxpente8304  Whilst there wasn't a conspiracy as such - other than a conspiracy of dunces - it very obviously wasn't done 'in good faith'.
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  570. Someone in the ME, much like Cookie Monster Nuland was with her tasty bakes at Maidan, must be at the ready to hand out single shoes to 'jubilant, liberated protesters' for media consumption when these things go down. 😬
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  571. This looks unintentional so the question that should be asked here in the aftermath is 'cui bono' to report it thus?
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  572. It's what I refer to as, 'The Narcissist's Charter'.
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  573. Not to mention fiercely brave. These people are effectively putting their livelihoods, freedom and possibly even their lives on the line in pursuit of disseminating the uncomfortable truth. One only has to look at Assange's current fate to know that this is not hyperbole.
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  574.  @Flyingknee500  Indeed. Production always seems to be studiously ignored, doesn't it? Electric cars, on current estimates, given their limited range, don't become 'green' until they've done around 80,000 miles. A good many won't even get that far I'm sure and, if they do, many will require a prohibitively expensive, economically unviable new battery to extend their lives.
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  575. No. Andrew does too.
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  576. POI, but the prevailing narrative in Ireland regarding the Nice/Lisbon treaties is that the electorate there apparently somehow came together and played a blinder with the EU. The reason being Ireland is the ONLY country in the EU whose own constitution demands a referendum each time it is changed and each major EU treaty , in turn, demands such changes. EU treaties have to be accepted in their entirety by every member remember, which puts Ireland in a unique position within the EU here. From my numerous exchanges, the vast majority Irish voters apparently read, know and understand all the relevant EU treaties to the point where they regularly discuss them in everyday conversation and the No votes were simply a way for them to extract concessions from the EU.....
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  577. Ukraine didn't have any nuclear weapons. The nuclear weapons it had were Russia's and were effectively useless because they didn't have the codes to fire them. Moscow did. Ukraine, which had previously enshrined in its 1991 constitution its commitment to neutrality, not possessing nuclear weapons and not joining any military bloc did not have its territory invaded ie Crimea until 2014 after the CIA sponsored Maidan coup and massacre overthrowing its internationally recognized democratic leader.
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  578.  @mrpoisoness5098  I stand corrected 👍
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  579. ​ @michaels4255 I assume he was kidding. Very difficult to convey sarcasm in words.
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  580. @UTubeISphere  Aye. Absolutely. That's where identity politics comes in.
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  581. In terms of mRNA technology, it has been around for around 3 decades but never been deemed safe to use in ANY form by ANY drugs regulator ANYWHERE in the world until December 2020. Only 7 months ago. Treating this issue as if it's the ONLY decent and rational thing to do, as seems to be the case in this interview, and that people just need to be convinced about 'doing the right thing' is plain irresponsible, nevermind insulting to their intelligence.
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  582. I won't be voting at all come the next election. What a shower. There's a natural tendency to imagine that lots of people think the same way we do, but I think there's going to be a much lower turnout in the next UK election.
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  583.  @meh4770  AKA a shill.
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  584. Get used to it. It's been ramping up since covid.
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  585. He's having a laugh trying to credit all these things to privatisation as if, had the the water industry remained nationalised, none of these things would have happened. It's a common ruse in these circumstances, but it's still a ruse. Thames Water has been used as a cash cow for decades by a succession of often foreign owners and a vehicle to be loaded up with debt to the tune of £14bn and counting. It's in the sh*t because the interest on that huge borrowed pile has gone up exponentially in a very short period of time and we, the UK taxpayers and bill payers, are on the hook for it one way or another.
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  586. Catchy. Western states are forever blowing bubbles.
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  587. When you work in the woods all you can see are trees.
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  588. Definitely looking that way ain't it.
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  589. He's certainly been on vacation in his head longer than any other president, put it that way.
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  590. By far the lesser of two evils, rest assured 'they' will do all they can to stop it.
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  591. Oh what tangled web we weave when practice to deceive. Or to put it more bluntly, 'd'uh'.
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  592. The only truly universal religion is money. Stand in its way at your peril.
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  593. Interesting and highly informative perspective, but it doesn't necessarily just fall to a relatively diminutive Denmark to develop Greenland if that is your hope. The world is full of corporations and expertise that would be willing to do so for a profit and arguably in the interests of both the indigenous and Danish people. Denmark doesn't need to sell Greenland then in order to achieve that, it only has to have the willingness do so.....
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  594. @ZappyOh Something is rotten in the state of Denmark then. It seems more than obvious to me that if Denmark sells or even gifts Greenland to the US the very things that it is apparently 'virtuously' attempting to avoid will happen anyway. As long as it gets it indigenous population on board - which sounds like it wouldn't be an issue - then it could be a win/win for both the Danish and Greenlanders.
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  595.  @randiloreaux55  Whom would you be more likely to sit up and take notice of if you've been jabbed or you're considering subjecting your children to them? Someone who's been against these jabs from the very beginning and been banging the drum throughout or someone who was once a strong advocate for them but has since very much changed their mind?
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  596. The inherent premise/paradox/lie - take your pick - of the so-called Green Revolution is that the West can continue to consume more or less exactly what it does at the volume it does without significant fossil fuel input in future or at least something which can support the vital baseload of power that unpredictable renewables demand. I'm not here to pronounce on the veracity of anthropogenic climate change, but this is either looking more like a classic bait and switch by the financial classes or a catastrophic miscalculation, particularly in the UK.
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  597. Don't want to sound harsh, but as this interview wears on I have to wonder what planet this bloke has been living on for the last year and a half. Seriously.
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  598. No fan of Starmer but my estimation of him went up by virtue of the truly awful, poisonous Owen Jones's vitriolic attack alone.
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  599. ...ooh, ooh... don't forget hypocrites!!
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  600. Labour is unelectable in no small part due to the weight it places on its progressive agenda and all the endless nauseating virtue signalling that goes with it. It turns its core vote off. Not because they're racist, misogynistic homophobes as it often seems fashionable to paint them as, but because they have far more pressing, basic, very real needs and concerns that Labour seems only vaguely interested nowadays in paying lipservice to. It might have its appeal to certain groups on certain parts of the country but that very 'progressiveness' ensures that a good many will grit their teeth come election time and elect yet another crappy, self-serving, begrudged crumbs from the high table Conservative government by default. Identity politics and running down your country is still, on balance, not an election winner and as long as they keep ploughing that furrow they're always going to play second fiddle.
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  601. Natwest/C***ts IS pretty much still a state bank!!
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  602.  @JewTube001  These were mainly stress corrosion issues, cracks and problems with welds. Civaux revealed leaks when pressure tested after other unrelated repairs releasing steam into the reactor room, although no nuclear fuel was present. Obviously there are far greater safety concerns associated with nuclear plants than with wind turbines or solar panels.
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  603. This is one of the most interesting insightful interviews I've ever heard on YT. Thank you.
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  604.  @p.newsman  Damn straight, which is why I'm struggling to work out how on Earth 'they', particularly those in Europe, imagine it might???
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  605. The calibre of Western European leaders currently is execrable.
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  606.  @_mixedsignals  People's voting habits often change when the electoral system changes, but that's a moot point. We're really talking, currently, about the current electoral system in 2024, not one which may or may not exist in the future.
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  607. Lies, more lies and more damnable lies.
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  608. Despite the popular narrative today, if you look at the economic fundamentals in the 1970s in the UK we'd never had it so good, even given the oil crisis. The neo liberalism of Thatcher really marked the beginning of the end and EVERY UK government since hasn't deviated significantly from that playbook.
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  609. If this is true then I wholeheartedly agree with you. Freedom of speech must be a universal not something people can pick and choose when it suits.
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  610. I'm not doubting you, but can you confirm that as I can't find it when Googled.
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  611. Regardless of the rights and wrongs of this exchange, the level of intellect and grasp of the issues at hand make today's great and good look like complete and utter lightweights.
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  612.  @murmillo666  Until such time as he is charged in court they are allegations and nothing more. Equally, until or unless that happens, they remain his accusers NOT victims. Were I in the same position I would expect to be afforded the same courtesy and right along with due process.
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  613. For many centuries archaeologists have just been digging up pretty much either men or women. The archaeologists of the distant future are going to have a devilishly hard time when they start digging people up from the 2000s aren't they?
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  614.  @zenombereznicki  'Polls' can show lots of things. Even which cat food owners claim their cats prefer. Are you saying that 'a poll' should decide whether a country effectively permanently sacrifices much of its military and political autonomy and sovereignty? By the same token are you saying that if 'poll' sentiment turns negative then the member country should then leave? I think we both know your answer to that one. 'Polls' are not only easily manipulated they are but an ephemeral snapshot in time and should under NO circumstances be used as an excuse to override the due democratic process or serious, reasoned debate as you apparently believe they should.
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  615. Number 6: Where am I? Number Two: In the village. Number 6: What do you want? Number Two: Information. Number 6: Whose side are you on? Number Two: That would be telling. We want information... information... information! Number 6: You won't get it! Number Two: By hook or by crook, we will. Number 6: Who are you? Number Two: The new Number Two. Number 6: Who is Number One? Number Two: You are Number Six. Number 6: I am not a number; I AM A FREE MAN! Number Two: [laughter
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  616. Motives are important. Most Dems seemingly never ever ask themselves how come Trump got elected in the first place after two 'sainted' Obama terms. Why? Because they don't want to hear the answer because it doesn't suit.
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  617. What's Glenfield?
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  618. News just in!! Psychopaths make it their business to manipulate vulnerable, suggestible people, institutions and systems for their own ends. Who knew?
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  619.  @myla6135  Agreed.
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  620. A 5* review entitled: 'Róisín Murphy: Hit Parade review – a masterful album with an ugly stain.'
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  621. One thing that's rarely mentioned nowadays in these interviews is that these vaccines are novel, particularly the mRNA ones. mRNA has been around since the early 90s and tried in various forms of treatment from cancer to heart problems, but has never been deemed safe enough to be passed by drug regulators anywhere in the world until only 7 months ago for general use. Nevermind that vaccines more generally, I believe, usually take many years to develop, test and pass regulation and that that passing of time is, in itself, highly informative.
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  622. Pray for us all!!
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  623. Would it? I'd call that a rhetorical device designed to reveal your own political prejudices rather than a question.
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  624. No surprise given the history of his mother's untimely, well recorded demise, but Harry is a deeply troubled and vulnerable young man. The, I think, utterly stunning, but well practiced in the dark arts of perpetual victimhood Meghan, is the mermaid luring him to his inevitable doom.
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  625. Other factors to bear in mind here - unless you want to end up like Argentina or Zimbabwe - are that you need to have a functioning, functional, reasonably robust and trusted economy and bond/debt market to sustain this, a reliable supply of foreign currencies particularly USD if you're a heavy importer like the UK plus, ideally, you need to be able to create your own national currency and sustain and stabilise its value in relation to other foreign curencies. Again, particularly the USD. Plus don't take out loans in foreign currencies if it looks like your currency is permanently going south in relation to them.
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  626. Quite disappointed in Fraser Myers here. The debate itself was pretty poor - both were understandably nervous of each other I think - but he mainly just resorted to name calling and personal attacks. Assume the Spiked podcast he hosts, which I usually enjoy, must be far more tightly scripted than I thought.
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  627. Lockdowns were a crime. Period. The first one was arguably forgiveable, the subsequent ones were not. The political opposition across the board pretty much in this country bayed for more, longer, stronger and sooner. They're not only complete and utter hypocrites they were cynical opportunists throughout. They are ALL guilty of promoting and prolonging this madness. They should ALL hang their heads in shame and sane people will look back on this period in our history with utter mystification and contempt.
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  628. ​ @angelrojo6466 Not sure if you're simply a provocateur, but why should the content he puts out - whether you agree with it or not - be grounds for removing his liberty and livelihood simply on the basis of as yet unproven accusations?
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  629. Ugly, but human nature, I guess. One lynch mob begets another. Did you approve of the first?
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  630. The Democrats spent a helluva lot of time, money and effort trying to stop independent candidates running that they believed may impact their vote. That's what makes this even sweeter.
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  631. Malcolm? Is that you?
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  632.  @uffe2063  It should always be a personal, albeit ideally informed choice potentially based on a number of sources. How one arrives at that choice be it medical professionals, friends, workmates, family, social media or whatever is and should STILL remain entirely up to the individual. This is yet another worrying example of state over reach that not only uses a massive sledgehammer to crush a tiny nut it effectively misses the nut and will be responsible for far wider damaging consequences elsewhere.
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  633.  @mickg7299  Not exactly what I asked as you well know and deliberately avoided by you which speaks volumes. Your body, your choice. If you believe entirely and always what you're told by officialdom then that's up to you, but you're effectively not only trying to dictate to others that they must follow your 'example' you're also implying, quite falsely I might add, that those who don't are seriously endangering others. Further to this, those who dare to question the narrative should, according to you, be subject to the ultimate sanction. Quite extraordinary.
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  634. Agreed. We'd all, quite rightly, assume the right to the presumption of innocence until proven guilty, but many seem to think it should only apply to ourselves and those we approve of it seems. 'Justice is blind' for a reason and the use of the word 'arrested' carries with it connotations of guilt. It should have been reported Sturgeon was 'questioned under caution' not 'arrested'.
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  635. The trans issue is a narcissists' charter.
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  636. Kate Andrews said it all, 'now is not the time to be an outlier'.
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  637.  @amythompson7700  Russia was supplying Germany with cheap energy long after the Nato Bucharest Declaration.
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  638. Businesses will often charge what the market will bear. The best cure for high prices, so the economists' saying goes, is higher prices. Eventually people will stop buying certain items and habits will change and one by one the supermarkets will have to follow them. Don't pay the prices being charged basically and seek out cheaper alternatives where possible.
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  639. The more you come to rely on debt creation the more you acquiesce to the will of the faceless, unaccountable all powerful financial markets and the more you ultimately undermine your democracy. History is a window on the future.
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  640. Judging by her expression at 4m in Kim Iverson doesn't much want the US to look like Canada. Made me larf that😂
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  641. When it comes to democracy perception is EVERYTHING!!
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  642. "Open the pod bay doors, HAL" "I can't do that, Dave"
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  643. No.
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  644. In 2008 Ukraine was constitutionally neutral when Nato was making its advances toward it to join its military alliance against Russia. I mean WTF????
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  645. The term 'housing market' has about as much credibility as the term 'the labour market'. They're both 'markets' of sorts, but they're also heavily and endlessly manipulated in the interests of the relative few. As long as enough people keep falling for the harsh-but-fair natural equilibrium narrative then so be it.
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  646. Economics is like driving a car blindfolded whilst receiving directions from someone else staring out the back window.
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  647. ​​​​I'm inclined to agree. Charles is an idiot IMHO, but he's not the monarchy. The constitutional monarchy itself transcends the individual and although I can sympathize with the arguments against monarchy by and large they are a constant which offers any democracy with one a degree of enduring stability.
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  648. Regarding the US role in Europe, Putin called America's bluff when he offered to join NATO. America had to at first seem receptive to the idea for appearances sake but it was obvious that there was never ANY way that it was going to let Russia, its historic competitor, assume what would've amounted to eventual far greater influence over Europe.
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  649. How can a company shareholder who attended its AGM with a pre-vetted question be accused of being off topic or, even more egregiously, charged with trespass FFS!?!?
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  650.  @vthompson947  I respect your opinion, but their non-confrontational 'one-to-one' interview style is what it is. Its success to date is in no small part due to the fact that they allow people who might not otherwise be heard by a larger audience to have their say and allow them to talk all but uninterrupted. Occasionally you'll hear the phrase 'push back', more usually from KK, but that's about it. We're mostly encouraged to simply listen. The point being that interviewees have the potential 'opportunity' to be hoist by their own petards the longer they talk and the Triggernometry audience can be trusted to make up their own minds without being led by the nose by the interviewers. To me she's a successful pornstar who I'd never heard of and she's clearly not daft and has strong opinions on what she does and has done and I'm interested to hear them. To you she's an apologist for an abhorrent industry. Both fair positions in my opinion. It doesn't necessarily mean the interview was bad. Hopefully, in the future, they might well have someone else on as a counterbalance to this one.
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  651. 'The desire for honest journalism is strong with this one....'
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  652. All the money in the world never bought anyone one second of time and yet these jabs, which usually would have undergone years of testing under usual long established protocols, were unleashed on the world in a matter of months.
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  653.  @Jean-rg4sp  I somehow knew I was dealing with a chippy Irish fella.
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  654. 'Choice architecture'. Love that.
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  655. War crime in real time. Crazy times.
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  656.  @smartacus13  I know EXACTLY what you mean. Touch of the 'I can't quite be bothered with these people God complex' type thang. Often enjoyed them both in the past but this is why these types go to see 'shrinks' in America. Both losing a wee bit of perspective methinks and could do with a bit of grounding.
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  657. The US and Nato overthrew Ukraine's democratically elected leader in 2014. A man elected in previously internationally recognised elections. Conclusion? 'Democracy' like 'the international rules based order' is EXACTLY what the US and its allies define it as on any given day.
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  658. If they can rebuild the Cutty Sark from little more than a Swan Vesta then I'm sure it can be done, but just because you can it doesn't mean you should. Our vainglorious politicians (and public figures) are always looking for pet projects like this to be associated with, but wouldn't it be nice if rather than p*ssing time, effort and money away on things like this they actually improved the lots of everyday people. It's not a simple either or, but let's not be under any illusions here. This is a vanity project.
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  659. Should be ok just so long as Germany, a global manufacturing and exporting behemoth, can re-source vital cheap energy supplies previously supplied by Russia.
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  660. Couldn't make this up, or maybe you could, but apparently Savile did a Jim'll Fix it in 1975 in Israel. Asked by the then Israeli President how he was enjoying his visit he replied. 'I said I was very disappointed: the Israelis had won the Six Day War but they had given back all the land, including the only oil well in the region, and were now paying the Egyptians more for oil than if they had bought it from Saudi Arabia. "I said: 'You have forgotten to be Jewish'. He said: 'Would you like to tell my cabinet that?' "Next morning, I went to the Knesset and they interrupted a cabinet meeting and I told them the same as I had told him."
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  661. 'You will own nothing and be happy' is the next logical extension of this process. The rise of the rentiers is inexorable it seems.
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  662. My fIrst impression is it's Otto the bus driver on speed overthinking things, but I'll persevere with it and probably listen to it again when I can give it more time.
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  663. I think the taboo subjects and inappropriate conversations in private encounters in part performs a vital function in affirming 'trust' between two individuals or within a group. The very fact that subject matter is generally considered socially unacceptable helps to confirm the bond with all parties aware that what is being said isn't being said and meant in all seriousness and will not go beyond the bounds of the context of where it is being said without shared consent.
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  664. Mearsheimer, whom I don't always agree with incidentally, was 100% correct when he said in 2014 that Ukraine was being led down 'the primrose path' by Nato and, principally, the US. Taken from Hamlet, Shakespeare knew his sh*t people and Ukraine is now counting the cost both in terms of lives lost and now, allegedly, its treasure.
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  665. This also raises serious questions about the UK's 'independent' nuclear deterrent.
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  666. I thought it was just the majority of UK politicians who were FoS and amateurish, but your clips of US ones have brought me a degree of solace.
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  667.  @charlessmith-vh9cw  Wow. Really? First example I've heard.
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  668. Unfortunately a mandate is the law legally speaking. Effectively you don't have a choice and if you choose to ignore the mandate then there are associated legal penalties that come with that. Not something I'm happy writing in this instance, but true nonetheless.
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  669. Clearly note it how? Particularly in relation to other countries within the EU.
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  670. Often comes down to loving one's country and hating one's government sadly.
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  671. Obama was Tony Bliar 2.0 who was, in turn, the latest software update on tried and tested earlier Bill Clinton model. That homespun, quasi-messianic, middle-distance staring 'I can see something that you can't quite yet see' B$ delivery never gets old for some people apparently. Grim.
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  672. Not for nothing was Nato's expansion eastwards over the decades occurring in close harmony with EU membership. Either the EU has been played like a fiddle by the neocons, both US and European, or it has been a willing partner. Either way it has been culpable in engineering its own downfall.
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  673. If you're American then you should be lining up for jab number 7 now because if you ain't you ain't protected and you're selfishly putting other people's lives at risk right?
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  674.  Macavity You might not have noticed, but it seems to be preoccupying a lot of people.
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  675. Hallelujah!! Just need this to go mainstream.
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  676. 'Elites' in all their guises wherever they might be are those whom we should fear. It's ALWAYS been ostensibly about wealth and class, so this is why these elites love the seemingly endless divide and rule opportunities afforded by today's obsession with 'identity politics'.
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  677. A rough calculation appears to show S and P 500 companies spent just under 2/3 of their profits on share buybacks in 2024. What a racket.
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  678. As soon as people resort to smears and ad hominems then you KNOW you are winning the argument.
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  679. One of the major reasons the US has such a big military and maintains such a huge nuclear arsenal is that they are its ultimate insurance policy on these apparently neverending IOUs going t!ts if enough people start asking awkward questions. Buying the hardworking RoW's tangibles essentially in exchange for endless bits of worthless US paper is a mighty sweet deal by most people's reckoning but Trump somehow managed to convince enough people in US that the country was being stiffed 😅 Many millions of 'average' Americans are of course, but not by this system as such but by the relatively tiny minority of wealthy Americans who continue to benefit from it making millions and billions in their sleep.
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  680. For all his myriad faults I think most of us understand that Trump is going to be elected president in 2024 Lionel. What we don't yet know is whether the US establishment will let him BE president in 2024 this time round.😂
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  681. The hottest temperature ever officially recorded anywhere in the world was in Death Valley. It was 56.667 degrees celsius or 134 Fahrenheit way back in 1913. According to The Guardian on 20th July 2023 Death Valley is one of the, 'hottest places in the world' and it, 'reached at least 121F (49.4C)' this week. A 71 year old man just died there and apparently, “Heat may have been a factor in his death,” ...officials said in a press release. So, some way to go then in our ever warming world to match that 1913 record then. The 'Truth Illusory Effect' is alive and well it seems.
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  682. Always love these vids even with their now predictable clickbaity titles, but the word 'collapse' will have to change its long understood definition at this rate.
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  683.  @Justanotherandy63  Ditto NHS. Similarly, in the US, there is massive 'over-representation' by black players in the highly lucrative NBA and NFL. No-one bats an eyelid and nor should they. No sane person would say racism doesn't exist and no self-respecting person would say that it was ok, but the current environment only serves to sow division and give fuel to those who still believe that it is ok to hold and propagate those views.
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  684. TBTF was the mantra going around after the 2008 GFC. TCTS, Too Crap To Save, in reference to the crypto boom and bust seems more than fair.
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  685. Harris is the proverbial last turkey in the Democratic shop.
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  686. LBC, much like CNN, is an utter disgrace.
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  687. Why does the beacon of democracy and the Land of the Free need such an increasingly bloated costly security state?
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  688. Starmer is the lowest of the low. Shafted both Corbyn and Assange. Nuff said.
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  689. Apparently, according to the censors, nothing of ANY import has happened in the world since this was posted a few hours ago...
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  690. To almost completely define oneself by but one often tiny aspect of the myriad of things that makes us who we are is utterly insane. Whom we choose to sleep with, or indeed once chose to sleep with in many cases, makes it even moreso. Not only that, but it also implies that those with the same preferences or immutable attributes are apparently of exactly the same opinion on everything. 'As a gay man, as a lesbian woman, as a straight man, as a heterosexual woman, as a trans man' etc. How daft is that? Identity politics is an intentionally socially divisive sham and the sooner it dies a death the better for everyone.
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  691. ​ @radjew US trade deal is not needed. It's estimated to add less than 0.5% to our GDP and any tiny gains would not be worth the costs. US is already one of our biggest trading partners anyway WITHOUT a trade deal.
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  692. The young lady makes the point that a good many ethnic minorities are concerned too about the effects of forever unchecked immigration. Sadly, they are often dishonestly accused, invariably by virtue signalling middle class types, of 'pulling up the ladder'.
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  693. That's why it became so important for 'capital' to smash organised labour rights over the decades. Workers are all just crabs fighting each other in a bucket now and this is why identity politics plays such vital role in helping to divide and rule. Globalism, international trade deals and off shoring all help 'capital' to keep tightening the screw.
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  694. Is that the same ICC the US doesn't recognize, but points to as and when it suits and ignores it when it doesn't. That ICC?
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  695. Ursula 'fond of lying'. 💕
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  696. Anyone who wants to be a politician shouldn't be allowed. Tucker Carlson clears that first hurdle at least.
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  697. Gettin' a Freddie and Katy got it on vibe last night or is it just me?
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  698. In terms of Douglas Murray's point, the key thing here is that other views are out there but firstly you have to go out and actively look for them and secondly, more importantly they barely figure in MSM. I accept that 'free speech' is still there, but he who pays the piper calls the tune and MSM and mainstream social media is now controlled by a very few individuals with very deep pockets and profound political connections. In essence 'they' get to have disproportionate control over the message.
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  699.  @beneytan9440  The fact that my reply to you has been deleted by YT and yours remains says it all.
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  700. Once you attack language then you can dismantle the truth' - Freddie Sayers. Freddie's been hiding his light under a bushel, methinks.
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  701.  @vincentvangogh8092  Some look upon it as PR for UK PLC I guess. No disrespect to them at all, but few people across the globe would tune in to any other country's royalties' major ceremonials to anything like they would the UK's I suspect.
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  702. The US has 750 military bases and counting in 80 countries. This is a personal tragedy for those involved but seriously what were these Americans even doing there so obviously in harms way?
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  703. This is a classic propaganda technique used since the beginning of time deployed to incite anger and drive support in domestic populations for retaliatory atrocities. The NYT and some of its employees were then knowingly complicit in a lie designed specifically to facilitate genocide.
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  704. @PerceivedREALITY999  Repeating the truth is our best and probably only hope.
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  705. Economics and politics are inseparable. Alistair understands that. We are forever mortgaging our future. Kicking the can down the road. At some point this WILL stop, whatever the 'harkers' might claim.
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  706. Most conspiracy theories almost always have a basis in truth without necessarily being true and that's what can make them so compelling and/or plausible. This is one area in life in particular where it is important to be 'non-binary' about something. Neither necessarily embracing nor rejecting them outright. Not throwing the baby out with the bathwater is a phrase that springs to mind here.
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  707. Very refreshing to hear. MLK was right then, he's still right now. Time for our politicians, our teachers, our media etc to concentrate on the vast number of common interests we all have and ditch all this toxic, divisive identitarian cr@p whatever form it takes. Frankly, it's a bloody racket and those that perpetuate it are in and of themselves a threat to social harmony.
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  708. When did people start thinking that other people can't be trusted to think the right way? When did discourse become something to be feared, stifled and controlled? The really scary people in this are the ones that think there's only one way to think and you can likely times that scariness by billions if they happen to own and control a major media platform.
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  709. And of course we need to remember that the average age of a UK covid death to this day remains at roughly the same as UK average death at over 80 years old.
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  710. ​ @Dowlphin They are definitely getting more zealous in my experience.
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  711. Honestly no skin in the game here, but Nick Hubble who writes for Fortune and Freedom is an utterly brilliant writer.
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  712.  @amraceway  Lonely Planet: It's Official. The Earth is becoming Greener. NASA Earth Observatory.
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  713.  @burgesspark685  Never interrupt an idiot when he's making a mistake.
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  714. And when the 2008 financial crisis hit Australia was far better placed than many thanks to the likes of Mr Anderson. That's what happens when a 'farmer' like him has a hand in running an economy. Prepare for the worst and hope for the best...mend the roof whilst the sun is still shining etc...
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  715. As Kissinger once pointed out, if he wants to speak to and sound out Europe what number does he ring?
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  716. The one thing that the US wished to always prevent was close ties between Russia and China. The latter which it now perceives as its arch enemy over and above even Russia. The US long fomented, funded and armed war in Ukraine 'achieved' precisely that. Particularly if I were Russian or Chinese I'd be mighty circumspect as to what the US is currently up to to be honest.
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  717. I take your point, but he was making a broader point about how social stigma often has the ability to rein in society's worst excesses. I think he's making the argument that having no social stigma at all ie a generally held disdain for certain behaviours, is a far worse proposition than having at least some. His giving up of smoking and the undoubted role that social stigma played in that 'choice', chiselling away for years at his subconscious perhaps, is highly illustrative of those tensions.
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  718. The sad fact is is that large numbers of people in the West won't agree to more domestically sourced oil and gas until events start to hit them and their lifestyles hard materially. It's apparently ok to live in a predominantly fossil fuelled world as long as it's being done 'somewhere else' out of sight out of mind, and as long as your governments talk the talk but don't have to walk the walk when it comes to zero carbon economies.
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  719. 'I'd rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned' - Richard Feynman
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  720. Remember he doesn't make the weather, he only observes and comments on it.
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  721. Agree, but he'd have to repudiate his position on Blair and Bush's Iraq war.
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  722. Not only the best comedy film ever, it is arguably the best film ever. Can and must be seen on so many different levels.
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  723. Always compelling, but Ferguson is becoming increasingly nutty I think.
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  724.  @laurenceBDontYaNo  I did, yes. I participated in it in good faith fully expecting to honour the result. Did you?
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  725. Amen.
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  726. In the spirit of true, open, honest journalism I'm looking forward to hearing what he says about the covid jabs....
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  727. Sorry. Lost me with the crypto spiel....
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  728. I used to be scared for the future of US democracy, but now I'm as if not more scared for my own country's, the UK's. People need to comprehend that what Sunak did was completely unprecedented with that speech after Galloway's democratic election and came hot on the heels of the supposedly completely impartial Speaker of parliament pulling off an equally unprecedented move overturning a long understood convention regarding a vote on Gaza.
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  729. Great discussion. Thoroughly enjoyed. Lots to think about. All I would say, given the opening regarding Ukraine with which I struggled to agree, is get John Mearsheimer on John Anderson if you can.
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  730. This decision means that the UK has just decided to no longer be at the front of the queue leading the charge off the cliff that's all.
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  731. Even in my younger days I still wouldn't have gone to Glastonbury if you'd paid me....is it cos I is black?
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  732. Whatever your opinion here, this is what free speech is all about. Not always necessarily agreeing with what someone says but allowing people to have their say within the bounds of the existing law.
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  733. Free speech has to be a universal principle. It's not complicated. It's not about only hearing what you want hear.
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  734.  @tomhollingsworth8201  Hence it was posed as a question. I'm always happy to learn. Are you?
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  735. He's an ordained Presbyterian minister so his background is definitely Christian. I think he simply sees how 'Christianity' and its connections with 'Judaism' have been cynically hijacked for political purposes by elements in the US. That in no way gives 'Islam' a free pass either.
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  736. Even his name is a deliberate p*ss take. Somebody needs to wake up the woke before even more of this madness inevitably ensues.
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  737. Now Claire Fox IS a national treasure.
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  738.  @harryzero1566  Understood, but that doesn't change the point I was making. The USD is now the world's primary currency by default unless something changes profoundly.
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  739. Can't bear Trudeau and normally agree with Murray, but not here. Subject to proper and rigorous judicial and medical checks and balances anyone who wishes to end their life legally, peacefully and assisted by the state should be allowed to do so. .
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  740. The most amazing interview and this man truly knows his subject. He's clearly thought about it a lot. Goes somewhat pearshaped at the end with the usual 'ultimate question' and both of his somewhat naive answers to it. Reassuring in a way that we should all stick to our lanes.
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  741. Tragically the BBC today has become the British Bullshit Corporation.
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  742.  @COIcultist  It looks like the government and thus ultimately the taxpayers and bill payers are over a barrel no?
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  743. Great interview.
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  744. 😁DNS attack. Like it.
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  745. It was 'the Nazis' NOT 'the Germans'. Learn to right think before you right speak or right write.
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  746.  @rebelmango2141  YT repeatedly prevents a reply sadly. Fin.
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  747. That former UK defence minister should be utterly ashamed of himself. Disgraceful. 'Where will Putin go next?' The answer is nowhere in terms of the West. Where will the US-led West go next is more the issue.
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  748. Always love Rod Liddle, but one can't help feeling he's just left the party in the other room, closed the door and told everyone to keep it down for 10 minutes.
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  749. Lovely dog, but this is beyond lame.
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  750. Has the supremacy of the EU and EU law actually ever been put specifically to the legal test before Poland's recent moves?
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  751. I disagree. In the sense that it wishes to see a move towards a world in general with less conflict, conflicts predominantly driven by the pursuit of wealth at any cost, I would say its title is most apposite.
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  752. Fascinating insights, but Brian Berletic would disagree with much of it. He sees US moves as just establishing a pause on business as usual in its own interests.
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  753. Aah, we have ourselves another chin stroker, Holmes!!
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  754. Kafkaesque. We live in a world where innuendo increasingly passes for concrete evidence.
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  755.  @FG-vf7pq  Yes, I amazed myself even. I can only aspire to being such an expert in the high art of cut and paste like your goodself though.
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  756. I mean who doesn't love 'new facts'?
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  757. I know and meet lots of East Europeans, including Poles, through my business and they're all pretty wonderful people to a man or woman. What I would say though is that they are all utterly convinced that that when the time comes they will be able to say no to the EU and its policies including free movement when it eventually inevitably starts to impact their own societies and economies as it has the UK's. Time will tell on that. From personal experience, the other aspect I'm acutely aware of is that a good many of them came to this country with the express intention of making enough money to go back to their own countries, build their own homes and businesses, and live comparatively better lives than their own countrymen who did not leave. Also, those who came to the UK who had children here were extremely keen to have bilingual children - their second language being highly prized English obviously - which would provide them with a huge advantage when they eventually returned home.
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  758.  @KeithWilliamMacHendry  I can only agree with a lot of what you say and clearly your personal experience is different from my own when it comes to my interactions with East European immigrants. That does not make me right and you wrong, it simply makes our experiences different. In my business my experiences have been overwhelmingly positive, but that in no way means that I agree with the policy of FoM and I am acutely aware of the lasting damage it has done to this country. I do not in any way though blame individuals for trying to improve their lot, but I DO blame the political elites who effectively forced this insane social experiment on this country and those self-serving habitual virtue signallers that STILL seek to defend it.
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  759. Europe, up until very recently, had all it needed and then chose to throw it ALL away. The US likely believes it has effectively killed two birds with one stone by stoking a war in Ukraine. Taking out and subjugating a major economic competitor in Europe and weakening its geopolitical arch-nemesis Russia.
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  760. Great Pink Floyd reference to end with there and very apposite.
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  761. To be honest I don't think most Western people really understand or know what 'a Slav' is.
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  762. Hennegan's point regarding Cummings' and Ferguson's breaking of lockdown 'rules' echoes a point I've made for years. My problem with 'Partygate' wasn't so much with the rule breaking itself, but more that ALL those people involved could not have for one second seriously have believed that they were being confronted with a deadly virus in order to behave that way. These people were ALL either directly or indirectly involved in enforcing arbitrary laws and rules on the entire country that they themselves didn't believe in and didn't think applied to them. A plague on all their houses, I say.
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  763. I also think a lot of it comes down to the fact that the US, and certainly for those alive there today, has never really directly experienced the level of threat it is potentially facing today in the nuclear age thanks to the war it has been heavily instrumental in stoking in Ukraine. Pearl Harbour was the last time it was on the receiving end of any large scale significant direct foreign aggression and that was on the island of Hawaii, over 2000 miles from the US mainland. To all intents and purposes the US has developed an island mentality. Surrounded by water on two sides and two essentially benign non-aggressive countries above and below it. This has created a sense not only of security and invulnerability but also engendered a sense that it can act politically and militarily elsewhere in the world largely with impunity.
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  764. Whenever I think of Hollywood I always remember what James Caan said about the importance of his celebrity status. Basically he said, put it this way, if the trash man doesn't come and empty your trash it won't be long before you notice, but few would notice or care that much if I never made another film.
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  765. Sexually deviant, extremely violent psychopath now IDs as a woman but presumably remains fully intact and expects thanks to the law to be housed in a women's prison filled with predominantly known to be already vulnerable women presumably overseen by predominantly female guards? Why are people making such a fuss about this?
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  766. I do wish YT would permanently remove these very obvious cryptospam comments and replies below the line. The fact that they don't speaks volumes. It IS deliberate.
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  767. The stock market isn't the real economy. It's the ponzi froth on the top.
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  768. The scariest words in the English language? We're from the Tony Blair non-government and we're here to help.
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  769. You need to contact someone completely random recommended to you by other random people on the internet.
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  770. Hitchens makes a very good point about why this is being permitted to happen by our political establishment ie the perpetuation of the low wage economy. Time for a truly open and frank debate about what amounts to unchecked immigration to this country. There are certainly pros and cons, I accept that, but uncontrolled immigration into what are inevitably predominantly poorer areas and the resulting competition for and stress upon already squeezed resources is bound to foment discord. A load of well to do do-gooders like Welby who won't in all honesty experience those stresses sounding off about compassion for your fellow man might sound virtuous, but it's offensive to those who are continually forced to endure the consequences of his posturing.
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  771. An abject lesson this for all those cheering the Trump RICO prosecution on. Just because 'they' aren't after you today, it doesn't mean 'they' won't be tomorrow. Careful what you wish for America.
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  772. Ex-UK health secretary Matt Hancock is the lowest of the low and not just because of his shameless role throughout 'the pandemic'. This is a man who went on a 'celebrity' survival gameshow in the UK in paid for parliamentary time claiming to be motivated by his desire to raise awareness of dyslexia and pledging a not insubstantial part of his, I believe, £350k appearance fee to relevant charities. He gave just £10k. This was a man who was heavily instrumental in the criminal lockdowns instituted in this country resulting in tens of thousands needlessly dying alone, hundreds of thousands undiagnosed from potentially fatal conditions, good businesses ruined and kids missing years of their educations and vital socialization.
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  773. I think you might be missing the point. He's been debanked by Coutts without telling him expressly why. If it's for its financial conditions reasons then fair enough, but then why haven't others with the bank who have admitted to be in a similar position for years?
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  774. Most people don't aspire to being rich, they just don't want to be perpetually struggling to exist in societies that are VERY plainly not poor. A great many of these socioeconomic outcomes have been bought about by very deliberate political choices by the states in which they live not by the harsh but fair free market as some of the self-serving individuals commenting on this thread and elsewhere might like to believe.
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  775. As various people have said, Musk will either die the richest man in the world or will die a poor man. I'm not his No1 fan, finding many of his choices questionable, but he's got far more genuine balls than most of the corporate world put together.
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  776.  @vivavasquez  Given his history, I think his brain is somewhat bigger than yours or mine. Can't speak for what you've got going on downstairs.
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  777. You're right, but you try telling people this. It ain't popular. I despair.
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  778. The people who need to borrow, often simply to live, increasingly can't and those that essentially benefit from the consumption plus interest of the former still, as of yet at least, have no need. Presumably 'something' will eventually have to give when the stone has been bled dry?
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  779. Love the collective laugh when the question is asked as to whether the media is there to hold the rich and powerful to account. Like today's economists, today's mainstream journalists are mostly shills.
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  780. The babies and sexual violence stories are propaganda tactics as old as the hills. They are a classic technique designed to lay the ground for and provide justification for actions that might follow, however extreme or horrific.
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  781. ​ @InnuendoXP Much of it yes, I agree, in an ideal world, but the 'market' blowback from such a move would be considerable. Corbyn, whose economic plans weren't exactly 'out there', was never removed as Labour leader in such a concerted effort because he was an 'anti-semite' but likely because of just such 'radical' plans. That along with questions over his position on nuclear deterrence.
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  782. The Ukraine war, bizarrely with European elites' complicity, has permitted the US to severely weaken two potential rivals in both Europe and Russia as per its 1992 Wolfowitz Doctrine. Speaking dispassionately, it was utter foreign policy genius. Two birds with one stone. Speaking personally as a Brit and a European it was a massive act of self-harm and a blatant attack by the US on the security and stability of Europe.
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  783. There's little doubt now that Trump will be elected POTUS in 2024. The big question, of course, will be whether 'they' will let him this time round.
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  784. Never exactly been keen, but thought DT was far smarter than that TBH. Ho hum.
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  785. Europe's fate as a undisputed vassal of the US was sealed when Biden blew up NS2 and nobody in Europe, least of all Germany who part owned it for godsake, said a thing.
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  786. And still, to this day, no known cure or vaccine exists for a coronavirus, only an highly profitable (essentially untested) prophylactic one that apparently needs to be administered regularly. Who'd a thunk it?
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  787. Free Julian Assange.
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  788. Never let a good crisis go to waste....
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  789. The ol' war is peace and freedom is slavery play, eh. This is emblematic. The right to smoke isn't THAT important in and of itself but just as with souls we lose our freedoms in increments. Often to greater darker forces purporting to act in our own interests or for a greater good.
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  790.  @johngreenhorn8853  Are you deliberately missing the point here? They're not just defending Russell Brand the man, most are concerned for and are defending a fundamental principle ie innocent until proven guilty. A fundamental principle which you, I or anyone else SHOULD be entitled to if we were accused of something. A fundamental principle which you either don't think is worth defending or perhaps believe Brand isn't entitled to because you don't like him and think he's an @$$hole.
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  791. #Oh dear, what can the Huck-a-bee!#
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  792. Obviously not all, but the furlough scheme was an absolute gift for many in the building trade amongst others. They took the government money and carried on working for cash in hand from desperate home improvers, many of them working from home or also on furlough, and then came back to a boom able to charge the earth. Me, I was constantly being offered handouts by HMRC and refused them, had my busiest year and biggest tax bill ever after feeding the 5000 and now my business is suffering deeply thanks to this massive act of self-harm.
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  793.  @bhagen40  Jean Monnet, the man considered to be the father of the European Project, famously said, 'Europe will be forged in crisis and will be the sum of those solutions adopted for those crises'. I think some of us know what that really means now, but most don't sadly.
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  794. The UK since the 1980s seems to have tried portray its lack of resilience as a virtue. Efficiency and cost cutting often comes at a long-term cost, but those costs are rarely experienced sharply by those who benefit from this expediency.
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  795. Exclaimed in Monty Python Spanish Inquisition stylee... Not the Bermuda Monetary Authority as well!!
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  796. Glad to hear that Danny's 'journey' began with the epiphany that he'd been suckered by Obama in 2011. I'd earlier been suckered by Blair. It was 'fool me once' time for a lot of us I imagine.
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  797. Never quite understand how various comments clearly get deleted on sites like these but anything that promotes cryptos or some dodgy financial advisor from the boondocks gets a free pass???
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  798. Despite not talking to it for a decade the UK was prior long happy to help Russia's oligarchs siphon off their wealth from the Russian people and 'shelter' it in the UK.
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  799. Not having visited recently, I forgot quite how much 'The Moderators' loved Kim's channel. Sweet.
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  800.  @hughfawcett4333  It does seem odd how GG seems to be accused of uniquely doing things that all politicians do and have always done. You've only got to watch PMQs to see how 'undivisive' our politicians are FFS.
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  801.  @patdbean  They can't help themselves. It'll always get shoehorned in there somewhere. They would counter that if it hadn't been for Brexit everything would have been SO much better for the UK now. Utter cobblers, but they'll keep banging that drum I'm afraid.
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  802. Epstein's source of extreme wealth, like his death, has never been adequately explained.
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  803. This will likely lead to another refugee crisis both for Europe AND for Erdogan's Turkey. A country which has long 'protected', at great enduring financial cost I might add, Europe from a massive influx of refugees fleeing ongoing unrest and persecution in the ME. A Turkish population that has also recently signalled to its establishment that it no longer was willing to accept ever more refugees. This then is an act of pure folly if it were fostered by Erdogan that would likely further destabilise an already reeling from both a refugee crisis AND the Ukraine war Europe as a number of countries increasingly shift further to the political right.
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  804. It is the height of human hubris to believe that we can affect the global climate to the extent we that we apparently do. Shortsightedly overexploiting our finite resources and despoiling and overstressing our environments are something else entirely.
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  805. Given his established following it would have been far worse if he'd then said nothing or carried on as if his opinion wasn't apparently shifting in the face of mounting evidence. It sometimes takes guts to change your mind and his voice likely carries all the more weight because of it.
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  806. How Neil Ferguson is still in a job nevermind not in a prison is beyond me.
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  807. What an all too rare calm voice of reason Chas Freeman is.
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  808. No. She's just very good at beating the market.
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  809.  @amataratsu006-xs6hv  Tried to, but reply removed by YT sadly. Note to self. Stop using boring old facts. YT hates them.
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  810. Two fine understated truthtellers who, unlike many of their counterparts, are happy to leave their egos at the door.
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  811. Based on my experience, the urge to censor on this thread seems mighty strong today. Keep it up.
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  812. ​ @questworldmatrix  “America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests”. Henry Kissinger. There existed a US military plan to invade Canada during the intervening period between the first and second world war. It was part of a scenario which war gamed a potential conflict with the British Empire of which Canada was part. It was called War Plan Red.
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  813. ​ @LuiSharPei And NATO used depleted uranium in those attacks too.
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  814. Most likely YT not BBC
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  815. It's already too late to start raising interest rates.
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  816. Bizarrely an uber-wealthy German individual owns around 5% of the Swiss National Bank...more than the country's two wealthiest cantons. That can't be right surely?
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  817. The Israel Gaza situation has been horrific for all those involved and still experiencing it. Still is. But for us all sitting comfortably in the West in front of our screens it's at least shown us who the pretenders and shameless grifters were when it came to standing by the fundamental principle of free speech. Murray, Rubin, Shapiro, Tousi, Weiss etc Glen Greenwald, Kim Iverson, George Galloway, Matt Taibbi, Corbett have, thus far, shown themselves to be the real deal.
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  818. Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Sikhs and Christians aren't 'a race' and yet Jews are. When did this happen exactly?
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  819. If our elected government wishes to criminalise the voicing of certain views then, prima facie, that's a perfectly legitimate aim but, by the same token, if it seeks to do so then it should be ready to endure the consequences of those lawfully objecting to it. That's kinda the point of democracy.
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  820. In the space of two months I've completely changed my mind having read up on this and have to say that Rod Liddle was spot on here, 'more sinned against than sinner'. Way, way ahead of the curve.
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  821. Diabolical wheels within diabolical wheels.
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  822. America has the best democracy money can buy.
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  823. Romanian democratic election first round was apparently subverted by a Russian Tiktok post. They're just so damned canny those Russkies aren't they.
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  824. It might be legal in the US, but how is it moral?
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  825. Socialism for the rich. Capitalism for the poor. So business as usual then?
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  826. Whilst they help fill other countries' coffins.
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  827. I agree, he sits back too much in panel discussions sometimes. I like to believe it's because he's supremely modest and more interested in what others have to say, but the guy has a brain the size of a planet and his input is always invaluable.
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  828. ​ @olgadeweger3805 Empires rarely serve the interests of their indigenous masses. Often quite the reverse.
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  829. Love Spiked, but was seriously disappointed to hear naïve opening comments. Presenters as guilty of polarising and 'binarizing' the issue as much as those toxic utter nutters in Trafalgar Square, albeit more decently as we'd all expect. Thankfully, having viewed the comments, I'm not alone in noting this.
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  830. I'm so happy I'm currently making $27k a month thanks to my BTC advisor. I can't believe how well she understands the crypto market avoiding all the losses and pitfalls. Yes, siree Ima Dumbtwat has changed my life!!
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  831.  @evolassunglasses4673  'Race', much like sexuality, is something 'you' or others either choose to almost entirely define someone by or see as but one facet of who someone actually is. Of course, whilst there are also inevitable cultural aspects to factor in, in terms of our pigmentation it's never irrelevant not least because it's one of if not the most obvious physical characteristic we possess. However, to sum up someone's entire existence or character off the back of it so obviously defies reason. By the same token, this prevailing assumption and accompanying popular narrative that say 'black' or 'gay' people are somehow homogeneous 'communities' that are all forever in ideological lockstep with one another is equally as patently daft. In all honesty I'm surprised that there isn't more pushback against this as were I black or gay I would find this patronizing in the extreme and/or offensive. Paradoxically, perhaps it's informed by a fear of being ostracized and branded a traitor to the cause by one's own 'community' and these people are themselves hostages, willing or otherwise, to this narrative?
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  832. My thoughts exactly. Naive in the extreme.
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  833.  @mickg7299  So, presumably, knowing for certain that these jabs prevent neither transmission nor contraction, have an officially claimed efficacy of between one to six months and are now no longer being pushed on those below a certain age and are, in fact, charged for for those who still want them you still stand by your claim that capital punishment is warranted in this instance yes?
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  834.  @antonpiskernik7893  They've kinda got a captive audience at the moment and they know it. Hence they're wont to curate the content be it by algo or hoo-man beans.
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  835. Seems implausible, but nothing would surprise me nowadays.
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  836. Copied, because I know what sh*ts YT censors are nowadays.
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  837. Yep. As others have said you seriously need a source for that if you don't want to come across as someone who is 'economical with the truth'. Plus wasn't Gareth Roberts himself cancelled for 'anti-trans' comments?
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  838. Interesting interview as always but, speaking as an agnostic, be it religion or political ideology whatever they might be, either might be worthy of respect and consideration, but both should also always be wide open to the process of permanent questioning. The problem, invariably, is that neither often are as they both are liable to be hijacked by the apparently most zealous, frequently most opportunistic, often most charismatic, intelligent members of their followers and, unfortunately, for less than pure reasons. In short they become nothing more than a cynical means of control. Whilst I can buy into the, 'we ultimately all need a rock to cling to in our lives' argument, it always comes with certain, very firm caveats.
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  839. Don't feel too bad. We've all fallen for the simplistic Left/Right paradigm at some point.
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  840.  @mischevious  Sanders still refuses to support a ceasefire in Gaza despite the wanton death, sickness and destruction taking place there and which could only continue with US support. He also somewhat curiously stepped aside to allow HRC to run in 2016. Though once keen on the man I now have serious doubts about his integrity.
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  841. You don't exactly have to be a genius to join the dots here. Wealth inequality is a fact of life and always will be but what we're seeing now is WAY beyond obscene and acceptable. This is an abject failure of governance and government and points irrefutably to enduring endemic, systemic corruption within.
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  842.  @Lucaf_2008  That's one of the saddest things. I'd say some of the nicest people I've ever met are Americans, but the country's political, military, industrial and financial establishments utterly stink.
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  843. Bjorn Lomberg has already long debunked a lot of this stuff regarding US forest fires. The claims made by the US forestry services state that fires and acres destroyed have increased considerably since the late 50 and early 60s and that's the only data they put out. It shows an erratic rise, but nothing too substantial, particularly given how much higher the US population over those post war decades. Thankfully Lomberg took the trouble to look back further at their own information and found that in 1932, I think it was, there was 10 x more destruction by forest fires than in 2017. One of the worst recent years. US Forest fire destruction has fallen precipitously since the 1930s in terms of acreage destroyed, but sadly that doesn't fit the climate change narrative. And before some smart arse claims there's far less forest today there is, more or less, exactly the same acreage as there was in the US at the beginning of the 20th century. Possibly slightly more. By far the bulk of US forest destruction occurred in the 200 years preceding the 20th century.
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  844. Wannsee updated for the digital age. Two 'nice' Jewish boys discussing what was once discussed by lots of 'Nazi' German boys. How bitterly ironic.
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  845. I guess, unlike you, who must be pretty much unique in the world, he was a man who was a product of his time, who wasn't born fully formed and who went on to learn from his varied life experiences. I look forward to seeing and hearing your literary output. Your remark suggests that you must be truly special.
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  846. Agree totally, but try getting that bloated bird off the ground. Modern economies are essentially built on booming RE values and the increasing debt associated with it.
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  847. I hate to have to agree with you.
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  848. Always, always and again always follow the money.
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  849. Good that you can still take the time to post a comment on YT to let us all know about it.
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  850. Should've stuck to the Carry On films. He had a lot more credibility then. Mind you, aged well.
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  851. Great interview. Part of me expects this gentleman to say something something completely whacko and out there but he never does. All measured, commonsensical stuff. That's what makes all this SO worrying.
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  852. It's so clearly not 'a vaccine' and we should not give it the respect that such a word deserves. Like the annual flu round, it is 'a jab' or 'a shot', but never 'a vaccine', particularly if you have to take it every five minutes as its efficacy wanes apace. This shameful ongoing debacle will likely put the overall cause of genuine vaccinations back years sadly.
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  853. Don't forget, 'may, might, should, would, could etc.'
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  854. Ironically, that could and arguably far moreso did exist before the creation of the EU in 1990.
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  855. The difference between a conspiracy theory and the truth is about 6 months nowadays.
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  856. There was a time when a young Owen Jones did some pretty decent, measured political interviews from a 'leftie yoof' perspective. Nowadays the man's a menace churning out predictable immature rants for personal profit designed only to promote hatred and division.
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  857. Blessed are the peacemakers.
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  858. Kissinger let the US 'reds under the bed' mindset cat out of the bag when he mistakenly referred to the 'Soviets' instead of the 'Russians'.
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  859. Who in turn sell theirs to the Americans....
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  860. Just as aside, but is it me or does capitalism actually seem awfully adept at creating large monopolies and oligopolies rather than destroying them nowadays?
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  861. The GBP's most marked fall actually occurred whilst the UK was IN the EU from 2000 to 2009. Why is this precipitous fall rarely remarked upon by commentators I wonder?
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  862. Can anyone explain to me why the gender of the person you choose to have sex with or a relationship with should mean that anyone else who makes a similar choice should think in lockstep on a myriad of vastly disparate subjects purely on the basis of that one original, narrow preference? Heterosexuals don't all feel the same way about things so why should gay people? Nobody talks about, 'the heterosexual community' as if it's one homogeneous group FFS!! Much the same principle applies to ethnicity. Frankly, it's beyond absurd.
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  863. Yanukovitch is described as, 'corrupt, but democratically elected' which he was. Both. Might Zelensky also be described as 'corrupt, but democratically elected' I wonder? I'm going to go with a yes there too. Which begs the question, what's the one thing that very obviously differentiates one from the other?
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  864. Like Brendon, Rod Liddle made the case FOR the positive value of stigma and essentially being judgemental this week in the Spectator. Some practices just aren't socially positive, no matter what history informs them. Shooting up illegal drugs and defecating openly in the street, I feel, both fall into that category.
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  865. Did they see the CIA sponsored coup in 2014 you mean? Deadly snipers shooting from rooftops from impossible angles, at least according to the official narrative, at both advancing demonstrators and retreating riot police?
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  866. Great review. Thanks.
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  867. I love Chris Hedges, but the George Floyd story is long overdue a revisit by now by any serious journalist including him.
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  868. Crossed a line there mate. Cindy Yiu is magnificence itself.
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  869.  @johnstewart7025  Unfortunately my factual response was removed by YT for being unassailably...er....factual.
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  870. What the UK actually needs is the unimpeachable right to free speech enshrined in law akin to the US first amendment. Not because free speech is a panacea, it comes with many obvious problems, but precisely because the alternative is this sort of dangerously nebulous subjective nonsense that can be all too easily weaponised by individuals, business and authorities.
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  871. ​ @ikke12345 What exactly do you take issue with there?
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  872. Great discussion.
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  873. Listened to this twice now and will keep listening until it goes in. It hasn't yet I'm afraid. This is a monetary and economic masterclass in minutes with but a few quibbles.
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  874. The Scottish Parliament has just introduced a law which knowingly conflicts with UK law effectively to use as a constitutional battering ram. Ironically, wittingly or unwittingly, a UK parliament voted for the NIP which openly conflicts with the UK Act of Union and yet the courts, though they acknowledge that it 'subjugates' this profoundly important longstanding piece of UK legislation, seem to rule that it's perfectly acceptable. Expedient self-serving politicians are always expected perhaps, but when your courts can't clearly interpret the law without fear or favour then it doesn't exactly bode well.
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  875. ​ @harrydavey9884 Unusual practice no? Who ID'd him?
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  876. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage the United States' Potato in Chief, Joe Biden.
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  877. Melinda Gates has already confirmed the ongoing Gates/Epstein relationship without divulging much in the way of detail.
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  878. Nuclear's main selling point is that it is the answer to renewables' biggest shortcoming: their unpredictability. In the modern, energy intensive world a base load will alway be needed.
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  879. The EU and the previous Irish government have behaved appallingly, recklessly and cynically throughout this entire process aided and abetted by the UK's own political establishment.
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  880. Vast swathes of the huge European country of Ukraine are largely unaffected directly by this 'war'. As far as I understand it, the conflict is effectively concentrated to the East of the country bordering Russia extending down to Crimea in the South for obvious reasons. This raises the question as to why exactly were over 6m Ukrainians suddenly evacuated to Europe at the beginning of this Nato-led proxy war when most of the country appears to be carrying on as normal two years on? Further to this, even if it were an initial precautionary measure, why have so few returned?
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  881. Can't believe I ever gave Shapiro the time of day....fool me once etc.
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  882. My old car recently passed its MOT against all the odds.
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  883. YT algorithm delivered this to my feed yesterday.
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  884.  @davidadiwego4608  We've elected to do lots of things, but it was never down to one single choice. Medical advancements more generally from childhood vaccinations to heart medicines to cancer treatments to changing diets to better healthcare. All these things amongst many others including economic growth contribute to our longevity. What I'm saying is is that longevity whilst it might seem like a pure positive on the face of it can and does bring with it unaccounted for negative consequences.
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  885. If Farage has broken the law then he should be pursued accordingly and Coutts tell him why his account has been cancelled thus far without explanation. What proof do you have?
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  886. As far as established religion goes it's a plague on all their houses in my personal opinion, but what's happening in terms of those peacefully and legally protesting against the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza what's happening is a disgrace. The smearing of Corbyn and others was a warning of what might be coming down the road.
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  887. Privatisation drives efficiency and public ownership encourages sloth and waste goes the mantra. Thames Water alone is largely foreign owned, is currently £14bn in debt and water charges in the England are now 40% higher than the rate of inflation since privatisation in the late 80s. 70% of UK water companies are foreign owned. In some cases by somewhat dubious entities. Scottish water, though never perfect, is publicly owned and continually invests in its infrastructure and carries a debt of £80m. Privatisation, certainly in terms of vital utilities, has been a scam and a social crime happening in plain sight.
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  888. I'll probably completely change my opinion by next year but currently I think Mohammed El-Erian should be in charge of the world.
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  889. I'm amazed YouTube can legally do this. It's theft.
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  890. Iran has been given lemons by the US dominated West for decades and it has learned to make its own lemonade. Good on them, I say.
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  891. ​ @davidhodgson3901 You don't have to be a supporter of Putin to see the utter folly of these military misadventures.
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  892. Ex-Goldman Sachs banker Draghi even managed to get parachuted into the role of Italian PM by the EU in 21/22.
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  893. The EU average inflation rate, and I stress 'average', is 8.8% and the UK's is 9.1%. Some EU countries have inflation exceeding both those figures, including the Netherlands, and yet they have not voted to democratically leave the EU ie Brexit. Similarly, much is made of the tanking GBP, but it's quite obvious with anyone interested in looking at the figures that pretty much EVERY major currency, bar the Russian Rouble funnily enough, is tanking as everyone rushes to the perceived safe haven of the USD.
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  894. On the face of it Mearsheimer is projecting....
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  895. She's great, she's super smart she's, frankly, lovely and wants to publicly admit her own biases and failings in order to progress a righteous cause, but when it came to the Sewell Report she railed against its necessarily generalised pointing out of black, Carribbean, essentially single parent, absentee father families being part of a bigger problem and took it personally, when the specific referenced situation quite clearly didn't apply to her own circumstances and, in her mind, could simply be boiled down to prejudice based on the colour of people's skin.....sorry 7/8s of this interview was great, but it all went a bit pear shaped at the end for me....as I suspect it did for the interviewers looking at their faces.
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  896. Corbyn was removed as Labour Party leader on a trumped up charge of 'anti-Semitism'. It was, in effect, an establishment led coup within the party and Starmer, the current leader and now PM, was instrumental in and central to his removal as leader and subsequent exile from the party.
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  897. ​Yep. Attempted a reply but the YouTube gods were sufficiently displeased as to not let it pass.
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  898. ​ @ninarao4063 Therein lies the rub. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of good is the only way to reconcile these clearly imperfect situations.
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  899. Neil Oliver, rather depressingly, nails IT once again.
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  900.  @burnsnight1  Yep. It'll happen sure as night follows day.
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  901. I mentioned it, but the comment was removed unfortunately.
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  902.  @mavericktheace  Don't get me wrong I'll still watch him, just think he needs to mind his Ps and Qs a wee bit.
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  903. Highly unlikely, but you're right the majority of Americans are better than this.
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  904. Doing well tonight. Only had two comments censored by the YT so far on this thread tonight. Zang!
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  905. So literally no significant neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine?
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  906. ​ @Zlegacy23 As would we all, but they'd be blubbering like babies and pleading for their moms if bombs were truly raining down on them.
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  907. Whatever your opinions on China might be, the US has been engaged in preserving its own plutocratic system and attempting to spread it across the globe. Flag shagging average Americans are encouraged to dutifully aid and abet this without fully understanding that it is also often to their own detriment.
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  908.  @lepterfirefall  If you can successfully portray gender purely as an oppressive social construct rather than as a long held and accepted scientific, biological fact, like only women can give birth for example - which let's face it is what we are witnessing on a regular basis nowadays - then 'your truth' is, by definition, narrow, discriminatory and exclusionary I'm afraid. It's the weirdly prescient Monty Python Life of Brian Loretta sketch writ large. Gender today is an ever expanding spectrum apparently, a truly broad church adding new ones all the time, and in not embracing each new 'truth' every time one comes along you are officially a shameless, cold-hearted, hate-filled bigot.
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  909. Stupid, ignorant comment.
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  910. This is a particularly good interview and it's a shame more people won't hear it. SV is basically a massive data mining centre and the real wealth creators are ultimately the buying and borrowing consumers not the ones who find ever more ingenious and invasive ways of getting us to do so even if we apparently willingly submit to them. Twas forever thus I guess. The big takeaway though is how this relatively very small clique of individuals are using that accruing power and knowledge to effectively subvert and influence our societies and democratic processes which underpin them. Power inevitably corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely as the old saying goes.
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  911. The Naples garbage story is now sadly being echoed across the UK. Organized crime seems to be increasingly involved in illegal dumping here. It's a growing problem and very little seems to be being done to tackle it.
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  912. It should be a truism by now, but it doesn't seem to be any longer. It goes back to the old line, 'I might not always agree with what you're saying, but I'll always defend your right to say it'.
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  913. Possibly, but as was pointed out here various Coutts customers have pointed out since this story broke that nor do they and they haven't yet been threatened with having their accounts closed.
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  914. Salem witch trials? History doesn't necessarily repeat itself, but it often rhymes.
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  915. I think the point that Galloway would make is that there will always be religious fundamentalists whatever the religion. The reason that they gained SO much traction in the 80s, 90s and beyond is because of US led Western consistent divide and rule foreign policy in the region. Islamic fundamentalism has become a many headed hydra of the US and the West's own making.
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  916. ​ @flyrodmike It's much like the now Trump led US threat to pull its NATO forces out of Europe unless the member countries pony up more dough. It ain't gonna happen.
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  917.  @flyrodmike  It's really tedious isn't it. They're definitely becoming more 'rigorous' in the prosecution of truth tellers.
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  918.  @grimbleahoy  I suspect it would be argued by the Austrian state or others, were it ever to be legally challenged under the NC, that it could be justified on the basis that there is no alternative, TINA, as stipulated within the code. Don't get me wrong, I'm not in any way supportive of this, but it is quite telling that no government anywhere has yet come out to outright condemn this move.
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  919. All or none. And none ain't ever likely. Still an unpopular opinion, but I agree.
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  920. 'Anyone who wants to be a politician shouldn't be allowed' has never been more true than it has today.
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  921. Yet another of my comments mysteriously disappears....
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  922.  @tombarry2523  I've acknowledged that. It's now up 3.5% in the last five years. Is that because of or in spite of Brexit would you posit? By the same token was its precipitous fall at the inception of the single currency whilst the UK was in the EU a good or a bad thing in your opinion or just 'meh'?
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  923.  @tombarry2523  You're obviously evading the very clear questions I've asked you. Are you going to respond or are you just planning on beating your anti-Brexit drum with your la, la, la not listening rhetoric whilst flying in the face of verifiable facts? I'm long used to dealing with people like you, but I'm trying to be fair and reasonable here....
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  924. Which is precisely why people should be careful what they wish for. Western-led regime change in Iraq and Libya led to ongoing death, destruction and anarchy, but neither of them had 45% of the world's nuclear weapons in their possessions.
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  925. As soon as a commentator starts talking about Brexit in terms of pining for past imperial UK glories and then tries to shoehorn that into a discussion about Russia's invasion of Ukraine then they lose all credibility in my book. Thankfully the other fella, Dimitri, was a lot more interesting, credible and creditable.
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  926. FBI is an anagram of FIB.😊
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  927. If you can conflate pollution and environmental degradation, both of which are often visible and undeniable, with the notion of man made climate change which is tenuous and debatable at best then you're more than halfway there with the majority it seems.
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  928.  @tommyrotton9468  The problem isn't that there aren't any good arguments for renewables or finding more sustainable, less damaging, cleaner ways of living, it's that the arguments are usually disingenuous, often propagated by people with an identifiable self-interest and are nearly always boiled down to a simple either or. All nuance, like in so many aspects of our lives today, has been lost, mainstream debate crushed and 'the science' apparently settled.
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  929. There but for the grace of God goes the old saying and it would pay some of those leaving unpleasant comments on here to remember that. You can't make opportunities for yourself where there are none and there are no opportunities there essentially because of state policy.
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  930. Hiss, boo time, but keeping the GBP was one of the central planks behind my reasoning for voting to leave the EU. The UK's special opt out was never going to last forever and we would never have likely been offered the opportunity to have a referendum on membership ever again.
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  931. After listening to that it's not difficult to see why France and more particularly Germany have a serious problem with the idea of nationalism more generally.
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  932. War should never have happened in the first place. Difficult to know who to believe anymore after the last two and a half years.
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  933. This is a crucial window for Israel - hence the very real questions remaining about October 7 - and the US potentially gets to fulfill its previously stated aim of regime change in Iran. Thus, I suspect, the good cop/bad cop regime that they're both playing out whereby the US urges restraint, an aggrieved Israel doesn't listen and escalates with impunity and then Iran is forced to retaliate so as not to look weak. Ultimately it's ALL about how this contrived narrative plays with Western audiences and whether popular consent for war can be successfully manufactured as earlier with both Iraq and Afghanistan.
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  934. It's why I love economics. Nobody really knows anything. Still a fascinating guest though.
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  935. So Blackrock have sent in their damage assessors and they've assessed that enough damage has been done? What a wonderful world we live in.
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  936. An interesting, inconvenient aside, but nowhere in the 1998 Good Friday Agreement were the erection or dismantling of border infrastructure on the island of Ireland ever really mentioned. The UK pledged to dismantle military installations along the border under the agreement and that was about it.
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  937. The UK, even under the terms of the existing deeply flawed protocol, is perfectly legally entitled to suspend aspects of it due to the obvious diversion of trade away from mainland GB to NI to Ireland that has occurred since its implementation.
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  938. So, basically, if you live in the UK you've been getting steadily and markedly poorer since the 1980s but on the plus side if you've invested in the US you've managed to mitigate at least some of that wider loss through your investment there. Bolly all round I reckon🥳
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  939. I'd even have to look out the window if KJP told me it was raining outside.
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  940. Lovely smiley presenter😁
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  941. Controversially, this all boils down to and is built upon a still near universally accepted narrative/truism that there is such a thing as a Jewish 'race'.
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  942. The UK is the EU's third biggest export market after the US and China. To imagine that there aren't also consequences and extra costs for EU firms here would be fanciful. It's not a one way street. The EU essentially derives its political power and impetus through the customs union and single market which it uniquely legally oversees. Your extra costs and inconveniences are an indirect consequence, collateral damage if you like, of its greater political ambitions.
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  943. ​ @brendanpells912 I'm going to go with a 'no' there Brendan.
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  944. I'm absolutely mortified that my country, the UK, has chosen to undertake this utter folly that could lead us to ruin. Does no-one in our government or Whitehall understand the ramifications of this? It's nothing short of insanity.
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  945. The oligarchical model inevitably always had extensive 'road' in terms of its capacity to exploit. Not least through divide and rule. As more and more people hopefully wake up however it is gradually running out of that road.
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  946. Gaza, prior to October 7th was the most surveilled piece of land on Earth. To imagine that Israel (or the US for that matter), particularly after pulling off its recent years in the planning pager attacks and the killing of Hezbollah leader in Lebanon didn't know about them in advance takes quite a stretch of imagination.
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  947. 'America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests' - Henry Kissinger Absolutely correct and, ironically, even the quote itself was stolen.
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  948.  @DiegoCardona-pe9vr  The tragedy here is that just about every country in the world, including its neighbours, believes it can weigh in on Venezuela's democratic processes and have done for years now. If it didn't have oodles of oil the US and its western allies would be markedly less interested in its fate and that of its people. And so the cycle of US sanctions and coups, puppet opposition candidates, domestic oppression and economic mismanagement under Maduro, dubious elections and mass emigration, principally to the US Southern border, continues unabated.
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  949. ​ @zx7-rr486 Our MSM is an embarrassment nowadays. No wonder people are deserting it in their droves.
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  950. Never use Twitter and think Musk is a knob, but I still hope that he makes a go of it.
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  951. The 2024 Chicago DNC would have made Leni Riefenstahl puff up with pride.
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  952. Do some reading on the long history that led up to 2022. Plus can you cite actual proof of NK troops in the battle with Ukraine?
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  953. Nice to YT algo is playing the say what you like but just say it ONLY the way WE want you to say it regarding comments game.😂
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  954. mRNA jabs had been around for decades prior to covid and NEVER ONCE were they deemed safe or effective until 2020/1. They were trialled in numerous fields from cancer to heart disease and NEVER ONCE cleared the necessary hurdles to be considered for general use. Genuine vaccines generally take years to come to market, between 8 and 10, mRNA ones took months and were unleashed on hundreds of millions for their first few months with EUA, Emergency Use Authorization only ie not passed as fully tested. People in the US and elsewhere were being offered cash incentives in some cases in order to submit to them. These are indisputable facts and yet would STILL be described as conspiracy theories by many and like warrant a YT takedown.
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  955. It was a referendum not an election. Remember, everyone thought that remaining was a shoo-in, even David Cameron, so who exactly was supposed to present a comprehensive plan for what form leaving might take nevermind have the mandate for doing so?
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  956. The FED, broadly and historically speaking, isn't interested in propping up the real economy, really only in the propping up the financialised 'trickle down' economy.
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  957. The fact that this pathetic ad, which likely cost a lot of money to produce once all the usual suspects had taken their cut, would sway ANY American to vote for Harris is, quite frankly, alarming.
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  958. Broken record looking at the comments below and granted this is anecdotal ie not 'scientific', but I know of one guy ICU'd by Pfizer jab, another having regular tachycardia, one dead inexplicably from heart attack in his sleep at 42 with no prior family history and, finally, a 23 year previous extremely fit naval recruit having suffered a potentially life-changing stroke. All coincidence possibly, but in my 20 years of interacting with hundreds of thousands of people, more than most usually meet in their lifetimes, I've never heard of anything like this.
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  959.  @adamrugen1850  Most of that money went to the top two quartiles, not surprisingly. Why do you think house prices and the stock market kept going up? Nowhere to put it prior to the recent interest rate rises in order to get a return and nowhere to spend it during lockdown in any quantity.
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  960. Just double checked this and you are correct. Very disappointed.
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  961.  @Jean-rg4sp  Yup. Thankfully it did. Hopefully many others will get to read it too.
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  962. Basically, it seems the choice is between a Russian-style quasi-feudal oligarchy or a Western style corporatist oligarchy with nothing much else in between. Not really that much of a choice then is it.😬
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  963.  @MrDavidht  Yeah his was which was precisely why I made the comment. Lots of potential arguments could have been made there but yer man decided to focus solely on the ownership of the Spectator. Thus I'm not surprised that someone like you appreciates his comment not mine.
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  964. By means of ever more effective methods of mind manipulation, the democracies will change their nature; the quaint old forms… elections, parliaments, supreme courts and all the rest… will remain. The underlying substance will be a new kind of Totalitarianism. All the traditional names, all the hallowed slogans will remain exactly like they were in the good old days. Democracy & freedom will be the theme of every broadcast & editorial. Meanwhile, the ruling oligarchy and its highly trained elite will quietly run the show as they see fit. Aldous Huxley, 1962
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  965. Ooh, she was getting desperate towards the end there. You can only be an apologist for these sometimes awful people and regimes because you're attacking us and our methods, right? Intellectually AND morally bankrupt.
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  966. It's a topsy turvy world when we're forced to go to the Qatari owned Al Jazeera as a source for truth. Western journalism is in the gutter.
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  967. The fact that too many people blissfully ignore and yet need to be constantly aware of is that media is, predominantly, a consumable money generating product, not necessarily a disseminator of the truth, let alone a unique one. In short echo chambers make it far easier and lucrative for amoral providers to sell 'the product' and the things associated with it, hence the diabolical algorithms and the endless targeted advertising.
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  968. This is starting to make the Dotcom bubble look like a rehearsal.
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  969. Largely thanks to the internet audiences are, broadly speaking, a lot more informed now than they used to be and a lot less inclined to be treated like mushrooms by the mainstream media. Nevertheless said media, particularly the BBC, still arrogantly believes that it can get away with 'telling' rather than more 'showing' its now fast dwindling audiences. Longer form interview programmes like the one presented by Sackur should in theory have a place in the media firmament given people's appetite for them online, but by accounts he just couldn't help himself interrupting and hectoring his guests.
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  970.  @seanmoran2743  All I do know is nothing would surprise me anymore.
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  971. From a humanitarian and moral perspective there is absolutely no justification for prolonging this avoidable war. Like many wars, particularly more recent ones in a fossil fuelled world, from a Western economic and geopolitical perspective there apparently is. History isn't a morality play but this isn't Iraq, Libya or Syria. This is Russia. A former world superpower. A country with a bigger nuclear arsenal than the US, whether half of it still works properly or not, and country where what potentially follows its destabilisation could be far, far worse than anything we could currently imagine. Be careful what you wish for people.
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  972. Where's my comment gone? These people decrying bigotry and championing free speech appear to be utter hypocrites.
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  973. ​ @paul756uk2 Just unsubscribed. Had enough of these BSers. The right to free speech is ultimately there to protect those with whom you disagree not those with whom you agree.
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  974. Nothing's ever binary and nobody knows for sure, particularly at this early stage. Could be another Libya though with all these factions at large. Stability seems unlikely in the short term plus a bloody revenge program against Assadists. Wider consequences too in terms of Russia which will be somewhat humiliatingly forced out of the country placing more emphasis and importance on the war in Ukraine. A war it cannot afford to lose. Also potentially wider consequences for both Hezbollah in Lebanon and for Iran.
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  975. Why wasn't NATO dissolved in the 1990s?
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  976.  @0ooTheMAXXoo0  Of course it is and then it might start to be able to call itself a serious contender currency rather than merely a speculative asset owned by fewer and fewer people seeking to enrich themselves. Ironically one of the major problems it has, other than its obvious one of provenance, is the very fact that its supply is deliberately limited thereby promoting said speculation.
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  977. It's often true that. I like to read multiple sources on certain stories that interest me and it's obvious that they're sometimes drawn from the same source material to the point where they're word for word. Basically it's the retyping of press releases and I'm sure that AI is more than capable of fulfilling that task in the future. Doesn't bode well for the truth or actual news though.
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  978. Under a No Deal Brexit WTO rules would still have applied and it should never be forgotten that the UK is the EU's third biggest market after the US and China. The UK has neither a trade deal with China or the US, by far its biggest trading partner, and yet somehow trade continues apace.
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  979. My friend has a second home in Barcelona and it's never been an issue for him or his family. He visits regularly. Perhaps they don't like the look of you?
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  980. I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels that way about Keeeeeeev. Cheeeee-ken Keeeeeeev? Not in my lifetime.
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  981. ​ @howardalantreesong2588 Show me someone who claims not to be a magpie and I'll show you a liar.
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  982. Going Postol 😁
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  983. ​​ @Sunopeek That's the long and the short of it, yes. Many Palestinians refuse to give up any land for this reason and this probably explains why they reject the US brokered solutions that are periodically put their way. They see no reason why they should compromise. Don't get me wrong, anti-Semitism is an unjustifiable scourge on humanity, but they were basically forced to solve someone else's historical problem ie 'ours' at vast personal expense and enduring misery.
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  984. Compounding interest only works for a relative few IF you have the disposable income to make the continued 'investment'. If increasingly fewer and fewer people do, effectively as a matter of established political and economic policy, then they are not in a position to do so. What's so difficult to understand about that?
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  985. Despite numerous other examples, the Romanian election result cancellation was one of the most tenuous and blatant affronts to the democratic process that I've ever seen. The West is sliding towards authoritarianism under the entirely false premise that our elites are defending us against it. The masses are still sleepwalking towards it and need to wake up to this before it's too late.
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  986. Thank you for answering this question. I've heard that the US is currently exporting inflation to the rest of the world but couldn't find a reasonable explanation of it. Now I have.
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  987. Yeah, funny that. And despite all the sacrifices the average age of a covid death remains 83 I believe. You didn't need a crystal ball to see that one coming did you? At least now we can 'enjoy' all the excess deaths that are now showing up in far younger people. This rise has been variously attributed to the hot weather, the after effects of having the covid virus itself, lockdowns and people not seeking treatment, the after affects on health services but not, er, another reason that's completely slipped my mind.
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  988.  @iordanneDiogeneslucas  When Communism collapsed the continued reason for NATO's existence became questionable. Gorbachev was assured by the West that NATO would not expand any further East. This was why the Soviets agreed to German reunification. What we have seen is a continual push East and the EU having a hand in toppling the elected Ukrainian government in 2014. This war has been brewing for years and many have repeatedly warned against the US, NATO's and the EU's actions. Look back at some recent history.
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  989. 'Competition is for losers' - Peter Thiel. There was good reason why the US brought in anti-trust laws over a century ago and carved up its damaging monopolies. People like Thiel, Bezos, Musk and Zuckerberg fear and loathe actual competition and their best hope of stopping it is the politicians in their pockets.
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  990. Bearing in mind how the 2020 US election went it's becoming increasingly difficult for the US Deep State to create a narrative that would successfully explain away an extremely unlikely Biden victory in 2024. Voting for someone, anyone in fact, simply on the basis that they're not Donald Trump without them campaigning or leaving their basement might allegedly have worked in 2020, but it sure as hell won't wash with the American public in 2024.
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  991. I'm still struggling to work out Trump's rationale here, but I'm not so arrogant as to assume there isn't one. People dismiss him all too often too easily, but what he's doing here, I agree, is baffling....
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  992. Hold your horses there. He's been plenty critical of Trump. Plus, if you have an issue with his opinion on Communist Russia and its gulags then spit it out....
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  993. Yeah, you kinda need to flesh that sort of comment out otherwise it just comes across as an ad hominem from someone who can't articulate their arguments properly.
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  994. High Enough by Damn Yankees is actually a pretty damn good song Max, I'll have you know😊
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  995. His wife's of Indian descent, he's a true Labour supporter unlike most of the bougie self serving tossers in the party nowadays and he knows and understands more about the working classes than you ever will.
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  996. What is 'JAB'?
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  997. Speaks volumes to hear that AD, a gay man, regularly invites Stonewall onto his GB news show and they've never, ever accepted.
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  998. Clarify?
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  999. It certainly appears that government led false flags abound nowadays. All done in an effort to 'nudge' otherwise potentially reluctant populaces to come round to certain ways of thinking and minimize the possibility of pushback.
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  1000.  @christianmccann9400  ...before they got the chance to loot them...
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  1001. It is extraordinary how MSM and corporates have rounded on the Musk owned Twitter before his feet have barely touched the ground there. Actually, change 'extraordinary' to 'extremely worrying'.
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  1002. First America's off-shoring elites impoverished their own working classes for profit under the banner of free competition and now they're appealing to them to help stop the self-induced rot in the face of foreign competition. Now that takes some brass neck.
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  1003. ​ @Jordan-fd6cx Succinct, measured and fair assessment. Hopefully more people will read it.
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  1004. BTC is another example of this 'irrational exuberance'. It is another symptom of debt bubble not in any way a solution. MicroStrategy's Saylor, 2024's answer to Bernie Madoff, is definitely one to watch in 2025.
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  1005. The Left Right paradigm is indeed extremely useful in helping to divide and rule.
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  1006. Ritter fought for his country as a marine, potentially risked his life each time in Iraq as a weapons inspector and Joe Biden had the brassneck to lecture him about acting above his pay grade and why people like him got to ride in limos and got paid the big bucks. What a lowlife.
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  1007. If recent history teaches us anything a Russia without Putin in the current circumstances would be a lot scarier than one with. The direction of travel here still points to a conflict that should never have happened in the first place and a potentially ruinous situation for both Russians and Europeans. Thanks to the use of swinging US led sanctions the ante was raised to the max from the very beginning and all sides need to find a way of de-escalating this conflict before winter bites.
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  1008.  @deanodebo  Aah, I see. So you're not neutral. You seem to have a pretty clear idea to me. Firstly this arguably happened in our lifetimes. Not hundreds of years ago. Secondly, you believe that because it wasn't a fully defined sovereign territory on a map in the 20th century sense the people who lived there for centuries and who've been relatively recently displaced and dispossessed en masse by incoming immigrants with little or no connection to said land they're assuming for themselves have a far lesser right to claim ownership of it. Is that correct?
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  1009. Anybody who has been paying attention knows that the 2008 GFC revealed that 'Socialism' is the preserve of the rich whilst 'Capitalism' is reserved for the poor.
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  1010. The rules are there are no rules.
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  1011. Hilarious take on Kinnock accompanyied by a slight wry smile there 😂
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  1012. Biden knows bugger all about Northern Irish politics.
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  1013. Epstein never offered to fly me to go and see my ailing mom nor to take me fossil hunting. Where did I go wrong?
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  1014. Too 50/50 to say for definite.
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  1015. I don't think it's unique in that. Certainly in European terms.
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  1016.  @andymac345  Yep. That's the herd of elephants in the room for me too.
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  1017. The charming Marshall doing a great job as ever. Puts people at their ease.
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  1018. Having looked he's right. Finding any pictures of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a lot more difficult than you might think....
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  1019.  @HelenA-fd8vl  It would have been under his first presidency, yes. It was also under Clinton that NATO sought to expand eastwards in spite of earlier alleged assurances from both Baker and Bush Snr to Gorbachev that this would not happen if the Soviet Union pledged not to oppose the reunification of Germany.
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  1020.  @HelenA-fd8vl  Certainly one way of looking at it and arguably the way that has led us to where we are today. There were arguments, good arguments, that when the Soviet Union collapsed and the Warsaw Pact alliance disappeared there was really no longer any need for NATO to exist. Arguments made by a good many American politicians and intellectuals incidentally. Nato has long been seen as a way of keeping America in Europe, the Russians out and the Germans down. Make of that what you will, but there are consequences for that approach and Ukraine is one of them, for good or ill.
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  1021. Makes perfect sense. If you're trying to weave a credible narrative, reach a predetermined conclusion to 'prove' a point and the existing methodology doesn't do that then the only alternative is to change the methodology to one that does.
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  1022. This interview shows how blurred the lines have become between left and right in recent years, almost to the point of positions swapping. Adonis desperately and disingenuously keeps trying to straw man the Spectator's position whilst cheerfully ignoring that real wages for blue collar workers have barely risen for the last 20 years and never once mentioning the words, 'free movement'. This, unfortunately, was not only whilst the UK was obviously an EU member but also under many years of a Labour administration of which Adonis was a not insignificant member. Shameful performance really.
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  1023. Charmingly naive Peter, but governments, or more precisely states democratic or otherwise, always monitor what their peoples say. The ubiquity of the internet has in many ways helped them to do their job more easily. The biggest downside for them is the sheer volume of stuff they have to monitor.
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  1024. ​ @haroldb1856 Carter said 2016 result was stolen. Nuff said.
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  1025. It's painfully obvious that Western economies like the UK have simply exported their carbon emissions to other poorer, developing countries, often to their own businesses very obvious disadvantage. No wonder countries like the rapidly developing China, which is essentially the workshop of the world and therefore inevitably the highest carbon emitter, aren't interested in joining too readily in this virtue signalling, hypocritical charade. Nor is it any surprise that net global carbon emissions are at best steady or, as is likely, slowly rising. Couple that with the actual price that these policies are exacting like the recent exponential energy price hikes, the near collapse in the UK of the so-called 'energy market' and the oh so ironic vital domestic CO2 shortage caused by the closure of energy intensive fertiliser businesses in the UK and you wonder when or how, if ever, all of this nonsense will end.
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  1026. You just don't get it do you.
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  1027. ​ @kelrogers8480 I think that comment speaks for itself.
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  1028. Ukraine is not in NATO so it has no legal duty to defend it but it does have an arguable vested interest in supplying the Ukrainian forces with arms to fight a proxy war with Russia. Not only does such a policy allow Nato to degrade and assess the Russian military it can do so without spilling a drop of NATO soldiers' blood which would quickly become politically difficult in the West. Further to this, a head on NATO/Russian conventional war would undoubtedly degenerate into a nuclear exchange pretty rapidly as neither Nato nor Russia have an enshrined policy of NFU, No First Use, unlike China and India. It's also been noted recently that NATO, because of the sheer amount of ammunition and equipment that's been sent to Ukraine, is itself running short of its own supplies.
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  1029.  @chatham43  I rather think that many of the people commenting on here would rather we didn't.
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  1030. Hope you're speaking metaphorically. You can claim at least some of your losses against your yearly tax bill.
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  1031. Brilliant.
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  1032. I can only, if extremely reluctantly, agree with Chris here. The race card is played far too easily too often nowadays, but I'm acutely aware that people whom I would otherwise listen to's views on Palestine are clouded by an element of racial prejudice.
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  1033.  @Archie460  My comment was censored. These are worrying times.
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  1034. This looks like a positive development, but we can only wait and see....
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  1035. Certainly no fan of Truss, but Sunak's fingerprints are all over this self-inflicted sh*tstorm.
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  1036. ​@@patrickjoesphfallon1486British Isles humour?😁
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  1037.  @albertmaziarz6739  You'll need to do better than that I'm afraid.
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  1038. Ireland is, I believe, the ONLY EU member country that is constitutionally required to have a referendum on each new major EU treaty essentially because it inevitably results in the further surrendering of more of its sovereignty to Brussels. Mark Price's observation on the Irish Triple Lock on Neutrality being abandoned - the assurance by EU leaders of the maintenance of Ireland's neutrality was apparently sufficient to get the Irish electorate to change its mind over accepting the 2007 Lisbon Treaty - is very revealing. Further to that, without FULL ratification by ALL EU member states the Lisbon Treaty, essentially pointing to far greater integration, would have been dead in the water...
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  1039. On a wider point, if banks were genuinely private businesses then they wouldn't have been bailed out by the UK taxpayer in 2008 and NatWest/Coutts wouldn't still be 48% owned by the UK taxpayer.
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  1040. Contrived scarcity, eh? It's almost like the 'free' market is constantly being manipulated with government consent. Surely not.....
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  1041. Sorry, but Richard Dawkins is an absolute idiot.
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  1042. This is what happens when two sides drift to the extremes and are permitted to hold sway. The right wing extremists who assassinated Rabin in 1995 post Oslo Accords must be rubbing their bloody hands with glee today. Though no great lover of the Palestinians at least Rabin realised that it was in Israel's and its population's interests to find a lasting solution to the problem there amenable to both sides. Bibi, whom I believe succeeded him, was a populist of the worst kind and saw the febrile situation as ripe for exploitation for his own political ends. And thus here we are today in 2023 with the irredeemably corrupt ethno-nationalist Bibi STILL in charge and the Israel/Palestinian question more fraught and less close to a resolution than ever.
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  1043. Yep. With polls it's all in the question. Might as well just ask, 'are you a good or a bad person'.
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  1044. Neil's comments on conspiracies is very revealing, particularly regarding covid. Invariably there is more than a grain of truth in most conspiracies and many turn out to be true. This is the man, lest we forget, who was super keen on vaccine passports and was pushing for 'vaccine refuseniks' to be banned from public spaces in 2021.
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  1045. The big question which nobody ever seems to ask is WHO exactly dominates the bond markets that effectively govern which of these democratically elected governments get to sink or swim?
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  1046.  @ChristineRead-ck1uq  Can't say I'm a fan of Liz Truss by any measure, but what concerns me is there is what the Italians call 'an external constraint' on our democratically elected governments. Ok up to a point, but who exactly are they and to whom are they accountable?
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  1047. David Betray-us.
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  1048. ​ @ashdav9980 Emoji overuse like that is always a sign of self-doubt.
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  1049. A slightly ill-prepared TC was undoubtedly overawed by the occasion and the man but in his defence at least people got to hear Putin speak at length for a change. Yes, he should have been challenged more on his answers, yes he should have been reined in a bit, particularly at the beginning, and yes more probing questions should have been asked, but overall I think Carlson still did the genuinely curious world at large a service here.
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  1050. The European Project is, was and always will be a Franco-German hegemony - Germany being the more reluctant member of the dynamic duo - and it remains to be seen how the rest of its membership ultimately acquiesces to that fact.
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  1051. @drscopeify  You don't sound like the typical MMTer, but your comment strongly suggests you are.
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  1052. The US foments a war, starts a war, funds and arms a war and then apparently gets to decide to end a war. Sweet.
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  1053.  @tonyman187  Can you expand on that.
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  1054. A depressing read, but nevertheless true. If it helps any the rot really started in the 1980s when the money men truly got their hooks into the country and started mortgaging its future. It's been decades in the making basically and don't let anyone kid you that New Labour somehow stopped or postponed the decline from that point.
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  1055. So Duncan Weldon talks of these problems apparently uniquely afflicting the UK going back 10 or 15 years or more. Years most of which the UK was in the EU. The UK only left the EU at the end of 2020 and that act has made everything change from already previously bad to now markedly worse? Is that correct?
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  1056. The service oriented UK was, by design, during its EU membership one of the bloc's biggest export markets after the US and China. Our negative balance of trade, particularly in goods, with the EU became a feature thanks to the single market's specific orientation toward manufacturing. An area which member states like France and Germany excel in. The trade balance size was huge and we were, as William points out, slowly but surely impoverishing ourselves in the process. This rendered us less able to resist being swallowed up by the European Project the longer this situation continued.
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  1057. Having previously removed 14/15 per cent.
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  1058. Anything with Andrew Doyle on is worth listening to IMHO.
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  1059. Garbage in, garbage out.
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  1060. Depriving and denying a resource rich nuclear Russia, Europe's biggest country by far, any serious role in the continent is utter and complete madness. Imagine the American continent depriving and denying the United States a say. This is power politics at its most reckless, self serving, myopic and stupid.
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  1061. Yeah, if you were a conspiracy theorist you might think that this was part of the plan😊
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  1062. As Kissinger once pointed out, if he wants to speak to and sound out Europe what number does he ring?
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  1063. ​ @sandilengcobo7904 So, on that basis, you no longer really consider it worthy of having an opinion on anything once you reach say 45? Does a 7 year old's opinion carry more weight than a 15 year old's would you say?
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  1064. @robaudi20vTo rework a well-known phrase, 'never attribute to conspiracy what can be adequately explained by complacency or c*ck up'. I really admire his use of temperate constructive language there. Trying to give the people largely responsible for this the benefit of the doubt. Not least because to imagine that what is happening is actually a diabolical contrivance is unconscionable for most of us.
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  1065. I've certainly heard a lot, yes. I'm really still trying to process it. Is it just a scenario that we're sleepwalking into out of complacency or apathy or are there genuinely dastardly transnational 'plans' afoot? 'Capitalism' is supposedly about prosperous, dynamic free markets, decentralized power structures, social mobility, continual investment for profit and protecting individual freedoms whereas it has provably delivered monopolies, oligopolies, cronyism, increased financialization, state approved usury, unimaginable debt levels, endless regulation, economic stagnation, sh*t public services and decaying infrastructure plus fewer individual freedoms over the decades not more. Whilst it sounds idealistic, genuine democracy and accountability is still our best and only hope for pushing back against this slow motion creeping technocratic coup, but I'm starting to see that option gradually ebbing away. I see unsettling parallels and connections with our politics there and, like I said, facing up to the horror of the contrived realities you clearly believe are happening is easier said than done not least because of the inevitable consequences that will come with that if enough people do.
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  1066. People like Bash are the Judases of their time. They really gotta want that moolah I guess, and clearly think it's worth the price.
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  1067. Utter genius really. Not only the biggest financial fraud/ social experiment) of the century, but likely the biggest financial fraud the world has ever seen or likely will see. Madoff was the known, traceable, ultimately jailable head of a more or less US based Ponzi scheme whereas Satoshi Nakamoto - I have a strong feeling 'he' was a 'they' - was unknown, remains unknown and thus unjailable and operated on a truly epic global scale. Throw in some BS about democratizing and decentralizing money and sprinkle with a little with various other myths like how it would end inflation and emasculate Central Bankers 'et voilà'... ...supper is served, suckers.
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  1068. The US economy today is around 26% of global GDP, around 16% by PPP and it accounts for a 60% share of global stock markets. That's an overextended financialised economy punching WAY above its economic weight right there. Yup. It's a bubble alright.
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  1069. If you're interested American households' savings are not anywhere near as healthy as JP claims, particularly at the lower end.
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  1070. Mystified? Why does that make him a con artist given what he's said here?
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  1071. ​ @multitablez7825 Not in the slightest bit relevant. You're essentially using an ad hominem in the hope of distracting from the fundamental truth he's actually stating. If you want to address the meat of what he's saying then fine but otherwise....
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  1072. Definitely one of the downsides of having a largely autonomous private mercenary army at your disposal (or not).
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  1073.  @laurenceBDontYaNo  So why, might you posit, isn't there a party campaigning to rejoin the EU? UKIP took 25 years to get a referendum on EU membership so presumably you're at the forefront of the campaign to rejoin. What active steps are you personally taking?
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  1074. I would say 1978, but I broadly agree.
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  1075. There is of course the infamous recording of the Estonian FM's phonecall with EU Commissioner Ashton where he says that those weren't Yanukovych's snipers and they were clearly sniping from above and killing people on both sides using the same type of bullet.
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  1076. Certainly in terms of the Western narrative a Navalny dead as a martyr, apparently murdered by Putin, is a far more valuable propaganda asset than a Navalny alive fading into obscurity in an arctic prison.
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  1077. There are still nigh on TWO jobs for every ONE US jobhunter at the moment I believe.
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  1078. Righteous anger.
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  1079. Not if you're in the EU it isn't. It's become accepted practice.
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  1080.  @flowermaze___  I find some people annoying too regardless of their skin colour.
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  1081. If 'Greenshill Grifter' Cameron could become foreign secretary then there's no good reason why the Mince of Darkness Mandelson shouldn't become US ambassador.
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  1082. 'Narrative' is the key word here. It's subjective not objective by definition. A bit like 'my truth' and 'the' science. Question any of them, however, and you do so at your peril. Orwell must be chuckling to himself somewhere out there in the great unknown if nothing else.
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  1083. JDV might well have a fair point about free speech and jiggery wokery in Europe, but to use that as the excuse for walking away from a war his country long fomented, effectively started and largely funded is pretty lame IMHO.
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  1084. For both good and ill, the story of empire dominates human history and will likely continue to do so. As technology advanced so did empires in terms of their ability to expand further in symbiosis with those advances. White Europeans didn't invent 'empire' and nor were they unique in displacing or oppressing peoples who happened to be there before them. History isn't a morality play unfortunately.
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  1085. Basically, if this continues as is, if your average successful 'business' which requires lots of cheap, reliable energy to stay that way suddenly can't access that vital energy then things could go t*ts pretty quickly without state support. Countries are far more complex and diverse of course than companies, but it doesn't exactly paint a rosy picture does it?
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  1086. ​ @piquat1 Fascinating discussion between you two. Hope more read it.
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  1087. Yep, diversity in all its forms is acceptable, desired and required even, except when it comes to opinions.
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  1088. Bless the heavens for Jacinda's small tank!!
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  1089. In this instance yes.
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  1090. The illegal unprovoked US/Israeli attacks Iran, a BRICS member, sadly inform this. What I'm interested to see is how Russia and China react if Trump starts to involve the US militarily. Also, as other people have mentioned, is the soon to be scrapped Nimitz being lined up à la Gulf Of Tonkin as a false flag?
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  1091. The USA. Largely through AIPAC. Unless you're being rhetorical 😊
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  1092. Never forget.
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  1093. When I was a kid, in the UK, we often used to 'go wooding' as a family on Winter Sundays looking to gather wood from the ground. Chopping it up on our return for our home fire. It not only obviously helped keep us warm it was also a bonding experience. Might even have been then, I don't know, but doing so today in the UK, as in Austria, doing so is now an illegal act.
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  1094. I think I'd remain as anonymous as possible too if I made a daft comment like that.
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  1095. A long term prophet warning against the dangers of short term profit. Before his time sadly.
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  1096.  @hadleyscott1160  It's not for no reason that the US Democratic Party and the Republican Party are often described as two wings of the same bird of prey.
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  1097. Israel and this whole charade provides America with plausible deniability. 'Even US fails to rein Israel in' etc goes the current MSM narrative. What a load of BS. The US, or THE essential nation, as Biden describes them has been angling for a war with Iran for years now and we're witnessing that plan finally coming together. It's certainly more complex than the WMD lie that took the US coalition into Iraq, but this whole sorry episode stinks to high heaven.
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  1098. Israel is seen primarily as serving American and Western geopolitical interests in the Middle East. It has far less to do with what it is - although that provides a highly useful smokescreen - and far more to do with where it is.
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  1099. I'm not religious sadly, but if I were I like to think there's a special circle of Hell reserved for Henry Kissinger.
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  1100. His own show I can mostly leave, but it's actually a really good interview. Give it a go.
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  1101. Me too. At least we're trying. Most people aren't.
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  1102. 'A person who fears the truth will seek to persecute those who tell it.'
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  1103. When the essential definer, alleged upholder and main repeated transgressor of 'international law' is one and the same entity then it's probably fair to say it's not worth the paper it's not written on.
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  1104.  @nathanbrammer8471  Personally, I take it that cherry picking evidence is almost a given by anyone seeking to prove their case. I don't have a set view on climate change if I'm honest, but I'm interested to hear the arguments and don't believe that people should be censored or muzzled for daring to question the prevailing narrative. The main thing here is that these views are out there, particularly for people like you to pick apart with your own arguments and evidence.
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  1105. So he's a US senator in Congress?
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  1106.  @tomhollingsworth8201  Maybe you could also have phrased your reply a little less pointedly?
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  1107.  @tomhollingsworth8201  I was. Apology accepted.
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  1108. The Hunter Biden laptop story is often attributed to Russian disinformation, but as the WSJ reported, 'To create a plausible fake laptop, with a plausible index of files, plausible time stamps, plausible browser history, thousands of plausible photos, text messages, emails and other documents would be beyond the Kremlin and laughably disproportionate to any aim the Kremlin might hope to achieve.' So was it buried by a largely sympathetic to Biden, undeniably anti-Trump media or was it simply regarded by a completely non-partisan media that had spent years doggedly pursuing Trump's 2016 election as illegitimate partly due to Russian meddling as a laughable hoax. npr was forced to apologize for initially falsely claiming that US intelligence had dismissed the story as purely Russian disinformation, Hunter Biden admitted on CBS that the laptop could be his as he previously had the same model stolen and CNN flatout spiked the story.
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  1109. To be fair, I'm sure he's more nuanced than that. Islam is often a routinely misogynistic and homophobic religion and that should always be called out, not least by those who practice it, and I'm sure that Hedges would agree with that. The crime rate in London isn't specifically linked to Islam either I believe.
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  1110. Hugely informative piece warranting repeated listens, but it does make my brain hurt!!
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  1111. The Palestinians have, perhaps understandably, throughout refused to accept what amounts to the Judgement of Solomon. The Palestinian Arabs refused the partition in 1948 principally because they didn't agree with it in the first place, viewed it as an aggressive act and didn't believe that the UN had the authority to do so. Nevermind that they were also of the opinion that it ignored the very principles within the UN's own founding charter. That decision has wrought misery on both sides, but principally the Palestinians'. The problem is that the modern state of Israel is only around 75 years old and it was, essentially, born of the wave of antisemitism sweeping Europe in the first half of the last century and latter part of the 19th. Whilst I can see your comment is well-intentioned and an attempt at being constructive I think it's also quite obvious why many Palestinian Arabs still refuse to budge on the issue when they feel they and their antecedents were dispossessed by a massive and steady influx of foreign immigrants driven out of Europe by a problem not of their making or choosing.
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  1112.  @pazdylan1873  It's the million dollar question isn't it. An intractable problem that has foxed far greater minds than yours or mine for decades. It's as much a practical problem as it is a political one now. If not more so. Oil and water. A two state solution looks to be highly improbable now given the decades of mounting animus between the two and agreeing a genuinely fair split, particularly if brokered by the US, acceptable to all seems unlikely. A single state solution with the Right of Return which many Palestinians want (likely including Arafat which was why he rejected Clinton's 2000 'deal') also seems like an impossible dream now too. Plus imagine telling all those militant illegal settlers who think they're fulfilling a religious prophecy in the West Bank that it's time to call it a day and move on. Make Waco look like a picnic. Thus, if I'm honest, I don't know what the answer is but the two things I do know is that the UN seriously f*cked all those years ago by kicking the can down the road and the problem was ultimately caused by the Western powers and Zionists not the Palestinians or Jews.
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  1113. Colonel MacGregor always provides a uniquely insightful view of these things, but shame he went full metal Norman Collier throughout much of the early part of this interview.
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  1114. I disagree with Cohen. Zionism is not remotely comparable to Nazism, but the damage it has done and its nationalist ideology is doing to the Middle East and Palestine is obvious. Israel, undoubtedly, has a right to exist where it is, but not in its current form. A one state solution, sadly, now looks impossible given the poisonous history of the last hundred years largely thanks to the actions of said Zionists, but surely it's not beyond the wit of man to come to an inevitably imperfect accomodation between both sides here?
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  1115. Violates our 'Community guidelines'. That's the abuse and power of language contained in two simple words. Genius really. Want to remain part of the 'community'? Best buck your ideas up sunshine and stick to the 'guidelines' then.
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  1116. Has Kim got a thing for grannies then?
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  1117. Every decent human being deserves respect from their fellows, that should be a given, but this isn't the nub of issue. The Spectator's political leanings have nothing to do with it incidentally. This isn't whether a relative handful of celebrities get to ply their trade unmolested or not or simply about deferring to 'experts' or respecting the apparently monolithic feelings of one tiny group. It's about asking, nay demanding, that everyone accept what they KNOW absolutely not to be true. In this instance regarding the nature of gender. 'Political correctness' was a term first coined in Stalin's Russia for people who largely knew what the actual, sometimes inconvenient truth was but who knew that if it contradicted the official party line then it ceased to be 'the truth'. In order to toe the line then and get on they had to become 'politically correct'. I have the greatest respect and liking for Graham Norton, but on this he has, quite frankly, totally missed the point and is trying to be a little too clever for his own good.
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  1118. I don't think you're wrong, but the rest of the world seems to have settled on the USD as the global reserve or, more precisely, they can't agree on an alternative.
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  1119. Israel might be vulnerable after October 7th, but you can't dismiss that it is the only nuclear power in the region. Albeit an undeclared one and non-signatory to the NPT.
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  1120. Hey, it's traditional.
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  1121. Cool. Evidence? I'm all ears...
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  1122. They've just been voted in with a massive majority FFS!!
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  1123. Starmer is an establishment placeman. He is regarded as a safe pair of hands by it. Don't believe me...then look at what happened to Liz Truss in record time. It was glaringly obvious he made his Faustian bargain with it when he got rid of Corbyn. This election is his reward.
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  1124. Both the UK Guardian newspaper and the BBC Newsnight programme did pieces on the far right in Ukraine in 2015 and the potential threat they posed to stability in the country and region more generally. Now both either largely forgotten or completely repudiated.
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  1125. I'd go with pretty big, wouldn't you? Given that they both closely follow on from more than a decade of supposedly due to be unwound funny money, aka QE, the timings of both couldn't be worse for most people.
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  1126. Bunch of lying C***ts.
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  1127. Rod 'Mr Tinsel' Liddle.
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  1128. Don't be silly.
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  1129. David Betray-US.
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  1130. Luke...aah....oooh....er....aaah.... Harding.
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  1131. Feminist voice Posie Parker said she felt safer drinking in an airport bar in Dubai on a stopover than she did in NZ from whence she'd just come.
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  1132.  @steveb5111  Find and vote for a party that will seek to challenge the status quo...
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  1133. Excellent point.
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  1134. Always a worry when you post a comment and it 'appears' but doesn't register in the numbers. Even after a 12 hour period. Hopefully suggestive of a technical glitch not a shadow ban. Something which seems to be increasingly common nowadays.
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  1135. Europe had as close to as ideal as is possible accommodation with Russia prior 2014. Let's not forget it was the US, including later Trump himself, who openly sought to sabotage that.
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  1136. What does all this mean for the future of these essentially novel, untested mRNA vaccines and perhaps vaccine uptake more generally I wonder? The manufacturers might have legal immunity but the powers that be had better hope that these interventions don't start throwing up any significant health issues for the population going forward. The only thing they couldn't green light was the vital passage of time. All the money in the world has yet to buy one second of time.
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  1137. Yep. Chris Hedges, whom I admire greatly, does himself a grave disservice as a serious journalist of distinction by still peddling this line.
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  1138. Have the tanks on the streets been absolutely confirmed as there to put down the bank protests?
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  1139. The hierarchical societal response to covid simply followed nature's laws. The worker bees, who do by far most of the essential work to maintain the colony, are more numerous and therefore far more easily expendable. Seizing upon examples of some of said worker bees for not acting responsibly throughout and putting the colony at risk was just an added bonus for some of the cooped up more precious judgmental drones.
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  1140. A lot of things happened under the first Trump administration that helped to foment the war in Ukraine and antagonize Russia. Unfortunately the world's media was SO obsessed with Trump 'the big bad orange man' for four years and the fabrication that was Russiagate rather than his actual policies that these things all went under the radar. It represented a severe dereliction of duty by the world's Fourth Estate.
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  1141. Excellently put and something I too was guilty of.
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  1142. Whilst death threats are inexcusable this lady, very unwisely, has unilaterally acted to bend the law in a blatantly partisan manner and, in effect, undermine America's democratic process.
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  1143. When Netanyahu describes this as Israel's 9/11 I think there's potentially more than meets the eye to this claim. This attack was warned about days in advance by Egypt and that alone should've been enough not to leave its barriers so seriously under-manned. Jewish holiday or no. Also, why was the government response so slow? Further to that, if concerns for Israeli citizenry are their priority why is the government so blatantly electing to summarily jeopardize the lives of hundreds of Israeli hostages in Gaza? Never attribute to conspiracy what can be attributed to cock up goes the saying, but there remain some serious unanswered questions here.
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  1144. It's not just the UN Charter on Children's Rights that the US hasn't signed. There's a long list of treaties left unsigned or unratified by the US. Strange how a country that makes such a song and dance about 'the international rules based order' is probably the least observant of it no?
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  1145. Mearsheimer might not be right on other things but when he said in 2014, quoting Shakespeare, that Ukraine was being led down 'the primrose path' he was not wrong I'm afraid.
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  1146. Who put the chicken in Kiev?
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  1147. 'Anyone who seriously wants to be a politician shouldn't be allowed'. Politicians, Ken Clarke included, are mostly myopic managerial can kickers. As long as they're not the ones left holding the baby when the music stops then it's not their problem and they've done their jobs in their eyes. Most of these decisions, like the decades of shabby concrete and flammable building cladding, aren't party political as such anyway they're down to a few people looking to enrich themselves and their mates by saving a few quid or punting some public monies their way.
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  1148. Walliams is a tool, but I defy anyone not to watch Little Britain, even today, and not find most of it extremely funny. No sacred cows, and all the better for it. His subsequent books were all contrived contemptible sh*te and pretty much everything he's done following that golden era has been similarly execrable though unfortunately. The supposed 'un-PC' era of comedy was, paradoxically, a far kinder, far more innocent, far less self-conscious, self-righteous time than the ongoing quasi-Stalinesque nightmare we increasingly find ourselves in today.
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  1149. No wonder the clueless, self serving grifter Hotez won't debate anyone who remotely knows anything about covid and the lockdowns. He had years of sycophantic legacy media stooges giving him a soft ride so it's not like he's ever been in training for a tough fight. Anyone in doubt should watch the hilarious ORF compilation of his exchanges.
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  1150. JA was a carefully and cynically crafted caricature of empathy and anyone who's prepared to do that, particularly after her insane authoritarian lockdown policies which made even the UK's look vaguely reasonable, is someone to be seriously wary of.
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  1151. Albeit by a relative few, there's simply too much US money 'invested' in this trajectory.
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  1152. It's ALL about 'class' and always was. Identity politics is a highly useful and effective distraction. Call it wealth inequality today if you like, but there is a relatively tiny group of individuals in Germany and just about anywhere else you care to mention hoovering up the lionshare of the wealth.
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  1153. Campbell is a vicious bully who belongs behind bars along with his rictus grinning boss. Thanks to his 'dodgy dossier' he has the blood of hundreds of thousands on his hands. No wonder he's depressed. I would be too.
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  1154. "When two neighboring countries fight each other, just know the USA visited one." Nelson Mandela.
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  1155. Remember Trump is wont to say the meant to be quiet parts of established US foreign policy out loud. Thus given Trump's clear obsession with rare earth metals and now Greenland where there are apparently plenty it doesn't seem beyond the realms of possibility that this played a large part in the US's years of obsessing about it along with its now largely discarded allies.
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  1156. Ironic how the west insisted on free and fair democratic elections in Gaza and then once those elections produced Hamas as the winners the enclave was then subject to sweeping punitive sanctions by them and a continuing blockade by Israel. Terms like 'rules based order' and 'free and fair democratic elections' clearly only ever really mean the West chooses to interpret them as. They aren't fundamental principles as such merely foreign policy tools and often mighty blunt, brutal ones at that.
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  1157. Russia simply doesn't have the military means to establish the former Soviet empire. Nowhere near. It's completely ridiculous to suggest they might. The only way it could begin to do so is to start a ground war with Nato and given that its armed forces aren't exactly faring amazingly well against 'just' Ukraine's, albeit partly thanks to significant Western input, that seems extremely unlikely.
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  1158.  @grahamdrew5512  Fair enough. You gave it a listen and I can't say fairer than that. He's been warning about this very situation arising for years and I find his analysis extremely compelling, particularly as a student of the Cold War way back when. Still, those in the West who believe that this is a war worth prosecuting to the end regardless must be mindful of where it might lead and the wider, growing consequences for doing so.
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  1159. UK wages haven't risen in real terms, I believe, since 2008. The UK didn't leave the EU until 2020. A day before this piece 1m were marching through French cities and there were numerous strikes against pension reforms. Inflation across Europe varies wildly with the UK somewhere in the middle of the field. Some are better, some are far worse. That said It's really quite fascinating to hear and read a load of middle class, North London remainer-types who've relocated bemoaning how crap their own country is and how Tarquin and Jemima still have free movement and subsidized lute lessons now.
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  1160.  @thehound9638  ...and I would broadly agree with most of that.
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  1161. And Scandinavia as a whole had a really low death rate compared to most other European countries, so what's your point?
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  1162. Yeah, wasn't too impressed with where he was going there with that idea either. Another flavour of 'techno feudalism' overseen by a highly centralised, unaccountable body ie the ECB surely?
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  1163. Second comment removed??? An entirely fact based comment. What gives on here?
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  1164. What on God's green earth has the Holocaust got to do with justifying this?
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  1165. And yet its best and only hope of survival paradoxically relies on future state regulation. Odd no?
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  1166. Begs the question as to why you're here wasting your precious intellectual time then doesn't it? Are there other higher intellectual pursuits you should be following?
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  1167. Not quite the same thing, but HSBC was able to buy the SVB subsidiary in the UK.
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  1168. ​ @Cedawood Doesn't bother me one way or another either, but I'll not waste my time in future on someone who demonstrably can't get their facts straight and is attempting to weave an unreliable narrative. Like your like-minded friends on here this doesn't seem to bother you one iota so I'll leave you to it.
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  1169. The debt itself is less of a problem than the lack of growth. Some people run on high debt levels all the time, but that's because they have enough regular and reliable income to service that debt. Extending this credit card analogy, the UK is borrowing more just to spend on its 'basics' because its 'income' ie taxation is consistently falling short of covering those costs ie its deficit as opposed to its debt. Consequently the cost of serving the interest payments, effectively dead money, on its growing debt is steadily forming an ever larger part of its expenditure and consuming ever more of its productive output.
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  1170. Business or private?
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  1171. Virtue signalling truly is the scourge of the modern age.
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  1172. Daft woman. Everyone knows it's made of cheese.
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  1173. Spoil your ballot paper. It counts as a vote.
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  1174. The ultimate irony is that atheism is a religion/belief system itself. Its proponents are often just as zealous and jealous about guarding their faith as their more traditional counterparts.
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  1175. Visit multiple, disparate media sources is great advice.
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  1176.  @DouglasDavis  That's the system unfortunately. It produces both winners and losers amongst the likes of us lesser mortals, but there's always some people who'll win either way regardless.
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  1177. Assassins not respecting security perimeters??? They'll be telling us that viruses don't respect social distancing or flimsy cloth masks next!!
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  1178. Odd headline that ..... I mainly heard cheers and 'USA, USA'
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  1179. The Clintons and Obamas just got rid of Biden and replaced him with Harris who'd never won so much as a single Democrat primary FFS. Any American who thinks they're a beacon of democracy for the world, nevermind living in one themselves is deluded.
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  1180. Although I support wholeheartedly your unshakeable right to personal autonomy the EU hasn't stopped mandating these so-called vaccines. It's not in a position to. Albeit currently, it is up to individual member states to decide their mandate policy and, sadly, it looks like some EU states, like Austria for example, look like they're intent on pursuing it.
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  1181. My YT ad feed is mostly about camper vans. Don't have one, never had one and have no intention of getting one. Weird.
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  1182. The United States today even has the same 'us vs them', 'zero sum game' attitude towards its own population. Its iniquitous healthcare system remains a shameful metaphor for that. If it can treat many of its own people like that then it's hardly a surprise that it can treat foreigners with the same level of contempt or worse.
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  1183. Q: When is a ponzi scheme not a ponzi scheme? A: When it's called crypto and it's endorsed by big tech, big finance and governments.
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  1184. Pure hypocrisy. Turner's being accused there of leaping to his defence without evidence whilst old laughing boy has leapt to attack Brand without substantiated proof either.
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  1185. The United States makes all the rules, breaks all the rules and then makes new rules.
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  1186. As with the flu there will always be a few outliers, but by and large the people who died from covid were easily identifiable from the notable first wave by age and known co-morbidities. At 83, to this day the average age of a UK covid death remains higher than the average age of normal UK death at 81.
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  1187. Jimmy didn't say BLM were with Israel, quite the opposite and whether Hedges said so or not antifa is a big problem for the Left because they embody the very thing they claim to be fighting. If that makes them both lame then gimme more lame, quite frankly.
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  1188. The US, in the Middle East, now seems intent on overthrowing essentially secular regimes in favour of extremist religious ones!! Even going so far as to recently back an Al Qaeda offshoot in Syria. Kissinger said it best when he said, 'America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests'. Damn straight.
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  1189. Someone deserves a🍷 after that.
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  1190. Pathetic, grandstanding stab at Trump there from the commentator. Trump was far from perfect but he was right about far more things than he was wrong. Plus he didn't go around starting foreign wars designed primarily to feed the US military industrial complex and rinse US and NATO taxpayers.
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  1191. How on earth did Hamas manage to get its hands on a US JDAM?
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  1192. You are not alone. UK the same.
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  1193. Great film. A must watch for any budding climate change cynic.
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  1194. Blessed are the peacemakers...and there are two right here.
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  1195. It's car reviewers 101. To the rest of us it means absolutely f*ck all.
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  1196. They all followed 'the' science.... ....off a cliff.
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  1197. I posited the idea nearly two years ago that these 'vaccines' might in and of themselves encourage covid to mutate faster. It wasn't popular. This phenomenon has previously been suggested in terms of the mass vaccination of chicken flocks where the vaccination becomes progressively less effective over time.
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  1198. Yep, which is why they're using every technical twist and turn they can to deny it is actually genocide. Once it's confirmed and widely accepted beyond any reasonable doubt they have nowhere to hide in terms of their complicity. They know this.
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  1199. And America's attempts at fomenting regime change elsewhere in the world haven't exactly proven to be a roaring success to date have they? Perhaps permanent destabilisation of certain countries and regions is their state department's ultimate endgame? Even if it isn't it might as well be.
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  1200. Ron right. Rand wrong.
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  1201. If the price of ANYTHING, even pork, eggs or anything with a short shelf life, can be affected by price inflation then the point still stands. Any hyperinflationary example throughout recent history proves that. The point being the issued fiat buys you less and costs more 'tomorrow', regardless of whether it's pork, eggs or gold.
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  1202.  @DokisKalin1  It's still actual tangibles being exchanged for shifting intangibles ie fiat tokens.
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  1203. The West doesn't have a great record on exporting Liberal democracy by force.
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  1204. La Vorderman is right of course, but I can never forget or forgive her numerous 'Debt Consolidation' adverts from the Noughties I'm afraid that used to play endlessly on daytime TV..... don't ask.
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  1205. If you follow FB's logic then NOT mentioning Malhotra's talked about peer reviewed study if you're talking about the subject and citing those other studies should also be construed as peddling false news. I somehow doubt that in FB's view it would be though.
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  1206. You CAN repeat propaganda, advocate violence and use hate speech on YouTube. Just make sure it's western propaganda and you're advocating violence and using hate speech against Russians and Palestinians. It's not complicated...
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  1207. UK inflation today, were it measured in the same way as the 1970s, would be around 17%. Sure, still less than the worst of that decade, but Neil is not comparing like with like and I'm sure that he's more than bright enough to know that.
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  1208. It's 'Wi Spa', a Korean Spa in the US, for those unfamiliar with this story.
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  1209. Biden's multimillion campaign donations have been legally made in the name of the Biden/Harris ticket. Getting rid of him isn't that simple with such a short run up. She's literally the ONLY alternative, otherwise it gets mighty complicated coronating someone else.
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  1210. I'm not religious to be honest, but what's happening does bear more than a passing relationship to Revelation 13:17: 'so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.' What with the head of Nokia saying that these chips could be implanted by 2030 at a WEF meeting and Microsoft patent application 060606 pertaining directly to such a scenario doesn't exactly help to pour cold water on the conspiracy theory. 😅
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  1211. You noticed that too? Not sure if it's GB news or YT up to no good or both, but either way this thread and this channel is very obviously being 'curated'.
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  1212. ​ @garyorourke4524 A number of my comments have simply disappeared. All factual. All verifiable. All apparently unpalatable.
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  1213. Yanis Varoufakis claims that Trump is in the business of ending or at least severely reducing the US' role as the world's primary debtor nation thanks to its exorbitant privilege which he actually sees as burden being exploited by foreign central banks that is slowly strangling the country. 'For Trump, America is undermining itself for the glory of geopolitical power and the opportunity to accumulate other people’s profits. These imported riches benefit Wall Street and realtors but only at the expense of the people who elected him twice: Americans in the heartlands who produce the “manly” goods such as steel and automobiles that a nation needs to remain viable'.
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  1214. This is the denouement of all the politically expedient privatisations of vital infrastructure in the 1980s and 90s. This is also reflected in the situation with the now 70% foreign owned UK water private companies regularly spewing millions of litres of sewage into our seas and waterways with impunity. What we're seeing now is what happens when so-called free market forces that only think in the short term and are driven purely by the profit motive are left to run strategically vital, long term national infrastructure.
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  1215.  @colettechausser7879  I always aim to attribute and in this case I did so, qualified it and people are welcome to dig deeper knowing this. It was done on the spur of the moment. Norton's claim that a substantial amount of US 'manufacturing' is actually its MIC so was curious. Looks like he was correct. Nothing 'gross' about it. The source I mean. Not the fact.
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  1216. Self-described immigrant Kisin, perhaps understandably, has always had a terrible blind spot when it comes to Russia and Ukraine and their relationship with his now beloved West.
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  1217. It demands testing 👍
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  1218. The Blinken Maxwell connection is fascinating. Maxwell's wingman whilst he helmed the Daily Mirror and whilst ripping off its workforce' pension funds was one Alistair Campbell. A 'man' who would go on to become Tony Blair's highly influential press secretary and write the infamous 'Dodgy Dossier' that ultimately sent the UK to war in Iraq on an entirely false premise of WMD.
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  1219. Our politics, our industries, our media, our academia are ALL for sale. We have the best democracies money can buy.
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  1220. If you're looking for more economists then I thoroughly recommend Michael Hudson and Liam Halligan.
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  1221. Yep. It's multiple home ownership and the size of the rental market that needs to be addressed. The rental market ballooned in the last 30 years plus Mrs T put the kibosh on social housing builds along with her RTB policy. We are where we are by design NOT by accident.
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  1222. Why did the Australian Federal government issue the visa in the first place if they're now effectively barring his entry. He didn't lie about his vaccination status. It was public record even.
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  1223.  @warhurst1968  You can still be good friends and respect the intellect of someone you profoundly disagree with. I also think Mearsheimer is wrong on some things and right on others. NOBODY has a monopoly on wisdom.
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  1224. More than ever now the insane reaction towards covid looks like certain groups of people not wishing to let a good crisis go to waste.
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  1225. I would disagree and I suggest you watch Professor Mearsheimer who is one of the expert opinions you clearly crave and whom Sacks references and echoes. He has been warning about the prospect of this conflict for many years now and sadly a good many of his predictions have come to pass.
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  1226. Come to me my pretties, come.....
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  1227. Trump, at some point, is going to have to decide whether his loyalty is to his disenfranchised, average American voters or to his mega rich donors. That's when things will get interesting....
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  1228. Clearly wrong if the case, but how would affirmative action prevent that from happening?
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  1229. There will be the mother of all public enquiries over this largely self-inflicted disaster, there's no doubt about that.
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  1230. That's really offensive to charlatans.
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  1231. Wrong how? Particularly in relation to the trans issue? I'm intrigued.
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  1232. The current grim Gaza/Israel situation is an abject lesson to all of what happens when the extremes of two positions are both allowed to hold the whip hand. Innocents always suffer, views are further entrenched and the way back looks more unlikely than ever.
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  1233. Don't get me wrong, I love Chris Hedges, but we part company on two issues. Three letters in both cases. ACC and BLM. Still, he's a mighty good man and there's not enough of them, and that's good enough for me.
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  1234. If nothing else it's an interesting highly revealing social experiment. The so-called liberal elites are being forced into the open and showing what is, in reality, their utter contempt for democracy. It's 'great' as a concept, of course, but only if it delivers the results 'they' want and find acceptable. Brexit, ostensibly a working class 'rebellion' via democratic means, was the canary in the coalmine and that, inevitably, was duly ignored or diluted by design to the point of pointlessness.
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  1235. Nato and the EU were always in lockstep as they marched across Eastern Europe. EU did the softening up job and then NATO membership usually followed.
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  1236. Modern developed economies have learnt to rely on boom and bust in order to sustain their economic models. It really is that simple. Easier said than done when things look to be rumbling along quite nicely and the spectre of FOMO is forever whispering in our ears. Just try and remember, particularly where equities are concerned, that your gain pretty amounts to someone else's loss and governments and financial institutions, like the bookies, tend to win either way.
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  1237. 'Lobbying' is probably one of the most deliberately misunderstood ill-defined words in the English language.
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  1238. Come on, you should know by now. Repeat after me, 'capitalism is reserved for the poor, socialism is the preserve of the rich'.
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  1239. The US Deep State has an MO. It was the same in Iraq as it is now in Ukraine. War was inevitable there because it was always part of the plan of what they were driving towards. The BIG question is what do the neocons have planned for Russia and China?
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  1240. Another excellent, well observed comment.
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  1241. Nicola Sturgeon could've just gone on Bullseye and avoided all this unseemliness.
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  1242. Nato, from its very beginnings, was designed to keep the Germans down, the Americans in and the Russians out of Europe. Ukraine was largely an invented pretext to tackle what had likely been seen in Washington for some years as the accelerating breakdown of that post war established order.
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  1243. Talking of anti-intellectualism, I remember well how there were all these snide comments and memes during covid regarding people doing their 'own research' on the subject and ignoring 'the experts'. Point being was there was never any professional consensus over covid and its handling, but reading and then repeating ANY of those professionals who took issue with things essentially was verboten.
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  1244. Trump certainly understands great power geopolitics far better than the neocons and recognizes the fact that it is no longer a unipolar world. His big blind spot though is Iran and that, most likely, has everything to do with Israel and Palestine. This then raises the elephant in the room question, yet again, on the Israeli lobby's influence on US politics generally and, more specifically, on Trump's most significant benefactors, the arch-Zionist Adelson family.
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  1245. The elephant in the room here of course is that Israel is, legally and technically speaking under 'international law', a rogue nuclear state. A rogue nuclear state that refuses to conform to international rules governing their nuclear arsenal because Israel refuses to admit it exists in the first place. Under the US oft-espoused 'international rules based order' it should be a pariah state NOT one which has been the recipient of over $300bn in US aid and untold US and Western military weapons support. Israel even has a nuclear weapons deployment policy in its infamous 'Samson Option' again despite not 'apparently' having any nuclear weapons.
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  1246. No surprise to see Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel at Blair's Future of Britain conference. Bet they didn't do that for love either.
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  1247. Like my cats, you might not like how Obama 'does his business', but he's still gonna do it.
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  1248. Counterpunch covered this story years ago and essentially called out this attack allegedly by Syrian forces as false I remember at the time. What a truly wicked world we live in.
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  1249.  @sojrnrr8368  I can't say for definite obviously, but it would be more likely in this instance to be The GZ itself given the subject matter rather than YT. These sites are using YT as a vehicle for their content but they also get to gatekeep what gets posted on them. Their own moderators may shadow ban or possibly even ban posters from posting on their specific site if they so choose.
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  1250.  @rodmarker2071  Inconveniently for you both Italy and Greece are in the EU though so what point are you trying to prove there? Also, if you look at UK growth figures compared with its EU peers since 2016 ie the last 6 years you cite then it has been more than comparable. Recent post covid figures have been undeniably poorer, but perhaps you'd like to compare it with EU powerhouse Germany's forecast. Try answering without using pathetic emojis if you intend to next time unless of course you're a child.
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  1251.  @rodmarker2071  Of course not....God forbid that 'rodmarker' is little more than a 'willywaver'. Still, thanks for confirming my earlier assumption.
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  1252.  @rodmarker2071  A little bizarre. You obviously hate the UK, you hate the British, you're obviously glad you 'left', your business is flourishing like never before in the EU, you're glad you pay your taxes in Ireland and yet you still have a Union Jack as your YT avatar and you still find the time and inclination to come on here to let the world know how sh*tty the UK is whilst knowing next to f*ck all about the economic situation of Europe as a whole. You are indeed a 'special' kind of person rodmarker.
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  1253. Amazingly brave people. Incredible.
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  1254.  @goodyeoman4534  Part of the unwritten credo unfortunately. Banks are private in the good times and public in the bad for a reason. They are essentially dripfeeders of debt/credit into the economy under the auspices of the state. When it all goes t*ts it's essentially the state/establishment bailing out itself.
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  1255. True. I think that 42% of Americans have less than $1000 in savings and 58% have less than $5k, but companies, even relatively small ones, need way over $250k to function and spreading that around is easier said than done.
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  1256. The US imposed and often defined on a whim 'international rules based order' is unraveling. The basis for capitalism is legally defined and protected private property ownership rights and in one fell swoop through these 'illegal' confiscations of Russian assets the West has torched that principle and is now p*ssing on its ashes.
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  1257. Christianity has given the world a lot of positive things, but it has also inflicted a lot of misery upon it. I'm all for accepting the on balance argument that it has been beneficial to mankind, but PH is always inclined to rose tint and cherry pick Christianity's role.
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  1258. Netanyahu, the Israeli PM, is a secular Jew. You don't need to believe in a God in order to commit and/or try and justify your unspeakable acts.
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  1259. Here in the UK we call chips 'crisps'.
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  1260. Isn't that a myth around BTC and indeed other cryptocurrencies? Governments might not be able to actually seize crytopcurrencies without access to the private keys, but they can effectively render them useless anyway because they can, 'control the interface points at which they are traded'.
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  1261. Please tell me that's irony.
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  1262. VP Harris makes Dan Quayle look like Einstein.
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  1263. Is orwillian worse than Orwellian?
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  1264. God, I'm glad I'm not at university nowadays.
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  1265. Europe has seriously f*cked up with regard to Ukraine. It was a US neocon project all along. Not only is the neoliberal elitist EU itself a busted flush, Europe and its constituent countries need to rethink and reimagine their relationship with each other, not least Russia, and the rest of the world.
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  1266. I seriously doubt whether the Russians trust the US, Trump or no.
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  1267. Seems to me like race relations have actually gone backwards since the 1990s in no small part thanks to CRT and BLM. I'm 'white' and went to college in Ealing, West London. Lots of Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, and black people and lots more besides and it just wasn't a thing. Very sad the way things are going.
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  1268. Innocent until proven guilty. Something we must ALL hold to without question. There but for the grace of God go I.
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  1269. 'We have cornered the market on ideological morality'
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  1270. The start of the end or the end of the start?
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  1271.  @gertstronkhorst2343  What I think is not relevant. Being accused of something isn't the same thing as being tried and convicted by a court of something. Did you think Salmond, Gambuccini, Assange and Cliff Richard were guilty? What I'm struck by is the timing of this and how a liberal establishment which included the BBC, The Guardian and C4 once saw him as a darling and defended him when his behaviour was likely at its worst is now gunning for him. Gunning for him now he's a family man intent on ruffling aforementioned liberal establishment's feathers. His past behaviour wasn't something I'd defend, but unless it was criminal, provably so, then we shouldn't be talking about his victims, sexual assaults, coercive behaviour, rapes, underage sex etc
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  1272.  @gertstronkhorst2343  What I think IS not relevant it's what a court, a judge and a jury thinks should it get to that. He's behaved appallingly in the past I'd agree, but was his behaviour criminal and are these women prepared to take an oath, stand up in court and be cross-examined by a counsel on these matters? Like I said above, people like Salmond, Assange, Gambuccini, Jim Davidson and Cliff Richard have themselves all been accused of sexual assaults in the past and 'not liking' someone isn't grounds for them to spend years behind bars or to lose their livelihoods.
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  1273. Assange is an Australian citizen and yet he's effectively being charged with treason under the US own Espionage Act. How can one be a traitor to a country to which one is not a citizen of?
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  1274. This film is two days old and I'm get a wee bit of a revelatory vibe from it rather than a 'everyone knows this is going on', but perhaps I'm unique in that. Hopefully the FT will look into Ireland's role as major tax haven next.
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  1275.  @patrickfitzgerald2861  It's not just Anglophobic it's also pretty daft. My views on the Ukrainian conflict are separate from my view of London as a centre for international money laundering incidentally.. Just because this piece makes a direct link between them it doesn't necessarily make it correct and nor does it mean ALL UK citizens have been complicit and 'have blood on their hands'. The EU, mainly Germany, continues to buy billions of Euros of Russian energy despite sanctions so presumably you'd make the similar claim that Germans and EU citizens 'have blood on their hands'?
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  1276. I thought that too. Weird how we all misremember things like that sometimes.
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  1277. What will be interesting is to see what the care sector does about the tens of thousands who've already been forced to leave because of this mandate and also what happens contractually with future NHS and care sector employees.
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  1278. Christopher Hitchens on Israel, 'If Jews born in Brooklyn have a right to a state in Palestine, then Palestinians born in Jerusalem have a right to a state in Palestine."
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  1279. It believed through trade it would enable it to bring it gradually into the US's so-called 'rules based order' plus it helped keep prices lower in Western consumer economies and act as a brake on inflation. The latter part of its plan has largely worked. The former clearly not.
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  1280. Sponsored by Tesla😅
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  1281. I don't think that that was what they were necessarily saying, particularly Alex. Trump is obviously opting for a more realist, isolationist, protectionist view if he succeeds and an acceptance that the world in future should be divided into spheres of influence, but that doesn't mean that he's somehow become some benign actor.
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  1282. You wah?
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  1283. Is it better to have 50 people earning and spending £20k or 1 person earning and spending £1m in an economy? Up to a point it depends on what the person earning £1m in the economy does with their surplus cash, but by and large one can expect them to invest it in the financial rather than the REAL economy and in assets like property. The latter invariably pushes up buying/rental costs for the 50 people earning £20k and ensures they have less money to spend in the REAL economy. Ultimately these are self-serving political and social choices our politicians are making NOT sound economic ones and this begs the question as to why whilst great minds might think alike fools seldom differ.
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  1284. It's not called TDS for nothing.
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  1285. Much the same reasons the US invaded Iraq, bombed Libya, occupied Afghanistan for two decades, supports Israel without any questions asked, continues to destabilise Syria, desperately wants war with Iran, spent years provoking a war in Ukraine and is attempting to weaken and break up Russia. Apologies to anyone I might have left out there. If America can't have what it wants, it'll damn well make sure that no one else can.
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  1286. Fact is NO US politician will get elected POTUS without the support of the Israel lobby nowadays. The body politics of both countries are now so deeply intertwined that it's now a no brainer for ANY potential serious candidate.
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  1287. Wasn't touched upon but this is why corporations lurve, lurve, lurve identity politics. It's the perfect virtuous wedge to allow for divide and rule. If the great unwashed working masses are constantly slugging it out then it means they're not zeroing in on the real causes of what ails them.
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  1288. The practice of hostile defence is akin to Phillip K Dick's 'Minority Report' where those adjudged to be future offenders are dealt with long before they are able to commit their crimes or BEFORE even they know themselves they are going to. Not difficult to see why this approach is fraught with problems and dangers and why, by definition, its adjudication and prosecution is both subjective and infinite.
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  1289. Where there is risk there should be choice. Simples.
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  1290. Agreeing to a medication is all about accepting an informed risk. These jabs statistically represent a far greater health risk to those who are otherwise healthy than COVID does. Not only that these jabs are not vaccines by any generally accepted measure, requiring repeated doses with diminishing affects.
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  1291.  @LayLoow  Yep. Many in Morocco and they're keeping a low profile on Gaza apparently. Not Zionists either, I believe.
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  1292.  @hitreset0291  You appear not have a point.
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  1293. The Israeli settlements under international law - not that that really means anything as its essentially defined and dictated by the US - are deemed illegal. What happens? Nothing.
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  1294. This was why people should be SO careful what they wish for. Corbyn was pushed out of the Labour Party on a trumped up charge of antisemitism and they're trying to pull the same on Bridgen. Wake up peeps!!
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  1295. Smokers effectively pay for their potential smoking related healthcare costs through the eye watering government duty they collectively pay on cigarettes. Their likelihood of dying sooner than the average age of death is on average 10 years younger. Statistically longer living non-smokers will inevitably die from or with something else which will also require expensive health or social care such as dementia. This renders the cost to the taxpayer argument redundant.
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  1296. Regardless, 'the House' will always win.
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  1297. EVERYONE has their price.
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  1298. Admittedly this is a long form format, but juxtapose this exchange with the relentlessly bitter exchanges James O'brien goes in for on LBC and tell me where the voice of reason and decency resides?
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  1299. ESG amounts to a corporatist power grab. All for obscene guaranteed privatised profits of course, but they'll eventually be building our roads and dictating who can travel on them, when and in what and our schools and universities saying who can be taught what and why. The beauty? No democratic accountability to the electorates whom they get to forever laud it over. Genius. Jump in said the frog. The water's lovely!!
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  1300. @robinette4363 The jury's already long in on corporate America's 'benevolence'. By comparison China's only just left the blocks, so that remains to be seen.
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  1301. Who'd have thought we'd all end up being nostalgic for the cold war? An uncertain period of far greater certainty. The polar opposite of today in many ways.
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  1302. As Eric Cantona might say.... If your primary goal is to bring down ze building, then it makes sense to chisel away at ze bricks at its base, no? ...pfff.
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  1303.  @joshuamills7633  Well said. Like everyone in the population would have taken the trouble to see how and why their energy is priced the way it is. His was a daft comment.
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  1304. Certainly agree on Hersh's final point about both UK and US captured two party systems being a serious part of the problem. Both seriously vulnerable to corruption, indifference and ideological stagnation.
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  1305. Sssh....we don't talk about that. Essentially his now being a Western backed dictator doesn't square very easily with the propaganda claim that the West is defending Ukrainian democracy.
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  1306. Not one to defend BoJo too easily but the slogan on the Brexit bus wasn't a pledge and it wasn't purely Boris's exhortation either. June 2016 was a referendum on leaving the EU not an election.
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  1307. WTF did Europe not see this coming, particularly if Trump made a highly likely return? The level of arrogance and, frankly, abject failure of diplomacy and statecraft is staggering.
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  1308. I noticed that, but I genuinely think it's just a slip on his part. Older people are far more likely to be double jabbed, far more likely to be admitted to hospital and far more likely to die.
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  1309. Average Americans are some of the nicest, most decent, hardworking people you'll ever meet. Its deep state, however, is pure evil.
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  1310. Who the 'l' replaced the 'f' in Thiel? Thiel's role in this saga is indeed more than a bit weird.
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  1311. Universities were once places for our brightest and best and should be a hotbed of free-thinking and free speech not indoctrination.
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  1312. The whole world might be a stage, but it's also a Ponzi scheme. Some Ponzi schemes are more legitimate than others, like stock markets for example, only because they are endorsed, regulated and supported by the state aka the House, the LOLR.
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  1313. On current data German exports to the UK have certainly suffered since Brexit but UK exports to the EU, more generally, far less so. Look forward to the next piece by this outlet on that story.... Think it might be a long wait.
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  1314. ​ @zuzanazuscinova5209 Yes it is. Primarily thanks to the war in Ukraine and the ending of cheap Russian energy supplies.....
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  1315.  @fairybuddy-angel2035  So you're using a counterfactual and claiming it as if it were fact yes? Where precisely do you get the 4-5% of GDP figure from? Neither Germany nor France left the EU so what do you attribute their current malaise to? Italy hasn't seen any overall real terms growth since 2000, but presumably that has nothing to do with the EU and everything to do with something else?
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  1316.  @fairybuddy-angel2035  You, along with others, are attempting to imply that if Brexit hadn't happened then the UK would automatically be in either a better or far less worse place. As I said, other comparable members have not left the EU and yet they are, arguably, in a worse place economically. Perhaps you'd like to answer my question as to where you got your 4-5% figure from?
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  1317. Atheism IS an arrogant position. Why I always say I'm an agnostic. I don't have a problem with god or gods, but I DO often have a serious problem with religion which, by definition, is a man made construct with all its inherent flaws. A relationship with 'God' should remain a predominantly personal thing, albeit shared with others should you wish. Unfortunately I don't currently have 'the God gene', but often wish I did.....hey ho.
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  1318. The role of Western elite inspired wars and the inevitable destabilizing of those societies and displacement of their peoples cannot be entirely discounted hereeither. To some extent, 'we' are the authors of this sorry situation.
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  1319. That's when you know the world has truly gone hatstand!
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  1320. How many of these 'Nazis' you mention outside of Ukraine have military or paramilitary wings? Further to that, how have their military wings become part of the regular army and kept their own structures and identities?
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  1321. Nuland, the cookie monster.
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  1322. Here's DeNiro speech...go lower....lower....lower...
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  1323. Both Gadaffi and Hussein - granted not necessarily the world's most savoury human beings, but veritable angels, historically speaking, next to many of their US counterparts - are rumoured to have been taken out for daring to challenge USD hegemony and seek payment for their oil in currencies other than the Dollar.
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  1324. Subprime was just the spark that lit the fire in 2008 and Lehman's was the cautionary sacrificial lamb that everyone remembers. Indeed was meant to remember. The Icarus who, in his hubris, flew too close to the sun and paid the ultimate price. In essence Lehman's was offered up to placate the Gods of Greed and thus prolong the harsh but fair capitalist narrative in the eyes of us everyday simple common folk.
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  1325. Never a good look using the organs of the state to prosecute a domestic partisan political war.
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  1326. Great piece.
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  1327. ....and without leaving his basement and despite performing badly in the 2019 Democratic run-offs. Weird, huh?
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  1328. That's the true test when it comes to fighting for your country. The idea is you're fighting for particular values and the preserving of a way of life you truly believe in but might not get to see. If, as figures suggest, many in the West don't see anything worth preserving, let alone worth fighting for, then it tells us all we need to know about the current system as it stands. Even most of those who've championed it and bitched and moaned for years to create it couldn't be arsed to fight for it. Nuff said.
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  1329. How are on Earth, if the Gaza Strip was one of the most surveilled places on Earth, did the Israelis manage to miss the October 7 attack????
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  1330. On what basis? Solely on might being right presumably?
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  1331. Emily Maitlis helped to murder Newsnight although to be fair the real rot started under Paxman. I'm ashamed to say that under his watch I was unaware of what was happening to genuine journalistic integrity at the time.
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  1332. I think it's fair to say that the US led West had effectively been violating the 1994 Budapest Memorandum for years prior to Russia's invasion. 'Refrain from economic coercion designed to subordinate to their own interest the exercise by the signatory of the rights inherent in its sovereignty and thus to secure advantages of any kind.' It even went so far as to sponsor a coup against Ukraine's democratically elected leader in 2014 FFS. Not only that, but the legal status of that document is questionable as it was negotiated purely at a political level and gave only 'reassurances' NOT legal 'guarantees'.
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  1333.  @jonmcalister1802  He's been asked on, presumably, because he's a psychologist. A very popular one. You might call him 'fringe', but presumably that's because you don't approve of what he has to say on anything. A view which you're perfectly entitled to. He has just as much right to an opinion on the Russia situation as anyone else and is arguably better qualified to have an opinion on Putin 'the man' than you or me. Doesn't make him right on every aspect of course anymore than it does me or you, but I happen to agree with much of what he says, as do others. This isn't a war the west can win and it doesn't look like it's a war that Russia can afford to lose. This potentially leads us to a pretty dark place without the dialogue which currently seems sorely lacking. Dare I say studiously avoided. The West, primarily the US, seems to be happy to fight to the last dead Ukrainian at least but I for one firmly believe that this is a conflict that should never have happened in the first place and the more gung ho amongst us, particularly those sitting comfortably at home in the West, should be careful what they wish for.
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  1334. Stop calling it a vaccine. It's a jab!! Nobody has 'a vaccine" up to four times in a year with diminishing efficacy and nobody has 'a vaccine' that stops you from still contracting and transmitting the disease it's supposed to stop.you from getting in the first place.
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  1335.  @chas8388  Yes, he's changed his view and yes he doesn't want to get banned by YT for what are, I'm sure, a variety of reasons but there's nothing wrong with treating your audience as free-thinking adults (whatever his motivation for doing so) and presenting evidence without beating them over the head with a conclusion.
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  1336.  @macktheripper7454  I don't think you can properly assess the benefits of a more gender equal society without comparing it to a society that is significantly less gender equal society. Generally speaking there are a myriad of factors that contribute to a society's wealth, health, public safety, civility and overall sense of cohesion, but I think it's fair to say that the most successful examples globally tend to be those where gender equality is enshrined in their laws.
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  1337. You don't have to be an apologist for Putin to see the needless bloody proxy war in Ukraine for what it is.
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  1338. Agree, but it's easier said than done. I know good people in the UK who will routinely push back against these inconvenient truths unfortunately.
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  1339. Moral of the story if you're Hamas and if recent history is anything to go by? Negotiate with Israel at your peril.
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  1340. The famous so-called Merkel-raute. Variously interpreted as a deflection mechanism and a means of maintaining good posture. I know which one I'm going with there.
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  1341. Canada supplies the US with 60% of its oil imports, 4m bpd, and Mexico provides 450000 bpd. This, in effect, allows the US to sell its LNG to Europe for a far tastier mark up than the Canadians or Mexicans are getting. Why would Trump seek to jeopardize those sweet deals with tariffs I wonder?
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  1342. 1976 was so bad because 1975 was also a long hot summer followed by relatively little rainfall. What will be 'interesting' will be to see how summer 2023 pans out if rainfall between now and then remains relatively low and it proves to be another scorcher. Standpipes may yet return regardless of public or private status.
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  1343. Brave lad. Keep going.
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  1344. Ironically, despite the lofty rhetoric it likes to present to the world, the EU is itself an imperial ambition.
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  1345. The alleged cast iron reassurances proffered by NATO's Article 5 are as dodgy as f*ck legally speaking.
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  1346. Listen to the 2014 Nuland Pyatt tape, watch Rice talking to German TV about the US ending European reliance on cheap Russian gas the same year, read the 2007 Burns' wikileak and if that's STILL not enough for you then ask yourself why a constitutionally neutral country showing no actual desire to would be asked to join a military alliance hostile to Russia by Dubya in 2008. Then ask yourself why that neutrality was finally revoked in 2014 after the CIA sponsored coup in Ukraine overthrowing an internationally recognized democratically elected leader. If that's not enough then there's seriously no hope for you and I can only assume you have a terminal case of TDS.
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  1347. Weird isn't it? He claims to have performed the greatest economic miracle since the Great Depression and yet not only are a good many Americans not feeling it they were also not keen to vote for him. There's a significant disconnect here, and that's putting it politely.
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  1348. Politically it is difficult I agree but economically it is a great idea if you want to squash demand and try and start mopping up the sea of funny money that's been created over the last few years by central banks.
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  1349. Need to secure their futures and their pensions first basically. I guess the argument goes that it's essentially a Faustian bargain that they make at the beginning of their careers when they're looking to progress and once their nest is properly feathered and secured they can then finally afford 'the luxury' of a conscience possessed of us lesser mortals.
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  1350. The US reaction to China's Deepseek (and other examples) has echoes of the US ISA 1951, Invention Secrecy Act which, 'allows the United States government to classify ideas and patents under "Secrecy Orders", which indefinitely restrict public knowledge of them'. Basically China, particularly by granting freedom of access globally, is undermining this hugely profitable model. Hence the reason why these US billionaires are starting to get more and more antsy.
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  1351. Entitled to your opinion of course, but it seems that I, Murray, Peterson, a significant majority of the audience and even Gladwell himself wouldn't agree with you.
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  1352. Where is the link to the Roman interview with English subtitles?
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  1353. ​ @amataratsu006-xs6hv Shilling on an industrial scale for the now collapsed Greensill Capital for UK taxpayer support and his part, amongst others, in the destruction of Libya. He refused to give evidence to the select committee for the UK's role in the bombing blaming the Libyan people for failing to take their chance of democracy. Even Saint Obama called the western role in Libya 'a sh*show'. And the UK wonders why it has an illegal immigration problem.
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  1354. Fourteen replies and only 9 actually showing. What gives YT?
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  1355. Most people on here very obviously do and, I suspect, care much less about yours. Nuland is a monster. The weirdest thing is that 99.9% of people don't seem to know about her pivotal role in this avoidable slaughter.
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  1356.  @Dirk-o9s  Since when did being critical of a needless war, a war provoked and sustained by the West and principally America for its own geopolitical ends, become about promoting 'a pro-Russian narrative'?
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  1357. The Democrats apparently can ONLY run Kamala Harris this close to the election as the money donated thus far has been donated solely in the names of the Biden/Harris ticket ie it's non-transferable.
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  1358. Love Fazi's take on things (maybe apart from the rioting) Did a great interview on YouTube with William Clouston, the SDP leader.
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  1359. 'The whole point of a democratic nation state is that we agree who The People are and what The Place is, and that we agree to abide by the electorate’s decisions (with some qualifications) on important matters concerning that people and place.' - Mary Harrington.
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  1360. 'Coronavirus (COVID-19) was the 26th leading cause of death in June 2021 in England (accounting for 0.9% of all deaths registered in June); in Wales, COVID-19 accounted for 0.1% of all deaths so the numbers were too small to reliably rank against other leading causes of death.' From the ONS June 2021 Mortality Analysis. Not definitive perhaps, but highly suggestive that people can't die twice.
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  1361. The fact that what Postol is saying is potentially 'slanderous' about others and that he doesn't give a damn who knows it shows his strength of character and commitment to the truth. They won't come after him because they too know it's true.
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  1362. A lot of what this guy says is undoubtedly true particularly regarding fiat and there is money to be be made (and lost) from cryptos undoubtedly, but usually unfortunately from the next proverbial greater (or desperate) fool. Remember there are literally thousands of cryptocurrencies out there and look who owns the lionshare of Bitcoins ie American corporates. Far from the 'democratisation of money' some like to claim it to be. As ever the salient questions are, 'are you feeling lucky punk' and are you effectively betting what you can afford to lose when ultimately it's 'the House' that nearly always wins?
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  1363. Whatever your opinion then or now was of the so called vaccine the authoritarian behaviour of the world's governments throughout covid proved beyond all reasonable doubt that they could not and cannot be trusted. That was my biggest takeaway.
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  1364. This, again, boils down to the useful dishonest conflation of criticism of Israel and anti-Semitism. Two completely different things. The first completely justified the second never as our two Jewish friends above ably and consistently demonstrate.
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  1365. Try not then to think of them as 'Israelis' and more, ostensibly, as American and European ethno-nationalist colonial settlers. Hope this helps.
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  1366. Yup. Conspiracy fact.
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  1367. Great T-shirt slogan.
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  1368. Yep, Biden was effectively gifted Ukraine by Obama to do with as he saw fit. And he did.
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  1369. Guest's waffling helped me to concentrate on the comments more.
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  1370. Same universal principle as free speech. Just because they're not after you today, doesn't mean they won't be after you tomorrow. When it comes to upholding these principles your politics should always be left at the door.
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  1371. That effectively means boycotting big tech including YouTube unfortunately.
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  1372. Funny how racism and xenophobia are bad except when you're hating on the British. What a lot of twisted comments on here.
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  1373. The Labour rot started proper with Kinnock and Blair finished the job. Starmer is just the new Captain of the plague ship.
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  1374. Weren't these being conducted in international waters with prior full knowledge of the Australian government?
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  1375.  @olddouchebag  I'm all ears....
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  1376.  @zimzalabing  You're defending the monetary system ie fractional reserve lending. Up to a point I have no problem with it. What I do have a major problem with are the flagrant and repeated abuses it has allowed over many, many years and the fact that the vast majority of people are kept deliberately in ignorance of both the system itself and of how those ongoing abuses occurred precisely thanks to that system. Banks are, as most people understand them, in essence, quasi state entities, however history shows us they are private in the good times and only public in the bad. Capitalism is reserved for the poor whilst socialism is the preserve of the rich in no small part thanks to this system. How it functions on paper and in an ideal world is not really relevant.
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  1377. He was a 'failed' weapons inspector because he was 'dumb enough' to repeatedly point to the fact that there weren't any WMD in Iraq. A fact that the US government duly ignored because it planned to go war with Iraq regardless. He was inconvenient to say the least. The parallels with the western-led proxy war in Ukraine are marked. In terms of his sex abuse conviction it was a planned FBI sting against Ritter - why might you ask - for an internet only exchange on an over 18s only chat site. The 15 year old girl never existed and should have been over 18 anyway to be on there in the first place under the rules of that site ie there's no reason to believe that it wasn't anything other than fantasy role play in his mind. Was he stupid? Hell yeah. Does it have anything to do with judgements he's made on Iraq and Ukraine? Absolutely naff all.
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  1378. I thought he was rather charming.
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  1379. It's interesting to hear how this 'understanding' from allegedly 'compassionate non-judgemental' others was basically 'transactional'. Whilst transitioning it was there in spades and when detransitioning it not only evaporated it turned into outright hostility toward Chloe.
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  1380. Can't be. Paul McCartney sang a song about it an' evryfink.
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  1381. The sad thing is is that I don't imagine that that the world is any 'safer', less 'problematic' or less 'uncomfortable' today than before these twisters of language held sway.
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  1382. During covid both government and media variously claimed that the jabs would prevent contraction and the spreading of the virus. Neither of which was true.
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  1383.  @richardpayne  I think that the human brain processes them similarly and at the primal level doesn't really differentiate.
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  1384. So the US with its 750 plus military bases around the world is just a selfless benign actor? 'Jus' doin' ma job, ma'am'...spit.
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  1385. Nestlé CEO doesn't blink. Is this the future?
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  1386.  @paulb9769  Never believed in the secret lizard men before, but I think I might be coming round to the idea 😁
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  1387. My wife would've punched my lights out by now if that were me. 😂
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  1388. ALL extremely plausible. Don't you find it odd though that in a world of impending fossil fuel induced catastrophe that our governments, particularly those in the West, are so intent on grabbing and securing as much as they possibly can of 'yesterday's fuel' for themselves?
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  1389. 'Criminal' is the word for this level of decay and deprivation.
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  1390. WTF happened to Paul Mason? I'm SO ashamed I used to look up to that man.
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  1391. America is a gerontocracy. Nothing wrong with old people per se, but she's clearly been losing it for some time like her boss. Like Soviet Russia during the 80s. Not a good sign or look.
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  1392. Another person I'll never knowingly support in any way...Graham Norton. These people are truly awful human beings for what they've done and are supporting.
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  1393. Unquestioningly 'following THE science' basically resulted in us all plummeting over the cliff edge like lemmings.
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  1394. Agreed. It's the vociferousness of his support that I find so distasteful. One can't help feeling that there's more to it than meets the eye.
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  1395.  @RickStorni  Hopefully he's forgotten.
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  1396. ​ @yiguanas812 There are pros and cons to both that's for sure, but it's a bit of a red herring to flag up arguable examples of cr@p coalition governments when there are also arguable examples of cr@pp FPTP ones too. The point, as much as anything, is to get as many people as possible feeling enfranchised in ie not disenfranchised from the political system.
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  1397.  @yiguanas812  We'll agree to disagree there and no you weren't remotely rude. Especially when compared to some of the fruitier exchanges I've had on here recently.😁🍑🍇🍊🍌 I can see the arguments both for and against but I just think that it would make more people feel more engaged with the process and more inclined to vote and/or less inclined to bitch about what they get afterwards. The old saying that we get the politicians we deserve is far more applicable when it comes to PR than it is when we apply it to FPTP.
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  1398. Should be called 'non-voting congresswoman' or perhaps something else, otherwise you risk falling into the same trap as those peddlers whom you rightly oppose.
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  1399. This wouldn't be yet another YT spam scam would it?
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  1400. The supposed benefits of trade deals are massively misunderstood and overrated.
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  1401. Aye. The taxpayer is often effectively subsidising private BTL buyers through these benefits. It's insane.
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  1402. A very brave woman. 'Wokism', for want of a better word, relies on the idea that my enemy's enemy is my friend, regardless of the growing glaring contradictions thrown up by that. Those who agitate for it should be seriously careful about what they're wishing for here and that includes the various amoral, expedient, self-serving tech oligarchs who basically are just surfing a wave and seeking to commodify this division.
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  1403. Crowdstrike's pivotal role in supporting the now debunked Russiagate conspiracy and its reported dishonest role in the Ukraine War which began years before Putin's 2022 invasion cannot be overlooked here.
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  1404. Like sawing your leg off before you embark upon a gruelling marathon in the hope that your competition will be 'inspired' to do the same in the interest of fairness. DUMB...AS....F*CK.
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  1405. Very often in conversation, particularly with people we've never met, where we come from can change according to circumstances be it a country,, a county, a city,, a town, a part of town etc Our answers can change in an effort to fit in or find a connection, no matter how tenuous sometimes, with the person we're talking to. Where you were born, where you once might have lived and where you live now might all be relevant according to the conversational circumstances. This poor woman was likely just doing her job as she had done for the last 60 years, not acting maliciously and this lady was likely calculatingly just giving her more rope to hang herself whilst composing her damning Tweet in her head.
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  1406. 'Green' Germany is reopening its coal-fired power stations in order to try and kick its Russian gas habit. Currently it still gets 25% of its coal from Russia... Crazy world.
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  1407. The gas price has tanked but in the UK at least gas prices are still mentally high and show little sign of falling. Hmm, I smell a mighty big 🐀 here somewhere.
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  1408. NASA climate scientist pulls the classic bait and switch line here so beloved of the anthropogenic global warming lobby. They quietly conflate pollution due to fossil fuels and environmental overexploitation, which are undeniable and beyond question, with their own narrative, which is.
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  1409. So does Boris apparently.
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  1410. Fan-f*cking-tastic interview.
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  1411. Hate speech is today's McCarthyism. Back in the 1950s most red-blooded patriotic Americans could not fail to wish to stem the threat of Communism seeping insidiously into the institutions and society of the good ol' democratic USA. Who of sound, decent mind, similarly, wouldn't be opposed to the idea of stifling 'hate' speech? People will acquiesce to the most evil of practices if they are duped into believing that they are being done for the greater long term good. People seriously need to sit up and take notice of what the ultimate consequences are of this, who's doing it and why.
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  1412. Always enjoy listening to JB.
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  1413. The (secondary) stock market is NOT the real economy. It is the froth that floats on the top of it. You either believe in the current economic and monetary fundamentals or you don't. Clearly some people do, hence the rally, and some people, like the not exactly likeable Burry, don't....
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  1414. And the history of lobotomies is particularly relevant and interesting here. The guy who 'invented' them won a Nobel Prize despite these procedures turning many into little more than vegetables, including Kennedy's already troubled sister. Whilst they're still used today in rare circumstances, their ubiquity in the 50s, 60s and 70s was horrific.
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  1415. Been banging this drum backed up by unassailable facts for three years now to as many people who would listen. Short answer? Hardly any.
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  1416. It's not just Bojo's neck which should be on the block here. It's that whole sh*tshower, many of whom are still in Parliament and the devolved parliaments, who constantly postured and politicked for their own selfish ends and pushed for ever stronger, longer, sooner more Draconian measures during COVID. Bojo is a crowd pleasing useful idiot, but it's obvious that he's being scapegoated here by a bunch of spineless, self-serving bigger idiots hiding in the shadows who are desperate that this all goes away and someone, anyone other than them is held responsible for this entirely avoidable debacle we're still paying for and will paying for for years to come.
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  1417.  @emeraldeyes9565  Don't you find it weird that a civil rights lawyer and self-described in his earlier life 'desegregationist' like Bell should contribute so heavily to promoting the prospect of greater 'segregationism' in his later life as an academic?
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  1418. 'Islam' isn't the problem per se. The fact that people aren't able to openly, legally and, most crucially, safely critique it in what should be a free society is.
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  1419. I wrote to my local MP regarding this last year ie prior to this lunatic legislation, concerned about the claimed exponential increase in 'hate crimes' in England and Wales compared to other countries, including the US. Depressingly, the reply I got back was exactly as I expected and when asked if I could copy and paste it elsewhere I was politely told that they would prefer it if I didn't.
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  1420. I'm less convinced by the Hunter Biden stuff than I am by the timings of the announcement of a miraculous new covid vaccine. Think it was just two days after Trump lost an election that he was previously pipped to win, but apparently had lost due to covid and his handling of it. 'Co-inky-dink' as my dearly departed friend used to say? Possibly. But more than a little fishy, no?
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  1421. Great video. Right or wrong Ramin is a sincere actor.
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  1422.  @athena3865  Take a look at Macrotrends GDP Growth Rate 1970 - 2022.
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  1423. JDV attends Silicon Valley circle jerk.
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  1424. Didn't feel at comfortable with the 'lock her up' chant at the time by Trump, but I sure as hell do now. She, like Nuland, has proved herself to be a menace and a threat to world peace.
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  1425.  @Sceince01  May I ask if you have a vested personal interest in this technology?
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  1426.  @Sceince01  What's a 'kara'?
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  1427.  @Sceince01 When was the first mRNA vaccine approved and what was it for seeing as the technology had been around for decades?
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  1428.  @Sceince01  Why did the CDC feel the need to change the definition of the word vaccine recently do you think?
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  1429.  @Sceince01  Er, the bits where you didn't answer those questions? Copy and paste if it's easier, because I can't see answers to them.
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  1430.  @Sceince01  You used the word here....
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  1431.  @Sceince01  And how did he mislead when it came to pregnant women and DNA? What did he say?
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  1432.  @Sceince01  But these shots don't offer any protection longer than 6 months, so presumably I need to keep taking them?
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  1433.  @Sceince01  I'm just asking what lie he told. The video I saw, the most recent one, didn't seem that unreasonable to me. The advice has changed from pregnant women no longer being seen as in the at risk group to being in the same group as anyone else. The AZ jab, like the Johnson one, has had lots of question marks officially raised over its safety both in the US and elsewhere. Why shouldn't he feel able to say that?
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  1434.  @Sceince01  Ok, perhaps I missed it. A bit like your answer to my question about whether you intend to take these boosters, theoretically, in perpetuity. How long does sterilising immunity last once you've had these vaccines?
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  1435.  @Sceince01  Call me old fashioned Fayyaz, but the word 'vaccine' kinda was mostly used to meant to mean that. Only recently has that been changed. I will certainly watch some of his videos when I've got the opportunity and get back to you. In terms of your regular uptake of these non-sterlising jabs though, do you intend to plough on with each successive iteration or might there come a point when you say, 'naah'?
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  1436. Isn't this what they call a bull trap?
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  1437. ​ @bobsmith962 yeah, and he's in favour of kittens, puppies and bunny wunnies.
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  1438. Whatever their reasons might be, if Western governments forever insist on meddling in the politics of the Middle East then these horrific events will continue to happen to innocents.
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  1439. ​ @santoshayoga5392 And that's the fact of the matter. The legislation exists. The law does not...yet.
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  1440.  @mickg7299  So you've had ALL yours to date and given that they are officially ONLY effective up to six months you're having or paying to have two a year yes? Presumably also you think everyone should have them regularly despite the known greater risks to the health of the young these jabs pose than the virus itself?
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  1441.  russmartin4888  You're entitled to that belief obviously, but I try and deal in known, verifiable, incontestable facts particularly when it comes to the uber zealots. Might not be your take granted, but if their views can't even stand up to official data and claims then they're clearly not the sharpest tools in the box.
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  1442.  @mickg7299  Yeah, having looked at your other comments on this subject it's hardly surprising I didn't pick up on your 'sarcasm'.
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  1443.  @mickg7299  They weren't fully informed and unfortunately YT will not permit me to tell you why with an entirely factual, fully verifiable from 'reputable' sources response despite repeated attempts. If that doesn't tell you something then nothing does.
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  1444.  @mickg7299  Pointless continuing this. YT's either got its algos or eyeballs on this so everything written by me is being removed.
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  1445.  @mickg7299  If you're unsure how more and more people actually feel about these jabs now then just look at the precipitous fall over time in their uptake, the now useless hugely costly government unused supplies and the steady fall in the share prices of their producers. By all means keep making your own choices as to whether you should keep having them but don't assume the right, like our governments came perilously close to, to force others to do the same as you.
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  1446. He's the chairman of The Spectator. He doesn't have to. Them's the roolz.
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  1447. Let's make no bones about this, unchecked illegal immigration is principally a top down economic policy decided by an out of touch political and economic elite. An elite that will essentially only ever reap the handsome rewards of that decision and rarely, if ever, experience the downsides.
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  1448. This is a grotesque poker game and the US, via its proxies Ukraine and Israel, is intent taking us ALL to the very edge in pursuit of its aims. This, unfortunately, is the world we're currently condemned to live in and it ultimately relies on the capitulation and, frankly, decency of those on the other side not to respond in kind.
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  1449. Cool. Ad hominems now successfully delivered. What exactly did you take issue with?
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  1450. Love to have the inside track on who and what it bans and why?
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  1451.  @rumfordc  Problem is the comments disappear immediately and I genuinely don't post anything that I think warrants censorship. If I do I guess I'd need to do it each time but I'll give it a go as an experiment.
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  1452. ​ @jalend9974 The Western powers all effectively agreed to the carve up of Europe as was with Stalin's Russia after the 2WW.
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  1453. It's not just Kennedy. Both Trump and Biden are in thrall to the Israel lobby in the US. Utterly bizarre that many Americans were clutching their pearls over Russiagate, but election interference by Israel (and to some extent Ukraine) has been largely ignored.
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  1454. @shikarahaar  True, but whatcha gonna do? No matter whom you vote for the government always wins.
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  1455.  @valerietweedie4376  Unfortunately, yet again, YT blocked my entirely factual reply. It's a worry.
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  1456. It should be a truism by now but sadly it isn't. So much of what ails our modern world is virtue signalling. It's role and cos playing for the bourgeoisie. Endlessly parroting the right thing and/or having the necessary conspicuous baubles to vaunt is deemed sufficient by your peers to demonstrate your faith to the cause. This then usually allows them to carry on as they please whilst hectoring others often less fortunate for not doing their bit or not believing enough. 'They' dutifully bought and paid for their favours so it's not their fault that others didn't or couldn't afford to. When the impending cataclysm comes it will be 'their' fault, not theirs. 'History might not repeat itself but it often rhymes' so the saying goes and it's predictably cheerfully rhyming away today. Luxury values indeed.
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  1457. Put it this way, they're probably about as legal as the Israeli settlements in the West Bank.😊
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  1458. Despite numerous claims to the contrary various studies have shown that people in the UK were at their happiest in the 1970s and it was actually a time when UK society was probably at its most equal. To be fair I was only young and remember those years very fondly, but I didn't have a mortgage or a family to feed.
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  1459. They couldn't get Butler apparently.
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  1460. If it isn't efficient then it isn't 'green'. Simples. Anything else is just performative virtue signalling nonsense.
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  1461. Worst thing is he was rightly skeptical about all this lockdown nonsense at the time. If he'd had the balls to speak up and resign he'd have my respect. He didn't and now has my utter contempt. Covid was an abject exercise in the dangers of groupthink and the state suppression of dissent. Any money you like that will not be the conclusion of this public inquiry though.
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  1462. America is bordering on the ridiculous.
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  1463. El-Erian is one of the very few mainstream economists in the world whose views I trust. A pivot is a sign of fear of financial instability. Careful what you wish for people.
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  1464. Bit of context needed there I feel. Whilst it marked a monthly increase of 8%, personal cash deposits totalled £1.35 billion, up 2% month on month, while business cash deposits totalled £1.13 billion, up by 1.9% month on month.
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  1465. The painful truth is, wherever you are, the stock market isn't the real economy and, ultimately, it's the real economy that helps keep all this froth afloat and a good many of these numbnut talking head hucksters in clover. Not Jonathan Ferro though. Gotta blind spot there. Love him😍
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  1466. Really, really enjoyed this interview and thought the input from both interviewers was really insightful and interesting. Fantastic job.
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  1467. Righteous anger.
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  1468. Excellent point. The Internet of Everything, IoE, clearly isn't as benign as it first sounded.
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  1469. Well said.
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  1470. The Gain of Function experiments might seem to be Chinese whispers, but may yet prove to be the smoking gun when it comes to covid. All completely verifiable from original, official websites, but GoF was also conducted by the Madison University in Wisconsin before the moratorium around 2010 and, funnily enough, was part funded by a little known individual called Bill Gates. The moratorium was ended in 2017 under Trump and in the meantime much of that research had been moved by US interests to a little known place in China called Wuhan. One of the very few places in world where laboratories passed the necessary biohazard requirements to handle such viral research. Of course, all of this could be a series of unfortunate coincidences and red herrings and it's not for me to say or know but, as I said, these aren't conspiracy theories taken from whacky websites they are all verifiable facts.
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  1471. "Chaos is an asset" Sums it up.
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  1472. Couldn't agree more. Their opinions are always delivered in language that most of us can understand and with good humour. A real tonic all three.
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  1473. Mearsheimer is not a prophet but... Nobody can be sure what direction this war will take or how it might end, but he is certainly one of the most sane, rational voices out there on this subject. Disagreeing with some or all that he has to say is a perfectly legitimate position to take, however unqualified those objections often might be, but seeing many of the comments on here it's worrying how this brutal, once avoidable conflict seems to be little more than an opportunity for armchair generals and keyboard warriors to wave their willies from the comfort of their own Western homes.
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  1474. Henry Ford wasn't exactly the most benign individuals who ever walked this earth, but even he was capable of realising that it made sense to pay his own workers enough money so that they could afford to buy the products he was mass producing at the time for the American market. Globalization, outsourcing and deliberately leaky borders to encourage ever cheaper labour might have made things cheaper, certainly in the short term, but let's not pretend that this hasn't come at a potential huge longer term cost.
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  1475. In the UK where I'm from higher wages are all well and good but increasingly its the undertaxed big boys' businesses that can only really afford to pay them along with all the other associated costs of employing people and it's often the big boys who are constantly crushing the nuts of the SMEs' margins. By turn, it's the SMEs that form the backbone of the tax base so something, somewhere has to give.
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  1476. Serious question. Why are followers of a religion (and even those that aren't) classed as a race?
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  1477. You might consider yourself to be the hottest person in the world, but if 8bn people decided otherwise then you're not. Simples. Unless you're a borderline psychotic narcissist of course.....
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  1478.  @user-nx6ji9tk8i  I have written protesting to my MP and recommend everyone does the same. The NC is an interesting one as I fear that the government would either claim 'TINA' under Section 2 of the code or would claim that what it is up to is not an experiment. Neither of which I agree with, but until someone legally challenges the government on this basis (or others) over their appalling, antidemocratic actions we won't know.
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  1479. Bit harsh Potatoes have multiple uses.
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  1480. I no longer buy the Israel lobby has the American political system entirely by the short and curlies line. Israel always offers America plausible deniability in pursuing its own nefarious ultimate geopolitical aims. Iran has long been in America's cross hairs. Israel would be nothing today without the decades of hundreds of billions of dollars of American support. Netanyahu couldn't have ordered the murder of Nasrarallah from US soil flagrantly breaking both US federal and state law with impunity without full US complicity. In short, NOTHING happens without America's say so.
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  1481.  @willmercury  MY righteousness? You're kidding right? It's called having two eyes, two ears and more than two braincells. If you were remotely interested you'd find out for yourself or have found out by now. I recommend listening to John Pilger on Iraq if you're genuinely interested, but I strongly suspect you're not.
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  1482. Perhaps after covid more people will come to see the unemployed as beneficial to the economy?
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  1483. We have in the West shifted to the Right economically and to the supposed Left culturally. Needless to say that both these shifts have come at behest of corporate interests. The reason for the first is blindingly obvious as it has effectively allowed them to gradually assume the erstwhile omnipotence of the state but the second less so. Not only has this obsession with identity politics permitted our virtue signalling corporate masters to appear compassionate at very little real cost to themselves, it also permits them to divide and rule the unruly masses distracting them from the dangerous to them central issue at hand which was always class and wealth inequality.
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  1484. Shows great courage. Standing up to the blob comes at a cost. They make sure of that.
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  1485. Sith Ifri-kin.
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  1486. And ironically with fewer and fewer police. Quite a feat and thus we largely have ourselves to blame.
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  1487. Crypto is a state-sanctioned ponzi scheme. No more, no less. If you live in a country like the US or UK which allows it then your political and financial establishment is essentially endorsing a highly risky essentially criminal activity usually at the ultimate expense of the terminally gullible or the utterly desperate. One only has to look at how the collapse of cryptospace Silvergate followed only this week by the collapse of the more traditional bank SVB in the US is being treated by the FED and FDIC to see the fundamental difference here. If you're in crypto and in Silvergate then tough sh*t according to the US government I'm afraid. You're on your own.
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  1488. Anyone who's actually taken the trouble to familiarise themselves with the events that led up to this conflict - it actually began in 2014 NOT 2022 - listening to the likes of Victoria Nuland and Condoleeza Rice would KNOW that it was deliberately provoked by the West over many years.
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  1489. This gentleman was central to instigating an horrific, inhumane policy which saw many thousands die alone in misery in old people's homes and hospitals without seeing their loved ones. He's a human being? Pull the other one. It's got bells on it.
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  1490. Staying in the EU on a 3.8% margin would have been........
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  1491. You're a well paid sitting MP JRM. You have no business presenting a TV show.
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  1492. She had the ol' Katy Perry eye glitch there. Matrix needs a tweak😊
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  1493. Says a helluva lot about Obama there too.
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  1494. This commonly believed, simplistic narrative also helps to explain credit expansion, austerity, wage suppression, tax cuts for the rich, financialization, deindustrialization, outsourcing, colonialism, neocolonialism and likely much more besides.
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  1495. Amen. It's all based on an entirely false premise.
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  1496. Apparently some Scots refer to Hamza Yousef as Hamza Useless.
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  1497. Por quoi?
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  1498. Niger is one of the poorest countries in the world and yet it provides France with 20% of the vital uranium it needs for its nuclear power station fleet. Less than one in five of the people from Niger have access to electricity and that is, I believe, sporadic. Little wonder there is little love lost and little wonder people there feel little gratitude is owed.
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  1499. It's quite disgusting to see how Biden and the Democrats have weaponised and perverted the US legal system in pursuit of their nafarious political aims.
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  1500. Agreed.
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  1501. 👌
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  1502. It wasn't to close the border it was to regain control of it and limit immigration but, point taken, this patently hasn't happened despite numerous empty promises to do so. A good part of the reason we are where we are today.
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  1503. Is Peter Hegseth Trump's most absurd prick?
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  1504. First world problems You just change your habits. It's no biggie.
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  1505. The problem with the public space argument is that as the public space has been corrupted and become untrusted people leave it for other smaller, niche arenas then opinions are more likely to become more atomised as they are no longer aired and shared in a truly public space thus helping form part of a healthy ongoing dialectic. Yes, these places like Substack are healthy for the vital maintenance of free speech, but they're hardly public squares. You have to actively go looking for them and they are always at risk of becoming echo chambers themselves. No personal fan of Elon Musk, but I like to think what he at least professes to want to do with a currently major platform like Twitter helps to address this issue. Only time will tell there obviously.
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  1506. Just for all those screaming 'Marxist drivel' out there. Taking the UK wholesale electricity 'market' as an example. According to UCL revenues of large electricity generators operating directly in the British wholesale market have increased from nearly £15 billion in 2019 to roughly double in 2021 and will be over £50 billion in 2022. Has our government and central bank mismanaged economic and monetary policy? Yes. Have some companies, particularly energy companies, been profiteering? Yes, undoubtedly. For all those ideologues out there, these things aren't mutually exclusive.
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  1507. Mainstream media today is more than ever an establishment tool. This explains the concerted crackdowns on 'disinformation' and increasing attempts to make it harder for small news outlets to do business.
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  1508. Yet again events like these demonstrate for the gazillionth time that history is not a morality play.
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  1509. The West seems to have forgotten that you can't eat money.
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  1510. According to Ladbible, Blair’s Net Worth as of 2022 is $60 million or almost £50.3 million.  The vast majority of the former Prime Minister’s wealth has come through the acquisition of property. Blair owns two dozen flats in Manchester valued at £27 million, as well as an £8 million house in London.
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  1511. When you consider that the US has during the 'American Century' become the master storyteller it makes perfect sense that it has sought, largely successfully, to control the narrative through its media output, particularly in the West. Little wonder that the potential for 'sunlight' presented by the internet fills so many within the dark corridors of power with dread.
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  1512. This is really about the monetising and cynical exploitation of victimhood by certain individuals and organisations for personal and/or political gain.
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  1513. 'Iraq was involved in a long bloody war with Iran' The West stoked it because it was against the great enemy Iran and kept Saddam supplied with weapons FFS.
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  1514. Such as....
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  1515. Always wondered what happened to Jim Carrey.
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  1516. This is what happens when a genuinely curious real journalist interviews one simply pretending to be one.
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  1517. £11m quid pay off for her after that sh*tshow? My God. I hesitate to use the word evil when it comes to describing these people and what they're up to, but it certainly comes close to it. The woman should also be stripped of her ill-deserved title to boot. Plus the BBC's Simon Jack seems to have got away with his role in this scott free I notice.
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  1518. For self-serving prevailing narrative reasons, we're all encouraged to fixate on 'the public debt', but we should actually be fixating on 'the private surplus'. The latter being equal to the exact penny of the former.
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  1519. Two wishes. First that this gentleman was still alive today and second that he held genuine sway within the US government.
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  1520. Yeah, well I think that if nothing else they finally realise that he's by far the less of two evils compared to Biden. He's might be a deeply flawed character but funnily enough the penny's dropping with increasing numbers of Americans too.
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  1521. I use a Chinese branded and made phone having tried others. It's totally reliable, it's keenly priced, it's competitive on every level, it lasts way more than a day on a single charge and it's perfectly intuitive. I imagine I say very little that's of any interest whatsoever to Chinese intelligence monitoring stations so it's worth the risk of persevering with my choice as long as I'm still permitted by the powers that be....
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  1522. Report them. I do.
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  1523. @BIGFOOOOOT Noticed that too. Something amiss definitely. YT not doing its claimed job?
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  1524. NO flags, other than national flags, should be flown from public buildings.
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  1525. Technically, prior to last year when the very longstanding long understood definition of a vaccine was changed these jabs were NOT vaccines. They only are now because the definition has changed. They offer NO sterilizing immunity and they prevent neither contraction nor the spreading of the virus.
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  1526. I think there's definitely a hint of the knowing idiot syndrome in this saga. 'On/Off the spectrum' type stuff. They're SO maladjusted and not of this world types that surely they must know something us lesser mortals don't and couldn't ever hope to understand. They're just, 'SO crypto'. Much like the emperor's new clothes very few had the balls to stand up and admit what was always hidden in plain sight.
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  1527. Aa somebody else pointed out, the establishment loved him when he was a complete degenerate but as soon as he started criticizing the establishment Pfizer, Blackrock, Biden, Vanguard et al and, ironically, became a family man they went for him.
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  1528.  @laurareneesmith  Presumably you're talking about the Budapest Memorandum? First off it was a memorandum negotiated at a political level not a legally binding treaty that offered assurances but NOT guarantees. The United States itself publicly maintained that "the Memorandum is not legally binding", calling it a "political commitment" Secondly, nor did it allow for the fact that the US would spend years from Clinton onwards trying to stoke the unrest it has done in the country including taking provocative steps toward it (and Georgia's) NATO membership culminating in the CIA sponsored coup in 2014 with years spent meddling thereafter. Thirdly, the US hasn't sought to 'defend' plucky Ukraine. It has sought to arm it, often offload its crappiest, outmoded materiel on it, saddle it with debt and, most egregiously, seen hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians needlessly slaughtered in yet another of its imperialistic, corporatist proxy wars. If that makes anyone proud to be 'a Murrican', then God have mercy on their souls.
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  1529. Trump likely did far more to prevent a war with Iran than actively pursue one.
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  1530.  @chrisruss9861  Yeah, I heard that one. They changed their mind halfway down apparently.
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  1531. You don't seem to have much of a history on YT Dimitry in Moscow despite joining in 2016. What gives?
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  1532. The Swamp bit back. Hard.
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  1533. And yet we're told that the country these people are living in is getting richer and the economy is growing great guns. Something not quite right here.
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  1534. I'd have some sympathy for Joe Biden on a human level if I hadn't seen numerous videos of him being an evil SOB over the years when he did have his marbles.
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  1535. There's excess money in the US economy that's for sure, but most of it is with the top 10% not the average working American. The top decile has seen its wealth grow by $28trn, yes trillion, in the three years since 2020 and they, unsurprisingly, account for way more consumer spending proportionately currently. Not being party to the covid windfall and accompanying state largesse, little wonder that a good many Americans don't feel that everything is rosy with the US economy at the moment despite the positive data apparently suggesting otherwise.
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  1536. ANY blatant foreign interference in a sovereign country's internal affairs should not be tolerated and addressed. What's weird is how Israel is so easily and openly able to influence the politics of foreign countries unhindered, not least the world's most powerful nation the United States????
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  1537. As ever, skin colour isn't important until it's useful. Apparently we should all try and be colourblind but constantly be aware of skin colour. A black uber-wealthy privileged Obama is unashamedly berating average black 'brother' voters for not voting for a black candidate essentially because they should because of her skin colour. Misogyny apparently informs their reticence. Anyone else seeing an inherent and unhealthy 'racist' and 'misogynistic' paradox being perpetuated here?
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  1538. ​ @kerwinbrown4180 Yep no rhyme nor reason sometimes, but the net results are the same. They are killing debate either through incompetence or design.
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  1539. Lesley certainly came to work with a spade that day. Probably the first honest day's work she's ever done.
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  1540. They're deleting stuff left right and centre and then re-instating some stuff just to add to the confusion.
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  1541. It's not just regulations and nimbyism that restrict house building. Property and the mortgage debts attached it provides the backbone of many economies, particularly the UK's. The last thing most governments want to see is falling and easily affordable house prices as it would kill their golden goose. This is the main reason why house price supply is restricted.
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  1542.  @yurigansmith  Kinda not the point really is it if you think about it?
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  1543. You win the argument!! Well done you.
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  1544. Commie BS? This sort of wealth disparity, concentration and inequality is healthy???
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  1545. Is it just me, or is that one of the lamest excuses you've ever heard. Ukraine was supposed to be a neutral state all along. Russia isn't going to compromise its own military just to get a peace deal with Ukraine FFS.
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  1546. I think it's got something to do with the YT algorithm. A ploddy title doesn't get it the views and therefore doesn't help generate the necessary income.
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  1547. Random aside, but this was why I loved and trusted my Blackberry all those years ago. Wouldn't even surprise me to hear if it was sunk precisely because it wouldn't capitulate to the global security elites.
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  1548. Well, you at least you ruffled Thompson, Max. He was pushing back, but you were obviously getting to him in the process. Perhaps he was just worried about the optics though? None of the others, including Mr Wonder, clearly gave a $$hit.
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  1549. A great shame - and I don't mean this as a criticism of the man's character- that Jeremy Corbyn wasn't strong enough to withstand and counter the concerted smear campaign that eventually bought him down.
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  1550. Liam Halligan is a sincere trustworthy individual amongst a den of thieves.
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  1551. I urge you to watch the 1986 C-Span YT Short where Biden describes America's relationship with Israel if you think that Biden's 'got this' behind the scenes.
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  1552. One can't help watching this and coming away with the feeling that Harding is somebody's 'asset'... ....and not Russia's.
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  1553. And that might be fair point if Western politicians didn't lie about who did it the first place and continue to do so even now despite considerable evidence to the contrary. Why might they do that?
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  1554. It's long been quietly known that the UK's economic growth since 2008 actually comes from immigration. This is why GDP is such a deeply flawed metric designed to hide a multiple of sins. This model inevitably benefits a certain wealthier constituency ie those those best able to exploit the benefits from sustained cheaper labour costs. As the economic pie grows only incrementally bigger in relation to the sheer weight of numbers however, it essentially means that the average share for the average person is inevitably shrinking.
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  1555. Great interview here from RFK jr.
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  1556. This was the day my opinion of Yanis Varoufakis plummeted. All powerful, unaccountable technological super elites I'm fully on board with - the evidence is irrefutable - but once someone starts preaching about listening to those with whom we disagree and challenging orthodoxies whilst simultaneously resorting to cheap vicious ad womenems, as he did with Braverman at the end there, I'm seriously left wondering quite how sincere this man is.
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  1557. Love the theme music!!
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  1558. It's terribly sad that the situation today as it stands that the only way for the UK to make its way successfully in the world outside of the EU is for the EU itself to fail. The EU and those who champion it, both domestically and abroad, are actively making it its business that the UK pays a mighty high political and economic price for its democratic choice in 2016. The EU is, perhaps, an inevitable imperial ambition for Europe in a US/Sino dominated world and seemingly woe betide anyone who stands in its way but lest we forget it is propped up by the German economy and the money it has long provided. An export focused, energy reliant manufacturing economy built on decades of bountiful cheap Russian energy and a strong export market with China....
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  1559. Identitarian politics is SO irrational nevermind truly divisive and toxic. Why should who you freely choose to sleep with or the colour of your skin apparently forever define your politics or, far worse, brand you a traitor for not conforming to the apparent norm? The real 'fascists' we ALL need to worry about are the ones who espouse such views.
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  1560. Michael Burry also makes the same claim regarding excessive inventories does he not?
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  1561. It's way too early to say and I'm not defending what Trump may or may not be doing, but this was surely always a possibility given that so-called 'liberals' have been doing much the same for decades now in the US and elsewhere. Once you start messing with institutions, expanding them and stacking them with your 'own' and then clearly weaponising these power bases against your opponents then don't be surprised if your actions come back to bite you.
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  1562. Brilliant discussion. Loved it.
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  1563. Just for clarity, is she a supporter of the Russian invasion of Ukraine or is she questioning the wisdom and morality of the West sending weapons and money there?
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  1564. Saving at interest (if you're fortunate enough to be able to) is a personal hedge against inflation, a place to store surplus wealth that's not needed or cannot be immediately utilized and a rainy day source of funds in an emergency. It is not 'dead money' per se. 'Saving' at interest effectively encourages you to lock or indeed does lock money your money away (for a term) removing it from the active money supply which I'm sure figures in government's monetary supply and inflation calculations. Little wonder that interest on 'pure liquidity' current accounts nowadays is practically negligible even in this higher interest environment.
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  1565. If you think the 2020 election was bent as Trump and many Republicans clearly did - and mounting evidence suggests it was - then how is it a crime to ask an election official in a battleground state with a highly questionable voting pattern to 'find' those 'missing' votes?
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  1566.  @alexanderphilip1809  This is specifically why I referred to the perception of consent, be it manufactured or genuine. If majority consent is granted it ideally is as a result of a level of perceived competence by said majority at least in relation to the alternatives on offer. People seem to forget that democracy, in all its varying forms, is never a panacea. It isn't there to consistently deliver the right answers or forever ensure competent leadership, but it is the most stable enduring framework to facilitate societal progression by dint of the fact that it is strongly predicated on consent. It might well be two steps forward, three steps back sometimes and the nature, strength and legitimacy of that consent should always be open to question but 'the system' itself must prevail for want of anything better.
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  1567. Gisela Stuart was brilliant.
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  1568. The simple, dispassionate answer is nothing is stopping the UK government from doing it ultimately as there is no real sanction that can be imposed, but if it does so it would be widely regarded by other countries as a breach of international law. A principle that the UK prefers to see itself as one of its prime advocates.
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  1569. 100% And tragically you're not wrong.
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  1570. A thesis on the 'architecture of military bases' sounds like he's probably doing the wrong course.
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  1571. The UK economy is built on and sustained by the property market and the constant lending of the debt at profit associated with it. In order to keep this contrived show on the road the supply of housing needs to be constrained in relation to constant excess demand. The last thing the state or any UK government wants or needs is everybody secure and housed in easily affordable homes as it would cripple the economy and the goose that lays its golden eggs.
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  1572. Good point.
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  1573.  @harrydavey9884  Sure. Thanks. Still seems very odd to me given the speed and the procedures adopted. Can you tell me your sources for that info?
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  1574.  @harrydavey9884  It does. Plus can you confirm sources. I like to keep abreast of these things.
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  1575.  @onederb71nln83  That's what I remember too, but I might be wrong. Still, I'm amazed that his parents reporting him missing and him, an adult of 20, not returning within an allotted time and a car should seem to form the basis of an unequivocal ID by the security services????
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  1576. If Farage or Tice had behaved in this shameful manner imagine how the press would be queuing up to paint them as typical misogynistic right wing villains. As it is Campbell, serial bully, war spinner and Maxwell lackey seems to be being given a free pass by a load of amoral hard of thinking numbnuts with collective amnesia because he's regularly wheeled out by the likes of the BBC to condemn a democratic decision.
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  1577.  @Mr.BednaR  The way to look at it is if they drop significantly then it will likely be a positive sign more generally. Sure, you might lose out a wee bit if they drop lower than your fix, but they won't drop that much lower and things more generally will be more on an even keel so you're less like likely to feel the pain and your job prospects will be more secure. If they drop very slowly, stay high or even go higher then you'll not only notice the pain it'll be amidst a far more febrile political, economic and employment climate If, as some believe, this is all part of some dastardly globalist masterplan then most of us will f*cked anyway so whether you choose a two year or five year mortgage would likely be immaterial.
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  1578. #Freddie and Meggie sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G#❤
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  1579. Stuxnet, BTC anyone?
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  1580. The Guardian through one its journalists ultimately helped to betray Assange. Going from a once great newspaper in the noughties, it's now one of the very worst of the worst. Zero credibility and bourgeois pseudo-Leftie w@nk mag basically.
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  1581. Angela Merkel bought stability to the EU by constantly kicking the can down the road and making Germany and its economy, the financial lynchpin of the European Project, heavily reliant on cheap Russian energy. Sign of a great leader? I would suggest not.
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  1582. In a nutshell the so-called 'culture wars' is a darkly cynical policy of divide and rule. Thus far, it's working like clockwork. Endlessly fixate upon and exploit known differences and potential fissures in order to ensure that the great unwashed masses don't rally around a common cause and unite against a common foe.
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  1583. Is-real Isn't Real.
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  1584. Not for nothing was Austria one of the first and few countries to push for a full over 18 'vaccine' mandate amidst the covid hysteria.
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  1585. You'll probably find that a good many Jews have done that too except they prefer to call it anti-Zionism because otherwise it makes things a bit awkward.
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  1586. 💯
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  1587. @Alex-df4lt  These countries are IN the sainted EU. Germany and France, both EU linchpins, the former its bankroller, are in dire straits politically and economically and debt to gdp ratios in countries like Italy, Belgium, France, Greece and even outlier Spain are over 100%. And you call that whataboutism? Seriously?
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  1588. AOC is FOS.
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  1589. You're gambling. Pure and simple. Hope this helps.
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  1590. The United States: the richest poor country in the world.
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  1591. You can only accept the name 'vaccine' for this treatment if you accept the fact that the CDC changed the long held and understood definition if what a vaccine actually is at the beginning of this year. The fact is is that no 'vaccine' for ANY coronavirus actually existed prior to the changing of that long held, long understood definition.
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  1592. Interesting guy, but you can't spend decades essentially provoking a war and when it finally comes to pass entirely blame the apparent belligerent for eventually succumbing to that provocation particularly when it's on their own doorstep. Further to that, feeding said provoked war with the means to sustain it and at great profit to your arms producers and ensuring far greater loss of life kinda paints those who've done so in a rather bad light I would say.
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  1593. Ybr welczomz!
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  1594. Ironic how a nominally Communist 'centralised' China is successfully undermining the supposedly free market US Capitalist model by means of pursuing genuine competition. I've long known it was a self serving B$ narrative there to dupe the masses, but this absolutely proves it beyond ANY reasonable doubt.
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  1595. So not anti-vax, just concerned that all the usual, long accepted safety and efficacy protocols be followed to see if any potential vaccine is safe and worthwhile to use and for whom. When he was speaking at the time he naturally assumed these safety protocols would be followed, not least of which is their monitored use over a sufficient passage of time in a controlled group. Back then we were looking at some time in 2023 at the very earliest, I believe, given that the previous record for any vaccines passing regulatory acceptance was four years Don't have a calendar to hand, but aren't we still in 2021 and haven't those vaccines now been injected into hundreds of millions of people?
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  1596. Definitely not universal, but rather like the charity system in the UK, once you get people invested personally in the business of 'helping' people, often drawing heavily from and depending on the public purse in the process and selling the idea to the world that what they're doing is virtuous these things inevitably become self-perpetuating and a habit that is the Devil's own job to break.
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  1597. Must be a lovely feeling being SO cocksure, as our dear Western leaders SO obviously are, that there's NO way this could POSSIBLY escalate....
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  1598. Where's the sound? The problem with showing footage accompanied by some CGI graphics like this is that in all honesty it could be anywhere. I'm not saying it's not genuine, I don't know, but there's some rather extensive fancy neat tiling there which seems a bit weird in the circumstances. The bombed Gaza hospital tunnel footage after Oct 7 was super dodgy and it wasn't exactly helped by the fact that the IDF blew the tunnels up straight after showing said footage.
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  1599. True-dough-nut.
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  1600. How so? Russiagate has been entirely debunked now, primarily by left wing journalists who now admit they were too slow to wake up to what was going on because of their own political prejudices. The Steele Dossier has been revealed as a trumped up crock paid for by the Democrats and that Steele was essentially a paid for by the FBI informant. The claim has now been shown to be completely false, Steele was unable to back up any of his claims and the Democrats were fined, albeit a derisory amount and with next to no publicity, for their plans to subvert American democracy. Trump a Putin stooge? I don't think so. And if you're genuinely interested in finding the reason why America is in the mess it is now it all goes back to the Democrat confected lie that was Russiagate.
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  1601. Identity politics is beloved of and is cultivated by the elites precisely because it successfully diverts attention away from the fundamental issues, class and inequality.
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  1602. because...he continued...
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  1603. ...or maybe he didn't.
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  1604. ​ @SunnyDay-p5p Fusion cuisine.
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  1605. Zero covid is an utterly insane policy. The more inherently authoritarian the regime the more attractive the policy.
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  1606. Here in the UK I shall not be voting come the next election. Our political parties, rather like our sold off for a song utilities, are there more than ever to promote the illusion of choice.
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  1607. Although social media's role is undeniable in this, it's worth noting that riots, particularly in the summer months in the UK, have been occurring long before it came along.
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  1608. Weird how Islam's 'jihad' has become a dirty word in the West and yet the word 'crusade' hasn't, no?
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  1609. Chances that anything high techie and expensive to set and do got done in Ukraine like biolabs without the monetary backing and input of a generous outside benefactor does seem a bit of a stretch if I'm honest.
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  1610. So the guy at the end there is essentially trying to lobby for the idea that 100% of ALL infants should be jabbed to allow for 0.0001% of infants who may or may not have a mother with Hepatitis B???? Seriously???
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  1611. ​ @rightherethereeverywhere Too late!!
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  1612. Don't be silly.
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  1613. Inevitable perhaps, but a cruel cosmic irony that the tormented and oppressed have become some of human history's biggest tormentors and oppressors.
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  1614. Fancies his chances I reckon ...
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  1615. The time for an overweighted Germany leaving the Euro thereby saving it now seems long since past. Its years of prosperous membership within made it a devalued in its own interests DM by any other name. Its high end exports remained far cheaper than they would otherwise have been if constrained by the DM. Problem now being that its beggar thy neighbours reliance on it has also effectively destroyed the viable European competition.
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  1616. In terms of Trump's alleged fascist tendencies this is one of the most outrageous claims that Dems make as his entire record as president utterly belies it. With a fake election conspiracy, a major multi-billion war in Europe paid for by US taxpayers and a US sponsored genocide in the Middle East Trump doesn't even come close to Biden.
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  1617. Splendid fella.
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  1618. Bravo.
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  1619. Didn't end too well for Boney N if I recall.
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  1620. This programme provides the perfect example of why discussion and continuing 'the dialectic' is SO important. It also demonstrates why 'some' are SO keen to ensure that it no longer happens. I encourage everyone to look at who those 'some' are.
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  1621. They wouldn't let us vote if they seriously believed it would make a difference.😊
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  1622. 'Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.' - Eric Hoffer Be it politics, economics, peace, health, defence or sport I think Mr Hoffer might have been onto something.....
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  1623. This, though essentially true, is clearly unpopular or inconvenient for some and something some do not wish others to know. Put simply, the public debt is equal to the EXACT penny of the private surplus. This fact raises extremely thorny questions. Far more political than economic in fact.
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  1624. Hospitals the world over only have a certain amount of ICU beds available by choice. Some more, some less not least because, not to put too fine a point on it, they are an extremely expensive service to maintain as they require highly trained staff to man them. It is as much a political choice as it is a medical and economic one. It sounds brutal, but it all boils down to risk and cost benefit ratios. The same reason we didn't have piles upon piles of PPE sitting and decaying in a warehouse somewhere doing nothing at huge cost waiting for an occasion that may or may not have happened in our lifetimes. In normal times there are 'just' enough ICU beds that they can usually cope with what is usually thrown at them on a daily basis, but just occasionally they can't and this often makes the headlines provoking the 'is this what our society is coming to' type handwringing we've long become used to. Covid is an extremely unusual event. A real outlier in terms of the deleterious effect it is having on a very specific, limited by design and choice capacity uniquely placed to deal with it. The question is what happens in a post covid world with immediately decimated economies where such priorities will become even more difficult? Do we now expect our hospitals in future to have hundreds upon hundreds of empty ICU beds with lots of highly expensive trained staff milling about doing nothing on the off chance of another pandemic? For that, essentially, seems to be what a good many are now agitating for.
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  1625. You can't conflate capital punishment with assisted dying FFS as Murray disingenuously attempts to do here. Bit early for the silly season, so maybe it's just a case of writer's block but asking the state to assist with your voluntary demise is not the same thing as the state insisting on your demise.
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  1626. Required viewing this.
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  1627. Politicians and economists are afraid to use the term any more because it freely admits effectively to the state giving already rich people free money through governmenrt policy, but the ever climbing debt levels still point to the fact that the false narrative of trickle down is alive and well sadly.
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  1628. How does Florida compare with other US states now, particularly accounting for its aging demographic?
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  1629. The UK's 'wealth creation' has been built upon its property market with its concomitant 'debt creation' for way too long. It is a policy that has helped propagate the illusion of wider wealth but has had wider longer term disastrous socio-economic consequences as a result. It is the establishment's one trick pony, toothless tiger and golden goose all rolled into one ugly beast. Little wonder they've expended decades of their expedient efforts into propping up the market as they now have little option but to do so.
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  1630. This should serve as a wake up call to Europe and indeed the world that the US can never be trusted. Trump or no.
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  1631. ​ @jasonuren3479 I know what you mean. It was an absolute travesty and yet people still cheerfully parrot the 'Oh yeah, Corbyn was an anti-Semite' lie. Ken Livingstone, poor soul, was earlier given much the same treatment. The Labour Party today is an absolute disgrace.
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  1632. Starmer is an establishment placeman. Corbyn, and I didn't agree with everything he said mind, was in retrospect the UK's last chance at democracy. That's why he was taken down with endless smears and with the full complicity of UK MSM.
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  1633. It's reportedly from AFP. A well known global news agency.
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  1634. Seriously looking forward to your upcoming YouTube channel dissecting world events.....
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  1635. About covid coming from a US funded lab in Wuhan doing GoF research, the jabs not following establishing trial procedures despite introducing a novel technology and the CDC quietly changing the definition of what a vaccine was in 2022? That sort of thing?
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  1636. About covid coming from a US funded lab in Wuhan doing GoF research, the jabs not following establishing trial procedures despite introducing a novel technology and the CDC quietly changing the definition of what a vaccine was in 2022? That sort of thing?
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  1637. Most of the new money created in modern economies comes from the granting of new mortgages. Falling house prices ultimately means less money in the economy. Make of that what you will.
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  1638. By the by, but the GFA does NOT preclude a border on the island of Ireland. Just for clarification.
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  1639. The real Left in the West has been deliberately neutered and/or destroyed I'm afraid. In the UK Corbyn was effectively couped by the UK Deep State.
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  1640. Can't bear Trudeau and normally agree with Murray, but not here. Subject to proper and rigorous judicial and medical checks and balances anyone who wishes to end their life legally, peacefully and assisted by the state should be allowed to do so.
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  1641. The Guardian, a once great newspaper and alternative voice, is now nothing better than a tawdry rag and an establishment shill masquerading as the aforementioned alternative voice.
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  1642.  @rollyunicorn  Rather like everlasting Ediswan lightbulbs. Planned obsolescence.
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  1643. Piers Morgan and journalism shouldn't really be mentioned in the same sentence, particularly after this. What happened to those poor Israelis was truly truly horrific, but it is not an excuse for what is now happening to many more innocent Palestinians in Gaza either. This issue didn't suddenly spring from those awful, inexcusable events on October 7th but if you watch Western media and Shapiro you'd be forgiven for thinking it had.
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  1644. He who pays the the piper calls the tune. Twas forever thus. People, quite simply, don't give money to political parties out of the goodness of their hearts. State funding of ALL political parties needs to be looked into in some form or another.
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  1645.  @truckerfromreno  No 'kneed'.
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  1646. Great discussion, but a shame how Monbiot pointedly evaded the question as to Zionism's key role in Tony Blair's rise to power sidelining the trade unions.
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  1647. Thanks to this entirely avoidable sh*tshow ironically now only Russia can save Ukraine from the evil clutches of the ever grabbing Blackrock.
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  1648.  @helenwebster6020  Tis a bit weird that🤔
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  1649. Or at least what passes for it nowadays. It's socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor. The bailouts of 2008 proved that beyond any doubt.
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  1650. This will, I agree, likely lead to another refugee crisis both for Europe AND for Erdogan's Turkey. A country which has long 'protected', at great enduring financial cost I might add, Europe from a massive influx of refugees fleeing ongoing unrest and persecution in the ME. The Turkish population that has also recently signalled to its establishment that it no longer was willing to accept ever more refugees. This then is an act of pure folly if it were fostered by Erdogan that would likely further destabilise an already reeling from both a refugee crisis AND the Ukraine war Europe as a number of countries increasingly shift further to the political right.
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  1651. Cathy Wood had one exposure to SBF during a Zoom call and he seemed distracted doing something off camera?
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  1652. Never been to IKEA. Never will again😁
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  1653. Like Victoria Nuland, John Bolton is evil personified.
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  1654. Sure. Why?
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  1655. The same covid polarisation Great Plague/mild flu views that Gave posits about China are equally applicable to the west too sadly.
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  1656. The left has been hijacked.
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  1657. This is a really good episode. Some real insights and takeaways.
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  1658. Pavlov's.
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  1659. You're unlucky. That'd be YT not The Duran I suspect.
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  1660. If there is any conspiracy theory at all surrounding Oct 7 it's certainly not that it didn't happen it's how it happened at all. Gaza and its population is famously one of if not the most surveilled areas on earth where literally every text and email is potentially read and every phonecall potentially listened in on by Israeli intelligence. The best argument advanced so far for this intelligence failure is that the sheer volume of information meant that this information was missed but when you couple that with the alleged prior warnings of an attack from Egyptian intelligence things get a little more sketchy.
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  1661.  @st.joanne  As you're entitled to do so.
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  1662.  @ejtattersall156    Sure. You obviously don't like the man. I get that. I don't agree with everything he says, but how about you pick apart the arguments there. It's quite obvious to me that the willingness to debate has been lost or, more accurately, is being denied to others. Resorting to simple and sweeping ad hominems plays a major part in that.
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  1663. This man is a psychopath of the worst order. At least murderous psychopaths at their peak only manage a few scores at the most. Campbell has the blood of hundreds of thousands on his hands and yet the BBC will still wheel him out because he apparently hates Brexit. What a truly f*cked up world we live in.
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  1664.  @blumousey  I'm sure, but it seems strange how some commenters choose to focus solely on the pound's fall.
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  1665. 'Innocent until proven guilty' should be as rock solid as judging someone by the content of their character. If I were ever accused of doing something I would expect that same right and so should anyone else.
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  1666. #MeToo
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  1667. Because?
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  1668. I beg to differ with the physicist there. Covid apparently proved beyond any reasonable doubt that there ARE absolutes in science which is why we must now refer to it as THE science....m'kay?
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  1669. WOT NO CRYPTO COMMENTS?
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  1670. I must say Liz Truss's speech was actually pretty sincere. Learning on the job and at one of the worst times for doing so. Mini-budget was a serious political misjudgment though. Lacked political nous.
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  1671. Yet again LH is the voice of sanity in the relative wilderness. Raising interest rates wasn't just about raising the cost of borrowing and putting an end to the artificially low interest rates designed to keep asset prices perennially attractive amongst other things, it was also about stopping banks trying to offset their risks by buying long-term government debt with p*ss poor returns. Debt many are now being forced to sell at a substantial loss with these sudden large-scale long overdue central bank interest rises. There are people out there who are paid a darn sight more handsomely than LH to know about and foresee these risks surely so WTF have they been up to?
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  1672. The late not-so-great John McCain famously never met a war he didn't love.
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  1673. Virtue signalling is the curse of the modern age it truly is.
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  1674. Fantastic interview. What a thinker. Obsessing about race, and to be honest we're really talking about skin colour here not 'race' as such, is now essentially a 'racist' act and should be seen as such. MLK must be 'd'oh-ing' in his grave.
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  1675. Personally I've no time for ANY religion - a plague on ALL their houses I say - but thankfully more and more people, including me, are realising that this has nothing to do with religion or ethnicity but humanity.
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  1676. Richard Branson is a corporate welfare leech nevermind there's literally nothing this man wouldn't stick the Virgin brand name on. I wouldn't be surprised to see the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in Virgin branding come the day.
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  1677. We should of course ask the IDF as it has previously claimed to be 'the most moral army in the world'....
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  1678. Is Brexit the new climate change or is climate change the new Brexit?
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  1679. This is why Western powers have started more recently to describe this period since the end of the Cold War only as 'a strategic peace'. It's not organic or natural. It's been engineered through implied strength and potential threat basically...or allegedly.
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  1680. When our elected governments are effectively bought by the lobbyists who get to have their ears every day and the lowly voters only periodically get to have their limited say it's no wonder these democratic systems are breaking down. The sad fact of the matter is is that our democratic systems are no longer really democratic and elections are increasingly just part of the pantomime that helps to perpetuate the illusion that they are.
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  1681. The Canadian trucker covid protests and the way Trudeau 'legally' dealt with them ie effectively rendering them non-persons by removing them from the financial system, showed us all as to where this was going. Total compliance is no longer an option I'm afraid.
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  1682. Trump a threat to American democracy? Biden was couped in plain sight and his previously extremely unpopular successor appointed by a largely unelected Democrat cabal and most Americans barely batted an eyelid!!
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  1683. To be fair this was a case that she was unwise to bring in the first place, but overall it demonstrates yet another nail in the coffin of the British legal system. I'd hate to be thrown upon its mercies I must admit.
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  1684. It's weird how in the UK the Far Right, and I'm really talking about the self-identifying Far Right here, are increasingly identifying with Israel and Zionism essentially along racial lines. The UK government on the one hand is happy to state that Islamic and Far Right extremism are THE biggest threats to national security, but the latter's increasing association with Zionism seems to go largely unremarked upon in the mainstream. All incredibly schizophrenic and confusing.
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  1685. Grow up. This is ALL a charade. The US could stop this with one phone call. ANYONE with two brain cells realises that. Whilst it might suit the US to play the helpless pearl clutching good cop to Israel's bad cop it's all b*llocks. Look deeper.
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  1686. Great point at the end by the young American fella regarding respecting China's redlines. Ukraine was always Russia's well known redline and we all know how that has miserably ended up. It's all very well thinking you're the Land of the Free, the beacon of democracy and the upholder of mom's apple pie for all but you have to face the fact that not only does not everyone think and feel the same way as you do but also constantly pushing for those 'values' has the potential to present seriously deleterious for all mankind.
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  1687. Yeah, historians posit that the main driver behind Japan's attack on USA's Pacific fleet was its lack of access to oil to feed its then imperial ambitions in the region. Gambling, incorrectly, that the isolationist US would elect to sue for peace. God forbid that what's happening in Gaza would have anything to do with securing precious resources, serving as a wedge and asserting a presence in a distant region rather than serving the interests of freedom, democracy and apple pie. Just as it did in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine and elsewhere in fact.
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  1688. Shapiro obviously never believed in FoS rights in the first place. It was simply the darkly cynical hook he used to hang his highly lucrative pitch on for years. We now know that FoS means nothing to him and he's always been FoS, quite frankly.
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  1689. 'That's a great question!'
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  1690. Yep. Blatant double standards at play in Netherlands amplified by both disingenuous media and politicians across the world.
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  1691. AKA 'the greengrocers (sic) apostrophe'.
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  1692. The fact of the matter is is that the US can afford to consistently run a huge trade deficit thanks to its exorbitant privilege. For now, the world currently still wants and needs USD to trade and the US can print as many they want for free. This effectively allows the country to suck in all these lovely tangibles from all over the globe in exchange for pieces of paper and US IOUs. As a result of this the 'too big to fail' US, the country with the world's biggest most lucrative and voracious consumer market, gets to export much of its inflation to foreign countries and the US consumer gets to benefit from cheaper prices thanks to this dollar dominance. It's the closest thing to a free lunch as you're ever going to get, so I'm still struggling to understand what Trump's rationale is here?
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  1693. For saying the war in Ukraine should never have happened in the first place, that it's been stoked by US neocons and that it's resulted in the senseless loss of life of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and Russians? If that makes him a Putin lover then that makes me one too I guess. Don't get me wrong, Putin is an oftentimes highly unpleasant authoritarian leader, but compared to the neocons in the US responsible for initiating all this the man's a relative saint.
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  1694. It's profoundly ironic that the far right extremism is increasingly identifying with extreme Zionism.
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  1695. A lot of this criminally overpaid for stuff was useless anyway and is now sitting in landfill. I struggled from the beginning with the idea that in 2019 we were told one minute that single use plastic was one of the greatest environmental evils facing the planet and then by 2020 we suddenly couldn't get enough of it. Needless to say, post covid, it's back to being the great evil it previously was. Ain't human beings funny?
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  1696. Mr Murphy needs to stay in his lane. He clearly understands eff all about politics although his economic insights DO exhibit some merit.
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  1697. And before all the EU fanboys and girls start crowing, Denmark is increasingly a significant outlier within the bloc. The EU area more generally is seriously floundering as was freely admitted by Draghi recently and has been for decades. His solution, as is ALWAYS the EU's solution, is that Europe needs more EU not less and, surprise surprise, more money from its members flowing to its centre.
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  1698. It's always fascinating how many Americans are fond of claiming that the country is somehow a meritocratic democratic system. Its political system is riddled to its core with cronyism, lobby based corruption and super donor classes. Plus, one only has to look at its own 'royals' and 'my turn' unspoken rules of accession that have applied to its presidency and other top jobs, particularly over more recent years.
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  1699. Practicing medicine in a war situation is different than in one of peace. Presumably, not only is it relentless, often their own lives are in jeopardy whilst doing so.
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  1700. As the Americans say, Fraser Myers has picked the wrong hill to die on there.
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  1701. Very good point regarding the outright hypocrisy of these banks and businesses not pushing and insisting on their politicized agendas being followed elsewhere like the Middle and Far East.
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  1702. The GBP has indeed lost ground against the Euro since the single currency's inception at the beginning of this century. What most people fail to mention, including those like the gentlemen above, is that most of that loss, around 15%, occurred between 2000 and 2015 when the UK was still very much in the EU.
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  1703. What's your favourite colour.... .... revolution?
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  1704. It's officially termed 'illegal' immigration because these people enter the country 'illegally'. Most people understand the term 'illegal', but unfortunately none of our politicians do and nor does our Home Office. Time for a rebrand perhaps?
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  1705. I'm still waiting for my comment to appear. Not sure if it's YT or GG's site who've pulled it or are dragging their feet, but it's not on either way.
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  1706. I know someone has replied to me, but I can't see the reply unfortunately....
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  1707. @@RedZangief Seen this comment 👍 I've been shadow banned elsewhere so I kinda know the drill and recognise it when I see it. Not expecting it on here TBH, but I'm consistently surprised by where and what seems to qualify. I'm always polite, never personally offensive and stick to the facts where applicable, but it doesn't seem to make any difference.
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  1708. Nothing per se. It's whom you cut them for, why and, in this particular instance, when.
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  1709. A very select few individuals get to set the rules and dictate how the game is played but it only works as long as enough of a critical mass both believe the peddled narrative and/or feel sufficiently invested in it. The control of the MSM and their marshalling of the narrative, even if they continually haemorrhage cash, still makes perfect sense in the far bigger picture for them, but it's increasingly looking like their Achilles Heel as fewer and fewer people appear to trust them and they seek out independent media. Arguably they can afford to burn through cash on them indefinitely but it then raises red flags, even amongst the hard of thinking, as to why these red in tooth and claw arch capitalists would continue to do what in any other situation should be an anathema to them.
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  1710. This is a war that NEVER EVER should've happened. A complete senseless waste of life both Ukrainian and Russian.
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  1711. 'the nation-state form as such is now desired only by those at the bottom of the social scale, and no one with an iota of power cares what they think. Worse still, no one with an iota of power even cares who they are, or what nation they do or don’t in principle belong to.' - Mary Harrington.
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  1712. Does it give financial advice?
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  1713. Sadly my comment has disappeared. Bit weird. Fact based and not controversial.
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  1714. Somebody in the West obviously believes that this extreme brinkmanship is worth pursuing and that the Russians won't be forced to eventually respond. What do they know what we don't? Scarily, I think the answer is they don't.
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  1715. It's called 'The American Dream' because for most Americans that's all it is.
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  1716. Cheeky Peking reference there Patrick....like it.
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  1717. This is why the UK housing market and its associated mortgage market is SO crucial to propping up the UK economy and why ever rising housing prices are deliberately encouraged despite frequent claims to the contrary. I'm of the cynical opinion that government actually restricts housing supply in order to promote scarcity and drive the market and prices ever upwards.
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  1718. ... because?
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  1719. John Kerry? Is that the US Climate Change Tzar who forgot he had a private jet?😅
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  1720. 'Comedian' is on mighty shaky ground there I would think in terms of defamation?
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  1721. But capitalism is supposed to promote competition and prevent monopolies surely?
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  1722.  @What_do_I_Think  On current evidence I'm gonna go with a no there.
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  1723. At this rate we can all look forward to the ION. The Internet of (No)Things.
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  1724. (Today's) Labour isn't Working.
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  1725. Section 5 states that the use of words or behaviour or the writing, sign or other visible representation' must be 'threatening or abusive' or 'within the hearing or sight of a person likely to be caused harassment, alarm or distress thereby." So this woman by simply being there and close enough was entirely subjectively able to claim an offence was being committed? Is that correct?
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  1726. Can you provide evidence of Trump's Nazi tendencies when he was in office? Only I hear the word bandied around and either those who do don't actually know what the word means or they're in the business of trying to devalue it.
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  1727.  Macavity  If this comes down to a clash of a perception of reality then I think that my grasp on it is probably somewhat less tenuous than yours I'm afraid. Would that you were right and this stuff wasn't so high up the mass media agenda, both 'liberal' and right. It's not an echo chamber. There are far more important things which we should be talking about on that I would agree. Identity politics more generally is a scourge designed to accentuate differences not heal them.
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  1728. This was a set up by Falter. No shame.
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  1729. Certainly not beyond the realms of possibility that the fabricated Russiagate claim was used by the US establishment to influence and corral Trump's foreign policy vis-a-vis Russia during his first term which might have otherwise been more favourable.
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  1730. Tiny Cuba has been under punitive US sanctions for almost 70 years, you do know that don't you?
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  1731.  @slapkit51  Sanctions, particularly those imposed by the world's most power country, destabilise regimes and actively encourage people to leave for rosier climes. Little wonder that the US has been the oft chosen destiny by the victims of those sanctions be they Cuban, Venezuelan or wherever. Actively creating failed states, particularly on your own doorstep, inevitably has consequences.
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  1732. @slapkit51  Yup. It's SO frustrating. One thing to pull down falsehoods - I don't necessarily agree with that either - but it's another to censor stone cold facts which it is unabashedly wont to do.
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  1733.  @slapkit51  Agreed. If in doubt and it's important to you then check and, if necessary, double and triple check. Practice good internet hygiene basically.
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  1734. Proves men CAN multitask.
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  1735. Wow. Now THAT'S a history lesson and a half. Thank you.
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  1736. After Cable's assertion about Trump and his direct comparison with China's political elite's attitude toward women, whom exactly did Trump rape again?
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  1737. That National Security Action Memorandum 263, now in the JFK library, outlining a proposed but not publicly announced withdrawal of 1000 US troops from South Vietnam was in 1963. He was later assassinated that very same year. The US remained in Vietnam for another decade thereafter.
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  1738. Yep. Divide and rule is working like a charm.
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  1739. This vid is weird. It looks more like a cynical attempt by arch-capitalist Bloomberg to put the boot into Brexit more than anything else. Loading up previously healthy, functioning businesses with oodles of debt is a practice that long predates Brexit so what's the deal here? Seriously.
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  1740. Of course death threats are unacceptable, but given the fact that there will always be a few rogue nutters out there looking for any excuse why on earth did this dozy woman unilaterally elect to do something so anti-democratic and unconstitutional that might invite such a response?
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  1741. Bread and circuses, Douglas. Twas forever thus. Anything to distract the proles and stop them making a nuisance of themselves.
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  1742. What proof do you have of that?
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  1743. As ever, NATO was created after WW2 by America (years prior to the Warsaw Pact incidentally) to keep the US IN Europe, the Germans DOWN and the Russians OUT. Little has changed on that front.
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  1744. When the essential definer, alleged upholder and main repeated transgressor of 'international law' is one and the same entity then it's probably fair to say it's not worth the paper it's not written on.
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  1745. My long gone grandmother was 86 when she died and likely smoked for 75 of those years. She used to say of smoking, 'it's my only pleasure in life' and we used to quietly mock her for it out of earshot. Looking back though it obviously bought her pleasure, she was really affecting no one else profoundly other than herself and she lived to what was even then, statistically, a ripe old age.
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  1746. As others have pointed out here Mr Petro needs to do more 'political homework' on J6 as his misrepresation only serves to undermine an otherwise illuminating, well informed discussion.
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  1747. What got you piqued in particular may I ask or was it the man himself?
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  1748. Yep. As they 'jokingly' say now, 'The Nazis didn't lose WW2, they just relocated...'
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  1749. UVDL is beyond a joke.
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  1750. Can't believe sane thinking people are still advocating a one state solution. Bonkers. Utterly.
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  1751. Is it possible for the sub to get stuck inside the Titanic itself?
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  1752.  @samhartford8677  The FT piece was a clear hatchet job and it's quite apparent from many of the xenophobic comments underneath that piece that hating on the British is now a perfectly acceptable thing to do because of Brexit. Funny that. For those who are genuinely, and I mean genuine interested not mindless fanboys or girls,, in a more fact-based view of Brexit, its economic consequences and of the EU's own prospects then I'd recommend listening to the economist Ashoka Mody.
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  1753. Some people like Nina have invested emotionally and physically in the jab and they can't get it sucked out of their arms now. Keep lining up for more Nina. I'm sure there'll be another one along in a minute....
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  1754. History is not a morality play and the United States is an empire much like any other. The sooner everyone, not least the average American, accepts and understands that the better.
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  1755. Funny. That's when he got me.😂
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  1756.  @otteottema6839  So Gaza wasn't the most surveilled piece of land on earth?
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  1757. 'investing in diamonds' Is that an oxymoron?
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  1758. Not just sadly.
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  1759. The US government only financially supports independent foreign media and expects nothing, least of all editorially, in return? That's good to know.
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  1760. The so-called left under Biden in America today, much like the so-called left under Blair in the UK, is demonstrably the party of war. It is intent on enriching its MIC at the expense of its taxpayers and yet to listen to many Democratic voters a 'fascist' Trump still apparently represents the biggest threat to world peace since Adolph Hitler. It cognitive dissonance on steroids and stilts.
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  1761. Built in obsolescence taken to its inevitable diabolical conclusion.
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  1762. ​ @GRADE9ALLTHEWAY-xc4kv Fox doesn't claim to be, clearly isn't and nor does it have a legal responsibility to be so. Though it very clearly isn't impartial C4 does.
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  1763. Yet another incisive dissection from Pascal.
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  1764. Despite the supply side myth there's enough housing, but housing and the profitable debt at interest attached to it has, unfortunately, come to form the backbone of the UK economy. Golden Rule: Take a basic human need and attach as much debt as you can to it and end up on the right side of the ledger.
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  1765. They're everywhere. In Western 'Liberal Democracies' there's basically an Overton Window at play. As electorates we're ALL free to choose ANY party which falls within that window.
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  1766. No thanks. Just eaten.
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  1767. This enquiry is, effectively, an establishment circling its wagons and seeking to cover its tracks. It's yet more political pantomime for public consumption. It's not interested in finding the truth or learning lessons for future reference. Hence its tactic of playing of the man, in this instance Hennegan, not the ball.
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  1768. This election shows there were clearly a lot of quiet undeclared Trump voters out there. Not haters by any means, just people sick and tired of the 'woke joke' and unchecked immigration I'm sure. Not for nothing did Trump see his ethnic minority vote rise.
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  1769. It officially abolished slavery I believe. What's so controversial about that statement to your mind?
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  1770. Great presentation. Covered huge amounts in a short space of time. Thank you.
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  1771. Well said and very true unfortunately. The US has a huge amount of responsibility for this and Europe has been its stooge. I must confess I never knew until I looked into this a few months ago, preferring to go with the spoonfed simplistic, 'Putin's the next Hitler' narrative.
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  1772. Serious question. Why are followers of a religion (and even those that aren't) classed as a race?
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  1773. How can cryptos and the apparently 'ultra secure' bombproof blockchains that are so often used to promote them be so consistently vulnerable to hacking and fraud I wonder?
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  1774. Goodbye sublime. Hello ridiculous.
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  1775. Bitterly ironic how US can spend years fomenting, arming and funding a proxy war that essentially succeeds in what it has always sought to prevent as a priority ie pushing its arch enemies China and Russia far closer together. To make things worse, it's now toadying up to the very country that was just a few months ago its sworn enemy by blaming its own supporters for its crimes, including even more ironically war torn Ukraine itself, for the war. Now THAT takes some special kind of front I can tell you.
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  1776. Trump is inheriting a poisoned chalice, but his alleged plans to significantly cut taxes on the rich, raise import tariffs and slash the trade deficit will amount to economic suicide unless he's got a serious plan to rebuild America from the bottom up.
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  1777. This video makes some highly pertinent points but don't be distracted by the barely concealed Masterworks ad shoehorned within peeps!!
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  1778. Rory Stewart chooses to closely, continually and comfortably associate himself with warmonger, bully and serial liar Campbell via Lineker's Goalhanger Productions for his few quid. Stroll on. Nuff said.
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  1779. I've long believed that housing supply is deliberately restricted by the powers that be because it's integrally linked with the money/debt creation process through mortgage lending. Affordable housing for everyone would effectively kill this golden goose and crucial economic lever for government. A degree of contrived permanent scarcity helps to keep prices rising, people borrowing and the economy lubricated with a constant supply of new money. The simplistic 'too many people, not enough houses' supply and demand theory is a convenient if plausible lie.
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  1780. It looks like Washington seriously wants to start a regional war if not a world war. Israel would not go into Gaza without DC's say so. The assassination of one bloke and his wife was enough to kick off the first world war so what's the mass murder of tens of thousands penned in Palestinians likely to do?
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  1781. Meanwhile, according to recent official statistics, 90% of genuine crimes go unsolved by police in the UK. Move on, ma'am. Nothing to see here. FFS.
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  1782. Destabilising Syria certainly didn't help. Who started that?
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  1783. 'Web Servers: A staggering 96.3% of the top one million web servers run on Linux, indicating its dominance in the internet infrastructure'.
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  1784. Ukraine was NEVER going to win this war - which never should have happened, incidentally - because a nuclear Russia couldn't afford to lose it. It's that simple. Whether it was yet another massive miscalculation by Western neocons or just another way of rinsing Western taxpayers with yet another needless war conducted under yet another false pretext is another question entirely.
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  1785. I am unable to reply to your reply to me as it has been 'disappeared' by the algorithm 'my end' but I read it in my email. Suffice is to say I totally agree with you too there.
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  1786. The true unsung hero of covid for me was the young anaesthetist Steve James who confronted health minister Javid on camera that day in January 2022 in King's hospital London. He effectively, with a few words, put paid to both the NHS and ultimately any hope of a national 'vaccine' government mandate.
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  1787. As Glen says there's plenty of good reasons to be critical of Trump and his record in office but the MSM isn't interested in that now and wasn't interested then. That should tell you something.
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  1788.  @itsnothat  This is the level we've been reduced to. The destroyers of liberal democracy masquerading as its saviour. Trump sure as hell ain't perfect, but he's become totemic in terms of pushing back against what I see as the creeping deep state authoritarianism that we're seeing across western liberal democracies not just in the USA. I salute him for his utter self-belief, his sincerity and his sheer tenacity if maybe not his supreme intellect. Whether he's the lesser of two evils or the least worst of a bad bunch if he doesn't win in 2024 (and the message it'll send to others) then I sincerely believe we're all in trouble, regardless of what form his presidency subsequently takes.
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  1789. Even more bizarre when you think about the unholy alliance between Gary Lineker and Alistair Campbell, and that doesn't even include their current commercial relationship. Campbell played a major role in writing the so-called Dodgy Dossier that made the case for the Iraq war and it was that war that led to the displacement of 2m Iraqis by 2008 and which began the mass immigration wave to Europe and the UK.
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  1790. I disagree. It's quite obvious from the multiple exchanges I've had with westerners that their opinion IS heavily influenced by their attitudes towards 'white' Jews vs 'black' Palestinians. Of course, up to a point, most Israelis - heinous, blatantly racist TikTok videos aside - are influenced by their own immediate and perceived 'existential' longer term interests and 'race' in that context is essentially irrelevant, but in terms of informing Western optics 'race' plays a significant role.
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  1791. Just to compound his ignorance Neil shows he knows nothing about Ukraine to boot. Get him off.
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  1792. According to Scott Ritter every single metre of Gaza is scanned every 10 minutes by Israeli intelligence and every single phone message, conversation and email is monitored in Gaza. If he is correct, that makes this unprecedented attack all the more difficult to fathom. His belief is that this huge volume of intelligence is now handled by algorithms not humans hence the f*ck up.
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  1793. Religions and cults often prey on the vulnerable like this young lady and it turns out transgenderism is no different. The BIG difference being is this is being done with the full complicity and weight of the state behind it.
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  1794. Aah, straight out the Anderson 'play the man not the ball' playbook.
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  1795. Joe Biden's a racist bigot. You heard it here first folks. No surprise that someone who once said if you're black and you don't vote for him over Trump 'then you ain't black'. THAT gives you an insight into that man's thought processes such as they are.
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  1796. I've got to ask you, Mike...would you go down there again?
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  1797. Where? Where?
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  1798. ​ @ntdisciple 😳👂👂 Nope. Still can't see or hear them?
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  1799. How can you, essentially within the last three weeks, start to have trade frictions that didn't exist prior to that in any meaningful way? Stock pictures of backed up lorries for the hard of thinking don't quite cut it. I'm in the fruit and veg business and this is an acute problem and hasn't been a chronic one before so what gives? First there IS a shortage, according to Spain due to wacky weather and then there isn't. Both cannot be true. Is there more to this than meets the eye perhaps?
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  1800. Unfortunately, I'd have to agree with you.
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  1801. Good point. You'll notice that during Trump's entire presidency the Dems, aided and abetted by the MSM, almost made it their sole daily business to discredit and delegitimise Trump rarely to actually put forth alternative policies.
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  1802. Up until recently I would have agreed with you, but BS is more and more living up to his initials sadly.
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  1803. What exactly are you taking issue with here?
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  1804. One commentator suggested that Trump may have 'conventionally' B2'd the Iranian nuclear site because Netanyahu was on the cusp of exercising Israel's Samson Option and deploying its own nukes.
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  1805. Canadian Trudeau is living proof that there are far more people out there who are comfortable with the idea of authoritarianism than we'd like to believe.
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  1806. Somebody originally from a teeny tiny island without an island mentality. More power to your elbow, Mr Le Tissier.
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  1807. Let's face it, all these discussions are effectively debated and prefaced under the collective belief that there is some kind of 'international rules based order'. The 'international rules based order', even if such a thing exists, is still essentially defined by the US on any given day. To quote Humpty Dumpty, "When I use a word" From Alice in Wonderland, Humpty Dumpty says, "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less". "Which is to be master" In response to Alice asking if he can make words mean many different things, Humpty Dumpty replies, "The question is, Which is to be master---that's all". 'Humpty Dumpty', of course, eventually climbs too high and 'has a great fall'....
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  1808. It's good that these people get found out, but where are the sanctions? What are the punishments? What is being done to prevent or discourage others like Green from doing the same? Who ultimately picks up the tab ie the hapless UK taxpayer when these things happen? Nothing will ever be done about these things because there's a small blessed constituency at the top who will win either way in these circumstances.
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  1809. The Clinton era gave the West sub prime, the ending of the Glass Steagall Act, China's membership of the WTO and the advancement of NATO up to Russia's borders despite earlier promises to the contrary. What a guy!!
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  1810. US Silicon Valley tech moguls sure to follow..... .... NOT.
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  1811. Unfortunately, much of the American religious Right's views on Israel are 'informed' by Biblical prophecy and their perceived crucial role in helping bring it about. That's a darn sight more scary than racism.
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  1812. Golden Economic Rule: Capitalism is reserved for the poor. Socialism is the preserve of rich.
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  1813. Pretend and extend and when that runs out of road you colonize.
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  1814. Help create the problems and then profit handsomely from your solutions. Modern consumer capitalism in a nutshell.
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  1815. Preferred your windchimey door bell to the dog, Alex😊
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  1816. If you actually watch it it doesn't seem to arrive at that conclusion.
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  1817. ​ @Mister_Holdsworth I think Greenwald has rightly called these two out already hasn't he?
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  1818. @Scott B  Trade deals are overrated. Period. Our politicians bang on about them because most people in the street think that trade can't happen or is severely curtailed without them. This is BS. The UK patently doesn't need a trade deal with the US for example. Plus a trade deal with it would likely only add an extra 0.5% to GDP at most and come at a huge cost to certain sectors, particularly agriculture. Similarly the much vaunted 2019 EU - Mercosur trade deal is still stuck, not least due to considerable opposition from EU beef farmers, but you barely hear a word about it, not least most people in the EU likely either don't know or don't care. In the UKs case, Liz Truss basically went around the world rolling over existing EU trade deals more or less verbatim plus she signed some piss poor ones with Japan and Australia. Wretched woman. In terms of the UK's current situation it seems perfectly reasonable to me that customs checks on incoming EU goods have been postponed until 2024 amidst the current cost of living crisis and that its pattern of trade, unlike the far bigger EU's, is undergoing far more significant realignment. Worth noting that the UK has been a significant net importer from the EU for a long time, albeit falling from 58% in 2002 to 45% by 2021. A fall which has been roughly matched by UK's exports in goods to the EU incidentally. The fact is is that the trend is that UK has gradually been trading more and more with the rest of the world and all that's nevermind that the EU isn't simply an economic or trading bloc as some still deludedly believe and despite its openly admitting to being an ongoing political project.
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  1819. There's definitely more than a hint of misanthropy when it comes to some man made climate change advocates. As I always say to people though, don't worry about saving the planet, the planet will be fine. It will long outlast any human or manifestation of humanity that might exist upon it.
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  1820. Personally, I'm more than happy to get the jab....in ten or so years time when a decent amount of data has been compiled.
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  1821. Myskow doubtless feels more than comfortable with the large numbers of elderly and others who died alone because of this country's reaction to covid.
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  1822. Stop beating around the bush!! Our entire society needs to admit that enforced lockdowns for all were completely and utterly WRONG. All these bastards that were agitating for them have all just sloped off into well paid obscurity or are acting like nothing has ever happened. It's maddening.
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  1823. Unbelievable, shocking Orwellian overreach. She should face serious party or parliamentary censure or removal.
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  1824. From what I've seen he's far from consistent I must say. Great gig if you can get it though. I'd love to be taken seriously and paid handsomely for regularly blowing smoke out of my derrière for a living wouldn't you?
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  1825. Merkel's tenure will not be judged favourably by history. She wasn't just a disaster for Germany, she was a disaster for Europe.
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  1826. Love Taibbi, but the covid jabs were NOT vaccines until the CDC changed the very longstanding definition of what one was just over a year ago. Talking about vaccines and covid jabs as if they're one and the same thing is a wee bit disingenuous whether your wife is a doctor or not.
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  1827. TDS writ large.
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  1828. Trump, an hour ago, said he hasn't ruled out seizing Greenland by military force. This, for sure, is part of his 'art of the deal' playbook but the world, largely driven by America's 'ambitions', is moving into ever darker places and it's not just due to Trump.
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  1829. @Frisbieinstein  The United States is becoming increasingly belligerent - it was even before Trump - as it is seeing its unipolar grip on the world being challenged in its eyes principally by China. Talk of it seizing geopolitically strategic sites like the Panama Canal and a resource rich, underdeveloped Greenland, albeit from an ally, would follow this playbook.
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  1830. @Chris-Someguy  It's difficult to work out what it is becoming. It's been imperialist, expansionist and belligerent for decades now, but this would certainly mark a turning point in terms of quite how brazen its 'winner takes all' foreign policy is becoming. Even the mask of upholding Western values and the maintaining of a rules based order has slipped. Either way it is now the greatest threat to world peace and the survival of mankind ever.
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  1831. The brutal truth is is that a new Israel in Palestine was a solution to a problem essentially created by the Western powers at the time, including Russia. Antisemitism was on the march across the already deeply divided European continent in the early 20th Century, particularly in places like Germany and Russia, and many European Jews were looking for an escape route. America, the UK and others were reluctant to take in more Jews than they already had in any great numbers and Mandated Palestine, a recent spoil of the First World War and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, seemed to be the best way to fulfil the brief and minimise the problem. Domestically, at least. A narrative helped along considerably by Judaism's strong historical connections with Palestine, although there were no significant numbers of Jews in Palestine until the late 1920s. Israel, of course, has subsequently gone on to flourish, but it couldn't ever have done so without continued Western support. The US, I believe, was quite late to the party when it came to supporting Israel as the penny slowly dropped there some time after WW2 quite how useful a friendly outpost could be in a restive oil rich region often largely hostile to America's interests.
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  1832. To me, this is a statement of the obvious. Identity politics is a classic divide and rule tactic designed principally to fragment the Left by the political and financial elites. By God, it SO obviously works like a charm and has done for decades and as various petulant comments on this thread testify to. America 'by political choice' doesn't have universal healthcare or anything anywhere close to it, for example, despite being the richest country in the history of humanity and a majority of its people wanting it. 'Fine figures' like Obama come along and performatively tinker around its edges and claim he's done his best in the circumstances but, effectively, nothing fundamentally has changed by design and nor will it. Keep the great unwashed forever squabbling with each other over discarded scraps around the foot of the top table then they won't come asking for anything approaching their fare share of the banquet.
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  1833. Lots of questions there, but a positive, more realistic discussion nonetheless.
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  1834. ​ @Elia__Holm Reported, but as ever ignored by Google/YT.
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  1835. When did an actual pivot become not a pivot?
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  1836. So a genuine proxy war rekindles another opportunity to reopen an enduring insoluble artistic war. Pink Floyd were always over rated IMHO, Waters or no - did some amazing stuff, but also plenty of forgettable rarely now played bloated dross - but there's little doubt that much of what Waters says is true regardless of his perhaps less than pure, questionable motives for saying it. Anti-Semitism is an unspeakable evil, a blight on mankind, but it is also an overplayed, scurrilous, cheap goto insult all too often thrown like a mindless chimp throwing sh*t at someone they happen to disagree with because there happens to be a tenuous Jewish connection somewhere along the line to be made.
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  1837. @sapphire 💜 is back 😁 In so far as?
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  1838. Yanukovych, though near the end of his term in Ukraine was previously elected in an adjudged to have been free and fair election and he was effectively overthrown by the US led Western powers.
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  1839.  @hmu05366  The ME is fiercely divided at the best of times along ethnic, national and religious lines without our 'help'. We are where we are because we have sought to meddle far too much for far too long in the affairs of the ME. I'm a realist. I get the reasons why we do. International trade, shipping lanes, oil and geopolitics basically but, again, we are where we are precisely because we have played the divide and rule card for far too long helping to ruin country after country and immiserate generation after generation under the entirely false premise of spreading democracy and promoting western 'values'. A west ceasing to meddle wouldn't solve all the problems in the ME and nor would 'Arabs' all suddenly unite in one big happy family - Iranians aren't Arabs btw - but I believe that a serious change of diplomatic tack is needed and long overdue.
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  1840. Yep. The situation is fast becoming untenable and I feel sorry for the police in these circumstances. FoS needs to become an absolute. Not because it's the ideal but because the alternatives, as we are regularly witnessing now, are far worse, subjective and far more open to abuse by both individuals, groups, organizations and the state.
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  1841.  @iordanneDiogeneslucas  Struggling with the relevance of that I'm afraid. Locating and pointing missiles is in itself an aggressive act.
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  1842.  @iordanneDiogeneslucas  It most certainly wasn't just in reference to East Germany. I realise your attitude fairly reflects the Western consensus at the moment and it's a consensus I happen to disagree with and don't believe is born out by history. Still, as long as that remains the self-righteous consensus, then poor Ukraine will reap what we in the West have played a large part in sowing.
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  1843. Not to deny that there aren't ever deaths in the US at the hands of racist police, but in the George Floyd case race wasn't deemed a factor by the prosecution. It was the media and politicians like Biden who cynically and disingenuously chose to make 'race' front and centre of that prosecution. Chauvin undeniably took someone's life that day, but there was also undeniably an orchestrated establishment attempt to conflate his actions with him being 'a racist'.
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  1844. That's not an unfair point but given how many programs universally nowadays have completely unchallenged climate scientists on, and have done for many years now, it's a rather hollow one.
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  1845.  @bjorntorlarsson  Sure. I think I'm missing your point here. People refer to USSR as Russia nowadays, but it's shorthand rather than being incorrect as such. Would you care to be more precise in your point.
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  1846. Anti-Islamist Buddhist extremists have become a thing in Myanmar/Burma now, believe it or not. Is nothing sacred?
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  1847. It was self-serving political and economic expediency. He didn't believe his own B$ either.
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  1848. SWS was wrong straight off the bat here which didn't inspire confidence. The war in Ukraine is ostensibly a Western construct so her claim that Russia somehow decided to invade Ukraine to assert its position in a multipolar world as opposed to a bipolar world is pure bunkum. Any money you like if Russia could turn the clock back over 10 years before Ukraine and when it was supplying Europe with cheap energy it would. Many Europeans would too knowing what they know now.
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  1849. In which case war was inevitable and its consequences and outcomes must be endured.
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  1850. Cindy looking as radiant as ever, Rod looking like, er, Rod.
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  1851.  @Sceince01  You have tried Fayyaz and I appreciate the exchange, but your championed Dr Offit has a pretty dubious record from what I have read. Like I said, I'm happy to listen to anyone and take your point about the Iverson report being bad journalism but if nothing else it also goes to show that there is plenty of bad science too. Do you plan on taking these boosters in perpetuity as each variant comes along?
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  1852.  @Sceince01  I have not edited any of my posts either, just for the record.
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  1853.  @Sceince01  I'm happy to state that Fayyaz and I'm happy to admit that I have not succumbed and nor will I. Were I over 70 and/or possessed of any of the known comorbidities associated with covid then yes I likely would have succumbed on an 'on balance' basis. Do I believe that under 50s, nevermind children, should be effectively coerced into this essentially novel, untested intervention then the answer is a resounding no. These jabs present a far greater risk to young people's health on balance than covid ever would and we're talking about in the short term because even you, dear Fayyaz, have no idea whatsoever about their long term implications.
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  1854. Obama has a similar stare except, unlike Biden, he perfected it. Obama's is meant to be prophetic whereas Biden's is just pathetic.
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  1855. Covid and the insane, reckless response to it was the true game changer for me. A relatively trusting soul I had been till then. Our governments cannot be trusted and nor can their enablers Big Tech (or is it vice versa).
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  1856. The greatest question mark of all, of course, is why on Earth would Assad forces have repeatedly deployed chemical weapons that he apparently no longer had? Obama specifically stated much earlier in 2013 that by doing so it alone would prompt a US military response in Syria and this led to their surrendering by his regime. Assad might have been many things, but I'm sure he wasn't THAT stupid. Latterly, the OPCW suspended Syria in 2022 where the somewhat mealy mouthed phrase 'reasonable grounds to believe' was often used to describe these alleged repeated incidents.
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  1857. Thought it was an acronym. Totally see your point now.
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  1858. Far too many these self-styled 'meta' titans of finance don't live in the real world and don't have a clue what's going on at the micro level. Talking up their book is their job I guess, but it behoves anyone whose interested to understand that this is EXACTLY what most of them are doing when they pop up on shows like this.
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  1859. It's certainly pertinent that Epstein's huge wealth has never been fully explained plus he's probably the only person who's ever successfully hung himself in a sitting position I would wager.🤔
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  1860. Great interview and fair warning ⚠️ for RKF Jr at the end from Kim regarding endorsing Joe Biden and the DNC.
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  1861. Nice to see the CrowdStrike CEO sporting the highly fashionable and appropriate 'Cock' on the top of his head there.
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  1862. Not the one I'm looking at 😁
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  1863. None of my comments seem to make it on heretoday, but at least some of my replies have 😊 Zang!!!
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  1864.  @treeclimbingmat1010  Funny, my friend just asked me that very same question.
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  1865. The Machiavellian Victoria Nuland pithily summed up the US unspoken attitude towards the EU during her infamous phonecall with US Ukraine ambassador Pyatt in 2014.
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  1866. The real scandal here is that governments not only allowed this to happen for years also there was next to no regulation of what are now, I believe, around 18k thus far created cryptocurrencies.
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  1867. Of course it's wrong but police violence in the US isn't massively skewed toward POC. In terms of its relationship to the actual crime rate it's far from disproportionate and white skinned people are proportionately just as likely to be a victim of it as POC.
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  1868. So, in the USA today, a supersmart Asian kid whose dad is an uber driver and misses out on going to top university solely because of affirmative action needs to just suck it up? C'mon RFK jr you can do better than that.
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  1869. Bravo!!
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  1870. It's not rocket salad. With the internet 'we' were always the product and 'we' are complicit in that Faustian bargain in order to keep getting access to something for 'free'. It's also a handy way for the powers that be to monitor our thoughts and conversations.
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  1871.  @thomasalbrecht5914  With regards to?
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  1872. First time in 25 years that a Section 35 order from the Scottish Devolution Act has been used. Is Nicola Sturgeon desperate or cynical in deliberately picking this fight or both I wonder?
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  1873.  @krackerman3628  So from that we can only assume that you fully agree with the policy and fundamentally disagree with the decisions around the Isla Bryson case?
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  1874.  @krackerman3628 I'll forgive your personal abuse for passion. Nationalism seems to lead some people believe that respect and decency can be ignored. That's never led us anywhere horrible in past.... Police Scotland statistics (currently) record that the Bryson's crimes were carried out by a man.
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  1875.  @krackerman3628  I'm patient...still waiting for an intelligent, civilised response...
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  1876. Another side effect of deindustrialization has been that hypocritical western consumer service centred economies, whilst benefitting from cheap imports, have been able to point the accusatory finger at poorer 'polluting' manufacturing economies.
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  1877. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair
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  1878. The EU has effectively neutered itself.
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  1879. For a self-styled beacon and upholder of democracy the US has done more than its fair share of overthrowing them if they don't approve of what actual democracy delivers. Nor has it proved averse to supporting the 'right' dictators as and when it suits. Pinochet and Saddam Hussein immediately spring to mind. For me it's more the outright dishonesty of these obviously self-serving positions that bothers me and the false morality in which they have been and are continually presented. If they said, 'yeah, we're always f*cking these people over because they've got precious resources we need and for the money' then I'd have more respect for them and people would be free to make up their own minds if they were comfortable with it. Most, I would like to think, wouldn't.
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  1880. Surely the death knell for Nato? The Russians get to call their own 'end of history moment'? Hopefully they'll be a damn sight wiser and restrained about how they treat this moment than the giddy triumphalist West was in the 1990s.
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  1881. Remember. According to American law corporations are people too...
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  1882. On a more positive note if Sachs were Russian his government would have thrown him out of a window by now.
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  1883. Given your job it might be worth you looking at the 20 year plus history of the GBP to single currency to get a bit more perspective there.
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  1884. Remember people you CAN engage in hate speech and advocate for violence under YouTube terms of use as long as its directed at Palestinians....
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  1885. Europe was at its best and most dynamic when its states were actively competing with each other. Tension isn't automatically a bad thing. The centralizing, undemocratic, bureaucratic uber-regulatory machine that is EU and its bloated institutions have just made Europe into one big, useless blancmangey mess.
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  1886.  @thedualtransition6070  Thanks. I'll check it out.
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  1887. ​ @gizmocat6990 Weird thing is it often appears for a few minutes then disappears. I know Pascal is obviously and quite reasonably nervous about being cancelled by YT having recently come under their microscope so it might be NS moderators over-reacting.
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  1888. ​ @wokelefty Or State pensions for that matter.
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  1889. As others have already noted I come to this channel for what I believe to be the odd perspicacious nuggets offered up by Peter, but it's becoming hard to ignore his own political leanings here which he increasingly and unnecessarily shoehorns in to prove to us all what a 'good' person he is.
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  1890.  @jamesmorrow1646  Yep, I've long had a serious problem with Trudeau, but I've now come to realize that rather than his style or policies being the issues it has much more to do with my latent misandry.
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  1891. The brutal bottom line here is is that you can't have megarich people unless you have poor people. The masses are being shafted by the system and many know they are being shafted, but they can't always work out how.
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  1892. Obama's third term ain't goin' so well is it.
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  1893.  @kukulroukul4698  Think someone needs to do a bit more homework there....
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  1894. Sweet deal.
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  1895. Covid proved as a warning to us all that the human tendency toward extreme authoritarianism wasn't just peculiar to Germans.
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  1896. This post likely won't even get seen as either the poster or YT are inclined to remove my comments, but I'm going to say it anyway. The US is currently running an 8% of GDP budget deficit ie it's spending more than it takes in - the UK's is running at around 5% and Germany's is lower - and its national debt just passed the $34trn mark ie well in excess of 100% of its GDP. The interest payments on that alone are huge. The US economy, heavily fuelled by consumer demand, is running on steroids in no small part thanks to Biden's bizarrely titled 2022 Inflation Reduction Act whilst previously healthy post covid household savings are now heavily depleted and at record lows. A US household savings rate of 3.7% versus around 5% in the UK and 20% in Germany. Basically the Biden administration has taken an admittedly well-timed in the electoral cycle massive sh*t or bust gamble on 'green' growth with a huge government economic stimulus which if it founders could prove extremely'problematic' for the 'next' POTUS. Meanwhile, layoffs abound in the tech sector and yet job figures continue to confound and astound each and every month it seems. All I can say is something smells a little weird here.
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  1897. Ukraine is just yet another bankers' war where poor people are expected to fight and die in rich people's interests.
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  1898. They're Palestinians and Gaza was originally part of Mandated Palestine. It is regarded today as one of the Occupied Territories. Hamas regard Israel as their oppressors, dispossessors and the State of Israel as occupying their historical lands not the Egyptians. Israel was and perhaps still is hoping to push the Gazans into the Egyptian Sinai, but President Sisi will not and cannot allow it as it would fundamentally destabilise his own fragile Western backed regime.
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  1899. From its own internal security POV Egypt plays its role in keeping its border with Gaza strictly controlled in agreement with Israel, but your question was why didn't Hamas attack Egypt. Which I believe I answered. Sure, Palestinians trapped in the hellhole of Gaza currently would gladly escape to the relative safety of Egypt now, but that's not the point. We are talking about a specific land area that a specific group of people have a specific history and affinity with and they believe they have been dispossessed of. In the case of the Palestinians that's historic 'Palestine' NOT the country next door.
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  1900.  @deanodebo  No one needs to pretend anything. Most of those Palestinians in countries like Jordan and Lebanon are effectively refugees and are living in camps. They're there not through choice, but due to historical circumstances occurring mostly over the last 100 years since Mandated Palestine ie fleeing numerous conflicts. You're asking why Egypt doesn't let them in there and I've told you why and you asked why Hamas didn't also attack Egypt which I've also answered. The relatively tiny Hamas's beef is quite clearly and understandably with Israel NOT with Egypt. Finally, if you're so concerned about their historic claims to Palestine perhaps you'd like to explain how so many European Ashkenazi Jews with next to no connection with the land happened to end up there in the space of less than a century?
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  1901.  @deanodebo  I suggest you go look at the populations, both Jewish and Muslim, of Palestine over the last 2000 years. The state of Israel was only created in 1948 and the numbers of Jews there only started to increase significantly in the 1930s due to growing antisemitism in Europe through migration ie European Jews fleeing persecution in place like Germany and Eastern Europe. Only with tacit Western backing and violence were they steadily able to displace the indigenous Palestinians who lived there. So what, you may say. That's life and that's not a million miles away from how the USA came to be, but it's not difficult to see why Palestinians are doing what they're doing either, I would argue. Israel is a relatively recent settler colonial state that Americans have funded to the tune of over $300bn since its inception and are continuing to do so. The reasons? As self-proclaimed Zionist Joe Biden himself said chidingly in the 1980s, 'If Israel didn't exist we'd have to INVENT an Israel in the Middle East' and, basically, it's American money well spent in his opinion principally for geopolitical reasons. That's what you're paying for as an American taxpayer and thus it's up to you to reflect on whether that is a situation you're happy with and will continue to support regardless.
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  1902.  @deanodebo  Don't for one moment confuse extreme Zionism with anti-Semitism. Israel and some Jewish people attempt to in order to excuse their actions, but it's wearing pretty thin now. Criticising the actions of the state of Israel have zero to with anti-Semitism. Some of the most vociferous, eloquent critics of Zionists and the treatment of Palestinians are in fact Jews like Finkelstein. Katie Halper, Max Blumenthal, Aaron Mate, Glen Greenwald to name but a few. What's happening in Gaza isn't being done by 'Jews' it's being done by Israelis. Bad ones. Their faith really has nothing to do with it. Even Netanyahu is secular. As have many of his previous 'illustrious' predecessors been. As to your claim on Palestine as a Christian what exactly would you base that on. I mean seriously? In terms of Syria, yet another Western/US inspired brutal war in a similar vein as Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan, what do you mean exactly by your claim that nobody cares about it? Again, it wasn't that long ago that Syria was held up as one of the more liberal, stable, multi-ethnic regimes in the Middle East until 'we' in the West decided to shake things up a little. Assad, with the help of the Russians, has been busily fighting ISIS. Essentially a Sunni Islam death cult that arose directly out of the ashes of the US invasion of Iraq but upon the basis that 'my enemy's enemy is my friend' the US and Israel have previously sided with because its waging war against Assad. The Middle East is a mess, but there's little doubt that 'we' are responsible for making it far worse than it would be.
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  1903. Still love to know why 'lowly' Ukraine has played such a significant role, pre-invasion, in the political lives of both Trump and Biden.
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  1904. Long established safety testing protocols ignored? It's like déjà vu all over again....
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  1905. Show, don't tell, would be my advice Dr Campbell.
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  1906. This 'trial' is an utter disgrace and makes a mockery of the so-called US justice system. Those prosecuting this should be ashamed of themselves as should those who support it.
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  1907.  @briancarno8837  I agree. It's the anorak in me, but sometimes I watch the old, longer form interviews from the 70s and early 80s on YT. The Panorama Benn/Jenkins debate on the EEC was a gem. Some might say interviewers were a lot more deferential, but you were far more likely to learn an actual answer to a question and it was all the more respectful and civilised into the bargain.
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  1908.  @briancarno8837  Yep, and ain't we all the poorer for it. The problem now is that media today is so atomised that we can all go off and find our own little echo chambers. A truly impartial, non-profit driven BBC broadcasting to a nation and able to deliver a diverse range of views might have been an antidote to that, but years of the likes of Maitlis seem to have put paid to that idea.
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  1909.  @1chish  JOB really is the lowest of the low. A despicable individual. All heat and never any light. The fact that he's one of LBC's biggest presenters says it all, as does Maitlis's decision to join him there.
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  1910. This denouement is, if nothing else, a complete acknowledgement that the US started this war in the first place.
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  1911. Lovely quote from someone on YT about this, Emma Vigeland is 'the perfect example of someone whose mind is so open their brain fell out'.
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  1912. Remember injecting disinfectant?
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  1913. Great interviewer too!!
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  1914. ​ @AlexDrastico380 #MeToo
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  1915.  @CodeCancerLab  He was Blair's Press Secretary and he wrote the casus belli presented to parliament falsely claiming Iraqi WMD and the UK being potentially minutes away from attack. Is there some sort of collective amnesia amongst Remaniacs or something? I can understand why Campbell would prefer not to be reminded - it would haunt my every waking hour if I were responsible for that abomination - but I can't understand why so many people like you actively choose to not to remember.
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  1916. US role in stoking this years old simmering conflict certainly deserves more scrutiny ultimately, although one feels wider Western public 'gung ho' perceptions of this conflict are not quite ready to allow for that currently. There seems to be a distinct lack of desire, again primarily US led, to communicate with Russia which I find disturbing. This looks to me like good old-fashioned brinkmanship with a hapless, clueless Europe caught in the middle, but the US's record in handling these conflicts of the last 60 years doesn't exactly inspire confidence.
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  1917. No-one jiggles like Gyles.
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  1918.  @rebelmango2141  Another factual polite reply prevented. I expect you love our Western freedoms?
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  1919.  @rebelmango2141  Well that's good, but don't assume that they're not under a growing threat from within. You don't have to be a lover of Putin or want to go and live in Russia in order to see that.
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  1920. Well said Brianna. The right to free speech is ultimately there to protect those with whom you disagree not those with whom you agree.
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  1921. It's only old news if you've heard it before. Others might not have.
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  1922. I would argue that taxation doesn't actually pay for/fund anything, but it is politically useful/divisive to perpetuate that myth. Once you pay your taxes that money effectively disappears forever into the ether. What your taxation does do is allow your government to create an equal amount money without inflation. A subtle, but important difference to my mind.
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  1923. Russia apparently somehow convinces millions of Americans to vote for Trump with a few bloggers and some cr@ppy misleading ads and Israeli AIPAC just happens to own the a$$es of large numbers of members of Congress and no-one bats an eyelid.
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  1924. "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Benjamin Franklin.
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  1925. The Welsh BBC One Show host ?
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  1926. Israeli threats toward the ICC judges are all the more worrying given it has a truly independent nuclear arsenal. When a psycho feels forced into a corner there's no telling what they'll resort to.
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  1927. Something stinks about the timing of all this I'm afraid. Not excusing plagiarism, but there's more to this....
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  1928. Liz Truss just threw Kwarteng under the bus. There will be another one along in a minute.....
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  1929.  @ollymark11651  Yes, I strongly suspect that was one of the reasons. A resource rich, still militarily powerful, nuclear Russia 'in Europe' would have been seen as a potential threat to the US both militarily and economically.
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  1930.  @alanpatterson2384  Agreed, and that was why the BoE had to step in with billions. Shame Truss and Kwarteng didn't 'appear' to know this and failed to consult. A radical growth budget this most certainly wasn't.
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  1931. Get this, the Fairness Doctrine really was a thing in 1947.
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  1932. Chauvin and his police colleagues were the REAL victims the day that Floyd died. They were shamelessly exploited and shamefully scapegoated by a so-called 'liberal' elite many of whom should be where those poor men are today.
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  1933. Who's here because of what happened (or should have happened) in 2008?
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  1934. Aaah, the trusty Chamberlain appeasement card. Cheap, grandstanding political rhetoric designed to appeal exclusively to the hard of thinking. The guy at the podium knows and understands sweet FA about the Ukraine situation whilst our hirsute friend clearly understands a lot more.
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  1935. Heavily disappointed in Owen here. Terribly out of touch, especially for someone once so immersed in foreign affairs.
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  1936. Must be a relly or are you just hard of thinking?
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  1937. The US is also the country where it can be the easiest, furthest and fastest place to fall if you're suddenly seriously ill. It's brutal.
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  1938. Douglas Murray, very sadly, has lost the plot. This a man who has 'paid his rent' very handsomely for years deploring those who resort to ad hominems whilst studiously evading debate and not engaging with actual arguments and yet here he is the very embodiment of what he once purported to despise. Something smells here and I haven't quite worked out what.
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  1939. The Truth Illusory Effect. If enough people, particularly the media, repeat a lie enough times, no matter how big, then it becomes the truth.
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  1940. Glad you said it. YT is getting ridiculous now.
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  1941.  @balannavaratnam3352  Americans, by and large, are decent, hardworking, smart people, albeit somewhat insular perhaps for obvious reasons. Though nominally 'a democracy', it serves no purpose to heap upon its people the sins of its self serving venal political, financial, industrial and military establishments.
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  1942.  @rosemaryspiota9836  Blinken/Maxwell connection. Worth a look.
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  1943. Yep. Hedges is completely inconsistent there.
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  1944. Ruined it near the end there when he started talking about Trump and demagoguery. It's intellectually lazy and amounts to the very same simplistic, diversionary approach for the hard of thinking they accuse someone like Trump of. Trump certainly ain't no saint and I'm sure he's a friend of some big money corporate interests but very obviously not all. Most of them hate him. He is, truth be told, by far the lesser of two evils when it comes to the warmongering neocons in the Democratic Party and what is, essentially, America's 'uniparty'.
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  1945. The Russians know where all these biolabs are and they know they're potentially hazardous so why would they go in like bulls in china shops with regard to them potentially endangering themselves? They want to know what's inside more than anyone I should imagine so it doesn't make sense to bomb them either.
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  1946. Hearing from, 'other Federal Reserves around the world' There ain't none, mate. Central Banks, yes, but Federal Reserves? No.
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  1947. Dawkins was always full of p*ss and wind.
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  1948. Cool. So your succinct thoughts then?
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  1949. Whatever happened to Andrew Neil? He's definitely losing it. The UK hospitality industry is going to take yet another almighty kicking and this time with no government support. You can't 'Save the NHS' without a functioning, taxpaying economy to support it. Increasingly it seems that the UK is a health service with a country attached. Average age of a covid death still slightly higher than the average of eighty effing two and our best hope is apparently 'a vaccine' that is no such thing. Three in a year and you can still contract it, transmit it, still need to test regularly for it and still need to isolate if you have it. A medical intervention whose ineffectiveness can now apparently be blamed on those who won't take it. When will this madness end?
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  1950. That's it. I've had it. The final straw. First thing tomorrow I'm closing my Coutts account and moving it to Hoare and Co.
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  1951. Too many white, middle class, metropolitan, over-educated so-called Lefties with saviour complexes out there I'm afraid.
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  1952. Puts one in mind of the 2008 financial crash that apparently very few saw coming. Makes one wonder how many people DID actually see it coming, but ploughed on in self-interested silence regardless.
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  1953. As Bill Gates ably demonstrates America is also the greatest country in the world for 'philanthropic' billionaires like this gentleman to conspicuously give away their money and paradoxically still get richer. Do these people really believe their own BS or is it just a shtick they roll out for public consumption?
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  1954. ​ @martynblackburn9632 Elderly in Sweden were encouraged to self-isolate if they chose to or deemed themselves to be vulnerable. Swedish society, by and large, carried on functioning as normal ie kids went to school, economy stayed open and far fewer people died. Why are you still trying to justify the unjustifiable?
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  1955. Who? Where? What? When? How?
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  1956. I hope Trump wins and hope he then pardons both Snowden and Assange after this.
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  1957. Yep. A grim sign of things to come. Three letter agencies doubtless weaving their 'magic'.
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  1958. Amen.
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  1959. That's a given nowadays. The YT algorithm is presumably possessed of its own 'alternative facts'.
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  1960. Refreshing. Not the complete hatchet job on Trump I was expecting.
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  1961.  @jasonhaven7170  I know. Couldn't resist it.
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  1962. Of course the UK shouldn't in ANY way be enabling this genocide, but most of the weapons being used to perpetrate it are coming from US and Germany on a 70/30 split I believe.
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  1963. First prophetic two minutes says it all.
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  1964. What's incredible is the amount of people-cum-willy wavers in the West who genuinely believe that this could never turn nuclear. People don't understand where this is going. Children playing with matches.
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  1965. George Galloway, whether you like him or not, is far more often proved correct in the long run.
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  1966.  @andylewis7360  I would recommend listening to his recent monologue on the subject.
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  1967. Interest rates were kept so low for so long essentially because of trickle down theory. If you can keep people buying real estate and assets and ensure their prices keep going up then you can do so by keeping borrowed money cheap and tempt them with ever rising values. It was a sleight of hand. A way of keeping the plates spinning. A can kicked endlessly down the road. A game of musical chairs where the music eventually had to stop and we ran out of chairs. Now? There has to be a reckoning for these years of expediency.
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  1968. Anyone who swallows the entire Western media narrative hook, line and sinker needs to seriously question their objectivity. History is not a morality play, but unfortunately it's invariably the path of least resistance for the vast majority. Pick your team, wrap yourself in the flag and virtue signal for all you're worth. Putin's not a nice guy, but don't try and kid me that the likes of Bush or Blair were either. The second Iraqi invasion, for example, started with a 40 day intensive bombing campaign that killed tens of thousands of innocents including children in the process and was predicated remember on the now known to be entirely confected Saddam Hussein possessing non-existent WMDs. Spare us the relentless spin Spectator and do your journalistic job.
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  1969. There are good people and bad people and everything in between. Judge people solely by their actions NOT by what they seek to identify as in order to help justify them.
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  1970. Great interview. Thanks.
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  1971. The equal sovereignty argument is precisely why the US will cheerfully and conspicuously engage in negotiations for these treaties that aim to achieve it but then ultimately refuse to become signatories to them themselves. They bind others whilst allowing the US the freedom to pursue its completely fallacious, self-serving, 'for thee but not for me', 'international rules based order'.
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  1972. Difference being most EU tariffs are either long established ie to protect what's already long been there or apply to certain areas at certain times for certain reasons ie they weren't put up suddenly and conspicuously en masse in the opening salvo of what appears to mark the declaration by the US of a global trade war. Furthermore, Trump's tariffs aren't there necessarily to protect existing US industries but more to protect the interests of a certain financialized constituency.
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  1973. Russiagate was a de facto coup conducted by the US Deep State. No wonder its significance is so consistently underplayed and J6 is so consistently overplayed.
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  1974. De Niro has truly lost the plot here and p*ssed away what halfway decent legacy he had as a halfway decent actor.
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  1975.  @ChristineRead-ck1uq  The answer is our 'independent' Central Banks which then certainly begs further questions.
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  1976. Yep. The USA (and the West generally) has become the master of hypocrisy. Largely thanks to the internet more and more people, particularly in the West, are coming to realize this which probably explains why there are increasing state moves to monitor, censor and control it.
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  1977. So Fraser Myers believes that mass lockdowns were 'an authoritarian experiment' and wrong and yet he believes that those who dare to question the efficacy and safety of a jab that was developed with previously long deemed to be unsafe novel technology in record time whilst throwing out all of the long accepted trial protocols that would normally be deployed to test it are nutty conspiracy theorists...right.... .... don't give up the day job Fraser....oh, on second thoughts do....
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  1978. Nobody has a monopoly on wisdom and Peter Hitchens, like his deceased brother before him, is living proof of that writ large. On lockdowns, Ukraine and Iraq he is and was, regrettably, absolutely spot on.
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  1979. Ad hominems don't add anything to the discussion. So you're saying that Gaza since 2006 is effectively an entirely independent sovereign entity yes? Its people free to trade, free to fish their own waters, free to set their own foreign policy, its people free to come and go etc.
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  1980. For me the biggest mystery is why BoJo given his huge majority in 2019 didn't try and repeal the earlier Benn Act from the last parliament which contributed substantially to the UK and NI being in this mess in the first place.
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  1981. I get that she might have been sexually harassed by Brand in the workplace when working on BB but she then went on to have a consensual sexual relationship with him. Bit odd, no?
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  1982. Er, isn't this the woman who called those Americans who voted for Trump 'deplorables' and wasn't Trump - granted for personal political gain - trying to get to the bottom of why a Ukrainian energy company hired a crackhead with zero experience called Hunter Biden as a director and why VP Joe Biden got the Ukrainian state prosecutor looking into the company's dealings used much the same tactic as Trump to get him fired?
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  1983. The problem here is that 'hate crime' is subjectively defined by the perceived 'victim' rather than being objectively defined by law. If that woman police officer or those other officers saw that remark as 'a hate crime' then it is indeed 'a hate crime' according to the law because she says it is and, bizarrely, the police are obliged to act. Truly a dystopian rabbit hole we're disappearing down here.
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  1984. Only if you say it fast.
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  1985. Journo: 'But how will you do that as the project is under Germany's control?' Biden: 'Er, it isn't and we'll blow it up with help of the Norwegians who will then ride to Europe's rescue by upping supplies of its own natural gas...next!!'
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  1986. I don't know why people are so down on him. Jim fixed it for me to milk a cow blindfolded....
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  1987.  @joelg34  Stole that from Radio Ulster clip. Can be found on YT. It's genius.
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  1988. Gyles Brandreth: The thinking man's Stephen Fry.
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  1989. The 'damning' IAEA 'report' pre the Israel illegal unprovoked attack on Iran was clearly intended to lay the ground.
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  1990. Evil.
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  1991. Anyone old enough to remember the days when 'privatisation' of utilities was sold as the means of promoting greater competition, driving efficiencies, encouraging much needed investment and driving prices for consumers down? Utter BS on stilts of course, but it was a popular narrative that essentially fed into people's ideological fervour, greed and/or blissful ignorance at the time.
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  1992. Comedian Shappi Khorsandi wrote an extremely eloquent and well argued piece on the Dankuka case and its effect on free speech here if anyone's interested, https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/count-dankula-freedom-speech-comedy-joke-iran-offended-a8270631.html
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  1993. Venezuela, despite being one of the richest countries in South America prior to Chavez coming to power, was one of the most unequal. This situation, of course, suited America just fine as it and its corporations effectively controlled its 'private' oil industry aided and abetted by a Venezuelan elite. Chavez's subsequent nationalisation and wealth distribution inevitably led to highly punitive, hugely destructive US sanctions as they no longer got their disproportionately generous cut of Venezuela's oil riches.
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  1994. The big takeaway from covid and the near lockstep authoritarian global reaction to it is how much it irreparably damaged so many people's faith in their governments and political systems.
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  1995. It was acknowledged by EU president Juncker that in the event of a no deal Brexit the EU would insist that Ireland erect a hard border to protect its single market. The UK always insisted that it would not erect a hard border.
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  1996. It's currently not in any EZ member states' interests to pull the plug on the Euro, least of all the most indebted ones but this also applies to Germany. Germany is, indirectly, giving them a free lunch and as long as it can afford to do so, is willing to do so and, perhaps most importantly, its population is either ignorant of this situation or happy to do so, then it will continue.
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  1997. Think it's probably because it's what's known as a pressing issue. People dying daily in large numbers in horrific circumstances precisely because our governments support what's happening and, by extension, assume most of us do.
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  1998. Why has the Austrian government signed a contract for 44m doses of Pfizer vaccines in a country with under 9m inhabitants? This story gets darker by the day.
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  1999. My replies being shown marked, but nothing there. I'm shadow banned I'm guessing?
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  2000. A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the bagpipes but never does. Needless to say, Alistair Campbell isn't a gentleman....
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  2001. Presumably the extra strong glue these protestors rely on to stick themselves to things isn't oil based in anyway shape or form?
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  2002. They can destroy the value of your money though.
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  2003. We're ALL slowly turning in to John Lennon.
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  2004. Why are you scared of people listening to other POVs? Presumably you never feel the need to question the official narrative? When, exactly, did something like the Gulf of Tonkin incident register with you as a false flag designed to bring the US into the Vietnam war? Or perhaps even it still hasn't?
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  2005. In the UK people are being 'offered' a number of shots all at once including flu, shingles and covid or variations thereof.
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  2006. Whether $40m Americans are 'deplorable' as 'Chunk' claims or not it should make zero difference. The day they go out to vote, so the theory goes anyway, their vote is worth no more or less than anyone else's and that's the principle that underpins democracy. If you're tactic is to dehumanize and delegitimise those with whom you disagree then it seems pretty obvious who the deplorable ones are here.
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  2007.  @Trevorjesuischarlie  I'm not a climate change denier, but having made the effort to seek out the arguments I'm a healthy climate change sceptic. To me, currently, it looks like yet another a grift and a taxpayer sponsored gravy train based on what looks to me like a matter of faith. A matter of faith that's highly profitable to some and ultimately highly dependent on suckling from the state teat as so many things are...many more than most people actually realize in fact. A quasi-religion not helped by what looks like to me like a load of comfortably off virtue signalling hypocrites who are not only intent on warning everyone (twas forever thus) that 'The End Is Nigh' lest they repent, but don't seem to be doing much in the way of serious repenting or hair shirting themselves. Mitigating habitat destruction, preventing over-exploitation of resources and pollution, promoting sustainability and good stewardship are absolute no-brainers in my book and in everyone's interests, even if a degree of state subsidy is required to it, but trying to hang it on the 'air hook' of an anthropogenic imminent climate change catastrophe is all too often self-serving cynical doom mongering in my opinion. If someone wants to talk about the modern consumer model being broken and in serious need of attention then, frankly, I'm all ears but climate change science, particularly when there are some extremely learned and accomplished dissenting climate scientists whose views are effectively censored on MSM, ain't gonna do it. Science ONLY works by having its hypotheses constantly open to debate and challenge and once words like 'consensus' and 'settled' are used, particularly regarding something so fundamental as this, without so much of a hint of a blush I start to worry.
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  2008. Point of fact, but the world is actually greening according to NASA. This, of course, doesn't negate habitat destruction which is happening, but interesting nonetheless.
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  2009. Freddie goin' very much for a Saturday Night Fever vibe there ....grrr😊
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  2010.  @JohnSmith-ji6lu  Although I happen to agree 100% with her, what difference would it make to you in terms of her being jabbed or not?
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  2011.  @JohnSmith-ji6lu  Her body, her choice. Your body, your choice. Nothing nutty about that.
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  2012. You can go off some people....
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  2013. YT's algo often goes rogue I find.
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  2014. Ssh, don't remind them FFS, they might not have noticed....
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  2015. Arguably the legacy party's past representatives have far more of a case to answer there than the incoming Galloway. GG must be judged on his record in office though, which is a fair point, but I don't imagine that come the next election he'll remain Rochdale's MP sadly.
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  2016. These aren't recent arguments. They've been around for decades. Tony Benn's five tests of democracy, like Hovis, are as good today as they've always been: “What power have you got?” “Where did you get it from?” “In whose interests do you use it?” “To whom are you accountable?” “How do we get rid of you?”
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  2017. 'Are we, in some ways, lusting after a threat which helps to explain our response to covid?' Proper nailed it there Freddie.
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  2018. According to Fortune magazine the top 10% of US households have become $28trn richer since 2020. According to recent polls over two thirds of US voters said they were concerned about the economy. Is there a disconnect here? Hell, yeah!
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  2019. Weekend at Biden's. 'Biden would be the perfect President, except for one thing. He's dead from the neck up' USA Theatrical review.
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  2020. He's bendy in the middle?
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  2021. Anybody who knows you through your consistently righteous stands would vote for you George.
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  2022. ​ @TomTabaczynski Thanks to its industrial base and expertise Hitler's Germany had the option of building a military economy and resorting to an expansionist policy across a Europe not ready nor keen to embark upon another brutal war so soon after the last. Neither Zimbabwe nor Argentina were in that position.
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  2023. After the US, Germany is the biggest arms exporter to Israel. That doesn't excuse the UK's continuing political support for Israel's genocide but certain people with their own axes to grind should bear it in mind.
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  2024. #MeToo Ooh, ooh, found one!!
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  2025. I never knew Bernie Sanders was Scottish??
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  2026. The US, not least its consumers, as far as I see it, has had a super sweet deal up until now and can afford to run a constant significant trade deficit thanks to the global demand for its bits of paper and debt. This helps it keep domestic inflation under control as it sucks in these cheap imports and effectively export its inflation when it gets too high. Why jeopardize this?
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  2027. 'A haunted Eddie Redmayne, if fashioned by the chaps at Aardman Animation after a long lunch'. Paddy Taylor.
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  2028. #MeToo
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  2029. ​ @garyddlewis3067 Welcome to planet earth. I am an earthling....we mean you no harm....
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  2030. Nothing personal, but Johnson clearly has no backbone. Oakeshott is right. Much easier to forgive a leader who makes the wrong decision for the right reasons than one who forever vacillates as Johnson has done.
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  2031. Before all this kicked off proper I predicted much the same thing as you're alluding to. First wave took out the majority of the acutely predisposed, but for the virus itself it would gradually and inevitably become about the law of diminishing returns. Thus we would see the annual excess death rate fall as it would leave an on balance healthier population. I hadn't factored in the length and severity of the lockdowns and their after effects or a potential 'vaccine' though.
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  2032. Think you'll find most countries struggle with their moral compasses to be fair.
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  2033.  @AbtinX  Hopefully you don't live in a glass house then.
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  2034.  @NiallJacob  I wouldn't count your chickens just yet. A 'neutral' Sweden got bounced into NATO by its 'elites', as did Finland in 2022/3 without any specific reference to its electorates. The one thing that Ireland has preventing such a move would it should require a referendum due its constitution. What looks likely is that evidence shows that due to the post Ukraine 'new European security framework' it is gradually becoming a de facto member anyway whether its people like it or not.
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  2035. @Debz1707  It looks like you are correct. In which case it will be far more easy for your politicians to ultimately jettison and/or incrementally erode.
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  2036. Cliché alert!! The one thing that covid proved was that common sense just isn't very common. So much of this was just SO bleeding obvious, particularly after the 'first wave' and the first lockdown and yet our political masters got the bit between their teeth and 'compassionate' authoritarianism ruled usually with the majority's full blessing sadly. If nothing else it just goes to show quite how fragile our democracies and the rights we often take for granted really are.
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  2037. I enjoyed your extremely well argued, well written comment, hence the upvote, but still struggled with much of it. There isn't such a thing as 'a Jewish race'. 'Jews', like 'whites' or 'blacks', are simply way too diverse ethnically, genetically geographically, physically and biologically. 'Race' is, essentially, a social construct and whilst I can understand the tribal and traditional element that being 'Jewish' brings and you and others seek to identify strongly with it is no more a 'a race' than being 'black' or 'white'.
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  2038. Not a fan of Lineker by any means but his win against HMRC was fully justified.
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  2039. Apparently they're going to write all the algos down on paper and post them to each other or, failing that, fold them up into paper aeroplanes.
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  2040. a ...and the Euro don't forget. That's also taken a major battering.
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  2041. I was given a hate speech warning by YT recently. Again, in their own Kafkaesque way, they didn't say why. I like to think I'm not 'a hater' against anyone but apparently, according to a YouTube algorithm anyway, I am. Who knew?
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  2042. Also a direct line between Russiagate and January 6th. Trump embodies the old saying just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean they're not out to get you. The rot started proper in 2016 with Democrats refusal to accept that result, suck it up and just get on with things for four years. Trump was always a symptom but never the cause of what ails America.
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  2043. A bad case of Ricketts.
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  2044. Late in life, coming to realize that America is a great country with mostly great people run by a truly corrupt, rotten, evil establishment.
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  2045. The predatory neoliberal US oligarchy, moreso even than others elsewhere in developed nations, have essentially come to view the majority of their citizens purely as consumer units. The American 'market' is one of THE primary drivers of the US economy and 'they' are entirely disinterested as to the welfare of those people as actual sentient thinking individuals and are merely concerned with their propensity to consume en masse ad nauseam.
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  2046. I think I could listen Jonathan Ferro all day. What's wrong with me?
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  2047. So the increasingly authoritarian Andrew Neil is worried about emboldened totalitarian regimes after Biden's utter Horlicks of a withdrawal from Afghanistan, eh?
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  2048. ....after commenting....
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  2049. Paradoxical really. Something like Bitcoin that often makes such a virtue out of it being an intangible thing (as opposed to the outmoded currency it's intended to replace) clearly feels the need to depict itself as a tangible thing presumably in order to make it more credible.
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  2050. You will own nothing and you will be happy.
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  2051. What have WE done? SO, SO stupid.
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  2052. Love Claire Fox. Great discussion. John Anderson great as ever.
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  2053. The key to understanding public debt is to understand that it is equal to the exact penny of a private surplus. The next question to ask yourself is exactly who owns that private surplus and what interest is payable on that debt/surplus? Much of UK debt is owned by insurance and pension funds and other financial institutions. The BoE itself owns around a quarter of UK debt and overseas investors own just under 30%. Any profit the BoE makes is supposed to either go to the UK Treasury or used to bolster its reserves. Amongst other things, this raises interesting questions about the huge political power these essentially faceless, largely unaccountable institutions hold.
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  2054. ​ @fern8580 To be frank, much of it's a scam wrapped up in a plausible narrative. What you, I or even a relatively few others believe isn't relevant. It's really about what the majority believe, I'm afraid.
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  2055.  @fern8580  I'm not, but I still appreciate the comments.
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  2056. Laurence gave her too much of an easy ride. Dreadful woman.
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  2057. Thanks for the translation.
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  2058. The 'shock' of October 7th was 'apparently' Israel being given lemons and, just over a year on, making lemonade. Amazing....
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  2059. Why are you here then?
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  2060.  @buzzbuzzard3809  Make those arguments using your 'stronger value system' then rather than just grandstanding and attacking the man.
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  2061.  @buzzbuzzard3809  No you don't, but stopping making pointless, smug comments might be a good start. Take the arguments apart, don't just talk meaninglessly about your 'value system'.
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  2062. First time I've seen Stacey. Brilliant commentary. Nailed it.
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  2063. The US instigated, European backed war in Ukraine has been a disaster for Europe. Whether this was always the plan or it's just Trump taking lemons and making lemonade is a moot point. The end result for Europe is the same...
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  2064. Ukraine is another Western led proxy war. Putin's Russia will never hold the moral high ground in pretty much any circumstances I can imagine, but this perception of the West by the West, particularly the USA, as apparent upholders of all that is decent and true in the world has surely got to seen for what it truly is after this avoidable war?
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  2065.  @RodioXYZ.  Ok, how about he's sounding more and more like a neocon hawk out of the Kissinger, Brzezinski or Nuland mold? Better?
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  2066. Mass psychosis. Even questioning it today can invite hostile responses from the most surprising quarters.
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  2067. Any of these high profile people who promoted this guff, particularly those who did so knowingly like Bieber, and took their 30 pieces of silver for doing so should be ashamed of themselves.
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  2068. A relevant point and something it doesn't hurt to make people aware of as is similarly the case with Scott Ritter's less than edifying past. It doesn't though make him wrong and nor should it deprive him from making a living or sharing his knowledge and insights.
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  2069.  @laurenceBDontYaNo  Did you participate in the 2016 referendum?
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  2070.  @laurenceBDontYaNo  So that's a no then. No referenda on EU membership. Ever. Did you participate in the 2016 referendum?
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  2071.  @laurenceBDontYaNo  You entered into and voted in a democratic referendum in 2016 in bad faith that you have freely admitted by your answers you had absolutely NO intention of ever seeing honoured. Labour and Tory MPs in 2017 stood on manifestos that pledged to honour that 2016 result posing the question, 'Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union? ' and they were duly elected in their hundreds as a result. And yet what followed was 2 plus years of them attempting to water down or even nullify that result. You, sir, and those who think similarly are anti-democratic.
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  2072. Bojo was seen in some Conservative circles, not least by the man himself, as an election winner after the 2019 result and the collapse of the Red Wall seats. This was always delusional. 2019 was treated as a de facto second referendum by many, particularly in the Brexit voting north and including me who would never vote Tory in a million years normally. The Libdems promised to reverse the 2016 referendum result and Labour effectively did the same with a sprinkling of sophistry designed to confuse and Bojo's Tories pledged,very simply and catchily, to 'Get Brexit Done'. The Tories won an 80 seat majority not because of Boris, but because they were the ONLY party pledging to honour that 2016 result. It's NOT complicated and it WASN'T because of Boris.
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  2073. ​ @dominiccharles6072 Can you provide sources for those figures?
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  2074.  @dominiccharles6072  Just asking again for your source(s) for those figures....
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  2075. The really BIG political question here is exactly WHO can afford to invest and keep investing , be they domestic or foreign, for interest bearing profit in this public debt-cum-private surplus? Populations are always, to a greater or lesser extent, 'invested' in this private surplus but the clincher here is what about those who not only can't afford to but also what happens to them at the sharp end of this fallacious 'household budget' narrative in terms of enduring the financial and social consequences.
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  2076. #He's a real nowhere man Sitting in his nowhere land Making all his nowhere plans for nobody#
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  2077. I used to think Monbiot was ok and that Russell Brand was a c*ck. Today I think Monbiot is a c*ck and Brand is ok. Conclusion? When facts change opinions should change, don't be a slave to your beliefs and nobody has a monopoly on wisdom.
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  2078. ​ @dianecameron137 His good name isn't being discredited by the suggestion that there might have been other greater forces at work in his early demise. Personally I don't think there were in his case, but it's not unreasonable to suggest it given Kelly's untimely mysterious demise or even the concocted anti-Semitism conspiracy around Corbyn or the earlier repeated rumours circulating around Harold Wilson.
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  2079. Just double-checked the rainwater harvesting ban claim in Bolivia. After US corporation Bechtel, its only bidder, won the country's privatized water contract it jacked up water prices by up to 200%. F*ck me, it's true!! I've heard it all now. What a truly wicked world we live in.
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  2080. Once someone starts cherry picking freedom of speech rights like Ben Shapiro has over Gaza then you know their game's up.
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  2081. Dog in failure to stop tail wagging shocker!!....read on....
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  2082. Both the US and Europe have long made it their policy to destabilise other countries around the world, including those effectively on their doorsteps, and then complain when many of these benighted populations opt to leave these countries and flee to both the US and Europe. It's a fiercely misguided hoping to have you cake and eat it mindset that has ironically led to them destabilising and fracturing of their own societies.
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  2083. @VincentRE79  Nope. Like Reagan it was a sleight of hand. Her tenure was buoyed by the selling off of state assets on the cheap and the North Sea oil bonanza helping to fund tax cuts. Needless to say cheered on by 'the markets'. It was, in essence, a massive wealth transfer conducted under the pretence of an economic ideology and 'good housekeeping'. The hugely deleterious effects of her darkly cynical expediency we're still living with today.
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  2084. We may choose to have pets but we don't choose to 'have' ourselves. America's healthcare system isn't just one of the most iniquitous in the world it is, in terms of overall benefits delivered for money spent, one of the most inefficient in the world. THAT contrived and enduring inefficiency is EXACTLY where the profit lies and helps to explain why the hapless Mr Thompson, a prime perpetrator and beneficiary of maintaining that inefficiency, met his maker that day.
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  2085. Isabel Oakeshott: 'the most seismic health event of our times'. In no small part thanks to amoral, self-serving, utter numbnuts like Hancock and now aided and abetted by her. Death rate to date, I believe, remains at around 0.03% of the population and the average age of a 'with' covid death is 83. Almost two years higher than the normal average. Course, it could've been SO much worse without the 'vaccine'...er...which isn't a vaccine as almost any of us with two braincells to rub together have long understood.
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  2086. The US actually fomented and started this war so perhaps it's only fitting that it's choosing to end it.
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  2087. Here's an idea. Why not leave sovereign countries well alone to run their own affairs?
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  2088. If I were a betting man before all this kicked off and I had to pick countries that would most easily succumb to this increasing sense of tyranny I can't say that the likes of Canada, New Zealand or Australia would have been anywhere near the top.
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  2089. Watching. Thanks. Excellent recommendation.
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  2090.  @sshender3773  My perfectly polite reply was deleted so I'll keep it sanitized in order to satisfy the algorithm. Watch the video would be my advice.
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  2091. Just remember a conspiracy theorist nowadays seems to be anyone who dares to question the official narrative of a proven liar.
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  2092. ​ @johnmoonitz2968  'I want to totally disassociate myself from the policies that have given us unprecedented deficits, massive monetary inflation, indiscriminate military spending, an irrational and unconstitutional foreign policy, zooming foreign aid, the exaltation of international banking, and the attack on our personal liberties and privacy.' Like déja vu all over again....
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  2093. Yeltsin couldn't make the bathroom let alone a deal with the Americans. There's even a Time magazine cover where the US openly boasted about getting 'their man' Yeltsin re-elected in Moscow. Now THAT'S election interference happening in plain sight.
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  2094. This is an example of why the EU is so dangerous. People, bizarrely, imagine that it's somehow the embodiment and apogee of democracy whilst it is, in fact, the very opposite. Europe will see more and more of these profound life changing decisions made by faceless unelected irremovable technocrats and people will be powerless to do much about it. And that's not to say that national governments are a panacea btw, but you get my drift.
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  2095. Ultimately, the fascists didn't lose WW2....their ideas live on....
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  2096. Who?
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  2097. Really? Against just about every US Deep State obstacle imaginable?
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  2098. What I find odd to reconcile is how on the one hand we're told we need all these young immigrants to account for declining birth rates and an aging population and then on the other there will be far fewer jobs in the future and greater unemployment because of AI.
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  2099. Gulf of Tonkin incident not long after Kennedy's assassination. He was killed not long after he planned to secretly pull troops out of Vietnam. US remained in Vietnam for a decade. Just sayin'.
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  2100. It's far easier to pin your troubles on an easily identifiable face than it is on a disparate amorphous anonymous blob with shared interests. This is why identity politics is such a gift to the aforementioned blob. A grouping that exists and thrives upon its divide and rule diversionary tactics. Identify the shared interests first off and join the dots as it will inevitably point you to the individuals in the blob. A good many of whom most of us have never heard of.
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  2101. 44%? That's a pretty cr@p turnout for referenda on what are apparently burning questions that would have fundamentally and permanently altered the Irish Constitution. The UK managed a turnout of over 72% in the 2016 EU referendum and yet I guess because of the closeness of the result it was still deemed undemocratic by many.
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  2102. The Nobel Pish Prize.
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  2103. The Western response to covid was the longest and biggest suicide note in history. An almighty f*ck up.
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  2104. Aren't most of these Shanghai residents vaccinated against covid?
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  2105. Nina 'I'm a thinking person' Myskow. So much of this is about people like her thinking they can live forever. Her attitude is born of fear and/or arrogance but dressed up as concern for others.🤮
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  2106. The NHS is 'designed' to permanently run hot. There is no slack in the system. It is a political and economic choice that the public at large has long tacitly accepted. Cast your mind back to the London Olympics and the opening ceremony glorifying the NHS. No wonder the rest of the world was either utterly bemused by that spectacle or were p*ssing themselves laughing.
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  2107. The Left is obsessed by virtue, signalling that virtue - principally to each other - and is constantly undermined by its obsession with identity politics. These things serve to distract from the fundamental which is, for want of a better word, class. Little wonder then that the so-called elites love and embrace identity politics at every opportunity. It is a highly effective divide and rule strategy that keeps the proles forever squabbling amongst themselves and has served and continues to serve them well.
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  2108.  @laurencepeterson8466  ​The Left is obsessed by virtue signalling that virtue - principally to each other - and is constantly undermined by its obsession with identity politics. These things serve to distract from THE fundamental which is, for want of a better word, class. Little wonder then that the so-called elites love and embrace identity politics at every opportunity. It is a highly effective divide and rule strategy that keeps the proles forever squabbling amongst themselves and has served and continues to serve them well.
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  2109. As Charles Moore said the other day in an interview, I think correctly, as long as Labour remains obsessed with 'woke' we'll likely end up with a Tory government in the UK.
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  2110. A lot of the back benches wobbled over the Truss budget shenanigans because some of them have highly precarious majorities from red wall seats and a good many more saw the substantial economic damage that was being wrought in such a short space of time. What she did was insane not least because her democratic mandate for acting so radically was flimsy and because she failed to consult with the BoE.
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  2111. I'd be interested to hear an expert view on the earlier MS issued July 4th warning reported in Forbes on July 5th regarding a vital Windows update.
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  2112. Oh, do give over. What do you think the US has been doing in most of its own backyard for decades. A benign actor it is not.
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  2113. Love these 'miracle' heater adverts. Genius. Seems like they were variously invented by a macho jet engineer, a German engineer or a US student depending on which video I watch. Must be some serious patent issues arising at some point if these ads are to be believed.
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  2114. Though it's an integral part of the peddled money/debt narrative that most people (mis)understand and are meant to our taxes don't, in reality, pay for anything. When we pay them they effectively disappear into the ether and then, arguably, simply create the space for more debt creation. What taxes are often then is a useful political divide and rule tool.
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  2115. Look what happened to Cliff Richard, Assange, Salmond and Gambuccini. The people baying for Brand's blood are a mindless, hate filled mob and one can only hope a least a few of them are on the receiving end of something similar if they're ever accused of doing something.
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  2116. ​ @janezimmerman7987 Yup. 💯 They've just learned how to play it. Essentially they've worked out that by shifting culturally to the left whilst shifting economically to the rights they can get away with murder. Genius really.
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  2117. Biden's been an evil SOB all his life. I would feel sorry for anyone else, but not for him.
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  2118. This took a while to get going, but once it did it was an amazing, enlightening exchange.
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  2119. 'Part of medical ethics is not being put under undue influence'... Like, er, promising someone a box of donuts if they submit to a jab or telling people they can't travel anywhere or go to certain venues if they don't? That sort of thing?
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  2120. Interesting point AD makes on the denial of the existence of a culture war by the SJWs. It's akin to the Critical Race Theory's damned if you do, damned if don't take on being a racist whereby you either are a self-proclaimed one or your denial of being racist is in itself a tacit admission that you are one. Wicked, disingenuous, dishonest, manipulative, shameless, shameful stuff.
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  2121. One is a religion, arguably also an ethnicity and the other is a nation state. What is there to sort out pray?
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  2122. Biden can only be impeached for the alleged crimes he's committed only whilst in presidential office not prior. If they were committed prior to him becoming president then impeachment ain't gonna fly.
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  2123. America's 'bidniz' model is forever wars. Trump at least tried to put the breaks on that first time round and subsequently got branded a fascist dictator and a threat to world peace apropos of nothing. It's beyond cliché but we truly live in the Orwellian, 'War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength” alternate universe now and you're a labelled a fringe nutter if you even dare to question it.
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  2124. I could probably cope with being lassoed by Meloni 🦊
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  2125. 'Working on' is very far from 'finalising'.
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  2126. Trump's biggest fault wasn't really his fault. He was too trusting and very obviously green first time round. Hopefully second time round he'll be much wiser and it will be different. Basically when he got to the DC swamp most of whom he got to choose from were already established swamp creatures. I mean John Bolton FFS!! Really?
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  2127. That accepted definition cynically conflating antisemitism with Israel is an horrific travesty. It is an insult both to Palestinians and Jews who've ever been on the receiving end of genuine anti-Semitism.
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  2128. France famously has an elected monarchy and Macron is one of the inevitable results.
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  2129. Attempts to justify the unjustifiable aside, ultimately it all boils down to what sort of society we wish for ourselves and our kids to live in. Increasingly unequal, deliberately economically skewed, divided societies which growing numbers of people feel disenfranchised from is ultimately a 'frogs in the pot' recipe for discontent.
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  2130. Biden telling Pope it's his turn in the wheelie chair now....
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  2131. Spanish Flu killed so many because it occurred in pre-antibiotic days. A huge amount died from secondary bacterial lung infections NOT from the virus itself. KL's wilful ignorance is not only breathtaking here it is UTTERLY irresponsible.
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  2132. In the UK, subject to a suitable paid for phone plan and assuming you can afford one, you have to pay to phone HMRC, the UK tax collection authority, in order to address any queries or issues....and that's if you can get through at all. Frankly, it's an utter disgrace.
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  2133. The mainstream media's more interested in what flavour ice cream cone Biden's eating apparently. It's like they're talking to him like he's already in a home.
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  2134. Jerry Seinfeld, for me anyway, is the comedy equivalent of Radiohead. Never really got what the fuss was about.
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  2135. Israel is ALWAYS just acting as a proxy for US' interests in the ME. That's what it is there for. I can't believe that anyone STILL seriously believes the tedious oft-repeated claims that the US is pressuring Israel for a peaceful or diplomatic solution to this that or the other. Israel gives the US plausible deniability over the commission of its own sponsored war criminality and allows it to further its own geopolitical and imperial aims in the region. Simples.
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  2136. Now's a great time to get into cryptos. Next week, 'when's the best time to catch a falling knife'?
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  2137. You can't ACTUALLY say anything about this on here presumably thanks to YT algo. We can, of course, trot out the usual but beyond that it just gets taken down.
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  2138. It's not just TikTok sadly. I recently discovered that I was being shadow banned by the UK political party of which I was a then member, the SDP. All the stranger given that it makes freedom of speech a central plank of its appeal. After three attempts and subsequent refusals to get to the bottom of exactly why I was banned (apparently along with 3 others) I decided to leave. Its leader William Clouston, despite a written promise to contact me, has failed to do so.
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  2139. Yep. The Good Life, despite being a brilliant comedy, doesn't bear much economic scrutiny. 😊
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  2140. The BBC often has RUSI experts as guests on its programs.
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  2141. I heard this morning that Israelis are feeling increasingly isolated by the populations, if certainly not governments, of the rest of the world. My first thought was 'good' and my second was if that's all you've got to worry about given the abject misery your country has inflicted on others for decades then you're doing well.
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  2142. As it says at the end, you can see this took a ton of work.
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  2143. Amen.
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  2144. No thanks. I just put one out.
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  2145. Presumably these two have spent their careers calling for an end to the decades of punitive sanctions on tiny Cuba? The USA very clearly happens to have its backyard and believes it's entitled to it whereas the Russians don't? Russia today might be a pale shadow of the USSR and the USA, arguably, might be the world's one true superpower but between them these two countries still hold 90% of the world's nuclear arsenal. This is a war that should never have happened or be allowed to escalate to the extent it has. This is very clearly a US powerplay and a mighty dangerous and reckless one at that.
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  2146. 'How do you stop healthy people transmitting this if there are not lockdowns' So-called thrice administered in a year vaccines don't stop transmission or contraction so it's a dumb question.
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  2147. First past the post has, very obviously, had its day but I would not disagree that the result is legitimate given the system at play. That said, ALL of the other points made are totally valid.
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  2148. 'It's an ill wind', as they say....
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  2149. I'm amazed anyone, other than those with their noses in its trough, takes the EU seriously anymore.
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  2150. @paa-w9q  About what?
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  2151. The wonders of collective mass amnesia. But hey, if the media can still keep rolling out Alistair Campbell after Iraq, I see no reason why they can't do the same with Dershowitz after Epstein.
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  2152. Like, chaah.
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  2153. The US led West has seemingly, over the decades, actively sought to undermine essentially secular regimes like those in Iraq, Syria, Libya (slightly more complicated), Afghanistan and The Occupied Palestinian Territories by fueling and funding Islamic extremism for its own geopolitical ends. Even Israel today, although supposedly nominally a Jewish ethnostate, has long been secular until more recently as the Ziomist extremist elements gradually hold ever more sway. 'Never attribute to conspiracy what is actually due to c*ck up' they say, but either the US is dead set on confirming Einstein's definition of madness or it has something far more nefarious in mind.
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  2154. Rather unsurprisingly Ann Widdecombe misses the point here in typical bean counting Tory fashion. What the tax cut did or did not cost the treasury is not the point and nor is it at all relevant in relation to how much more money is absolutely necessarily being spent on the fuel cap. Nevermind that most of those who were potentially on the right end of it wouldn't likely have invested it in actively 'growing' the UK economy as was being touted. It was Tory red meat. Pure and simple. 'Growing the pie'. My @rse. It was how that cut was perceived by the vast majority of squeezed voters at an incredibly inauspicious time for them and how Tory MPs would be forced to try and justify this unjustifiable sh*tshow both to their constituents and future voters on the doorstep.
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  2155.  @DeathRayGraphics  Er no, but I do know of someone who more likely is. I'm saying that the way in which both men died at the hands of the police was clearly wrong and that one man's death was dealt with with the full weight of the US law whilst the other's wasn't and that the colour of one man's skin played a major part in that decision and was utterly irrelevant in another. What's telling here is how you along with many others, much of your media and your politicians are obviously very keen to racialise the nature of Floyd's death and yet this was never a line pursued by the prosecution of Chauvin at trial, only ever hinted at. 'Black' Floyd's death at the hands of the mixed race police was wrong and so was the mentally troubled 'white' Tempah's, both horrific, but in your and much of the world's hierarchy of importance, I suspect, one is far more worthy of scrutiny than the other.
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  2156.  @DeathRayGraphics  No, I'm not saying that it's just that I refuse to see this simplistic obsession to view literally everything through the prism of 'race' if you're a POC all the time as particularly helpful or, indeed, empowering. I may yet be proved horribly wrong but I somehow doubt the shameful inaction of police officers at Uvalde had anything whatsoever to do with the ethnicity of those poor kids or LEOs involved and everything to do with the latters' fear and incompetence. Similarly, the outrageous claims made by Infowars' Alex Jones relating to the Sandy Hook shooting can't be put into any kind of 'racism' box because of the skin colours of those involved. It doesn't make them any less abhorrent though. The two other policemen in attendance the day that Floyd was killed by the white Chauvin were both of minority origin and it's worthy of note that the prosecution didn't actively seek to use race as an aggravating factor. That horrific method of restraint used by those officers that day wasn't unique to that occasion, to black people or to Mr Floyd. Police violence is inexcusable whomsoever it is directed against and racism is equally so and must be addressed whenever it genuinely occurs, but I refuse to let those who see it literally everywhere and in everything deliberately seek to sow hatred and division, be they black, white or anything else, win. There's plenty of police brutality directed at white and Hispanic people in America if you care to look at the official figures although I accept that it is disproportionately likely to be directed at black people and that skin colour undeniably plays a part in that, but there are also many other factors at play, not least socioeconomic ones. Police violence against white people is just that, police violence, but against black people it's almost always automatically assumed to be purely racially motivated it seems.
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  2157.  @DeathRayGraphics  I'm not excusing it. I'm simply saying that it should be seen and taken for what it is when it is. Those, like you, who assume that 'race' must be at the heart of ANY police abuse inflicted on ANY POC are guilty of exactly the same blinkered thinking that you accuse me of. Timpa's killing was a crime. A crime perpetrated by LEOs. Pure and simple. It should be seen for what it was. It wasn't. Was it 'racist' because it wasn't? No, because the LEOs who perpetrated had the same colour skin as he did. Once you start defining people, their infinitely complex lives and their myriad of actions purely by the colour of their skins then, I'm afraid, you're the one who is being played here not me.
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  2158.  @DeathRayGraphics  I know you about as well as you know me so let's not play that game. Rights, either yours or mine, have got nothing to do with this. I'm not pretending that racism doesn't exist, I'm not pretending that police brutality doesn't exist and I'm not pretending that black people statistically, particularly in the US, aren't more likely to be on the end of it than white people. If I'm mad at all the people I'm mad at are those who perpetrate injustice, particularly those who do it falsely under the guise of representing it, but I'm also not going to broad brush condemn ALL those who put their lives on the line everyday trying to uphold it for the greater good as you seem to. You seem like you're a 'let's burn down the granary' type of guy 'Ray' as if somehow this will solve all your problems. It won't. Reducing all your ills to the colour of someone's skin might be a neat, powerful and appealing narrative in some quarters, but it'll only get you so far and will only serve to further entrench some opposing views in the process, so good luck with that.
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  2159. One seriously has to wonder, particularly given the terrible state of US politics nowadays, whether someone somewhere has some serious dirt on BS.
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  2160. Was a racial motivation ever actually proved in the prosecution of Chauvin?
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  2161. Loved this discussion but the ostensibly brilliant Oberg's conclusion regarding 'friends' was, to me, identifiably ridiculous. Countries like Russia, China, Japan and numerous other Asian countries are VERY obviously homogeneous as a matter of policy. They might not want war, but at the same time mass immigration isn't something they welcome either.
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  2162. Not even opinion. He's clearly innocent, this was a grave miscarriage of justice for him and his colleagues and a blatant stitch up by a craven US establishment.
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  2163. This woman is evil. Only Nuland beats her.
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  2164.  @johntaylor2683  They are, but not economically.
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  2165.  @brednbudr2406  Are we talking about at scale?
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  2166.  @luigimanzoni2705  So we're talking about ev battery recycling - not repurposing - happening at scale yes? Any chance of a link for that please?
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  2167. International law is a big sick joke.
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  2168. And that is a fair point and precisely why he needs to be called out by ALL of us should he become president and instigate such policies. Trump is totemic ONLY in as much as he and his treatment demonstrates how rotten to its core the US body politic is, but that doesn't and should NEVER give him a free pass should he become POTUS again.
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  2169. Can't see anything going wrong here. The West has still not officially entered the war. It's just sending the money and hardware that sustains it. I'm sure the Russians will entirely appreciate this crucial fine technicality, even if things start to look like they're going seriously pear-shaped for them.....
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  2170. Ukraine was America's war period. Its seeds were sown by Dubya in 2008 and was fomented by EVERY POTUS since, including Trump. The US should in NO way get a free pass on this and nor should Trump.
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  2171. This is truly a brilliant presentation.
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  2172. Are masses of people in the UK paying mortgages on still unfinished properties being built by a few massively indebted megaproperty developers then?
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  2173. As others are now pointing out there's somewhat of a narrative discrepancy here whereby the Russians are either now so weak that they're close to collapse or if they're not stopped they'll march all over Europe. These people are insane.
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  2174. You should see the barrage of abuse and outright hatred this fiercely intelligent, reasonable, decent and frankly brave man is subjected to in sections of the Scottish media by some ScotNats for daring to be a self declared Unionist. Those that do should hang their heads in shame. Absolutely horrendous. Go see if you want to make your blood boil.
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  2175. Wars have ears.
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  2176.  @atiqueatiqullah6079  Not at all, just made me larf.
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  2177. Why did the Germans cease to be Nazis in America's eyes after WW2 but the Russians never really ceased to be Soviets after the end of the Cold War I wonder?
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  2178. Not a particularly great interview granted, but I'd recommend watching his best of performances on Golden Globes.
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  2179. This is why you should never trust ANY mainstream economists. They are nothing better than high priests, apologists and paid shills for the debt mongering cult.
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  2180. A scientist who isn't 100% sure about something?? Is this allowed? Shouldn't they be cancelled or doxxed?
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  2181. Yep, there's money to be made if you're in government from that kind of regulation. Further to that, the big boys love it as it acts as an ever higher barrier to entry and keeps out the smaller competition.
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  2182. The biggest irony is is that atheism is also a rigid belief system. Effectively a religion. Amazed that Dawkins has any credibility left to be honest.
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  2183. Avoid writing anything factual, inconvenient or verifiable and Google/YT will let it pass. 'Yay!', 'thanks' or 'great show' is fine.
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  2184. I shall never pass a Ferrari again without giving its owner a pitying stare.
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  2185. When 'party' becomes bigger than country and the people in it then it's time to start worrying. Seriously.
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  2186. I'm guessing you're being sarcastic?
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  2187. More people need to wake up and understand that barely a cigarette paper separates "a technical recession' from 'economic stagnation'. It's an utterly absurd, worthless distinction and yet the Tories' are apparently basing their decision as to when to call the next election on it.
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  2188. Despite the Dems deepest, darkest most cynical best efforts to depict Trump as a racist and fascist more and more Americans are coming round to the idea that they've been played. It's the ultimate wicked conceit. Portray your enemy as the very thing you are and hope that enough people swallow the poisonous disingenuous rhetoric you're peddling. Well, fewer and fewer people are swallowing it now.
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  2189. I think you'll find it's less about envy and more about anger at the way both the political and financial systems are deliberately skewed to favour one group over the enduring detriment of the other. Ironically, socialism is the preserve of the rich and capitalism is reserved exclusively for the poor.
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  2190. The French just voted for more of the same... except much harder.
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  2191. Stubbed my toe 'yet again' this morning on bloody coffee table. Brexit, naturally.
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  2192. The solution to the war in Ukraine will likely result in the Russian majority areas of Ukraine being subsumed proper into Russia, including Crimea. Whether that will mean the remainder of the country becoming neutral or joining NATO remains to be seen and will be dependent on the settlement. The more Ukrainian territory the Russians can bag in the meantime can only strengthen their hand in negotiations. Better to have something to be seen to be giving back basically. Negotiations that will have to come. Hopefully sooner rather than later. Tragically all of this needless death and destruction could and should have been avoided in the first place though.
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  2193. They definitely 'overdelivered' when it came to covid.
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  2194. In a democratic, open society you're fully entitled to your view and the main thing here is that you're free to express it. Long may it remain so. What will be interesting though is whether this interview with Mr Moore is afforded the same courtesy 'going forward'.
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  2195. For the DNC, better a weak candidate that they control than a strong one they can't. Simples.
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  2196. All these years and I misguidedly imagined that being an Member of Parliament was a full-time job. Of course I'd love to significantly boost my salary by having two full time jobs, but unfortunately I can't split myself in two and nevermind that there wouldn't be enough time in the week to do so.
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  2197. George Floyd wasn't murdered. Those three policemen, two from an ethnic backgrounds, were thrown under the bus by the US establishment and its institutions. I'm still amazed this miscarriage of justice has been ignored by just about everyone.
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  2198. I can't believe that media platforms like YT and FB can't see how these so obviously hypocritical, double standard stances play in the eyes of any decent, rational thinking people out there. It's also worth noting that through its blatantly one-sided censorship and curation of content it's also as good as admitting that it is a publisher rather than a media platform and should therefore itself be subject to same stringent rules as other publishers.
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  2199.  @childofthe60s100  It's a sad sign of the times when people like you who can do no better than resort to cheap ad hominems apparently regard themselves as being one of the 'educated'.
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  2200. From what I've long understood Labour's Healey having to go cap in hand to the IMF in the 1970s was indeed a stitch up confected by the UK establishment.
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  2201. There is some truth in that and it's summed up with the famous saying, 'ultimately we all get the politicians we deserve', but that makes the mighty big assumption that democracy and the democratic process is somehow consistently perfect, fairly representative and not susceptible to corruption. I, for one, don't subscribe to that idea.
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  2202. The Ukraine war has been a complete disaster for Europe. Rather like Biden's years of obvious mental decline which were happening in plain sight Europe's decision makers are still insisting the emperor isn't naked even as an incredulous crowd looks on.
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  2203.  @austinlittke7688  Well, you should never assume should you.
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  2204.  @austinlittke7688  Appreciate the irony 👌
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  2205. ​ @lisatchappell912 It was an openly racist Tweet, subsequently removed by her and for which she apologized. Is there something more should know about?
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  2206.  @OGRE_HATES_NERDS  Your comment, like the one I replied to, is meaningless without explanation. Again, I'm happy to be educated. You have the floor....
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  2207.  @OGRE_HATES_NERDS  I'd reread the full Tweet if I were you.
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  2208.  @OGRE_HATES_NERDS  It's quite obvious you don't need me to make you look stupid. I'll leave you to it.
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  2209.  @Misinformed_lol  I read the Tweet she deleted and apologized for. If she was fired for another more sinister reason then fine, but the comment she made was unacceptable.
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  2210.  @Art-bk6vv  She hasn't got Tourettes FFS, she's certainly not dumb, she's not nobody and she wrote it on Twitter where she has legions of followers.
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  2211. Whatever the system at play or whatever we might choose to call it, there will always be a zero sum minded 'elite' who will seek to game it.
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  2212. Ultimately the numbers just don't work for Trump. He'd likely pull in a massive vote - he pulled in one of biggest Republican votes ever, if not the biggest last election - but he still lost. Democrats could literally put up a pig on a stick and still beat him because enough people will vote against him ergo FOR the pig on the stick. That's a VERY sad indictment of US politics today.... worrying even.
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  2213.  @phillipweissburg1882  No, not Russian just someone who can see the US descending into the abyss of authoritarianism cheerled by delusional 'good' people like you. Certainly gives an interesting new twist to the old saying about for evil to triumph all it takes is for good people to do nothing I'll give you that.
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  2214. Either YT or Fortune and Freedom are censoring comments about this sadly.
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  2215. AOC FOS.
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  2216. 1976, when Healey went 'cap in hand to the IMF', UK debt to GDP was around 50%. Today, post covid, it's around 100%. 1976 was a UK establishment politically contrived stunt. Be under no illusions about that.
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  2217.  @BellBeakerBloke  So they're not entering the country illegally under UK law?
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  2218. The EU is a centralised top down technocratic kakistocracy. Not a great combination to be honest.
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  2219. Thought that was Mark Zuckerberg's mum at first.
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  2220. A word of caution here. The biggest losers, granted only thus far, from Trump's new tariff regime appear to be the oligarchs. If he's trying to create a fascist coup in the interests of America's super rich then he's going the wrong way about it on current evidence.
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  2221. Seriously? Two neighbours knocked on your door telling you you were taking British jobs? Would you swear to that? I work with and know lots of people from the EU still here and I've not heard anything like that.
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  2222. Monbiot is a great guest, but this insistence on portraying Brexit as exclusively a right wing elitist neoliberal aim is plainly wrong if you drill down on the people who actually voted for it. Yes, you might argue that they were sheep misled in their millions by the ravenous neoliberal wolves as people like Monbiot might, but to say it shows no respect for people's abilities to make up their own minds based on their own lived experiences would be an understatement.
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  2223. 'For evil to triumph all it takes is for good men to do nothing' Certainly looks that at the peak of the wicked Kissinger's powers a good many good men were doing precisely that.
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  2224. On what legal basis may I ask?
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  2225.  @matthewdolan5831  Again. On what legal basis should he be jailed?
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  2226. JDV's Munich speech, whilst it contained some uncomfortable truths, was essentially cynical deflection for what was a war fomented, funded and armed predominantly by the United States.
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  2227. I know what you mean, but I try and take the tack that no one has a monopoly on wisdom. He has a lot of interesting stuff to say about what he knows about, but perhaps he should stay in his lane and climate change ain't in it.
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  2228. James Whale, a DJ in the UK, behaved similarly on his radio show. Mind you, probably only about 3 people heard it.
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  2229. Why has the FED effectively spent years propping up the money markets with funny money for the benefit of the few at the expense of the people it now purports to be so concerned about protecting? W⚓ Trickle down smells of asparagus.
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  2230. "Forced ..given the opportunity...."
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  2231. Aaron's right and I've long said this. The Western world's media has been guilty of a wanton dereliction of duty since Trump's election in 2016. Rather than examine, question and criticize his actual policies they cravenly took the virtue signalling path of least resistance and chased clicks and eyeballs in pursuit of their own selfish ends.
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  2232. It's worth noting that those media outlets and Democrats commenting there are often referring to Trump's phone call to Zelensky trying to get the dirt on the Bidens under the veiled threat of withholding US aid. This is what led to his first impeachment. To be fair this was indeed shady behaviour but as events unfold and even the blind who WON'T see get their noses rubbed in the proverbial do do it's becoming increasingly obvious that Trump was barking up the right tree 100% regardless of his political motivations.
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  2233. As in the West's 'peak covid', what would be interesting is to know the genuine Chinese death rates from covid and who's actually dying from it. We'll never likely know of course. China famously has a disproportionately large aging population that might well be more susceptible to covid and overwhelm its healthcare system but, with or without these jabs western mRNA, Chinese Sinovax or otherwise, the vast majority of China's working population is demonstrably, from our experience, not vulnerable in any significant numbers. This begs the question, much as it did and still does in the West, just exactly what are these repeated and protracted blanket lockdowns about? They certainly can't be driven by doubt or ignorance as the West's response and its now less than favourable unfolding outcomes has surely provided ample evidence for the Chinese leadership. Are they driven by fear as, Wizard of Oz-stylee, general populaces apparently come to the belated realisation that their ostensibly well-meaning leaders aren't omnipotent and can't legislate against people dying? An opportunity to show people exactly who's boss by an inherently dictatorial leadership perhaps after a worrying perceptible shift toward liberalism? Or is it an unhappy combination of the two? Answers on a postcard.....
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  2234. ​ @Ashen0ne.3 People just look at headline figures. In real terms, allowing for inflation, most people aren't half as clever as they think they are or have been. Goes to show you that the narrative still works though.
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  2235. Twas forever thus, but the sad fact of the matter is that it suits both the major Western and Arab powers to use both the Palestinian and Israelis as pawns in their own geopolitical power games. Israel couldn't and wouldn't continue to exist without the political support, money and military hardware provided by the West and likewise Palestinians remain a mighty useful bit of leverage for regional big powers like Iran and KSA. Countries that likely quietly despise them. And let's not forget that Israel wouldn't exist in the first place if it were not for the West's, particularly Europe's, desire to deal with what they once perceived as their own Jewish issue. Jews and Palestinians have far more in common with each other than they imagine ironically.
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  2236. This is McCarthyism on steroids and is beyond a joke. 1950s McCarthyism was vicious and indiscriminate in its scope and only ended when he was shown up for the relentless, paranoid bully he really was during televised hearings and by a largely unsympathetic to him media. Many lives were ruined in the meantime however, and it poisoned the US political and social well for many years. The problem we have now is that we're not just talking about the abuses and obsessive agenda of one man, but of elites and institutions all backed up by a largely sympathetic mainstream mass media, arguably with far more control and influence than their 1950s counterparts. Although I'm not condoning what is a pretty childish act, when people even feel the need to start posting things like, 'It's OK to be white' and this then apparently warrants serious police attention, it's difficult to see this madness either ending any time soon or ending well.
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  2237. There's a reason why Chatham House and RUSI are gotos for the BBC.
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  2238. One, ironically, that some on this thread aren't happy about.
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  2239. Proper review. Thanks.
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  2240. China was fine not least because it's not reliant on this closed shop crony sh*tshow.
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  2241. Whilst I agree with the thrust of this piece, I've said it before and I'll say it again. JRM is a member of a political party and an elected representative of the people and paid to do a job. He should not also be presenting programmes on a news channel whilst he is. He can do one or the other, but he shouldn't be allowed to do both.
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  2242. A lovely, admirable, strong woman.
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  2243.  @taintabird23  Think, my friend, we'll have to agree to differ there and, if direct democracy is SO important to you, why aren't you SO keen to see it implemented across the EU or is it something you believe that is the unique preserve of Ireland?
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  2244.  @taintabird23  Ireland being in a unique position to reject an EU treaty is a dead cat? Seriously? I think you're way more intelligent than that. The French rejected the Nice treaty aka the EU Constitution in 2005 as did the Dutch and other countries then pulled their proposed referenda off the back of those votes. Juncker prior to the French vote remarked, If it's a Yes, we will say 'on we go', and if it's a No we will say 'we continue'. The Nice Treaty later became the barely reworded 2007/8 Lisbon Treaty and the French assemblies voted on it effectively ignoring the 2005 French referendum. You're clearly not daft, my friend, but you're clearly deluded.
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  2245.  @taintabird23  and FYI I threw that particular dead cat on the table with my opening comment. A comment which you THEN replied to.
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  2246.  @taintabird23  HoL is your attempt at a dead cat I take it? I'm not a fan of the unelected HoL as it happens, but it is NOT a legislative body. It has very limited powers, the point of which is to scrutinize legislation up to three times, I believe, before it becomes law. That has, with the greatest of respect, f*ck all to do with the price of fish and f*ck all to to with Ireland's unique constitutional position in the EU OR, more importantly, how you're the first Irish person I've spoken to over many years who doesn't claim to have some forensic knowledge of EU treaties.
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  2247. Finally everyday Americans are being told what's been being done by their political and financial elites in their name for decades now. Sadly most of them never got to see the benefits of it either. Particularly since Ray-gun. They were just the useful idiots who cheered the whole charade on in the name of democracy and mom's apple pie without ever knowing why.
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  2248. As Biden said back in 1986, 'if Israel didn't exist, then the US would have had to invent it' Going on to add, 'It's the best $3bn we ever spent!' US evangelical Armageddon fetishizers aside, Israel is a vital American colonial outpost in the hotbed of the Middle East. It is a thorn in the side, a stone in the shoe, a powerful lever, a major tool of its foreign policy.
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  2249. Freddie is a really good interviewer. Great at summing up for the listener what's been said before expanding on the points.
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  2250. This is, amongst a myriad of other reasons, why there is an ongoing stuggle to try and control the content of and access to an unfettered internet by the powers that be. The last thing 'they' want is an enlightened, forever questioning populace. Pre-internet, like mushrooms they want to keep most in the dark and fed sh*t I'm afraid.
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  2251. Self-described 'liberals' are the new Nazis I'm afraid. That's what's SO frightening.
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  2252. Stupid comment upvoted by far more stupid people than I ever would have imagined.
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  2253. Yep, caution at all costs gifts you a free pass. Yet question any of this madness then you're a reckless fool who is playing fast and loose with people's lives. Bonkers.
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  2254. As New Labour architect and erstwhile Epstein buddy 'Petie' Mandelson said he has no problem with people getting filthy rich. When Corbyn was Labour leader he also said proudly that he did his best to undermine him, the party's then elected leader, every single day.
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  2255. Prolly. My comment immediately was.
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  2256. The uncertainty element is indeed fascinating. This was certainly one of Trump's flagged up selling points I remember. He was by turns aggressive, particularly in terms of global trade and yet emollient in terms of often attempting to pour oil on troubled waters ie N. Korea. By turns he could also be unpredictable as the Suleiman assassination proved. It was, arguably, this very unpredictability from the the leader of the most powerful country in the world that ironically helped to engender a degree of global peace. Much missed peace I might add.
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  2257. The US presumably you mean?
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  2258. Off afterwards to a funeral, wedding or court case😂
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  2259. Belle époquism is basically the Age of Decadence.
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  2260. The majority of this country will NOT and will NEVER gravitate towards the far right, but it's still the highly effective sword of Damocles that is forever dangled over the working classes just to keep them in check and the so-called Left is the biggest proponent of this disingenuous approach.
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  2261.  @dannyvera8475  Oh, FFS!! The reaching out method you're looking for is called, 'Google'. Type in the name. It's amazing. If you lose your shirt though don't come crying to me.
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  2262. I always find it weird and highly suspicious when you get comments like this that are obviously popular and invite numerous replies and questions and yet the poster doesn't bother to re-engage even once....
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  2263. This young lady falsely accusing Wallace of anti-Semitism is peddling a well worn, entirely fake darkly cynical conflation beloved of Zionists. She is then, effectively, condoning and supporting genocide. Good on yer Mick and shame on her and ALL those who persist in parroting that narrative.
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  2264. People don't really, currently, have much of a choice in the circumstances.
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  2265. Never let a good crisis go to waste. Covid accelerated these processes by design.
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  2266. Yep. Just ask Matt Taibbi.
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  2267. Ditto 'Help Save the NHS' rainbows in windows and the even more nauseating clapping.
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  2268. The literally thousands of Cryptos out there are basically Ponzi fodder FOMO.
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  2269. Doctor asks Bridgen before going to break if he's been jabbed. 'Unfortunately, yes'.
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  2270. Thatcher's alleged economic miracle and 'sound money' was basically created and subsidised by the selling the nation's assets off on the cheap and the North Sea Oil bonanza. It was a dodgy self-serving narrative dressed up as an ideology. As Anthony Barnett said of Thatcher's reign, 'Britain may have been saved by her but it will never recover from the experience.' Similarly, the neo-Thatcherite Blair and Brown years were no better and indeed more smoke and mirrors and more cynical can kicking.
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  2271. Politicians are always in the pocket of somebody.
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  2272. No cost/benefit analysis was done. Period. Disgraceful. QALYs, the calculated government cost put on an average UK life, went from the usual £20-£30k per person to off the chart bonkers thanks to covid. There was a pandemic plan. It was effectively ignored. It was drafted in 2012 and lockdowns sure as hell weren't part of it. The average age of a covid death remains at 81. Around the same as a usual average death. Covid was a major disaster for this country. No ifs, no ands, no buts. Only fucking idiots and the abjectly ignorant seek to defend what happened.
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  2273. This is showing America up in an extremely bad light and finally, slowly but surely, the world and its media is seeing it for what it is. History might not be a morality play, but the US has been taking the p*ss too much for far too long I'm afraid. And yes, Victoria Nuland and Condie Rice I'm looking at you.
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  2274. Whilst I applaud Trump's aim to end this war the world should NEVER forget that this is first and foremost an American initiated and paid for war and Trump played a significant part in that during his first presidency.
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  2275. Labour, like the Tories, has been totally discredited. They are BOTH little better than quasi-criminal enterprises run in their own interests. All terribly sad.
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  2276. When you've lost or are losing the arguments then you sink to playing the man. It's that brutal and that simple and that is what is happening.
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  2277. Germany's just doing its best to make amends... ... by helping the victims of its historical genocide with prosecuting their current one.
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  2278. LBC and its presenters showed themselves up over Brexit. It's an echo chamber for the virtue signalling 'leftie' metropolitan middle classes and a knackers yard for the spent, out to pasture media figures that even MSM can no longer justify employing.
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  2279. The US President and his government are pushing against the FED then. Politics vs economics. The FED doesn't want to see more employment. It wants to see fewer people in jobs not more. It's trying to squash demand to meet the squeezed supply issues and accompanying inflation initially caused by covid policies the world over and exacerbated by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Rightly or wrongly, the choice is seen between higher employment with higher wages or entrenched high inflation rates.
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  2280. EVERYONE has their price.... Those who might care can make an educated guess as to what Reynold's is....
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  2281. Highly unusually, never yet found the zoonotic vector apparently that allowed the leap of the virus to humans.
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  2282. Minimizing the likelihood of future conflicts and increasing mutually beneficial trade and cooperation. What's not to like?
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  2283. BS is BS. 💩
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  2284. Without checking, I'm guessing most national media awards for services to journalism should be entitled 'Shill' or 'Useful Idiot of the year' nowadays.
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  2285.  @boudecia22  Those of us who are able and willing all make a living will defining in which circumstances we might wish to see our lives ended. If you don't, then you don't make one. It's that simple. Much like the organ donor scheme it's an opt in job not an opt out one. We would obviously be able to renounce that wish at anytime if deemed mentally capable of doing so and any decision to proceed would have to be assessed and agreed to by two doctors and ultimately signed off by a judge who would specialise in making these decisions.
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  2286.  @familycompactthegrange7014  If you're not comfortable with them or their limitations then don't make one. Simple.
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  2287. "Cowardly stuff" "He's sitting in a studio making millions of dollars a year....maybe millions of dollars a month..." Cryptic comment on the end there by GG. How might Shapiro be making millions of dollars a month I wonder? 🤔
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  2288. Cueing this up. Seriously not looking forward to hearing what this moron, sorry mormon, is going to say given the headline, but will grudgingly listen to nevertheless.
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  2289. Two perfectly rational decent 'T and C' compliant comments mysteriously not yet appeared? Only conclusion after some time waiting is they have been censored by YT or Triggernometry itself.
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  2290. In the interests of accuracy, Fauci was indeed appointed under the Trump administration on 29th January 2020 as the report says.
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  2291. The US is effectively flouting its own laws, the Leahy Laws, by continuing to supply arms to Israel. This is precisely why they are SO keen not to label what is happening in Gaza as a genocide or ongoing war crime for once they do it's Game Over legally speaking under their OWN laws, nevermind international law.
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  2292. All those people who've been controlling and defending Biden after all these years should be ashamed of themselves. He's always been an evil SOB anyway so little sympathy there, but these people have helped bring an entire country's political system into disrepute.
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  2293. From what I've heard recently NATO Article 5 isn't quite the straightforward 'attack on one is an attack on all' that then merits coordinated military action by all members it's made out to be. What it actually says in its full glorious legalese is that members, 'will take the actions it deems necessary to assist the Ally attacked.' Which is not quite the same thing. Any response then is to be individually determined by the elected politicians of each member state and doesn't compel them to make a military response..
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  2294. History's most oppressed group of people devolves to become one of history's greatest oppressors. Now THAT'S cosmic irony.
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  2295. Ban GDP as a serious economic measure. Biden joosed the US economy with a massive financial stimulus ironically called the Inflation Reduction Act. With covid era private savings now spent and the deficit spending rising there's no way this sleight of hand can last.
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  2296. Amen to changing FPTP. Had its day.
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  2297. These people don't deserve to sleep at night...ever.
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  2298. Aged well mind.
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  2299. Reassuring in a way. Nobody knows anything and nobody has a monopoly on wisdom.
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  2300. Brexit is definitely Tejvan's blind spot. Essentially it was a political decision NOT an economic one anyway. Irreversibly trading away political sovereignty in return for shiny economic baubles is NOT and never was a long term strategy. A fact which most people fail to understand including him apparently. Even in terms of economics the EU is now in a fine mess of its own and its shrinking relevance in terms of world trade, even as it has more than doubled in size over the decades, is there for all to see. There's no serious appetite to rejoin despite our current longstanding woes - most of which occurred over the decades we were IN the EU although not necessarily because - because most people realize that volunteering to be rechained to an idiot isn't the solution either.
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  2301. Great comment. Free thinkers generally aren't welcome are they.
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  2302. Biden couldn't find his @rse with a mirror.
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  2303. Sue Cook is obviously a proper journalist. Something the BBC doesn't have anymore and perhaps why she left? Doesn't automatically believe what she's told, is naturally and healthily circumspect and isn't trying to propagate a well worn narrative like most of today's mindless media shills.
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  2304. Free speech is, by definition, not perfect but like democracy it's the least worst option.
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  2305. Katy Balls clearly enjoys a longer shower than most.
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  2306. Yep...and a whelk stall that's fast running out of whelks an' all.
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  2307. I'm new to this. Do buildings on fire normally collapse like that?
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  2308.  @MFitz12  Are there any more examples?
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  2309. I'm assuming that even if that were true people have been known to impersonate police officers in order to gain illegal entry to people's premises before no?
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  2310. Double downing on madness. Einstein's definition writ large.
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  2311. I reckon that Dr Miller is a hologram of Bill Gates from the dystopian future.
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  2312. The furlough scheme was an insane monetary policy only introduced because of the even more insane lockdown policies which led to the shutting down of large parts of the economy. Yet another totally out there, hatstand, 'wibble wibble' policy decision. A true confederacy of dunces. Lord save us!!
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  2313. Sinn Féin or 'We, ourselves' has always been the nationalist party of Ireland. Did it part company with its supporters once it gained power or did many of its supporters part company with it?
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  2314. ​ @Judithjoan22 What's interesting is this is what pretty much ALL these parties do once they become mainstream and gain power.
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  2315. Personally I'd like to see wanton environmental destruction and pollution, usually obvious for all to see, clearly separated out from a lot of this self-serving apocalyptic climate change claptrap. For the most part it's a money spinner courtesy of the state, ergo taxpayer coffers. Just another corporate welfare ruse. Most of those lecturing us on this stuff seemingly expect everyone else to wear the hair shirts whilst they go about their usual business counting their ill-gotten gains it seems to me. Exploiting a crisis is one thing, but creating, exacerbating and perpetuating one for profit is something else entirely.
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  2316.  @frederiquecouture3924  There seems to be no particular popular impetus to address it and if you're essentially benefiting from it where's the incentive to change it?
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  2317. The problem for Russia now of course is quite how it reacts going forward to a United States that essentially caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of its citizens. This is definitely a conundrum to watch closely.....
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  2318. Diabolical wheels within diabolical wheels.
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  2319. 2008 and the bailouts should have proved beyond ANY reasonable doubt to people that the debts always get socialized and the profits privatized.
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  2320. The human population has exploded over the last century or so and so, inevitably, has our coverage as a species of the planet. Little wonder that we're noticing these extreme weather events more. There's far more of us in places that we never used to be and in ever greater densities in developed places where we've long been so the level of destruction is so much greater in the event of fire, floods etc.
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  2321. Rand Paul was also the only senator who did his job questioning the $40bn military package for Ukraine. By far most of that aid is military not humanitarian and nobody really knows where any of it is going. It's not just about whether US taxpayers are being fleeced here, it's in whose hands might these weapons might end up. Indiscriminate US 'largesse' in Afghanistan indirectly led to the creation of Al Qaeda and in Iraq and Syria helped to create ISIS.
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  2322. JB is the daddy.
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  2323. What's that supposed to imply?
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  2324. It can be done, no doubt, but a bit like the Pound shop model it only works if there's excess supply and if sufficient people are willing to pay the normal, higher prices. This is not a judgement by the way - more power to you - but if everyone did what you did then the supermarkets would have to adjust their prices accordingly and you would end up paying more.
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  2325. Brian Thompson, the recently assassinated CEO of UnitedHealthcare in the US, demonstrates that there is very real anger brewing at what is quite clearly a system slanted very much in order to favour the enduring interests of the rich. America is the richest poor country in the world and yet even those apparently reasonably comfortably off can, almost overnight, be bankrupted should the fickle finger of fate suddenly deal them a sh*tty hand.
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  2326. Twitter is an increasingly a tarnished brand and is 'worth' a helluva lot less than say a year ago, measured in many, many billions. Musk potentially sacrificing a billion to pull out of the deal to buy and own company now worth many, many billions less than his initial bid (subject to a potential court case that could either end up costing him much more or possibly less) seems like an on-balance gamble he's willing to take.
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  2327. Particularly ironically Paul Hewson aka Bono is named after Bona Vox, an Irish hearing aid shop, a Latin phrase that means 'good voice'. He later dropped the 'vox' and bona became Bono. Unpick that conundrum.
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  2328. I can see what you mean, but it's a bit like when people talk about the end of the planet when they talk about climate change. If you embrace the CC narrative then the planet will fine. Better even. It's the humans on it that'll be f*cked. 'China' is, at least in this piece and others, referring to the regime there but ultimately, 'China', albeit in a possible different form, will likely still be there long after the CCP has gone.
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  2329. All of this shenanigans just goes to show how banks are really just one degree moved extensions of the states in whose jurisdictions they operate rather than the 'private' businesses some like to claim. *Comment edited and corrected.
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  2330.  @IamGrimalkin  I stand corrected.
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  2331. Great. Yet another person who talks about the metaverse like it's the next big thing, but who can't really convey what it is. Twitter like a metaverse?? Seriously?? More 'per' than 'meta'.
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  2332. Presumably the person who dropped a hairbrush or something around the 8.20 mark was handed their P45 and marched off the premises at the end of this?
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  2333.  @bullwinkle8266  Not in Australia is probably my best excuse.
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  2334. ​ @MinooDaemi What you've just written or what he wrote?
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  2335.  @rebelmango2141  No it's not just 'because I don't like them'. I'm trying to find a morally or even legally consistent thread here and you ain't providing it. Basically spouting the US' 'international rules based order line' no longer cuts it. Everyone with a shred of decency and two brain cells sees that for what it is now. It is whatever the US wants it to mean on any given day. Disguising its 'interests' as 'principles' is wearing more than a little thin now.
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  2336.  @rebelmango2141  Sadly looks like the YT censorship Gods have finally caught up with me as they usually do.
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  2337. The sheer idiocy, recklessness, cynicism and naivety of these people like Sturgeon et al beggars belief. Of course not all priests, teachers and scout leaders are pedophiles, but is it any wonder that that those with pedophilic tendencies historically have been attracted to those roles? The trans ID thing is little different. There are those out there, albeit a tiny minority and invariably men, with overwhelming sexual urges who will often go to great lengths in order to access roles that help facilitate and satisfy those urges. D'uh! Doing so with the full legal blessing and complicity of the state nevermind an army of militant do-gooders and pathological virtue signallers makes it all the sweeter I'm sure.
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  2338. Trump talked up his presidency when the market was rising and now he's dismissing its importance now its falling. Either way the top 10% of Americans own 93% of the stock market and the bottom 50% own just 1%. The secondary stock market is NOT the economy.
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  2339.  @DrRock2009  Prefer to see a living working wage to be honest.
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  2340. The Climate Change emperor is slowly but surely being proven to be butt naked. Tackle wanton environmental destruction and over exploitation wherever you see it and seek out cleaner, more sustainable alternative sources of energy for the future - fossil fuels won't last forever after all - but don't keep using guilt, fear and lies to force this wicked BS down people's throats.
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  2341.  @aaronbaker2186  There were reports that they were on a military exercise miles away and were simply returning to base. Don't get me wrong, if they were there to suppress protests then the world should know, but if they weren't then this is little better than the proverbial 'fake news'. I just desperately want to see a little more thoroughness in modern news that's all. The bank problems in China look pretty real to me, but is this 'gilding the lily' a wee bit too much?
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  2342. Didn't know that about FDR turning away thousands of Jews during war and forcing their return to Europe where around a quarter would die in concentration camps. This was predicated on the argument that many were likely to be German spies apparently.
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  2343. Governments and establishments today, more than ever, are agnostic about where they derive their income streams from. See no evil, hear no evil etc There will come a time when the likes of Bernie Madoff and Sam Bankman Fried are mentioned in the same sentence, but never forget that it was the establishment that quietly profited from their malfeasance that let them get away with it for so long. Let the ritual handwringing and handwashing commence....
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  2344. The governments' and central banks' catastrophic over-reaction to covid has been an almighty f*ck up.
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  2345. Way, way, way before that...
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  2346. Hedges' treatment by the Scruggs funded TRNN reinforces the reason why Tucker Carlson opted for a subscriber model when he was booted out of Murdoch's Fox. Both advertisers and wealthy owners will always be tempted to flex their editorial muscles over content sadly as Carlson also found out despite drawing relatively huge audiences. Be you left or right, genuine freedom of the press is coming under ever more serious threat.
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  2347. Be it right or wrong, the Trump stolen election narrative has the traction it does amongst Republican voters because Democrats, silicon valley and the mass media spent five long years trying every which means possible trying to delegitimise the man and his presidency. Whilst it might be the politics of the playground it was the Democrats, silicon valley and the mass media who first squeezed this toxic toothpaste out of its tube and in doing so fired the first shot in destabilising wider faith in US democracy and its institutions.
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  2348. Putin's been indicted for war crimes by the ICJ for removing kids from Ukrainian war zones to Russia and yet CretinYahoo gets to kill thousands of Gazan children, target their hospitals, churches, schools and effectively starve them to death and yet the ICJ hums and haws?? That's a big fat FO from me.
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  2349. The sad fact of the matter is that there are a number of people out there in the America and the West more generally, possibly a small majority even, that are quite happy to live under what they naively believe would be and would remain a benign dictatorship. Democracy is innately messy and often chaotic, the least worst form of government, but unfortunately, again, some are no longer willing to accept these imperfections. Down that road inevitably lies tyranny.
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  2350. Reporter: Mr Netanyahu how low would you stoop in an attempt to save your own skin? Netanyahu: Believe me, no one could imagine in their worst nightmares quite how low.
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  2351. They were just being extra careful that's all.....
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  2352. Austerity is invariably a political choice. A political choice dressed up and sold to the more naive and suggestible as an economic one based on a fictitious, if credible narrative. Or to put it more pithily, 'socialism is the preserve of the rich, capitalism is reserved for the poor'.
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  2353. I can't believe Owen Jones has any credibility left. He's morphed from being an ok-ish average journalist in his younger years into a real hate-filled little toad.
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  2354. People still claim it doesn't exist, but this whole system is predicated on the useful lie that is trickle down.
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  2355. 😁....😬
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  2356. 'We create our own monsters and then fear them because of what they show us about ourselves'. Truly dystopian times and these are two good, brave souls fighting the GOOD fight with right on their side.
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  2357. E, S f*cking G. I should've known that this BS was at the bottom of this somewhere.
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  2358. Greenspan with years of his infamous 'put' which led to the 2008 GFC showed where the American 'elite's' interests lie. They'll profit and bank the upsides of this artificial 'boom' and come the crash the poorer sections of society will endure the downsides as always. From the ashes the elites, just as they did in 2008 and post covid, will become even richer.
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  2359. Offended by everything. Ashamed of nothing.
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  2360. Always fascinating to hear an understandably increasingly world weary PH take on things, but I would take serious issue with his somewhat overly generous view of John Bercow's motivations. The Speaker's job is NOT to hold the Government to account, it is the various, assembled parliamentary oppositions' job to do that. The speaker's job is to impartially 'referee' the proceedings, not to shape them as JB shamelessly did, particularly following the tortuous years immediately following the 2016 referendum.
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  2361. They were a product of the unusual times.
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  2362. Conspiracy fact. Biden was forced out by the likes of the unelected Obama, the unelected Clintons, Schumer and Pelosi. These select few then annointed Harris who had no real democratic mandate and after no debate. Of course they threatened Biden with the 25th and Harris would likely have been the one to instigate it. He obviously didn't want to go. America is a banana republic.
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  2363. Not sure I want to see the Little Emperor Manu naked....
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  2364. Brexit was always first and foremost about sovereignty. It was a political act. A succession of our political classes have been effectively and willingly been castrated by the EU. Look at the ground that 'far right' is gaining in Italy. The MSM has long resorted to disingenuously calling her that in order to render her toxic in the eyes of Italians and other EU subjects. Aside from the fact that she is the first woman to ever lead Italy which the MSM has barely acknowledged her 'far right' credentials look decidedly poor to me. To date anyway. It's all about 'the optics' in political and media parlance nowadays apparently ie it's not how it is it's how it appears and if we can make something appear a certain way to as many people as possible then its job done and truth be damned.
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  2365.  @HeartShapedBox93  This ain't Right and this ain't right. And I say that as a Leftie.
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  2366. ​ @CockleAndHen Is it a play...is it a film....is it a TV show?
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  2367. The time for an overweighted Germany leaving the Euro thereby saving it now seems long since past. Its years of prosperous membership within made it a devalued in its own interests DM by any other name. Its high end exports remained far cheaper than they would otherwise have been if constrained by the DM. Problem now being that its beggar thy neighbours reliance on it has also effectively destroyed the viable European competition.
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  2368. It would help if the Democrats just changed their name. At least if they called themselves more correctly, 'The Authoritarians' then there'd be less confusion for voters.
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  2369. I urge people to go and look at those Vostok ice cores that chap is citing as irrefutable proof of rising CO2 levels and irrefutable proof of man-made global warming.
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  2370. I think that the key points here are that democracy should always be allowed to run its true course and for it to prevail, which should after all be the paramount prevailing concern of all, its legitimacy is ultimately predicated on losers' consent. American democracy is in deep, deep trouble quite frankly precisely because fewer and fewer people trust or respect the outcome it delivers. Down that road lies chaos and potential ruin.
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  2371. A minor point here perhaps, but why is he still calling them 'vaccinations' when by any normal historical standards, measured either by efficacy or their controlled tested for suitability, they aren't as far I'm aware? Are there previous instances when 'vaccinations' have necessitated being administered three times in a year and seemingly thereafter in perpetuity?
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  2372. 😂
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  2373. Sure. I guess that raises the question as to whether 'Communism' is succeeding or failing in China no?
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  2374.  @kubuspuchatek7974  So what's in a name then?
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  2375. Man-led environmental destruction, pollution and over-exploitation of precious resources is undeniable. We can see it with our eyes. Climate change is, essentially, a highly questionable article of faith and certainly a highly lucrative one at that. What has happened is that scientists and media have learnt to conflate the two things and slip seamlessly between them as if they're exactly the same thing. They are not.
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  2376. The Clouston led SDP are a deceptive bunch. Don't be taken in like I was is all I can say.
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  2377. It was too complicated to get rid of KH four months before the election. Dems couldn't afford a civil war so she was a shoo in. They've f*cked up hanging on to Biden for so long nevermind putting him up in the first place.
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  2378. These publicly funded institutions need to face the threat of defunding if they fail to act appropriately.
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  2379. And far right wing parties are on the rise in Europe exactly where Owen?
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  2380. Covid was an abject exercise in the dangers of groupthink and the state suppression of dissent. Any money you like that will not be the conclusion of this public inquiry though.
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  2381. Won't lie. She had me fooled for a bit.
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  2382. The cold fact is that this jab, it's not 'a vaccine', statistically speaking, presents a far greater threat to your life if you're young than contracting covid ever would. Regardless of your views on 'the vaccine' THAT is an indisputable fact and THAT is a uncomfortable truth that has to be addressed in government at some point.
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  2383. 'The last act of a corrupt government is to loot its treasury' - George Washington.
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  2384. Anyone who imagines that women are somehow fundamentally different from men when it comes to politics need only to look at Rice, Albright and Nuland to realise that's a load of b*ll*cks. These are medically certifiable 'types' and their genders have got bugger all to do with it.
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  2385. It's not just Bojo's neck which should be on the block here. It's that whole sh*tshower, many of whom are still in Parliament and the devolved parliaments, who constantly postured and politicked for their own selfish ends and pushed for ever stronger, longer, sooner more Draconian measures during COVID. Bojo is a crowd pleasing useful idiot, but it's obvious that he's being scapegoated here by a bunch of spineless, self-serving bigger idiots hiding in the shadows who are desperate that this all goes away and someone, anyone other than them is held responsible for this entirely avoidable debacle we're still paying for and will paying for for years to come.
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  2386. In the interests of transparency we discussed this over and over before actually doing it 'live to camera'.
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  2387. It really is rather touching that a Cambridge-educated Kensington resident like Emily Maitlis who makes in excess of £300k a year and is married to a banker who's estimated to be worth at least £2m is so concerned about the little people being hoodwinked by that wicked populist Farage.
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  2388. @@Stiff-Upper-Lip Er, no. Bless you. Trying to play the old false dichotomy card, eh? The rest of the world doesn't have free movement and those countries have their own immigration policies. Take some time to look it up if you need to. They do that for a reason. Funnily enough the EU itself has an external border and doesn't allow free movement from outside that border either. Perhaps you imagine it should from your comment? Take a look at recent events in Melilla if you want to see what amounts to a manifestation of EU immigration policy or check out how many billions the EU pays Turkey's Erdogan year on year to house and stop millions coming to Europe from the Middle East. Once you know what you're talking about then, maybe, we can have a sensible discussion about the subject?
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  2389. The US, thanks to Biden's oddly named 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, is booming thanks in no small part to what amounts to a massive government stimulus to the tune of $370bn. It's designed to encourage investment in 'green' technologies, but if it goes t!ts then the US's current miracle could turn quickly sour. The US deficit is significant, its debt is huge and so is the interest due on it, credit card delinquency is on the rise and household savings rates are extremely low, so watch this space...
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  2390. Don't wish to worry you, but a former NED director admitted years ago that it does the work formerly undertaken far more controversially by the CIA.
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  2391.  @grahamdrew5512  Checkout Mearsheimer on Ukraine. This goes back to Gorbachev. Ukraine was always the red line for Russia.
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  2392.  @grahamdrew5512  The other thing to bear in mind is that the lecture I'm assuming you watched (as there are many) was delivered 7 years ago.
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  2393. You wanted someone to simply repeat what you like to believe you mean rather than challenge any of it. Yes?
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  2394. How do we know about the short?
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  2395.  @thehound9638  Social mobility in the UK is indeed an issue, but I don't personally believe that gender equality is at the heart of it. Middle and upper class women competing for and pushing 'potentially better' working class men out of top jobs because of quotas might be a thing but if it were it'd be a very small thing and I'd seriously struggle to believe that it's endemic without firm evidence.
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  2396.  @thehound9638  I don't doubt that class (and wealth) isn't the overriding issue here and nor do I doubt either that an endless supply of cheap labour doesn't have a serious role to play in the UK's social mobility issue, whatever its source, but I do struggle with your assertion that so does the gender equality issue to any great degree. Even if were true and even if you wanted to you couldn't easily row back on the decades of change that have accompanied it in a democratic country without some serious pushback.
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  2397. Doesn't matter. He's extremely eloquent and he's likely to reach a wider audience with his salutary message.
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  2398. Re: Percentage of GDP defence spending. 'When a measure becomes a target it ceases to be a good measure' Goodhart's Law.
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  2399. The brutal truth is is that a new Israel in Palestine was a solution to a problem essentially created by the western imperial powers at the time, including Russia. Antisemitism was on the march across the already deeply divided European continent in the early 20th Century, particularly in places like Germany and Russia, and many European Jews were forced into looking for a potential escape route. America, the UK and others were reluctant to take in more Jews than they already had in any great numbers and Mandated Palestine, a recent spoil of the First World War and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, seemed to be the best way to fulfil the brief and minimise the problem. Domestically, at least. A narrative helped along considerably by Judaism's strong historical connections with Palestine, although there were no significant numbers of Jews in Palestine until the late 1920s. Israel, of course, has subsequently gone on to flourish, but it couldn't ever have done so without continued Western support. The US, I believe, was quite late to the party when it came to supporting Israel as the penny slowly dropped there some time after WW2 quite how useful a friendly outpost could be in a restive oil rich region often largely hostile to America's interests.
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  2400. It WAS a fundamental attack on the British government, of which that duplicitous murderous weasel Campbell was an integral part, because the British government was coniving under false pretences to commit what we now know to be a war crime. And yet today Campbell is regularly wheeled out by the MSM as a respectable figure to wax lyrical on the evils of Brexit. These people have no shame. A plague on all your houses I say.
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  2401. Public fear of further government intervention should far exceed fear of the actual virus. This is either shameless political populism or utter ignorance of the worst kind.
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  2402. Not just cluster bombs. US is quite happy to see Putin pursued via the ICC, a court that it itself refuses to recognize. You couldn't make this sh*t up tbh.
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  2403. A conspiracy theorist is someone who dares to question the narrative of a proven liar.
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  2404. ​ @Shotkangaroo Navalny was viewed as a Western asset purely because he was in opposition to Putin and his perceived corruption. He was a Russian nationalist who approved of Russia's 2008 invasion of Georgia done for much the same reasons as Putin's more recent invasion of Ukraine ie their potential Nato membership. He, had he become leader, would likely have done exactly the same. We have this tendency in the West to swallow our own propaganda too easily and assume that if we get rid of X then Y will automatically always be better. It's dumb, it's lazy and all too often it's wrong. Just ask an Iraqi, Egyptian, Syrian or Libyan.
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  2405. Everyone has got to earn a living and media more than ever is still a business that has to make money. Often uncomfortable conflicting choices have to be made and ultimately it is up to the audiences to judge the results.
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  2406. Not his finest hour and I'm sure he'd admit that. Lest we forget though he was specifically targeted by the FBI on an over 18s only chat site begging the question why? There was no 'victim' only an FBI agent on the end of that exchange. An agent who claimed to be a 15 year old on, I repeat, an over 18s only chat site. It could be feasibly argued that Ritter was simply engaged in role playing with someone whom he believed was, in reality, at least 18.
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  2407. Healthcare professionals instructed en masse to inject healthy people en masse with something of questionable benefit and at potential risk to their health instead of dealing with a huge, mounting backlog of sick patients with potentially far more serious conditions than covid. Yup, all makes perfect sense to me. Does that mean I now, 'understand health' like you do Professor Whitty?
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  2408. History shows us these international agreements like NATO have the potential for serious drawbacks on their own and can be the source of the very instability they're supposed to avoid.
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  2409. Ol' Dead Eyes.
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  2410. There is absolutely nothing wrong with moving towards cheaper, cleaner more sustainable energy generation as part of the broader national energy mix, but to dress this up with the alarmist, self serving, highly lucrative for some, dodgy ACC narrative is shameful. The best arguments I can think of for moving toward sustainables are the reduction in pollution and potential obvious environmental impacts of fossil fuel extraction and, paradoxically, preserving what are precious dwindling finite efficient energy resources for the future. The current approach is cynically impoverishing lots of people using guilt and, in all honesty, it wouldn't surprise me that as soon as more and more sustainable generation technologies come more seriously into play the price of that energy will steadily rise for the consumer anyway.
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  2411. If the war in Ukraine doesn't come to an abrupt if imperfect end then Germany's chickens might well come home to roost.
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  2412. They're not saying that covid wasn't a thing they are, quite correctly, seriously questioning the response to it and what measures of surveillance and control it has then permitted the state to take off the back of it. Not unlike the Draconian security responses that were apparently justified by 9/11 basically.
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  2413.  @freebornjohn2687  Excellent news. Nevertheless, I shall look forward to your future highly successful forthcoming YT channel doubtless popularising your philosophical champions. Worth remembering that Wittgenstein flounced off thinking he'd nailed philosophy once and for all in the 1920s. A sentiment with which I'm sure you'd agree.
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  2414. Always love to listen to GG's worldview but, for me, he's way off the mark when it comes to covid. Whether intentional or not, he completely ducked Professor Sikora's assertion about the average age being 82 and, rather disingenuously I thought after Constantin's correction about cases clearly not being deaths, he still went on to conflate rising cases in younger people (inevitable as tests rise exponentially) with their potential for death. Deaths which I'd bet my house on won't come to pass for 99.999999% of those in this age group incidentally. In short, this interview was an uncharacteristically mixed bag from GG.
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  2415. 'Experts', HRC says. She means shills and propagandists of course.
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  2416. To be fair, if the Pentagon can't produce literally any halfway decent footage of an airliner crashing into it, even after all these years, then why would Biden's White House be willing or able to come up with whoever had this cocaine in only the second most secure and likely surveilled building in the world?
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  2417. The 'if there was a conspiracy the American media would have uncovered it by now' is a ridiculous claim. The information is under lock and key 60 years on. Why is there still so much information surrounding the JFK being suppressed by the American state if there's literally nothing to hide? Most likely guess, and it is only a guess, is because the powerful organs of state suspected of involvement are still very much with us today.
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  2418. Ten minutes in and it's all turned to sh*t. Might come back to it, but I had higher hopes for this guy.
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  2419. ​​ @Libertariun  No. Somehow thinking that one can get away with encapsulating an entire peaceful mass movement essentially against an ongoing war crime in the words of one seriously misguided single individual who has since apologised.
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  2420. ​ @DiamondLil Simply not true is the politest response I can give to that.
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  2421.  @johnricercato740  No. He actually said things that if I were being kind were wrong and were I less charitable outright dishonest. In terms of 'growing up' maturity has nothing necessarily to do with the ability to discern fact from fiction or truth from lies. Come back to me when you feel able to do so yourself.
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  2422. ​ @johnricercato740 Read my other reply on this one comment if you think it's 'empty rhetoric'. Assuming it's not too much of an effort for you.
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  2423.  @johnricercato740  Thought it might be. Presumably because I happened to be 100% verifiably correct and he was wrong or lying. I'd delete my comments if I were you. Save yourself future embarrassment.
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  2424. RFK Jr is the only significant 'choice' left then. Grim.
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  2425.  @janmortimer1758  Yep, but to say she's an outsider would be understatement no?
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  2426.  @qjtvaddict  Doesn't really leave much then in the circumstances does it.
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  2427. There seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding here. Covid, be it man-made or not, was not a virus waiting for a vaccine in 2020. mRNA was, essentially, a medical technology waiting for an illness. It was a technology that had been sitting around for decades that had hitherto never been deemed safe or effective in any of the fields it had been tested in, from cancer to heart disease. What covid did was provide the perfect excuse to wheel it out en masse under the premise of EUA only, Emergency Use Authorization, in the name of supposedly saving millions of lives.
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  2428. If you think about it it makes perfect sense if these people are genuinely scared about the impending climate apocalypse. If the unwashed, anonymous masses stopped with all awful selfish everyday things they were doing then the blessed few like Spielberg, Ford and Dicaprio can carry on as usual.
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  2429. Err, so this guy whom I happen to (mostly) agree with, doesn't think it's climate change either. Love KH, but the ACC claims are effectively B$ and they are just used by the Left as a stick to beat the Right with ie part of the culture wars being decried here. Over exploitation of resources, pollution, over development etc are real and undeniable, symptomatic of greed and, as claimed, unchecked capitalism, but don't keep conflating them with the nonsensical narrative that this is climate change.
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  2430. Mike Hunt again? He's an absolute whizz!!
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  2431. Taibbi is an non-MSM investigative journalist who desperately wanted something specific and critical. The ONLY person in the entire world who could grant him free, legal unfettered access to that material is a deeply flawed oligarch. Gray is effectively saying that Taibbi should have been publicly criticising Musk at the same time as he was seeking that access from him? Is she mad, dumb or both?
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  2432. Statistically, you're far more likely to die at home. Effectively co-erce masses of people to stay at home, as happened during the lockdowns, than would be normal then, by deduction, you're going to see way more deaths. Case closed😊
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  2433. ESG? Yet another barrier to entry set up by globalists masquerading as concern for the environment and societies they leech off of. Nevermind hugely lucrative, it must be great fun coming up with these wheezes knowing how many people out there are going to swallow them hook, line and sinker.
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  2434. Great interview. 'They are totally 'f*ck-@rsed' 9:41 😊
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  2435. There is indeed a long, rich and rightly proud history of anti-Zionist Jewry. Just as today people resort to calling people with whom they disagree 'fascists' when they are unable to defend their positions, Zionists, similarly, resort to calling anti-Zionist Jews 'self-hating Jews'.
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  2436. Virtue signalling is the curse of the modern age.
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  2437. This was the inevitable consequence of Trump's first term and the political establishment's, aided and abetted by the Deep State, Big Tech and MSM, repeated fabricated attempts to delegitimize Trump. This conspiracy inevitably helped to bolster the claims that the 2020 election was stolen and brought the US to where it is now. The sad thing is those who first contrived this diabolical plan and those who supported them still think that they're 'the good guys'.
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  2438. 'A major paradigm shift in financial conditions' El Erian.
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  2439. Yeah, inflation started to take off in the UK and in many other countries at the beginning of 2021 in the midst of covid. Check it out. Economies were shut down, demand started to rise as they began to reopen, supply was crippled and governments had paid millions of people to sit at home doing nothing increasing the M2 money supply. Inflation was inevitable and interest rate rises should have been happening then not 2 years later. Too much money chasing too few goods then followed by the Ukraine invasion which added to the inflation woes in terms of energy costs. Now blame Brexit if you want, but if you think it played a significant role, particularly over and above the insane responses to COVID, then I'm unlikely to convince you otherwise I'm sure.
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  2440. You will own nothing and you will be happy right? What we're really talking about here in 'next stage capitalism' is the inevitable rise of a supercharged, all powerful rentier class. A super rich tiny minority with an unassailable technological monopoly serviced by a select few with highly specialist skills. Our transition to becoming essentially impotent mere consumer units for profit is near complete. Turn on and tune in, basically, because dropping out isn't going to be an option.
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  2441. ​ @Matt-jk1kr All true. Said much the same thing, but mysteriously my reply has not appeared.
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  2442. There isn't one mad enough to take him.
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  2443. In the UK the tattoo 'ACAB' on the back of someone's four fingers meant 'All Cops Are B@stards' not 'All Cops Are Bad'.😊
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  2444. Very refreshing.
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  2445. The most dreadful thing about crypto is that it's effectively been legitimised by governments across the world for taxable profit. Certainly not its biggest fan and I'm sure it has its own self serving reasons, but it's interesting that China has banned crypto.
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  2446. Alex is correct. Trump at least offers some hope. Harris only offered more of the same despair. That in NO way gives Trump a free pass though.
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  2447. @vaska1999  m'eh
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  2448. This is not helped by the fact that the Zionist lobby has for years now been disingenuously conflating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism. It's a dangerous 'association' game that is coming back to haunt all Jewish people. Being pro- Palestinian independence or anti-Zionist - a good many Jewish people are both incidentally - is not the same thing, even remotely, as being anti-Semitic. Israel is an apartheid state period and has been moving further and further to the extreme nationalist right for decades now. Netanyahu and Bennett are the embodiments of this. Taking issue with that shift is a perfectly legitimate position to take. Threatening Jewish people in any way, shape or form most certainly is not.
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  2449. Well said. The pension argument is indeed a useful red herring deployed to confuse. This idea that most of us are invested in the surplus is true, but by nowhere near to the same extent as a teeny tiny relative few.
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  2450. Makes you wonder why ANY of those gentlemen are there really to answer those questions as none of them seem to think that they are relevant to their fields of competence.
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  2451. YT has demonetized Brand and the BBC has pulled some of Brand's appearances from iPlayer on the basis of media allegations. Nothing more. No such thing as cancel culture? Yeah, right.
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  2452. The problem with ALL of this of course is that Trump's US is, despite it being the longtime instigator of this now lost war, is now washing its hands of it whilst simultaneously appearing to throw Europe under the bus. Whether this is a deal making tactic by Trump in order to get craven, petrified European leaders to cave and pony up more dough for NATO despite their ongoing economic woes largely caused by the Ukraine war remains to be seen, but when seen in the context of the US long trying to break European reliance on cheap Russian energy it looks much much worse even than it first appears.
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  2453. . Post cold war NATO became not the solution to a problem but its root cause.
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  2454. The ongoing sanctions on Russia have mean seriously misjudged by the West.
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  2455. I'm Spartacus.
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  2456. Don't have a problem with pornography per se and even if I did a world that didn't actually permit it in some form or other would be far more scary and oppressive than the current one. The issue, for me, is always how easy it is to access for young men of all ages. Anything universally and officially accepted that confirms you're over 18, be it to purchase whatever alcohol, legal highs etc that is legal at that age, should be enough. This 'blanket ID' would ensure a sufficient degree of anonymity and although I'm sure it would be open to exploitation - what isn't? - it would go some way to restricting young people's access to pornography.
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  2457. Alexander scrubs up😊
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  2458. Problem? Snowflakes hate the tiniest bit of heat. Options? Get rid of the heat or stop being a snowflake. Least damaging solution? Stop being a snowflake.
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  2459. Raises the question if that is what is currently happening? Not sure what would be left after a major nuclear conflagration, but our leaders are certainly going the right way about it at the moment.
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  2460. Europe has behaved too long like a victim living with a coercive partner. A partner who constantly sows doubt and fear in our minds for their own ends.
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  2461. Looking forward to the Joe's Aviator Autopilot Special Edition coming out.
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  2462. Perhaps, but presumably you're also personally open to re-evaluating what happened in Vietnam and is still happening in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen etc? In the latter examples, just because those people aren't white European, there isn't an advanced social media culture, most of their populations don't have easy access to smartphones and, let's be honest, most in the West don't really give a sh*t about them, what exactly does someone like Stone have to re-evaluate here pray?
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  2463. Come on everybody. Surely we all know by now that taxes and rules are only for the little people?
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  2464. Nobel Prize winning Krugman produced a specious but fake argument in an attempt to justify something for the powers that be and got his usual fulsome pat on the head for his troubles basically.
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  2465. Another comment of mine deleted....
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  2466. The US has become the unparalleled master of creating and/or profiting from existing problems. 'Problems' and volatility are central to the US DNA and thus its economic model.
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  2467. Blackpaper or Blackscissors?
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  2468. In the UK the average age of a covid death remains over 80 and, I suspect, given the well-known age demographic of Florida it's unlikely to be that different there. Yes, more people went to meet their maker a little sooner than they might have done because of covid but covid was, primarily, a killer of the old and infirm. These jabs, however, appear to represent a serious, unnecessary on balance risk to otherwise healthy individuals, particularly young males, and that's not taking into further consideration the seriously deleterious ongoing after effects of lockdowns on various societies throughout the world.
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  2469.  @christopherrobinson7541  It's not just about that report specifically. Average UK death age still over 80 plus various examples of serious adverse effects affecting younger people I actually know plus one unexplained death from heart attack at 43 with no family history is enough for me. Death rates below 65 simply do not warrant the risk of having these jabs. If I were obese, diabetic and/or over 70 I'd consider getting them but otherwise forget it.
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  2470. ​ @themiddleplace Unfortunately it is.
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  2471. Rhetorical question presumably?
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  2472.  @maxgluteus4263  Well, you never know until you listen do you? These are unsettling times and it's never a bad idea to get a handle on them, be it from the left or right.
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  2473. This was prescient. The result being the interests of the Anywheres triumphing over the interests of the Somewheres. Sure places might get spruced up and gentrified, but communities slowly but surely get pushed out. As the old lady says at the beginning, the interests of people become secondary to the interests of property and those who are able to 'invest' in it.
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  2474. When did science ever become 'the' science. Insanity.
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  2475. The Metaverse eh? What a Revelation.🤫😁🤘
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  2476. This was why top bankers' eye watering pay packets should have been even more controversial than they ever were or are. Bank 'profits' aren't fully crystallized until a loan's been paid off, but they're effectively paid bonuses on loans that have not been crystallized or in some cases might never be as in 2008.
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  2477. 'Nobody bails on the exact day and if they do they're lucky'.....
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  2478. It's not just the NRA that prevents gun control in the US. It's the constitution and now after all these years the sheer number of weapons, both legal and illegal. Most illegal. More guns than people and more guns in civilian hands than the military's. America now has an unsolvable gun problem sadly.
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  2479. Any sane, decent, rational person KNOWS that this is all divisive bollocks designed to inflame and if you seek to defend the CRT, SJ agenda then you're a significant part of the problem NOT the 'good' person you like to pretend you are.
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  2480. Alistair Campbell has probably never reflected on anything in his life. All he's done is try and monestize his likely largely self-inflicted depression for profit. From being a Maxwell shill to being Blair's spinner and weaver of war the man is a disgrace. His reputation should be in shreds and yet you've got 'good' people coming on here defending him.
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  2481. Alex has 'a dance square'?
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  2482. Ridiculous premise.
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  2483. ''I didn't leave the left, the left left me'. The left is about class divisions, fighting for greater equality of opportunity for all and fairer wealth distribution, but it has been hijacked by the identitarians and perennial well-to-do virtue signallers. It is also a mighty welcome distraction for those at the top end of our society who seek to divide and rule and bury the raison d'être for the left's existence in the first place.
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  2484. Governments are seeking to regulate and control the marketplace of ideas basically. Uniquely on the internet daylight is no longer the best disinfectant apparently. Laws already exist to govern most of these things and if what is being said or done is illegal then fair enough, but this bill stinks of government over reach.
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  2485. Hopefully this is just a phase and 'the market' will sort all this guff out. However, to be fair, if there is indeed a sustainable market for this preachy approach then I guess it's here to stay.
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  2486. Turkey ultimately wishes to subjugate the US's former ally in their fight against Islamic extremists the Kurds surely? Both Turkey and the US have decided to 'back' HTS, an Al Qaeda and ISIS spin off, in their successful attempts to overthrow the Russian/Iranian backed Assad. What exactly 'the Syrian people' make of this, as if they're one big, happy clappy pro-democracy homogeneous group, is utterly irrelevant. America has no permanent friends or enemies, ONLY interests. Remember that.
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  2487. Totally agree with Alexander. It would be a truly liberating moment.
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  2488. War Pigs.
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  2489. Thankfully there are no stairs in the jungle.
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  2490. Presumably the archeologists of the future, unlike those of the past, will only be digging up 'people' not males or females?
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  2491. ALL UK politicians and parties played politics with covid for their own ends. A plague on ALL their houses.
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  2492. In the UK media, one source on the same day claims EV sales are finally rising and another might claim they're stalling. All very weird.
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  2493. Go back and listen to it again.
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  2494. Aww, f*ck it, give it ME. Being one, I'll make damn sure I'll do my level best to serve the interests of the British people.
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  2495. ?
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  2496. Hobson's Choice, basically.
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  2497. That's a fair and reasonable comment, but presumably you had these symptoms as a result of having covid ie before the vaccines came out and before you had any?
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  2498.  @Jamesnebula  Again fair comments. I also had an adverse reaction to a flu shot the company I was working for made me take. Lasted well over three months. Had covid twice. Neither time was pleasant, but still preferable as it last a few weeks rather than months. These jabs are untested by normal protocols but I wouldn't stand in the way of anyone else who elected to have them. I object on the grounds of their unproven safety, their efficacy and the fact that there have been attempts and still are to mandate them. My body. My choice.
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  2499.  @blueanodized  It's definitely happening more I've noticed. If this sort of censorship carries on YT, other social media platforms and governments really need to make up their minds as to whether they're simply platforms or publishers rather than hiding behind their constantly shifting T and Cs all the time. Wouldn't be so bad if the big boys weren't often engaged in trying to stifle competition when it opens up.
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  2500. @Jackie Magill I think one has to look at the prevailing atmosphere, or was it 'atmosfear', during that period. There was a lot of lying by omission, obfuscation and fear mongering at the time, much of it driven by petty politics not actual science. By far my biggest beefs to this day are that many governments and scientific establishments backed up by MSM tried to mandate these jabs despite their obvious dodgy provenance and misleadingly them calling 'vaccines', highly suggestive of sterilising immunity, when they were not in any way any such thing. Dr Campbell, on YouTube at least, was attempting to enlighten people with the dripfeed of information as and when it came in over the two or more years. We, as free thinking, autonomous individuals, were free to listen to interpret Dr Campbell's message how we saw fit essentially. As we still are.
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  2501.  @pgkr67 So if he's not flagging anything at all then your take is?
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  2502. Not quite as sweet a deal as Biden generously cut for the Taliban in providing American military know how and hardware but it's a good start.
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  2503. This behaviour from Big Tech effectively amounted to the influencing of the Biden/Trump election. These people should be utterly ashamed of themselves.
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  2504. All politicians are populists. This government, not unlike governments across the world, are doing what they think a majority of the British people want. No democratically accountable government wants to be seen with too much blood on their hands or have to deal with stories of overburdened hospitals with people dying in the corridors. This approach, to them, currently seems like the path of least resistance. COVID is transmissible, it is conspicuous and it predominantly preys on vulnerable people. The deaths and untold misery directly relatable to the years of measures undertaken to combat it remain largely below the radar and are apparently a price worth paying. How people will feel about this as the months and years unfold remain to be seen....
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  2505. Yep, with cable ties, mobile phones and some dressed in fancy dress. Presumably the tanks were parked far enough out of sight round the corner?
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  2506. Tarry was sacked because, as a frontbench MP and minister ie in shadow government he rejected the fundamental, long understood principle of collective responsibility that he signed up to. Right or wrong has nothing to do with it. Once acceptance of collective responsibility by aspiring goes then it's Game Over. Simples.
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  2507. ​ @shakirolag4158 Europe has got a lot of taking stock and self-reflection to do and that isn't necessarily going to be pretty.
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  2508. Depp just lost any respect I ever had for him. What's wrong with these 'good' people? I mean really?
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  2509. Fair comment.
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  2510. The red wall seats were a one off. It wasn't 'the Boris effect'. He was the TINA candidate in 2019 for many red wall voters. It was a combination of a de facto second EU referendum as Labour had no intention of delivering Brexit and an anti-Corbyn vote. It won't happen again for obvious reasons.
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  2511. All democratic politicians are populists.
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  2512. Broken clocks and talking up their books. That's not to say that people like Druckenmiller and Burry are definitely wrong, but it will be the mass sentiments of the herd and big institutions that decide these things not the individuals who try to influence them.
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  2513. At least the Devil no longer wears Prada.
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  2514. Interesting but the conclusion here is dodgy and a false dichotomy.
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  2515. Perpetual house price growth is integral to promoting the illusion that the real economy is growing and 'we're' all getting richer. Literally anything that helps to keep that plate spinning and perpetuate that narrative in the minds of the masses has been and will continue to be tried.
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  2516. Hey, Jaaa-hn.
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  2517. In my experience all hippies end up proving to be money grabbing frauds.
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  2518. Obviously long before your father's time but IBM was instrumental in helping the Nazis organize their Final Solution far more efficiently than they might have done with their cutting edge, at the time, punch card technology.
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  2519. TBH, so much of this is a con perpetrated on the naive and that preys on their ignorance, good faith and sense of justice. This is why language like 'free markets', 'consumer choice' and 'deregulation' are deployed to great effect. If you're poor it's invariably because you're lazy or thick or both and the harsh-but-fair market will simply sift you out like wheat from chaff. Mostly BS of course, but a BS narrative that we're bought up to believe and largely still believe.
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  2520. Bombshell, but the private BTL market really only took off proper in the 1980s.
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  2521. ​​ @asdfasdf3989 Mearsheimer has been saying this for years. He as good as predicted the Ukraine conflict over a decade ago. It's all there on YouTube if you can be bothered to look. Check out Nuland/Pyatt's 2014 contribution whilst you're at it.
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  2522.  @asdfasdf3989  Apologies. Reply meant for individual above.
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  2523. GB News. Gyles Brandreth News.
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  2524. The US Neocon lunatics have finally got control of the asylum by the looks of things.
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  2525. Err, can anyone out there let the class know if any other coronaviruses have been entirely and permanently eradicated by human medical intervention?
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  2526. The original sin was Russiagate and the dodgy Steele Dossier funded by the Dems. This was where the rot started proper. It poisoned the well of US politics. It was a systematic sustained attempt by the Democrats to delegitimise Trump's presidency from the off in 2016, gave the middle finger to those Republicans who voted for him and was in itself effectively an attempt at a coup d'état with the aid of a complicit, unquestioning media. All roads lead to Russiagate in my opinion which is why a good many left-wing journalists worth their salt are now finally showing it up for the fraud it is and was. The sad thing is what goes around eventually comes around and this running sore looks set to run and run.
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  2527. Channelling Johnny Ball?
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  2528. That's what they used to call selling out I think isn't it?
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  2529.  @ssuwandi3240  Successively betrayed their own electorates more like.
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  2530. War, unfortunately, is profitable. Wars are very often bankers' wars. Little wonder that Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Blackrock etc are...or at least were...licking their lips over the prospect of rebuilding 'a victorious' Ukraine.
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  2531. What EVERYONE needs to understand is that at its most basic level the public debt is equal to the EXACT cent of a private surplus. Basic accounting. We're ALL invested in the debt to a greater or lesser degree through our pensions etc, but the BIG question is who and where is essentially profiting from it (at interest) the most? It's IMPORTANT because the public debt is the thing that EVERYONE focuses on and it is the narrative constantly used to justify cuts and austerity and, perhaps even more ironically, further tax cuts for the wealthy under the false pretext that they will somehow engender further 'growth'. It's a scam of monumental proportions hidden for decades in plain sight.
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  2532. Long story short? Don't f*ck with Max Blumenthal. He proper knows his sh*t and that's why nobody will debate him who disagrees with him. Don't get me wrong, if someone can take apart his arguments from a position of knowledge then I'm all ears. Seriously. Fact being? No one else can.
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  2533. I saw an artist's impression of under Al Shifa hospital showing drawings of a Hamas command post. It must be true, surely?
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  2534. How to think isn't necessarily the same thing as what to think.
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  2535. I take your point about the constant doom mongers, but by the same token if you're so confident that he's wrong and things are nowhere near as bad as he suggests in this instance what actions are you taking? Are you furiously shorting the market or buying up underpriced equities at apparent firesale prices for example?
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  2536. Why in all seriousness would Putin think it would be a good idea, either domestically or abroad, to deliberately strike a children's hospital?
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  2537. 'America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests' - Henry Kissinger.
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  2538. The US under Trump is flexing its ultimate flex. He's not just saying the quiet parts of US Foreign Policy out loud anymore he's taken off the velvet sheath to reveal America's iron rod underneath. This is not only game changing on the geopolitical front, it's deeply deeply worrying. Not least in terms of how both Russia and China will react as they surely cannot stand idly by?
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  2539. Shocking news there! Sky News actually has a decent news anchor. Who knew?
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  2540. If, and only IF, you buy into the acquiesced to multipolar world narrative being peddled by the Trump administration, then an oil rich Venezuela (along with Panama, Greenland and Canada) falls firmly within the US' dusted off shiny new Monroe Doctrine.
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  2541. Was Oct 7 Israel's 9/11 or was it more its Pearl Harbour?
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  2542. Was that Michael Fabricant from the Whig Party?
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  2543. In our dreams.
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  2544. Enjoyed this format.
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  2545. Judging from most of the comments here and execrable evidence to date it certainly does seem to suggest that the UK's political elites were and are anything but. Was our body politic SO infantilised by our decades of EU membership to the point that it is now incapable of organising the proverbial p*ss up in a brewery let alone coming up with a halfway decent vision of any kind or worth for this country post-Brexit?
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  2546. If nothing else it proves that she is considered a highly useful idiot and valuable pawn for the powers that be. That should seriously tell people something well beyond what is happening to Ukraine.
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  2547. Alfred Nobel gave the world TNT before atoning for his murderous 'gift' with his eponymous peace prize. A cursory look down its list of recipients, including Obama, shows that the underlying irony at play with it lives on to this day.
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  2548. Aaaaaaaaah...
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  2549. Too many coincidences. Wuhan it is!!
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  2550. Dozy mare. Ricky Gervais told them all how it was in his last Golden Globes host speech. Come up, pick up your awards, thank God, your agent or whomever you want then f*ck off. No-one cares what you think...or words to that effect.
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  2551. Likely the closest thing to the absolute 100% perfect model of modern day political dynasties and succession is the USA.
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  2552. Feels guilty about things over which he never really had any control, but is still happy to sit next to Dodgy Dossier author and Iraq war monger Alistair Campbell each week and have a jolly old time for a few quid. 🤔
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  2553. Yep. It was a flagrant undermining of democracy generally by 'The Troika', nevermind just Greece's, and the final neoliberal nail in the country's independence.
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  2554. Serious question. Why are followers of a religion (and even those that aren't) classed as a race?
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  2555. How did you manage to resist their nefarious influences?
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  2556. America and Israel are like the murderer who seeks to blame his hand for the dirty deed.
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  2557. Nothing funnier than genuinely posh people swearing. Laughed like a drain.
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  2558. Why yo' always Leyen?
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  2559. Fair point but that, by extension, inevitably raises questions about the validity of Russian 'democratic' elections does it not?
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  2560.  @boblester8641  I find those two really chuffing annoying. Still doing the rounds dining off of long past glories. Obviously Nixon was up to no good at the time, but it also seems pretty obvious to me now that they were likely more motivated by their political beliefs and their personal ambition than they were by an actual desire to do their jobs, unearth corruption and reveal the truth.
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  2561. Always blame the Norwegian, right?
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  2562.  @DaveJordan310  Only messing. Thanks for the info though.
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  2563. The bicoastal wealth divide highlighted by VDH closely mirrors the 'Somewheres vs Anywheres' divisions exhibited in the UK over the Brexit debate. The problem, of course, is that these 'anywhere' people who like to see themselves as 'wealthy citizens of the world' still have to live 'somewhere'.
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  2564. I had $600m worth of gold but in a fit of pique my ex chucked it in the bin and now it's buried somewhere deep in a Welsh landfill site. The local council for some reason won't dig it all up for me despite taking them to court.....
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  2565. Both Trump and Biden both have strong ties with Ukraine. Neither of them edifying in either case. To suggest that Zelensky, originally an oligarchal placeman, in one of the most corrupt countries in the world isn't to some degree some kind Western inspired stooge is laughable. This was a man who is mentioned in the Pandora Papers along with many other of our esteemed leaders don't forget. Putin is undoubtedly a vicious, dreadful, corrupt individual but please let's not continually lionise those who oppose him as if they were saints.
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  2566. I don't say this lightly but Mark Carney is the scum of the Earth.
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  2567. He's American but his 'PATRIOT' T shirt is green, white and orange. What gives?
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  2568. The poverty and misery induced by these insane measures will kill a f*ck sight more people than covid ever did. It's buckle up time.
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  2569. Oh, goody. Yet another reason to hate Bono.
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  2570. Although largely a fan, I think that JHB rather let's herself down here.
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  2571.  @sapere7  Good to know. France has long been regarded as world leaders in nuclear generation technology for good reason. The UK having dropped the ball proper in the 80s. I think that, unfortunately, the big issue for some of those plants is the quality of the materials used at core construction ie steel and concrete rather than a lack of maintenance per se. Is that correct?
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  2572. ​ @angelashort1331 Was that actually GoF though?
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  2573. The modern financialised economy is essentially predicated, whatever ANYONE might claim to the contrary, on the almost universally enbraced concept of 'trickle down'. Hence the state bailouts which are, at their heart, the state being in a unique position to bail itself out. Should the enduring faith in this narrative start to falter then all bets are off....
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  2574. Give over. It was a tightly edited clip designed to bring her down. Watch it all and in context.
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  2575. Globalization today can be seen in the context of the 'somewheres vs anywheres' argument posited by David Goodhart with regard to Brexit. Give the 'somewheres' ie those who feel a genuine affinity to a particular place an actual specific democratic choice about globalization then they'll like exercise it against the interests of the 'anywhere' globalists. 'Anywheres', the primary enduring beneficiaries of globalization, can and easily do move somewhere else once somewhere has been rendered redundant and/or despoiled. The 'somewheres' mostly can't and/or don't wish to.
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  2576. Yeh, yeh Matt Bianco....
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  2577. He's Italian and English isn't his first language FFS.
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  2578.  @JC-sl7bs  HK was rightly reclaimed from the UK by China subject to the ending of a longstanding, internationally recognised treaty. The terms of the exchange were finely detailed in a signed agreement which was to be honoured by China until 2047. China has not done so. Fin.
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  2579.  @DB5652-v3r  What's that got to do with the HK treaty?
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  2580.  @DB5652-v3r  It wasn't 'done' by the British. It was an agreement between the UK and China about the status of HK until 2047.
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  2581. We'll just have to wait and see what a Trump presidency brings I guess, but if he turns it into a revenge tour then the Democrats and their supporters will have to assume much of the blame for that.
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  2582.  @acthompson9983  Strange how a good many other countries in Europe seem to have held onto their nationalised industries and spent the ensuing decades often delivering vastly superior services than their privatised UK counterparts. On this basis, presumably you think it's uniquely just UK vital infrastructure that can't be state owned and run?
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  2583.  @mrsmith4489  See my reply below.
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  2584.  @acthompson9983  The point is that given that these services which are fundamental to everyone's everyday lives is that they work, they deliver and that they endure. The UK has been buggering around for decades over its energy policy apparently waiting for 'the markets' to step in and do their job. Look at our nuclear industry. Privatised in the 90s. Sold to the part nationalised French EDF and when it came to building vital new nuclear power stations it fell to the UK to try and negotiate a deal with the 'nationalised' EDF and the state owned Chinese provider to build a new facility. The attempts crashed and burned for various reasons and here we are in midst of an energy crisis no further along the line minus a crucial industry in which were a world leader up until it was sold off. In terms of public ownership Scottish water, which is to all intents and purposes publicly owned, ranks the highest out of all the UK water companies in satisfaction surveys and it continues to invest healthily and successfully in the vital service it provides.
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  2585.  @mrsmith4489  So, in essence, what you're saying is that you'd rather trust faceless individuals and corporations to run your vital services than your successive elected governments? Further to that, whilst it is done so with considerably more success elsewhere in Europe for example, you're close to suggesting that it is a particular enduring failure of UK governance but nowhere else?
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  2586.  @acthompson9983  Looks more like someone is choosing to ignore it because it doesn't fit with their own self serving ideological belief system to me. CBA or Leon Trotsky have got nothing to do with the price of fish. Nice try. Scottish Water has a debt level of £80m? You presumably and seriously think that is large amount of money for a company required to make regular, ongoing substantial investments in infrastructure crucial to people's everyday lives? How about this then? Britain's big 9 water companies have built up debt levels of £50bn siphoning off vast payments in interest rates, dividends and 'finance fees' each year.  Six of those – Thames Water, Anglian, Northumbrian, Southern, Yorkshire and Wessex – are almost exclusively owned by foreign interests, including Chinese government interests.  Thames Water, the largest, in 2021, had a net debt level of over £14bn. All of these debt costs add to the cost people pay for their water bills. Do the maths. Is that clearer for you?
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  2587.  @mrsmith4489  You have issues with politicians as do I, but politicians don't actually run nationalised companies. I refer you again to the answer I gave to the other gentleman on this thread regarding the state of privatised UK water companies and their current debt levels. Since privatisation over 30 years ago UK water prices have risen 40% above the rate of inflation and if you look at the figures, nevermind the sometimes shady foreign interests that own them, it's not difficult to see why.
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  2588. Presumably all these getaway cars used in these robberies ALL have false plates?
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  2589. Of course identity politics is being abused by BOTH parties in the US for their own selfish ends and to distract from the overall inequality that they BOTH benefit from and seek to sustain, but that is a different argument altogether from allowing endless unchecked mass immigration. Some commentators are equally disingenuously seeking to conflate these two different things arguably for their own ends.
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  2590. Modern corporate capitalism, essentially crypto-fascism, operates an extractive economic system that, ultimately, is doomed to break. Once it inevitably breaks, of course, war and destruction offer the very same people who profited from the former an opportunity to profit handsomely from the latter. Rinse and repeat, basically.
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  2591. Ironically, if anyone is guilty of peddling disinformation and using hate speech Trudeau was in terms of his odious disingenuous descriptions of the truckers and their aims. Free Assange.
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  2592. The entirely speculative 'scientific' modelling Dr Lloyd seemed so keen on and completely trusting of is the same kind which Neil Ferguson of UCL used so effectively to scare the living daylights out of everyone when it came to BSE, bird flu, swine flu, foot and mouth and covid. In each case this 'impresario of the worst case scenario' massively overestimated the outcomes and yet his modelling played a crucial role in the government responses to all.
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  2593. The early 2020s. The years politicians actually started to believe they could legislate against people dying.
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  2594. Tony Robbins who keeps interrupting these presentations is a complete c*ck, but I wouldn't tell him to his face.
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  2595. You can call Hamas Islamic, you're entitled to call them murderers too, but you can't call them rapists as this is now a proven lie propagated by the Israeli government.
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  2596. Hang on... I'm going to write something.... I'm just waiting to hear from my Russian handlers about what I'm supposed to say.... Never underestimate really smart people's capacity to be completely dumb sometimes once they stray from their lane.
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  2597. The world over, the ruling classes mantra has always been 'never let a good crisis go to waste'. True to form, 'the pandemic' was not 'wasted'.
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  2598. So, in a nutshell, the US has buyer's remorse.
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  2599. Will a cap simply act as a lucrative green light to speculators who know they can drive the spot price continually higher knowing that governments will always absorb the difference?
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  2600. All over again?
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  2601. People are asking and have long been asking/signalling for via democratic means, particularly those most affected by it, for greater immigration controls. These tragic riots are the inevitable outcome of that failure by a supremely arrogant, contemptuous UK establishment to acknowledge or act upon that plea.
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  2602. Julian Assange long ago identified these 'people' as the 'transnational security elites' who fostered their 'forever wars' for profit. Probably fair to say his perspicacity hasn't exactly served him well...
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  2603. KK f*cked up big time.
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  2604.  @Mandark020  If you look at the melanoma rates in Australia over the decades then they're not as alarming as you seem to be suggesting. Percentages mean nothing when you're talking about relatively low figures to begin with, but they certainly pack more of a punch. Although they rose steadily but not dramatically from ASMR 4.8 per 100,000 in 1982 to a peak of 6.2 in 2013 they have since fallen 'precipitously' to around 4.5 in 2019 in those intervening 6 years. If you look at the size of the ozone whole as measured by NASA it has remained pretty much constant since the early 1990s till today, despite the prevailing narrative. Increasing liberal attitudes since the war, sunscreen, public information have likely played a substantial role in changing people's attitudes and behaviours. Incidentally, 2019 seems to be the real outlier here in terms of shrinkage as today the hole is around 24x the size as first measured by NASA in 1979.
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  2605. The love of money is the root of all evil.
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  2606. You waah?
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  2607. I seriously recommend you listen to Mearsheimer's take on the roots of this conflict which go back to the end of the Cold War.
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  2608. That Senator wasn't even using full sentences. It was like he had a faulty mic. How the hell was Durham supposed to respond? He looked bemused most of the time He wanted the dirt on Trump and didn't care how or where Durham got it from, just so long as he got it. He didn't get it and nor did he get it.
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  2609. BTC, another diabolical 'financial instrument', is likely to play a similar role to the CDOs' and subprime loans' domino effect in the 2008 GFC.
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  2610. Our politicians ALL basically tried to pass the buck and evade ALL responsibility by repeating ad nauseam the mantra 'we're following THE science'. There's no such thing as 'THE' science, never was and never will be, and our elected representatives effectively attempted to abdicate themselves from ANY responsibility throughout the covid debacle.
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  2611. ​ @timn5008 Yep. Kennedy's just another example of how dying before one's time always seems to serve to unjustly burnish one's image.
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  2612. Because they quietly and respectfully disagree on numerous issues rather than resort to shouting over each other and some might be too dumb to actually realise that without glaringly obvious cues you mean?
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  2613.  @warhurst1968  To be fair neither have I.
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  2614. George Monbiot should be utterly ashamed of himself for this and, I'll be honest, I previously thought more of him. Having just seen the film in question and watched George 'above' thoroughly disingenuously misrepresent its content and stoop to smear it and its creators and contribtors by cynically playing the race card, I can only assume that he and others like him is essentially opposed to the idea of anything that contradicts his and their narrative and ergo, frankly, opposed to the idea of free speech.
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  2615. Most advanced economies are built on house price inflation unfortunately.
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  2616. The Gold market, like all markets, has definitely been manipulated for decades. Physical gold, however, can still be confiscated by our governments. They KNOW where most of it is anyway.
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  2617. Pyatt thinks the Russians might torpedo this plan if it starts to gain altitude???? So THAT'S why it's called intelligence.
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  2618. Let's be honest Europe is currently f*cked anyway. Its decision long ago to blindly follow the US neocon policy toward Ukraine is the longest suicide note in history. Utter madness.
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  2619. The 'Trump State' solution....
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  2620. Like RFK, but to imagine that the US hasn't somehow stoked the war in Ukraine is for the birds. Look at the Biden connections with Ukraine, look at Nuland/Pyatt tape, listen to Condie Rice speaking in 2014.
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  2621. According to Fortune magazine the top 10% of US households have become $28trn richer since 2020. Have they worked harder, taken ever greater risks or just got super lucky? None of the above. They own and control the means that allows them to do so.
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  2622. ...if he's not careful he might fall down the sink.
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  2623. Matt Handjob, for some reason, is seemingly managing to completely reinvent himself despite the misery he was inescapably heavily complicit in inflicting on this country with his cabinet and parliamentary colleagues over covid. I'm not swallowing it and NEVER EVER will, but it appears I'm increasingly in a minority.
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  2624. Ironically, I think that there are some studies suggesting that smokers are far less vulnerable to the serious effects of covid than non-smokers.
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  2625. Can't believe how literal and/or thick some of the commenters on here are being about Paul's Japan/Lebanon analogy.
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  2626. It's no longer the rise of the rentiers. This is the endgame.
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  2627. So, according to Simon Caldwell, a UK tourist travelling to Spain is to be treated no differently than one from Tonga or Venezuela. It's what we voted for apparently and despite Portuguese efforts to mitigate these issues in their own interests Spain is unwilling to do the same. Worth noting perhaps that Spain receives the largest proportion of UK outbound tourism spend, standing at £7.9 billion in 2016, equivalent to 18% of the world total and 31% of UK tourists' entire spend in the EU27 countries. Presumably Tongan and Venezuelan tourists to Spain would significantly help to make up any shortfall should UK tourists choose to take their business elsewhere?
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  2628. Doesn't matter. It's what he says and does.
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  2629. She'd do it if she could too.
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  2630. Past tense...
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  2631. Brilliant. Luvin' da teem toon also.
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  2632. Golda Meir showed quite how far she'd push the US with the threat of deploying Israel's Samson Doctrine in 1973. Israel's unofficially declared nuclear weapons are, thus far, its trump card. The US has long ago made its 'bed of nails' as JM says. Not least by being fully complicit in the denial of their existence. The question is how long is it willing to lie on it?
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  2633. Good for Kim having him on and good for Chris going on. We need more of this type of thing.
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  2634. He had one and it was illegally taken away. What's your point?
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  2635.  @cs292  Illegally?
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  2636.  @cs292  It wasn't taken legally. They didn't declare who they were, didn't say why and didn't give him a receipt for it. It was illegal.
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  2637. Cue all the comments from crypto parasites....
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  2638. Moreso since the 1980s, the US business model has been based on overselling, indebtedness, hoopla and creating and then profiting from problems people never knew they had😊
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  2639. My sister doesn't agree with me on most things. Were I to run for political office should I expect her to vote for me on the basis that blood is thicker than water and her personal beliefs stand for nothing? Bloody stupid interviewer is all I can say.
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  2640. This guy needs to sue his acting coach. Tw@t.
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  2641. Brilliant journalism.
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  2642. This is a reflection of why the US Supreme Court recently abolished so-called Affirmative Action on the basis that it was unconstitutional. We are either ALL equal under the existing law or we're not. These retrograde responses in the UK are SO divisive and indicative of the fact that we ALL aren't. Our politicians seriously need to make their minds up.
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  2643. In a nutshell the UK's 'single market' ie England, Wales, Scotland and NI was severely compromised under the NIP in favour of the EU's.
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  2644. Had to check that. That's insane!!
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  2645. Love JR, but that's a pretty narrow, historically ignorant partisan view of the Israel/Palestine question.
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  2646. Bannon has always been a hugely compelling erudite figure but this has the potential to go horribly wrong.
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  2647. Like that.
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  2648. @tnndll4294  Give me a break. And whilst you're at it the list of former eastern bloc countries that actually voted in referenda to join NATO....
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  2649. ALL political careers ultimately end in failure... ....or if you're lucky in Brussels if you're a failed European politician.
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  2650. Clue's in the name.
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  2651. Well if you genuinely take the time to listen to what she's saying, she would quite rightly condemn that as well.
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  2652. Looks like everyone's a critic today. #Tis the season to be jolly, fa-la-lala-lah-lala-laaah#
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  2653. When you sup with the Devil be sure to use a long spoon. Ireland, the UK and the EU have all failed to heed this sage advice. As Kissinger helpfully once said, 'America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests'.
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  2654. And prior to this circus there were numerous examples, including HRC, of Democrats questioning the outcomes and handlings of previous US elections. What a bunch of hypocrites these people are!!
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  2655. News just in!!! Costco is trialling Soylent Green in all good stores near you!!
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  2656. The US hasn't won 'a war' since WW2 in 1945 and nor has it officially declared one since then. There are many good reasons for that incidentally.
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  2657. Careful. He'll make your wine more Assadic.
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  2658. Just read a Newsweek piece that points out that, unlike the US, Putin's really yet to 'lose' a war from Chechnya, Georgia to Syria. If nothing else, he has proved himself to be the ultimate 'brinkman' during his twenty plus years in power. Leaving aside the further complications of China/Taiwan dimension here, there seems to be this unquestioned assumption that Putin fully intends to occupy the Ukraine indefinitely and that Russia will simply become bogged down in a protracted, vicious, increasingly domestically unpopular, ultimately unwinnable guerilla war there. The article makes the point that perhaps total conquest is not his goal. His intentions might be more to drive Ukraine to the negotiating table, install a 'more amenable' regime in Ukraine and all whilst revealing and cementing the obvious cracks in NATO and the Western alliances in the process.
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  2659. Two comments now taken down. Something afoot no?
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  2660. On the plus side there are lots more dips for people to buy now....
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  2661. The lowest of the low only 'trumped' by his wife. Hopefully this election will see both Clintons crawl back under the (Little) rock from whence they came swiftly followed by the Obamas.
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  2662. Markets flailing. Don't misinterpret rigor mortis for signs of life.
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  2663. Defeat Russia? Russia has the equivalent nuclear arsenal of the US. Possibly larger. How on earth were they ever going to 'defeat' Russia?
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  2664. Hmm, something doesn't quite add up here... The West is scrambling around desperately trying to secure for itself the very fossil fuels it is berating others for using and it endlessly makes a public virtue of it doing away with.
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  2665.  @aaronfarkas6890  Yes. That's what it's often called.
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  2666.  @1234singer  Funny. Singer be a Jewish name an' all. Didn't have you pegged as a hater. Life's too short to hate anyone I find, but each to their own.
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  2667. This presupposes that the alternative is a free market and that one exists when it plainly doesn't. Many 'private' businesses, particularly 'shareholder owned' mega ones, continue to enrich themselves and exist solely because they are sucking on the government teat one way or another. Capitalism, or wherever you want to call it, since the late 1970s has resulted in a massive wealth transfer upwards and ever greater concentrations of wealth.
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  2668. That's true, but what I find bizarre is the amount of Western governments and institutions prepared to give what is clearly little better than a Ponzi scheme credibility.
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  2669. Arrest for what?
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  2670. When Pelosi was a little girl dinosaurs still walked the earth. Now.....she is one.
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  2671. I feel dirty having watched this woman now and not in a good way.
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  2672. ...and the search for Elizabeth's apprentice goes on.....
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  2673. Even if that were true, that doesn't change the underlying fact here that Israel has pursued a genocide based on a trumped up propaganda narrative. Anyone who resorts to ad hominems and whataboutery rather than directly addressing the actual issues at hand is impossible to take seriously I'm afraid.
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  2674. Yes there is. It's called the €.
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  2675. Hallow?
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  2676. I thoroughly recommend people listen to GG's excellent explanation of the First Amendment on his System Update channel.
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  2677. I've no great love or particular disdain for Ritter, but that post seems entirely reasonable. I'm reminded by something, somewhat unsavoury but likely all the more true for it, that an acquaintance once said to me who had spent years working in the ME. 'If there's anyone an Arab dislikes (sic) more than a Jew it's a Palestinian'. Ergo, without a consistently united Arab front, the Palestinians have next to no hope of ever achieving their dream of a homeland.
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  2678. How so?
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  2679. Thanks for update Chaz. ♥️Dave.
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  2680. Beautifully behaved kid.
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  2681. The idiots, wherever they may be, who are cheering this Hamas attack on do the Palestinian cause no favours that's for sure.
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  2682. John Pilger was always guilty of doing what most of his peers weren't and still don't..... ...his job.
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  2683. Jesus!! What has the West been doing for the last 30 years?
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  2684.  @vincenthigginbotham8729  Blimey!! Has it? I shouldn't think most people elsewhere in the world even know who he is. What's your evidence for that?
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  2685. He knows he has a mountain to climb pushing up a wheelbarrow of sh*t and despite the undeniable risks to his own life given his message he persists. That should be enough for most decent, right thinking people given the alternatives. Everyone's watching the DNC....
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  2686. In the immortal words of Dr Watson, "no sh*t, Sherlock".
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  2687.  @pouglwaw5932  What's that got to do with its neutral stance on Ukraine?
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  2688. Thought provoking video. Can't say I agreed with all of it, but still good.
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  2689. S and P got far further to fall. Expect it to eventually go back to 3400 at least, allowing for a few more dead cat bounces, and may even go back to its sub 3000 pre-pandemic levels if the war in Ukraine continues.
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  2690. These showtrials are specifically designed to grind Trump down and weaken his resolve. If anything, with each and every one, they are lending more and more credibility in the eyes of the US voters to the claim that the 2020 result was not all that it seemed.
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  2691. I don't have a problem with god, but I do have a serious problem with religion. ALL religions.
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  2692. People, even most Germans, at least had the excuse back in the 1940s that they didn't know what systematic murderous acts were being conducted in their name. Today there is NO excuse, even despite the Israelis best concerted efforts to stifle the horrific truth by actively preventing press coverage. These are murderous, genocidal acts being conducted by the Israeli State in plain sight FFS and yet most of the world sits in silence and the US-led West openly facilitates them. Shame on us ALL, but most of all SHAME on the US and ISRAEL.
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  2693. All in one take? What a pro!!
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  2694. They are 'window shopping', possibly seeing what they want but they don't want the hassle of carrying the bags apparently. Likely enjoying the 'in person' experience and buying what they see on the internet when they get home. How well does this bode for supremely expensive retail outlets I wonder? Will they just be regarded as a necessarily highly expensive to maintain shop window for their online offerings? 'Advertising' for want of a better word. Perhaps in future we'll see these retail outlets charge for a visit much like the zoo or a museum?
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  2695. Worst thing is you can actually see in the way that these figures' eyes are darting, rarely straight ahead, and from the very carefully chosen words that they were lying and damn well knew they were.
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  2696. Hitler didn't get where he did, never mind the democratic ballot box that helped him get there in the first place, he did it by appealing to human nature amidst a torrid political backdrop not by terrifying the German populace. Goering, assuming he was talking about the German people, was wrong and, by extension, so was Morgan in quoting him.
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  2697. As ever, it's all about the narrative. In the UK today where I live, apparently, the economy is going great guns and has recovered far better from the Covid debacle than originally thought.... Can't say I'm feeling it personally nor really noticing it much elsewhere, but perhaps that's just me?
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  2698. A lot if this is just f*cking about with debt numbers, how and where they appear on balance sheets, be it public or private, and how this then plays with 'the money markets'. For example, the UK Central Government chooses to shift much of its potential debt burden onto local councils and make legal requirements for the services they, not the central government, must provide. The Chinese government do much the same with their regional governments incidentally. So much 'accountancy' smoke and mirrors afoot I'm afraid.
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  2699.  @jamesrodgers3132  I'm very deliberately not confusing anything.
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  2700.  @CSUnger  That's a counterfactual. Fun, interesting, but impossible to prove. Human beings were creating incredible works of art and progressing long before Christianity or its ilk appeared on the scene. Don't get me wrong I'm not dismissing the undeniable contributions Christianity has made to the furtherance of mankind but nor am I prepared to give it a blanket pass either.
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  2701.  @CSUnger  Let's be honest, you posited the counterfactual question as to what the world would have been like had it not had Christianity and now you're positing that the 'West' might never have existed without it. This then assumes that the West might not have existed without Christianity and implies that it is, by and large, an overall benign force for good in the world. You are making assumptions and conflations which are, essentially, impossible to prove or disprove.
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  2702.  @CSUnger  No worries. You answered my comment remember.
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  2703. Well I guess, on the current trajectory, we'll find out won't we.
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  2704.  @Ashayiii  Let's hope not and that cooler heads prevail.
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  2705.  @Ashayiii  In the circumstances I'd say that's academic.
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  2706. A man of true integrity whether you agree with all or any of his views or not.
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  2707. Likely around 40% of the UK's electricity is generated using 'clean' gas in gas fired power stations. That's pretty high compared to other countries across Europe. By contrast, in France, 70% of its electricity is generated using nuclear and in Norway 90% of its electricity traditionally comes from hydropower. Hungary derives almost 50% of its electricity from nuclear and most of the rest from gas and coal. Basically, I'm guessing it all boils down to the energy mix and how a country's electricity is generated.
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  2708.  @maartent9697  In terms of gas consumption in Europe, Germany, the UK and Italy are the real outliers.
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  2709.  @010O  Your energy mix does though. The UK generates up to 50% of its electricity from gas.
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  2710. Twitter has become the goto tool for lazy journalism. It's as simple as that. Back in the old days it was things like press releases that helped to fulfil the role of making journalists' life easier. If it were vaguely interesting, rejig the wording a wee bit and they were good to go. Another space filled and job done. Twitter today fulfills a similar role for lazy journalism and yet carries far more weight than it should do amplifying every assholes opinion to the point of toxicity. Again. Job done.
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  2711. It's almost as if states constantly find ways to make money off their populations through energy....
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  2712. So the elites should be encouraging a brutal recession in order teach the working classes a lesson right?
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  2713. Democracy can only survive and flourish through losers' consent. Once it's gone, democracy is lost.
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  2714. The original sweetheart deal cooked up by Dershowitz for Epstein was widely criticized at the time - not just by Kim here - plus it will be interesting to see if he chooses to legally pursue people like her for these stories. I have a strong feeling he won't.
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  2715. Props to both Glen and Pascal. They give guests time and space to voice their opinions. It's far less about their own egos and more about addressing uncomfortable realities. More the exception than the norm sadly.
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  2716. Interesting lady. Great interview. 👍
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  2717. ​ @Buf-g6m They increasingly do that when you speak inconvenient truths I'm afraid.
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  2718. War is a racket. All wars are bankers' wars.
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  2719. Rather unfair and harsh that.
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  2720. Er, I'm willing to bet you didn't. Not without watching the whole interview.
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  2721. ​ @urrywest Same reason God saw fit to put American oil under 'West Asia'???
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  2722. International justice, rather like my dear old departed grandma, is both selectively blind and deaf.
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  2723. It's not even an accusation. Labour collusion in this, either active or passive, is undeniable. They generally wanted more, harder, stronger, harder, longer and sooner. That's the only difference. .
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  2724.  @martynspooner5822  A good many people seem to wilfully misunderstand the principle of free speech and why it's so important to defend it as just that, regardless of whether you personally always agree with what is being said. The bitter irony, particularly where Islam is concerned, is that Christianity in the West has also been thereabouts itself in the not so dim and distant past. Its more unpalatable bigoted, chauvinistic, authoritarian aspects evolved or even disappeared completely precisely because people increasingly felt safe and able to criticise it.
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  2725. The ultimate problem of course is what exactly the US might do militarily, under Trump or anyone else, if it looks like things are going south for it. The still nuclear, heavily miltitarised USSR 'politely' and relatively quietly imploded living to fight another day. Would the US elites, at least on current form, consider affording the wider world the same respect and decency?
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  2726. 'The' science so beloved of the good doctor here, deemed mRNA technology, and which had been around for decades prior to covid, as either ineffective or unsafe in the various fields it had been tested in. Tested using long established protocols that were jettisoned for covid.
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  2727. Interesting aside. Trump was previously a Democrat who once gave to a Kamala Harris campaign.
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  2728. Agree with the overall thrust here but disagree with the climate change premise he's using. The search goes on.....
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  2729. It's pretty much a global energy market so Brexit has got nothing to do with it.
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  2730. And how do you think that would have played with other Arab states in the region, particularly those who weren't opposed to the illegal invasion?
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  2731. Uncertainty and unpredictablilty are ALWAYS profitable. Certainty and predictability sadly aren't. It's a no brainer for some and explains their interest in fomenting it.
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  2732. Ideally, that's what reporters do. They report.
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  2733. Extremely well said at the end there, Jimmy.
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  2734. Hair mare there Freddie. Whoever told you that was the way to go was a wrong 'un. Tousled is your look with a hint of rakish dishevelledness and don't let anyone tell you any different.
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  2735. Perhaps you can shed some light for me here? Why is it not uncommon for Jews like Pappe to allegedly hate Jews would you say and when did he admit to this? Further to which, why is there a deliberate conflation between the state of Israel and being Jewish whereby any criticism of its actions as a state can be automatically construed as being anti-Semitic? Is it similarly fair to say, for example, that criticizing any European states for their actions is akin to being 'anti-Christian' or criticizing the KSA or UAE is essentially driven by people being 'anti-Islamic'?
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  2736. Great discussion, but his point about the health based economic justification for lockdown simply doesn't hold water. Sure people with chronic health conditions can still continue to work, but a good many didn't and still don't because of covid and covid lockdowns have absolutely annihilated certain sectors of the otherwise healthy economy with all the associated mental stresses that come with that. By the same token a well functioning health service cannot exist without a well functioning economy. Period. Not to judge the tunnel vision of this clearly sincere, well meaning man, but to me it only goes to prove that if all you've got is a hammer then everything looks like a nail.
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  2737. According to the Yonkers Times, “It’s very hard to F*** with Trump,” said Gravano. “His jobs are hundreds of million dollar high rise construction and they are all union. He has around him, ex FBI agents as security. He came from a wealthy family. He was not self-made. His father was a heavyweight construction guy with a ton of money and a ton of connections, with the government, politicians, the FBI. When you start getting people that connected, F*** with them is not a smart move. Trying to shake them down is not a smart move.” That doesn't seem to me to suggest that they were bezzas if I'm honest. What have you heard?
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  2738. Used to think a lot of Stewart Lee without agreeing with everything he said. Now? Spineless, unprincipled POS IMHO.
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  2739. Since when did the EU ever give a sh*t about being 'fair'? No offense, but they're seriously taking the p*ss here.
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  2740. Technically, we're still living in what are essentially the dying embers (or is it icicles?) of an ice age. An ice age which began 2.6m years ago - a mere footnote in the history of planet Earth known as the Pleistocene Period - and which started to come to an end around 11,000 years ago. To imagine that human activity, particularly at its current industrialised levels literally employing millions of years of locked up in the earth solar and concentrated organic energy in the form of fossil fuels won't in some way contribute to hitherto 'unusual' temperature rises is, I think, for the birds. The real question then is quite how much the releasing of that pent up energy has contributed to the warming of the planet, particularly given how the planet effectively has its own thermostat working away 24/7. This lady, quite rightly, says she doesn't know or what threats those relatively minor temperature rises may or may not pose and, frankly, I don't believe anyone does.
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  2741. This was why Starmer couldn't wait to let us all know about his willingness to push the UK's nuclear button, apparently to help keep us all safe, precisely because Corbyn said he wouldn't. This was, I'm 99% sure, the primary reason why he was removed by the British state on that trumped up charge of anti-Semitism and why Starmer continues to bang that drum.
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  2742. 'Extend and pretend' best sums up the US financialised model. People never learn and greed always wins invariably only benefiting the interests of a select few.
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  2743.  @patrickfitzgerald2861  Believe me I'm not taking issue with your distaste for it, more the extremely poor, sweeping, anglophobic phrasing of your comment.
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  2744. Why did Andrew Neil keep pulling his punches when he was talking about Liz Truss?
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  2745. Glen Diesen: For me, the current master of show don't tell.
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  2746. Douglas Murray some time ago made the case for social stigma and its positive role in society. We're not talking about hating on people, ostracizing them or deliberately making them feel miserable, but there's a reason that human beings today generally brush their teeth and hair everyday, wear clothes, don't rut in public and do anti-social stuff and it's not because a majority of people in the past walked around saying to each other that they should feel free to do what the f*ck they want. Being morbidly obese IS a bad thing and a bad thing most of all for the person who is morbidly obese. Don't kid me for one second that a morbidly obese person doesn't wish they weren't. Nevermind covid, there's an pandemic of 'misplaced kindness' going around and, frankly, it's bad for everyone and like covid it seems there is no known cure for it currently.
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  2747. Much of Biden's Corvette garage stash comes from when he was VP not President I believe so I'm not sure whether he was legally allowed to take them home as keepsies in the first place. I'm sure he would have shown them to his guests if he'd remembered where they were but I think it's fair to say Trump probably saw more to do that with at his chintzy Mar-el-Lago golf resort than Biden did visiting his dingy basement in Delaware.
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  2748. I heard her repeatedly referring to how proud she was of her African heritage on R4 and she very clearly dresses to express that?
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  2749. The UK, crucially, doesn't have a constitution that protects free speech and that's why it's arbitrary. A lot of the Americans whose free speech is being curtailed are of course having it actively suppressed, particularly by Big Tech, but they're not necessarily subject to arbitrary criminal prosecution as they might be in the UK.
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  2750. Who fact checks the fact checkers?
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  2751. Should do. But you do you.
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  2752. Apparently unprecedentedly healthy labour markets when you have serious post covid supply side issues and you've just effectively printed trillions of dollars to pay for said pandemic are inevitably inflationary. Anyone like to hazard a guess who's going to be first in line to help pay for this folly? Clue: it won't be Jerome Powell or those like him I'm afraid.
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  2753.  @breasonable4343  Mealy mouthed? So you don't expect the coming winter to have any significant impact on how Europeans feel about the current sanctions on Russia or the flow of arms to Ukraine then?
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  2754. Rutte is an establishment shill is endorsed by most of the establishment and thus will highly likely succeed in his ambition I'm afraid.
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  2755. Both the Clintons and Obamas couped America in plain sight by kicking out Biden and annointing Harris.
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  2756. Like Frisby generally, but his promotion of crypto currencies is either naive, which I doubt, or a witting cynical exploitation of the next greater fool. A good many of whom were clearly truly desperate chancers.
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  2757. I still enjoy reading your online articles - easier to inwardly digest - and then sometimes also watch the vid so I can read the comments.
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  2758. If you're in a position to then why not bet on things going up?
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  2759. KH was, prior to the DNC finally admitting that there was, in fact, an elephant in room ie Biden's brain was blancmange, largely hidden away from media for years. That doesn't mean to say that there weren't periodic 'fawning' attempts by a compliant media to polish the turd that was her execrable political reputation. There were numerous reasons why the DNC 'elites' alighted upon KH after the 'Biden epiphany' many of which were legal and practical. This was a women who not only hadn't ever won a primary, she actually came 4th in her own state FFS. Unheard of. The ONLY interview she's done since her carefully choreographed ordination was clearly scripted and she had to have her VP with her to boot. So before you dismiss these 'hacks'' talking points I'd get your own story straight first and avail yourself of some inconvenient facts.
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  2760. Are they famously bad at interior design then?
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  2761. Great discussion 😊
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  2762. 'We make our own monsters, then fear them for what they show us about ourselves'
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  2763. Sure, but where do you actually take issue with what is being said?
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  2764. The EU's advance across Eastern Europe was always conducted in lockstep with NATO's. They are two sides of the same coin.
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  2765. Sorry. Cummings is a jumped up little pr*ck.
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  2766. Don't know about that, but CS has strong links with seeding the Russiagate conspiracy and the nigh on decade long war in Ukraine.
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  2767. Clinton was also responsible for pushing NATO into Eastern Europe despite James Baker's assurances to Gorbachev the contrary. See You Next Tuesday.
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  2768. Repeatedly tried reporting the crypto hustler on this video to YT but the comment just reappears?
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  2769.  @AndyJarman  Is that just once or repeatedly do you know?
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  2770. Scaramucci uses the word 'help' and talks about his 'lovely family' there a tad too much. If he dressed, looked and sounded more like a mobster I'd be worried, but thankfully he doesn't.....
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  2771. The right to organise and withdraw your labour is a mark of any civilised society. Markets don't just apply to capital as some like to believe.
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  2772. Poor woman's really just a victim of a slow news period here. Much ado about nothing. She needs to really up her gaff game if she wants to be considered in the future running for President of the EU like her predecessor.
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  2773. The Left are no longer the Left in this country and haven't been since Blair.
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  2774. Sure. And those records have been released and independently verified yes? Also, assuming you're Venezuelan, are you entirely happy that the US has fomented 3 coups in your country over the last two decades and Machado has been involved in all three?
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  2775.  @fads3744  Sure so between Chavez coming to power in 1998 and by 2008 when the oil price went from $23 bl to almost $200 bl he achieved nothing for poorer Venezuelans no? Is that what you're claiming? POI, but what is Lusgon?
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  2776. As Mussolini, Fascism's founding father, helpfully pointed out almost a century ago, fascism can be defined as when the interests of government and [big] business can barely be separated by a cigarette paper. Bingo. The US today has become, effectively, a crypto fascist state. Maybe those various fasces in the Capitol aren't just a coincidence?
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  2777.  @theresabarzee1463  Apparently up to 72 and counting now!! Personal favourite if pushed? Double shot pangender with a two spirit drizzle.
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  2778. One of the primary drivers of this bank run, as far as I've understood it, was multibillionaire and financial guru Peter Thiel tweeting that SVB was unsafe. He still had $50m on deposit with SVB when it went t!ts so that leads me to wonder is he as smart as some people think he is or was $50m a risk (turns out it wasn't) he was willing to take for a far bigger prize?
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  2779. This is looking suspiciously more and more just like one more lucrative cash cow for big pharma. Invent, exaggerate and/or prolong a problem and then magically propose your own solution...at a cost. A constantly evolving covid looks like the gift that keeps on giving....to some at least...and as long as our governments and the gulls keep buying in to the narrative.
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  2780. Who for?
    1
  2781. This will be used as yet another excuse to erode civil liberties and extend the security state. 2001 Patriot Act anyone?
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  2782. ​ @MarshaCarrington-l9o Which god and which words?
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  2783. The West has just just supported the overthrow of the granted less than pleasant secular Assad regime in Syria by supporting HTS, an Islamic extremist spin off group of Al Qaeda and ISIS. I know this is GB News but wake up people, for crying out loud.
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  2784. They wouldn't let us vote if it actually changed anything....
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  2785. Breaking news...sort of... Melinda Gates has thrown in the towel on the Gates Foundation.... ... with all the usual PR caveats. Natch.
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  2786. Religion is good for good people and bad for bad people.
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  2787. Could have been worse. Nigel could have been pulled off on air!!
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  2788. My enemy's enemy is my friend goes the old saying and the US is seemingly intent on making more and more enemies globally.
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  2789. Joe Biden: "Gacks ga way coo goo it" Obama: "Goodnight boys and girls. Say goodnight Joe...." Joe Biden: "Goog night, goys and girls".
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  2790. Corporatist America has become the master of offering its own highly lucrative solutions to problems it manufactures itself.
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  2791. Just by way of context, Merkel didn't say, specifically, in that recent Die Zeit interview that she signed the Minsk agreements to buy time for Ukraine. She said that by signing them it effectively meant that it bought the country time to prepare for war ie in retrospect. That may seem like a subtle difference, and might well be disingenuous, but it helps to inform people's opinions hopefully nonetheless. The fact that they presumably went on to prepare for war with Russia with western support is another matter I guess.
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  2792. Suffered from a really bad stiff neck once when a Viagra pill got stuck in my throat.
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  2793. It's all a 'Miss Terry' to me....
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  2794. It's not for nothing that the two utterly dominant US political parties are known as two wings of the same bird of prey.
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  2795. Crumbly candy bars....
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  2796. There's a reason why all these wealthy 'investors' as the stock markets fall are now piling into cryptos which is arguably an even bigger scam designed to rinse the poor and desperate.
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  2797. During his presidency can anyone provide concrete evidence that Trump represented a large scale threat to liberal media? I mean, seriously? He was their goose that consistently laid their golden eggs in point of fact. That's not to say that should he win the 2024 election he wouldn't be gunning for it purely based on the fact that the US Deep State has been hounding Trump relentlessly aided abetted by liberal media attack dogs for years now. This is why what we're seeing play out is SO dangerous.
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  2798. Dramatic news just in.... The word 'dramatic' is due to be redefined....
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  2799. Just bought Chris Christie's new diet book and now I can't even get through the door of my house.
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  2800. Good on her. Utterly pointless war that should never have started. Putin might be a nasty scumbag, but most of the blood being spilt here is on Western hands I'm ashamed to say. Dialogue NOW before this escalates either by accident or design.
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  2801. I use Clarty Shamwaz. She can be found at 52, Avenue des Anglais, Nice. She's made me millions whichever way the crypto market moves. Who'd have thunk it?
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  2802. Brilliant discussion. Thanks.
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  2803. Whatever your politics this all started in 2016 with Trump's election and the Democrats spending the next four years trying to systematically delegitimise his presidency, thereby demonising roughly half the country's voters. This laid the battlelines for what we are seeing today. America's democracy is polarised and in peril, but I have little doubt as to when this began and who set the ball rolling.
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  2804. When you deposit money in a bank that money ceases to become yours.
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  2805. Don't know about that, but are you saying that you support and, by extension, are directly and entirely responsible for your government's choices and actions?
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  2806.  @lineomabulu9857  I think the fundamental issue is what is actually happening to the people in Gaza now and can and should it be stopped, don't you? Hamas's position on the existence of Israel is oft stated and well known, but I don't think it should be used as an excuse for genocide or using mass starvation as a weapon of war.
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  2807. 'Survival ALWAYS trumps prosperity' Hungary's Orban was at great pains to point out that in terms of Ukraine this is what the West fails to understand about Russians and their allegiance to Putin. Mother Russia's survival is paramount to Russians whatever the economic cost not least because Ukraine is culturally extremely close and right on its doorstep. For most 'decadent' westerners Ukraine is the team they've just picked in a game in which they have absolutely no skin.
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  2808. The United States has the best democracy money can buy.
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  2809. To some of the commenters on here... By far most of the people who associated themselves with and possibly availed themselves of Epstein's services weren't Jewish so less of the unpleasant comments please.
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  2810. Have Tucker Carlson and Matthew Perry ever been seen in the same room together?
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  2811. Misquote Gramsci? Would that I could quote him in the first place!!
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  2812. Funny how the US and NATO were SO keen to intervene and prevent genocide and ethnic cleansing in Kosovo and yet they are effectively facilitating them currently in Gaza????
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  2813. Might is right. ANY of these countries, assuming they've got something the US wants, be it resource-wise or for geopolitical reasons, either toes the line or they will be sanctioned until they scream and comply via a compliant domestic elite. Madeline Albright said it all when she said that half a million dead Iraqi children as a result of US sanctions was a price worth paying for regime change in Iraq.
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  2814.  @jamesboswell9324  Personal private information can prove for more potent than money for someone who already has too much, as Deonara alludes to above.
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  2815.  @jamesboswell9324  Personal private information can prove for more potent than money for someone who already has too much, as Deonara alludes to above.
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  2816. Raspberry.
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  2817. Of course the EU effectively operates by rewarding failure. That why it's full of failed domestic European politicians.
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  2818. Fought shy of listening to the rest of this after reading the comments. To be fair, Freddie acknowledges that he should've done a better job of holding her feet to the fire here. Anyone can have an off day, it's just a shame it happened to be on such a time sensitive subject with such a person of import.
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  2819. Glad I'm not the only one.
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  2820. These privately owned cloud platforms and their exclusively controlled markets are, to all intents and purposes, slowly assuming the roles of elected governments. Like governments they are largely agnostic about what is being peddled on their 'platforms' just so long as long as they can extract their tithe for the privilege of access to their architecture. Like government, the risk is essentially transferred in its entirety to the producers and sellers ie should they fail in 'the market' another one will come along to replace them from which to extract said tithe. The big issue, of course, is how are these new markets regulated, by whom and how are they accountable to society at large?
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  2821. Exercising choice, even by narrowing and filtering an internet search, is essentially bigotry then. You couldn't make this sh*t up.
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  2822. Russia, along with the US, still holds 90% of the world's nuclear arsenal. This guy knows this and clearly you don't.
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  2823.  @thomastroy4857  That's where the Cold war MAD doctrine came in. AKA, 'you feelin' lucky, punk?'. The West is pushing it, it ain't good and it ain't worth it in my opinion.
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  2824. According to NASA measurements in 2022 the size of the hole in the ozone layer is approximately 24x what it was in 1979, up from around 16x in 2019. If the world's gradual abandonment of CFCs in the 1990s under the Montreal Protocol has had such a profound effect why these considerable fluctuations in these figures and why aren't they going down in any meaningful way?
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  2825. Not gospel, but Google Sanders' worth.
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  2826. Mainstream media is its own worst enemy. They are the boys that always cry wolf and are now complaining that that fewer and fewer people are interested in what they have to shout about.
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  2827. It appears that her captors weren't lying. Whilst it's clear, judging from the ongoing protests in TA, Haifa and outside Bibi's residence, many Israelis do rightly care about the return of their hostages, it's equally clear that Israel's political classes do not. Hence the outright rejection of the recent Hamas ceasefire hostage exchange deal.
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  2828. The unfortunate fact remains that there is still 'a choice' come November between Trump and Harris. Trump, supposedly, is looking for a more isolationist USA which, by definition, again supposedly, would lead to fewer foreign interventionist policies no?
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  2829. Basically it's bad cosmic planning. It's God's fault for putting America's resources under these 'sh*thole countries'.
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  2830. 'We make our own monsters, then fear them for what they show us about ourselves.'
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  2831. Of course, probably the acid test here is what's happening in China. With none of multiple mRNA jabs that apparently saved the West from oblivion and no more lockdowns are the Chinese dropping like flies or are they just getting on with things? Perhaps the government there is doing a magnificent job of covering up significant death rates and if they are I'd seriously like to know quite how.
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  2832. First thanks to the GFC, QE, ZIRP, then covid there's simply been too much unproductive money/debt created and there's now way too much of it floating about. This is partly the reason why Ponzi-esque nonsense like cryptos gained traction and are now most likely falling back to zero where they belong. Plus overlong, fragile, JIT supply chains are now knackered thanks to covid and demand far exceeds supply. How else do you mop up this man-made inflationary monetary mess without tax rises, interest rate rises or an induced recession Mr Stiglitz?
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  2833.  @truckerfromreno  No, it was deliberate. The UK isn't in the EU and yet....
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  2834.  @sueyourself5413  I'll hold you to that👍
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  2835. Anyone remember when 'liberal' actually meant 'liberal' not 'authoritarian'. No? Maybe something to tell your grand kids about then.
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  2836. The first and by far the biggest spike in covid deaths wasn't because we'd failed to lockdown or because there was no vaccine (still isn't to this day) but because it was a novel virus seeking out the most vulnerable ie the elderly, infirm and those with known existing pre-conditions. Basically, for covid, it was a turkey shoot for the first few months and then it became subject to the law of diminishing returns as it ran out of a previously plentiful supply of vulnerable people to target.
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  2837.  @PaulValickas  Presumably there isn't anything that you don't know about?
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  2838.  @PaulValickas  Maybe I've got my wires crossed, but I think I was asking you?
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  2839.  @annking1576  Not sure if that was meant for me Ann.
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  2840.  @annking1576  You got me there Ann. Expand.
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  2841. A poor man's Griff Rhys-Jones.
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  2842. It's an unclassified document!! Why is it being treated by the FBI as if it's classified?
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  2843. A bit like Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy when the Vogons decide to demolish the Earth in order to make way for their hyperspace expressway. Syrians are just collateral damage and happen to be 'in the way'.
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  2844. @nahumhabte6210  The 'Syrian people' is far from easy to define. The country is made up of lots of different ethnic groups. It's certainly not homogeneous. We'll just have to wait and see, I guess, if this was all about the freedom of 'the Syrian people' as you claim, won't we?
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  2845. YouTube never, ever blocks these fraudulent BTC posts .....I wonder why?
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  2846. There's no more a Jewish race than there is a Muslim or Christian one.
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  2847. The last few minutes of this video suggest a wise, strong, decent head on young shoulders.
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  2848. Worth reminding ourselves that both Finland and Sweden only joined NATO recently because of the Ukraine war.
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  2849. I blame Gloria Gaynor for a lot of this.
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  2850. On the plus side global covid jab uptake has plummeted from 43m a week at its peak to 3m a week currently. Given that we can be near certain that these jabs, even the earlier ones, offer short lived immunity then this undoubtedly points to a growing number of people 'quietly' growing ever more sceptical about these jabs' efficacy and/or safety. Early 'conspiracy theorist' or not.
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  2851. You lot never give up do you? Are you just malign or desperate?
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  2852. Why do seemingly at first glance 'decent' people like West do this? Being a true raging right wing Republican is a far more honest and honorable position than what both Sanders and West are up to.
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  2853. Viruses once they mutate to something more transmissible and less deadly don't suddenly do a U-turn like a British Government and become more deadly. Wrong yet again Ken. What on God's earth are you on man?
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  2854. What he's saying to her is don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Trump sure as hell ain't anywhere close to being perfect not least because he's really one of 'them' and he wouldn't be where he was if he wasn't, but in relative terms the man is by far the lesser of the two credible evils currently on offer.
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  2855. I'm impressed he can still tell the time.
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  2856. Was it referenced by Trump? If so it shows poor judgement. If it wasn't then these things should always be fully vetted by his staff before being put out in public
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  2857. In today's America pursuing diplomacy has too long been pursued as weakness. Unless they get their own way SO completely and entirely then they've failed. How sad is that.
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  2858. Emblematic of our insane binary times where criticising the Ukraine war immediately makes someone an apologist for Putin and all Russia's actions in the country and defending Brand and what should be his (and anyone else's) automatic right to due process is equated with being a defender of sexual violence against women. Intellectually barren and dishonest and all, ultimately, fiendishly contrived to squash free speech. Grim. Truly grim.
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  2859. Think I'll be avoiding the once enjoyable comment section on here from now on which is sad. The torrent of Amazon Crapto-coin nonsense makes even the BTC stuff look measured and respectable.
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  2860. Fromage makes a very good constitutional point here when he points to the, I think, unprecedented role King Charles has played in this. UK monarchs don't, for obvious reasons, get involved in politicking until the very last moment until agreement is reached, the ink is dry, it's okayed by parliament and only then does he/she give Royal Assent making it UK law. Yet again Charles has shown either his naivety, ignorance and/or overwhelming desire to meddle when it comes to UK constitutional matters and it does the institution of which he is only the temporary custodian of no favours at all.
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  2861. Always talks a good game but Bannon is being typically disingenuous here. By the same token, America certainly doesn't look like Europe's ally either. It spent literally decades fomenting this war in Ukraine with Russia, it blew up NS2 without Germany's consent and now its navy is agitating in the Red Sea where most of Europe's (NOT the USA's) trade passes from Asia. It is NOT protecting those routes as he claims. It is endangering them.
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  2862. ​ @mark_2 Yep. I like to call them the cuckoos in the nest. One of the reasons I also despair when people talk disparagingly about 'the Left' when it clearly is no such thing. Kamala Harris 'a socialist'??? FFS. The sleight of hand has been to shift the Overton Window if you like and capture those essentially on the Right who aren't entirely comfortable with the label. Hence we end up with 'two wings of the same bird of prey' and a toxic political consensus that's the Devil's own job to challenge.
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  2863. Not sure what's happened your end, but your comment has disappeared along with my reply.
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  2864. None so blind as those who WON'T see.
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  2865. ​ @dextermorgan1 Cheaper alternatives are available. Ebay, though far from perfect, being one.
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  2866. ​ @turbolevo8703 So he's endorsing Gramsci's theory or undermining it?
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  2867. Barnier, much as he might be a clever political choice by Macron in difficult circumstances of his own making, is just another establishment figure.
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  2868. Corbyn was effectively couped as Labour leader and thus as future UK PM. Make no mistake about that.
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  2869. Under the guise of spreading western values and democracy the West has been pushing for regime change in Iran for decades along with others. Strangely, I suspect, Egypt, the KSA nor Jordan have never been on that list.
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  2870. Think he's just out very early.
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  2871. Kennedy's position on Israel is troublesome, but he's clearly not unique on that front and is a sincere, well-intentioned individual.
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  2872. Go on then I'll bite.... ...and their name is...😂
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  2873. @chrisburnett8843  What? THE George Bryan?
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  2874. @AlexanderM837  Bet you have 😂
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  2875.  @garyddlewis3067  The US, to date, has provided most of the military funding plus a substantial chunk of EU funding has actually come 'illegally' as interest accrued on illegally frozen Russian asset. What happens when Trump becomes POTUS in a few weeks is another question. Over to you, Gary....
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  2876.  @garyddlewis3067  Rather oddly spelt my name wrong there Gary, but by the by... Unlike you, I'm struggling with nothing. You're just stating random large numbers as if they're correct and like they actually mean something. They don't. Europe rehoming Ukrainian immigrants has got diddly to do with the price of fish either. Much of the monies pledged to Ukraine comes from interest on illegally frozen Russian assets and further to that much of it, from both the US and the EU, is in the form of loans. What remains to be seen is what actually happens next year to that level of funding, both military and non-military, from both the US and EU for Ukraine.
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  2877. The "Duh Report" as Death and Taxes magazine's Robyn Pennacchia amusingly called it. Democracy is certainly a movable feast and some are much better placed to move it than others that's for sure.
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  2878. Yep. Some of the nicest people you'll ever meet. Bizarre really.
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  2879. China is indeed formidable currently, but it is a ticking demographic timebomb.
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  2880. Future bailouts are guaranteed. Socialism is the preserve of the rich, capitalism is reserved only for the poor.
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  2881. I would agree with you, but it appears that there is an ongoing concerted attempt to try and strangle these independent voices as their popularity grows and MSM's dwindles. Legacy media like the BBC, NYT, WSJ, Reuters, CBC, EBU and AP in cahoots with the very platforms these independent voices rely on like Google, YT and Meta through their Trusted News Initiative for example.
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  2882. Never thought I'd say this, but the British police are largely, thus far, doing a fantastic job in policing the pro-Palestinian protests here. Particularly when compared to their openly violent US counterparts.
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  2883. 'when there's nothing to discuss, everything else becomes more important'. Says it all.
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  2884.  @AbbeyRoadkill1  Well, it ain't exactly cheerful I'll give you that. Europe, in particular, is in a dark place currently but I do take issue with the lens through which it is seen by hit pieces such as this and the dumb ignorant comments which tend to follow it. Er...such as yours.
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  2885.  @T0MT0Mmmmy  The UK has a trade deficit not least because it's the EU's third biggest market after the US and China and has been for years. That market is a two way street and currently Germany isn't selling what it was to the UK and that's all whilst one of its biggest markets, China, is faltering and war continues in the Ukraine. Now you can be a posturing tw@t about it if you want - there are plenty of others like you in the comments here - or you can accept reality and act like a grown up.
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  2886. @raymondo6665 The Rochdale by-election was used as a protest vote against the genocide in Gaza and overturned a big Labour majority and gave Galloway a substantial majority of his own. Even the second place was taken by a local independent and the two main parties finished third and fifth respectively in a democratic vote. More accurately his victory speech was used to highlight the ongoing massacre of Palestinians in Gaza. He wouldn't have won in Rochdale had it not been going on and if Labour hadn't earlier withdrawn its candidate.
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  2887. @raymondo6665 What will be will be. The problem will be, and we're seeing it more and more now, is if both our politicians and voters refuse to accept the validity of the decisions the process itself delivers. This constant second guessing and imputing wicked motives or ignorance on the part of those whom we disagree with ultimately serves to undermine the whole process. We continue do so at our peril.
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  2888. Why would Putin choose to specifically target a children's hospital? It's not going to play well domestically or abroad, so I can see zero sense in this.
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  2889. You will own nothing, not even your own data profile, but you will be happy😁
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  2890. KH will, for me, forever be akin to Dallas's Sue Ellen.
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  2891. Pathetic.
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  2892. Despite already asking twice, I'm still waiting to hear on your response to your calls for a Chinese-style military lockdown during covid George.
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  2893. NOTHING should serve as a greater warning about the natural tendency of some human beings to lean towards and even embrace authoritarianism and censorship than the covid debacle.
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  2894. These media commentators know their game defending Biden in face of years of overwhelming damning evidence is up. They are self serving scurrilous rats FINALLY deserting the sinking ship. Shame on them.
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  2895. ​ @pinkpanter1208f  We know where Israel gets its money from and what it does with it, but can you provide proof that Levy is the recipient of large sums of Arab money which he has continually used to enrich himself? Otherwise what you're saying is just a typical smear tactic.
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  2896. This is pretty provocative stuff. Media wouldn't normally take this line of questioning with the winner of a by-election. Not in my experience anyway.
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  2897. Even this weekend the, at least currently thanks be to God, out to pasture borderline bovine Nuland was STILL peddling the blatant lie that Ukraine could still pull it out the bag and Putin was intent on marching through Europe. Sheesh...
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  2898. Go to jail? For that? Seriously? Was he using the Swastika in a positive light on his book cover? Perhaps you'd like to explain to me?
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  2899. Nato was created by the US after WW2 predominantly in its own interests in order to keep the Americans IN Europe, the Germans DOWN and the Russians OUT. Thus far, to American minds, it's still doing its job. Ukraine has just been played and sacrificed in order to satisfy that US policy aim.
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  2900.  @vosyem  16.3% YTD not 22%.
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  2901. I've used Klarna. No problems. There are far worse forms of 'usury' out there and Klarna doesn't even come close.
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  2902. Hey, it's the post-truth world. Get with the program. If you can redefine the long understood definition of the word 'vaccine' as the CDC quietly did recently I see no reason why anything else shouldn't be off the table.
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  2903. Campbell's pointy finger says it all. The c*nt knew he was lying at the time.
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  2904. Mrs Roselinz apparently. As pure coincidence or serendipity would have it all these people replying underneath either seem to know her or are desperately keen to speak to her so take a number and form an orderly queue if you wish to make your fortune.
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  2905. Justin Trudeau should be utterly ashamed of himself. Despicable individual.
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  2906. Galloway has supported the Palestinian cause, just as he did the anti-apartheid in South Africa, for decades. Counting both Arafat and Mandela as personal friends. He also, quite correctly as it turned out, condemned the illegal invasions of Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Libya amongst others. And yet you say he is 'a conman'? A man whose judgement not only isn't to be trusted compared to his apparently fine upstanding contemporaries but who has also spent his entire career conning the gullible with his endless lies? But one voice, albeit a mighty powerful one, who bullied literally thousands of Muslims in Rochdale into voting for him this week. Is that correct?
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  2907. As in?
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  2908. ​ @Samsgarden No, as in prominent Leftists?
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  2909. I think he's wrong about climate change and right about covid vaccines. He's still the best candidate for the job though given the woeful alternatives.
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  2910. That was different. The bits of the border wall built by other previous US Presidents were different too.
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  2911. Sure. So Venezuelan oil is useless and nobody wants it so why the US/Western obsession with who controls its oil industry and why the sanctions deliberately designed to target its extraction and refining? Asking for a friend?
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  2912. But men can't have children!! Seriously though. All the best Nick. You are the best IMHO.
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  2913. ​ @GazGuitarz Harvest Moon was a good album.
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  2914. You don't have leave the Democratic Party RFK. From your espoused policy positions it left you years ago.
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  2915. There's no more such a thing as 'a white race' than there is such a thing as 'a black race'.
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  2916. Biden's withdrawal letter highly unusually wasn't presented on official Presidential headed notepaper and perhaps even more unusually there was no televised address. Nor did he endorse Harris in that initial letter. Hmmm ...
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  2917. Brilliant journalism this.
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  2918. You've never interacted with him on Twitter?
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  2919. China's not stupid. 'Exorbitant privilege' comes at a cost particularly domestically. No wonder it's seeking to keep its powder dry. There are currently no serious or willing contenders to replace the USD. The second Trump presidency acknowledges that cost to its own domestic economy and is now belatedly seeking to stare down the RoW. What we're witnessing is that playing out....
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  2920. SDP
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  2921. Why? May I ask?
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  2922.  @jonmcalister1802  Lots of these people on social media don't stay in their lanes nowadays, but there's a huge amount of crossover on these topics. Neil Ferguson, an historian essentially, is often asked his take on unfolding daily economic events. Climate change is another funny one. JP is a fierce advocate, I think quite rightly, of free speech and climate science is another one of those weird scenarios where 'science', which by definition has necessarily NEVER been definitive, has suddenly now become 'THE' science ie definitive. No dissent or further debate is allowed which I, amongst many others, find intensely uncomfortable not least because those who do are effectively vilified. The truth should always be big enough and ugly enough to stand up for itself whatever it might be and yet there are some out there who not only feel that they have a monopoly on it they also feel that they are the sole and righteous defenders of it. That is always a worry.
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  2923.  @jonmcalister1802  You might not have a problem with questioning it, but that's hardly the prevailing consensus is it? I'm no fan of corporates by any means, but I'm also aware that corporates aren't exactly averse to nailing their colours to the 'green' mast either for profit and I'm also painfully aware that despite the claimed impending climate catastrophe very few people (if any) that I see are making any significant sacrifices in order to try and avert it. Very, very odd no? Lots of 'for thee, but not for me' posturing but little else. I'm also aware that there is an automatic tendency to conflate environmental destruction and overexploitation, which is undeniable, with anthropogenic climate change, which is still debatable. Every program I watch seems to segway seamlessly between the two as if they're the same thing. They're not. Just watch more carefully next time you see something referring to the subject.
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  2924. There is a powerful ultra-right element in Ukraine and yet Western and UK media like the BBC and The Guardian that used to warn about it now dismiss it as pure Russian propaganda. Not that I'd ever trust Russian media understand, but this is why people in the UK no longer trust their own media.
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  2925. This is a war that should never have happened. History isn't a morality play and there were ways and means to avoid it. Lots of people saw this coming. We are where we are because NATO and the US kept pushing Putin's Russia's buttons for over two decades, starting with Clinton. Go back and look. It's all there. Weaponising finance and the US Dollar was the next stage in this battle. It might all end gloriously of course. Ukraine might triumph and join Nato and the EU, the Russian army might see its morale plummet to zero, Putin might get assassinated by his own people who knows, but the key point here is that this was ALL still avoidable. People have died unnecessarily and people will suffer unnecessarily.
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  2926. Just as with Brexit, it's bitterly ironic how when people use existing established democratic means to express their opinions - whether you agree with them or not - they are labelled as extremist and, in the case of the AfD, threatened with censure.
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  2927. Makes you wonder doesn't it?
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  2928. ...and now the party pooper UK has long left the EU greater European integration continues apace presumably?
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  2929. Alistair Campbell is a nutter. A nasty piece of work.
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  2930. Somebody did rather well in this securing buoy contract from public funds. It looks like PPE 2.0 to me.
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  2931. Fauci believes in the power of herd immunity. He said so in 2004.
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  2932. Israel is the US's permanently stationed aircraft carrier in the ME. Its colonial outpost and tripwire there to provide an excuse for interventions and prevent the rise of regional powers like Iran. It's not solely about oil either but also about protecting its vital global trade pinch points. As Joe Biden famously said in 1987 if Israel didn't exist then the United States would have to invent an Israel.
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  2933. On a side note, the Napoleonic Code upon which EU law is now based is essentially intent on codifying everything people CAN and CAN'T do whereas UK Common Law is based upon the principle that that what is not expressly forbidden is permitted. Common Law empowers the judiciary over the legislature to make laws according to the precedents it sets through interpretation of the law whereas the codified civil law doesn't allow for these looser judicial interpretations. Ireland and Cyprus are now the only countries in the EU that follow a Common Law system since Brexit. These two countries then, particularly Ireland, will find it increasingly difficult to push back against the EU civil law juggernaut without the UK.
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  2934. She couldn't be criticised because she was 'only a child' and yet this was 'only a child' who could apparently lecture and hector elected leaders about entire countries' energy policies.
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  2935. Perhaps this was her fly on the wall job interview? 😊
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  2936. Didn't he say he went to jail for a misdemeanor near the beginning and that he was the only one in there ever who wasn't a convicted felon?
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  2937. Shocking show and the police here are behaving in a reprehensible manner, but George Floyd was NOT murdered. Anyone who's interested in the truth can't keep saying these things. There are innocent policemen in prison and whose lives are at risk because this lie keeps being peddled.
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  2938. The tired old Left Vs Right debate is a confected, perpetuated distraction beloved of these self-serving big tech companies.
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  2939. Whatever people's colour, culture, religion etc racism seems to be in-built into our human DNA sadly.
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  2940. Obama gave 1.7 BN Dollars to Iran? M'eh. Biden's just about to give 85bn Dollars worth of cutting edge military hardware to the Taliban absolutely gratis. No strings.
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  2941. Presenter is super sly. Must be under his desk. Never once did I see him partake of his party balloon throughout.
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  2942. Well, little to criticize here.
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  2943. I take your point, but I think you have to take into account the potential reach, the supposedly reputable nature of these media organizations pushing this propaganda and the sheer volume of it. The Grayzone is likely one of the biggest and yet still one relatively tiny voice trying to push back against this tsunami of often highly dubious information. I think most people watching this, but I accept not all, wouldn't for one second condone what happened on October 7th to those 800 innocents but at the same time nor can it be used as a pretext by Israel and its supporters as carte blanche for ongoing genocide either.
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  2944. I fully admit to misjudging Blinken in the past and giving him the benefit of the doubt. Behind his puppydog eyes and 'gee-taar' he really and truly is an evil SOB.
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  2945. Irrational exuberance and the animal spirits reign supreme.
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  2946. Notwithstanding Biden's shown comments there, Condie Rice said as much in 2014 with regard to ending Europe's dependence on Russian gas and 'encouraging' its dependence on US energy going forward. The Russians aren't happy that the multimillion dollar pipeline that it part owned was bombed and, according to Nuland, the US is glad that it is, 'a hunk of metal at the bottom of the sea' so whom do you think likely carried out this act of geopolitical terrorism? If you think it was an act self sabotage what reason would you give?
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  2947. The United States is becoming increasingly belligerent - it was even before Trump - as it is seeing its unipolar grip on the world being challenged in its eyes principally by China. Talk of it seizing geopolitically strategic sites like the Panama Canal and a resource rich, underdeveloped Greenland, albeit from an ally, would follow this playbook.
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  2948. Er, no you're not, but you should be much concerned about your obvious ignorance about a subject you feel comfortable commenting on.
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  2949. You have to understand that huge numbers were necessarily complicit in administering these jabs - with the best intentions I believe - and a good many had them themselves in order to be able to continue doing their jobs. Those are huge things to take on board.
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  2950. Not sure why. His judgement on geopolitical matters was p!ss poor.
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  2951. Nixon also sought to sabotage the trials, I believe, to ensure no US soldier was found guilty of war crimes.
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  2952. If Trump doesn't crumble under pressure and agree a deal not to run in 2024, as is surely the aim here, then he can still run for president from a federal prison cell and then, should he win, as Potus he can then pardon himself. All a bit of a gamble though and either way the way Biden has blatantly weaponised US justice here shows that the country is fast becoming a banana republic. Sad times indeed.
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  2953. That is a fair point, as is RFK, but one can but hope that Trump might have a little more integrity, sway and nous when it comes to dealing with the US Israel lobby. One of the precious few positives that have come out of the Gaza genocide is that far more Americans are now aware of the entirely disproportionate influence Israel has on their domestic politics and their democratic processes.
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  2954. The West has become decadent.
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  2955. How on God's earth do the people escalating this situation imagine it's going to end up? Do they know something we don't about how this could never go nuclear and if so what? If they don't we're definitely entering Major T.J. 'King' Kong Dr Strangelove territory here.
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  2956. Neither would thank me for the comparison, but the EXACT same thing happened to Corbyn in the UK. He was flying high against ALL the odds in 2017 with a huge party membership and a higher vote than Starmer's recent landslide victory and then it all imploded. Questions were asked about his willingness to press the UK's nuclear button, an ex-British General said that troops would be on the streets if won and then they finally managed to sink him with an entirely fabricated since disproved charge of anti-Semitism. There is, if you like, an Overton window for these positions and anyone like Corbyn or Trump who falls outside of it WILL be removed by hook or by crook.
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  2957. Quite correct. The last card the US has to play is its military card and potentially its nuclear arsenal. Should it choose to play it - and it is the ONLY nation on earth thus far to deploy atomic/nuclear weapons (deliberately on civilians, incidentally) - then suffice is to say we're all f*cked.
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  2958. Empires either expand or eventually die. That's the model.
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  2959. Trump is already getting some European countries talking of ponying up more dough ie 5% of GDP for their defence despite their, in some cases, cratering economies. He's basically playing Europe like a Strad now. What a bunch of doofusses.
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  2960. One of the painfully few positives that have come out of this dreadful ongoing situation is that the grifting social media wolves dressed up in the free speech sheeps' clothing, the Rubins, the Weiss's, the Shapiros, the Kellys etc have finally revealed themselves for what they are. A principle is something we abide by even when it doesn't immediately suit. Something at least the blessed Glen Greenwald and a much diminished few others still mercifully understand.
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  2961. Two ex-presidents, their wives (??) and a few atrophying Democratic grandees not only get to remove a sitting US president they also get to annoint his successor and yet no one bats an eyelid? I knew American politics was corrupt and rotten to its core, but I never knew it was quite this bad.
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  2962. The United States, more than ever, can't afford peace. Its century old or more war machine is now integral to its economic model Look what happened to the Nye Commission in the 1930s which dared to question the motivations behind Wilson's entry into WW1.
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  2963. Joe Biden stated very openly and very clearly in 1987 why the US supported Israel unconditionally.
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  2964.  @george2009town  And may true democracy prevail whomsoever you vote for.
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  2965. Last night of the proms is really just Glastonbury for the mainly metropolitan bourgeoisie so it doesn't surprise me to hear there were EU flags in abundance there. Basically, a load well-to-do, w@nkers who despise the working classes parading their virtue in front of the similarly minded elitist BBC. 'Anywheres' who mostly hate their country and who, truth be told, know eff all about the EU and what it's really about and only the various benefits it affords them and their kin.
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  2966. So Russiagate was all over Big Tech for years during the Trump presidency despite being a proven lie and the Hunter Biden story was suppressed by Big Tech despite being true. Nuff said.
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  2967. Agreed. Average Ukrainians SHOULD be livid with the West. Many have fought and died on a false pretext for nothing. Nothing.
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  2968. Anyone interested in the unvarnished truth should listen to RFK's withdrawal speech NOT C4 News' blatantly obvious pro-Dem spin on this story.
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  2969. The art to successful lying is always to remember the lies you told. Nowadays, Joe Biden is probably not the person best placed to be a successful liar.
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  2970. As part of the electoral college wasn't Bill Clinton being encouraged to vote against the voters' decision in 2016?
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  2971. A bizarre, twisted period in our lives when most of the media and our politicians encouraged us all to apparently think of 'cases' as 'deaths' and 'dying with covid' as EXACTLY the same thing as 'dying of covid' regardless.
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  2972. If 'the state' wants rid of you then the 'the state' WILL get its way.
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  2973. There was a wobble, but it was sufficiently so.
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  2974. Information is wealth and power and, essentially, thanks to the 'free' internet we've all collectively acquiesced to surrendering that information for free. Yet another sorry example of we the turkeys voting for Christmas.
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  2975. Not religious but, Book of Revelation: "He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name."
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  2976.  @johnvaleanbaily246  So in the name of consistency presumably you outright condemn the numerous egregious examples US's foreign policy decisions throughout the Western hemisphere and beyond over the decades?
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  2977. Never completely judge a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. Lots of judgemental prescient geniuses and uncanny second guessers who all believed they would have made exactly the right decisions if in BoJo's shoes during the covid debacle commenting here but they're ALL FOS quite frankly.
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  2978. ​ @floodo1 At my age - a silver fox, ahem - I'd kill for that colour hair. If it ain't natural then it certainly looks it.
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  2979. True, but thanks to the fact that because today's fiat money is essentially debt it's unlikely that most of us won't be touched by this.
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  2980. Stirring something.
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  2981. Although the US supposedly has no particular political or economic interest in the Ukraine as Sack's claims I've long found it odd that much of both Biden's and Trump's political troubles lie there.
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  2982. Not only have US and European neocons been using Ukraine as means to isolate Russia for years and end Europe's dependency on its cheap energy they were also likely long aiming to get reluctant strategically important neutral Sweden and Finland to finally join their NATO war club off the back of their dastardly plans.
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  2983. 'I'd rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned". Richard Feynman Free Assange.
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  2984. 'Draghi said the EU was struggling to cope with higher energy prices after losing access to cheap Russian gas and could no longer rely on open foreign markets. The former central banker said the bloc needed to boost innovation and bring down energy prices while continuing to decarbonise as well as reduce its dependencies, notably on China for essential minerals, and increase defence investment' Next week Draghi will tell us how to turn water into wine and lead into gold.
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  2985. 'America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests' - Henry Kissinger
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  2986. What's the Belgian Road Initiative?
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  2987. The Montagu Letter written just after the Balfour Declaration foresaw these inevitable conflicts of interests arising for Zionist Jews over a century ago.
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  2988.  @keithlillis7962  Strange comment. Whether you like it or not 'the average American' who 'tends to only think about gasoline prices' presumably has a vote of equal value as any other. Reading between the lines, you presumably think 'they' shouldn't and 'others', possibly far better informed people like you, should decide on their behalfs?
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  2989. I appreciate the comments regarding respecting the elderly, but many fail to understand that the Draconiani blanket measures being undertaken to protect them are causing massive harms elsewhere across society.
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  2990. Social media is a well known megaphone for tlose who spread mis and disinformation, be it official or unofficial. Trouble being it's not well known or understood enough. Everyone's default position and first assumption about anything they read or hear should be circumspection.
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  2991. Biden doesn't know if it's strawberry jam or Tuesday. People didn't come out in huge numbers to vote for Biden they came out in huge numbers to vote against Trump. America made its choice and it got the politicians it deserves.
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  2992. I read that FT article on Greece and I did wonder if I had missed something. True EU puff piece if ever there was one.
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  2993. Israel ONLY really became seriously important to the US in the 1960s during the Cold War when both Soviet Russia and America sought competing influence over the fractious, oil rich, global trade pinch point region. Despite its 'socialist' genesis and ethos the country suddenly became viewed by the US and its allies as a useful bulwark and permanent irritant against growing Soviet socialist influence. People also conveniently forget that a prospective new state of Israel was explored by Zionists in places like Argentina and colonial Uganda.
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  2994. Neoliberals have just learned how to play the credulous majority. They've worked out that by shifting culturally to the left whilst shifting economically to the right they can get away with murder. Genius really.
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  2995. Funnily enough the outcome of global COVID policy has been to significantly worsen the circumstances and outcomes for poorer people whilst broadly improving the circumstances and outcomes for wealthier ones.
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  2996. So if we'd had the more democratic and representative PR system in the UK we'd never have had Brexit and then we would never have been given the opportunity to leave what is, at its very core, an undemocratic, largely unaccountable ratcheting technocratic political project? Is that correct?
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  2997.  @charliemoore2551  So now you're claiming the UK economy is imploding....er, because we didn't have PR and...er, because we didn't have PR we left the EU? Yes?
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  2998. ​ @charliemoore2551 Two things there. Firstly the likelihood of ANY of them EVER being offered a referendum on EU membership like the UK is next to zero. Secondly, referenda are generally decided by simple or qualified majority.
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  2999. 'Remember, when you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It is only painful for others. The same applies when you are stupid.' - Ricky Gervais
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  3000. Basically, we're still in the foothills when it comes to things like big tech shadow banning and Russiagate and the summit of truth is barely visible in the distance amidst the slowly clearing mists.
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  3001.  @amataratsu006-xs6hv  Reply removed by YT but look up Cameron's role in Libya and Greensill Capital.
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  3002. ​ @amataratsu006-xs6hv  Neither GB News nor YT will permit me to tell you despite trying twice I'm afraid.
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  3003.  @Dirk-o9s  Seems to me YT, typically, won't permit me to reply....
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  3004. Annoyingly my last comment was removed. Note to self. ALWAYS copy and paste before sending.
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  3005. Let's also not forget that both Sweden and Finland were bumped into Nato by the politicians off the back of this false premise. Not small beer.
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  3006. Just look at many of the comments here. Unbelievable. No sooner than one scam crashes and burns and along comes another to replace it.
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  3007. ​ @zevkay2286 I did and YT blocked it.
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  3008. ​ @oldhollywoodbriar Not the two that have disappeared I can't.
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  3009. I spent years commenting on The Guardian up until 2016 then something changed profoundly. People spew the most vile things on there now, truly hateful, but as long as the moderators approve of the targets then they get a free pass. All in the name of decency and compassion you understand....
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  3010. Trump, whether Biden voters like it or not, is seeing and saying that the way Israel is handling things in Gaza is not a good look and could seriously backfire on them. It might not be much, but it's a f*ck sight more than we've heard from anyone else including Bernie Sanders.
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  3011. In a way this would be a logical outcome of capitalism taken to its zenith. Capitalism, though largely successful in its own way, has proven incredibly effective at monetising even the most unsavoury aspects of our live thus far, so why the hell not secretly create an extremely profitable solution in advance of a secretly manufactured problem? Great PR and great profits. Potentially, anyway. All the better if said problem is deemed to be by many life-threatening. Not least by the fearful governments seeking election that represent and 'protect' them and that will stump up handsomely for the only known 'cure'. Genius really. Would never happen though, of course.....
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  3012. Adjustable centre part in cupholder is for mug handle should you have one.
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  3013. Reuben and Shapiro have both lost the plot and, hopefully, will lose a lot of their audiences off the back of this too. Free speech within the existing law should always be an absolute. No ifs, no ands, no buts.
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  3014.  @benwilson6145  Er, jab them if that's what they elect to do with their own bodies?
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  3015. Mrs Roselinz down below might disagree with you there. Still, be interesting to find out through the replies below how many people just happen to know Christine Norine.
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  3016. Americans, supposedly, in voting for Trump were voting for no more (illegal) wars. A point repeatedly hammered home by Trump and a central plank of his re-election campaign. The claim here that they're all just sitting there watching the game and chugging beers thinking of nothing else I would like to think, with the greatest due respect to the Colonel, is incorrect.
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  3017. Of course he's dead right. Not that I'm Christian, but the West needs to remove the planks from its own eyes before it even considers removing the splinters from the eyes of others.
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  3018. Comments under the line do not bode well. Nevertheless I shall persevere being the brave trooper wot I am.
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  3019. America spent years fomenting the war in Ukraine including during the Trump years. I'm ALL for ending this war but don't let Trump or anyone else convince you that this was ALWAYS anything other than America's war.
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  3020. I don't think that should be doubted - an attack principally on civilians, it too was a war crime - but it didn't come out of nowhere either and pales in comparison both with what preceded it and followed it.
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  3021. According to Fortune America's top 10% are $28trn richer, yep that's trillion, since 2020. If true they obviously have a real gift and it makes you wonder what might have happened that might have enabled such off the charts 'wealth creation'?
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  3022. Hold your horses there son. Remember the West is engaged in exporting 'liberal democracy' for the good of mankind remember, no matter how many innocent souls it consumes in the process.
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  3023. Trump's Golden Dome, like Bush's and Obama's Iron Dome before it and like Reagan's Star Wars before even that are all just good ol' American snakeoil deployed in the ongoing imperial US propaganda forever war. History shows us they're ALL BS on stilts and full of practical and literal holes, but needless to say a few well connected US individuals and corporations have done or will do very well out them regardless.
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  3024. There's NO way that ANY of these people like Kushner et al pushing this grotesque agenda could possibly believe in the kind of god they claim to believe in.
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  3025. Going back to the race riots of the 1980s - many of which were based on genuine grievances particularly to do with policing and also had their occasional examples of heinous acts like PC Blakelock's murder - the establishment's response was to 'reach out' to community leaders in an attempt to address these grievances. Our government, politicians and MSM have all just set about roundly condemning these riots, demonizing their participants and 'magically' speeding up the sclerotic court system and finding cells in apparently unsustainably overcrowded jails. Further to this, they will doubtless also use it to provide the excuse for even more Draconian laws and extended state overreach. Two tier policing indeed.
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  3026. Some perspective. In 2023, a record 10,000 research papers were retracted.
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  3027. I'm sure there's no smoke without fire in a few instances there, but most of the deaths on this list demand more than a small stretch of believability if you read up on them. Speaking as someone who loathes the Clintons this then is poor, lazy journalism and cynical sensationalism.
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  3028. Yep, but for some reason these people always get away with, yet again, turning something into a simplistic racial issue when it is far more complex and nuanced than that. It's basically a way for one group to shut down the conversation. A sensible adult conversation that needs to be had and we're still not having.
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  3029. Sure. Why?
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  3030. And so he should.
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  3031. It was most likely a US supplied IDF JDAM FFS!! Google or YT it. It's on YT Shorts. Plenty of examples. A dud missile it was not. It's not 'rocket' science.
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  3032. ​ @mattwaite5558 A good magician never reveals his secrets.
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  3033. C4 News is effectively a UK state broadcaster and like BBC News is legally required to report in an impartial manner. Neither clearly do as evidenced by this B$.
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  3034. Basically we are seeing a deliberate, sustained and significant upward wealth transfer courtesy of our political and financial classes and it's been happening right under our very noses for decades largely unopposed. Margaret Thatcher dismantled the unions and then Tony Blair dismantled the Labour Party effectively neutralizing the prospect of any future meaningful opposition or voice for those dispossessed.
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  3035. Essentially just goes to show how much in the internet age lying has moved on.
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  3036. Also made the same mistake in the past.
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  3037. This is a general point but based on personal experience. I would agree that big tech - sites like FB, Quora, YouTube, Google - certainly seems to protect these psychopathic types online and not just through affording them their alleged anonymity to sow their bile. Big tech seems comfortable taking down checkable entirely factually accurate statements for example whilst leaving clear falsehoods up propagated by these psychopathic types. Similarly, abusive statements made by them that often result in a similarly robust response can result in that response being removed under the claim that user policies haven't been followed whilst the original comment, bizarrely, remains untouched. It seems quite clear to me that there is a tacit aim on their part to reinforce a certain narrative and support those who propagate it regardless.
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  3038. Tesla sold its BTC, but didn't sell its Dogecoin??? Is it cos they're essentially worthless and Musk can use it as his relatively cost free pump and dump plaything unlike BTC?
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  3039. The Trump years were allegedly the time the world all stared into the fiery abyss and where fascism and the threat of global chaos and war abounded. Fast forward four years and THAT'S exactly what Biden, the supposed adult in the room and antedote to Trump, delivered. What we're witnessing is cognitive dissonance on steroids, ladies and gentlemen.
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  3040. The cruel irony is that Corbyn wasn't actually found guilty of anti-Semitism by the inquiry only of being slow to tackle it. This has been attributed and referenced here to the fact that he, despite being leader, had no proper control over the Blairite wing in Millbank which was constantly working against him. It was, in effect, two parties. Two opposing parties. I shall never, ever vote for Labour after this and tell others whenever I get the opportunity of this effective coup.
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  3041. Eric Weinstein's take on why Trump will never get elected in 2024 is worth a look.
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  3042. @RetroHobby101 I've had a couple of comments removed immediately more or less, but I wasn't aware that a time delay might be relevant as to who was responsible. I'll look out for it.
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  3043. Ironically, you were many more times more likely to be purged from the Labour Party for being antisemitic if were Jewish. Oh, how we laughed.
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  3044. Great Unherd comment: Last year, Julie Burchill posed the question, “Do you know a Mary Sue – a self-adoring paragon of virtue who can only ever admit to faults which are actually boasts in disguise?” As I read the article I was pondering who might be the biggest ‘Mary Sue’ in recent British Politics, when I realised it was not so much a Mary Sue as a ‘Rory Stew.’ No doubt Harriet Harperson would damn the patriarchy for stealing yet another accolade from the Sisterhood, but the biggest Mary Sue is, horrors, a bloke – to give him his full title, Roderick James Nugent Stewart OBE FRSGS FRSL, academic, diplomat, author, broadcaster, former soldier, rumoured-spook and politician-turned-podcaster. Haunted Eddie Redmayne, if fashioned by the chaps at Aardman Animation after a long lunch. Rory is a man of undoubted abilities – but there’s no one in less doubt of his abilities than he is himself. His particular skill is the self-effacing humble-brag. Whilst often appearing to apologise for the privileges bestowed on him by his Eton and Balliol education, he still always manages to compare himself favourably to other Eton/Oxford grads and remind you that Boris is not really that posh after all. Nor, even, David Cameron. Rory’s never too shy to coyly drop a mention that, of course, he tutored the young Princes William & Harry, whilst his Spectator Diary was peppered with (seemingly casual) asides of his velvet-knickerbockered childhood, his view of Hyde Park from the windows of a large town house that has been in the family for generations and is close enough to Knightsbridge barracks that the Household Cavalry clop by, …. oh, and did I mention I’m a regular visitor to Highgrove? There’s no question he’s led a genuinely interesting and varied life, and is a man with a prodigious CV – though his recollections do seem to differ from others who were present at each stage of his storied career. His brief stint as a Provincial Deputy Governor in Iraq earned him the sobriquet “Florence of Arabia” from the embedded press, as he loved nothing more than to have his photo taken in the desert, wearing flowing robes and striking suitably warrior-poet-philosopher poses. Nothing could skewer Rory’s unadmitted hunger for acclaim more than his hero T.E. Lawrence’s observation of his own “craving to be famous, and a horror of being known to like being known”. In his memoir – and every time I’ve heard him speak – Rory casts himself as the reluctant hero, come to save the country from Tory populism, and the Tories from themselves. For a man who claims not to want to be centre-stage, he seems to have a preternatural ability to wander ‘unknowingly’ into the limelight. He makes much of the idea that he’d like nothing more than to live the life of a poet, or perhaps a Victorian explorer, but duty calls and thus he reluctantly puts down his slim volume of Ovid to take up the challenge of leading the Tory Party or to have a run at becoming Mayor of London. How galling that both jobs were snaffled up by his deeply unserious nemesis. Rory Stew hates Brexit, natch, but above all he loathes Boris Johnson – really despises him. Predictably the subject of Brexit and Boris provide much fodder for the podcast Rory co-hosts with the bagpipe-bothering Blairite bully-boy, Alastair Campbell. One wonders whether what Rory-Stew most dislikes about Bo-Jo is that they’re both sharp-elbowed Old Etonians who cultivated their quirks and studied eccentricities to a level of theatrical performance, yet it was the shambolic Boris who, unfathomably, succeeded in attaining the top job. If you want a Guardian masterclass in how to squeeze self-aggrandisement and noble suffering into a description of one’s own humiliation, this takes some beating: “I had been rejected by my colleagues in the leadership race and I had been unable to prevent a man who was the antithesis of everything I valued in public life becoming the prime minister. I lost confidence in myself, my judgment and – because so many of its people had voted for Boris Johnson – almost in the country itself. In 2020, I moved to Yale University to teach and reflect on what I had learned in government and in defeat.” Rory Stewart, 'a sneery little know it all who simultaneously fails to come to any discernible point about anything'.
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  3045. You don't have to watch him.
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  3046.  @maria369  Again, so why are you here? You are apparently capable of making up your own mind. Why can't others?
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  3047.  @maria369  My only problem is with people who not only won't listen to others, but who also believe others shouldn't be able to either. You're perfectly entitled to disagree with Varoufakis but resorting to ad hominems and saying his opinions aren't worthy of attention speaks volumes.
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  3048. America isn't even a signatory to the ICC and never seriously pursues its own military 'drones' domestically for alleged war crimes so it's difficult to imagine Biden or Blinken ever ending up in the dock.
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  3049. It's ironic that ascendent countries like China are actually embodying what was once proudly considered the American Dream in America. Constantly striving to improve their lot through ingenuity, tenacity and sheer hard work. America and others in the West see this, fear it and endeavour to stifle it not least because through their own increasingly neo-feudal technocratic systems 'the plebs' feel less and less invested in and more alienated from their own societies.
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  3050. To be fair she might be tempted to show the clip of Trump talking about injecting disinfectant to treat COVID in 2020.
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  3051. No can do. Won't advance their careers, pay their bills, put their genepools through college or keep them in clover sadly.
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  3052. So not only is Cretin Yahoo secular he's also a heretic according to Jewish law?
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  3053. Worth noting that Venezuela's woes began long before the 'socialists' took over.
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  3054. If God didn't exist then man would have had to have invented Him....
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  3055. Semantic point maybe, but people aren't seeing their assets destroyed, more their values. Also pays to remember that there are people on the other side of these losses who are making or who have made money from them. Governments are net winners either way.
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  3056. Waiting for my comment on smoking to appear....FFS.
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  3057. Path of least resistance. The time would never be more auspicious for those keen on membership. The case, for them, more or less made itself and once you're in you're in. No going back now.
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  3058. Another entirely factual and verifiable comment taken down. I'd love to know what the rules are regarding this sort of thing.
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  3059. Same programme as yesterday.
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  3060. Big tech can't, by their own admission, allegedly, even cope with removing the vast swathes of KNOWN to be illegal content currently on their sites, so how on earth are they going to cope with sifting through all this more voluminous questionable stuff?
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  3061. You lose your soul increments. This guy knows that and humbly recognises that this is but one step toward putting a stop to that.
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  3062. I was pleasantly surprised when I first watched him, expecting this preaching loathsome hate-filled partisan shock jock only to find, er, well, Tucker Carlson. He's just become a hate figure for many on the American Left (but certainly not all) most of whom I suspect have never watched him as Lionel says.
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  3063.  @natbumpo8430  'The warships — frigate Hengyang, cruiser Zunyi and replenishment vessel Weishanhu — are exercising a freedom of navigation in international waters off the Australian east coast of a kind that angers Beijing when exercised by the Australian military in the disputed South China Sea. China had given notice that the warships could potentially fire live weapons during an exercise, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said' NPR.
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  3064.  @natbumpo8430  This is when ratcheting up and not talking can go horribly wrong. Even by accident. A Western war with China wouldn't stay conventional for very long I'm sure and nor would it just remain against China. Between China and the US I know where I'd put my money as to which one is most intent on ratcheting up tensions and why.
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  3065.  @lisamills161  This is a frequent tactic and charge I've noticed levelled at a lot of the more controversial 'guru-type' commentators nowadays. They are, at their heart, ad hominems dressed up as concern for the dumb, gullible sheeple rather than concerned with directly addressing the points and arguments being made. Correct or otherwise. Neil Oliver happens to be stating undeniable verifiable facts. The fact that he's Neil Oliver, that he's earning his living from it or that you don't like him is not that relevant and doesn't fundamentally change the truth of what he is stating. You question his motivation. What's yours pray?
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  3066. He was a 'failed' weapons inspector because he was 'dumb enough' to repeatedly point to the fact that there weren't any WMD in Iraq. A fact that the US government duly ignored because it planned to go war with Iraq regardless. He was inconvenient to say the least. The parallels with the western-led proxy war in Ukraine are marked. In terms of his sex abuse conviction it was a planned FBI sting against Ritter - why might you ask - for an internet only exchange on an over 18s only chat site. The 15 year old girl never existed and should have been over 18 anyway to be on there in the first place under the rules of that site ie there's no reason to believe that it wasn't anything other than fantasy role play in his mind. Was he stupid? Hell yeah. Does it have anything to do with judgements he's made on Iraq and Ukraine? Absolutely naff all.
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  3067. Every shill has their price.
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  3068.  @lasttango7522  Yep. Hundreds of billions to pay for covid and yet most people couldn't see this coming apparently as they were all too busy 'saving lives'. Nevermind the countless more lives that have now been condemned thanks to these policies both in terms of resultant healthcare failures and looming, enduring poverty.
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  3069. 'Sorry, though I'm head of the British military I can't walk, think and talk all at the same time'
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  3070. Welcome to the Cindy Yu Appreciation Society aka The Spectator😁
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  3071. Best thing you can do is share it with as many people as you can.
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  3072. 'You leave Israel, you enter Gaza and you are God' - IDF soldier. And yet people still have the temerity to claim this is a war not a genocide.
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  3073. Thanks for saving me some time.
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  3074. Iran aims for and largely hits Israeli military and intelligence targets - news of which is actively still suppressed by Israeli and Western media - whilst Israel shoots and bombs indiscriminately in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria. Despicable acts which we all know about thanks to our mainstream media and portrayed as if they're some kind of glorious settling of accounts. Remind me. Just what are 'Western values' again?
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  3075. Do you mean stagflation?
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  3076. And yet posting multiple ROFL emojis without actually saying anything of substance at all is profound I presume?
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  3077. Amazing!! Where and how are you trading it?
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  3078. Biden's 'mental acuity' was being openly questioned in 2019 so I'm not entirely sure what Tulsi's on about there?
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  3079. Zelensky has already given the greenlight to J P Morgan, Blackrock and Goldman Sachs to have first divvies on rebuilding the country so a victory is in the bag now surely?
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  3080. You'll never hear a Jew calling for the death of Palestinians, but you'll hear it in reverse??? You're kidding, right?
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  3081. Lots of conflicting narratives here... On the one hand we're told that technology will render many of us obsolete and there will be no jobs. On the other that will afford us far more leisure time. Again, on one hand, we're told birth rates are plummetting and the population is aging so there aren't going to be enough of us to fill those jobs in future. Similarly, we are told that there aren't enough of us to fill those jobs so endless unchecked immigration is the ONLY answer to this problem. The truth, I'm sure, is out there. It's just I haven't yet divined what it is yet. Have you?
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  3082. Any Ukrainian involvement seems highly unlikely given the current evidence.
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  3083. Yep. I was shadow banned by the SDP on their YT site. The party secretary refused to tell me why after repeated requests and Clouston in an email promised to address the issue after conference. He never did. I'm guessing it was because I asked questions (literally) about the wisdom of lockdowns and the indecent haste with which the covid jabs were introduced during covid, but I can't be certain. Having received no satisfaction from either the Party Secretary or Clouston and after being threatened with a disciplinary I decided to leave the party. THAT is the SDP.
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  3084.  @richardpayne Marxism, an essentially atheistic ideology, has likely killled far more people over a shorter period of time than any god. I'm not making the case for gods, merely that human beings will always find an excuse to do terrible things to each other regardless.
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  3085.  @richardpayne  The ideology or the icons of that ideology simply replace the deity which can then provide the external superior authority to do bad things. I accept that its part of the human condition to seek out that higher sanction in order to justify evil acts and thereby absolve one from blame, but it amounts to much the same thing. Yes, having someone nobody can physically see, who can't actually speak and who can't be contacted helps this process enormously, but, again, it amounts to much the same thing.
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  3086.  @Butterfly-t6d  Undoubtedly it's human nature. Religion and/or ideology - both things we're all susceptible to because they are suggestive of strong pathways, clear patterns and guaranteed solutions - provide the bones upon which to hang the flesh and provide the excuse for it.
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  3087. Wall St in inability to defy physics shocker!!
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  3088. The US blew up and destroyed those pipelines because it saw them as a potential bargaining chip for Russia in the face of Europe that might come to waver over its support for the war in Ukraine. Condie Rice said far back in 2014 that Europe needed to embrace US energy and reject cheap Russian energy and Biden said last year that the US fully intended to end the supplies provided by NS2.
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  3089. The CDC recently quietly changed the very longstanding and long understood definition of what 'a vaccine' was so, ideally, because I'm 'old school' I just call them jabs or shots. 'Vaccines' they are not.
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  3090. Obesity certainly seemed to play a major role in the likelihood of dying from covid from the empirical evidence I saw.
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  3091. Piers Morgan being paid a lot of money to talk cr@p again. He's either swallowed the narrative hook, line and sinker or the Devil should fire him on the grounds of p*ss poor advocacy.
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  3092. Well said. Exactly.
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  3093. Diplomacy can only work if it is founded on trust. The West has repeatedly demonstrated over decades that it cannot be trusted in negotiations with Russia. It is an unreliable partner, to put it mildly. Little wonder now that it refuses to negotiate with Russia at all as it knows its disingenuous approach has finally run out of road and brass tacks would be the only way forward.
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  3094. Big, big thumbs down for Neil Young and Joni Mitchell from me on this. To be fair both their outputs have been extremely patchy throughout their careers, ranging from the sublime to the execrable. Their latest attempts at censoriousness definitely fall into the latter camp.
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  3095. I'm no fan of this government or the current crop of UK, yes I mean UK, politicians but James O'brien is a tedious, posturing, tin eared tw@t regardless.
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  3096. The average age of a covid death in the UK remains to this day over 80. Over covid and lockdowns the major problem wasn't that the scientific community were squabbling as Hamish says, it was that they weren't able to squabble openly and often enough and that our craven, expedient, self-serving politicians, almost to a bleeding man and woman, chose to hide behind 'the science' rather than actually do the jobs they were elected to do. Partly thanks to this current crop of spineless eedjuts we're in the sh*t we're in today. Not forgiving or forgetting the shameful role our complicit mainstream media played in this debacle either.
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  3097. The internet is both the town square and the market place for ideas. Ideas, be they good, bad or indifferent, must be permitted to both flourish or wither on the vine (with one crucial caveat). Any money you like, but most of the more outlandish types of views garner very few views on YT and doubtless require a specifically worded search, but it's good to know that they are still there and permitted to be. The laws that police the internet should be the laws that govern wider society ie is what is being said, no matter how disagreeable to some, in breach of the established law? The law itself is constantly evolving after all and that would mean that sites might only have a duty of care over the legality of what is being published (not its veracity) or, alternatively, the user alone undertakes through the Ts and Cs the responsibility for the legality of what they are writing. The sheer volume of what is being produced on the internet is its biggest issue and policing it is a near impossible task without veering too far into the territory of censorship.
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  3098. Oh, puh-leez. Rice, I suspect, doesn't give a sh*t about whether 'opaque' Israel has WMDs and whether there have been 'regular inspections' there. Funny that.
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  3099. ​ @TomRaine Those weren't 'predictions', those were warnings. Cryptos, including BTC, are a pump and dump zero sum game predicated on a supply of the next greater fools.
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  3100. It's only news when someone actually isn't.
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  3101. Definitely a bad hair day there Douglas.
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  3102. 'Fewer' nurses, doctors etc NOT 'Less'. Small point I know, but...
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  3103.  @MichaelThoman  How so?
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  3104. I wish the head of our National Bank was known as Mr Safe.
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  3105. And South America is a booming paradise presumably? WTF would write this let alone upvote it?
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  3106.  @Dirk-o9s  Er no. Seems like I do and seems like I understand basic facts and can look at a map.
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  3107. More life and movement in FDR....today....
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  3108. Hopefully this will eventually be tested in court by a collective of these wealthy footballers or others best placed to do so. Unvaxxed footballers are being blamed for cancelled matches and are facing potential dismissal by their clubs if they fail to take the jab and yet vaxxed ones can still test positive for COVID presumably with the same resulting cancelled matches.
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  3109. True. 'Interests' that it still somehow manages to convince too much of a credulous world are 'principles'.
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  3110. ​ @RunOfTheHind Kinda begs the question what was Biden doing with a load of classified intelligence documents in his garage and private offices from the Obama era and from his time as senator? He was a senator and a VP not POTUS during those times so wasn't in any position to take them away or declassify them. The White House did not disclose for 68 days the presence of the documents also found at his home after the initial disclosure. Biden had earlier referred to Trump's handling of classified documents as 'totally irresponsible' prior to the discoveries at his own home and offices.
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  3111. Not for nothing did the vampiric Victoria Nuland, 'The Maidan Cookie Monster' seize upon this moment to descend upon Ukraine, part of her ancestral homeland.
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  3112. Specific language is indeed important here, as Patrick says. Like everything nowadays nuance has been lost (or has it been deliberately buried) and along with that it seems so has the actual truth. Pollution, over exploitation of finite natural resources and wanton long term environmental destruction in search of short term profit are undeniable and can depressingly be seen with our own eyes all over the world. Human driven, irreversible, apparently cataclysmic climate 'change' is something else entirely and the fact that it is a narrative that is being used wholesale to drive massive social, political and economic change globally and that it can no longer be openly challenged almost anywhere in the mainstream media is the truly worrying thing here.
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  3113. Definitely open hostilities have ceased from the majority of remainers, but what we're seeing now are a succession of Trojan Horses being wheeled in order to try and sneak behind Brexit lines and deliver the weakest form of Brexit possible. Even the IMF and OECD have got in on the act now FFS!!
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  3114. Milei is there partly I'm sure to be a stone in the shoe of the BRICS movement.
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  3115. ​ @BrixtonJenny Oh, do give over😂
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  3116. Yet more 'boosterism'.
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  3117. Starmer's recent overwhelming 'victory' should also be a wake up call that it's time to change our broken FPTP voting system to something far more representative.
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  3118. The big irony here being that the self-styled 'beacon of democracy' that is the United States is obsessed with alleged foreign interference in its own elections.
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  3119. And when you pour billions into the Ukraine in terms of money and military hardware as the West has not really knowing where most of it is going you're getting dangerously close to, 'Houston, we have a problem' territory.
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  3120. An atomised media targeting specific audiences is definitely a problem when it comes to entrenching views. Driven ever more by the profit motive, increasingly 'news' has become a commodity tweaked and served to our own taste for us to consume. When seen in this context not giving a paying audience, even if it's indirectly through advertising, what it wants makes little sense.
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  3121. Not just economists that play fast and loose with statistics, so do climate scientists, the media and politicians. The mass US forest fires a year or so back were being attributed to ACC and the gradually increasing graphs 'proved' it. Trouble was the official datasets used from the US fire services on started in the 1950s. One had to bother to look back in the official tiny little logs to see that they had in fact fallen precipitously since 1930 which was the high point by far in terms of forest fires and their sheer level of destruction. The problem, of course, is that this didn't actually fit the popular narrative so even those who dared to point it out were summarily ignored by pretty much everyone to this day.
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  3122. US and West are maintaining plausible deniability and will do so for as long as they can. Where they think this will go and how they think it might end is beyond me, but on the face of it Russia is showing extreme restraint in the face of extreme provocation.
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  3123. Only messing. Rory Sutherland makes very good points in the last segment.
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  3124. 14.00m
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  3125. 'La, la, la, not listening' A vital weapon in every journalist worth his salt's armoury.
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  3126. WarGames: The Sequel.
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  3127. I would agree with most of this, but some on the Left have seriously got to get off their apparently unqualified support for illegal immigration hobby horse. The conflation between it and the, I think, obvious rise in Islamophobia is dangerous and unhelpful. Unchecked illegal immigration is a problem and a legitimate concern. It might not be to you personally, but it still can be to others and their feelings should not be summarily dismissed.
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  3128. If the banks go t*ts then your money's value will be buggered anyway whether it's in or out.
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  3129. My wife is always nagging me to wear shirts like George's. George and those like him are one of the biggest reasons I won't.
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  3130.  @yiguanas812  Not dismissing your suggestion out of hand there, but an infrequent democratic vote is the extent of most people's wish to engage directly with democratic politics so the least we can try and do is to make it feels like it counts unlike with FPTP which actively 'encourages' people not to vote in certain constituencies where they know it'll be a wasted vote and not worth the bother. FPTP made much more sense in the 1970s when there was an all but two party system and when the coalitions were essentially internalized within each party, but today there are a plethora of ideas and parties whose views it would be healthier to be seen to be presented and represented. If only for the sake of the democratic process itself if nothing else.
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  3131. 'History is not a morality play' Throughout human history, no one understands that better and has taken it to its absolute apogee than the American state. Morality is for pussies and the 'international rules based order' narrative is just another tool in their toolkit. A sophistic power play to ultimately get what they want. The harsh reality is is that it's the, 'what we say goes US rules based order'.
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  3132. Presumably there will eventually be an actual party out of the UKIP mold? That was founded in 1993 and it took them 20 years to get a referendum so assuming that people who wish to rejoin aren't just forever blowing bubbles they'll get together quite soon and actually do something rather than just bitching and moaning?
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  3133. That's not the point being made here.
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  3134. He's also a complete tool. Don't forget that either.
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  3135. 'When it comes to war, money is NEVER a concern' Nor Covid it seems...
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  3136. Ooh, punchy one you are. One would like to think that YT wouldn't take something like this down because it's so obviously the truth.... But when did that ever really count for much?
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  3137. Crypto is a ponzi-style scam built on greed, desperation and ignorance period, but those that got scammed indirectly happen to own much of those monies donated to the US Democratic Party. Those monies should be traced and put into a fund and those funds should be divvied up accordingly and returned to those original, misguided 'investors'.
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  3138. If Starmer's a socialist then I'm a Dutchman.
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  3139. Julian Assange long ago identified these 'people' as the 'transnational security elites' who fostered their 'forever wars' for profit. Probably fair to say his perspicacity hasn't exactly served him well...
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  3140. When you work in the woods all you can see are trees.
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  3141. It's a moot point unfortunately. America sneezes and the rest of the world catches a cold. Liz Truss's decision was a massive act of self harm and completely and utterly insane.
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  3142. Interesting to hear that Mearsheimer's views are so respected in high political circles, but no-one will admit to it.
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  3143.  @ericatkinson9285  Certainly should form a major part of the mix I believe yes. With finite fossil fuels forecast to run out by 2060 or not much beyond the world needs to look to diversify how it generates its energy. In that sense the clock IS ticking. Nuclear is reliable, the technology exists and it is ideal for providing the vital baseload that is currently often provided by fossil fuels when the wind doesn't blow or the sun doesn't shine. Developing so called 'renewables' makes perfect sense to my mind as we move towards the inevitable depletion of said fossil fuels, but only as part of a mix. THAT is the perfectly rational narrative hook these arguments should be hung on NOT the highly questionable, highly profitable, divisive quackery that is man made carbon induced climate change and yet I've yet to hear anyone, literally, make this case.
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  3144. The Dana and Bari Show!! Get a room!!
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  3145. Remember, as Henry Kissinger once said, America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.
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  3146. Why oh why do some tories still believe that Johnson was anything but a complete buffoon?
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  3147. If someone like Biden can win in Delaware (and, bunkered, far beyond) then I see no reason why Musk couldn't.
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  3148. The globalist model is broken. Bottom line is that today the fleet of foot, off shoring 'anywhere' elites get to extract wealth from societies and aren't required to put much back into them if anything at all. That shifts ever greater financial burden onto those 'somewheres' who actually live within those societies. Eventually something WILL have to give.
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  3149. I really like Chris Hedges' output generally, but this one is little more than a misguided polemic in my opinion. Japan isn't experiencing inflation in the same way as other Western economies because its particular circumstances are unique and chronic. Decades of economic stagnation, steadily declining living standards, substantial capital outflows, enduring low interest rates, heavily government subsidised corporations and consumer products has led to few higher wage demands and next to no inflationary pressures. In the US and Europe it's not, as Woolf says, greedy employers simply deciding to raise prices. It's much more complicated than that.
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  3150. In light of this news I've decided now not to post my secret BBQ sauce recipe on Discord.
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  3151. For those resorting to repeated ad hominems against Ritter on this thread: He was a 'failed' weapons inspector because he was 'dumb enough' to repeatedly point to the fact that there weren't any WMD in Iraq. A fact that the US government duly ignored because it planned to go war with Iraq regardless. He was inconvenient to say the least. The parallels with the western-led proxy war in Ukraine are marked. In terms of his sex abuse conviction it was a planned FBI sting against Ritter - why might you ask - for an internet only exchange on an over 18s only chat site. The 15 year old girl never existed and should have been over 18 anyway to be on there in the first place under the rules of that site ie there's no reason to believe that it wasn't anything other than fantasy role play in his mind. Was he stupid? Hell yeah. Does it have anything to do with judgements he's made on Iraq and Ukraine? Absolutely naff all..
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  3152. Incisive, painstaking analysis there😂
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  3153. I'm not being funny or unduly dismissive here, but recession is just a word...a word whose definition can vary depending on where you are in the world even...and just an officially defined metric...so why all this enduring obsession with what is just 'a word'?
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  3154. Wiki only says 'suspected chemical weapons used'... Going on to add that the Skripals' house was stripped and largely rebuilt whilst, 'Some of the emergency vehicles used in the response to the poisoning were buried in a landfill site. In June 2019 it was revealed emergency services spent £891,000 on replacing and discarding contaminated vehicles.' Ambulance services, 'discarded eight vehicles, comprising three ambulances and five paramedic cars. Wiltshire police, 'destroyed a total of 16 vehicles at a cost of £460,000'.
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  3155. Blackrock's Larry Fink seemingly wouldn't entirely disagree with you.
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  3156. ...and whilst they're at it the CIA chief's too.
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  3157. James Woods IS an asshole. Yes, he was great in Hercules, yes he is a c*nt about Gaza and yes he's correct it's not climate change, but IT IS environmental change. Rainfall in LA was a little above average in 2024, but if you insist on forever paving over paradise, luxuriant green grass and filling a quarter of a million private pools as Los Angelenos do, then something had to give.
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  3158. Sure, there'll always be an element of that, but the fixed pot for compensation is extremely limited in terms of the sheer potential numbers here. 'Vaccine' manufacturers effectively are immune from prosecution anyway and the people I know who are experiencing problems like clots around their hearts and in their lungs and feet aren't looking for compensation they're looking for answers. As for the two people I know, one 48 and the other 53, who died of heart attacks with zero family history in either case, I believe they're not currently looking for compensation.
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  3159. Gove also sticking the boot in. How much longer can these people, lowlifes like Starmer in particular, get away with such a wilful misrepresentation of the truth? Waters very clearly is NOT an antisemite. Anti-Semitism is a scourge on humanity and any decent human being understands that. Sue him, Roger. Sue his sorry ass off. You'd be doing us all a favour bringing this misreported story in MSM to wider attention as well as those numerous Jewish voices in Labour, many now kicked out, that oppose Israel's actions in Palestine.
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  3160.  @oliphauntsneverlie6227  Dost thou doubt his numerous appearances on toast and other sundry bakery goods in that time, sinner?
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  3161. It's worth acknowledging also, and to be fair Bannon touches upon it, both Europe's and the US's immigration issues have been stoked by their numerous military misadventures over the decades. With this in mind, Trump's insistence on pursuing the US policy of destabilisation in Venezuela must be taken into account.
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  3162. Murray, I hope not deliberately here because I like to think he's far smarter and better than that, is deliberately conflating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism. It's a wicked, dangerous, inflammatory conflation cynically confusing religion and ethnicity with nationalism.
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  3163. At least Gore remembers he's got a private jet. US 'climate czar' John Kerry needed to be reminded of his by a congressional committee...
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  3164. The bicameral system means that when it comes to the final run off next Sunday Macron will still easily beat Le Pen again. Last time out he won 66% of the vote and she 34%. She was trounced. This time round it will be closer undoubtedly, but she has Putin former links to play down, her immigration policies will bring her into direct conflict with the EU and her economic policies are clearly not very well thought through so the tide will slowly turn in the next two weeks of political sparring barring a miracle. I say all this as someone who is decidedly not a Macron fan by the way.
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  3165. Long known and understood by anyone with a vaguely enquiring open mind.
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  3166. @BjorckBengt  Yup wrote that one too quickly 👍
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  3167.  @pinkerproductions7420  It's not an argument, it's a fact. Being left or right has got nothing to do with it. Trump talked up his presidency when the market was rising and now he's dismissing its importance now it's falling. Either way the top 10% of Americans own 93% of the stock market and the bottom 50% own just 1%. Like I said, it is NOT the economy.
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  3168. @Daytona2  I didn't say he did. What's your point?
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  3169. Got some super dumb replies to this.😁
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  3170. The re-establishing of the former Soviet empire slippery slope argument in relation to the Russian invasion of Ukraine is and always was beyond absurd.
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  3171. Unelected, unaccountable obscenely well-funded, over-staffed NGOs, QUANGOs and GONGOs are also a perfect extension of this power structure. They allow government, ergo the corporations who pull their strings, to lobby for and implement unpopular policies via the backdoor.
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  3172. Russia, I think, is going slow and steady in Ukraine because it understands the political ramifications at stake. This, remember, is a war that it never wanted and whilst it could never afford to lose it it doesn't wish to be seen to be too triumphalist in winning it either. THAT, to me, signals good intentions for the future. It just wants to be left alone politically without feeling externally (or internally) threatened, but maintain good trading relations with the RoW. To me, there seems absolutely nothing wrong with that position.
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  3173. Whether it happens anytime soon or not, there's no escaping the fact that America doesn't deserve to maintain its primacy given how appallingly it has behaved since the end of WW2. I naively used to believe it was by far the lesser of any of the other potential evils in the world, but the illegal Iraq invasion opened my eyes as to what its rapacious, predatory empire was really all about.
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  3174. The FIRE sector is burning. Who'da thunk it? Wishing no ill upon anyone individually, but many FIRE sector jobs are, at their heart, parasitic debt based jobs.
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  3175. It's Thucydides Trap as IR scholars are fond of raising.
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  3176. The grand jury system is a broke joke. Only the USA and Liberia, one of the most corrupt countries in the world, still use it. Nuff said.
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  3177. Hey, shit usually floats. Epstein managed it for years and no one really knows where his money came from or went. At least the newly crowned Dark Lord of Chaos Musk has a better constructed more plausible narrative than Epstein.
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  3178. Of course it was nothing more than a geopolitical flex by the US, but nobody spins a more effective narrative than the Americans. The victors get to write the history so hence the reason why most people believed the narrative. Truman, I believe, is the US president with the most attributable deaths on his watch. Arguably the Nazis didn't lose WW2, they just relocated.
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  3179. Cheery.
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  3180. Well he certainly didn't did he?
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  3181.  @peterkratoska4524  Take a look at Macrotrends World GDP growth rate 1970 - 2022.
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  3182. Seriously, what are the statistical odds that the virus originated from Wuhan? One of the VERY few places in the world - less than ten - where viruses such as these have the necessary biosecurity to be able to study them....
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  3183. Bloke below recommends some fella called 'Lord Jesus' if that's any help?
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  3184. China has been the dominant culture throughout human history with only the occasional nadir. No other culture comes close to being able to make that claim. THAT deserves respect.
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  3185. The story of the average American actually getting poorer in real terms over the last decade or longer has been reflected in the UK and for similar reasons as Professor Cohen cites.
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  3186.  @Madoldcatlady  In terms of?
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  3187. Never let it be said that the 2020s wasn't shaping up to be a bumper decade for committing an actual crime and getting away with it.
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  3188. Similarly, presumably you keep referring to it as 'a vaccine' based on the CDC's recent changing of the long held, long understood meaning of the word? No 'vaccine' that I've ever understood to be one until covid requires repeated boosters, apparently ad infinitum, or got to evade the long accepted protocols for what constituted the safe use of a vaccine. All the money in the world never bought one second of time and though there are lots of claims that the covid 'vaccine' was simply greenlighted and all the usual roadblocks apparently removed one cannot account for the passage of time and how these 'vaccines' behave in the body over time.
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  3189.  @Sceince01  Of course no vaccine is 100% effective. I never claimed any were. What a daft statement. The fact is is that they have to cross an established threshold of efficacy and safety and, ideally, provide lasting immunity. This is the reason why they are used against viruses and diseases that barely mutate, unlike coronavirus. Where does 'a vaccine' like mRNA, nevermind the attenuated ones, fit into all this?
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  3190.  @Sceince01  Presumably the vast amount being the 'unvaccinated'? And what do say to all those health professionals who happen to disagree with you. Many of them doing much the same thing as you?
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  3191.  @Sceince01  It's important that you answer these questions Fayyaz if you wish to be seen as someone debunking conspiracies. I accept that there are a lot of truths, half truths and lies out there coming from both sides and if you wish to be seen as an upholder of the truth you should feel more than happy to answer my good faith, truth based questions....
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  3192.  @Sceince01  In the UK, where I'm from, there was a very famous case where our health secretary at the time was confronted on a ward by an anaesthetist regarding the government mandate on ALL NHS healthcare workers being required to have the jab, note the word 'jab' there, by a certain date or risk losing their jobs. This extremely brave man did this in front of television cameras and in doing so pretty much single-handedly, managed to reverse a decision which could have led to hundreds of thousands of highly trained medical professionals being forced out of their jobs resulting in horrific job shortages in a vital area and inevitable ensuing deaths. What monies do you think he was making there might you say for his troubles? What might his hidden agenda be? This incident is freely available to watch on YouTube should you wish? As I said, there are clearly those out there on both sides who wish to make hay from this, but there are also those who kinda like dealing with actual facts. Me being one of them.
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  3193.  @Sceince01  To be fair, John Campbell was an unqualified advocate for 'the vaccines' at the beginning and has since flagged up peer reviewed studies in places like Thailand, Israel and Germany, albeit relatively small, that have shown unprecedented levels of cardiac issues, particularly amongst post vaccinated young men. The biggest question that I've seen him pose is why aren't these studies being conducted on a larger scale in countries like the US, the UK and elsewhere. The fact that this approach has been successfully monetised on YT doesn't somehow make him wrong or a bad actor. Are you saying that he shouldn't be talking about these things?
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  3194.  @Sceince01  Try and avoid the patronising technique if you can would be my advice. Saying that something is simple to people and they don't understand it in the same breath when they simply don't trust or believe what you're saying is never a good sell. Anything, however complicated, can be explained simply by anyone who TRULY understands it.
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  3195. So, again, what is a 'kara', why did the CDC change its definition of what a vaccine is very recently and were all the people whom you treated, as you say often unpaid, for severe covid 'unvaccinated'?
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  3196.  @Sceince01  I'm fine with that and can work round that, but I still don't see what you mean by Kara.
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  3197.  @Sceince01  I'm looking at the number of deaths during the perinatal period from covid in the UK and I'm not really seeing anything on the official government ONS website. Were I a pregnant woman, particularly one repeatedly told to be careful about what I put into my body during that time, I would in no way entertain the introduction of a basically untested 'vaccine' using what is, essentially, a novel technology. What's so odd or reckless about that?
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  3198.  @Sceince01  I would certainly accept that in this report the study quoted wasn't sufficiently robust enough to draw any significant conclusions from, but if you read the included transcript starting around 2.18m onwards this point is made without going into the same depth of technical data you refer to.
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  3199.  @Sceince01  Kim Iverson's. The transcript is above.
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  3200.  @Sceince01  The results are indeed inconclusive, but the researchers from Lund University also expressed surprise that these studies have not been made much earlier for such a new vaccine and also that they fully expected far greater, deeper studies should be undertaken in the future. I accept that the study undertaken was not in anyway conclusive, nor could it have been and that Ms Iverson should have been much clearer about the methodology being used, but I also would like to think that any scientist in this field worth their salt should be demanding far more and bigger studies into what has bizarrely proven to be a studiously ignored area to date given how many millions of people have been subject to this intervention.
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  3201. I have tried to reply but my reply seems to have been removed or just disappeared. The same thing happened yesterday to a comment I replied with. It was merely a continuation of our discussion and not in anyway rude, just so you know. It looks like the YouTube gods have spoken unfortunately.
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  3202.  @Sceince01  Came up with a strange code instead of your name then 'whoosh' it was gone. Can't see your reply either.
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  3203.  @Sceince01  Mentioned excess deaths and some anecdotal examples of four people I know. Looks like the algorithm didn't like it.
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  3204.  @Sceince01  In the UK the average age of a covid death remains at 83 and much is being made of the rise in excess deaths in the last three weeks or so, particularly in the younger age groups. It is being variously attributed to the hot weather, the long term effects of covid itself, people delaying getting treatment because of lockdowns and the deleterious affects of the lockdowns themselves on our health services due to covid measures and prolonged staff absences.
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  3205.  @Sceince01  Just for the record I've had covid twice (not exactly recommended) and had a drawn out, less than pleasant experience with a flu jab in the past, but your plan is to have these jabs regularly going forward regardless with each mutation?
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  3206.  @Sceince01  And as to my earlier question lost in our lengthy, but enjoyable exchange, can you confirm that by far the majority of patients you've been treating for serious covid issues are the unvaccinated and that known underlying health issues like obesity, diabetes or heart disease haven't been particularly prevalent in your experience, merely the fact that they have refused the jab?
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  3207.  @Sceince01    How many children is that in 10k that ended up in ICU?
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  3208.  @Sceince01  And you will keep taking these boosters each and every time they appear I assume?
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  3209.  @Sceince01  Just watched his release from 12 days ago citing the change in advice in UK for pregnant women. He chooses to quote exclusively and directly from all the official sources offering the only advice that he would be uncomfortable vaccinating pregnant women with the non-mrna AZ vaccine. He finishes by saying that he is under a warning from YouTube on the opinions he is expressing. Is this the piece you're referring to or is there another?
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  3210.  @Sceince01  Looked at some of the stuff from Dr Offit and he looks like he's been accused for many years of the same thing as Dr Campbell, except arguably far, far worse and certainly far, far more lucrative. In the financial world this is called talking up your book. He's made his money talking up vaccines and has earned the monicker Dr pr(Offit). It also looks like he's less keen on these new bivalent offerings. Are you planning on taking these interventions in perpetuity regardless or might there come a time where you might draw the line?
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  3211. In me 'umble, Furedi starts off well and then loses it about half way in here. Ukraine isn't the thin end of the wedge for the West, it was mote likely the final straw for Putin. Ukraine's neutrality, or whatever eventually constitutes it, needs to be enshrined and assured before this conflict can be bought to a timely conclusion.
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  3212. And this is why free speech is so important as an inviolable principle. Note how the people like the self proclaimed 'intellectuals' on this comment thread simply resort to ad hominems. To all intents and purposes the climate change narrative along with the covid narrative became unchallengeable. To question them means that one is denying 'THE' science. A field that, by definition, history shows us should never have the definite article attached to it in the first place.
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  3213. ​ @MFitz12 Not at 500 mph you didn't.
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  3214. Respectfully disagree with JM. Zionism offers the US and, by extension, its Atlanticist western allies plausible deniability in terms of its current actions. The 'US being dragged into a war with Iran' just doesn't fly. The country's been on its neocon hitlist for decades.
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  3215. This was what the 1980s, deindustrialization and off-shoring were all about. Look at how much debt has been added to our economies over the last four decades, look how much we're producing globally ie about the same and look how wages have all but stagnated in real terms. Thankfully, for the blessed few, there are way more than enough people out there dumb enough to believe the narrative or feel sufficiently invested in it to perpetuate it.
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  3216. Breaking news. UK libraries have just been instructed to move their copies of Orwell's 1984 from the fiction to the non-fiction section.
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  3217. America is heading inexorably towards corporate fascism. I don't say that lightly and I'm applying the father of fascism Mussolini's definition of it.
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  3218. mRNA technology has been around for three decades and yet has NEVER been deemed safe by any drug regulator anywhere in the world until December 2020. Seven months ago. It's 'approval' has ONLY been granted on an emergency basis and legal immunity has been granted to its makers. Worth checking out the FDA's advice intended to extract informed consent from recipients in the US.
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  3219.  @jefflindley8355  So based on that thinking anybody who can should be piling into the markets regardless?
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  3220.  @jefflindley8355  Maybe, but the S and P went from a prepandemic high of around 3400 in 2019/20 in far rosier times to around 4800 at its more recent peak despite years of lockdowns and in clear anticipation of a V-shaped recovery. That recovery very clearly has not happened. We now have around 10% 'transitory' inflation, a recession looming, energy and food prices soaring, consumer confidence at rock bottom, house prices looking increasingly shaky, interest rates rising and a continuing war in Europe. If you think that now is a good time to buy in given the general trajectory of the markets then go for it, but I still think there's some considerable way more to go before the bottom is reached here, so why not wait for it if it looks far more likely than less?
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  3221.  @jefflindley8355  It's less about timing the market and finding the bottom and more about not catching a falling knife. If you think the knife isn't going to fall anymore, or least not substantially further then I agree you're right to jump in now. I'm of the belief that any subsequent recovery isn't likely to be both sudden and huge at the same time in the current climate so my FOMO antenna is currently lying decidedly dormant.
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  3222.  @jefflindley8355  Nice talking to you. Wish you all the best.
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  3223. What's a 'pruce'?
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  3224.  @willpeony5534  Aah, the buntiest chomper in the Clundy!!
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  3225. There is yet to be 'a vaccine' for ANY coronavirus. One has never been invented. They constantly mutate making one likely impossible. Little wonder why the CDC changed the long held definition of what 'a vaccine' was only recently in light of the 'performance' of these so-called covid vaccines.
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  3226. Yeah, he said other stuff in between. A lot more in fact. Go back and listen again perhaps?
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  3227.  @nimass7  I definitely agree that he should tone down his inflammatory language, but I think you might be dismissing the validity of his arguments based purely on your own ideological biases.
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  3228. Third time lucky perhaps in getting a comment posted? A metaphor this time rather than actual indisputable facts? Here goes... Israel using American supplied sledgehammer to smash nut but consistently fails to find said nut.
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  3229. Potentially...
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  3230.  @mickg7299   @mickg7299  It wasn't an informed choice by those who received those jabs nor likely by some of those who administered them. Many of the time honoured protocols for vaccine testing were thrown out, their efficacy was and still is questionable and no adequate time was given to assess the possibility of any side effects. In the case of the mRNA jabs the technology had been around for decades in various forms and never hitherto been deemed safe or effective until the end 2020 funnily enough. In fact the first eight months of administering those jabs in the US was done only under Emergency Use Authorization only ie they weren't fully approved as safe and that's even according to the manufacturers' very own small print on the packet. Not for nothing either was the long understood official definition of what constitutes 'a vaccine' very quietly changed by the CDC in December 2022 as it became clear that multiple repeated doses ad infinitum of these 'vaccines' would apparently be required in the future. Bet most of its recipients weren't told that at the time and nor were they told that they prevented neither contraction nor transmission either although that's what both government and media attempted to imply, albeit not the manufacturers. If you're unsure how more and more people actually feel about these jabs now then just look at the precipitous fall over time in their uptake, the now useless hugely costly government unused supplies and the steady fall in the share prices of their producers. By all means keep making your own choices as to whether you should keep having them but don't assume the right, like our governments came perilously close to, to force others to do the same as you.
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  3231.  @mickg7299  I'm actually talking information provided by the 'reputable' Pfizer's, Moderna's, FDA's and the CDC's own websites, but YouTube won't even allow for that.
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  3232.  @mickg7299  Most of the people I know didn't know this information then and don't know it now when I talk to them. Still, if you're unsure how more and more people actually feel about them now then just look at the precipitous fall over time in their uptake, the hugely costly, unused, out of date stockpiles and the steady fall in the share prices from their covid peaks of their producers. By all means keep making your own choices as to whether you should keep having them - must be due another - but don't assume the right, like our governments came perilously close to, to force others to do the same as you.
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  3233.  @mickg7299  I'm talking Pfizer's, Moderna's, the FDA's and CDC's.
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  3234.  @mickg7299 So no more jabs for you either then presumably with your acquired immunity?
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  3235.  @mickg7299  So why did the government buy all these unwanted jabs at great cost and why did these companies produce them I wonder if they weren't going to be needed? If they'd only spoken to you and learned about acquired immunity then they could have saved the taxpayer millions no?
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  3236.  @mickg7299  So the virus is evolving and these jabs were produced and purchased by government and yet more and more people have decided not to have them because they have come to the conclusion, presumably without professional medical consultation or possibly even with in your case, that they now have acquired immunity is that correct?
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  3237.  @mickg7299  Comment removed again!!
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  3238.  @mickg7299  YT algo up to no good again.
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  3239.  @mickg7299  Try again... treading carefully over YT landmines... How did so many people like you come to realise that they had this acquired immunity and that they no longer needed these newly purchased by government jabs?
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  3240.  @mickg7299  How did so many people, including you, all come to realise that they had this newfound acquired immunity?
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  3241.  @mickg7299  I deserve an award for perseverance here. I hope you realise that? I keep having to type and retype everything.
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  3242.  @mickg7299  Nope. They have a choice and they can exercise it. Their bodies, their choice. Not complicated.
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  3243.  @mickg7299  Now back to this acquired mass immunity question and how collectively so many people suddenly realised they had it except, apparently, those over 65...
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  3244.  @mickg7299  Now the answer to my question above please. Let call it AI as the matrix doesn't seem to like me calling it by its full name...
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  3245.  @mickg7299  Doesn't answer the question. You're effectively claiming that you and apparently millions of others all collectively realised that you all had AI and would no longer need any more of government's stockpiled jabs. A little weird no?
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  3246.  @mickg7299  I agree it isn't, but you're insinuating something which is hard to reconcile. Lots of people, people I know in fact, have decided that they no longer wished to have any more jabs and they were adamant their children weren't going to have them. You are the first person I've encountered who puts this down to their own self-diagnosed AI and furthermore suggests that everyone else came to the same conclusion as you. Hence I'm curious...
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  3247. Amen. NATO has become a danger to global peace and security.
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  3248. FEMA has admitted its hurricane disaster fund is already short of money and yet the US has been happy to send hundreds of billions to Ukraine to fund its proxy war with Russia. When are average Americans finally going to wake up to the fact that they are being stiffed by their Beltway Bandits forever in the thrall of their MIC?
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  3249. How so?
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  3250. There are indeed serious demographic issues at play throughout Europe, Japan, China and elsewhere. Immigration likely forms part of the potential solution to these issues, but that doesn't somehow mean that there effectively shouldn't be any policies or discussion around what potential form that might take.
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  3251. Krugman is just another high priest for the neoliberal elites and thus just another shill rewarded handsomely for parroting, propagating and not deviating from their self-serving dogma.
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  3252. YT recently gave me an '8speech' warning for suggesting where the missile might have come from that killed the Druze kids playing football FFS. The evidence now looks like I was correct, but I somehow suspect that warning ⚠️ will never be struck.
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  3253. Parity across ALL domains? Equality of outcome vs equality of opportunity? No one would be daft enough to enforce that, surely? https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/oct/05/legal-and-general-warns-ftse-100-firms-lack-of-ethnic-diversity-bame-board-member-2022
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  3254. 'A well intentioned bill' The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
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  3255. Just 30 pieces of silver usually does the job....
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  3256. A pro-Russian rodent who thinks that the US should be concentrating on containing China?? Hmm
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  3257. No, it's primarily driven by covid lockdown policies and latterly by the Ukraine invasion. The EZ is already in recession and the UK is sure to follow. Anyone who supported those lockdown policies needs to recognise this.
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  3258. Really? I'd like to see proof of that....
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  3259. The UK, along with significant others in Europe, has a significant interest bearing Debt to GDP ratio, particularly since covid. The only way that can be addressed is through growth, spending cuts, higher taxes or inflation. Though no great fan of this government it's quite obvious to me that they are the hapless ones left holding the passed turd parcel when the music stopped.
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  3260. It's not for nothing that the two utterly dominant US political parties are known as two wings of the same bird of prey.
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  3261. It's the globalist, Somewhere vs Anywheres argument. Unfortunately our governments have all been captured by the Anywhere globalists. What we have now, IMHO, is the worst of both worlds, Right wing neoliberal economics and a continual cultural shift to the 'progressive' Left eg identity politics. Needless to say, the Anywheres actively promote that cultural shift in order to burnish their own credentials, distract from the growing underlying inequality they're responsible for and allows for constant divide and rule. Et voilà!
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  3262. Israel spent years after the war relentlessly pursuing Nazi War criminals across the globe and punished them severely. No one was safe from their reach anywhere. I wonder what will happen to the known IDF war criminals when this ongoing atrocity is finally over?
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  3263. Shapiro cooked his goose proper with a lot of his audience with his stance on free speech over Israel's actions in Gaza regardless of arguments that might surround it.
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  3264. Speaking as someone, I'm utterly ashamed to admit largely because of my own self-centeredness at the time, who believed the Iraq narrative..... Fool me once? Shame on you. Fool me twice? Shame on me. Never again.
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  3265. The UK and Europe are in a pretty bad place at the moment but don't assume that the US's time won't come either. Its stock market has boomed off the back of a massive injection of 'public' money predominantly in the interests of the wealthy. Basically, they've had nowhere else to put it other than the markets but it's now running on fumes, hence the ensuing 'crypto' rally. There's a reckoning to come....
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  3266. ALL wars are ultimately bankers' wars.
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  3267. ....and they say a week is a long time in politics.....
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  3268. Better than not blinking at all.
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  3269.  @conscious_being  We live in a so-called post-truth world so, genuinely, nothing would surprise me anymore. We are told to believe and accept things today that are demonstrably false or tenuous to the point of insanity and yet large swathes of people still do. Politicians used to lie and get away with it for decades because they were protected by deference, patronage, no FOI, extensive secrecy laws etc, but now they just flat out lie to all our faces and see how many people buy into it... hopefully a majority aided by a complicit media. I think your scenario is highly unlikely, but given the current trajectory, only a fool would dismiss it out of hand.
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  3270.  @guidobolke5618  Speaking in her interview for “Die Zeit”, published on December 7, German ex-Chancellor Merkel said the following: “The 2014 Minsk Agreement was an attempt to buy time for Ukraine. Ukraine used this time to become stronger, as you can see today. Ukraine in 2014-2015 and Ukraine today are not the same.” According to the ex-Chancellor, “it was clear for everyone” that the conflict was suspended and the problem was not resolved, “but it was exactly what gave Ukraine the priceless time.”
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  3271.  @guidobolke5618  The glaring difference being?
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  3272. After all the craven 'following the science' BS from our UK politicians during covid it became clear only a few months in that they were actually following the scientists and statisticians who could consistently conjure up the worst case scenarios. This became self perpetuating, literally a death spiral, where competing factions of these 'expert communities' would try and outbid each other with ever more doomladen prophecies. What we saw over covid was an utterly shameful, deeply damaging abrogation of responsibility from our political class the deleterious effects of which we will endure for years to come.
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  3273. Perhaps you can clarify? He's the Democrat nominee for 2024 AND the current POTUS. His name along with Harris's are on the 2024 campaign ticket and any donations thus far have been made to them, legally speaking, and them alone. Should he withdraw now then Harris not only becomes the President until November, it still doesn't solve the thorny problem as to what happens in November where both he and she are the only legally nominated candidates with access to those campaign funds in the meantime.
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  3274.  @dankervick7962  The party can't do anything until Biden is removed or he agrees to go. If he won't go quietly or unless he's removed, in his own words, by God Almighty, then someone's going to have to invoke the 25th Amendment. That's either going to be Kamala Harris in an 'et tu Brute move' with support or separately sufficient numbers of Democrat Congressional members. Any which way this is going to be messy for the Democrats.
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  3275.  @dankervick7962  Either Biden pulls out voluntarily, 'God Almighty' intervenes or the Dems, most likely via Harris, instigate the 25th Amendment. This is a long foreseeable mess of their own making. To borrow from a well known phrase, 'they have been hoist by their own retard'.
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  3276.  @dankervick7962  Unable to reply unfortunately.
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  3277. I hate to say this because it's depressing, but if the British establishment hadn't got to him then the money markets would have.
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  3278. Politicians and certain blessed groups want the great unwashed masses aka 'deplorables' to talk and ideally fall out about just anything from race to transgenderism just so long as they don't talk about the elephants in the room... Class and the iniquitous wealth divide.
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  3279. Someone once told me that if there's anyone an Arab hates more than a Jew it's a Palestinian. It makes more sense than ever now.
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  3280. Can't imagine why Epstein would have an oil painting of Bill Clinton in a dress reclining on a chaise longue in the hallway of his NYC townhouse unless it was to send a message to all who entered.
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  3281. George Dubya is oudoubtedly the lowest of the low, but this clip has been taken out of context and this needs to be pointed out. The normally excellent JD Show and its researchers need to take serious note of this for the sake of maintaining their own credibility. Bush was talking to a CNN reporter about and being critical of European countries not imposing US led sanctions on countries like Iran for their own commercial reasons when he was talking about 'money trumps peace'.
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  3282. The IPCC report on imminent catastrophic climate change seems to be the automatic goto for these overeducated, underemployed, usually well-to-do middle class kids with saviour complexes. If we really and truly are right on the brink of annihilation and we, apparently, have the means of stopping the clock at one minute to midnight then I've yet to see any of these handsomely remunerated CC scientists seriously modify their jet setting, globe trotting behaviour or any of the politicians who indirectly fund them and egg them on for that matter.
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  3283. I hear what you're saying. A very nice elderly lady I know, apparently under no illusions, referred to the EU as 'a benign dictatorship' and that she was happy to live under such a system. Kinda makes sense I guess, but it begs the question how long do benign dictatorships remain benign without genuine checks and balances? Sure you can create the illusion of them by following the template and creating the institutions that signal 'democracy', but without true autonomy and genuine accountability they amount to little more than window dressing.
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  3284. Ditto.
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  3285. The big question is WTF happened to Bernie in 2016??? He doesn't seem motivated by money particularly, so what else could it have been?
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  3286. America: The richest poor country in the world.
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  3287. Is this method man Daniel Day Lewis's latest role?
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  3288. Take a look back at the history of the region since the Communism collapsed at the beginning of the 1990s. Mearsheimer, whether you want to hear him or not, has been warning about this for well over ten years which is why he's so well placed to talk about it.
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  3289. Environmental and habitat destruction, human pollution and human over-exploitation are all undeniable facts. Watch how 'climate catastrophists' effortlessly segue between the two when they're trying to make their case though. 'So you're denying something anyone with two eyes can see and only a fool would deny?' Er, no.
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  3290. @valerietweedie4376  The DNC made damn sure more people couldn't vote for people like Stein or RFK. US democracy in(action) I'm afraid.
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  3291. Somebody on here loves deleting comments. It's either YT or the host themselves but I think I might give GB News a miss for a bit.
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  3292. Viruses once they mutate to something more transmissible and less deadly don't suddenly do a U-turn like a British Government and become more deadly. Wrong yet again Ken. What on God's earth are you on man?
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  3293. Yeah, I think he actually didn't say that. He was actually saying that these claims shouldn't be actively and completely suppressed as all it was effectively doing was feeding the growing 'conspiracy'. Forbidden fruit principle. What he was actually doing was following journalism best practice whereby sunlight is the best disinfectant not the darkness you seem to be advocating.
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  3294. Probably TC's suicide note this.
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  3295. I remember listening to an R4 programme at the time of covid where a Sage scientist stated that it was made up numerous sub-groups. I also distinctly remember her saying that HMG consistently went for whichever sub-group modelled the worst case scenario. This effectively engendered an arms race amongst these sub-groups to consistently produce said worse case scenario. Seriously, you couldn't make this sh*t up.
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  3296. The United States, granted arguably both in terms of whom in the US it benefits overall and whether its good for the nation overall, has long had a mighty sweet deal going with the RoW of its own making since Nixon. Sucking in the world's tangibles in exchange for bits of its neverending printed paper and debt. Choosing then to characterise this decades' long arrangement as the freeloading RoW sucking endlessly on the generous-but-now-running dry US teat takes some family jewels I'll give you that.
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  3297. One of the big tricky issues that's rarely discussed here is that this rump of poor that is kept there 'pour encourager les autres' as much as anything is sustained in part by an neverending stream of unchecked immigration designed to suppress wages and effectively prevent organized unionization. This seems to be an impossible circle to square for the perennial virtue signallers of the left. You can't simultaneously be pro-ending poverty and pro-unchecked illegal immigration. They're mutually exclusive.
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  3298. Sadly they found him just in time to pardon his son. Something he 'forgot' he previously claimed he wouldn't do.
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  3299. The Internet of Everything ultimately means surrendering autonomy to somebody somewhere.
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  3300. Branson in another pickle.
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  3301. Courageous Mann.
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  3302. Interesting aside, but the word 'Holocaust' wasn't used in reference to the extermination of Jews until around about the early 1960s. It was first used, I think, by the NYT, but prior to that it had been used historically to refer to multiple deaths usually by fire.
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  3303. Journo can now add a fourth reason to his list as to why someone might leak this stuff. Braggadocio.
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  3304. Much of MSM is reaping the wild wind it has long sown. It's the cost of lying basically.
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  3305. Glad you got that through the algo. I stated similar yesterday - although far less eloquently - but it was removed.
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  3306. Sunak is just a placeman marking time till the next election. He's really only there because the current alternatives within the Tory ranks are far worse.
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  3307.  @stevemorganexperience7833  Of course you can't be arsed because you know it isn't there. You original comment essentially makes you a liar, as even you're bright enough to realise, and yet you choose to compound your lie with that wretched response.
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  3308.  @stevemorganexperience7833  YT doesn't always like live links. Try again and make sure it isn't a live link.....
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  3309.  @stevemorganexperience7833  Try and type out the link rather than copy and paste. See if that works. Either that or just copy and paste his reply.
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  3310. Yer man even makes Macron look good sadly. Trudeau is a shocking individual.
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  3311. That bonkers SBF promo video would be seen as a spoof in any normal world that hadn't taken leave of its senses.
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  3312.  @raymondcarroll3876  True. 'Everyone ultimately disappoints you' as the old saying goes.
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  3313. COVID is not a patch on the AIDS death toll. Ken Livingstone is totally wrong there. Ken is financially set for life. Any scintilla of respect I might have once had for him totally evaporated after this interview. The man's a f*cking idiot. Shame on you Ken.
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  3314. In the past just one assassination of a POTUS, ex or otherwise, would have dominated the MSM news cycle for weeks on end. We now have two in quick succession on the same guy and MSM is a chorus of crickets. Nuff said.
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  3315. Brilliantly measured and put comment.
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  3316. The Ukraine war has, in effect, allowed the US to kill two birds with one stone. Seriously knocking back both Europe, an economic competitor, and weakening Russia, a military competitor.
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  3317. Why do the more optimistic US commentators keep going on about the high level of US households savings if they're two thirds less than they were a year or so ago?
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  3318. This is a blatant admission of what some people in the know have long understood. Despite what some of us might have long liked to believe governments never, ever want full employment. Full employment is inflationary and thanks to COVID they've lost their handle on it. It really is THAT simple folks.
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  3319. Only cos he couldn't make it up the steps.
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  3320. I don't think that he feels persecuted for that reason. Probably more to do with the fact that he's had his ability to earn his living severely curtailed because he openly and bravely refused to buy into all the CRT 'white privilege' racist bullsh*t. Bullsh*t which, if I were a betting man, you buy into.
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  3321. The laughable counterfactual being amongst some? Imagine what the world would be like if the US hadn't spent decades continually intervening in its self-appointed role as 'global policeman'?
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  3322. Nailed it.
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  3323. What we're witnessing really is the Biden Administration tippy toeing through the political minefields, both Ukraine and Gaza, until November without too many going off big time. What should really be happening, at least in a sane world, is the US media should also be drilling down on what exactly Trump would be doing in both these circumstances. Sure, there'll be lots of hot air from the Trump camp about not being privy to the information, but the US electorate deserves to know where both men stand on these key issues His 'strategic silence' on Gaza ain't good enough.
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  3324. Most people don't properly understand what the EU is. Its propaganda and associated lexicon is still might powerful voodoo over some.
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  3325. @gaborrajnai6213  😂
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  3326. It's not just totally 'irrational', it's totally immoral.
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  3327. I think that most people understand that the planet is currently getting warmer, but the extent to which it is getting warmer isn't significant in the grand scheme of things and nor does this rise represent a significant danger to humanity. Nor does it, in fact, preclude the world getting colder in future either, which is a far more scary prospect. CO2 might well be a greenhouse gas and contribute to this warming in some small way, but again its impact is still highly debatable. If I were to posit a strong argument for seeking to find alternative, preferably more sustainable and even more environmentally less impactful sources of energy now then it would be that fossil fuels aren't infinite and that humanity is using them at an increasing rate of knots. This makes far more sense to me than the highly questionable grift that climate change scientists like the gentleman above looks like he's attempting to peddle.
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  3328. Textbook fallacy argument there. Nice one. From your comment, I take it you're in favour of police brutality then?
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  3329. The AIPAC/Israel tail wagging the US dog simply doesn't wash I'm afraid. I have little doubt that US Congress is beholden to some degree to AIPAC/Israel cash as are both the current presidential candidates and current president but the elephant in the room is the geopolitical role Israel fulfills in the oil rich region where also much of global trade must pass. Israel is the constant stone in the shoe of the ME and gives America and the West a permanent lever in the region. Hence the reason America's support for Israel is 'ironclad' even going so far as to having to support and defend a genocide that is happening in plain sight.
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  3330. Aah, spiritual home of the trouser press. Greetings.
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  3331. Weird thing here is that this is far more 'live' and 'hot' than the Cuban Missile Crisis and yet Western media unlike Russian media seems to be largely oblivious to it???
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  3332. Criminally under regulated, nay allowed cryptos are the perfect mechanism for the rich to repeatedly rinse the proles. The democratisation of money indeed.😂
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  3333. A lot of the figures released regarding 'record temperatures' in various European countries and cities were curiously seriously overstated by the looks. Rome, on July 18th for example, was unofficially stated across the world's media as being near 42 degrees, whereas the temperature was officially recorded as being around 32 degrees. Something fishy going on here.
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  3334. Rory Stewart, 'a sneery little know it all who simultaneously fails to come to any discernible point about anything'.
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  3335. It's. It's it's Not its😊
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  3336. The major problem here, of course, is that whilst there are always lazy people willing to scrape by on handouts, far more significantly there are people at the top essentially making money from money, often rentiers, at the expense of others far more productive lower down the food chain. Either that or they're serial sucklers of the state teat who, without a hint of irony or a blush, constantly evangelise to everyone else about the sanctity of free market capitalism and the need for self-sufficiency.
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  3337. This man is evil personfied.
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  3338. War pigs.
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  3339. Scholz, like Starmer in the UK, Macron in France and Harris in the US, all embody the phrase, 'weak 'men' produce hard times'.
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  3340. Simply because you don't like what he's saying or because you have a professional academic interest in international relations and a wider understanding of the hugely complex geopolitics at play here and would like to share with us all a different perspective?
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  3341.  @JDAbelRN  As Molly Ivins quipped, “It’s hard to convince people that you are killing them for their own good.”
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  3342. Appropriately, a bit like the drunk at the bar who hates to drink alone, he wants to make sure that everyone is as miserable and desperate as he is. Misery loves company, so the saying goes. Still, if I had the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people on my hands, literally, thanks to something I'd done I'd be in a pretty dark place too.
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  3343. Hysteria and fear were stoked by the wider reaction to covid. Rational voices not only weren't listened to, they were effectively silenced in the mainstream debate for two long years and we're now reaping the mostly unnecessary bitter fruits of the economic and social seeds that were sown during that miserable time. What we're seeing over many in the West's reaction to what is happening in Ukraine is, I feel, just an extension of that self-destructive sentiment. Call it dissent, call it contrarianism or call it Daphne, this is just an extension of the madness.
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  3344. I believe the original intention was that this was to be an SMO, Special Military Operation by Russia not an invasion or war. The hope likely was that the Ukrainian leadership would roll over without a fight once tanks and troops hit the streets of Kiev. They likely would've done without the promise of western support.
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  3345. 350 thumbs up and numerous comments and yet I can only see '1' registered. What gives?
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  3346. Ultimate conspiracy theory perhaps, but it wouldn't surprise me, particularly after Israel's pager attacks, to ultimately discover that companies like YT, Apple, Google, FB, BlackRock, Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, J P Morgan etc are really just de facto soft power fronts for the US state.
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  3347. Even if that were true and Putin was little better than a self-serving eternally corrupt mafioso Russia's PPP has increased markedly under his leadership.
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  3348. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely best describes the USA today. I once naively believed the US to be comparatively benign in an otherwise wicked world whereas now I KNOW it to be wicked in a comparatively benign world.
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  3349.  @manpreetbrar838  No. Change your buying habits.
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  3350.  @manpreetbrar838  Not one to defend multinationals or big corporations or the disproportionate hold they often have over markets, but where exactly do you get the 'blame the Johnny Foreigner' angle from? I agree that we're often presented with the illusion of choice, but I don't think that's unique to the UK and nor is it down to wicked foreigners. In short you seem to have an axe to grind here.
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  3351. So one of the biggest cheerleaders for the EU believes that UK politics needs to decentralize? Does he even know what the EU is?
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  3352. And this was why Trump was trying to dig the dirt on Biden in that phonecall with Zelensky in Ukraine, threatening to withhold aid. It was also the subject of his first impeachment hearing in which Trump's defence consisted of the claim that it wasn't Russia who influenced the 2016 election but Ukraine. We now know Russiagate was a mainstream media backed hoax and now hardly hear anything of it and it looks, again, that Trump was more right than wrong here.
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  3353. 'Chief Wiggum'. Love it.
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  3354. Don't feel so bad Mr Burns. Daniel Craig is no James Bond.
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  3355. 'And you're beginning to see the impact' of the Biden administration and others, as that spokesperson claimed. Fitch, following S and P, just 'surprisingly' downgraded the country's AAA credit rating due to, "a steady deterioration in standards of governance over the last 20 years, including on fiscal and debt matters, notwithstanding the June bipartisan agreement to suspend the debt limit until January 2025,”
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  3356. Trump's major error seems to me to be that he's picking a fight with pretty much everyone at the same time rather than picking countries off one by one or in groups. The US under Trump is isolating itself. Not rational behaviour on the face if it, particularly given the US' ongoing precarious financial position.
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  3357. Why would Putin put NK troops in harm's way in Ukraine? It makes zero sense.
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  3358. Jake Sullivan critique wasn't actually that wide of the mark given he's such an evil SOB.
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  3359. I somehow doubt it, but hopefully Bono is crying into his organic wheatgrass latte.
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  3360. As somebody said earlier on this thread and it bears repeating, people aren't born terrorists.
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  3361. Grow up. Henry Ford supported the Nazi party FFS and IBM provided the 'software' for Hitler's death camps.
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  3362. My two cents? The market is pretty much rigged. Where you or I stick our pins may or may not pay off depending on what 'the House' decides. Over and out.
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  3363. I don't like Twitter or Threads. I don't like Twitter because of its format. I don't like Threads because it's a blatant cynical rip off, it's a threat to free speech, it's invasive and it's owned by Zuckerberg's Facebook, a quasi-monopoly in hock to government which has proven repeatedly that it can't be trusted.
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  3364. News has been commodified like everything else sadly. 'Havoc' and disagreement sells. Clicks, eyeballs, upvotes and downvotes are money in someone's bank somewhere. That's partly why this ridiculous trans issue has taken on a life of its own and Linehan is just another sacrifice to the gods.
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  3365. Campbell, the compiler of the Dodgy Dossier that took the UK to war in Iraq on an entirely false premise, has got such a nerve here talking about lies. Few more serious than that. Also amazed that the BBC still allows this low-life, a known liar responsible for the deaths and maimings of hundreds of thousands in Iraq, on with such tedious regularity simply because he happens to hold the 'politically correct' British establishment view of the EU.
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  3366. Hunter Biden got made BY China.
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  3367. I remain unsure to this day about the 9/11 attacks but if one resorts simply to 'cui bono' then the answer ain't pretty. Both America's intelligence agencies and MIC were and remain to this day the key beneficiaries of that attack and overwhelming evidence shows that it certainly wasn't the inhabitants of the ME. Knowing also that both the world wars were, essentially, Wall St and bankers' wars doesn't exactly inspire confidence either.
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  3368. It's happening more and more but when did 'science' become 'the science' exactly? Science should be, by definition, indefinite. Once it becomes 'the' science and is no longer open to question or probity it ceases to be 'science' and becomes little better than a belief system.
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  3369. And people are concerned that Russia might be meddling in US elections???
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  3370. There's no more such a thing as a 'white race' than there is such a thing as a 'black race', but this shouldn't be conflated with the issue of years of unchecked illegal immigration despite repeated promises by ALL our politicians to tackle the issue either.
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  3371. Quite extraordinary. The US apparently helps create these competitors and then gradually undermines them when they start to actually compete with it directly. China with all its US paper IOUs for goods T-bills presumably next in the firing line?
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  3372. The US Military Industrial Complex loves, loves, lurves the burgeoning US national debt. The bigger the better. This is a major reason why the US foments conflicts across the globe and doesn't care whether it 'wins' them or not. In many cases it's better if they simply drag on. Why do you think so billions of military hardware was abandoned so easily in Afghanistan when the US withdrew? All grist to the US death and money mills.
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  3373. The EU is like a bike. If it doesn't keep moving forward it'll fall over. It knows this. Ironically it was the Thatcherite single market that saved its bacon in the 1980s. What will save it now with its economic powerhouse now deprived of cheap Russian gas Germany raises some mighty interesting questions. 'It will be forged in crises' said one of its original leading voices Monnet. Looks like it's time for a bit of forging......
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  3374. Weird all of this. US making a huge fuss over an apparently straying weather balloon, but also equally weird that China is making a fuss about it being shot down. Paranoiacs' 101? 'Just because you're paranoid it doesn't mean they're not out to get you.'
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  3375. BoE set a time limit D'oh!
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  3376. ​ @vladdrakul7851 A murder still unsolved to this day and in which most of the suspects died prematurely in mysterious circumstances. Variously blamed on Russia, the PKK and South Africa along with all the usual lone wolf nutcases and Manchurian candidates.
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  3377. ​ @vladdrakul7851 ​A murder still unsolved to this day and in which most of the suspects died prematurely in mysterious circumstances. Variously blamed on Russia, the PKK and South Africa along with all the usual lone wolf nutcases and Manchurian candidates.
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  3378.  @vladdrakul7851  A murder still unsolved to this day and in which most of the suspects died prematurely in mysterious circumstances. Variously blamed on Russia, the PKK and South Africa along with all the usual lone wolf nutcases and Manchurian candidates.
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  3379. Everyone ultimately disappoints you, Kim. Harsh, but suck it up Buttercup.
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  3380. Russia has long held an unhealthy preoccupation for Americans. The last thing that certain elements in US society ever want is a rapprochement with Russia. Without perpetual enemies their jig would be up. The sad bottom line here is that as long as enough Americans still buy into this wicked propaganda then their highly profitable macabre dance will continue unabated.
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  3381. Worse than that, in the UK it seems like MSM blanket editorial policy is to refer to it, still today, as 'Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine'. I'm no military expert, but the sheer numbers vis-a-vis Ukrainian forces, particularly initially, completely belie that claim.
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  3382. The EU doesn't exactly have a great record either when it comes to measuring emissions I'm afraid.
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  3383.  @oliverscorsim  Regulation, particularly in modern consumer economies, isn't necessarily always about being consistent and doing the right thing all the time, it's as much about keeping people consuming. A lot of the time this means getting people to discard their old stuff and buy new. Environmental cost be damned, I'm afraid. Trouble is is that sometimes, for various reasons, people are reluctant to do that so easily and sensibilities and sensitivies vary from place to place. Seemingly having a benign motive and narrative can only help. Better still, a quasi-apocalyptic one where the need to consume meets the personal desires of the individual and the assuring feeling that one is doing so responsibly. More responsibily than those that aren't. Whether you use the regulation stick or the tax break carrot matters less than the outcome. The EU/German car industry scam was just one execrable example where a particularly powerful political and economic lobby ie the German car industry effectively managed to circumvent these strict emissions rules for years with dodgy software right under the noses of EU regulators. What, exactly, were they doing throughout this I wonder? Asleep at the wheel or the tailpipe perhaps? Whatever their likely self serving motivations, the German auto industries' deliberate intention to continually mislead consumers across the globe was only discovered by US regulators not EU ones and any subsequent fines and legal penalties handed out were paltry.
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  3384. Famously, NATO was defined as being created in order to keep the Americans IN Europe, the Russians OUT and the Germans DOWN. Arguably, thus far, it has done its job.
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  3385. It bothers me greatly how the situation in Palestine is being dishonestly conflated by some sections of the UK media with the undoubted illegal immigration and assimilation issues in the UK. They really have got bugger all to do with each other and one does not directly inform the other. Similarly, I don't accept how sympathizing with the Palestinian cause is in any way shape or form an endorsement of extremist Hamas or amounts to condoning the evil of anti-Semitism wherever it rears its ugly head.
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  3386.  @sentientflower7891  Yeah, problem with that is that those are actual historical figures from the US Forestry Services.
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  3387.  @sentientflower7891  Unfortunately for you I'm not.
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  3388. He's obviously never going to be punished for his crimes, but Fauci must be pursued relentlessly by people like Paul so that he never rests.
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  3389. Very astute. Even their fomented revolutions are branded.
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  3390. According to his Wiki page MI6 agent Pablo Miller worked for Orbis which was the company owned by Christopher Steele that compiled the Steele Dossier for the DNC via Fusion GPS that formed the basis for the debunked Russiagate conspiracy. He also had earlier contacts with Alexander Litvinenko.
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  3391. History is NOT a mortality play.... apparently unless you're the West.
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  3392. Crowdstrike has strong Russiagate links.
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  3393. Banks, in theory, should be making greater profits thanks to the sizable interest rate disparities between borrowers and savers. In the UK the big banks are offering p*ss poor rates to savers generally overall - high headline rates usually include a catch - and borrowers are being caned. Higher rates are out there of course, but not usually from UK based lenders to the UK market.
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  3394. Well she's wrong. The Ukraine war DIDN'T begin with Russia's invasion in 2022, it began in 2014 with the US sponsored coup.
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  3395. She's a worry, I'll give you that.
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  3396. Eliminated.
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  3397. ​ @adenwellsmith6908 With the greatest of respect it is you who doesn't.
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  3398. ​ @stephfoxwell4620 Positive Money has an excellent set of videos on this. There is, effectively, no longer any capital adequacy requirements on banks.
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  3399.  @adenwellsmith6908  My response was followed up by a reference (not link) to a web page which demonstrates precisely why you are wrong. THAT response was deleted either by YT or the host.
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  3400. Good man.👍
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  3401. Esty Dwek? Is that an anagram?
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  3402. There is much to criticize both Putin and Russia for (plus numerous others) but we must ALWAYS stick to the known, testable, probable facts when we do.
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  3403. What was he being arrested for again?
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  3404.  @EstherMoffett-d7h  So you're freely admitting that you don't know as neither are applicable in this case. Embarrassed enough yet or do you want to continue to make a fool of yourself and be an apologist for police brutality?
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  3405. The DNC/HRC campaign were fined a derisory amount for misrepresenting their payment for their commissioning of the Steele Dossier during their 2016 campaign. Barely reported too. Think about that....
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  3406. If even Biden thinks that Netanyahu is an evil c*nt then we are in trouble.
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  3407. ​ @jakoflynn2560 So Brexit is the primary reason for what ails UK politics? Meanwhile in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the USA presumably everything is all hunkdory politically because they didn't? Think it might be time to replace your drumskin, but I have a feeling you're somewhat wedded till death to your blinkered narrative.
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  3408. October 7 was a war crime. Understanding where it came from does not mean blanket condoning it. Up to 700 Israeli innocents died. Many from a music festival that shouldn't even have been there that day - another issue - with at least some knowingly at Israel's own hand. The remaining killed were identifiably Israeli security forces and therefore they were, in effect, casualties of war. The propaganda lies which followed, including 40 dead babies and systematic sexual crimes, were used in an attempt to justify this horrific ongoing genocide. There is NO serious comparison, however, that can be made between October 7 and what we've witnessed in Gaza, Lebanon and the West Bank over the past year.
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  3409. "you look very nice this evening Jackie".
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  3410. And 'Ukraine' under ultimate NATO guidance has recently seen fit to attack one of Russia's missile EWS.....
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  3411. Hey, Ja-han.....
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  3412. According to jibbering jabbering Joe if you're black and you don't vote for him then you ain't black apparently. More sprinkles on that Joey?
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  3413. The problem for Ireland, of course, is that it is now a captured colony of corporate American interests and to a lesser extent the EU instead of the UK. Elites of every country sniff out the money and follow the power and Ireland's 'reassuringly' are no different.
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  3414. Now I freely admit that this REALLY is a conspiracy theory..... Given how fossil fuels are undeniably finite and, by definition, running comparatively low, wouldn't it make perfect sense for a certain blessed constituency to benefit from an establishment endorsed narrative that would divert the great unwashed masses away from their historical reliance on said dwindling precious resources and perhaps even profit handsomely from such a move in the process? Of course, no one would ever be that darkly cynical though would they?
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  3415. News just in: Norway will recognize the existence of a Palestinian state with Spain and Ireland expected to follow....
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  3416. Who on earth keeps voting for this man is the question I'm inclined to ask? Surely there can't be that many dumb and/or malign Canadians out there?
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  3417. 'Revenge of the old economy' Love that. Bang on.
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  3418. That Spi M lady, though doubtless sincere, basically talked herself out of a job there for me whilst looking like a deer caught in the headlines..er, sorry, headlights. WTF is the 'greater plurality of modelling' she aspires to when it's at home? Seriously, what is the point of having more and more differing models and then politicians picking the one that suits them? That is essentially the point of modelling. It's the idea that we can somehow predict, plus or minus a wee bit, the future. What a nonsense.
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  3419. American 'democracy' is for sale to the highest bidder be it through donors or lobbyists. 'Capitalism', despite the free market narrative, ultimately creates oligopolies and monopolies and this is the manifestation of that in American politics. The choices that 'the people' get to make then are false choices between the narrowed down, pre-approved vetted field. Sure, Trump bucks that, or more precisely bucked that a wee bit when he first ran in 2016 without major donor support but the highly generous Adelson 'gift' shows that he too has now succumbed to the system.
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  3420. So 'Chinese Communism' has lifted record numbers out of abject poverty in record time and this is supposed to be a bad thing in your book?
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  3421. Look to what extent the ironically named Democrats have been trying to stop people like Jill Stein and RFK jr from even running. They've spent a fortune and thrown up every legal roadblock possible.
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  3422. YT censors are awake I see. Perfectly and entirely factual verifiable comment removed. It's a worry.
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  3423. Quite right. Under US law Trump could still, theoretically, run to be POTUS from a prison cell and then pardon himself upon victory. Arguably the one caveat there is if he's charged with and convicted of insurrection which he STILL hasn't, interestingly, as that would likely preclude him running under Section 3 the 14th Amendment.
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  3424. At the very least the US should register it as a foreign entity.
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  3425. Hey, that's the American model in a nutshell.
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  3426. Broadly agree. Fragile economic growth built on extremely shallow, precarious foundations. Covid followed by Ukraine were the just the winds that blew it down.
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  3427. There seems little doubt that throughout history elites have constantly cultivated the idea of a permanent external potentially existential threat in order to distract their masses.
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  3428. No-one likes a cackler.
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  3429. Bliar's fingerprints are already all over this 'new' Starmer government just as Obama's were and are all over Biden's. Neoliberal economics was always about presenting punters with false choices backed up by false promises and the politics that drove it is, not surprisingly, no different.
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  3430. Covid, whilst a potentially fatal problem for certain recognised groups of people, was not the major issue. The major issue was the, frankly, insane, self-destructive measures taken to deal with it. Measures, the consequences of which, we will live with for years if not decades to come.
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  3431. From that 2024 study's recent conclusion: 'The results from our trial add to the certainty to findings on these outcomes and support the position that ivermectin should not be used to treat SARS-Cov-2 infection in the community in high-income countries with a largely vaccinated population.' Funny that. Don't know about you but the very deliberately carefully chosen words, 'high income countries with a largely vaccinated population' really jump out at me there, particularly three or four years after covid first appeared ie pre-'vaccine' and ivermectin was first being touted as a non-licensed, cheap, viable, effective treatment in poorer countries.
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  3432. ​ @jackshultz2024 And that's being exceptionally restrained and polite if I may say.
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  3433. The specious growing national debt narrative is nothing but a useful lie peddled to justify austerity. What is actually points to, overwhelmingly, is the criminal establishment policy of serially undertaxing the wealthy. There is none so blind as those who will not see. Open your eyes people.
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  3434. Another POI is to look at how much more it costs the UK to build itself a new nuclear power station in real terms both compared to the past and compared to other countries. Higher costs which, ultimately, will be born by the taxpayer and consumer.
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  3435. I'd agree but we're all different and we've all got different viewpoints on things I guess. I'm not American, but I was really disappointed to hear how RFK Jr sent Tweets supportive of Roger Waters only to quickly delete them when he was leant on by the Israel lobby and swiftly and cravenly recant. In his defence, you likely have zero hope of getting to become POTUS without the support of said lobby, but it goes to show you how certain foreign powers, including KSA too I might add, get to influence the outcome of a US presidential election. Far more, in fact, than Russia and yet the MSM doesn't see fit to bat an eyelid.
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  3436. This will likely lead to another refugee crisis both for Europe AND for Erdogan's Turkey. A country which has long 'protected', at great enduring financial cost I might add, Europe from a massive influx of refugees fleeing ongoing unrest and persecution in the ME. A Turkish population that has also recently signalled to its establishment that it no longer was willing to accept ever more refugees. This then is an act of pure folly if it were fostered by Erdogan that would likely further destabilise a politically polarized Europe already reeling from both a refugee crisis AND the Ukraine war.
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  3437. Tony Blair and his wife had damn well better hope that the God they purport to believe in doesn't exist.
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  3438. Trudeau is a disgrace.
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  3439. There's no such thing as a truly free market system. It's just a question of perception and degrees. Can't be if you have a debt based, fractional reserve, interest bearing fiat monetary system essentially controlled by, for want of a better word, an elite. Makes for a mighty powerful narrative with biddable masses though.
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  3440. He's got a political debt to pay like pretty much all of America's successful politicians so why is anyone surprised by this?
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  3441. Probably why I'll never make it as a world leader. I'd be gawping at the bloke with the boot and talking about that.
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  3442. It's easier. Partygate can apparently easily be pinned on the actions of one man whereas the imposition of lockdowns were the responsibility of almost our entire political, media and medical establishment. Arguably with the complicity of a majority of the population. Though no fan of Boris it's called scapegoating and he, poor shmuck, has drawn the short straw. Wrong person, wrong place, wrong time. Our nominated sin eater to atone for ALL our largely self inflicted sins.
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  3443. ​ @oceanic8424 How so?
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  3444. Company has strong links to both Russiagate and decade old Ukraine War instigated by said Cocaine Import Agency.
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  3445. Two incredible journalists with real integrity who care about the truth. Be lovely to see either one or both tackle the injustice meted out to the George Floyd death cops as no one seems to want to touch that???
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  3446. As the presenters of The Hill pointed out many other western journos wanted and requested a Putin interview but it was only TC who apparently got one. He should ultimately be judged by the handling of that interview ie will it just be a puff piece with a series of softball questions or will it attempt to get some real answers to some tough questions. Branding him 'a traitor' then simply smacks of professional jealousy, propagandising and ignorance but then why should we be surprised that MSM yet again stoops to these tactics?
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  3447. Your point being?
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  3448. Meloni has a great hairdresser, I'll say that.
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  3449. Apparently, according to some commenting here, middle aged white men have no right to be talking about this subject matter entitled 'Class > Identity'. Revealing in itself. The fact is more chronically indebted members of the younger generation ARE increasingly rejecting the 'progressive' ever more nonsensical neverending escalatory victim card game of intersectionality once everyday reality bites for them. The harsh reality that being 'woke' won't protect them from being permanently 'broke'. It is, at its heart, an elitist divisive luxury value ostensibly spawned, propagated and monetized by a small group of individuals often with pernicious outcomes for those unfortunate enough to find themselves on the wrong side of its evershifting treacherous sands. Why, again, should two men who happen to be middle aged and white who might wish to discuss and explore that idea be precluded from doing so?
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  3450. 'Ajax' also the name of the CIA sponsored, UK inspired overthrow of the democratic leader of independent Iran in 1952 who sought to nationalize its oil industry.... This led to the installation of the puppet Shah...
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  3451. Ultimately the US deep state would cheerfully sacrifice Europe if it meant sticking it to the Russians.
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  3452. 'The establishment' successfully took Corbyn down in 2019 so it'll be interesting to see what becomes of Mélonchon.
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  3453. “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket” ~ Eric Hoffer. Welcome to 'the racket'.
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  3454. The most precipitous, sustained drop in the value of the Pound vs the Euro occurred whilst the UK was still IN the EU in the Noughties, not so much after Brexit. Whilst it lost the bulk of its value against the USD in the early 1980s, another big fall against the Dollar, again whilst in the EU, occurred after 2008.
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  3455. Bernie's already sold out so I guess the position was vacant.
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  3456. Germany has been busy driving up the global price for supply limited gas for everyone quietly elbowing everyone else out the way the last time I looked buying it at any price. Last time I checked gas ain't green, is a fossil fuel and, according to its hegemonic vehicle EU, nationalism is the greatest evil of our time, but who am I to point the finger?
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  3457. MSM are spreading disinformation. Biden didn't 'withdraw' he was forced out by Obama and others within the senior Democrat elite.
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  3458. Yep. These thinly veiled authoritarians are thin end of the wedgers forever looking for the next tiniest crack to exploit .
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  3459. Stock recommendation in the eye of this hurricane? 'Healthcare looks interesting'. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why the US effectively has the healthcare system it does. People will always get sick and die. Gotta love America.
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  3460.  @fazziebear  ...and for a bonus point you get to build upon your fatuous, vacuous remark by actually saying something to challenge what I've said.
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  3461. Yep, ironically the centuries old union between Scotland and England was as much facilitated by the Scots as it was by the English.
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  3462. Wasn't he the big bad orange man?
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  3463.  @CherylMartin-i4j  Snow, wake or surf?
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  3464.  @laurareneesmith  The document worked as intended but for a few years precisely because the US wasn't literally knocking on Russia's front door threatening its security until then. Have you not heard the Nuland-Pyatt tapes discussing whom they were planning to install as Ukraine leader after the CIA-led coup or Condoleezza Rice threatening both Russia and, essentially, Europe in 2014? Why do you think that Ukraine has played such a fundamental role in your country's presidential politics for as long as it has and to the extent it has? Biden didn't just go there for his holidays. Had Russia attempted something similar in South America or Canada then the US would have responded with ultimate force. Do not underestimate Russia and its ability to respond if the US led NATO's extreme provocations continue.
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  3465. Agree with almost all of that. Trudeau is still a dangerous tool though.
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  3466.  @chrisruss9861  Suicide is no way the same thing as state assisted death. Had that suicidal young man approached 'the state' and said I wish to die and for you to assist me in that because my girlfriend's just left me, are you seriously suggesting that this would come to pass under an Assisted Dying Bill?
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  3467. Group (NOT)think.
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  3468.  @Ul1Nator  And so you should be able to, but you shouldn't do so under false pretenses user-fqck3nf6k....from, er, Moscow.
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  3469. Little known fact, but IKEA is actually an anagram of W@NKERS.
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  3470. Write to your MPs!!
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  3471. And yet the US seems qualified to question the election result and stoke unrest in Venezuela? Take the plank out of your own eye before trying to remove the splinter in someone else's.
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  3472. Odd how someone can openly glorify these attacks in the comments uncensored by Google/YT but call them out for what they are and your comment gets pulled.
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  3473. A 'vaccine' that needs to be regularly re-administered, that prevents neither contraction or transmission, that doesn't prevent the need for regular testing of its recipients, mask wearing or the prospect of isolation and whose ineffectiveness is being blamed on those who refuse to take it is not an effective vaccine in my book.
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  3474. The CDC recently changed the long understood, clear definition of what a vaccine was thanks to covid so why shouldn't Biden change the long understood, clear definition of what a recession is? It's not like they're doing it to suit their own agendas is it?
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  3475. Hmm
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  3476. Whatever Germany did or didn't ultimately pay, the psychological humiliation on the German people was profound at the time and laid the foundations for the next war no?
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  3477. With 30k registered NGOs in Georgia there is one for every 125 citizens.
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  3478. A state's actions can always be separated from those of its people for obvious reasons, but just out of interest were you pleased when the UK electorate voted to leave the EU or devastated?
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  3479. 'Populist rebellion' Brexit has much in common with the Trump presidency which both came to pass in the same year, 2016. Calling Trump a fascist and those who vote for him deplorable and racist doesn't actually require any evidence. Unlike his predecessors and the neocon puppet-cum-vegetable who followed him he's started no wars for example and during covid deferred to the disparate decisions of the leaderships of the individual states themselves. Literally everything bad that happens is down to Brexit (or climate change) and really requires zero evidence to back up that claim. The claim itself alone, apparently for these numbnuts, is deemed to be sufficient 'well, duh' evidence.
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  3480. Trump will be an interesting one. He's certainly in thrall to the Israel lobby like Biden but I believe that there's something in his DNA that is fundamentally opposed to these needless neocon forever wars and the continual toll they take on ordinary Americans. Perhaps I'm overly optimistic or just desperate to see an end to all this, but he's not only America's best hope in 2024 he's their only hope.
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  3481. ​ @michaellitten4538 Glad you managed to get that comment through. Mine never made it that far.
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  3482. The ICC is an obvious tool of US Foreign Policy as and when it suits and yet it itself refuses to be subject to its jurisdiction. I think the vague reason often cited is that it undermines its own sovereignty (obviously) but the ugly truth is that if it did its constant active pursuit of aggressive often illegal foreign policies would lay it and American individuals open to prosecution by other members of the global community.
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  3483. All this tactical voting cr@p is obscuring the real issue at hand. Simple answer now is to change the voting system to make sure that everyone gets to know that it's worth voting and their vote counts.
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  3484. Many Western economies, particularly the UK's, are built on the money/debt created by the property market and that debt based growth has in turn been heavily predicated on sustaining ultra low interest rates. What could possibly go wrong?
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  3485. The key thing there of course is to be on the right end of that debt and get to collect the interest on it as passive income in your sleep whilst less fortunate others toil endlessly to pay it. Official figures for this do not exist, but it seems like a safe bet that America's most wealthy are getting the closest thing to a free lunch as anyone's ever going to get courtesy of their own political and financial elites.
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  3486. Yep. Utterly insulting and divisive. Why on earth would anyone wish to be essentially defined by society by any one single aspect of who they are? Should never ever need reiterating but, 'content of character', 'content of character', 'content of character'...
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  3487. Though a tiny, tiny minority, I'll bet you any money you like most of these genuinely trans or gender dysphoric individuals would rather the rest of the world would just shut the front door and stop using them as pawns or Trojan horses for their own self serving agendas.
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  3488. Largely thanks to the fiat currency system born of 1970 the rich are getting richer and the poor, by design, are getting poorer in relation to them. That relativity IS important. No matter what anyone says. We live in a world where socialism, courtesy of the nation state, is the preserve of the rich and where the useful narrative of 'capitalism' is reserved exclusively for the poor.
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  3489. WTF watches all this seemingly neverending TV? Who has the time? How does it all pay for itself? Does it pay for itself?
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  3490. Her whole demeanor is one of arrogance and self-importance which is quite impressive given that history has proven Pilger to be almost completely correct there and her completely wrong.
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  3491. In the interests of accuracy, Fauci was indeed appointed under the Trump administration on 29th January 2020 as the report says.
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  3492. Manufacturing consent? Or is it TINA? The US long fomented, funded and militarily supported Ukraine war against Russia has apparently necessitated two new erstwhile reluctant members joining NATO and now, thanks to ending Germany's reliance on cheap Russian energy and enforced its deindustrialization, it is now enforcing its long resisted financialization. The A-Team loves it when a plan comes together.....
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  3493.  @johnyysimmerz  Must have missed it. What did he say?
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  3494.  @johnyysimmerz  Found it yet?
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  3495. Is it me or is it kinda weird that despite USD's continued strength and US consumers still buying in presumably cheaper imports that inflation there is still quite so high as it is? I get that fuel is a major factor here and these things take time to filter etc etc but it still seems a trifle odd not least with energy prices having fallen from their highest highs for quite some time now?
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  3496. Wishing you nothing but the best mate. You've got an important job to do and you're doing it so don't let these bastards grind you down.
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  3497. Speaking of Greta she's been incredibly quiet recently...
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  3498. Going back a couple of hundred years in the UK and the US your house was left to burn down if it didn't have the bought and paid for fire insurance marks on the outside until municipal fire services were formed. Some 'bright spark' eventually realised that it both was socially and morally responsible to ensure that it made perfect sense that ALL buildings were afforded protection and the costs for doing so were socialised. Oh how America's moved on since then....
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  3499. Not that I'm a fan of Elon Musk, but little wonder that Silicon Valley and the Twatterati at large are so worried about his potential takeover of this toxic social media site.
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  3500. Yes. Not as influential, but it has the FOI. Friends Of Israel group. You can Google which MPs it supports.
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  3501. At least he's not playing 'the science changed' card like Piers Morgan. Campbell, unlike Morgan, is providing a vital public service by continuing to highlight these injuries and cannot be held ultimately responsible for what many chose to do to their own bodies by submitting to these known to be untested jabs.
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  3502. The EU is just another example of a transnational European elite peddling a dodgy narrative designed to convince the great unwashed masses that their self-interests square with their own.
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  3503. Lenders will always lend the maximum amount they think they 'responsibly' can against a property. It's an escalator that apparently keeps on rolling inexorably upwards as long as the actual economy can support the payments. The UK economy is highly dependent on mortgage lending and thus the expectation that property prices will forever keep rising is a, for now, one way bet. 'Mortgage loans as a share of gdp reached 115% in 2023 in the United Kingdom, according to the National Central Bank. This is 8.19% less than in the previous year. Historically, mortgage loans as a share of GDP in the United Kingdom reached an all time high of 137% in 2020 and an all time low of 45.2% in 1996. United Kingdom has been ranked 2nd within the group of 74 countries we follow in terms of mortgage loans as a share of GDP.' HelgiLibrary
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  3504. Yep, this is why language and how it is used and abused is SO important. If you use 'what's not to like' words to describe something potentially negative like censorship it makes it that much harder to object to. Who in their right mind is going to stand up for the right of people to peddle 'hate speech' or 'disinformation' FFS?
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  3505. This was precisely why the longstanding definition of 'vaccine' was changed by the CDC at the beginning of 2022 I believe. When it first came out the covid 'vaccine' was no such thing by definition. It was, a jab, a shot, a therapeutic, arguably a prophylactic, but it was never a vaccine in the traditional sense offering sterilizing immunity. The powers that be understood that language is SO important which was why, from the outset, it was referred to as 'a vaccine' when it very clearly wasn't. This was done in order to falsely cement the idea of 'immunity' in people's minds. Eventually the old definition had to change in order to catch up with these novel, untested jabs. I still to this day call them jabs and refuse to call them vaccines.
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  3506. News just in. Driver takes wrong turn in Sarajevo side street.
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  3507. As key facilitators and by not objecting the UK state is 100% complicit in this genocide. For shame.
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  3508. I have supreme respect for the incredible talents of Armando Iannucci but his patronising description of Brexit there displayed an astounding level of ignorance about the EU itself and barely concealed bigotry there.
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  3509. Didn't know about this. Poor fella. Nobody deserves this least of all Yanis.
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  3510. Bernie Sanders is a Brooklyn born Jewish American who apparently has a lot in common politically with and respect for the alleged 'anti-Semite' Corbyn. Responding to the damning report that originally saw Corbyn unceremoniously ejected from the party by Starmer, Mr Corbyn said at the time: “One anti-semite is one too many, but the scale of the problem was also dramatically overstated for political reasons by our opponents inside and outside the party, as well as by much of the media.” His refusal to retract that apparently controversial statement led to his current political exile. The fact that Sanders finds it a little strange that Corbyn cannot stand for his own party, a party which he led, in a constituency that he has held since 1983 is indeed more than, 'a little strange'. Hmm....
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  3511. Presumably we can expect to see you on there next week putting in your learned two penneth Jonah?
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  3512. Covid, and people's immediate and broader reactions to it and the resulting measures deployed, demonstrated just how many in the population (and worldwide) were disposed towards the idea of greater authoritarianism.
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  3513. A 'vaccine' that clearly doesn't do the job of a vaccine, nowhere near close in fact, that is being mandated on a population. A supposedly democratic government that has bought 44m presumably time sensitive doses of it for a population of 9m to be used in the space of two years 22/23? Move on people. Nothing to see here.
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  3514. The US economy today is around 26% of global GDP, around 16% by PPP and it accounts for a 60% share of global stock markets. That's an overextended financialised economy punching WAY above its economic weight right there.
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  3515. China's economy is far less dirigiste than most people know. Who knew?
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  3516. As if everyone would all suddenly lose interest in getting wealthier, genuinely investing and innovating if the economic system was fairer.
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  3517. Extraordinary display, whether you're a believe in an impending climate catastrophe or not.... I happen not to.
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  3518. I've got a lot of time for IDS, but people must not forget that the Tory party did far more than any other to embroil the UK in the European Project. From the obvious Heath taking the UK in to it to Thatcher's signing of the Single European Act. Both of which ultimately paved the way for Major's signing of the mother of all sovereignty busting treaties, Maastricht in 1990. So yes many UK businesses are bitching and screaming and yes many have become long addicted to a ready supply of cheap labour consistently failing to invest, but let's not conveniently forget who actually long sowed the seeds for this unraveling travesty eh?
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  3519. Though the events in both Israel and Gaza are horrific the one tiny sliver of light here is that they have helped to weed out a couple more authoritarians posing as free speech proponents on the Internet. Two fewer people I need to keep up with now.
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  3520.  @anthonybatissa1417  Well they do say US politics is Hollywood for ugly people.
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  3521. Both Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein were allegedly deposed in part because they seeking to sell their oil in alternative means to the USD.
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  3522.  @yurigansmith  I guess you could make a similar point about Pinochet's Chile where the CIA backed a military coup and overthrew the democratically elected, again left wing, Allende in 1973. I'm sure there were certain sections of Chilean society who did rather well out of it, but it came at the expense of Chile's then young democracy and ushered in years of terror, torture and political oppression. Still, at least some Chileans did ok right?
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  3523. I remember when the NY Cosmos was the last resting place for top flight male professional footballers put out to pasture but changing genders opens up a whole new avenue as the women's game grows.
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  3524. Ju-fray not Goo-free.
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  3525. Next question. Why hasn't Israel been treated by the US and the West in general for decades as a rogue nuclear state? The recent Pentagon leak proves it HAS nuclear weapons so under the so-called US defined 'international rules based order' they are illegal. Ergo no Western funding or military supplies should be sent there. Matt?
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  3526. True, but imperialism is an innate human tendency. Nobody ever said it had to benign or that one form which replaces another will necessarily be better.
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  3527.  @CRMcGee2  Doesn't make any difference whether it exists in the mind or not, history shows us it invariably manifests itself in some form or other. Humans are inherently predisposed to it and likely always will be.
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  3528. Megyn's either incredibly naive or incredibly stupid.
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  3529. Why would you wholesale cut that many jobs to focus on another similar, apparently burgeoning technological field as Ford have done? Laying off people is now 'green'. Seems like 'greenwashing' takes on many forms and has many 'uses''.
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  3530. Gabbard is using false equivalency in her argument for justifying the illegal collective punishment of Gazans by Israelis. Simply because Hamas might wish to wipe Israel off the map it doesn't automatically mean that Israel can then justify its own actions against Gazan Palestinians as a whole. The IRA, for example, in Northern Ireland sought to use extreme violence as a means to expel the British from Northern Ireland, but that didn't give the British Army legally sound grounds for the mass killing NI Catholics or Irish Republicans in order to defend against that aim.
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  3531. So the lunatic in this scenario is the person defending a democratic vote NOT the person who composed a tissue of lies that led to the bombing and deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqis and laid waste a country that has not recovered to this day? What a mighty peculiar moral compass you have.
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  3532. Sure, lock and load soldier!! Got your boots on and ready to go?
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  3533.  @bobby9623  'Invest' is the key word there. The West has invested nothing other than its money. Ukraine, along with Georgia, was always a red line for Russia. This was long, long known about, expresssed by Russia and yet we kept on pushing. Maybe you'll get your victory and, better still, from behind the safety and comfort of your own keyboard but, to my mind, we are seriously playing with fire here.
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  3534. No such person.
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  3535. The 'old' essentially captive pre-globalist aristocracy at least had the decency to realise that they needed the masses to facilitate and maintain their positions. Hence the grudging respect and sometime affection. The new globalist aristocracy despise the working classes and believe that there's always somewhere else they can go if things don't seem to be working out for them.
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  3536. Israel's status as the sole beacon of democracy in the ME echoes one of the excuses being used to feed the war in Ukraine. The bitter irony of course is that neither are really democracies now nevermind that there are other Western backed brutal autocracies in the region that we're quite happy to tolerate.
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  3537. Erdgogan was leader of Turkey when it along with Iran and Russia invoked UN Resolution 2254 seeking a Syrian led political solution to the conflict in the country was he not? It looks like Mr Erdogan wasn't then and isn't now, as they say in cricketing circles, playing with a straight bat....
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  3538. Welcome to the world of ACC.
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  3539. And yet again I up vote this comment in spite of myself.
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  3540. Good discussion but there is a universal self awareness problem here ably demonstrated by the participants themselves on occasion. Why is it always 'the others' who are susceptible to the overtures of fake news but rarely, if ever, 'ourselves'. There are definitely elements of arrogance and self-righteousness here, particularly from the left.
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  3541. Rules are rules just so long as they're my rules and I get to change them as and when I see fit. Like a fish, the US is rotting from the head down.
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  3542. You try telling most people that!
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  3543. Cherry picking America's Constitution has become the American media's new hobby. The First Amendment is supposedly inviolable, unless you're on the pro-Zionist left or right apparently. 'Hate speech', or what you personally deem to be hate speech, is protected under the First Amendment whether you're Murdoch's Fox News, CNN or anyone else in fact. Don't like it? Then overturn your Constitution.
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  3544. Wasn't he in Minder?
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  3545. It was tough, but I eventually found the Easter egg.
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  3546. Has Max developed T'Haaretz?
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  3547. NatWest which owns Coutts is still 48% UK government owned. This has been an utter disgrace and a dangerous affront to our democracy and to our personal freedoms and rights.
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  3548. I am led to believe that NO US presidential candidate has any hope of succeeding without the support of the US pro-Israel lobby. RFK knows this and if he didn't somebody was pretty quick to let him know. This was why he deleted that Tweet and had recanted because he'd be dead in the water, politically speaking, if he hadn't. This, of course, should raise questions about foreign interference in US elections, but as long as it isn't goto bogeymen like Russia or China countries like Israel and the KSA get an automatic free pass.
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  3549. 'NGOs' is such a wicked euphemism.
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  3550. At least when the tulip bulb bubble burst you were still theoretically left with some tulip bulbs...
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  3551. That's what I reckon too.
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  3552. In the EU, when push comes to shove, the politics of the project will ALWAYS trump the economics.
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  3553. So we now know for sure that crypto is the preferred currency of thieves, hackers, fraudsters, drug dealers, child pornographers, pumpers and dumpers and the next greater fools, isn't secure, isn't anonymous and is basically fast becoming 'worth' next to f*ck all, but despite there being literally thousands of iterations it is still the future of money....
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  3554. This utterly shreds what's left of the credibility of international organizations like the UN and the IAEA. The US and Israel's, both signed up members of both, contempt for them is out there for ALL to see. The so-called 'international rules based order' is dead in the water and that's if it was ever really alive in the first place.
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  3555.  @diamondsndregs  Believe me, it's as relevant today as it was then.
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  3556. Apparently it was crocodiles according to others. Probably both. Bit like Little Britain's Tory MP, apparently he slipped on some leaves outside Mar el Lago and the rifle he'd forgotten he was carrying inadvertently went through the hole of a chain link fence and ended up pointing at the ex-POTUS who just happened to be playing golf in his line of sight... ...he has no more to say on the matter....
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  3557.  @lovly2cu725  You'll be telling us he wasn't hunting pythons next....
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  3558. Never let it be forgotten that: A) Nato's constant expansion eastwards, despite earlier promises to the contrary, happened under Clinton as did China's admission into the WTO. 2) Without China during the subprime crisis, seeded again under Mr Clinton, then inflation would've have taken off like a rocket in Western consumer societies and likely proved devastating.
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  3559. I was shocked when Russia invaded Ukraine last year. Didn't think it would happen. Bought into the narrative that Putin was the next Hitler trying to reestablish the Soviet Russian empire. Just goes to show though, having learned what I've now learned about the historical events that led up to the invasion I'm not remotely surprised. This war should never have happened and the West through a US led NATO has played a pivotal role in provoking it in the first place.
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  3560. Wouldn't it be amazing to imagine if the shoe were on the other foot amd a load of right wing creatives collectively rounded on a left wing creative in an attempt to kill their career purely on the basis of their political beliefs. What's happening today is shocking and although I consider myself to be 'of the left' no sane, decent, rational person can condone what is happening regardless of their politics.
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  3561. As ever, follow da money. D'uh.
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  3562. Both Hunter and Ashley have admitted their ownership of both items though. What's your angle here?
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  3563. Fomenting war in Ukraine and supporting a genocide in Gaza isn't a good look. Who knew?
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  3564. Biden didn't stop the war in Afghanistan. That deal was pre-agreed by Trump. He first delayed and then seriously botched the planned withdrawal leading to many needless deaths and leaving billions of US military hardware behind.
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  3565. 'The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.' - C S Lewis
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  3566. The trans movement isn't unique in attempting to crush free speech as it stands within the, at least current, law. You've also got climate change, covid lockdowns and jabs and the BLM movement plus I'm sure people could add to that list. It's basically a trend to end inconvenient critical thought and pursue what was known in Stalin's Russia as 'political correctness' where this phenomenon was first given its name. What we are increasingly seeing is a strata of truth governed by a constantly shifting lexicon crafted to trip up the unwary and unschooled. I believe that, even if it's on a subconscious level, that most sane, decent, rational people see this for what it is. The thin end of mighty dangerous wedge. Hence the pushback.
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  3567. We lose our souls in increments and Google was likely little different. Perhaps started out with good intentions but it's very clear now what it has become.
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  3568. Basically if you're fat or very old watch out for covid and if you're young and fit then watch out for the clot shot, especially males.
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  3569.  @swingro2011  Not exactly what I'd call a demolition job there. Fancy getting off your doubtless highly intellectual arse and having a go?
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  3570. Based on....
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  3571. Don't forget Trump was sending lethal weaponry to Ukraine during his first presidency from 2017 and beyond to help fight separatists in the Russian speaking regions. This included the Javelin missiles that even Biden procrastinated over.
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  3572. Dems damn well knew his brain was turning to Swiss cheese in 2019. Five years ago. These people, people like Clooney, are utterly despicable. Despicable and desperate.
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  3573. Good to hear him repeating that Indian and Chinese ethnic groups generally 'in the institutionally racist UK' significantly outperform indigenous 'whites'.
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  3574. Controlled explosion? I thought they just as good as bombed it? The derailment was less of a problem than what Norfolk did afterwards. Having your own private police force to deploy in the town, as Norfolk apparently has, must've been rather handy too.
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  3575. Michelle Obama or Gavin Newsom perhaps? Please, for the love of God and all that is holy don't let it be Kamala Harris!!
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  3576. The games these people play. Gates a few years ago announced to the world he was going to give all his billions away. Today he's markedly richer. Go figure.
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  3577. The Communist USSR collapsed over 10 years before the US invasion and subsequent 20 year occupation of Afghanistan. The Islamic extremist forces that the US population have long been taught to fear have very often been the by-product, either intentional or unintentional, of US interventions in these countries. From supporting and arming the mujahadeen in Afghanistan against the Soviets to Al Qaeda, to ISIS in Iraq even to Hamas in Gaza which was initially fostered by US proxy Israel in an attempt to split the secular PLO.
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  3578. Fascinating how, post war, the various UK governments believed they had a 'cradle to grave' duty of care towards their populations including providing them with access to adequate housing under an unwritten social contract. It all went t!t$ of course in 1980 when a certain Margaret Thatcher sounded its death knell. Best summed up with that infamous insidious phrase, 'there's no such thing as society'. Only individuals and their families. Basically, as ever, we didn't get the politicians we needed, but we got the politicians we deserved and we are where we are 'thanks' to those historical choices.
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  3579. It bears pointing out also that just with all the empires before it the American empire doesn't bring huge benefits to its working classes only to its elites. The key though, as ever, is that they cannot succeed and continue to exist without the support of the largely ignorant masses based on the 'mushroom principle'. Hence, more than ever, the need for a complicit mass media machine and this growing need for it to shutdown or severely curtail dissenting alternatives on an essentially fabricated premise.
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  3580. Just listened to BBC R4 media show and a Times journalist embedded with UA in Kursk region claims from anonymous interviews with Russians there that some weren't even aware of the war, many didn't agree with it and some were horrified by alleged Russian atrocities in Ukraine. Make of that what you will I guess.
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  3581. Don't be too hard on yourself. There's always a way back. Unless you meant Biden...
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  3582. Ooh, ooh, and a misogynist too!!
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  3583. His predictions in relation to China and Germany seem more than a little pessimistic and far fetched. The West's position in relation to Ukraine, and really by that I mean the US's, has been heavily responsible for pushing Russia to where it is today and we look to be reaping the consequences of that. We modern, indulged 'western Europeans' are apt to see history as a morality play with us front and centre of it apparently leading the way, but meanwhile much of the rest of the world has been practicing realpolitik and laughing quietly up their sleeves at us.
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  3584. Economist maxim on inflation? 'The best cure for higher prices is higher prices' Once people stop paying these insane prices the market will correct and prices will fall. If they continue to, most likely through credit plans, it won't.
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  3585. So many tough political choices we face are dressed up as tough economic ones. If our societies are still getting richer overall over time then this is a political choice about wealth distribution NOT an economic choice as it's invariably portrayed.
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  3586. There's one handicap there that Biden will never get back down.
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  3587. Meanwhile in Portsmouth, Plymouth and Poole there's absolutely no issue with movement and business is booming. Why? Because unlike Dover and Folkestone they don't have a reciprocal customs arrangement with France. James O'brien is a wicked liar, pure and simple.
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  3588. The stock market is NOT the economy.
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  3589. The US 'Deep State' was never reined in for two decades after the 1970s until Bush as is claimed here. Reagan rebadged it and he set up the laughably named 'NGO' NED, the National Endowment for Democracy, whose founder Allen Weinstein famously said in 1991, "A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA."
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  3590. Indeed. Piss be upon him. A man who famously never met a war he didn't like. There was, believe it or not, a proposal to name a street after him in 2018 in Tblisi. There is one there named after a cretin, sorry a certain Dubya though!!
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  3591. Depressingly, history certainly shows us that that is usually the case. Still, if enough people buy into the idea that this is somehow the outcome of a functioning harsh-but-fair free market then who are we to say otherwise?
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  3592. Spicy 🔥
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  3593. In terms of covid era China, today's invaded Ukraine, Brexit, Trump and the world generally I would say this discussion has aged about as well as milk. That's not really meant as a criticism, but it just goes to show how fluid these things can be, how unpredictable and also how subjective they can be. Democracies generally are hard won, take many, many years to establish, should never be taken for granted and work best, by and large, when they're perceived as accountable and informed by consent. Once the perception of consent is lost by a sufficient number of people then they will start to falter.
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  3594. It's odd today how people who make such a conspicuous virtue of their 'liberalism' and their embracing of diversity, not least of attitudes, are increasingly the very antithesis of that position.
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  3595. I think this just goes to show just how much contempt many western democracies have for the true concept of democracy and national sovereignty. Democracy is only accepted if it is acceptable to them. Yanukovitch, probably like most politicians across the world, was likely not a pleasant individual but nor was what proceeded him nor what followed him. Historically the US has always paid lipservice to democracy, but in the modern internet age how it still thinks it could and should still get away with it beggars belief quite frankly.
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  3596. Usually enjoy TRNN but much of the premise of this is thin gruel. Glad it was short.
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  3597. I'd be tempted if spare parts didn't appear to be such an issue now.
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  3598. 'Israel and Jews'? Not the same thing. A thoroughly dishonest conflation. May I ask why exactly you're here?
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  3599.  @Ammo-Hoarder  Why waste time on Theresa when Velvet Valdama will make 100% sure you'll be living out your retirement in clover?
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  3600. In my personal opinion Starkey is not wide of the mark here about Merkel, but was completely wrong on 'vaccinations'. Nor should we ignore the US, NATO and the EU's role in this. Goes to show nobody has a monopoly on wisdom.
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  3601. As far as I'm aware there was a solution to this before this started.
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  3602. There's a real disconnect here isn't there which I'm still trying to get to the bottom of. I get that the IRA 22 has essentially offered a massive cash injection into the US economy but something doesn't smell quite right to me about America's boom and if all is SO rosy there why is Biden so unpopular in 2024 and Trump on the ascendency?
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  3603. Previous comment deleted. By poster or YT I wonder?
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  3604.  @mharley3791  Define 'most'. According to a recent Gallup survey.... 'The largest share of Americans, 45%, rate current economic conditions in the country as poor, while just over one-quarter describe conditions as excellent (5%) or good (22%) and another 29% believe they are only fair. In December, 22% of U.S. adults rated the economy as excellent or good.'
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  3605.  @Dave05J  It's no less accurate I would argue than some random on YouTube claiming in a comment that 'most Americans' think everything is hunkydory with the US economy.
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  3606.  @Dave05J  This is where you point me to data which you think suggests otherwise....
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  3607.  @chickenfishhybrid44  If it is solely a relative few malcontents posting online, presumably Biden should be rewarded for his 'rising tide' economy come November then regardless.
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  3608. Funny how we embrace the experts and their expertise that cement our own beliefs and summarily dismiss those that don't as cranks and 'fringe'. If Einstein had fully accepted the finality of 'the' science of his day then he'd never have left his job in the Swiss Patent Office. Get a bloody grip people.
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  3609. Beggar thy neighbour never works.
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  3610. It doesn't help that BLM was essentially founded on a lie either, nevermind the organization's own dubious history. A lie that's rarely spoken about because it's SO inconvenient to the accepted narrative. Chauvin's prosecution wasn't actually predicated on being motivated by a racial element so it never even became part of the legal case against him. This was, essentially, a decision made by the prosecution team itself. Not that you'd ever know that given the hooha, violence and grifting that followed. Chauvin's actions were undoubtedly excessive and resulted in the unnecessary loss of a man's life, but even the prosecution effectively admitted that the colour of his skin did not play a part in that dreadful incident that day.
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  3611. Why? How's your Dutch coming on?
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  3612. Wei Li Coyote?
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  3613. I reckon it was Colonel Mustard in the Library with some Columbian Marching Powder.
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  3614. Doesn't matter. She's good at her job.
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  3615. Gonna give this a go when I get time. Usually personally can't abide the perennially smug Hislop but I'm up for challenging my prejudices if I can.
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  3616. The GFA irrefutably and incontestably states that NI is part of the UK until such time as a majority there decide it isn't. The NIP was always in direct contravention of the GFA and was deemed by BoJo as the price worth paying in order to get Brexit done. A winning manifesto pledge incidentally that helped to give him a thumping 80 seat majority in 2019. Further to that his hands were tied by the earlier Benn Act which stated that the UK could not leave the EU without a deal.
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  3617. The word 'collapse' in any YT title certainly helps to feed its insatiable algorithm and push a posting up the ratings.
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  3618. So right. Extreme Zionism is actually the enemy of Jews everywhere not their protector or friend.
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  3619.  @bowenboshier2336  Long history of Democrats calling into question the results of US elections before Trump and the integrity of electronic voting machines. Carter, HRC and Harris amongst many other Democrat leading lights ALL called Trump's 2016 presidency 'illegitimate'.
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  3620.  @bowenboshier2336  Long history of Democrats calling into question the results of US elections before Trump and the integrity of electronic voting machines. Carter, HRC and Harris amongst many other Democrat leading lights ALL called Trump's 2016 presidency 'illegitimate'.
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  3621. The way the system works, is actually designed, is that if someone's losing money then someone's making it. Begs the question....
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  3622. Starmer might be many things - I personally can't abide the man - but he is NOT illegitimate....not in the electoral sense anyway. The FPTP electoral system, IMHO, sucks the fat one, but once we go down that road we're asking for trouble. Don't like the current system? Then campaign to change it or vote for someone who will, otherwise we just have to accept its 'gifts' and suck it up.
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  3623. What's weird is that all these cryptos have been bought with fiat and are essentially underwritten by them. What's even weirder is that major governments and financial establishments, including the US' and UK's, have been happy to effectively endorse this Ponzi charade and give it credibility. Like all Ponzis it's quite clear that most of the big boys that could got out early when it became clear that the supply of 'next greater fools' that enriched them was fast drying up as the real economy tightened.
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  3624. Unfortunately the UK needs a long overdue period of uncomfortable destructive capitalism. House prices need to fall to far more affordable, sustainable levels as they were in the not so distant past. The average house could be bought with 4x the average salary at the end of the 70s whilst today it's over 8x. Overall lack of housing stock is far less of an issue than claimed than the actual concentration of ownership and the vested financial interests and government policies that help sustain that current iniquitous 'status quo'.
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  3625. This is why the internet WILL ultimately be controlled by the state.
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  3626. Holy sh*t, you're the proverbial 🍄 I've heard so much about.
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  3627. Lock in for the max you can.
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  3628. Even the FDA has banned use of Johnson jab in US for under 18s due to blood clotting issues associated with it. Presumably you think they're being way overcautious?
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  3629. That's a very strange comment. Even if these people were making bundles of cash for their troubles would that make them wrong to spread a message that is barely propagated in Western MSM? They might not be THE solution to THE problem, but by informing more and more people they are certainly part of it.
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  3630. The United States today even has the same 'us vs them', 'zero sum game' attitude towards its own population. Its iniquitous healthcare system remains a shameful metaphor for that. If it can treat many of its own people like that then it's hardly a surprise that it can treat foreigners with the same contempt.
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  3631. And it will.
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  3632. Our mainstream media is far more likely to lie by omission than to outright lie. For obvious reasons. It's far easier to be caught and called out on the latter than it is on the former.
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  3633. This is the opportunity for you to bet the farm then.
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  3634. It's a cold!!
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  3635. Lovely to see JP rocking with laughter there at DM's Goldberg's lying to huge groups of people line.
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  3636. How much would they have paid for all that utter cobblers I wonder?
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  3637. Ferguson has proven himself to be a public menace.
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  3638. Great interview. Hopefully viewing figures will grow along with Triggernometry's reputation. Although he's grown on me, JP's not everyone's cup of tea and long may people have the right to express that view as I'm sure Mr Peterson would agree.
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  3639. Cutting through the BS here, the point here really is which side is genuinely losing the war here if either. We're obviously subjected to propaganda/lies from both sides, at least those who are genuinely interested in discovering the truth are, and at some point it will become obvious as to who was doing the majority of the porky pie-ing. Regardless, as far as I can see, Russia cannot afford to be seen to lose this war either domestically or internationally whereas the West can. Frankly, it's just another proxy war and it has far less skin in the game. It'll lick its wounds, spin the outcome for all it's worth and move on. A nuclear and much depleted Russia losing on the other hand is an entirely different kettle of fish....
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  3640. Because?
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  3641. I wouldn't post my secret BBQ sauce recipe on Discord as some wag recently posted.
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  3642. Covid, climate change or whatever comes after them. If you're a politician never let a good crisis go to waste basically.
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  3643.  @chriskost7291  That's not exactly what I said. The EU and Ireland knowingly gambled with the Irish peace process in order to protect its single market and they repeatedly lied about how the GFA precluded any possibility of a border. All, for some reason, barely opposed by London.
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  3644.  @chriskost7291  There is something called the GFA, an international agreement which the both the EU and Ireland were continually purporting to uphold throughout negotiations when they very obviously weren't. Barnier openly said as much. I can accept that they were solely pursuing their own interests, but it's the deception, which they got away with and so many believed, that they were concerned about peace in NI that bothers me most.
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  3645.  @chriskost7291  Peculiar. Perhaps I've overestimated their capabilities? You'd think they'd be able to manage doing more than a few things at a time, particularly for its third biggest market. Hey ho, as they say.
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  3646.  @chriskost7291  And yet the Irish PM has admitted mistakes were made, it is too harsh and is keen to revisit??? Don't need to use emoticons each time. If you're under 16 I'll give you a pass on that though
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  3647.  @taintabird23  The UK should've pursued a No Deal Brexit, but unfortunately the UK had May as its PM. She'd already rolled over and agreed to the EU staging of negotiations and the Brexit bill. Daft mare. Juncker had already told Coveney in no uncertain terms that a no deal Brexit would require Ireland to construct a hard border and the Irish government were privately bricking themselves at the prospect. Barnier had already all but stated that peace in NI was a very poor second to the preservation of the EU's single market. Im sure that you'd love to chalk all this up to a great victory for Irish nous and diplomacy, but I think you're kidding yourself to be quite frank.
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  3648.  @taintabird23  Your tone has become unpleasant. What I thought was a reasonable discussion has taken a turn. You clearly have an anti-British axe to grind and I'll no longer engage. Shame, as you're clearly not daft.
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  3649.  @taintabird23  You seem to have a serious chip on your shoulder about Britain and the British bordering on a hatred and more than a touch of the small man syndrome about your own country. Why that is only you know the answer to and though it is not unique with Irish posters online whom I encounter it is thankfully the exception not the norm. Most are courteous and don't resort to endless whataboutery and try turning this into a pissing contest. Confusing verbal abuse and lies with truth and straight talking is not a good look. You're obviously an extremely angry individual and it might be a wise idea to consider getting some help.
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  3650. By stating unassailable facts you mean???? What exactly are you taking issue with here?
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  3651.  @johanalejandrocazadordepin7225  As long as it's not too far out of whack too often with what is going on elsewhere in the world then I can't see why it's a significant problem for the US. They've still got the keys to the sweetie shop and they know it. Of course it suits its politicians to use it as a political football to pretend that it is and score points off of each other, but in reality the US dollar primacy means it amounts to little more than that. In many ways the perennial US domestic pantomime helps to reinforce both the US and globally accepted narrative of earnest attempts at financial responsibility.
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  3652.  @frenchonion4595  Its unrivalled military machine has a significant part to play certainly.
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  3653. Trump's problem is he's TOO honest. Whether you think it's good or bad, none of the others would openly admit that they are undeniably in thrall to the powerful US Israel lobby. If you're looking at genuine election interference look to Israel, KSA even, but don't look to Russia.
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  3654. Biden's lost his marbles and America has lost its democracy. Nobody in the US government has an electoral mandate for the decisions Biden is 'making'.
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  3655. The Clintons laid out the blueprint for the Blairs. Incredible the amount of money these people make when they leave office and the influence they still hold. True plutocrats in the worst, scariest sense.
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  3656. To rephrase Lenin, 'when the time comes for the Ukrainians to surrender, the Americans will sell them the white flags'
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  3657. 'I'm not a fan of banning people..' Time for the 'first they came quote'?
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  3658. Trump/RFK jr ticket. Smash the uniparty.
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  3659. Where's Keeeeev???
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  3660. In Ireland domestic water consumers don't pay water bills....think about that.....
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  3661. Presumably it's not even as if all these trans people in female prisons have had surgery to remove their penises and were on regular female hormone treatment? The very fact that they still have the intact anatomical means to rape a woman means that allowing them into women's prisons should effectively be considered a crime committed by the state.
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  3662. More and more people are slowly coming round to what's happening here and what's been going on for years in places like Iraq, Syria, Libya and Afghanistan. I was ignorant myself until relatively recently and for that I'm truly ashamed. As Julian Assange observed over the Afghanistan invasion, 'The goal is... to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through [these countries] and back into the hands of a transnational security elite. The goal is an endless war, not a successful war"
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  3663. But you're still watching it??
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  3664. What an utterly ill-informed comment. Take a look at what's happening in the EU, particularly to its major players, for crying out loud.
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  3665.  @Alex-df4lt  Do you seriously want me to do it for you? Look at what's happening to the politics in France and Germany. Look at the political shifts there and elsewhere in Europe. Look at the levels of debt to gdp of some these countries. Greece's economy today, despite the austerity miracle narrative being attached to it, remains smaller than in 2008. None SO blind as those who WON'T see 🙈
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  3666.  @Alex-df4lt  Extraordinary.
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  3667. It's a perjorative term, but proof positive that ALL politicians are populists.
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  3668. I came here for at least some degree of enlightenment and thanks to this crappy, insolent, arrogant interviewer got nowhere.
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  3669. How can someone like James Whale still be in his job after this sort of behaviour? That was an abuse. Complete ignoramus.
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  3670. The bigger the lie the harder it is for people to believe it.
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  3671. Vim Mckee, NY. Look him up!! Behind his anonymous, unassuming door this financial genius has helped me to make literally millions from crypto whichever new one comes up amidst the many thousands already in existence.
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  3672. The 'liberal' mask is slipping...
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  3673. He left his Betty Davis eyes at home that day.
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  3674. This smells SO SO bad. The US government has gone rogue. Stacey Plaskett and Mehdi Hasan are two names that will go down in infamy.
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  3675. The power of doing nothing? Belgium went 592 days without a government in 2020 breaking a previous record of 541 days in 2010. Belgium seems to have survived 😊
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  3676. Making light of a blatant political witch hunt, the weaponisation of your judicial system, the polarisation of your country and the wilful flouting of its constitution doesn't really warrant LOLZ IMHO, but perhaps that's just me.
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  3677. Never stand in the way of a blithering idiot (like O'brien) when he's making a mistake.
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  3678. Have I missed something?
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  3679. No one could've predicted this crazy outcome a century ago (or perhaps they could?) but in the UK, as in the US, it's no coincidence that Zionism and the Far Right are becoming increasingly aligned. Worryingly, the British State apparently has no problems with this creeping symbiosis and sees no need to highlight it publicly despite repeatedly noting - always separately you'll notice - that extremist Far Right groups are becoming an increasing threat to British society. "When I use a word" "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less". "The question is" "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things". "Which is to be master" "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master — that's all". Alice in Wonderland's Humpty Dumpty is obviously the current head of MI5.
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  3680. 'I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned' Richard Feynman
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  3681. Why are the Chinese still riding around on bicycles in mouse suits? 🐁 😊
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  3682. Dollar hegemony is the key to US imperial power and interests. It allows the US to essentially dictate to any state in the world what is and isn't an acceptable ruler, government or elite to them through sanctions. Ultimately the Assad regime in Syria fell so quickly and without a fight because of the years of crippling sanctions imposed on it. A tiny, benighted, powerless Cuba and its population remains sanctioned by the US after 65 years as an abject lesson 'pour encourager les autres'.
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  3683. I'm under no illusions that they're somehow supremely benign regimes, but I never thought I'd be praising both Iran and Russia for their obvious restraint in the face of extreme provocation by the West.
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  3684. We hear so much nowadays about 'my truth'. When did 'my truth' become the only acceptable form of truth? The book burners who try and kill this sort of rational, debatable fact trading and interpreting debate, frankly, can't handle 'the' truth, whatever that is, and simply chose to propagate their own narratives and seek to do nothing more than destroy those who have the temerity to disagree with them. However flawed the opposition might be, I know where my allegiances lie in this debate. *Not to dismiss it but George Floyd's killing by Flauvin's excessive force has very little bearing on this.
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  3685. The IMF financial call in the 1970s by Healey was tenuous at best and yet it seems to form the spine of today's right wing narrative. UK finances today are markedly worse by most comparable metrics than in the mid-70s, but people like Andrew Neil have been propagating and dining out on this myth for decades now.
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  3686. Makin' bacon with gammon.
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  3687. KK totally wrong on the fundamentals of the vaccine being sound I'm afraid. In the UK the average age of a COVID death is still over 80 and still higher than normal life expectancy. It does not offer sterilising immunity, hence three and counting so far. It does not prevent contraction or transmission and it has been been strongly linked with certain conditions, particularly myocarditis in younger otherwise entirely healthy individuals. No-one knows the long-term effects that these 'vaccines' will have, particularly the entirely novel, largely untested mRNA ones. Surprised at KK if I'm honest.
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  3688. I don't even like BoJo but this obsession surrounding the tittle tattle of the massive egos present at the time is a distraction. Covid was an almighty f*ck up by our government of gargantuan proportions and others across the world and I'm damned if I'm going to accept that somehow Boris Johnson was entirely responsible for what happened in the UK. Despite the original 'pandemic plan' from 2012 he understandably lost his bottle in the face of extreme relentless pressure from the largely self serving political opposition, the death porn purveying MSM and the procession of clueless quacks from 'the' science world. 'The' definite article has and never has had any business whatsoever being in front of the word 'science' and once it does then we're all f*cked.
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  3689. Presumably, over time, people will gravitate away from YouTube to other platforms like Rumble if this continues like it is. Google owned YT is a great platform, but it's clearly very much part of the establishment thus, assuming alternatives to it are allowed to remain and compete, it is slowly cutting its own throat here with these self-serving censorious policies.
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  3690. Can't blame them, but Bank of Mum and Dad are effectively helping to prop up the system of overpriced property by helping their kids borrow more than they otherwise could afford. Ultimately it doesn't help address the overall mismatch between people's earnings generally and what they can afford as all it does is 'artificially' sustain the higher prices.
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  3691. Identity politics is one of the most potent weapons in the so-called elites' arsenal used to perennially distract the masses from the REAL issue at hand, that being 'class'.
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  3692. Join the club It's reaching epidemic levels on here now. Not sure if it's humans, algos or both and if it's YT or the sites themselves fearing being demonetized.
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  3693. Ultimate conspiracy theory perhaps, but I wouldn't be in the slightest bit surprised, revealed in the fullness of time, that there wasn't a mutually beneficial deal between the UK 'elites' and US 'elites' way back when seamlessly passing on the imperial baton.
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  3694. Care to expand?
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  3695. Fission chips?
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  3696. Sat?? Sitting!!!
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  3697. Dickens is a dawk.😊
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  3698. Lord Jesus. See below.
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  3699. Bang on. Never were cryptos 'currencies'. In and of themselves currencies are only worth the paper they're written on ie intrinsically worthless. They are accepted tokens of exchange issued by governments that will effectively only accept them as payment for taxation.
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  3700. Both the UK Labour Party and the US Democrats sold out their bases years ago for money. They are both, by design, shells of their former selves and much of their voter bases today are like cuckoos in the nest effectively meaning the parties forever offer their working class voters a false choice. No wonder they have a lot in common.
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  3701. 💯
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  3702. Hadn't been aware of this. Only find one article on Coe in NYT and toxicosis, but no details.
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  3703. For a super smart guy, Seymour Hersh can also be pretty dumb which is reassuring in a way. Of course vaccinations are important, but one would like to imagine that both his doctor wife and daughter know that prior to the beginning of last year covid jabs weren't even classed as 'vaccinations'. The very long standing definition of 'vaccination' was changed specifically because of these covid jabs as were the very long established, time dependent protocols required to test for efficacy and safety. Protocols subsequently entirely ignored. To this day there is essentially no such thing as a coronavirus vaccine and yet Mr Hersh, supposedly with a superior incisive inquiring mind fails to know this and by the sounds of things nor do his wife and daughter. Nothing wrong with staying in your lane, but at least have the decency to acknowledge that that's what you're doing rather than sinking to calling those who know a f*ck sight more than you do about something like Kennedy a loony.
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  3704. MSM not only failed to question Russiagate for years they actively propagated it en masse and have barely reported its being debunked so it's hardly surprising they're almost completely ignoring this and fixating on the weaponised Trump indictments.
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  3705. Estonia, which is a EZ member has an inflation rate of over 23%. The UK's is currently just over 10%. Perhaps you're confused with the EZ's 'average' current August rate of 9.8%? Also, in terms of the GBP/EURO rate the GBP is up 6% over 5 years on the single currency.
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  3706.  @engledelaffety4380  Nice try, mate.
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  3707. See ya.
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  3708. Well, come the winter in Europe, we're about to find out who's right and who's wrong here then aren't we? Either you presume you yourself to be an expert or you deem that you have listened to enough of them, or those you consider to be, to make a cast iron prediction here? Personally, I hope you're right.
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  3709.  @arnoldrimmer4025  So you disagree with everything he says?
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  3710.  @arnoldrimmer4025  He's a renowned psychologist who has been asked his view on Putin 'the man' , what drives him and what he might do next. Why is that so wrong or controversial? Of course the situation is complex and of course their are numerous variables at play. No-one can see the future. Even military, economic or political experts. What did he say that you took particular issue with?
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  3711.  @davidadiwego4608  I don't think it was necessarily 'a choice' as such, but there are inevitable social, political and economic consequences for fostering the circumstances that have allowed for an increasing aging population. One way or another we need a young, fit productive workforce to support and sustain them and all these arguments are intertwined with birth rates and immigration levels and then further complicated in some people's minds by overpopulation concerns and stretched resources at both the global and national level. At the personal micro level it might be 'great' that our mums, dads and grandparents mostly live far longer than they once did, but at the macro level it presents serious enduring issues with difficult choices.
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  3712. If anything good at all came out of October 7 it's that more and more people, particularly in the West, are waking up to uncomfortable realities that they've either long ignored or been ignorant of.
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  3713. How often did you hear him mentioned?
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  3714. The tag 'experts say' is always a major red flag for me nowadays.
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  3715. Problem being getting rid of Putin will either usher in someone more hardline than him and/or create chaos. Ultimately if a Russian leadership feels sufficiently threatened it will, just as Israel will, resort to a nuclear option.
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  3716. Do politicians like AOC dupe electorates at the beginning of their careers or slowly become part of the very establishment they began by railing against without realising? Or does the establishment simply buy them off or perhaps does it find enough dirt on them to ensure their compliance? Bernie Sanders was another similar example. Something must happen to these people and I'd love to know what.
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  3717. Sell your crypto mate before it craters and do the decent thing and try not to rope in any more desperate, gullible souls into it before you do.
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  3718. 2012 BOCA RATON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Former US President Jimmy Carter stated “As a matter of fact, of the 92 elections that we've monitored, I would say the election process in Venezuela is the best in the world" during the kickoff of the Annual Conversations at the Carter Center series. Basing his opinion on the vast experience amassed by the institution observing and monitoring elections around the world, Mr. Carter praised the South American nation for having a voting system that makes verifying results an easy task.'
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  3719. Mind you, this was the same Jimmy Carter who effectively called Trump's 2016 election victory illegitimate....
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  3720. At least he didn't bring his xylophone this time😁
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  3721. Crypto is today's equivalent of 2008's subprime. Rich people exploiting poorer people. Period.
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  3722. Brand's biggest crime was he changed sides.
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  3723. So you don't think it's odd that the West has just financially and militarily supported an offshoot of an Islamic extremist organization in their aim of overthrowing an essentially secular regime? Further to that, you don't find it at all odd that these Islamic extremists aren't remotely interested in continuing their war with the hated Jewish state next door and are in fact apparently currently letting it bomb and seize Syrian territory with impunity?
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  3724. Israel called its unprovoked attack on Iran 'Operation Rising Lion' ....not a coincidence I suspect given its need and wish to appeal to the increasingly unhinged US Christian Right fundamentalists. Revelation 9:16.
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  3725. #MeToo. Blair did the same thing in the UK.
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  3726. 'To better protect themselves'....the CDC.
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  3727. The 'liberal' mask is slipping.
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  3728. Merely instructive, but I recommend everyone puts in whatever they paid for their homes in whatever year into an inflation calculator to find out what it would amount to now. Then find out the rough current valuation of your home. Pound to a penny most of you won't feel quite as rich as you thought.
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  3729. The US rebuffed Putin's noughties overtures to join NATO once it realised it would be the slippery slope to it losing its hegemonic control over Europe to Russia. I suspect that Putin knew this before he asked, but it helped prove a point. NATO isn't a broadbased defensive military alliance it is, principally, an aggressive military alliance and tool of US hegemony which needs a Russia forever in its cross hairs in order to justify its continued existence.
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  3730. The one positive that Gaza has revealed is indeed the unveiling of anti-woke, anti-cancel culture free speech advocate fraudsters like Murray, Peterson, Rubin, Shapiro etc It's also thankfully shown us who the trustworthy, principled true believers are. People like Galloway, Iverson, Napolitano, Greenwald, Blumenthal, Mate etc
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  3731. How shuffling, stumbling and occasionally falling over for president at 81?
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  3732. How on God's green Earth did Central Banks become the ultimate arbiters of what governments we choose in supposedly democratic states? This claim, repeated here by Nick and nodded along to by John, that they are also somehow the sentinels of sound money and good economic governance which apparently affords them this right to choose governments is surely given the lie by history to date? Someone's royally taking the p!ss here, right?
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  3733. Understandable if English is not your first language. Where are you from originally?
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  3734. Leaving to where exactly?
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  3735. Israel could and would never have done this alone. US General Wesley Clark has long said that the US war hawks ultimately wanted a war with Iran. Prior to this, Iraq, Libya Syria, Yemen and Lebanon were on their list of targets to destabilise. The real warmongers don't wear robes and hide in holes they wear sharp suits and ties and reside in plush offices.
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  3736. Like his brother PH seems to be steadily losing his grasp on reality, being far more often wrong nowadays than right.
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  3737. Flossie's not for turning, I can tell you that.
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  3738. Can anyone explain why BTC is up over 20% in the last 5 days? What's driven that rise in the circumstances?
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  3739. Assuming this isn't yet more disinformation, an imploding nuclear Russia shouldn't be cause for celebration by anyone anywhere.
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  3740. Yeah, that one doesn't wash any more so change the record. Plenty of Jews out there who see this for what it is.
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  3741. He knows eff all about vaccines put it that way.
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  3742. 2024s Iron Dome = 1980s Star Wars programme. Psych.
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  3743. Diesen makes the point that even if it were Ukraine and not the US, which I seriously doubt, then they wouldn't have undertaken NS2's destruction without US permission. In that sense then it is a moot point.
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  3744. Yep, that wasn't just an act of eco-industrial terrorism conducted by the US it was economic terrorism inflicted on the entirety of Western Europe. And yet, bizarrely, no one raises so much as an eyebrow.
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  3745. On a human level I feel for Liz Truss. On a political level she's a car crash.
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  3746. Along with Frankie Boyle, Mark Lamarr is another one to cross off the list. What a couple of self-serving, spineless hypocrites.
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  3747. Crook's 'emotion vs debate' comments echo strongly YT increasing censorship treatment of comments. Simple 'Emotion' is generally ok, but facts, arguments and debate clearly aren't.
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  3748. Stuxnet was indeed highly illustrative of what's afoot.
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  3749. Virtue signalling is the curse of the modern age massively amplified by social media. Moreso than ever, you just have to talk it not walk it.
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  3750. CRT is wicked. Do not divide us.
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  3751.  @steviewonder417  Why doesn't the game theory check out here?
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  3752. True, but it's still not acceptable to say it out loud in polite company yet. In good time.....
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  3753. 'Redfining success' is team talk bullsh*t for ignoring obvious past failures.
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  3754. I'm by no means 'an expert' in ANY way and know very little about crypto, but it is still very much a purely speculative 'risk on asset'. A product of rosier times. It still, by and large, adds nothing materially to the economy and is, in effect, supported by fiat purchases and redemptions. If it were me, and I would never give any advice to anyone, in the current inflationary climate and given its correlation to tech stocks, which rarely prosper in such an environment, I'd get the f*ck out NOW. That's my 2 cents anyway.
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  3755. Stone gives a good account of himself in this interview in my opinion, and I say that as someone who is no particular fan. He is seeking the truth, or at least doing a far better job of it than most of his peers and the lackey western media more generally. Putin's actions are indeed monstrous, but that in no way mitigates those of his Western peers which have often been far worse in terms of misery inflicted, longevity and sheer scale. Does the fact that we self-servingly choose to consistently ignore them or stick them in the convenient box of 'the greater good' make us better or worse than him?
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  3756.  @skandre7776  That's what's known in the trade as textbook 'whataboutery'. No-one is saying that Putin is a saint. I certainly didn't. But being a relatively small scale, low rent, murderous despot compared to the decades of havoc and mayhem unleashed upon the world by the US-led West pales into insignificance by comparison.
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  3757. @robertwalker1079  Yup.
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  3758. Not meant in any way as a defence of the US Democrats, but some Americans would do well to remind themselves which president initiated this 'vaccine'.
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  3759. The deepest, darkest cynic in me would say that these events represent quite an opportunity and excuse to start to unwind the huge amounts of debt in the bloated Western monetary systems, but luckily I'm not that cynical. 'To infinity and beyond!'🚀
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  3760. $40bn US aid pledged to Ukraine, one of the most corrupt countries in the world, by far most of which is military and not humanitarian. Nobody knows where much of this equipment is going and nobody knows what price the US will ultimately exact for that 'aid' at some point in the future. US meddling in Afghanistan indirectly gave us Al Qaeda. US meddling Iraq indirectly gave us ISIS. Wonder what gift US meddling in Ukraine might bring?
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  3761. Unlike in the day of JFK we have the immediacy of the internet now and we don't need an official inquiry months after the event in order to avail ourselves of many of the details of this questionable event. Sure people will inevitably take things to the extreme, but there are certain fundamentals here, too many to be sheer coincidence, that simply don't add up.
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  3762. Unfortunately I don't think either are as far apart as they'd like the US electorate to believe, but I agree they both need to tone down the rhetoric. Both as bad as each other.
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  3763. Cramming the two big boned lads on one small sofa and leaving the slight chap with one all to himself seems a little unfair, no?
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  3764.  @jackominty3633  Fair enough.
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  3765. There was a mighty good reason why Corbyn was effectively taken out the game with a confected charge of antisemitism by the British political establishment. He was planning to make fundamental changes as to the way the UK economy was being run and there was no way 'some' were going to let those changes happen. Furthermore had he, a lifelong Eurosceptic, not dithered over the Brexit question and presented the electorate with a dog's dinner of a policy the Red Wall seats wouldn't have collapsed to Johnson's Tories.
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  3766. You're actually left with 'ligeon'.
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  3767. Trump, free from the TDS and hate and division that has plagued the last 8 years in America, must be judged soley by what he does or doesn't do now.
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  3768. 'There were alternatives to the hard Brexit chosen, in the referendum, many leavers gave the impression we could stay in the Single market, the customs union was barely mentioned' Mostly enjoy Tejvan, but still peddling this tired old disingenuous BS after all these years really annoys me. Referenda are, by definition, binary. The 2016 Referendum question was, 'Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?' It wasn't a suite of cherry pickable options or an MCQ paper for a good reason, just as the 1975 Referendum (held years after the fact) wasn't. “Do you think the UK should stay in the European Community (Common Market)?” Nor were ANY of the campaigners on either side in a position to promise ANYTHING. The single market and customs union are essential components of the European Political Project and leaving it was essentially a political act NOT an economic one. Due to its structure and ratcheting inevitable direction of travel one can no more be 'a bit in it' than be a 'a bit pregnant'. So please, just change the record Tejvan.
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  3769.  @an0therdimensi0n99  Nevermind the lamentable punctuation, what does that hot linguistic mess even mean???
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  3770. Can you expand on that?
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  3771.  @ChefEarthenware  Point taken, but I suspect that - and I admittedly do have an axe to grind here as an SDP member - WC was inadvertently and incorrectly conflating monetarism with neoliberalism.
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  3772.  @ChefEarthenware  You can. Moreso than we're used to anyway, and they advocate for mixed market economics with more nationalised major infrastructure. As they're fond of saying, 'more left on economics and more right culturally'.
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  3773. CRT is an evil of our modern times. It's a divisive racist ideology. Plain and simple .
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  3774. Surely only a country like Russia would stoop to pulling a false flag operation like this? The fine, upstanding, fairplay obsessives in the West would never sink to such depths?
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  3775. Great discussion that attempts to get to the heart of this tragedy with all its complexity, competing narratives and contradictions all before what turned out to be a not guilty verdict. My biggest worry here is that a few democratic politicians and most notably President Biden saw fit to discredit this verdict right from the off. In any democracy either you have a separate independent executive, legislature and judiciary that openly respects, without necessarily agreeing with, the decisions each other makes or you don't, and once you don't then it's goodbye democracy.
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  3776. Much of the EU AND the UK are ALL in a mess of their own making. It's not just Germany.
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  3777. The Sun: The armchair warriors read of choice?
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  3778. My £100,000 mortgage debt plus interest and promise to pay is basically somebody elses' wealth.
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  3779. Huge relief to see Carlson take the right side here. Murdoch's Fox's agenda is now made crystal clear.
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  3780. Supporting the US fomented Ukraine war was an almighty f*ck up by Europe from the beginning. A massive blunder. The US under Trump is walking away saying not our problem and Europe has just been left with an almighty sh*tshow.
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  3781. Europe's back, largely through its own decades of poor decision making and backing the wrong horses, is now properly up against the wall. What this means, of course, is that our societies will have to collectively pull together and often sacrifice in order to lift us out of this self-inflicted mire. This then will be a test born not only of our making, but also informed by those past choices.
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  3782. All states rob their people and take their cut.
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  3783. Science, by definition, is never and should never be settled. If you want to say the Earth is flat then be my guest. I won't hate on you, but proving it is when there are quite a lot of pictures of a round Earth from space means you're up against it. Show me a picture of a flat earth or tell me why you can't. The onus of proof is on you basically in terms of some pretty strong evidence to contrary unless of course you can prove that those pictures from space are themselves faked. Then I'm all ears. Anthropogenic climate change caused predominantly by CO2 is, however, a far more questionable argument even now, so to say the science on the subject is not only 'settled' it is downright dangerous in my opinion.
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  3784. All too shouty. This wasn't a debate. Host should've taken more control.
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  3785. The proles and the plebs, whomsoever they may be or wheresoever they may be, are invariably the 'expendables' who get to feel the blowback. Recent events in Magdeburg are likely yet another testament to this.
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  3786.  @OMGAnotherday  And this is what people fail to understand about the principle of free speech. It's become a cliche, but the age old mantra that I might not agree with what you say, but I'll fight for the right for you to say it is now more salient than ever. Laws, certainly in the UK, have long existed to protect people from genuinely threatening behaviours, but we're often witnessing not a failure of existing legislation to keep up with changing events as we're led to believe but a consistent failure to apply that legislation appropriately. Further to this, it is then used as an excuse for mission creep by the state Introducing ever more far reaching Draconian legislation under the false premise that current laws are no longer up to the job.
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  3787. Perhaps even Trump is coming round to Netanyahu and Israel's duplicitous agenda? Netanyahu is on record as claiming first in 1992 that Iran is on the cusp of developing nuclear weapons. He went on to repeat these claims in 1993, 1995, 1996, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025.
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  3788. These sites should be taking down these cryptospam posts with immediate effect. Particularly once reported.
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  3789. It's certainly, on balance, pro-China I agree, but do you have any issues with what is actually being said here?
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  3790. People within the footballing community who's outspoken views conform with the orthodoxy? Hmmm... they're not both thinking about a certain rather opinionated, exceptionally well remunerated Pepsico ad boy and BBC frontman are they?
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  3791. Dickens is such a Dawk.
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  3792. The West is committing suicide over climate change policy all whilst the likes of China and Russia are laughing their socks off.
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  3793.  @stevewilson4321 From the guy who essentially says nothing.
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  3794. Italy can't have stopped growing since 2000 surely? To hijack a phrase, it's been in 'the sunlit uplands' of the EU all that time.
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  3795. ​ @fraochflanagan-km1ou Yup. Hence the ratcheting crackdown on social media.
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  3796.  @laurareneesmith  You sure about that?
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  3797. The initial conversation went from Cuomo talking about how the NY indictment was bogus to Maher talking about how Trump tried to overthrow the government and his audience apparently applauding that. The two things flat out aren't connected so either Maher is thick or dishonest, along with his audience, or both.
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  3798. Economic history shows us that interest rates have to exceed inflation rates at some point in order to squash it. We're nowhere near that point. Particularly in Europe. Well over a decade of perennially low interest rates in the pursuit of increasingly difficult to source debt-fuelled growth doesn't exactly bode well here does it? The testosterone-fuelled bull has been allowed to rampage around the china shop for years and we're now trying coax it back into its box with some crappy old hay.
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  3799. #MeToo
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  3800. She didn't know which president it was who said that either😊 Mind you, neither do I.
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  3801. Whatever happened to making money in your sleep?
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  3802. The Troubles in NI were a toxic brew in which no one came out without deep deep shame. Not the Republican or Loyalist paramilitaries and not the British state. Those paramilitaries on both sides of the sectarian divide today are now often to be found running drugs coercing those in debt to them to participate in sectarian riots in payment.
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  3803. The problem here is how do you easily row back from this? There's little doubt that some are enjoying and benefitting from this hoopla, but lots of people have heavily invested in this emotionally and many have been forced to make huge sacrifices because of it.
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  3804. Graham Allison's Thucydides Trap theory is gaining more credibility by the day...
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  3805. Classic 'long grass' tactics being deployed there by Europe's already largely faceless, unaccountable political elites.
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  3806. Golden Rules expected to be followed by pro-trans activists? Transitioning: Shout it from the rooftops at any and every opportunity. Detransitioning? Shut the front door and disappear basically.
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  3807. If nothing else this all demonstrates the magic of fiat. The global economy, in essence, has barely grown at all since the mid 1970s. What has changed is the debt that's been attached to it and the shifting timeframes. The debt fishermen know that it's time to pull the line in a wee bit that's all.
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  3808. Moelis is very good in this.
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  3809.  @itawolf2494  Again, not sure where people are getting their figures from on this thread but inflation in Italy, as of today, has been marked as 8%.
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  3810.  @itawolf2494  So presumably everything is heading in the right direction for you then?
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  3811. A real Gotcha moment. Good on you Max for not succumbing to her lame attempts at passive aggression. This squirming shill from the WaPo should be utterly ashamed of herself. She has no right to call herself or be called a journalist.
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  3812. Particularly in light of their more recent abuses the US must do away with the misleading term 'Grand Jury'. For most of those who quite understandably know eff all about them the very name falsely conveys an undeserved gravitas. Both in terms of the jury's implied experience and knowledge and in the biased judicial procedures involved in terms of the often cherry picked evidence they're presented with.
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  3813. Love the theme tune.
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  3814.  @opencurtin  I take that as a good thing.
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  3815. QAnon and Pizzagate are just LARPing gone wrong.
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  3816. 'You will own nothing and you will be happy' is the logical extension of this. As investment banker Carol Roth notes the masses are effectively being increasingly disenfranchised by governments, corporations and big tech as a matter of policy. Divorced from their property rights, their freedoms and their access to and any control over wealth.
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  3817. Putin's synapses firing on all cylinders meanwhile Jell-O Joe is wondering whether there's chocolate ice cream for dessert.
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  3818. Mighty powerful stuff from Neil Oliver.
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  3819. When's the next Fed put due?
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  3820. History will not judge Trudeau favourably. The self-styled 'liberal' poster boy who finally completely subverted the meaning of the word.
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  3821. This exchange is hilarious. Thanks for making me laugh. I needed that.
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  3822. Black Friday? A veiled prediction 🎱
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  3823. After this Russia is far more likely not less likely to sell more arms to countries hostile to the West. Another potential Western own goal from this.
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  3824. Not that the US cares, but Netanyahu openly broke federal US and NY state law ordering Nasrallah assassination from his NY hotel room.
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  3825. ​ @cruisinusa5110 So, presumably, Muslims are a race yes?
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  3826. The US has over the decades carved out a comfortable niche and made itself the arch rentseeker in much of the global economy by hook or by crook. In no small part thanks to successions of biddable, venal 'open for business', 'free market' Atlantacist foreign political and financial elites it gets a tasty slice of the financial action from our economies come what may.
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  3827. Hear, hear. The West's role in provoking this conflict ie the US, NATO and the EU has been known about for many years. Western leaders were repeatedly warned not to meddle and give Ukrainians false hope and a false sense of security in their dealings with Putin's Russia. That in no way excuses what is happening in Ukraine at the moment to predominantly innocent people at the hands of the Russian army. A solution to this that is amenable to both sides, essentially regarding the legally assured future neutrality of Ukraine, has to be found and found quickly in everyone's interests before this already horrendous episode spirals into something far worse.
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  3828. ​ @steve.k4735 Yep. Well said. As ever, history is written by the victors. The US didn't enter both world wars out of some moral imperative, it did so because it suited its or more precisely its elite's interests.
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  3829. @vulgarisopinio  No. Fair point.
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  3830. The US obsession with foreign interference in its own elections is the ultimate hypocrisy. Israel does so officially and openly and STILL no one bats an eyelid there and the US does so ALL over the world under the guise of humanitarian aid.
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  3831. Neocons lead from the back. As far back as they can possibly get.
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  3832. ​ @johnnhoj6749 How so?
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  3833. Hasn't her fund just tanked?
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  3834. Love Joe Lycett, but Andrew Doyle still has the edge.
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  3835. Does the 'vaccine' - which isn't anything of the sort by normal definitions - undermine the natural immune system of otherwise normal healthy people?
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  3836. Sayonara Draghi. You won't be missed. EU technocrat to his very core.
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  3837. Have you tried talking to Mike Hunt?
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  3838. A portentous interview. Unbelievable that anyone ever went through that in living memory anywhere in the world, let alone the fact that we in 'the West' can just as easily go through it again should we succumb to complacency.
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  3839. I do find it consistently odd and annoying that whilst the most obvious manifestation of the UK's woes can be traced back to 2008 (and really its roots long before that) this slide occurred during the many years we were actually IN the EU. And yet here we are being repeatedly reminded by professional and amateur commentary alike that somehow this has all simply occurred since 2016.
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  3840. I'm not surprised Pearce agreed with Amela there. If she told me to jump off a cliff I probably would.😊 Seriously though another great discussion with great guests.
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  3841. The internet is a threat to the establishment. Period. Prior to its ascent it was far easier to ignore or not even hear certain POVs or to shut them down without most people being aware. The internet is truly a means of mass communication and an incredible way of disseminating ideas, information, propaganda etc to as many people as possible. That isn't in any way to say that it doesn't come with issues, deadly serious in some cases, but overall it clearly represents the biggest threats to those who don't wish to see an enlightened more engaged populace. Hence the current 'disinfo wars' being conducted in the name of defining the impossible absolute truth.
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  3842. Golden Rule? Don't get in the way of the establishment's business plan.
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  3843. He's not a philanthropist. Like a lot of super smart, uber wealthy sociopaths he knows how to milk the system, cover his tracks whilst doing it plus put a good spin on it. A narrative which is then dutifully lapped up and propagated by compliant media shills to the gullible masses. Gates is not, I repeat, a philanthropist.
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  3844. Pleasant.
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  3845. 'You will own nothing and be happy' This is why big corporations are increasingly becoming involved in the buying up of commercial property and involved in the funding and building of 'public' infrastructure. We're all being sleepwalked into this and there are still only a few voices waving, clapping and shouting at us trying to wake us up from our stupor.
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  3846. Depressingly, geopolitics is a zero sum game in the Anglosphere it seems.
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  3847. And, after all this, the average age of a UK covid death remains at 83. Two years higher than the a 'normal' death.
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  3848.  @paladinyyz6868  OK. Fair point.
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  3849. Putin's not a nice guy. That's not in question. He couldn't have successfully ruled a vast, disparate, fractious country like Russia for decades if he were. What you, like many others, seem to studiously ignore are the results of Western foreign policy over the decades and what informs it. I'm thinking Vietnam, South America, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel/Gaza, Ukraine...places like that. Only the naive or foolish could claim that it wasn't informed primarily by self-interest or that it was about exporting genuine democracy, peace and freedom to these countries.
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  3850. Ironically Macron's pact with the Left in order to keep the RN out could actually help further worsen French finances. The RN's manifesto plans were essentially Left-wing in nature anyway and they showed signs of trimming them to placate the markets in the event of victory. Now the Melanchon Left hold the whip hand and are far less likely to heed the market's warnings when it comes to implementing their even more radical plans. The law of unintended consequences? 'Le Pen de ma tante' as the French would say.
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  3851. The key phrase there is, 'The problem is we have such a mismatch of supply and demand, that rents are increasingly determined by what tenants can afford'. Essentially permanently restricted insufficient supply meets apparent limitless and increasing demand. Similar to the mortgage market and explains why property prices keep rising seemingly defying all logic. Lenders will simply lend what borrowers can afford and thus up and up the prices go. Sadly Western economies, moreso the UK's, are heavily built around this model so there is little incentive to change it and indeed there would be great trepidation about doing so for fear of killing the Golden Goose.
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  3852. Nice wave😊
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  3853.  @nomnomyam9379  At least that got through. My both entirely factual, irrefutable comments were removed by YT. Nuff said.
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  3854.  @nomnomyam9379  Ensuring, as I do, that it was ENTIRELY factual, I posted it twice just to make sure in reply to this guy. First it seemed there and then it wasn't. Mis and disinformation now, much like the law, is a subjective NOT an objective thing by design. 'They' CAN'T' define it, not least because some of the biggest propagators are actually government and corporates, and thus 'they' GET to define it as and when it suits. Funny that.
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  3855.  @nomnomyam9379  See if my reply to you appears....
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  3856.  @nomnomyam9379  Doesn't look like I'm permitted to reply.
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  3857. Ferguson sounding suspiciously like yet another neocon.
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  3858. There needs to be far more evidence for this claim before it's established. Blowing up NS2? Tons of it, both historical and current, dictacted the balance of probabilities there but the clear cut evidence for the Moscow attack simply isn't there yet. I'm not saying it isn't, but there should be a wee bit more caution exercised in these circumstances. This is potentially an act of war with the world's 'other' superpower FFS.
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  3859. Mainstream economists are nothing more than paid shills. High priests there to do their masters' bidding.
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  3860. Nevermind that Taiwan is officially recognised by most of the world, including the US and the UK, as being part of China. Bari Weiss is a Fifth Columnist intent on spreading disinformation.
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  3861. ​ @maracohen5930 Wasn't defending Hamas attack on October 7th. It was an atrocity, but what's happening in Gaza is a genocide by any measure. Most of the many thousands of dead are unarmed women and children. It is a genocide which, bitterly ironically, you fully support.
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  3862.  @margarita8416  Not sure I can make sense of that. Fancy clarifying.
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  3863. That's got nothing to do with the price of fish. This is ostensibly about lockdowns NOT jabs. If he as an older individual with potential comorbidities, like any other, made that choice about his own body then that's up to him. NOT you or ME. If he chose to berate others for not making that choice then I would agree.
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  3864. Knights who say nee.
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  3865. Russia is a far weaker country than America in just about every sense if we're talking about power, but between them they possess around 90% of the world's nuclear arsenal in equal measures. If this escalates to nuclear conflict and if there's anyone left to record its history then let there be no doubt that this was initiated by the United States and its allies NOT Russia.
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  3866. Not quite up to Ukraine's level obviously, but is this more American bombenomics? 'Aha!! There be gold in them thar ordnance'.
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  3867. The Spanish flu killed 40m plus. It killed huge amounts of younger people, men in particularly. The future generation's seed. Many immuno-compromised servicemen returning from war, criss-crossing the world's oceans and unwittingly aiding its spread. In some senses it was a perfect storm. The one thing that is always forgotten about the Spanish Flu, however, is that it occurred in pre-antibiotic days and many millions of those who died actually died from secondary bacterial lung infections that would subsequently have been treated with antibiotics. Spanish flu expedited that research. Covid 19 ain't no Spanish Flu contender and never was. In the UK the average age of a COVID 'related' death has remained more or less steady at 82 around the same as the average life expectancy. What a complete and utter sh*tstorm🤐😩
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  3868. Swear by Chinese branded phones tbh.
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  3869. Rand Paul is one of the rare good ones.
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  3870. 'the rock of democracy founders when we come to those we disagree with as 'the others'
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  3871. Why talk to Putin the war criminal? Every POTUS over the last century and likely longer is, legally speaking by today's standards, a war criminal.
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  3872. To be fair, the UK has also sought to influence US political outcomes. The debunked Steele Dossier that formed the basis for Russiagate was essentially produced by MI6 for and paid for by the Clinton campaign. Elon Musk, like an emboldened Trump now on US foreign policy, is essentially doing things in plain sight and saying the long suppressed quiet parts out loud.
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  3873. This all has strong echoes of the excellent Adam Curtis' Documentary 'Hypernormalisation'. A situation in which warmongering 'elites' continually seek to confuse their perpetually fearful populaces with neverending mixed messages both for profit and to cement control.
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  3874. Ultimately defined by Ofcom under guidance from ministers. Not a ministry as such, but a Quango of Truth. All sounds hunky dory to me....
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  3875. And here we are today, almost in 2024, and the average age of a UK covid death remains stubbornly, much as it did during 'the pandemic's' height, at roughly the same as the age of an average death ie 81 years old. Utter madness, collective insanity, mass psychosis? Take your pick, basically.
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  3876. Imagine how most of this wouldn't even have been possible decades ago. It is only today and on such a grand scale because of medical 'advancement'. Never underestimate human beings' ability to monetize misery and to magically find profitable solutions to problems that didn't previously exist to any great degree.
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  3877. It stands to reason, and God forbid any numbnuts who says otherwise, that there are numerous of factors at play here. It's rarely, if ever, just ONE thing. Lockdowns were utterly insane and have had horrific consequences aside from covid and jabs themselves socially, economically and medically. Of course, the multi-trillion dollar question remains, just as it should, were any of these excess death specifically due to the jabs themselves in any significant number?
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  3878. Got to be worth you giving some examples there surely?
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  3879. Entirely factual comment removed regarding Rice's 2014 admission of US planning war in Ukraine in 2014 to end European energy independence on Russia. Funny that.
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  3880. Careful. If Jittery Joe goes down we'll end up with Clueless Kamala.
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  3881. This is why the UK housing market and its associated mortgage market is SO crucial to propping up the UK economy and why ever rising housing prices are deliberately encouraged despite frequent claims to the contrary. I'm of the cynical opinion that government actually restricts housing supply in order to promote scarcity and drive the market and prices ever upwards.
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  3882. For those who don't know yet increasingly 'conspiracy theories' today are about challenging the narratives of proven liars.
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  3883. America, legally speaking, hasn't been involved in 'a war' since 1945. These are 'conflicts'.
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  3884. Tanks on civilian streets is NEVER a good look.
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  3885. Dreadful woman.
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  3886. Because?
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  3887. Gerth relates any denial of Russian involvement as akin to the twisted world McCarthyism. This also puts me in mind of CRT. The very act of denying that you're racist means that, by definition, you are with the only answer acceptable to those pushing its agenda is a mea culpa admission that you irredeemably are.
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  3888.  @andyjarman4958  Well, that's different. As long as they weren't a shameful testament to this government's abject folly and ineptitude.
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  3889. Triffic. Now Spectator thread is being heavily censored. Be it Speccie or YT it doesn't bode well.
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  3890.  @ianmackinlay1894  Tis. Sadly.
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  3891. ​ @PaddyMacDaddy101 To give him the benefit of the doubt he could just as easily have been referring to US Corporations.
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  3892. History is not a morality play... ...but you try convincing people of that.
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  3893. Xavier run out of choo chooz to ride?
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  3894. 'Tooooo risky, Musky'.
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  3895. Yep, much of all this is built on an entirely false premise and, in essence, flouts the GFA that everyone is apparently obsessed about upholding.
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  3896. Brexit, whilst undoubtedly a factor, is dwarfed by the 30,000 HGV tests cancelled by the DVLA in 2020 due to covid. Supply is like a conveyor belt or sausage machine. Once something drops of the end ie retiring lorry drivers or changes of career and there's nothing coming along behind to replace them then you've got serious problems. A potential shortfall of tens of thousands of HGV drivers in what was already an acknowledged chronic bordering on acute problem in 'normal' pre-covid times is bound to result in severe logistics/supply problems like these.
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  3897. It's heading that way certainly. Hopefully he'll forget his presidential Pin# for the 'nuclear football' if or when the time comes?
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  3898. What's 'Twidder'?
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  3899. Ten or more so minutes into this and it's all a bit rambly and shapeless... perhaps the other fella will do better?
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  3900. This is also why governments don't give a rats about the environment, despite the claims. All they care about is about you continuing to pay to maintain and repair this junk. The House always wins, people.
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  3901. The worse thing about these people is privileged positions like Lemon is that they're smart enough to know they're wrong, but wicked and self-serving enough to keep doing it.
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  3902. Flat out intellectually lazy to call Hamas a death cult. Hamas has undeniably committed some horrific crimes, particularly recently, against humanity but let's not forget so has the IDF acting under the apparent international respectability of the Israeli state. Let's make no bones about this, a crime is a crime no matter who commits it. The moral justification after the fact is really the fundamental issue here not whether a crime has been committed or not.
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  3903.  @Soundsinthevoid  Sure it was. Your democracy demanded a coup and massacre and couldn't wait for an election?
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  3904. Worth mentioning that Trump was initially responsible for arming Ukraine, albeit as a natural continuation of the Obama administration's policy towards it.
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  3905. Dark times indeed. WTF is this going?
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  3906. These comment sections should be renamed 'ad hominem sections'. Put counter points of view people and quit attacking these individuals personally. It just suggests a paucity of your own knowledge and understanding.
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  3907. The real tragedy is that it actually worked. Doesn't exactly inspire faith in your country or your fellows does it?
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  3908. Or better still it should try spreading disease and then miraculously coming up with the highly lucrative 'cure' for it in record time. A modern take on the Wild West snake oil salesmen of old perhaps?
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  3909. 'Certain individuals in Russia have met with untimely ends whose premature demises might bring a degree of pleasure to Putin' Can we at least say that then?
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  3910. Just for the record I know two people who've died from COVID, one prematurely. I also know of one person who's in a serious condition in hospital because he was all but forced to have the jab by his company, Pfizer I believe, and another, a cancer patient of 57, who was unable to access the cancer treatment she needed because of years of COVID restrictions and who died last week. The UK now has its largest ever health service waiting list of 6m and counting, the pandemic has cost an estimated £400bn and counting and hundreds of thousands will now die prematurely because of coming up for two years of COVID restrictions. The vaccine is not a vaccine requiring three jabs in a year and possibly more in perpetuity and has not led to the promise of getting back to normal. The average age of a covid death in the UK still remains at 82 after nigh on two years of this, pretty much the same as the average life expectancy. Ernby's death due to COVID restrictions, if correct, is a personal tragedy but it is still a statistical outlier and does not change the fact that millions upon millions of more premature deaths will occur because of these COVID measures. Deaths, apparently, that in some people's eyes simply don't count.
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  3911. PH's 'No!' re clapping for the NHS was my 'will I f*ck' back then.
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  3912. Great analogy made there. A guilt ridden, virtue signalling, navel gazing West is outsourcing its carbon guilt at great personal cost to the likes of China, Russia and others whose own actions consistently prove they don't give a sh*t about the apparent imminent 'climate catastrophe'. Frankly, they must be p!ssing themselves.
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  3913. The American Dream persists because most Americans just see themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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  3914. As Mussolini, Fascism's founding father, helpfully pointed out almost a century ago. Fascism can be defined as when the interests of government and [big] business can barely be separated by a cigarette paper.
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  3915. Sure. Begs the question as to why you are here....
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  3916. Hardly mainstream news but KSA is importing (yes, importing) more heavily discounted Russian oil over its high summer demand period. KSA's alleged limited capacity to significantly increase its supply means that it can sell its own (unlike Russia) on the world market at far higher world prices. If Biden secures 'a promise' of extra oil it'll look like a political win for him and KSA looks to be helping the West out in its time of need. Yay! Make of that what you will.....
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  3917. Those weren't animals inside that hospital. The animals were outside it.
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  3918. Activist 101. From the off, vilify and dehumanise your opponent, however learned, with a simplistic extreme label thereby nullifying any need to engage with any of their arguments. Job done.
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  3919. This 'war' is SO significant because it cuts to the heart of US politics itself and ME regional geopolitics more generally. Even today Israel could not exist without the huge sums being pumped into it by the US and nor could it fight this 'war' without its unequivocal political support and military hardware. Nor is it a coincidence that all three main US 2024 presidential contenders all rely on an all too infrequently touched upon quid pro quo relationship with the US Israel lobby AIPAC along with its two all powerful political parties. Make no mistake this isn't JUST about Gaza and the Western-sanctioned systematic murders of thousands of Palestinians, it's also about the blatant ongoing corruption of the body politics of the world's and history's most powerful countries.
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  3920. Have you seen Stevie Wonder's house?
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  3921. For those resorting to repeated ad hominems against Ritter on this thread: He was a 'failed' weapons inspector because he was 'dumb enough' to repeatedly point to the fact that there weren't any WMD in Iraq. A fact that the US government duly ignored because it planned to go war with Iraq regardless. He was inconvenient to say the least. The parallels with the western-led proxy war in Ukraine are marked. In terms of his sex abuse conviction it was a planned FBI sting against Ritter - why might you ask - for an internet only exchange on an over 18s only chat site. The 15 year old girl never existed and should have been over 18 anyway to be on there in the first place under the rules of that site ie there's no reason to believe that it wasn't anything other than fantasy role play in his mind. Was he stupid? Hell yeah. Does it have anything to do with judgements he's made on Iraq and Ukraine? Absolutely naff all.
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  3922.  @CraigPauls  It was an FBI agent in a sting operation directed against Ritter pretending to be a 15 year old girl on an over 18 only chat site. Why target ex-weapons inspector Ritter and what would a 15 year old being doing on an over 18s only chatsite are both worthy of answers.
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  3923. When these buildings were built, some decades ago, surely it was known at the time that this material wasn't designed to last forever? It seems safe to assume it was used precisely because it was cheaper than the alternatives and the downside of that was that it wouldn't last as long because it was of poorer quality. WTF is the big mystery or alleged cover up here? Someone must've been aware. All I can see is a bunch of politicians, yet again as happened with covid, opportunistically using a so-called crisis for their own ends and a load of craven 'experts' taking the path of least resistance and saying all these buildings are in danger of imminent collapse.
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  3924. ESG? Cue someone racially diverse mooning over a rising green coloured bar chart....
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  3925. And nothing wrong with that. It's called voluntarily exercising your own personal choice. Given that whatever number you've had it obviously offers no sterilising immunity and doesn't stop you from passing it onto others may we also assume that you respect others' choice not to have it?
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  3926. You're mishearing. I hear HTS. Listen more and harder.
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  3927. @King-Ghidora  He's Norwegian. He's got an accent, but probably speaks better English than either you or me grammatically speaking. How good is your Norwegian?
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  3928. Who's the 'we' here? Is 'we' the 'you'?
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  3929. Fazi is right. Gas spot prices fell 28% yesterday as speculators unwound their positions after slightly more positive news on gas supplies going into the winter.
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  3930. Bang on. Difference between fact and opinion and if that distinction is lost then it becomes about power and wealth? Like being able to afford to employ the likes of Mishcon de Reya to defend you ......
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  3931. The Bidens have been on the take, particularly from Ukraine, for years. The benighted country was Joe Biden's Obama designated fiefdom. Trump's first impeachment hearing was over the Biden's dealings in Ukraine. The West isn't involved in Ukraine to defend democracy FFS. Get a grip, people.
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  3932. @johnlaudenslager706  Get your chronology, nay facts, right. Facts matter. Ukraine revoked its neutrality in December 2014. Russia invaded Crimea in order to protect a region with an 82% ethnic Russian majority directly as a result of the CIA sponsored coup in Maidan earlier in the same month of February 2014.
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  3933. Our communities for ever more cheaper stuff.... Fair exchange is no robbery I guess, so we ALL own this.
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  3934. Worth pointing out that only if the IAEA is to be believed, and I certainly wouldn't bet the farm on it, the Iranians had recently enriched uranium to 60%. Well above the JCPOA limit of 3.67%, but also well below the 90% needed to produce weapons grades for nuclear weapons. Notwithstanding the fact that Israel is a Western supported rogue nuclear state itself, this increase in enrichment levels only occurred AFTER Trump abandoned the aforementioned JCPOA agreement in 2018. His reasons, other than his usual 'it was a bad deal' rhetoric, for doing so remain unclear as he was repeatedly warned NOT to do so by many of the saner voices in his administration. The reasons since cited include his hatred towards Obama (under whom this treaty was negotiated in 2015) to the inclusion of neocons like 'Pimpeo' and 'The Walrus of War' Bolton he invited into the chaotic 2016 administration. The most likely overriding reason, however, was his noticeable pivot to the Right wing extremist Netanyahu and the need to appeal to the highly influential and wealthy Israel lobby in the US egged on by the likes of the odious Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. Thus one can't help but feel that much of this denouement has, as much as it possibly can, been stage managed and in the US Deep State's foreign policy pipeline for some time.
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  3935. Difficult to see how this channel let alone the vast majority on the planet might ultimately benefit from a global economic collapse.
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  3936. Somewheres vs Anywheres in a nutshell.
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  3937. @nataliedoyle4701  'Anywhere' elites, be they financial, political, academic or whatever exist in pretty much all countries. It is intellectually lazy and/or dishonest nevermind unhelpful to automatically presume that they must be 'Jewish'. Further to that, the insistence of forever doing so is, I would argue, itself an anti-Semitic trope. This is essentially about class, power and money, who's got it and who's abusing it.
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  3938. He wrote the dodgy dossier FFS!! The casus belli presented to parliament and the British public stating that Saddam had WMD and the UK was potentially 40 minutes away from attack. What exactly does it take to get through to people like you. Campbell sold his soul to the Devil years ago. Presumably you're still just haggling over the price?
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  3939. This is precisely WHY the corporatist lurve identity politics. It's divide and rule and it has worked like a charm since the 1980s.
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  3940. Perhaps he's got long CDS? Covid Derangement Syndrome.
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  3941. That's not the point that's being made here. The point is is that it's a phenomenon that's been co-opted and weaponised by so-called elites in order to divide and neutralise the class threat. The overriding threat to their positions. No one is saying that racism isn't a thing and that it shouldn't be challenged, but ostensibly it is practiced and implemented in its most harmful form by the very 'elites' who advocate for 'wokism'. 'Oppression' is the result of wealth inequality and it is essentially colourblind.
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  3942. Does this lady even understand the meaning of the words, 'the buck stops with me'?
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  3943. If they can change the longstanding definition of what a vaccine is then they can certainly do it with 'recession'.
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  3944. ​ @rodrigourieljacobo7211 Cosmic coincidence but I thought his dead wife was called Agnus???
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  3945. GG is a card carrying big 'C' catholic so his traditional religious views on gay relationships/marriages not being 'equivalent' to heterosexual relationships/marriages aren't exactly a bombshell. He's entitled to his views of course just as he was on advocating Chinese style lockdowns during covid, but that doesn't necessarily make him wrong about railing against Israel's genocide in Gaza.
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  3946. It's not paranoia to imagine that there are far greater controlling forces at work, it's logic.
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  3947. Why?
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  3948. Nato is purely a defensive organisation? That's certainly news to me.
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  3949. ESG is slowly being called out in the US I believe as people can see finally where it's been leading. Businesses shouldn't have 'values' as such, other than a duty of care to their customers, staff and, where applicable, their shareholders. It's Stalinist political correctness masquerading as social responsibility. No wonder it's being abused by leaderships as this abject example proves.
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  3950. You have the First Amendment that's why. Generally, I'm not a fan of constitutions but the First Amendment has definitely been a plus for the US in these circumstances.
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  3951. Healthy scepticism? Not in my lifetime.
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  3952. Speaking as a functioning alcoholic there's hope for me yet then.
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  3953. There's a reason why all these wealthy 'investors' as the stock markets fall are now piling into cryptos which is arguably an even bigger scam designed to rinse the poor and desperate.
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  3954. The Left/Right paradigm isn't remotely helpful here. Leave it and open your mind a little more.
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  3955. Yep. And all the European ones are geniuses. Go figure?
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  3956. It's not and nor should it be all or nothing. There will have to be, eventually, a negotiated settlement. Be it one state or two state. Israel with a truly independent nuclear deterrent is not going anywhere. The big question now is what shape will it and a future Palestine take?
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  3957. As long as the US remains the least worst looking horse in the global currency glue factory then it will not go bust and the national debt will just continue to be added to. As long as the world wants and needs its dollars in still marked preference to anything else - a currency which the US can print at will and to a degree export its domestic inflationary effects - and the RoW keeps 're-investing' in Uncle Sam's burgeoning debt then the show will go on.
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  3958. The EU is like a bike. If it doesn't keep moving forward it'll fall over. It knows this. Ironically it was the Thatcherite single market that saved its bacon in the 1980s. What will save it now with its economic powerhouse now deprived of cheap Russian gas Germany raises some mighty interesting questions. 'It will be forged in crises' said one of its original leading voices Monnet. Looks like it's time for a bit of forging.....
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  3959. Maybe, but fiat is ultimately the state. Careful what you wish for.
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  3960. When China says it's close to being at 'peak oil' isn't this more in reference to its level of demand rather than its supply?
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  3961. Lenny Henry is just stirring up trouble here seems to me. He's become a race baiter over the years unfortunately, imagining that it's somehow ok because he thinks he's punching up. I wonder how 'interesting' he would find considerable black over-representation in the Premier League or the NBA for example or the similar story for ethnic minorities' over-representation in the NHS?
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  3962. ​​ @marias.6955 It's draft/proposed legislation from the Macron government apparently. There's a good piece on Naked Capitalism posted by Nick Corbishley posted Feb 16.
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  3963.  @MelanieMelanie-bv6nw  Also a piece in Le Monde on February 14 entitled, Dérives sectaires : l’Assemblée nationale approuve finalement le délit de provocation à l’abandon de soins'
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  3964.  @allanedwards1036  The bill is still alive.
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  3965.  @allanedwards1036  'The National Assembly finally approved, Wednesday February 14, the creation of a new offense of “provocation to abandonment of care”, in the bill to combat sectarian abuses, after a new deliberation requested by the Macronists in a stormy atmosphere.' 'The article modified by the majority was finally adopted by 182 votes to 137, with the support of the PS in particular. The socialist Arthur Delaporte welcomed the return of this measure, “more necessary than ever” to “defend science”, while “people are saying unacceptable things on social networks”  Le Monde 14/2/24
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  3966.  @slee2819  Passed by the CoD but still has to pass the Senate.
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  3967. Too many unanswered questions over October 7. On that I would agree.
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  3968. To use the popular vernacular, everyone nowadays is 'on a journey'. Who you are and what that journey costs you is another question of course.
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  3969. ​The extremes of the left and the right aren't on a spectrum they're on a horseshoe. To the point where their differences become moot.
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  3970. Golden Rule is be careful what you wish for. Today's justifiable measure in your mind could easily become tomorrow's tyranny and be used against you.
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  3971. Shared this like a madman!!!
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  3972. Pretty much every major currency, bar the Russian rouble, has taken a major hammering this year in relation to the dollar. The euro reached dollar parity this week.
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  3973.  @voice.of.reason  Unfortunately the war has more to do with the West than we'd care to admit.
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  3974. The UK was able to leave the EU far more easily than any single currency member that's for sure. It was but one of the reasons I voted to leave the EU ie before some sanctimonious self-serving 'citizen of the world' snake oil sh*tbag types like Bliar tried to force the UK into it.
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  3975. Ruthless dictators abound in the Middle East. Many propped up by Western interests for decades. Are you claiming that General Sisi of Egypt is somehow a peace loving raging democrat?
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  3976. Supply and demand. Energy prices going down point to people feeling less confident in the economy more generally. Industry uses huge amounts of energy and if that industry slows down or disappears then demand for that energy inevitably dwindles pushing down the price.
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  3977.  @khalifa3335  Quite likely yes, assuming there's still sufficient demand for it.
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  3978. Looks like you're going to be a rich man then?
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  3979. RFK is an unrepentant Zionist, but there again so are both Trump and Biden.
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  3980. Like begging a drug lord to stop supplying his biggest most lucrative market. Ain't gonna happen is it.
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  3981. Explain.
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  3982. @halloola3636  😂
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  3983. @halloola3636  Thought you were joking 😁
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  3984. In the UK the 'legal tender' argument is certainly not the case. A customer stating that something is 'legal tender' doesn't mean that it is. It could be a forgery. Basically anyone can refuse to accept a payment if they so wish whether it's 'legal tender' or not.
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  3985. It is an inherent flaw, particularly in democracies for obvious reasons, but all politicians are 'populists' I'm afraid. Not just the likes of the much maligned Farages or Trumps of this world. This forthcoming vote will at least be rather informative as to quite how many of our elected 'populist' politicians calculate that a majority of electors and our fellow citizens secretly wish to live in an increasingly authoritarian state. As Benjamin Franklin said, ''Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
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  3986. A great interview. Thank you.
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  3987. Today's obsession with free speech, which sadly and ironically seems to be being defended predominantly by the political right and undermined predominantly by the political left, has come about precisely because there are those trying to squash it. Squashing the right to free speech and attempting to silence people are the primary drivers of political extremism today, particularly on the right, not the way to end it.
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  3988. The Smithsonian could do worse. Biden's brain is like a sponge 🧽...
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  3989. I always thought that Frazer was Scottish???😊
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  3990. Despite my left wing politics, this is one of the big reasons I sometimes despise 'the Left' or at least those who claim to be. The Right, at least, make no bones about what they're about, but the Left seems to think it can get away with pretending to be what it isn't or straddling two stools. Not only disingenuous in the extreme, but one of the reasons why essentially many of those from the virtue signalling Right feel comfortable by voting for these pseudo-left wing parties thereby acting as cuckoos in the left-wing nest. Hence these near universal 'uniparties'.
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  3991. Jim Bianco and Trenchev do a sterling job trying to polish the cryptoturd.
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  3992. A weak currency, particularly for somewhere so steeped in culture as Europe, might mean more tourism, but how exactly does that potential rise in tourism square with the green agenda? Presumably, unless someone invents a low carbon emitting teleporting system anytime soon, these people will be flying in, being bussed and carred around? What gives?
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  3993. Institutionally based racially motivated police crime in the US is an utter fiction as it is in the UK. The figures simply don't bear the false claims out. Not to say it doesn't happen, it undeniably does, and those who perpetrate it should be punished accordingly. End of.
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  3994. "The immediate question is this: Just how much damage did the second Democratic debate do to the campaign of the front-runner, Joe Biden? Only opinion polls conducted in the next few weeks will provide a definitive answer. Since entering the primary, in April, Biden has said a number of things that provoked outrage in progressive circles and shrugs from more moderate Democratic voters. We’ll have to wait and see if Biden’s heated exchange about race and busing with Kamala Harris provokes a different response. But one thing cannot be contested. Considering the debate over all, Biden’s performance raised fresh doubts about his preparation, age, grasp of the environment in which he is operating, and basic political skills." The New Yorker 2019. 2019 FFS!!
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  3995. 300k looks like a pretty conservative estimate to me.
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  3996. John Butler is the daddy. Could listen to him all day.
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  3997. On the subject of BLM, sites like GZ, as serious journalists laser focused on truth, should be pursuing the story of the false imprisonment of those three officers involved in the GF case. Police brutality is undoubtedly a fact and it barely discriminates in the US, but those three men (two of whom are 'mixed race' as if that's important) are behind bars because of a political and media witch hunt and it is a scandal happening in plain sight.
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  3998. ​ @kelrogers8480 Yeah, it was all mapped out in a legally binding rulebook 2000 years ago apparently. D'uh.
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  3999. Europe, fatally, opted to outsource most of its foreign policy to Washington decades ago and its defence arguably even earlier. It is now paying the price for those expediencies. It, collectively, voluntarily became a client state of the US. A US that is off in search of more useful clients in a fast changing world.
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  4000. Kamala Harris is just SO embarrassing to listen to. She wastes a helluva lots of words ending up either saying nothing or confirming beyond any reasonable doubt that she hasn't got a clue what she's talking about.
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  4001. By not speaking out or resigning Sunak is as responsible for the Covid/Lockdown sh*tshow as all the other spineless, gutless, populist idiots who were agitating for these suicidal, ill-informed policies from across the political divide.
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  4002. A 'Toto pulls back the curtain' moment.
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  4003. Seriously crap analogy. Chernobyl today is famous as a wildlife haven and its potential impact now looks to have been vastly overestimated.
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  4004. ​ @hughjohns9110 These rejoiner types live in cloud cuckooland I'm afraid. The EU that the UK left wouldn't be anything like the one it would rejoin even, but leaving it was first and foremost a political act NOT an economic one anyway.
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  4005.  @hughjohns9110  Fully agree, but factual innocuous reply not passed by the censors unfortunately.
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  4006. Hey, it's the fake narrative that most people believe and just so long as they do it will prevail.
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  4007. Who asked that silly question?
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  4008. Great interview.
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  4009. Confused? They're Trump fanboys or Biden fanboys now?
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  4010. This SHOULD be a non-partisan issue. This is modern day McCarthyism. Question is, 'whose side are you on?'
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  4011. Interesting that reasonable current repo data isn't publicly available....why might that be?
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  4012. Much of Europe has been well and truly hobbled both practically and mentally by its colonial past.
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  4013. If this chap's genuinely curious not ignorant then he needs to ask Max about the illegal west bank settlements and apartheid nature of the WB itself, the settler violence and seizing and control of vital water supplies, Israel's role in the creation of Hamas, how October 7 even got off the ground in the most surveilled place on the planet, how the music festival was allowed to go ahead so close to Gaza during a major Jewish holiday despite security objections, why so many troops weren't at their posts, the Hannibal directive that contributed to at least some of the Israeli deaths, the false claims of rape and 40 burnt babies....stuff like that really.
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  4014.  @charlessmith-vh9cw  Who knew? YouTube does a special version just for you.
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  4015. Well, if it all kicks off proper, coming from the West, at least I can say I was on the wrong side of history.....
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  4016. This 'incident' actually raises further serious questions about quite how 'independent' the UK's nuclear deterrent is does it not? Hundreds of billions spent to date over decades at UK taxpayers' expense, a potential future PM in Corbyn likely removed, in part, by 'persons unknown' because of it and yet it appears that there is no such thing as a unilateral option to deploy it and there never was ...
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  4017. Lord Liddle of Aldi.
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  4018.  @moran68  I think people seem to be a little confused about the various meanings of mandate, but in this context the following legal definition applies, Mandate A judicial command, order, or precept, written or oral, from a court; a direction that a court has the authority to give and an individual is bound to obey.
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  4019. If you take the utterly absurd prevailing woke logic then changing 'race' is a no no as it's 'cultural appropriation'. Michael Jackson was a famous exponent of this. Basically this madness has to collapse under the weight of its own contradictions eventually.
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  4020. The wonderful Chris Hedges said the other day that Dershowitz lies like he breathes.
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  4021. How so?
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  4022. Jews were many more times more likely to be expelled from the UK Labour Party (bitterly ironically as anti-semites) as opposed to non-Jews amidst the entirely confected British establishment's 'anti-semitic' witch-hunt designed to remove Jeremy Corbyn.
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  4023. I always found it rather dull and uninspiring, but each to their own.
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  4024. Ironically, as Michelle Obama recently advised at the recent Democratic convention, her parents once told her never to trust rich people like her.
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  4025. This was the turning point for Trump undoubtedly. Republicans, like UK conservatives, will tolerate a lot. Everything that is except losing. Trump simply hasn't got the strength to break through the skin on the US electoral custard any longer.
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  4026. Glad I never got to see Ben Wallace's 'bit of leg'🤢
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  4027. I think, really, when people talk about the death of free speech it's about preserving the vital right to offend within the bounds of the law. Universities no platforming of certain individuals and banning of the wearing of certain items falls into that category as does banning clapping as it could be construed as an aggressive act. The right to offend, again within the bounds of the law, is the cornerstone of free speech and the fact is that are people out there who are trying essentially to homogenise thought and make people think 'the right way' ie one way. At its best this leads to self-censorship and at its worst it leads to tyranny.
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  4028. The EU, and by that I mean Europe as that includes the UK, has consistently and SERIOUSLY f*cked up here.
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  4029. She knows a f*ck sight more and has a f*ck sight more scruples than her co-host.
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  4030. Let's be utterly frank here. The US, uniquely, has an ultimate veto over ALL these transnational institutions, even the ones it doesn't itself recognize like the ICC. Its basis for doing so, interestingly, is that it undermines its sovereignty although it's quite happy to see it undermine everybody else's. B$ on stilts, basically.
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  4031. This war should never have happened and negotiation is the best course. This isn't appeasement. Putin and previous Russian leaders have pleaded with the US not to push too hard and so obviously close to its borders. The US and Russia still possess 90% of the world's nuclear weapons no matter how people try and dismiss the importance of Russia. The West's ratcheting reaction to the Ukrainian conflict will only push Russia into the arms of China. Plain stupid.
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  4032. Sure. The EU, by its own admission IS in trouble, the US is flailing and lashing out as its grip on unipolarity is finally slipping, the USD is under serious threat not least by the BRICS hence Trump's threats to those who refuse to use it and Europe's energy outlook does look dicey in light of recent developments regarding its access to Russian gas plus the US' long stated aims to end the continent's reliance on it. Does that make me a troll?
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  4033. I'd hate to ever correct someone as illustrious as Max Blumenthal - the man's a legend - but the cancellation of the French sub deal was somewhat more complicated than he is portraying there. Job promises broken, technical/engineering issues, perceived shifting tactical needs, budgets vastly exceeded, timescales not met etc
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  4034. Much as I can't stand Macron she's got next to no chance of winning. To many she is still 'the far right' and she and her party are seen by enough people on the French left who might otherwise have voted for her as 'racist'. Her economic policies are, as Nigel Farage says, also complete pie in the sky. As I said I have no love for little 'Manu' but a seasoned pro like Macron with the might, money and influence of the French and EU establishment behind him will demolish her in the upcoming debate.
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  4035. Ukraine and both Biden's and Trump's political and financial connections to it, nevermind the US's, NATO's and the EU's, is what puzzles me more than anything here??? Why do two successive warring US presidents from two different political parties have these largely unexplored, controversial connections with such a famously corrupt country I wonder?
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  4036. Poor journalism has SO much to answer for.
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  4037. Most Americans don't like to see themselves as poor, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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  4038.  @spaghettibadger647  YouTube hates live links so if you could just copy and paste the quote and source that would be great. Just helps me to piece together this horrible jigsaw. Thanks in advance.
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  4039. She might be being 'factually accurate' about supplying plenty of documents, but her organization seems to be rather too keen to avoid sending the specifically requested ones to the right people.
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  4040. Carter also made the false claim that the 2016 election was effectively stolen from HRC. People forget that. Used to think a lot more of him until then. The man is a relative saint, but only compared to his less than illustrious peers.
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  4041. No one could in all good conscience vote again for the Dems after ALL they've done. That, by no means, gives someone like Trump a free pass either going forward, but the primary aim WAS to remove Dems from the board and send a message. People shouldn't imagine either that the legacy of Biden's economic policies is going to be positive for Trump's incoming administration either.
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  4042. People have to remember that Trump was still the TINA candidate despite all this. Not just Americans, it applies to others elsewhere, need to ask themselves why they have the best democracy money can buy.
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  4043. China has nailed its colours to the Zero Covid mast and is unlikely to row back on it now. If democracies like Australia and New Zealand can pursue such policies for two years with minimal dissent then it's not difficult to imagine what a 'top down' country like China will do.
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  4044. Sweden got bounced into NATO. This is what politicians ALWAYS do. They exploit apparent crises in the moment.
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  4045. Russia winning? Losing? In a bloody stalemate? The point is that this long warned about war should never have happened in the first place and really, as ever, it's 'ordinary' people in Russia, Europe, Ukraine and the rest of the world who will suffer the consequences of this folly.
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  4046.  @MarekzAnglii  I should have written 'quite there', but I take your point.
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  4047. Anagram?
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  4048. Curate's egg this broadcast ie good in parts, but mostly, although not entirely, good I would say. For example, Stiglitz certainly ain't someone to be held up as exemplary.
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  4049. I've long had my suspicions about what BBC war reporters reporting from alleged frontlines and this helps to confirm it. Being 'useful idiots' there simply to confirm an official narrative is one thing, but seeing and knowing what you report being used to deliberately undermine the reports of others brave enough to pursue the truth at great personal risk is quite another.
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  4050. So the United States has in negotiations given the middle finger to both Europe AND Ukraine which did all all the fighting and dying in the senseless war and yet there are still those out there who have the brassneck to claim this wasn't a US initiated war. Unbelievable.
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  4051. Regardless of the rights and wrongs here Israel has been caught out repeatedly making false claims in the media regarding gang rapes, hospitals used as underground Hamas military command centres in order to justify bunker busting missile strikes, multiple beheaded babies, babies in ovens etc. Does this not in any way concern you given that collectively they have all been used to justify what is essentially the mass murder of civilians, predominantly women and children?
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  4052. ....but....but...but...our governments were printing money just to save lives surely?
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  4053.  @rhwinner  I'm assuming you're being rhetorical? It's not a war anyway. The State of Israel is engaging in the collective punishment - a war war crime incidentally - of civilian Palestinians in Gaza predominantly using US and Western supplied weaponry and with either their full or tacit blessing. Israel has now dropped the explosive equivalent of three Hiroshima bombs on one of the most densely populated areas on the planet. The majority of those dying, over 18k and rising now, are likely women and young people under 18. October 7th was an atrocity, but only a fool or a liar would claim that it came out of nowhere. Gaza and the West Bank with their increasingly violent illegal settlers backed by the IDF and Israeli police were a powder keg. The more outrageous Israeli propaganda claims have since been debunked and a number of Israeli deaths, including at the festival, were the result of friendly fire from Israeli Apache helicopters. Can you honestly imagine these Hamas fighters surrendering after this to an oppressive regime like Israel and can you honestly imagine that they won't return in some form or another in future?
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  4054. Not an argument for unlimited, unfettered immigration you understand, but even the EU policy of 'free movement' itself could arguably be called an ethnocentric racist policy designed to undermine the prospects of immigration from outside the EU.
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  4055. Perhaps a valid rhetorical question, but all I would say is that, without wishing to sound too reductive or glib, there are good people and bad people. 'Jews' or 'Nazis' aren't doing this. Bad people are. It's that simple.
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  4056. Head of World Bank points out the bleeding obvious that the trillions spaffed on covid worldwide and the lockdowns were a beyond stupid idea....cue crickets chirruping.
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  4057. It'll never be free. Governments will always tax whatever they can get away with. Windows and salt used to be taxed remember. The fundamentals of life energy and water are easy prey.
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  4058. The soft ball way the question was asked there by a member of the presspack and the way in which it was answered goes to show the sheer level of collusion that occurs between the media and White House.
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  4059. The last referendum there was lost by a whisker and in extremely controversial circumstances.
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  4060. Clinton"s legacy will not be judged kindly by future historians.
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  4061. Israel, like the Wagner Group for Russia, albeit on a far greater, far more destructive level, offers America plausible deniability. The carefully crafted narrative that it is somehow completely autonomous but they're constantly doing their best to rein it in suits Uncle Sam just fine.
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  4062. On this occasion I think the BBC is correct given the huge complexities here. Calling them gunmen or militants is a statement of fact and the BBC should be striving to be impartial and just report the story here. People can and will make their own minds up anyway.
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  4063.  @supercriceto  There were plenty of Israeli 'terrorists' killing British military personnel in the late 40s, some of whom went on to become Israeli statesmen. Similarly Israel could be called an oppressive apartheid state and I've seen plenty of examples of the IDF terrorising and killing Palestinians over the years, but I don't expect the BBC to start calling them the terrorist IDF or referring to the Israeli state as 'the oppressive Israeli state'. Your SS example is just daft.
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  4064. @®$0π!$+s asked for best way to put out 🔥
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  4065. The increasingly decadent, complacent West has been the architect of its own virtue signalling navel gazing misery basically.
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  4066.  @unclem7816  Whom is that addressed to?
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  4067. How would you feel if you considered yourself to be a bona fide British citizen and this was effectively forced upon you?
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  4068.  @sillygoose9070  I mean no disrespect, genuinely, but I'm not sure you do. Lots of NI Unionists 'feel' British as, I'm sure, you likely do. Someone telling you, not least another British person, that you shouldn't because it's inconvenient to you is a mighty bitter pill to swallow.
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  4069.  @sillygoose9070  True, but the GFA was a long grass agreement designed to recognize and ease that very inevitability over time. At the end of the day NI is a political mess of the UK's own making, albeit not with malice aforethought. It was, at its heart, a misjudged political fudge that went wrong, but that doesn't mean that Unionists there should summarily be thrown under the bus by the rest of us.
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  4070.  @sillygoose9070  For what it's worth I feel your pain and I know exactly what you mean more generally.. I speak to others who feel the way you do. It just annoys me how the GFA and its central principle of consent is continually held up as being sacrosanct when it so obviously isn't being honoured and has been weaponised by Irish Republicans, the EU and the US. And that's nevermind the UK government's quiet betrayal of people who are still legally recognized citizens of the UK. Something also enshrined in that agreement. NI, on current form, will ultimately become part of Ireland again one day I agree, but it has to be achieved with the democratic majority consent of the NI people whatever their background.
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  4071. We need to understand that some people and peoples are simply in a different brain space from us. The West is projecting its mentality onto others ie forever imputing impure selfish motives onto them. We need to take a good long hard uncomfortable look at ourselves in the West quite frankly.
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  4072. "Four more years...pause" Crowd then appears to take the p*ss by mimicking Biden's slurred delivery... ...at least they didn't chant 'pause'.
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  4073. Just to warn people there are spoof Wattsapp replies purporting to be from Stoic on this thread. They are not genuine. Ignore.
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  4074. True dedication to air filtration on display there.
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  4075. Control the narrative thus control the direction and thus control history.
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  4076. Though far from perfect, it appears China is humble enough and willing enough to study and learn from world history far more quickly than its arrogant Western counterparts.
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  4077. To put it politely, Hedges is being highly inconsistent in his position on the Ukraine invasion there. Russia was either provoked by the West or it wasn't. Don't forget this conflict was literally years in the making. It didn't all just happen last year.
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  4078. ​ @ronald2395  The 'alternative' is that a supposed anti-globalist Farage-led Reform takes arch-globalist Musk's buckets o' money and becomes the main UK political force in UK politics. Execrable choices doesn't begin to describe 'the choices' we have.
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  4079. What a bunch of C***ts.
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  4080. Taking a vital service, an integral piece of national infrastructure thus a financial dead cert and then loading it up with ever more debt whilst paying dividends and failing to invest isn't 'business' it's organised theft. Theft with the full complicity of the financial and political establishment.
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  4081. Even if it were, what are you taking specific issue with here?
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  4082. Glen quite rightly not just railing at this woman's outright dishonesty and shilling here but also at the complete lack of respect for the ethos and work ethic of his beloved profession.
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  4083. Anyone who imagines that the West sending tanks to Ukraine isn't a major escalation of this war by the West is naive in the extreme. There seems in the West to be this pathological tendency to see things ONLY through our own dualist perspective, never how it might be seen by those on the receiving end. In this case the Russians. Russia cannot afford to lose this war and, given that 45% of the worlds nuclear arms remain in its possession, we are, I believe, playing with fire.
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  4084. Talking up his book?
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  4085. When you say the GBP has absolutely tanked can you say in relation to what specifically please? The USD, the Euro?
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  4086.  @honeybadger6313  Over last five years the Euro is down 14.42% and the GBP 14.44% respectively against dollar. The GBP has lost 0.02 against Euro over last five years. The GBP did experience a big fall after the 2016 referendum granted when it voted to leave the EU, but it experienced a greater fall in 2007 when it was in the EU and it is currently in 2023 at roughly the same level it was in 2012 in relation to the Euro. True that future predictions for future UK growth from the OECD and IMF don't look great, but the economy has managed to defy those predictions in the past with the IMF forced to upgrade its prediction quite substantially last year saying the UK had "fairly robust" growth at 4.1% in 2022, "one of the strongest growth numbers in Europe" and despite its earlier predicting 3.2%.
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  4087. You for real?
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  4088. The last 20 years or so proves that the US keeps looking for any excuse to chisel away at and undermine Venezuela's democracy. Rather like being critical of the US led war in Ukraine isn't somehow an automatic endorsement of Putin nor is criticising the US's endless meddling in the democratic processes of a sovereign country like Venezuela an endorsement of Maduro.
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  4089. This is why 'elites' love, love, lurve identitarian politics and the current obsession with it. It constantly allows them to apparently adopt a higher moral position. Race, gender, sexuality etc provide the ideal distraction from overall wealth inequality which is what they're actually petrified of the unwashed masses focusing upon. For want of a better word, it can all be reduced to 'class'.
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  4090. Emmanuel Kant was a real p*ss ant who was very rarely stable....©
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  4091. This really just goes to show that racism is fear of people that we don't know, don't look like us and don't act like us. In that sense it's not entirely irrational for someone from what is a basically an homogeneous 'caucasian' country like Ukraine to feel the way they do coming here. It might be uncomfortable, unpleasant to us even, but not irrational. I know lots of essentially white Christian East Europeans and the ones I know are all very nice people, but I don't kid myself that most aren't racist in their outlooks, particularly toward POC.
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  4092. I understand your disillusionment but without a more direct form of democracy these things will always happen. People tend to associate US 'neo-Cons' purely with the right ie the Republican Party but unfortunately it now seems that the Democrats are just as likely if not more likely to exhibit and act upon these hideously reckless ill-judged attempts at US muscle flexing.
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  4093. US famously had a 1935 military contingency plan in War Plan Red.
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  4094.  @christinerussell113  100% agree. In terms of those still intent on overturning the 2016 result I no longer see them as undemocratic but as anti-democratic. Given the technocratic, centralized nature of the political project they're championing it's not exactly difficult to see why they're so enamoured with it. It effectively took over 20 hard fought often bitter years to get to that referendum via legal democratic means and some people still think they can somehow just ignore its result. Worst thing is they invariably think they're 'good' or 'better' people for thinking it.
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  4095. In terms of the UK and its entering armed conflicts, 'The power to commit troops in armed conflict is one of the remaining Royal Prerogatives – that is powers that are derived from the Crown rather than conferred on them by Parliament.” This means that the PM has a constitutional right to decide when to authorise military action.' - IoG There are various caveats, conventions and precedents, but any UK government can choose to ignore them should they wish to.
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  4096. Look up and see what the situation is at Plymouth, Poole and Portsmouth ferry ports.
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  4097. Diabolical, disingenuous semantics. It was called 'The Patriot Act' for a damn good reason. Which politician wanted to explain to their voters after 9/11 that they voted against 'The Patriot Act'?
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  4098. 'Nothing could skewer Rory’s unadmitted hunger for acclaim more than his hero T.E. Lawrence’s observation of his own “craving to be famous, and a horror of being known to like being known”. In his memoir – and every time I’ve heard him speak – Rory casts himself as the reluctant hero, come to save the country from Tory populism, and the Tories from themselves. For a man who claims not to want to be centre-stage, he seems to have a preternatural ability to wander ‘unknowingly’ into the limelight. He makes much of the idea that he’d like nothing more than to live the life of a poet, or perhaps a Victorian explorer, but duty calls and thus he reluctantly puts down his slim volume of Ovid to take up the challenge of leading the Tory Party or to have a run at becoming Mayor of London. How galling that both jobs were snaffled up by his deeply unserious nemesis. Rory Stew hates Brexit, natch, but above all he loathes Boris Johnson – really despises him. Predictably the subject of Brexit and Boris provide much fodder for the podcast Rory co-hosts with the bagpipe-bothering Blairite bully-boy, Alastair Campbell. One wonders whether what Rory-Stew most dislikes about Bo-Jo is that they’re both sharp-elbowed Old Etonians who cultivated their quirks and studied eccentricities to a level of theatrical performance, yet it was the shambolic Boris who, unfathomably, succeeded in attaining the top job.' Paddy Taylor, Unherd.
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  4099. Lower 20% 3x more likely to die from covid than upper 20%? Aside from the obvious health advantages that wealth usually brings it's also pretty obvious that certain socioeconomic groups were still forced to go out and work during the lockdowns for economic reasons and some weren't. Also if they hadn't then our societies would have effectively ground to a halt. This also helps to explain some of the more poisonous and divisive social attitudes towards the jab itself.
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  4100. Ukraine was led down the primrose path by the US and now it's backtracking under Trump. Trump, remember, sent Javelin missiles in 2017 to the Ukrainian army to help them prosecute their civil war against the Eastern Russophone regions. A war which began under Obama after the CIA sponsored coup in 2014 NOT in 2022 as is currently claimed by most Western media.
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  4101. Definitely one of the best.
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  4102.  @SpectreAtTheFeast-sx8gq  'Discredited' by the far Left presumably?
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  4103. Politicians are, generally, a kind. And I don't mean that in a good way.
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  4104. The US is, quite patently, practicing a heads we win, tails you lose model with the USD. More or less every country that needs to import any of its bare necessities - and all basic commodities are still priced in USD - needs a ready supply of USD to pay for them. Any inability, for whatever reason, to have access to those USD will result in the need for a loan. The need for a loan in a foreign currency usually comes with various conditions and costs attached effectively rendering the borrower countries' populations indentured labour to the United States . In short, this is a racket. A highly immoral racket. Little wonder that there are moves afoot to break this poisonous, vicious circle. Perhaps this is ONE good thing that might come of the Ukraine war?
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  4105. To neoliberals today labour IS capital. This point seems to have been missed and/or misunderstood in this discussion.
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  4106. She looked comfortable during that excoriation. Not.
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  4107. Essentially one guy's advocating for controlling what people can say, even if they're within the bounds of the law, and what they can read and the other one isn't. How about you leave it up to individuals to decide for themselves what they want to hear and read Bill rather than people like you deciding for them? I'm sure that self-appointed gatekeepers like yourself wholeheartedly endorse Twitter's increasingly well-known 'shadow banning' policy for example? There are block and mute buttons on these kind of social media sites for a reason. People already have the tools at their disposal to effectively curate their own social media experience and they don't need the likes of billionaires like Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg to do this for them surely?
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  4108. Is the South Korean intelligence service called KI7?
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  4109. The COVID music is gradually slowing and these people are smart and they know that. No-one, whatever side of the debate they're on, wants to find themselves without a chair when it stops.
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  4110. The stock markets are secondary markets and the playthings ostensibly of the super wealthy. They are arguably a bellwether, but they are NOT the real economy. BTC is more of the same on steroids. Zero sum games predicated on a ready supply of the next greater fools.
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  4111. Krugman, uncharacteristically, is correct in summing up of the Dollar's dominance. It is because it is. But it is because it is because, thus far, there has been no deemed to be sufficiently safe, secure and reliable alternatives... Things might be about to change on that front if the BRICS can get their act together.
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  4112. Surely ALL the US, along with much of the rest of the world, has to do is officially recognise Taiwan.....
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  4113. I have a lovely young female customer whose 23 year boyfriend, an once fit young man in the Royal Navy, had a massive life-changing stroke around six months ago. There is no family history. The RN effectively insisted he have the jab if he wished to remain in service. Make of that what you will and tell your son if you wish, but their life together has been turned upside down before it's even started. The Navy have been brilliant with their support thus far as have the NHS, but any mention by her of linking the stroke to the jab is immediately and brusquely dismissed out of hand by both the RN and doctors.
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  4114. Nick Clegg is a dreadful human being. Totally shameful, shameless appearance here. Little wonder he ended up as a senior Facebook shill.
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  4115. Easier said than done but Australians need to remain watchful of the short termism that has come to characterise UK politics for the last four decades. That their political classes don't basically 'do a Thatcher' and successfully hive off one group at the expense of another with the promise of enjoying more than their fair share of that finite wealth stream 'today'. It's not difficult for a here today gone tomorrow government to tempt some - and they only need 'just' enough remember - and create the temporary illusion of wealth, but the consequences for doing so for the country and its future are potentially terminal.
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  4116. Looking at both the RFK and JFK assassinations there is one thing that we can be 100% sure of. The CIA has had in its possession, since at least the 1960s, magic bullets.
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  4117. Now THAT is a superb, spot on comment. Every word is true. Try getting it to fly though.
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  4118. It's NOT rocket salad. Defending the right of someone to say something, within the bounds of the existing law, whether you agree with it or not is the fundamental issue at stake here. Once we allow it to be strangled, whatever the apparent or alleged righteousness of the cause in whose name it is being done, then western liberal democracies are doomed. Mark my words.
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  4119. No disrespect, but when exactly? In 2008, the US and the eurozone had similar GDPs of $14.8 trillion and $14.2 trillion, respectively. By 2023, the US GDP had grown to $26.9 trillion, while the eurozone's GDP was just over $15 trillion.
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  4120.  @iRelevant.47.system.boycott  Death metal? Or perhaps they could invent 'Death Jazz'?
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  4121. The Swamp leaks. Who knew?
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  4122. Hear Starmer and all I can hear is Zippy speaking.
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  4123. The rise of the rentiers is inexorable.
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  4124. Never happened to me before. Two completely factual comments deleted by YouTube. Will delete this comment if reposted.
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  4125. Enough of the world went along with this sh*t when it was pulled by the US and the coalition over their 'illegal' attack on Iraq. It's not going to happen again.
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  4126. George Galloway vs George Doors. 'Let's get ready to rum-ball!!!'
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  4127. Merkel, like Blair, knew exactly when her chickens were coming home to roost and bailed at exactly the right time.
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  4128. Lady in green asks an excellent question. Normal practice of Cost Benefit Analyses and QALYs got completely thrown out the window with covid. This begs the question why.
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  4129. ​ @anttiheiskala4660 Just as a POI but US will now have access to 15 existing bases not build 15 new ones.
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  4130. That claim always makes me larf. If China is 'Communist' then, by deduction, it gives the lie to the idea that Communism always fails wherever and whenever it's been tried. As Deng Xiaoping said, "It doesn't matter whether a cat is white or black, as long as it catches mice" Simple labels can be helpful, but they can also confuse sometimes.
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  4131. Gupta is ignoring the fact that those jabs were essentially novel and untested under what would be considered normal, long established protocols. There's no getting away from that fact. All the money in the world does not buy one second of time and it was the priceless passage of time factor that was completely jettisoned during covid thereby potentially jeopardizing people's lives.
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  4132. Israel is essentially a European/Caucasian ethno-nationalist state. Its seed was planted very deliberately in the Middle East as European colonial power waned between the world wars. Ironically it was born of the rising scourge of anti-Semitism that was sweeping Europe at the time.
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  4133. London definitely warps the UK economy. The bigger and more powerful its vortex gets the more wealth and public/private investment it sucks in, often at the enduring expense of other regions. Perhaps better to have it than not have it all of course, but it is symptomatic of the wider ingrained wealth inequalities born of long established policy across the UK.
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  4134. @rombios3056  Agreed.
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  4135. America, to avoid potential complications be they political, legal, 'optics' or domestic, doesn't officially declare war and doesn't send troops if it can avoid it. Having 'private contractors' on the ground forms part of that strategy.
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  4136. Why is it a dying non-story? Schofield claimed that he was not under any duress when he used This Morning to very publicly come out on. He claimed not to be having an affair with a TV runner he'd known since he was 10. An apparently carefully contrived narrative is unraveling across British media and you're obsessing about Farage, Wootton and GB News.
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  4137. It's not just a failure of the financial system it's also a failure of democracy and the political system. Democratic governments should be the equivalent of resolutely unpartisan referees overseeing a game where their primary concern is to ensure fairness of play and that the game keeps flowing at all costs. Sadly 'the referees' have been bought off by a relative few of the players and the rest have effectively been hobbled. The 'game' is no longer is no longer fair by design.
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  4138. Sushi Sue Mi? Sue me.
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  4139. Lemon's race baiting continues apace.
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  4140. I think that begs the question who are the stupid ones there.
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  4141. Shady lady from the outset, lots of vacuous politispeak but little else, but the real clincher here was her answer to the NS2 bombing. Even if the US didn't 'do it', which seems highly unlikely, the idea that they don't know who did and didn't in some way facilitate it is insulting to anyone with more than two braincells. Nuland is, 'happy that it is a hunk of metal at the bottom of the sea' so why on God's earth would it have made any sense for the Russians to bomb a hugely expensive piece of recently completed infrastructure that they had a substantial stake in?
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  4142. To be fair I think that was the point/conclusion of the film.
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  4143. Gates since pledging to give away all his money has actually got substantially richer. ....no matter how hard he tries, eh.....
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  4144. Crypto? A house of cards built on a sleeping baby.
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  4145. In 2008, the US and the eurozone had similar GDPs of $14.8 trillion and $14.2 trillion, respectively.  By 2023, the US GDP had grown to $26.9 trillion, while the eurozone's GDP was just over $15 trillion
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  4146.  @andrewwotherspoona5722  The EZ has actually added new members, albeit relatively minor ones, since 2008. The US has not added new states. Three quarters of US debt is domestically owned, there is also strong foreign demand for it as it is regarded as a safe bet compared to others, it can print its own currency and up to a point export its inflation, it is the world's reserve currency and it has a strong domestic market and robust tax base.
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  4147. I really value Epoch Times, but sometimes its QC could do with a bit more attention.
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  4148. These people who made this baseless libellous complaint should at the very least face a disciplinary panel and possible dismissal for harassment and bullying in the workplace. It's the only way these nasty, intolerant woke f*ckers will learn.
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  4149. Not wishing to sound overly morbid or pessimistic - what will be pretty much will be - is how closely the Chinese covid death rates follow the rest of the world's which has been there before it. Will there be a substantial initial peak as the virus takes out the most vulnerable and will this gradually come down with the occasional less substantial rises until the virus gradually burns itself out?
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  4150. That's the truly wicked thing about this. It should never have happened in the first place. Hundreds of thousands, mainly Ukrainians but also Russians, dead for nothing. Criminal.
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  4151. And long may you be able to exercise that right to do so just as you'll afford others the right to a different point of view.
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  4152. Great phrase from presenter Basak, 'the politicisation of assets'. Western capitalism, primarily, lives and dies by the upholding of property rights. Throw that away and its second most important tenet, ' upholding the rule of law' becomes obsolete.
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  4153. Takeaway? When you work in the woods, all you can see are trees.
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  4154. A significant amount of UKG, ergo public, 'debt' ie close to £1trillion is owned by the BoE. The BoE is, to all intents and purposes, owned by the Government, ergo the public, as it was nationalized in 1946 by Attlee. Two questions. 1)How can the UK government be in debt to itself and why can't that debt be written off? 2)If it can't, who actually owns the BoE if the UKG doesn't?
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  4155. The political 'choice' people are afforded is basically a false one, but it largely serves its purpose helping to divide and rule because a critical mass still cling to it.
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  4156. A set up by the FBI to prove that they're not corrupt or incompetent as the Butler attempt strongly suggested and they could actually foil an assassination attempt on Trump perhaps? Just kidding 😁
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  4157. Thames Water is the overindebted canary in the coalmine.
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  4158. HTS. What's in a name? Everything, apparently.
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  4159. The weird thing here is how the Russians are apparently, and I stress 'apparently', quite happy to now deal exclusively with the US here ie to the exclusion of BOTH Europe and Ukraine. The country which was the primary fomentor, funder and supplier for this war. A war which has left hundreds of thousands of Russians dead. ????
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  4160. She was VERY clearly flirting. What's the issue?
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  4161. Great interview. Very thought provoking. Learnt a lot there.
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  4162. In the immortal words of Dr Watson, "no sh*t, Sherlock".
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  4163. ​ @hahaokaywhatever865 ALL politicians are grifters.
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  4164. The Iranian nuclear bomb within days is a cooked up narrative redolent of the Blair/MI claim that Iraq's Saddam had the means to strike the UK in 45 minutes with his non-existent WMD. And we all knew where that led. All it takes is for a compliant on-board MSM convincing enough people to believe in this bloodthirsty warmongering B$ and then it's chocks away.
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  4165. The autocratic Putin doesn't come across as a panacea for the West by any means but, by the same token, it goes to show that much of what ails the West, unsafe dirty streets, poor public services, rampant homelessness, poor healthcare access etc are very deliberate political and economic choices made in the interests of a relative few NOT somehow the direct result of our liberal democratic systems or so-called free market economics.
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  4166. A continuum yes, but only until it isn't. 2008 wasn't called the Credit Crunch for nothing, although some insisted on calling it a liquidity crisis which it also was. Old loans were being paid off a lot faster than new ones could be created not least because the lenders were running out of creditworthy borrowers to lend to as the entirely avoidable man-made greed induced economic crisis deepened. Brown, Bernanke and Obama didn't so much save the world back then as prop up and return to the ante status quo whilst ironically make the rich even richer into the bargain with their financial alchemy. As ever, it's the way you tell 'em. 'What a fool believes,eh?'
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  4167. News is old news for new people....or people who've finally realized the game is up. Biden's brain was jelly in 2019 and was known to be.
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  4168. The agreeing to the NIP and the resultant imposed trade border in the Irish Sea was essentially a betrayal by a UK government of the interests of UK citizens in NI.
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  4169. Had a word. She'll brush her hair but only if you brush up on 'you're' spelling.
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  4170. Given what Biden is pursuing in Ukraine at the moment I presume your tongue is firmly in your cheek there?
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  4171. Desperate.
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  4172. It is the height of human hubris to imagine that 'we' humans affect the the global climate in the way that's being suggested. Despoiling the environment for short term profits at long term expense is something entirely different and a different debate, so let's drop all of this climate change cr@p that's effectively lining the pockets of the perpetually monied global elites who make hay off of it. Please, everyone, stop succumbing to this manufactured collective guilt trip. For the love of God.
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  4173. Just testing the waters😅
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  4174. In all honesty it's the American Right wing Evangelical Christian's perceived religious links with Israel that's the most scary. At least there's a geopolitical rationale, however obscene, to the idea that the US regards Israel as some sort of vital colonial outpost in the mostly hostile oil rich ME. This Endtimes BS that so many quasi-Koreshian Americans in positions of authority seem invested in where they see themselves as the agents of Biblical prophecy that ultimately results in bringing about Armageddon is truly off the scale nuts.
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  4175. The US is highly unlikely to ever abandon Europe if it refuses to up its military spending because it is not in its geopolitical or economic interests to do so. Doing so would potentially leave it open to Russia. The last thing the US wants. American corporations get a healthy financial slice of just about everything in the UK and much of Europe. Europe needs to call Trump's bluff and if he doesn't like it he can f*ck off.
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  4176. Trump Derangement Syndrome is strong. Be it a lone nut seeking to make history, the US Deep State or cross party collusion TDS is undeniable. They'd all have their reasons. The reason assassination bears raising then, particularly in light of the Kennedy murders and the state institutions heavily implicated in both those deaths, is if it were to happen Americans need to be alert to that fact. Any one of those potential assassins could spark serious trouble and, I suspect, even the lone wolf narrative would have trouble flying amongst the majority of Trump voters now thanks to America's dubious history and amidst the current poisonous volatile climate.
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  4177. Gates, a strident monopolist and staunch defender of IP rights, leveraged his influence as he had already donated $750m to the university for vaccine research. Sure, they could have said no, not least because their jab came from a publicly funded lab, but how might that affect the prospects for future overall funding from him and other wealthy donors?
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  4178. Charge back GoFundMe if you donated and 'help it' go deservedly broke.
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  4179. Truss and Kwarteng's deeply cynical 'mini-budget' was pure red meat for the Tory faithful at the worst possible time. It was reckless, stupid, economically illiterate and will cost the country, nevermind mortgage payers, for years to come.
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  4180. See you next Tuesday better than 'Happy Friday'?
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  4181. Rupa Huq should be ashamed of herself. She is pandering to an audience and the lowest common denominator for political gain. Somehow almost completely defining oneself or others by but one aspect of the myriad of things that makes them who they are is narrow-minded and pig ignorant whatever side of the political divide you're on.
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  4182. Brexit and Trump. Yawn. Russiagate? Big Tech censorship and shadow banning? Er, no. Thought not. It's a fascinating discussion for the most part and you might know your AI, but you obviously know f*ck all about politics and actual living breathing autonomous people. Stay in your lane Mr Hinton for all our sakes.
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  4183. James Whale is a joke and seriously not a very funny one. About 3 sad sacks ever listen to his shows and they're probably related to him
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  4184. I'm not entirely convinced by the claim the American empire is 'losing money in Europe' - its 'private' MIC certainly isn't and nor are many of its 'invested' politicians - but even if it were, it has to be seen against the backdrop of the degree of hegemony it clearly wishes to maintain there as evidenced by its proxy war in Ukraine. Putin's Russia, remember, offered to join NATO at the beginning of the millennium and was swiftly rebuffed by the US. Doubtlessly on the basis that it would allow it to assume more influence over time in the region. If nothing else, it proved where America's priorities were and they certainly weren't about ensuring enduring peace, harmony and cooperation in Europe if it involved Russia.
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  4185. I don't see that as inconsistent, I see that as healthy. Dialogue is key. Those who seek to suppress that necessarily constant dialogue are the ones we need to worry about.
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  4186. God this is ignorant toxic dangerous stuff. Necons like Nuland must be smiling darkly to themselves that this BS finds its way so easily onto MSM and there's apparently a willing gullible audience for it. Though by no means a saint himself, Navalny was undoubtedly jailed for his political opposition to Putin and he, directly or indirectly, is likely responsible for Navalny's premature demise, but let's not turn this into a tortuously contrived 'casus belli'.
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  4187. Not by accident are Western far right groups increasingly aligning themselves with the Zionist cause.
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  4188. Whether people like it or not there is a direct line between the scandal that is Russiagate and the January 6th riot. An event which should never have happened. American democracy was fundamentally undermined the day that Trump was elected. Not by Trump though but by those who sought to delegitimize his presidency from the very beginning and who would go on to spend the following years doing so.
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  4189. Notwithstanding what's happening elsewhere in the world, there's plenty of US vital infrastructure that is privately owned. Even your own central bank is FFS. Just because what should be truly public infrastructure like highways and bridges aren't yet that doesn't mean to say they won't be. At some point much will become so dilapidated and doubtless given a few high profile disasters that the 'private investment' argument will be made as the only means to save and maintain them as the public coffers are too pressed or empty. The US has one of the most expensive, least efficient for money spent healthcare systems in the world based on this BS narrative and if that isn't the canary in the coalmine for you then nothing is.
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  4190. Saw that Fiona Hill interview on Unherd. She was embarrassing. This woman is a so-called geopolitical expert? Gimme a break, my cat knows more about geopolitics than she does.
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  4191. There are cast iron common sense reasons why complex vital and expensive national infrastructure should ALWAYS remain in state hands. One only has to look at the 'sewage' going down at Thames water to currently see it at its worst. Their mounting £15bn debt looks like, surprise surprise, is going to be assumed by the UK Government. The UK water 'industry' was originally privatised with zero debt for its new owners courtesy of the UK taxpayer taking on its obligations and yet today it's in debt to the tune of over £60bn in total over a period of 30 years. Like the railways this was pure expedient greed and a blatant wealth transfer at the expense of UK taxpayers cynically dressed up by the Tories as a political ideology. 'Private in the good times. Public in the bad'. THAT was the ideology. Nuff said.
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  4192. Konstantin and Paul in a tree kay-eye, ess, ess, eye, en, gee. 👌😁
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  4193. Google the paper trail on the US HOC site. Just because the BBC won't report it it doesn't mean it's not there.
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  4194. Yup. 'Rackets peddling false narratives' just about sums these shysters up.
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  4195. Why? The US debt is actually a private surplus. Basic accounting. Most Americans probably don't realise that and a good many don't benefit from that surplus. Certainly some Americans just want to keep it that way.
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  4196. It used to be lies, damned lies and statistics and now we can add models to that. What is it with people's fascination with and apparent near total belief in the value of models, graphs and statistics? Straight up predictions with boring old words usually make fools of us all, but wavy lines and numbers seem to make dish eyed gulls of us all.
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  4197. mRNA isn't a novel technology. It has been around since at least the early 90s and had been repeatedly trialled in various fields of medicine over the following decades including cancer and heart treatments. It also repeatedly failed to deliver results, being considered either ineffective at low doses and potentially toxic at higher ones. The alleged game changer came with covid and the lipid delivery system that supposedly allowed it to deliver its 'message', the 'm' in mRNA, more effectively.
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  4198. Plain dumb. Used to have a deal of respect for Elizabeth Warren. Everyone ultimately disappoints you I suppose.
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  4199. The Lubner Party.
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  4200. Why so?
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  4201. Both Liam and Alison spot on here. The concerted attempts to reverse Brexit by the UK deep state weren't just shameful they were anti-democratic.
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  4202. Two legacy media organisations, one owned by Murdoch the other essentially by the state, spending 4 years and huge amounts of precious, allegedly squeezed resources trying to bring one single anti-establishment new media figure down isn't an orchestrated effort? Pull the other one it's got bells on it😂
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  4203. This speech is all out of synch.
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  4204. ​ @johnrichmond8978 They damn well should because it's been done in their names whether they like it or not.
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  4205. Inflation will slow in the US before it slows anywhere else because the US has been busy exporting its inflation. That's what it does through its exorbitant privilege FFS.
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  4206. I'm saying bottoms up.
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  4207. Hey y'all.
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  4208. It's a mute point.
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  4209. ​ @db-jk8dl I stand corrected. Two wings of the same bird of prey sadly...or two cheeks of the same arse if you're feeling a little less poetic.
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  4210. Paul Mason proper lost his marbles years ago.
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  4211. And what about those who claim that the debt is simply deferred taxation principally on those who can afford to own and hold that debt for profit?
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  4212. The same people can't die twice. Covid, in its various iterations and in the vast majority of cases, sought out the known to be most vulnerable. For the virus it was always going to be about the law of diminishing returns. All this crap about it being the next Spanish Flu and killing 40 or 50m was misinformed or disingenuous scaremongering. Far more worryingly, Spanish Flu killed mainly young people, particularly immunosuppressed young men who were returning from the exceptionally brutal first world war hundreds or thousands of miles away. This was also in the days before antibiotics so most of those deaths were actually due to secondary, mainly pulmonary, infections not the flu virus itself.
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  4213. Like it or not, the Ukraine war has given and continues to give the US a chance to export much of its inflation to the rest of the globe. This inflation was building mid-2021 and exacerbated by covid policies, months before Russia invaded Ukraine. In the cold light of day, US monetary, economic, military and geopolitical interests are currently the biggest winners here so I'm not really surprised to hear that the US doesn't really want to see a swift end to this war.
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  4214. And all this is happening amidst the backdrop of the new Labour government desperately emptying out our prisons of real criminals allegedly due to lack of space only to replace them with keyboard warriors and wheelie bin wielders, however misguided they might be.
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  4215.  @guleiro  I do indeed and, like I say, the UK is perfectly entitled to interpret that agreement as it is written and as is the EU. There has been an undeniable diversion of trade and, if the Unionists aren't entirely happy with that then the protocol needs to be revisited. If they are happy, then fine. There's no need. What don't you understand about that exactly or are you just quoting the usual soundbites without any actual knowledge of the protocol itself or, indeed, NI politics more generally?
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  4216.  @aliasgharkhoyee9501  I appreciate the tip. I shall look into PPP further.
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  4217.  @slapkit51  YT blocked my reply.
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  4218. People like Luciana Berger and Margaret Hodge really did a great job of sticking the knife into Corbyn I remember.
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  4219. Yes and I can also strongly recommend Mike Hunt.
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  4220. This is when you know something smells funny.
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  4221. DW
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  4222. The cognitive dissonance around Trump amongst his detractors indeed borders on derangement. Ask for concrete examples of most of the things he's accused of and all you'll get is a deafening chorus of crickets. Worse than that, the wicked deeds that Trump has been accused of are often undeniably manifest in both Biden and the Democrats. And that's nevermind the fact they've half-inched and even beefed up some of his then much derided policies to boot.
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  4223. Are you seriously claiming that the Euro over last YTD hasn't seen huge undulations either? Today, 24/2/23, if you were to hazard a guess, over the last five years, how much has the single currency and GBP each lost against the USD in percentage terms? Further to that how much might you imagine the GBP has lost in percentage terms against the single currency in that time? I await your response or any of those who've seen fit to agree with your comment.
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  4224. Why? Because you disagree with something that's been said?
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  4225. Likewise. That means your property is first and foremost your home.
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  4226. KH, up until 3 months ago and Biden's disastrous debate performance when even the Democratic diehards in their politburo had to finally fess up that the emperor had no clothes, was regarded as a national embarrassment and hidden away by her own party. Desperate times obviously called for even more desperate measures 'et voilà' the American people apparently had a shiny new candidate to vote for. Anyone who fell for this abject insult to democracy, quite frankly, shouldn't be allowed within 100 miles of a voting booth.
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  4227. Today's 10% inflation in the UK would be closer to 18% by 1970s calculations. Lies, damned lies and statistics etc.
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  4228.  @Tony38533  She 'feels' she is upholding our constitution? Are you for real? You don't need to be a lawyer or scholar to know that the constitution's interpretation or implementation, particularly in this instance, doesn't boil down to how people, nevermind one person, 'feel' about it. She is basing her decision on Section 3 of the 14th US Amendment which would require at the very least for Trump to have been tried and convicted of insurrection. He hasn't. Period. She is acting unconstitutionally ergo anti-democratically and, apparently, with full support from people like you.
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  4229. Last segment with 'the fashion show' is truly, truly grim. How twisted do you have to be to exploit and monetise that?
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  4230. The Western mainstream media's role in continually misrepresenting and propagandising for this avoidable war cannot be overlooked.
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  4231. 'Opposition leader' Machado has been linked to three coups in Venezuela and is funded by the Washington based neocon vehicle 'NGO' the National Endowment for Democracy and USAID. It's got to the point now where even if this election was rigged by Maduro, and I hope it wasn't, the US has openly spent over 2 decades now trying to effect regime change in the country against the express wishes of the Venezuelan people.
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  4232. Hollywood's loss is world peace's gain.
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  4233. With the Euro, the French effectively gave Germany lemons and they've been making lemonade ever since. This is, apparently, still a controversial claim.
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  4234. Very reassuring to hear that military expert say that Putin would never use nuclear weapons now no matter how badly the war might be going for him in Ukraine or how many weapons the West pumps in. 'Phew' is all I can say.
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  4235. Myra Hindley too had 'a special relationship' with Ian Brady.
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  4236. Bye money.
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  4237. EU membership is synonymous with NATO membership in terms of 'European' countries. The two go hand in hand. Let's not pretend eh?
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  4238. 'Inform-Educate-Entertain', the BBC's long-held Reithian public service broadcasting remit, seems to have been replaced with, 'Lecture-Hector-Bore'.
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  4239. Bri gets a pass cos she's fit😊
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  4240. In the UK 'hate crime' is essentially a subjective thing. You personally think you've been subjected to 'a hate crime'? Then you have if particularly if you report it and the police are then obliged to investigate it. Can't see that being 'subject' to abuse can you?
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  4241. Agreed, but then who DO you vote for? Labour isn't remotely socialist.
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  4242.  @bereal6590  Strong Tory area and can't stand the Liberals either which are the only other very distant contenders.
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  4243. The irony of how some people were gnashing and wailing over Truss's removal effectively by 'the markets' are now many of the same people who will be hoping for the very same markets to temper Starmer's potential excesses. Also interesting to see how the same 'markets' are threatening a possible future Le Pen government. Just who are these 'markets' and, given how much power they clearly hold over elected governments be they good or bad, to whom are 'they' accountable?
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  4244. 'The European Parliament is funded in whole or in part by the Qatari government' - Wikipedia 😁 Joking, obviously.
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  4245. As ever, it's people like this woman who will NEVER rise to the top job for damn good reasons.... She's not a shill. Democracy, and not solely in America, has become a sham controlled by ever narrower, monied, oligarchical interests. Eighty years ago it would have been called 'fascism' and seen for what it was but now, largely thanks to an entirely complicit self serving mass media machine, the illusion of 'democracy' is perpetuated.
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  4246.  @antpart7998  That is a more than fair point and has been duly taken on board by me. Thank you for raising it as I was not previously aware. Nobody has the monopoly on wisdom and clearly, in this instance, Galloway wasn't just a bit wrong he was massively wrong.
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  4247.  @ridhaacupido474  Goddamnit, rumbled. But how on earth did you guess? 🧐
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  4248. The French/Australia deal was just that, a deal. It will cost Australia hundreds of millions to extricate itself from it, but that's likely all contained in the small print of the original contract as you'd expect. The diesel subs being built were no longer deemed fit for purpose by the Australian government given the fast changing geopolitics in that part of the world and the costs for a product that was fast becoming obsolete were simultaneously escalating. It was a tough call, but the right one.
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  4249. Taiwan is de jure part of China. Very few countries recognize Taiwan as a legal sovereign entity. Even the United States doesn't!! Further to that, there is no defense agreement between the US and Taiwan likely for this reason and nor does Taiwan have an official seat at the UN. It hasn't since 1971. Unfortunately for you these two 'idiots' know what they're talking about and you (and seemingly way too many in the sabre rattling US government) don't.
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  4250. The other vital element to bear in mind here is that millions of people off the back of this relentless climate of fear, rank government mismanagement and shameless political point scoring succumbed to a medical intervention that effectively ignored ALL pre-existing medical protocols to date. People, for good or ill, have permanently, irreversibly, many repeatedly 'invested' in this narrative so unpicking it, much less repudiating it comes with potentially far greater consequences than some yet realise.
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  4251. The sad thing is most of the UK doesn't even know about it. Much less care. He was still removed from the Labour Party for being 'an anti-semite' in most people's minds sadly, despite official evidence to the contrary. Ken Livingston's legacy is similarly tarnished with few people bothering to stop and try and understand it. Just goes to show if you throw enough sh*t at the 'right' people then enough of it will eventually stick.
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  4252. After a recent listening to one of these NS podcasts with these two regarding how we need to be automatically circumspect about ALL our media sources I had far higher hopes for what might be offered up here. Ten minutes in and basically what we got is just more backslapping well-to-do pseudo leftie metropolitan elite Brexit, Tory and Trump bashing fodder masquerading as informed discussion by 'good people' really.
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  4253. The King is dead. Long live the King.
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  4254. ​ @cdr29qm Yeah, cos that's what leaving the EU was ALL about, right?
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  4255.  @RTD553  how have they ruined the economy?
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  4256. Far right is as far right does. It's THAT simple. Meloni, thus far, is not 'far right', but what she is is a threat to the status quo and, most importantly, the European Project itself as it stands If she steps out of line, only in my opinion of course, then I'll be first in line to criticize her, but until she does she will be, unlike most of her Brussels based counterparts, the democratically elected leader of Italy until such time as she isn't. That's kinda the point here people.
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  4257. What's 'a serious computer scientist' when it's at home?
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  4258. One wonders how this lady would have answered and reacted had it been a black person asking this very same question rather than an 83 year old white pillar of the establishment? If there was any racism on display that day it's increasingly looking like it was perpetrated by the alleged victim. A real hit job this.
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  4259. North Atlantic Treaty Organisation about to set up an office in Jordan. Nuff said.
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  4260. If she should establish whether these allegations are true or not shouldn't the rest of the media including her fellow presenter? The media talk about allegations as if they're facts and refer repeatedly to these 'poor' women bizarrely throwing in the odd, 'but these are just allegations'. These are, repeat, just allegations - not that you'd think that was the case the way it's being gleefully leapt upon across MSM - and if there is evidence of criminality on Brand's part the first port of call by The Times and C4 should've been the police. This is trial by television and it smacks of a takedown, whether you like Brand or not, and allegations of sexual assault have already become a familiar MO in cases like Assange's and Salmond's. Brand might well be a narcissist with a Christ complex, but are we seriously expected to believe that his often less than savoury historic behaviour toward women wasn't long well known and that these women were somehow mindless automatons in his presence? Also, while we're at it, what on earth were that 16 year old parents doing and thinking when she was being chauffeured away from school by his driver? Do these people have zero agency?
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  4261. She's worse than a hypocrite. She's a grifter and a race baiter. DO NOT DIVIDE US!!
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  4262. Blair should be before a war crimes tribunal.
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  4263. The western consumer capitalist model is built upon the the bones and enduring suffering of others basically. Both domestically and more widely. It's predicated, despite ANY claims to the contrary, on the economic theory of trickle down. If things start to look dicey just prime the pump and let those with the least broadest shoulders bear the burden of that. Ethically and morally of course its utterly bankrupt and based on an entirely fallacious narrative, but it is one the masses have chosen to believe and accept as their fate.
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  4264. I agree. It jars. It's perfectly valid to have a discussion about the success, merits or otherwise of multiculturalism, but not in the context of Israel's brutal retaliation in Gaza which really has very little to do with it.
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  4265. M'kay, he says. She's smashed it there...until she tried to defend Biden and the Democrats record in office.
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  4266. It's true. The Gates Foundation does and has funded a number of fact checking initiatives. No conflict of interest there obviously....
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  4267. This unfortunate policeman and his peers are in an invidious position forever forced to try and define the indefinable on the fly according to ever varying circumstances. Freedom of speech needs to be enshrined in this country's 'constitution' and we need to work back from that point not from the vague daft forever shifting subjective position we find ourselves in today.
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  4268. Neil Oliver, rather depressingly, nails IT once again.
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  4269. Nevermind that we still call this 'a vaccine' when it's clearly no such thing and that the average UK covid death age remains over 80. The damage these jabs and political policies have wrought has been nothing short of catastrophic socially and economically.
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  4270. Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak because a baby would choke on it' - Mark Twain. Mostly....
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  4271. I hear ya.
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  4272.  @michaelplunkett8059  I think he's merely suggesting that equally strange things have happened.
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  4273. Shame they can't wangle things so Princess Anne assumes the throne.
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  4274. Bridgen's biggest mistake was always mentioning the Holocaust, even in terms of reported speech. Apart from being not comparable in practice or outcome it is a schoolboy error and a hook they'll always hang you on if they can.
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  4275. Would, but there wouldn't be enough of them or enough money to support it as a going concern.
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  4276. Ball or are-sole?
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  4277. Risk Benefit Analysis is a relatively simple phrase that will come back to characterise and haunt this two year long utter Horlicks.
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  4278. Not sure what you're trying to insinuate there, but where these people came from or the organization they worked for was irrelevant. They were delivering aid to Palestinians and deliberately targeted by the IDF whose protection they were supposedly under.
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  4279. You shouldn't be able as a minor who has yet to undergo puberty to have access, as a matter of course, to irreversible medical interventions designed to 'change' your gender. These are ONLY decisions that can and should be made, with incredibly rare medical exceptions, when you are sufficiently physiologically and psychologically mature to make them and are fully cogniscent of their long term consequences and thus can give your full, informed legal consent to them. NEVER before.
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  4280. It might have made a few people richer and created the illusion of prosperity but overall financialization, beginning in the 1980s, ripped the heart and soul out of the UK. Be warned Germany.
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  4281. For those concerned about the climate, this burning fuel ferry pales into insignificance next to America's sabotaging of the NS2 pipeline.
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  4282. Nationalism vies equally for religion in the propaganda potency stakes.
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  4283. He's adjudged 'a rapist' by a civil (not criminal) decision based on a balance of probabilities. His accuser can't even remember which year the alleged offence took place and it was tried in NY state, a Democratic stronghold, after the statute of limitations was changed specifically to pursue Trump. It was essentially her word against his. The fraud allegations, similarly, were pursued in NY and pertain to the actions of individuals working within the Trump Organisation but not Trump himself. As to the claim that he is an insurrectionist he has not been either charged or convicted of that by any criminal court to date.
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  4284. Interesting to see Senator Lindsay Graham weigh in on Trump back then. They're now bezzas over Gaza. Funny old game politics. They're ALL like crabs in a bucket.
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  4285. What happened to those Israelis was a human tragedy. Truly awful. What's now happening in Gaza equally so. As ever though this has literally nothing to do with anti-Semitism and a helluva lot to do with the past and present actions of the state of Israel for it, without a doubt, always held the whip hand here. The Western media with its propaganda machine is currently engaged in the business of manufacturing consent for further atrocities to be conducted against the Palestinians of Gaza. Gaza was a pressure cooker always just waiting to explode - it was, in effect, Israel's panopticon where, apparently nothing happened without their knowledge or say so. This attack apparently proved them wrong. Although I'm sure there will be the usual 'Pearl Harbour' type claims made about it. A satisfactory peace accord for both Israelis and Palestinians needs to be pursued now for both their sakes.
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  4286. Err, the governments and financial elites of no modern economy never ever really want to see full employment. It is, almost by definition, inflationary. Biden has to make it sound desirable, particularly as 'a democrat' but ultimately, if quietly, it's the last thing he wants to see Cue lots of performative Democratic hand wringing when the Fed finally and deliberately sucks the air out of this, but the brutal truth is is that's what they both want.
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  4287. Wouldn't be so bad if multi-millionaire Lineker wasn't so completely wrong on this subject. Someone should ask him what exactly he meant by that Tweet and what was the factual basis for it.
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  4288. I'm not religious, but I'm assuming these 'gentlemen' were or at least considered themselves to be. I certainly wouldn't want to face my god if I'd done what they had done.
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  4289. Trudeau is a nasty piece of work. Truly.
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  4290. And the major three letter organs of the US state are trying their level best to roadblock at every twist and turn of this investigation? And they say there's no such thing as the deep state?
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  4291. Corbyn seriously dropped the ball over Brexit. 2019 election ended up being a de facto second referendum which was why BoJo hoovered up all those Red Wall seats. Seats the Tories will likely all lose come the next election. Labour's manifesto pledge that year was a dog's dinner and in many ways epitomised the fact that the party is essentially divided between London and the North.
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  4292. The US under Biden has, Keynesian style, simply juiced its economy with a huge stimulus. Problem is it didn't do it after a period of fixing its proverbial roof whilst the sun was shining. Its deficit spending is rising and its COVID era derived savings that have helped fuel its consumer spending boom are fast running out. In short, don't believe the hype about the US economy.
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  4293.  @ste16kam35  My comment regarding US economy was rejected for unknown reasons. Suffice is to say it's been juiced, that it isn't what it appears and don't confuse its stock market for its economy.
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  4294. The labour market doth not an economy make. Consumer confidence is at its lowest ever is another metric. Employment levels appear 'healthy' post covid, but if the supply side issues continue - which they likely will - then this could all change pretty quickly.
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  4295. Lovely idea, but given the history, particularly the last 100 years, it would be a mighty hard sell to either side. Two state might one day become one state, but one state is far too bigger step currently.
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  4296. Can't lie. I fell for the lie and even defended it at the time. Naive and stupid are my only defences. Genuinely believed that Iraq would end up a better place in time and that western motives were pure. They were not.
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  4297. Biden's an Obama/Clinton puppet whom they have now chosen to replace with.... drumroll, please.... ....another Obama/Clinton puppet.... Broadly though I agree, Trump still appears, and I stress only 'appears', to be the lesser of two evils here.
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  4298. That Biden clip spoke volumes. The US wants a predictable relationship with Russia but first wants it to stop meddling in its elections? Leaving aside Nuland's efforts in Ukraine and not to say that Russia doesn't attempt to influence US politics and vice versa, but anyone with two barely functioning braincells now knows Russiagate was complete BS. It was, in effect, a US domestically confected ruse that has likely served to undermine American democracy in the eyes of American people far more than any other, possibly existentially.
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  4299. Oh, come off it Laffer. Not that Biden is but Ronald Reagan was hardly a great steward of the US economy. 1980 was the beginning when US government debt levels took off like a rocket, off shoring became the norm and there was a massive upward wealth transfer. The biggest boom was in ingrained, widening wealth inequality. Who's this guy trying to kid?
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  4300. No need.
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  4301. Sure. Why?
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  4302. Like Paul. A lot. But he's wrong here.
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  4303. As ever, cui bono?
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  4304. Human beings have likely been predicting the end of the world since the moment they could open their gobs and make a sound and yet here we are tens of thousands of years later still bleeding waiting.....
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  4305. As with the plan for Ukraine that sounds pretty much how the EU got its hooks into the Greek state's treasure. Its bailouts essentially were backdoor bailouts to the French and German banks who had irresponsibly lent them billions in the first place. Very little went to the Greeks themselves. It then allowed them to buy up and privatise Greek assets on the cheap.
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  4306. Wang cur....
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  4307. BTC is an establishment backed Ponzi scheme. The US Government itself owns $5bn of them and sovereign governments elsewhere own around $8bn. Further to that, look at how much is held by relatively few corporations, most notably US ones. Crypto 'sovereign' whales make the market weather and lay in wait for the next batch of greater and/or desperate fools and governments get their tax cut when these 'assets' are sold for profit. Inevitably there's always someone who'll make money from cryptos, but invariably it's because someone else loses. It is the very opposite of the democratization of money people insist on claiming it is and nor is it the super secure untouchable payment system some people also claim as evidenced by the Canadian trucker protest cryptowallet freeze by Trudeau's government. The most telling thing there was that it happened, not whether it was illegal or not. And that's without going into the tens of billions a year of fraud that cryptos have spawned or its increasing criminal associations.
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  4308. Excellent 👌
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  4309. Notwithstanding AIPAC's key role, all this American pearl clutching about foreign interference in its apparently sacrosanct democratic processes always make me larf darkly. There was a famous Time magazine cover in the 1990s in which the US government openly boasted about its role in helping make sure its p*ssed up puppet and erstwhile useful idiot Yeltsin won the Russian presidency.
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  4310. Somebody needs to glue the interviewer's hands to his knees.
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  4311.  @lizziestevenson9345  The 2016 referendum was a sovereign UK wide referendum, NOT a non-sovereign Scottish referendum on EU membership. Anymore than it was a non-sovereign English, Welsh or Northern Irish vote on membership. The sovereign UK went into the EC in 1973, not its non-sovereign constituent countries, and the 1975 referendum on continued membership was necessarily again a UK wide vote NOT about how its constituent countries voted in a simple majority vote. None of the constituent countries of the UK are sovereign, including England. Non-sovereign Scotland voted to remain in the sovereign UK in 2014, two years prior to the 2016 UK referendum on EU membership. The EU referendum result is really just being used as an excuse for a second bite of the cherry by ScotNats for a 'once in a generation vote' that it lost only eight years ago. Finally, 1.6m Scots voted to remain in the EU and 1m voted to leave, but presumably those 1m votes don't count for anything if you swallow the ScotNat 'but Scotland voted to remain in the EU' narrative whole, which you obviously do.
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  4312.  @lizziestevenson1908  The terms of a referendum are set before it is held. Both the 2014 and 2016 referenda were simple majority referenda and the terms were defined going into them. As I recall I don't recall anyone really having a problem with either until after the event. Presumably you don't wish to see another simple majority referendum deciding Scotland's future on this basis? What do you propose?
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  4313. Like chaaa
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  4314.  @DiegoCardona-pe9vr  Thanks for your informative perspective. I think as an outsider I tend to follow the Leftist, anti-US imperialist line, much of which comes from US journos. The US seems to want useful to them client states under the false premise of 'spreading democracy' and Venezuela with its notoriously rich oil deposits fits that bill. Oil is often a curse, particularly in developing nations with fragile democracies. I look at Cuba after 60 years of US sanctions and it is always the common people who suffer.
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  4315.  @DiegoCardona-pe9vr  The big problem being of course is that the US has sponsored at least 3 coups in Venezuela since 2002 in their attempts to overthrow what are, essentially, democratically elected governments. The more recent 'hybrid' Guaido attempt being the most brazen attempt at the US thumbing its nose at Venezuelan democracy whereby they officially recognised a relative unknown as Venezuela's president elect when he hadn't even faced an electorate. These coups and periods of civil dissent tend to have one particular vector in common too, that being Maria Corina Machado. Venezuela's gold has also been illegally seized by the Bank of England in that time. Were I Venezuelan, whatever my politics, be they left or right, whether I think that neoliberal economics or state ownership is the answer to all our ills, I would be seriously p*ssed off that an outside government(s) with its own blatant imperial ambitions thought that it should get to dictate who MY government is.
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  4316.  @DiegoCardona-pe9vr   @DiegoCardona-pe9vr  The big problem being of course is that the US has sponsored at least 3 coups in Venezuela since 2002 in their attempts to overthrow what are, essentially, democratically elected governments. The more recent 'hybrid' Guaido attempt being the most brazen attempt at the US thumbing its nose at Venezuelan democracy whereby they officially recognised a relative unknown as Venezuela's president elect when he hadn't even faced an electorate. These coups and periods of civil dissent tend to have one particular vector in common too, that being Maria Corina Machado. Venezuela's gold has also been illegally seized by the Bank of England in that time. Were I Venezuelan, whatever my politics, be they left or right, whether I think that neoliberal economics or state ownership is the answer to all our ills, I would be seriously p*ssed off that an outside government(s) with its own blatant imperial ambitions thought that it should get to dictate who MY government is.
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  4317.  @DiegoCardona-pe9vr  Google/YT blocked my polite, factual and verifiable reply. Sadly, it is illustrative.
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  4318.  @elrich500  Long history of Democrats calling into question the results of US elections before Trump and the integrity of electronic voting machines. Carter, HRC and Harris amongst many other Democrat leading lights ALL called Trump's 2016 presidency 'illegitimate'.
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  4319.  @elrich500  Long history of Democrats calling into question the results of US elections before Trump and the integrity of electronic voting machines. Carter, HRC and Harris amongst many other Democrat leading lights ALL called Trump's 2016 presidency 'illegitimate'.
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  4320.  @stevanr9937  Long history of Democrats calling into question the results of US elections before Trump and the integrity of electronic voting machines. Carter, HRC and Harris amongst many other Democrat leading lights ALL called Trump's 2016 presidency 'illegitimate'.
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  4321.  youtuberwaldfee  Long history of Democrats calling into question the results of US elections before Trump and the integrity of electronic voting machines. Carter, HRC and Harris amongst many other Democrat leading lights ALL called Trump's 2016 presidency 'illegitimate'.
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  4322.  @sonofman9404  Long history of Democrats calling into question the results of US elections before Trump and the integrity of electronic voting machines. Carter, HRC and Harris amongst many other Democrat leading lights ALL called Trump's 2016 presidency 'illegitimate'.
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  4323.  @stevanr9937  Long history of Democrats calling into question the results of US elections before Trump and the integrity of electronic voting machines. Carter, HRC and Harris amongst many other Democrat leading lights ALL called Trump's 2016 presidency 'illegitimate'.
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  4324.  @stevanr9937  Senior US Democrats repeatedly questioned the results of their own elections up to and including Trump's in 2016.
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  4325. News just in!! Two wrongs DO make a right.
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  4326. As stated, Japan doesn't have serious armed forces to speak of and there are 55,000 US servicemen stationed there in US bases. That's roughly the same size as Japan's own forces.
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  4327. Wise old men plant trees under whose shade they will never get to lie under. Biden on the other hand....
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  4328. The difference between a conspiracy theory and the truth is now down to 6 months.
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  4329. True. The embarrassingly simplistic GDP metric allows politicians to play on the masses ignorance of economics. It alludes to the premise that we're ALL getting richer when it's blindingly obvious that most of us aren't. Thanks to the 'system', by design, just a relative few are.
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  4330. Keen to know. What were those few latter points he got wrong?
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  4331. I've seen this God awful women talking down to the American public both BC and DC. After Covid and During Covid. Going from nothing to see here to we're all going to die unless we all get vaxxed. How or why she still has ANY credibility left is an external mystery to me.
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  4332. People like Kamala Harris are essentially racist. No ifs, ands or buts. Martin Luther King must be spinning in his grave listening to toxic sectarian nonsense like this.
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  4333. ​ @smelltheglove2038  Yip. And this explains perfectly why 'they' are falling over themselves now to try and regain control of the internet under a false pretext.
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  4334. True, but one is way less sh*tty than the other.
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  4335. KK is a complete idiot. Took me a little while to cotton on to that obvious fact to my shame.
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  4336. Perhaps it was built into batteries in the first place?
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  4337. It wouldn't surprise me. A guy whom I once knew who worked in the ME oil fields once confided that if there's one thing an Arab hates more than a Jew it's a Palestinian. The Palestinians are essentially sacrificial pawns in ALL these people's power games with each other. Grim.
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  4338. Ozzie Osborne, a tonne of skunk and a major case of the munchies should sort this out in no time.
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  4339. MMT is only feasible as long you have functioning REAL economies capable of absorbing most of that excessive 'Keynsian' money creation, but even that is time limited. Trending or entrenched low productivity and shrinking or stagnant economies will not do the job of lifting countries out the deepening debt mire.
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  4340. Increasing numbers of foreign students helping to prop up our failing, poorly funded universities - which have effectively become cash generators rather than actual schools of learning - and line the pockets of the asset owning rentier classes pushing up rental costs and increasing competition for public services for existing poorer inhabitants doesn't sound like a particularly strong argument to me.
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  4341. So, reading between the lines, by stifling global trade and promoting onshoring in one of the world's biggest economies Trump has done more to tackle climate change than pretty much any person currently on this earth?
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  4342. “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety” Benjamin Franklin quote apparently often cited out of context, as I have done here, but nevertheless extremely apposite in terms of describing the ongoing situations of numerous Western US vassals.
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  4343. Is it me or is Fraser cracking one off around 38m 30secs 😁
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  4344.  @mikescampfire429  You're?
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  4345. What a waste. Grim.
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  4346. When Gabriel Gatehouse grows up apparently he wants to become a REAL journalist.
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  4347. Islam, like most religions, is essentially a patriarchal means of control. Whilst other religions might have slowly shifted away from this paradigm the control and influence element is still there regardless. The Palestinian/Israel situation is really just about humanity, morality and decency and has f*ck all to do with religion whichever side you're on or think you're on.
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  4348. Raising wages or prices in line with (or below) inflation does not contribute to inflation. It merely helps to keep pace with it.
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  4349. The US is a de facto military state. A number of very powerful wealthy individuals and corporations wish to keep it that way. Unwinding that isn't just the Devil's own job, any decision to do so is fraught with both personal and societal dangers.
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  4350. ​ @KenoticMuse Great, instructive reply. Thank you.
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  4351. Sheila Stitcha youa uppa!!
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  4352. @PeriferijaPeriferije  Inevitably.
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  4353. What's 'a bonk'?
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  4354. Hebrew, pretty much up until the foundation of Israel in 1948, was essentially only an ancient written language not actually spoken. It was only after 1948 that there was a concerted effort in the new state of Israel to turn it into an everyday spoken language.
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  4355. Evil begets evil. Zionism was spawned principally by European anti-Semitism.
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  4356. It is fascinating, and obviously a reflection of our times, but criticism of China and its policies often invites the charge of 'racism' from some quarters, particularly if it comes from the American Trumpian right, but similar criticism of Russia, much of which comes from the American left, never invites a similar charge.
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  4357. Esther Rantzen freely admits that the COVID vaccine doesn't actually work then.
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  4358. Not to excuse this horrific event, but this was highly unlikely to have been deliberate if it were an anti-aircraft response.
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  4359. @MichaelM-uw3mk  I certainly think there is an undercurrent in the Western media that is trying to suggest it was.
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  4360. @MichaelM-uw3mk  My reply has been deleted by YT.
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  4361.  @MichaelM-uw3mk  YT removed my RoR.
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  4362.  @MichaelM-uw3mk  Reply shadowbanned by YT.
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  4363. So Duncan Weldon talks of these problems apparently uniquely afflicting the UK going back 10 or 15 years or more. Years most of which the UK was in the EU. The UK only left the EU at the end of 2020 and that act has made everything change from already previously bad to now markedly worse? Is that correct?
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  4364. When the penny drops that the depleted number of paramedics wasted vital minutes taking half an hour longer than usual to turn up to beloved Grandpa's cardiac because they tested positive for COVID whilst still feeling pretty much fine, then hopefully the penny will also drop amongst these COVIDIOTS. Saving lives indeed.
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  4365. Still dodgy on AIPAC and Israel sadly. Money talks and B$ walks I guess.
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  4366. Who knew that that REALLY annoying little MS paperclip character all those years ago was actually one of Satan's minions?
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  4367. True, but in turn it is also bailing out itself, not least because as a major global exporter it benefits substantially from having poorer nations within the Euro helping to suppress the value of its currency.
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  4368. John Pang, a very wise man, at the very end there hits the bullseye. It's the dualists whom we've allowed to dominate and concentrate this situation thereby, I suspect entirely intentionally, killing the debate. False dichotomies abound and those of us who are remotely intellectually curious need to call these people out as soon as we see or hear them spout their propaganda.
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  4369. I don't need YT's protection from hate speech I need to be protected from the propagandists' projection.
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  4370. Trying to work out what the f*ck your comment has to do with the subject matter of the video.....
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  4371. This didn't just start on October 7, you DO know that don't you?
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  4372. Our mainstream media is far more likely to lie by omission than to outright lie. For obvious reasons. It's far easier to be caught and called out on the latter than it is on the former.
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  4373. It's worth noting that the Warsaw Pact wasn't formed until almost 6 years after NATO was formed in 1949. It was a reaction to NATO's creation not the other way round as many likely still believe.
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  4374.  @thoorwulfn9z383  Best description I've heard, 'Nato, from its very beginnings, was designed to keep the Germans down, the Americans in and the Russians out of Europe'.
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  4375. Waste of time. I never lie🤥
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  4376. Watching Trudeau SO put me in mind of the performative, middle-distance staring quasi-prophetic nonsense long practised by Obama and that passed as masterful, soaring oratory for the terminally gullible. Sure he wasn't at the lectern speaking to the world at large but he might just as well have been. Methinks our modern day little Disney Aladdin has a lot to learn.
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  4377. I know what you mean. A bit too 'ambly' for me too.
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  4378.  @amjidali588  Elaborate.
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  4379. Because most of those who would have to do the reporting on it were heavily complicit in entirely unquestioningly propagating it in the first place.
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  4380. Alex Salmond, IMHO, used to be a political titan even though I didn't agree with Scottish Nationalism. He seems nuch diminished now.
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  4381. I don't know the answer to that but I think it can be taken as a given that both sides are forever telling propaganda porkies for both domestic and external consumption. The one thing I do believe is that Russia never really wanted to invade, occipy and subjugate Ukraine per se merely fight and occupy as much as it sensibly can until common sense finally breaks out and a negotiated settlement can be reached. A settlement likely resulting in the annexation of the ethnic Russian dominated lands including Crimea and, depending on where what the situation is when that time comes, a legally neutral Ukraine.
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  4382. And how's that going for you at the moment?
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  4383.  @charleswu1541  True, but Germany's economy has been heavily reliant on Chinese growth and Russian energy up till now.
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  4384. The Left seems to have this virtuous obsession that they need to prove they are 'pro-immigrant' regardless. Immigration is an issue that needs to be 'deracialised'. It is a class issue NOT a race issue. Large, unchecked numbers of often unskilled labour entering a country by definition 'illegally' compromises the situations of the less well off already there NOT the wealthy who tend to benefit overall. Trump's vote from ethnic minorities in the US went up for a reason.
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  4385. Yes. I particularly enjoy the colouring in section.
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  4386.  @eightiesmusic1984  No. It was a democratic expression of preference much as the previous 1975 referendum was. I can fully appreciate why people don't agree with it and fully endorse their democratic right to do so, but no I don't see it as the UK's biggest act of self harm since Suez. Lots of other, far greater contenders for that dubious accolade including the Iraq War (in which that tosser Campbell was a key figure), our bonkers Covid response (which that other tosser Stewart was a key figure in) and the more recent completely unnecessary, avoidable war in Ukraine. None of which, I strongly suspect, you would agree with.
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  4387.  @eightiesmusic1984  So, I'm assuming you either didn't understand the established rules of that simple majority vote at the time or you refused to vote believing its fundamental premise to be flawed? In terms of what you believe on the other issues, a simple 'you happen to be wrong in your suppositions' would suffice.
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  4388.  @eightiesmusic1984  You approached me remember? You can't back up your arguments? No worries. I'm used to it.
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  4389. The point here being is that there were small 'd' democratic channels open to the DNC until last year and yet they arrogantly and, frankly, stupidly and selfishly given Biden's steadily blancmanging brain chose to reject them by opting not to have primaries and annoint Biden regardless Biden would have, presumably, have won any primary easily anyway at that time but it would have given Democrats at least a sense of who the competition might be should the worst happen. Well, entirely predictably, the worst did happen and Democrats for political and financial reasons are left with the long running joke that is Kamala Harris.
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  4390. Not to diminish Russia's sacrifice in WW2, but there's no way it was 60m, Steve. That's bonkers. Even the highest estimates are 27m. Also worthy of note is Patton wanted to carry on the war and drive the Red Army back to Moscow.
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  4391.  @israelnwanne8401  Mr Netanyahu and his government certainly isn't hence the protests in TA and elsewhere in Israel this weekend. Tragically, one suspects they have all already been notionally sacrificed under Israel's Hannibal Doctrine by Bibi in his pursuit of flattening Gaza.
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  4392. 'Democracy works, America' 'Democracy' or what passes for it today in America has certainly worked for the Obamas.
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  4393. Not the real deal. Something smells funny about this guy.
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  4394. The Cuban Missile Crisis is frequently misrepresented in its telling as it is here. The crisis was first precipitated by the US placing its Jupiter missiles pointed at the USSR in Italy and Turkey. To tell half the story like that let's the US off the hook plus the outcome wasn't simply 'JFK saves the world from Armageddon' either.
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  4395. Yep. Furthermore none of this misery and warping and poisoning of national body politics would be happening today without the creation of the state of Israel. It, in itself, was the product of widespread European anti-Semitism and was seen as their 'solution'. An expedient solution foisted upon the hapless people of Palestine. I thoroughly recommend reading the Montagu Letter from the Jewish archive written in 1917 just months after the Balfour Declaration.
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  4396. Ketamine more like.
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  4397. To be fair, so did Trump once
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  4398. How does self-styled 'environmentalist' Stanley Johnson get to his Greek villa I wonder, nevermind all those Brits he rents it out to? Does he swim and walk there from the UK or does he do what most of these 'for thee and not for me' pontificating tw*ts do and fly there?
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  4399. Finally, Bercow has been shown up for what he is. The man is an anti-democrat who spent years trying to subvert the 2016 EU referendum by abusing his elevated position. Good riddance and hopefully that's the last we'll ever hear from him in public life.
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  4400. It depends on whether Russia loses the war or not really, doesn't it? On the face of it it doe seem likely that Ukraine would be a shoo in for Nato membership,, but this begs the question as to what a defeated Russia and the surrounding regions might look like. For all the talk of a post cold war weakened Russia it is still a huge, disparate country in possession of nearly half the world's nuclear arsenal and a major power broker in that region. Plus who knows what sort of leadership might replace a humiliated Putin. Russia isn't Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria or Libya and I would posit that Western-led regime changes in those countries can't exactly be classed as raging successes to date.
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  4401. GDP is a dreadful metric to measure economic growth by. It is designed to hoodwink the ignorant and hides a multitude of other sins. GDP per capita might be slightly more useful, but these dry academic metrics never take into account the enduring social costs of unchecked 'come one, come all' immigration particularly on areas which are already heavily compromised both economically and socially.
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  4402. By coincidence just watched Balls of Steel and the Black Militant amongst other characters. This divisive racist cr@p was prophesied over a decade ago on C4 of all places. Racism will always exist, will always be a problem and should always be tackled when it genuinely occurs, but these predominantly white saviour SJW types and BLM activists are forever fomenting division and relishing picking at a scab. They are, none of them, remotely interested in trying to bring people together or heal.
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  4403. Oh, do give over. One of the weakest ad hominems I've ever heard.
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  4404. Shouldn't US advisor Shelby's Marathon Initiative be called the Snickers Initiative?
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  4405. Said it before and I'll say it again, 'the secondary stock market is not the real economy'. It's a casino with winners on one side, losers on the other and where the House always wins. The question is will 'the House' choose to aid labour or capital this time? If I were a betting man....
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  4406. That's a major part of the problem. Post covid, due to its long delayed inaction the asleep at the wheel FED now has an unenviable choice between squashing inflation and squashing the 'thriving' US economy in order to do so or entrenching high inflation. Whilst peddling the narrative of 'a soft landing' it will choose the former at all costs.
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  4407. Judge Napolitano famously confronted Trump on why he didn't fulfil his earlier promise before he became POTUS to release all the JFK files....8K remain under lock and key. Trump replied that if the Judge knew what he knew then he wouldn't release them either....
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  4408. Assange is an Australian citizen and yet he's effectively being charged with treason under the US own Espionage Act. How can one be a traitor to a country to which one is not a citizen of?
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  4409. For those resorting to repeated ad hominems against Ritter on this thread: He was a 'failed' weapons inspector because he was 'dumb enough' to repeatedly point to the fact that there weren't any WMD in Iraq. A fact that the US government duly ignored because it planned to go war with Iraq regardless. He was inconvenient to say the least. The parallels with the western-led proxy war in Ukraine are marked. In terms of his sex abuse conviction it was a planned FBI sting against Ritter - why might you ask - for an internet only exchange on an over 18s only chat site. The 15 year old girl never existed and should have been over 18 anyway to be on there in the first place under the rules of that site ie there's no reason to believe that it wasn't anything other than fantasy role play in his mind. Was he stupid? Hell yeah. Does it have anything to do with judgements he's made on Iraq and Ukraine? Absolutely naff all.
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  4410. Well, one thing we can be sure of from these comments is that there are a lot of green eyed monsters on here who fancy Obama and believe that he could have done SO much better than this fella.
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  4411. Lord Adonis on the one hand rightly wishes to see Britain's railways brought lock, stock and barrel back under UK government ownership and on the other wishes to remain in a neoliberal EU effectively dedicated to preventing just such a policy.
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  4412. One likes to imagine, despite the madness of the last few years, that these great forwardthinking Western geopolitical minds have some grand plan for finishing what they've started. What might that be I wonder as, at the moment, they just seem to be firefighting and lurching from one crisis to the next.
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  4413. Thank God for consistent journos like Greenwald. Rare as hens' teeth nowadays it seems.
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  4414. Trump is adjudged 'a rapist' by a civil (not criminal) decision based on a balance of probabilities. His accuser can't even remember which year the alleged offence took place and it was tried in NY state, a Democratic stronghold, after the statute of limitations was changed specifically to pursue Trump. It was essentially her word against his. The fraud allegations, similarly, were pursued again in NY and pertain to the actions of individuals working within the Trump Organisation but not Trump himself. As to the claim that he is an insurrectionist he has not been either charged or convicted of that by any criminal court to date.
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  4415. This is precisely why MSM, essentially an establishment tool, both aim to crush alternative media. Hence the now relentless 'mis' and 'dis'information narrative.
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  4416. Just wait and see what happens to the EU if Ukraine is ever allowed to join it...
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  4417. In the next episode the boys'll be chewing gum at the same time!!😊
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  4418. Democracy's only fine as long as it delivers an answer that is broadly acceptable to the establishment it seems. That's the message here and, to be honest, it was much the same with Brexit. You either respect the process itself as sacrosanct whatever it delivers and whether you like it or not or you don't. If more people don't then we're inviting a whole heap of more trouble.
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  4419. Bruno Tonioli's branching out!!
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  4420. Identity politics is nurtured by the ruling classes precisely because it endlessly distracts the masses from class politics which is really where most of this is at. Divide and rule basically and so far it's working like a dream.
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  4421. Not for nothing is Russia known as China's gas station.
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  4422. I always hate it when people play the race card too easily, but western support for this genocide is patently being fed in part by racism and religious bigotry. From my exchanges, you can also add, bizarrely, 'holocaust guilt' into the already toxic mix.
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  4423. An old fashioned, largely discredited term but our monetary policy seems to have been forged on the basis of trickle down theory. Trickle down isn't entirely self serving twaddle but it works at its simplest level when a certain group of people ie rentiers aren't exclusively in a position thanks to the largesse of the state to forever buy up assets that others plainly can't afford and they can then charge ever more rent for. The system has been broken. Either by accident or design, the outcome is the same. Monetary policy helped the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
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  4424. 'Selling caviar to buy a slice of $2 pizza'??? Tesla currently produces around 1% of the world's cars and his company was at one point worth the equivalent of the 9 largest global automakers combined. Is this what you call talking up your book?
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  4425. People will always be poor for as long as there's never enough to satisfy the greed of the wealthy. Simples.
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  4426. No disrespect, but climate has 'changed' since the dawn of time. Parts of England that are now land used to long ago be underwater and vice versa. The greatest example of this is the perhaps unfortunately named Doggerland - Dogger Bank is named after it - which is today basically under the North Sea. Around ten thousand years ago you could have literally walked all the way from today's Wales, Scotland or England to Europe without getting your feet wet... assuming it didn't rain obviously.
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  4427. If you look at his track record and look back how long he's been banging his drum then I'd put his opinions way and above most mainstream commentators.
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  4428. Presumably hadn't foreseen Qualified Majority Voting there then Mr Wilson, or the ever shrinking power of the national veto? Shades of a delusional Dr Frankenstein in terms of the European Project, and how he imagines future UK governments, weak or strong, could somehow forever influence or override it and its ever burgeoning future membership. Since 1975 the CAP has seen barely any reform yet still accounts for over 30% of the EU's budget, largely benefitting big agri-business, whilst only accounting for a minuscule amount of the bloc's overall GDP and employment. Still, at least he was a democrat.
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  4429. The EU has long been part of the problem here too. Nothing wrong with economic and political cooperation, particularly with close neighbours, but it is increasingly an elitist, undemocratic, centralizing sovereignty snaffling political project seizing upon any and every crisis to justify its own existence and seize ever more powers for itself.
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  4430. Fascinatingly illuminating this. Judging by a number of the comments made here if you hit a queue at an EU airport it's only ever because you're British and because of Brexit otherwise they simply don't ever occur for any EU citizens. They really are something else aren't they.
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  4431. And yet, after all this, the fact remains that the 'charismatic' Joe Biden got elected without leaving his basement with the largest vote ever in American presidential history, eclipsing Obama's previous record by 12m, and Trump lost with the largest ever Republican vote in American presidential history.....
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  4432. Axios just reported that the US will see its Panama Canal shipping fees waived....
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  4433. Billionaire oligarchs buying up legacy media in order to belatedly try and control message. Legacy media loses more and more audience to fringe media which still, by and large, has to use establishment owned platforms to disseminate their message. Some, but not all, said platforms, predictably supported by legacy media, start to crack down on said fringe media in the name of stopping spread of mis and disinformation. Plan looks to be failing, so next step is to arrest 'non-compliant' oligarchs 'pour encourager les autres'. Doesn't exactly bode well, does it?
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  4434. Even Israeli media admits that fact. Do keep up.
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  4435. 'Ul-ree-ka-ka-kaah' is a great and learned guest for sure but she, just as the EU still does today and always has done, have both posited 'not enough EU' as the answer to its failure. Its failure stems from 1990 when it decided to ostensibly become a political project partially informed by its economics rather than the economic project partially informed by its politics that it had previously been. It tried to run LONG before it had learnt to walk viewing both the prosperous periods of relative calm and every and any crisis as opportunities to increase and centralise its power. Not for nothing did it fear, denigrate and detest referenda that potentially challenged its ratcheting, seemingly inexorable trajectory.
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  4436. Trump gave America the covid vaccine remember!!
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  4437. If Kamala's a commie then cover me in maple syrup and tie me to an ant hill. She wouldn't be at the very top of the Democratic Party running for POTUS if she were. Trump should drop this line of attack as it just won't land other than with the more rabid end of his base and serves to alienate his more enlightened potential voters.
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  4438. Wokism, much like 'climate change', is another luxury value co-opted by the elites designed to quietly oppress the proles. If both your government AND your global corporations are constantly banging on about them and you're not ever asking yourself why then you're just another useful idiot.
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  4439. You know when you're dealing with a proper journalist with integrity when someone like Emma Webb answers a question honestly with, 'I don't know enough about it'.
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  4440. There's a special circle in Hell reserved for Victoria Nuland.
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  4441. Judging from many of the comments on here it's pretty clear why Sacks is slightly reticent about presenting this perfectly reasonable, well argued view. Those, mostly Western I'm sure, comfortably ensconced keyboard warriors who simplistically imagine that there is some direct 'standing up to the bully' Hitlerian comparison to be made here clearly don't know their history of either the Second World War or the more recent history of this region. This is essentially a proxy war that should never have happened and Russia cannot afford to lose. The longer it drags on the harder it will be to reach an acceptable settlement and, in the meantime, could easily spiral out of control. Should that happen it'll be cold comfort for the likes of David Sacks to know that they at least did their best to prevent this insanity.
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  4442. Meanwhile, back in the real world, he has solid arguments which you're welcome to engage with and debunk.
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  4443. If BoJo gets on the ballot this country, the UK as it is, is likely doomed. How do people think all of this ongoing sh*tshow plays in the rest of the UK ie outside England, nevermind within it itself amongst non-Tory voters? BoJo's and the Tory party's pre-covid, pre-Ukraine mandate in 2019 might as well have come from a different age. We're not in Kansas anymore. BoJo isn't just tarnished goods he's a complete and utter liability for UK PLC going forward and anyone who votes for him, and should he get in, should have this on their consciences for the rest of their lives.
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  4444. Many of the instigators of this two years of madness will doubtless do their best to melt away into the background and do their best not to own this utter clusterf*ck. This was never JUST about covid, this was always about the nature of our democracies and how we are governed by our elected masters. If nothing else it has flagged up the fragilities (and now hopefully emerging strengths) of these systems and how easily they can be abused when under apparent duress.
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  4445. Trump is far smarter and far more forward thinking than most people realise. The most smug are usually the dumbest ones. It make them feel and believe it makes THEM look good by dissing and dismissing him. That said it doesn't make HIM automatically right either. He's effectively a high stakes gambler who believes he holds most of the cards. By the looks he's trying to force, by hook or by crook, the RoW adopt a lower tariff regime similar to the US, but that doesn't take into account the 'exorbitant privilege' the US already has and aims to preserve through its USD hegemony.
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  4446. @julianshepherd2038  Trump, I believe and I could be wrong, is trying to set a wider example to the world vis-a-vis trade ie establishing lower global trade tariffs. Both immediate neighbours Canada and Mexico's trade with the US is significant and yet neither has been immune from the current Trump flex.
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  4447.  @julianshepherd2038  Something mighty weird going on with replies here...
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  4448. I reiterate. Something mighty weird happening with comments here.
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  4449. ​ @larry6597 Climate change is allegedly caused by the burning and release of carbon based fossil fuels like gas. The US 'bombing' of NS2 effectively and deliberately led to a massive release of said gas into the atmosphere. All at a time when we're allegedly teetering on the edge of a man-made carbon induced environmental catastrophe.
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  4450.  @larry6597  Sadly YT, not unusually, didn't like my entirely factual answer to your question. Tells you something no?
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  4451. Can anyone out there provide a link for Denmark's COVID cost benefit analysis?
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  4452. Let's hope so.
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  4453. Let's be honest. There are some right nutty evangelical Christians out there , most pertinently in the US and a good many in Congress where unfortunately it really matters, who apparently sincerely believe they're doing 'God's work' by facilitating this madness. These people haven't evolved from neanderthals and if there are any neanderthals left out there I apologize as it's only an expression.
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  4454. It wasn't an inquiry it was a slanging match. Largely pointless and supremely unedifying but enlightening in itself in terms of revealing what was really going on in the corridors of power during covid.
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  4455. There are a few nutzoid senior Republicans I've seen interviewed who actually believe that they're playing their part in some Biblical prophecy by unconditionally supporting Israel. The Bible isn't a cautionary tale it's a fricking roadmap. It wouldn't be so bad under normal circumstances, but these chumps wield genuine power.
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  4456. Trump can be a pr*ck sometimes, he made some dumb decisions particularly in terms of whom he appointed and is clearly in thrall to AIPAC, like both Biden and RFK, but I don't think you can doubt his sincerity. He has more decency and integrity in his little finger than Biden has in his entire body.
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  4457. A significant drop in interest rates sure as hell ain't gonna be anything but a strong bearish signal.
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  4458. ... because....
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  4459. At least he's honest enough to say it out loud.
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  4460. Lots of unanswered questions and weird decisions made by Israel I agree.
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  4461. Given your various comments on their ineptitude, sounds like you need to be on there time....
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  4462.  @zetristan4525  Much as I enjoy him, Mearsheimer is a self-acknowledged China hawk. His pet theory is Offensive Realism which amounts to eat or be eaten. The Truman Doctrine, the Domino Theory or the Wolfowitz Doctrine, it's basically US playing geopolitical Wac-a-Mole.
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  4463. Passed over for the No.2 spot by Biden? Nuland has No.2 written all over her.
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  4464. Watch Death in Minneapolis on the death of George Floyd. It's EVEN worse than you imagined.
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  4465.  @mickg7299  No, but I wish I did as it's clearly a lucrative business for some.
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  4466. Let's be brutally honest here. Israel could not have become what it has become today nor survived without continuous Western support. Political, economic and military. A state of Israel has every right to exist and to exist in Palestine for established historical reasons, but not in its current form. A two state solution amenable to BOTH sides NOT just its most powerful and oppressive is the only long term answer to this.
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  4467. As many Palestinians have been murdered by Israel in the Gaza Ghetto to date after October 7 as Jews died in Bergen-Belsen at the hands of the Nazis. The former, according to Western media, is still 'a war' despite Palestinians having no real armed forces to speak of whereas the latter is accepted to be 'a genocide'. What pray is the difference?
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  4468. Imagine how the global reaction to covid with loads of locked down bored people, many on furlough, sitting at their computers for hours on end (or equivalent) contributed to all this mania. Tech stocks went through the roof during that time and we were all told this was the future from now on in so little wonder that the tech-based cryptocurrencies that shadowed these stocks followed them.
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  4469. For your next challenge....try and make a sentence out of that...
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  4470. The FED have spent years flooding the economy with too much money/debt further exacerbated by the bonkers covid measures. They now have to try and squash the excessive demand caused by a combination of all that earlier funny free money creation, the ending of lockdowns, the increase in employment and the post covid knackered supply chains all of which are fuelling inflation. Throw in a major foreign war and an accompanying energy crisis to boot then the only way to deal with this and try and bring demand back in sync with supply is by raising interest rates. Painful but necessary. The question is is does the FED have the balls to stay the course?
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  4471. Joe Biden would be evil, but only if he remembers to be.
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  4472. Offensive to common thieves.
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  4473. That's very sad. The DNC Clinton campaign were actually fined by the FEC in March 2022 for officially misrepresenting their role in commissioning the now entirely discredited Steele Dossier that formed the basis for Russiagate. Steele claimed himself that his work was unverified, required further investigation and was not meant for public disclosure. None so blind as those who won't see.
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  4474. He is. Farming our data. Any 1%er worth their salt is doing it. It's the unholy Grail. Corner that market and the power and wealth possibilities are endless. More powerful than our elected governments even....
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  4475. Smith's hypocritical, quasi-messianic, woke, 'my people' acceptance speech was one of the most nauseating spectacles I've ever seen. The man's a c*ck.
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  4476. The stock market ISN'T the economy. Nowhere near close.
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  4477. The events of 1976 ie using the UK's foreign currency reserves to prop up the Pound, also brings into sharp focus the sheer idiocy of Gordon Brown's decision to sell off UK gold near the bottom of the market whilst Chancellor. How this man, like ALL New Labour's leading lights, has ANY credibility left remains an eternal mystery. I wouldn't trust him to run a whelk stall as my dear old nan used to say.
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  4478. Freddie's got a spiffing haircut.
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  4479. American Neocons like Nuland etc belong in a jail not in the White House or the State Dept.
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  4480. To date just over 10k Abrams have been built to date based on the original 1975 design which came into service in 1980. 2k are in active service and 3k are mothballed, for want of a better word. Are we seriously supposed to believe that, given the relatively tiny amount they'll send to Ukraine, that they're all equipped with state of the art technology?
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  4481. Everyone's favourite climate 'profit'. Gore made much of his money selling out his empire to the Qataris.
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  4482. Hunt is a fiscal drag artist.
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  4483. I think I'm correct in saying that sentiment toward Brexit, perhaps inevitably, ebbs and flows according to the current economic data. Current UK economic data undeniably ain't good, not least due to the recent Truss debacle, so it's hardly surprising that people will be looking for something or someone, ideally an external factor, to blame just as some of our politicians and media often unfairly scapegoated the EU when we were in it. Given that these economic woes clearly aren't unique to the UK and that no other countries in Europe have left the EU I'd be intrigued to see a piece asking people in those countries whom they blame for their own similar current worsening economic circumstances.
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  4484. I'm simply amazed that governments the world over have allowed cryptocurrencies to take off in the way they have.
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  4485.  @drmodestoesq  The proclaimed decentralisation and democratisation of money you mean? Pull the other one it's got bells on it. Not only are they wide open to now well publicised mass fraud and criminality, in most jurisdictions they're still treated as a taxable capital once sold. Governments the world over have effectively endorsed a Ponzi scheme and it's shameful as invariably it's those that can least afford it that get burned.
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  4486. Three questions: Has the average age of a covid death changed significantly in Canada since 2020? Also, do you think that China which doesn't have these mRNA jabs is doing an amazing job of hiding its enormous death toll since ending its stringent lockdown policy or are you assuming that its Sinovax has done a miraculous job? Is Canada now experiencing consistent unprecedented excess deaths as we are in the UK, particularly amongst younger age groups? If so, what factors might you attribute that to?
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  4487.  @briandingle665  So, just to be clear: The average covid death age in Canada today is higher, lower or the same as it was in 2020? In the UK it's over 80. What is it today in Canada and what was it in 2020? Also, Canada isn't suffering anything like the excess death spike the UK currently is? Everything is pretty much returned to 'normal' now in 2023 yes? Given that you don't trust China's figures - and I can understand why by the way - how do you think they're managing to hide what must now likely be at least a million deaths from covid given their size of population and known lack of mRNA vaccines?
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  4488. Time to play, 'report spam crypto comments to YouTube' yet again.
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  4489.  @allenaxp6259  You still need the specialist ports to bring that volume in and you don't build those in one or two years. Looks like the Ukraine war might be playing to the US's advantage......
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  4490. Why is it people are labelled as 'anti-vaxxers' and all the baggage that intentionally carries with it when they've likely mostly had every 'required' vaccine going since childbirth, but baulk at having an entirely novel, largely untested vaccine injected into them not once, not twice, but now three times for a virus that is demonstrably highly unlikely to cause them any serious harm?
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  4491. ​@solomongrundy145Excellent point.
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  4492. It's certainly strongly suggestive of collusion with the so-called Fourth Estate isn't it. You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours unless or until someone decides it's worth the cost of breaking ranks.
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  4493. Putin's trying to play chess with squirrels and that's the big worry.
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  4494. History is not a morality play and yet Zeihan seems to think it is. Good luck with that one, Peter.
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  4495. UK Labour Party member Ken Livingstone, bless his soul, made similar 'controversial' statements regarding Hitler and his name was dragged through the mud, not least by UK Zionists. He was, however, completely correct. Israel was indeed born of both European and American anti-Semitism, obviously most manifest in Europe at the time. Problem being, its creation was designed to shift a perceived problem (where there should've been none) to somewhere else ie then colonial Palestine thereby creating a far bigger more intractable problem.
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  4496.  @cloudwithwind  Nope.
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  4497. Agreed. I think it goes to show that when you're on your own territory there's a lot more control and things are far more scripted than we realise. Fraser Nelson was a dumpster fire during that exchange although I would add that it wasn't Bridgen's finest debating hour either. Like watching two squirrels play chess and I SO wanted Bridgen to wipe the floor with him.
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  4498. To be fair, and not that I agree with it, but the key legislation was actually passed in 2008 with an overwhelming parliamentary majority and with only 5 dissenters. I think he shouldn't labour this point in his argument even though I happen to agree with him.
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  4499. If the US can burn through over $5trn in a couple of years on a relatively small scale pandemic like covid, a virus that targeted relatively small, easily identifiable, known groups, just imagine what it could spend on a far more serious, wide scale pandemic!!
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  4500. The No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish was essentially an urban myth. People have false memories of it and there's startlingly little evidence for it.
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  4501.  @OnQ_one  I'm afraid it was.
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  4502. The US and its population, unlike Russia, have as of yet no real, direct experience of the horrors of war so perhaps it's little surprise that they continue to behave as they do. Empires, by and large, rarely significantly benefit their domestic great unwashed masses and the US is proving utterly true to historical form on that front.
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  4503. Just imagine if there had been literally no media outlets able to question the utter lunacy oftentimes of the covid and lockdown responses. Whether you like GB News and its ilk or not I'd much rather live in a world with them than without.
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  4504. It's not saying much, but Trump is the lesser of two evils next to the Democrats sadly. They and their supporters, both individual and media, have consistently shown utter contempt for due legal and political process over the last eight years. I don't want to see Trump win half as much as I want to see the Democrats lose.
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  4505. All these measures like the Online Safety Bill make perfect sense for an establishment that knows its losing control of the narrative. If you want any semblance of truth you have to go looking for it and the places where you'll find it, like GZ, are under constant attack for a reason. If you can dress up your nefarious motivations as being driven by safety concerns and a desire to protect then the job is more than half done in most people's eyes. We don't just get the politicians we deserve, we get the media too.
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  4506. I'm due to retire next week and I'm looking for a crypto currency to put my decades of hard earned savings into so that I can live like a king until I drop. Any suggestions?
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  4507. Noticed this a week ago. Knew the name rang an alarm bell. Just how much is corporate America intertwined with its Deep State I wonder? Being rhetorical obviously.
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  4508. The way things are looking it almost makes sense for the West to bring on a recession....
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  4509. Nice film, but you can't have a serious discussion about the Euro failing without mentioning TARGET 2 imbalances.
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  4510. You can't sustain an inexorably mounting US debt like the US has and see its role as the world's primary currency simultaneously and consistently slide. Casino owner Trump as an American may be acting erratically, but he knows that something needs to be done to at least try and stem the rot. Stat.
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  4511. HMP Belmarsh aka Airstrip One's Ministry of Love.
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  4512. These certain words are essentially linguistic landmines set only to detonate when certain people thinking 'the wrong thoughts' tread on them.
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  4513. Utter hypocrisy. ALL our politicians have failed us. A bare faced liar. Nowhere to hide for any of them.
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  4514.  @luciferin22  I wasn't 'bothering' you I was informing you. Of course should you ever bother to take the time to watch it you'll find that out for yourself.
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  4515. If nothing else it just goes to show that most people, even already exceedingly well off comics, have their price.
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  4516. Great that this is FINALLY happening, but one should never forget that Project Ukraine was instigated by the US in the first place and Trump played a not insignificant role in that.
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  4517. Great interview and great interviewers, particularly the chap on the right.
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  4518. Russiagate was NOT 'a mistake'. It was the demon seed of all this mischief.
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  4519. Did he borrow Boris's toffee apple to comb his barnet?
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  4520. 'Logical fallacy alert' Chap referring to that 'very comprehensive' study trying to present it as fact is clearly making an attempt at an 'appeal to authority' there. January 6th wasn't an insurrection anyway, it was a riot. A riot, the secret services and role of the state itself, is yet to be fully ascertained. All the deaths directly attributable to that day were those of the protesters not the security forces. Not that I'm an expert, but if I was planning an insurrection in the most powerful country on earth, I wouldn't do that armed with just duct tape and cable ties or dress up in fancy dress for the occasion. Maybe that's just me?
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  4521. Looks like 2024 could turn out to be Trump 2.0: The Revenge Tour. It didn't have to be this way. The US Deep State and the Dems with an almost entirely complicit mainstream media and big tech kicked all this dangerous divisive nonsense off in 2016 with Russiagate spending his entire presidency trying to delegitimise him. Can't say I'm entirely comfortable with it, but they look like they're about to reap what they have sown.
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  4522. Trump, if he sees this one out and becomes President must, as a result of his unforgivable experience here, pardon Julian Assange.
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  4523. Loved that when Zayas said Sudan and Pascal said Syria at the same time there😂
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  4524. Touch of the green-eyed monster, eh? Perhaps I'm naïve, but one would like to imagine that markedly increased product availability in the West wouldn't have been Gorbachev's primary driver in breaking up the Soviet Union.
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  4525.  @RichardEnglander  Silly me.
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  4526. Bannon dead right about breaking up the US Big tech monopolies. Dangerous AF.
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  4527.  @scottb32a  Yeah, presumably profound insights from a Remainer there? It kinda helps your case if you actually have something concrete to add to the discussion. That's assuming that you actually do of course, which I somehow doubt given that 'effort'.
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  4528.  @scottb32a   @Scott B  There never was 'a Brexit position'. The referendum in 2016 was about leaving or remaining in the EU. Nothing more or less. Still not sure why SO many people fail to understand what a referendum actually is. Being rhetorical there.... There wasn't a party, a manifesto or an individual we were voting for or against either and yet, as your comment shows, this is clearly the narrative some seek to persist in peddling. I have no truck with or sympathy for this current government, but that doesn't change the fact that in 2019 the UK electorate was faced with a stark choice with only one party, the UK Conservatives, pledging to honour that 2016 referendum result after three years of bitter wrangling. The Liberal Party actually pledged to overturn the result and were rightly consigned to electoral oblivion and the Labour Party came up with a real dog's breakfast trying to bamboozle the electorate and quite rightly got the middle finger too. Trade is a two way street and trade friction isn't always automatically a bad thing otherwise the world would be one big happy single market. The UK trades very successfully with the US, as I said, WITHOUT a trade deal and has done for many, many years.
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  4529.  @scottb32a  Brexit is a process, not an event and it was, first and foremost, a political act for the longer term. A political act, albeit with possible unknown and unknowable immediate economic consequences. The EU is, as I say, nowadays a political project facilitated by its economics rather than an economic project facilitated by its politics as it was far moreso in the past until Maastricht in 1990. 2016 was truly a one-off opportunity, particularly for those of us who are acutely aware of the contempt with which the EU and previous national political establishments have held previous referenda in. I'm also aware that a lot of the claims made regarding the economic situation in the UK, as if they're unique to the Brexited UK, are demonstrably false for those inclined (or not too lazy) to look at other EU member states, particularly comparable ones. The other thing to note is that a lot of the problems we are witnessing, like stagnating wages for example, were long manifest whilst the UK was still a member of the EU, not having risen in real terms since 2008.
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  4530.  @scottb32a  Really? What?
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  4531.  @scottb32a  Sure. Very inconvenient. On what?
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  4532. ​ @susanmercurio1060 Climate change advocates often refer to humans as 'a cancer', 'predatory' or parasites as if the planet would be automatically better off without. Really it's a moot point. We're here until we aren't basically and the planet will long outlast us regardless.
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  4533.  @susanmercurio1060  Algo removed previous reply unfortunately so excuse the somewhat bland language. A planet far better off without or with far fewer human beings on it often forms part of their man made climate change narrative.
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  4534.  @susanmercurio1060  Like to, but YT will not permit.
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  4535. Russia is a rigged democracy that pretends not to be. The USA is.....
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  4536. God wouldn't like it?
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  4537. Great interview. Keep on battling on mate. These people are bullies, nothing more.
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  4538. I was never sure which member of the uniparty to vote for to be honest.
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  4539.  @psrpippy  Vueling or EasyJet from Gatwick. T1.
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  4540.  @psrpippy  Doesn't seem to stop most people.
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  4541. Ask yourselves why would these companies, Murdoch's Times and the UK taxpayer subsidized C4, devote a full four years of their time and spend huge amounts of supposedly precious resources on investigating Russell Brand if there wasn't an ulterior motive at play? With all the corruption and criminality going on the world deeply affecting millions it seems like one helluva costly, time-consuming sledgehammer employed to crack a supposedly tiny nut like Brand.
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  4542. Why oh why did God see fit to put SO much US oil under the Middle East?
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  4543. Good question. And how did his parents, or someone who knew him, positive ID him so quickly?
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  4544. Can't believe how utterly stoopid the EU has been here. Condie Rice specifically stated on film that this was the US's aim in 2014 to get Europe off its reliance on Russian gas and replace it with the US energy platform. A pledge recently reiterated by Blinken. What a bunch of dumbf*cks.
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  4545. I'd recommend people searching for B Corp and Coutts and watching the two videos there. Six minutes of your life you won't get back, but time well spent if you want to try and understand a lot of the insidious vapid BS that informs a lot of this.
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  4546. There comes a time when 'I genuinely don't know' is the best answer and 'I know' is by far the worst.
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  4547. If China was incapable of developing mRNA vaccines, had to settle for its own apparently much inferior versions AND was eventually forced to end its own Draconian lockdowns why haven't millions died from Covid there or have they just been good at hiding it?
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  4548. Best you get yourself some then.....
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  4549. Gotta be true. The Sage graph says so.
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  4550. Many fact checking organizations are part funded by the Gates Foundation.
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  4551. Yeah, he didn't actually lie he did his job and watched the whole interview which provides vital context. Something I have a feeling you didn't.
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  4552. Er, how about we have an energy mix, including fossil and renewables, with nuclear acting as the ultimate base load? Fossil fuels, whether you believe in ACC or not are finite and won't last forever by definition so it makes sense to seek alternatives now regardless. What I object to is that this is all being driven by instilling fear and guilt in the eternally hard pressed and, as usual, a certain wealthy cabal with the sharp ears of government are making away like the thieves that they always are at others' expense.
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  4553. The perpetrators of these crimes against humanity, not least Messrs Blair and Bush, had better damn well hope the gods they profess to believe in don't exist.
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  4554. Just what the IDF needs. Another socially maladjusted psycho. Mother probably wants rid of him anyway so that's her story and she's sticking to it.
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  4555. Unpalatable fact for many to accept but there is, basically, a consensus on the USD being the least worst option as the world's primary currency. Until something better comes along that a significant proportion of the world's nations can agree upon it will remain so.
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  4556. Sure. You've got your ad hominems in now so why not try and address what's being said?
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  4557. £10k spent, say, on house in 1975 would be worth the equivalent of around £70k today allowing for inflation ie 7x the amount. Needless to say a house bought for £10k in 1975 would cost considerably more than that £70k today. The alleged economic miracle attributed to the right by the likes of Andrew Neil is built upon the perpetuation of ever higher asset prices, most notably property and its burgeoning associated debt, and forever ensuring their limited supply. Appealing politically to that sentiment has warped our politics for the worse for decades I would posit. The movement of more women into the labour force since the 1970s, as mentioned by Rod Liddle there, has, in part, been due to these rapidly rising property prices and the population's shifting attempts to afford them, for example.
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  4558. It's true!! NY did change the law to get Trump.
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  4559. Talks about 'THE' science when there is no such thing? ✅ Quotes from 'scientific modelling' that is hypothetical as if it's scientific fact? ✅ Resorts to personal insults and blanket dismissals when challenged? ✅ Rabid remainer? ✅ Climate change zealot? ✅ A dedicated seeker of the truth and a credit to his profession? ❌
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  4560. Le Pen, much like Meloni in Italy, would likely just turn out to be yet another globalist neo liberal in sheep's clothing.
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  4561. Well that's a f*ck sight better of a suggestion than I've seen to date.
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  4562. Don't you just hate it when people keep repeating what is right in the hope more people will listen? Maybe you're right. He just needs to say something different....
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  4563. Science has never been 'owned' by anyone and has never been and never should be 'THE' science for very good reason. People who make these worrying claims are little better than cultists or the authoritarian clergy of medieval Europe or modern day Iran.
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  4564. I made these comments last week regarding the US actually needing and in fact being the only country able to run these huge deficits in reference to Trump's tariff plan and YT removed the comment.
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  4565. Twitter and FB have become the gotos of lazy, uncritical journalists over the years, all too often over-promoting, amplifying and misrepresenting non-issues as if they were somehow mainstream views. They have, in essence, served to undermine the credibility of both the profession and the product and the major casualty has been the truth. To find out that they have likely been hugely inflating the numbers of their genuine user base makes this much more of a story than it first appears.
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  4566. It's not stupid at all. Zekenky's ultimate aim is to get NATO into the war with Russia.
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  4567. Sure, but by the same token quite how fixated would the US be on Venezuela if it didn't have oil? Low grade or no. A lot of the Northern US states still currently rely on dirty, low grade, expensive Canadian tar sands oil do they not?
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  4568. Either way it was a load of bollocks.
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  4569. This will likely lead to another refugee crisis both for Europe AND for Erdogan's Turkey. A country which has long 'protected', at great enduring financial cost I might add, Europe from a massive influx of refugees fleeing ongoing unrest and persecution in the ME. A Turkish population that has also recently signalled to its establishment that it no longer was willing to accept ever more refugees. This then is an act of pure folly if it were fostered by Erdogan that would likely further destabilise an already reeling from both a refugee crisis AND the Ukraine war Europe as a number of countries increasingly shift further to the political right.
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  4570. Not being funny, but there's no subtitles here plus it's a repeat on a loop of the same guy being arrested. A little more showing and a little less telling would at least add to its credibility.
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  4571. The Dave award for the best joke this year said it all. It was pathetic. Very sad. These people deserve to wither on the vine.
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  4572. For all those extolling the virtues of Bitcoin on here (and other crytopcurrencies) I urge potential speculators to be wary. These markets are, in essence, the playthings of the uber wealthy not the democratisation of money as they are so often portrayed as. As with all gambling only put in what you can afford to lose. Those at the top of the crypto trees are always looking for the next greater, ideally desperate, fools to line their pockets. Sure, you might get lucky, but don't be surprised if you don't.
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  4573. Mussolini defined fascism as when the interests of the state and its corporations could barely be separated by a cigarette paper. If Marx defined Communism as 'the abolition of private property' then perhaps fascism veers toward the vastly disproportionate private ownership and control of said private property? Hitler could never have risen to power in Germany without the support of Germany's prominent industrialists, for example. Big businesses many of which went on to profit heavily from the rearmament of Hitler's Germany and access to cheap slave labour and which still exist as highly thought of household names today. Largely untainted by their murky pasts. Moral of the story? Don't EVER let corporate and government interests get too close.
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  4574. Trade 'friction' isn't always bad. 'Free trade' at at any cost has become an obsessive ideology and a claimed panacea for some unfortunately.
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  4575. You'd far rather they weren't pointed out at all presumably?
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  4576. Russia has most likely invaded Ukraine precisely because it isn't in NATO and protected by its Charter 5, unlike the Baltic States. This conflict has been a long time in the making and the US, NATO and the EU have all played their parts in sowing its poisonous, destructive seeds. That in no way excuses what Putin is doing in Ukraine, but we should all be mindful not to oversimplify its causes into a purely 'Good Vs Evil' struggle.
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  4577. Google/YT won't remove this sh*t. They never do. Scamming people is fine in their book. They're far too busy thought policing anyway.
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  4578. If China invaded Taiwan the Taiwanese wouldn't just roll over. Taiwan would become a warzone. Chip factories and all.
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  4579. Epstein appealed to those who already had everything but inevitably, given their voracious appetites, always wanted more. Sex with anyone they wanted was never enough. Transgressive sex, sex outside the law was, for them, the ultimate taboo and the ultimate high, prize and power trip.
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  4580. Thanks to the huge public sector government debt it has created for over a decade and holds, the unelected BoE is effectively the most powerful institution in the UK. Moreso than the elected government itself. Though certainly no fan, Liz Truss was 'couped' when it pointedly chose not to bail her out over her bonkers budget. If you think about it, prior to this moment, the BoE didn't bat an eyelid at using QE to ease the UK government's debt woes, not least during covid when almost as much QE was done in 2020 alone than in the whole decade prior.
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  4581.  @jakerivets2249  Granted likely apocryphal as Goldman attribution is also disputed.
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  4582.  @jakerivets2249  Furry muff.
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  4583. 'It's far easier to fool people than to convince them they've been fooled' - Mark Twain.
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  4584. I suspect Douglas Murray is refusing to debate with someone like Finkelstein because he knows Finkelstein would make him look stupid. Not something I would imagine DM would take too kindly to. It's the same reason why RFK Jr refuses to debate with the Grayzone's Max Blumenthal over Israel and the same reason why that mad covid doctor Peter Hotez refused previously to debate with RFK Jr about vaccines. They know they're on shaky ground and their knowledge is vastly less superior than those they would be pitted against. Simples.
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  4585.  @Dethfeast  Following the Second World War there were $4 to the UK Pound. I think if you look now that might be rather fewer regardless of the current unfortunate circumstances. Both currencies have, of course, been subject to inflation since then but the USD has experienced far less than the GBP I think you'll find and I think you'll also find that it's hardly unique in this.
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  4586. Litlle did I realize when I fixed my electricity costs last year for my tiny business that I would become 'a legacy hedger'😁
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  4587. Nuremberg 2.0
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  4588. The Left failed because the predatory elites who felt so long threatened by it eventually managed to do what they usually do and successfully found a way to divide and rule. Nowadays electorates are presented with false dichotomies fashioned very carefully to create the illusion of choice thereby placating the masses.
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  4589. Strap says 'EBC' under Christine Lagarde.
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  4590.  @CalebAchsah  I think that's why the prosecutors' tack changed in 2019 because they knew that they'd struggle to get any espionage charge to stick on its own. JS is not an American citizen and simply published what he was provided with by whistleblower Manning so the charge then shifted to one presumably of manipulation and conspiracy between the pair to hack a Pentagon computer. JS had a history of hacking so it seemed like the best way they could get to him and implicate him directly in the illegal obtaining of the information.
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  4591.  @CalebAchsah  My reply to you was blocked unfortunately.
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  4592. Just watch ORF's take on Biden's acuity before I came here. Either Schumer is lying or he's well down the same path as Genocide Joe.
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  4593. Orthodox economics' primarily exists to help build, reinforce and give credibility to the establishment narrative. Sad thing is it works.
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  4594.  @kevinsenior8155  Certainly have done in the past but there's a marked shift since MBS came to power. The bond hasn't broken, but it is under severe strain.
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  4595. 1976 was essentially a foreign currency crisis for the UK. The country was certainly NOT going bust as some still like to claim even today. The country had no need to go cap in hand to the IMF in 1976, but it seems that then Chancellor Healey was convinced by senior figures at the Treasury that he must. Labour's Healey after having in 1974 promised to ''squeeze property speculators until the pips squeak," one can't help but wonder whether there were darker political forces at work there.
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  4596. In a nutshell, like the US, China is also a selfish imperialist power but, based on an abundance of demonstrable historical evidence to date, it now represents the lesser of two evils for many countries essentially forced to choose between them.
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  4597.  @iordanneDiogeneslucas  I have a Russian sister in law and that's about the only Russian I know. Not the nicest of people tbh Regardless of your or my opinion of Putin, there are certain geopolitical realities at play that don't sit well with many in the West because we think too much in terms of good vs bad, absolving ourselves of all blame entirely. Ukraine has been given false hope by the EU, the US and NATO over the decades and has acted believing that it had their support and would one day become a member of NATO. They've been strung along basically. On current evidence, the only way to settle this is for Ukraine to confirm its future neutrality, as Zelenksy currently wisely proposes. This is easier said than done in the circumstances as he wants it confirmed by referendum. It also seems likely that the Russian speaking regions will have to be ceded. Unless, of course, many get their wish and Putin is deposed domestically, but that seems highly unlikely.
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  4598.  @rogerphelps9939  How so?
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  4599. Nobody has the monopoly on wisdom.
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  4600.  @charlotteruse8718  He was incoherent about the Ukraine invasion and the West's role in provoking it too. You don't have to be a Russian or Putin apologist to see how incongruous his position is there. Point being, I try and separate the issues from the individuals talking about them. Most of what we hear are just opinions. Some more or less infomed than others. Hedges is a hugely accomplished war reporter who can probably talk with far more knowledge about the realities and mechanics of that than anyone else alive. His opinions on the covid jabs are just that. Opinions.
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  4601. Bretton Woods essentially collapsed in all but name at the end of the 60s with the Nixon gold shock.
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  4602. News just in!! (Vulnerable) People can't die twice.
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  4603. With identitarian politics what we're actually seeing is classic divide and rule by, for want of a better word, the 'elites'. Engineered perpetual social, political and economic squabbles amongst the lower orders under the pretense of defending a noble cause is working out rather well for some currently thank you very much.
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  4604. This is why our elites love 💕 identity politics. It's the perfect divide and rule distraction from what really ails us. Social inequality and class.
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  4605. GoFundMe doesn't appear have an actual physical address even for its alleged 'headquarters' in Redwood, CA On closer inspection it just looks like nothing more than a series of Post Office boxes. What gives?
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  4606. The downside of all this is that when something really serious inevitably does come along more people than ever are now going to be automatically suspicious of their governments, their health practitioners, big pharma and their institutions.
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  4607. Bet it's toasty warm 🥵 where she is today....
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  4608. Yeah! And bollocks to buying their LNG. That'll show 'em!!
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  4609.  @bristolrovers27  Stop being picky.
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  4610. Daft comment. The world is full of scumbags and being Jewish has got nothing to do with it.
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  4611. YT censors obviously don't take Sundays off or operate on a skeleton staff....😂
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  4612. Maybe, but he's not the one currently giving Zelensky the right to fire US made and controlled missiles into Russia or to use US made anti-personnel against the advancing Russian military.
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  4613. And now Netanyahu and the Neocons are trying to peddle the 'Iran is just weeks away from making a nuclear bomb' propaganda line à là Iraq WMDs. These people are truly evil.
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  4614. The FBI HQ is still named after Hoover because the organization sucks.
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  4615. Many many thousands of Palestinians died before October 7 at the hands of Israel. Officially over 40,000 Palestinians are now dead in Gaza although the real total is likely far higher. Decade upon decade of Israeli abuses is what precipitated the undeniably horrific events of October 7. Would you like to insist that details of these Palestinian deaths should all be accounted for in the telling of this too?
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  4616. Hester Peirce?? I before E except after P.
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  4617. It is weird how we're constantly being told on the one hand we need more workers regardless because of aging populations and on the other that there won't be enough jobs for people due to AI. One can't help but get the overriding feeling the great unwashed are being played sometimes.
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  4618. Yep. Trump's 'crimes' pale into insignificance next to Biden's.
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  4619. 'Wokeism' is just another way for the so-called liberal elites to undermine the working classes and continue to divide and rule. I'm not at all surprised to see some of those commenting here seeking to defend it refusing to see how insidious it has been, not least those of whom have probably done rather well out it themselves.
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  4620. I DO wish they'd stop calling them 'vaccines'. Jabs, shots maybe. The CDC changed the definition of a 'vaccine' recently in light of the covid outbreak, although the precedent was arguably set by the flu jabs. Still, any jab you have to have at least annually and that affords you if you're lucky 6 months protection and doesn't prevent either contraction or transmission shouldn't really be called 'a vaccine' as, to me, it creates confusion and makes a mockery of a long understood word.
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  4621. You can only ignore reality for so long. You cannot, however, ignore the consequences of reality.
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  4622. AI generated spam internet rando would be my advice.
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  4623. Interesting what Feinstein said about the situation for whites in South Africa since the end of apartheid. The deal done was, in essence, a deal by which the black majority achieved overall political control but the white minority maintained control of the economy.
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  4624. Re the Buckingham Palace exchange: This was a set up. Wicked. Pure and simple. A virtue signalling Nina Myskow is trying to defend the indefensible.
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  4625. Joe looking for an off-ramp.....
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  4626. I can foresee a time when women in British prisons, many of whom are likely themselves already highly vulnerable members of society, will take our government to legal task in the the future over this utterly criminal absurdity. I, for one, given the future evidence presented of course, will likely fully support them in their cause if they do.
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  4627. Watch Adam Curtis' Bitter Lake to get a background on the deep-seated, longstanding, but now seemingly unravelling relationship between the US and KSA.
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  4628. European states can't trust the US, can't trust the EU and can't in most cases trust their own elites. Not a great place to be to be honest.
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  4629. Right Cheerful Charlie this one.
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  4630. Most likely bombed by the US in order to take NS2 bargaining chip permanently off the table for Russia should European support for the war, particularly obviously Germany, start to waver.
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  4631. Biden's an utter disgrace, but I'm still non-plussed as to why Trump is given a complete free pass by his supporters on pushing 'the vaccine'???
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  4632. BoE blinked first. Will the FED be next?
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  4633. What's happening to Assange is a disgrace. Coming from the UK, I love my country but I hate my government.
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  4634. Odd to live in a world that ultimately not only offers Trump and Biden as the only two choices for US President, but also in which Trump looks like the lesser of two evils.
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  4635. Being saying this for years. What were the reasons that led to Trump's rise to power. Those reasons haven't gone away.
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  4636. Agreed. Must be acknowledged.
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  4637. Although many Americans would like to imagine otherwise America is an imperial power much the same as those that have preceded it and will doubtless follow it. That is not meant as a moral judgement, for it is difficult to imagine the world otherwise, but all this 'global peacemaker and policeman BS' is for the birds.
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  4638. Not sure where my reply to you went unless the diabolical YT goblins have been at work or you've substantially edited your original post.
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  4639.  @Sceince01  I've read his history with vaccines, his affiliations, how he made his money and the controversy that follows him from a long way back. Not exactly whiter than white and markedly more successful for his efforts than Dr Campbell humble attempts I suspect. The UK death figures for the under 50s according to official ONS figures simply don't warrant a jab and having one is by no means a risk free enterprise. Frankly it's utter madness if you're young unless you're in a particularly vulnerable extremely small group. There's literally no argument to be had there. This is probably one of the reasons why Denmark has stopped/banned the use of these vaccines in the under 50s now except in unusual circumstances. Although it has been more than a little mealy mouthed about its reasons. Which brings me back to my question to you. Presumably you will be taking these mRNA jabs with each mutation and subsequent iteration?
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  4640.  @Sceince01  Duly noted that you're STILL not answering my question. Your hero Dr Offit doesn't seem keen rather interestingly on the new bivalent 'vaccine' so perhaps you ought to contact him and tell him not to trust in his dumb luck? I believe I first had covid in December 2019 before China announced it officially to the world and long before any jabs came along. I worked throughout all the UK lockdowns and had face to face interactions, due to the nature of my business, with around 60,000 people that year. Feeling pretty confident I'd had it, though I felt lousy for three weeks, it basically held no fear for me after that. You call it 'dumb luck'. Throughout I have kept a pretty close eye on the UK death figures and their breakdowns by age, gender, comorbidities along with the numerous FOIs of our ONS...some of which it answered and some of which it didn't. Taking those statistics regularly and fully into account at no point throughout did I think I was in any great danger from covid. I was also a keen follower of events in Sweden and how they were dealing with covid and looked at how the world dealt with previous flu outbreaks in the early 1950s and late 1960s. What I am painfully aware of currently is the fact that a lot of this narrative is unraveling which is why I mentioned Denmark's recent stance nevermind the current broad rise in excess deaths across the globe and why the Scottish government is currently taking a keen interest in that anomaly occurring there.
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  4641. He did. The US claim was that Russians had been ignoring it for years. I haven't seen much evidence that they had been, so its credibility seems to rest entirely on that US claim.
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  4642. The huge debts incurred during the Vietnam War by the US eventually forced it under Nixon to seek out a new debt based free floating fiat currency model with the USD firmly at its centre. Instead of US gold the world got US paper. Sweet. It was a license to print money and a model conceived in original sin.
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  4643.  @realtalkbilly6878  Yep, sad really, but the world swallowed it wholesale and many still continue to do so. Complete and utter bullsh*t, but bullsh*t that flies.
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  4644. Agree, but we're all allowed a slip.
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  4645. No need.
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  4646. About six months or so into this I remember a healthcare professional being interviewed on Radio 4 about 5 or 6 extremely rare deaths 'with' COVID that had occurred in very young people to date. After admitting that they all had very serious, established co-morbidities he was unwilling to say what those co-morbidities were because they in themselves were so rare that it might enable people to establish the identities of the children by merely stating what those conditions were.
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  4647. Ooh, I know the answer to this one!! Ask the vastly superior AI!!
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  4648. The unvaccinated ARE the control group.
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  4649. Remember, though not unique in the world, the US government and both the country's political parties have officially and legally endorsed the growth of cryptocurrencies. They have effectively been supporting and helping to institutionalise a ponzi scheme for well over a decade. This is a continuing global fraud of epic proportions perpetuated on millions that goes far beyond the FTX collapse
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  4650. Simples. You don't attribute these excess deaths to anything other than the latent effects of having covid itself ideally. In doing so you cheerfully ignore the deleterious effects of the lockdowns themselves and the impact they had on vital diagnoses and healthcare provision and the potential, largely unknown impacts of these untested jabs. Throw in the average age of a covid death of 83 in the UK, still above the average age of death et voilà!! You have a right royal f*ck up.
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  4651. Governments who've allowed for this shameful speculative Ponzi charade to go on for so long from the US to El Salvador to the UK should hang their heads in shame.
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  4652. 😁
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  4653. @IMSiegfried  Bellingcat's and the White Helmets?
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  4654. Ukraine, the 'democracy' that US led Nato is apparently attempting to defend, doesn't currently have a democratically elected leader. Funny that....
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  4655.  @viggoholmsen7203  Being Jens Stoltenberg.
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  4656. Blessed are the peacemakers.
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  4657. Major step in this pushback is to stop calling these jabs 'vaccines'. They are not. Deliberate choice of language is SO important when it comes inculcating people's minds with an idea.
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  4658. Don't tell me. And you also think the Bible was a title deed and God was a real estate agent. Jeez.
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  4659. The main thing is that people like you who once felt differently see and admit to what's going on. It's happening more and more, but this needs to be called out for what it is. An assault. Biden and the Democratic Party are weaponising the judiciary and various US state institutions in order to bring down a political opponent. It's that brutal and that simple. If people don't call this out for what it is then American democracy itself is in peril. These 'good people' professing to protect it are, in fact, those seeking to undermine or even destroy it.
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  4660. No!! They couldn't? They wouldn't? Surely?
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  4661.  @jfb3567  It's a sign of affection really, I'm sure.
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  4662. The so-called wall is a convenient political football in the US much like the NHS is in the UK. Frequently stymied by US politics, in fact Trump ended up replacing much of the deteriorating already existing wall rather than adding to it significantly. That 'wall' was often fencing and was even being contributed to by the sainted Obama and various presidents before that. It continues to be added to by O'Biden today, albeit against his pledge not to do so, thanks to an earlier Trump presidential pledge.
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  4663. Governments hate strong labour markets. Let's get real here.
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  4664. Bet they are. Cat's out the bag and shows quite how much complicity there is, in reality, between these parties. Still no direct claim of responsibility yet you'll notice.
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  4665. Yep. As the old saying goes, 'Anyone who actually wants to become a politician shouldn't be allowed'.
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  4666. 'Free speech luvin' Ron DeSanctimonius finally removes his own mask after all these years. Just in time, I say.
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  4667. This is redolent of that great J K Galbraith quote, 'The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.'
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  4668. My only criticism of this wonderful, thought provoking man is that I'd wish he wasn't wearing short pink shorts and that he'd close his legs.
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  4669. Well, sadly, Matthew Goodwin is dead right here. A small proportion of usually well to do individuals with white saviour complexes and luxury belief systems are disproportionately able to influence our media, social media and institutions and they are, effectively, ceaselessly agitating for the rights of another small proportion to be able to do the same by obsessing about the one thing that makes them different rather than the myriad of things that make them the same as everyone else. These fearless slayers of successive confected imaginary foes are seeking out seemingly ever smaller and smaller minority groups and essentially suggesting a deliberate societal and institutional concerted effort designed to actively discriminate against them when most people have far more serious everyday personal concerns. It seems to be a rather all too successful modus operandi, nevermind a lucrative one in terms of leeching off the public purse. All this does, of course, is help to sow division and resentment in what would otherwise be a relatively harmonious, civilized, equitable if eternally imperfect society so one can't help feeling sometimes that this relatively small 'elite's' intentions are either severely misguided or, worse, downright malign.
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  4670. Keir Starmer needs to watch to this.
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  4671. Unless this ends soon this will end badly for Europe. I see the main beneficiaries as the US and China out of this. Even Russia risks becoming a vassal of China at this rate.
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  4672. It never ceases to amaze me how you can get so many disparate views on a subject from people all of whom seem to know exactly what is going on.
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  4673. Who started it?
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  4674. Not entirely sure about that, but certainly the reasons for the US entering both world wars were certainly nowhere near as altruistic as the historical narrative seeks to portray.
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  4675. The West has, frankly, quite royally f*cked things up.
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  4676. Glad you had a nice long one Kim.
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  4677. Hmmm ... somewheres vs anywheres.... sounds familiar.
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  4678. Fascist. Your go.....
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  4679. 'Left wing' in the middle class metropolitan elite cuckoo New Labour kind of way you mean?
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  4680. All this is just terribly depressing. Some of the 'nicest' people I know are closet or not so closet authoritarians. It's such a weird paradox.
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  4681. Bliar is indeed evil, but not being religious I think he manages it all on his ownsome. I say that. His 'institute' is heavily funded by Oracle owner Larry Ellison and is up to all manner of questionable things.
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  4682. Don't forget Blinken's family links to the super shady press tycoon Robert Maxwell, father of Ghislaine and erstwhile PA to Jeffrey Epstein, who drowned in mysterious circumstances and was given a burial in Israel with full state honours....
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  4683. Israel's immediate bombing of Syria after Assad's fall was predicated on it preventing Assad's 'chemical weapons' falling into Jihadi hands was it not?
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  4684. Funny. I never really realized that thieves, like banksters, were actually adding to GDP and, technically, they are BOTH some of the most productive members of our society.
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  4685. When Lord Byron went to Greece without a passport international travel was very much the exclusive preserve of the wealthy, the highly educated and well connected ie it was a niche endeavour to say the least. Not only that the global population has grown massively since then and so have the means for the masses to travel further, more quickly and more cheaply. The world is much, much smaller for way more people than it was in Byron's time. Love to hear Yanis's views, but he's way off the mark here and his deeply personal comments over Braverman are way beneath his usual level.
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  4686. The US Constitution is there precisely to protect the American people from its government NOT the other way round.
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  4687. Tuscany or Miami most likely.
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  4688. The Salem witch trials obviously occurred amidst a backdrop of religious puritanism but also incredibly harsh existences where people were living under the constant threat of deadly diseases like smallpox and native Indian raids. There's even been a theory that the girls accused were suffering from hallucinations and fits due to a fungus which was common in cereal crops at the time.
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  4689. My thoughts exactly.
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  4690. Energy security is SO key. Not sure if utility privatisations were such a great idea to be honest, particularly if our now non-existent previously world leading nuclear industry is anything to go by, but we are where we are.
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  4691. Trump is indeed the lesser of two evils next to the Democrats' far more effective evil but, naturally, that doesn't give him a free pass either. Particularly on Palestine.
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  4692. Is this, perhaps, what Georgia has to look forward to? Echoes of Maidan and Venezuela? On long US NGO backed Venezuelan opposition leader, Maria Machado, 'Machado’s defense of “democracy” was tested in 2002 when anti-Chavez forces attempted to forcefully remove democratically-elected Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez from office. On April 11th, unidentified snipers stationed on top of Caracas highrises, fired upon pro- and anti-government demonstrators in a pre-orchestrated operation designed to justify a military coup d’état against Venezuela’s Chavez.
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  4693. As ever, whilst the size of the pie is always an important economic consideration, ultimately how it is divided up is the far more important political one. With each successive crisis the rich seem to be getting richer in real terms and the poor poorer. Make of that what you will.
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  4694. With regard to energy the facts are: 1)Fossil fuels will eventually run out whether you believe they are contributing to climate change or not. I personally don't. 2) There will have to be alternatives and renewables make sense, but they're not reliable enough so we'll need a reliable base load if we are to continue on roughly as we are. 3) Most likely candidate for providing said baseload, currently, after fossil fuels have been exhausted is nuclear. 4)There is no one single answer to the world's energy needs going forward and we should be looking at a bespoke mix according to often vastly differing circumstances.
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  4695.  @megashot  And thankfully some of the most vociferous, laudable and erudite critics of this ongoing war crime are those who identify as Jews.
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  4696.  @Frozander  Whatever lofty naive/dubious ideals you or others might want to imbue this whole sh*tshow with, they more or less all became speculative pump and dump vehicles preying on the dumb, the desperate and the greedy, hence the reason why governments' enduring hands off role was by turns baffling and unforgivable.
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  4697. It's about respecting and upholding an established process and the answers it delivers be they right or wrong, NOT about the individual.
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  4698. @Visamar-z1t  You're showing a fundamental contempt for the principle of democracy. Once an enfranchised group gets to redefine it, particularly when it delivers answers they don't like, it ceases to be a democracy.
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  4699. Biden merely called the destruction of the NS pipeline 'an act of sabotage'. Nothing more.....
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  4700. Apparently look for some random person who deals in BTC anywhere on the internet. Guaranteed 👍
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  4701. Bri gave an amazingly well informed extensive rant a few weeks ago regarding labour rights and yet here she is sounding like the dippiest of dipsh*ts about Brand and his demonetisation by YT. I hope Brand gets to sue the @$$ off of YT for this blatant corporate overreach not least because of the legal precedent it will hopefully set for others who might find themselves in similar circumstances in future.
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  4702. Harris as VP was also the constitutional means by which Biden would've been pushed had he not finally 'agreed' to go under pressure from the Democratic kingmakers like the Obamas, Schumer, Pelosi and the Clintons.
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  4703. Aaron's view, certainly on current evidence, seems like by far the most plausible view but I enjoyed the slightly more 'confrontational' approach here. Much more of a dialectic.
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  4704. Certainly gives the lie to the fanciful idea of those who still like to claim that this was anything other than America's war.
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  4705.  @bonniebluebonnet  True. And I find it slightly ironic that his stance on Affirmative Action today is informed by his own elevated social position and personal experience of having a black man servant as a child. He's still definitely by far the better man when it comes to his serious competition though, despite his shortcomings.
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  4706. Ritter nails it again. Of course Israel has the right to exist, but not in its current form. The only reason it can is because of US backing in a Faustian quid pro quo. Not for nothing do all three main US presidential candidates and both US parties continually kowtow to the Israel lobby. The country's existence then, in its current form, is intended as much a useful thorny geopolitical construct in the region by Western interests as much anything else. A miserable status quo built upon the perpetual oppression of the Palestinians and the endlessly stoked fear, hatred and paranoia of everyday Israelis. Hopefully peace will come to the benefit of all to the region one day, but it will be achieved by far better men and women (on all sides) than are clearly in evidence today.
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  4707. Market Guru: 'The current ratio of total market cap over GDP for UK is 106.7%. The recent 20 year high was 139.42%. The US well exceeds this. Yup, this looks like an everything mega-bubble in the US stock market, particularly given the huge public deficit/private surplus. The private surplus, ultimately courtesy of government, is funding much of this equity and asset 'boom'.
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  4708. The bigger the lie the harder it is for most people to believe sadly As Mark Twain once said, 'It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled'.
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  4709. America is moving towards a really dark place.
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  4710. Liam Halligan, whom I've always much admired by the way, gradually moving toward the left in terms of economics.
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  4711.  @yt.damian  National debts in otherwise functioning healthy economies and democracies don't necessarily have to be paid down and nor do surpluses necessarily have to be consistently achieved. They merely need to be responsibily managed.
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  4712. The espoused 'political gap in the market' could be filled by the SDP. Economically left, culturally right.
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  4713. If I were your average Ukrainian ie not one of the country's monied elites that managed to sit out and possibly profit from this entirely avoidable sh*tshow whilst keeping their own precious kids out of it, then my blood would be close to boiling by now.
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  4714. Free speech within the law has to be an inalienable, unnegotiable right and something all right-thinking people have to fight for regardless of the issue at hand. Just because they're not coming for you today, it doesn't mean they won't be coming for you tomorrow.
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  4715. Thank you. That arrogant attitude is a major part of the problem I'm afraid and the reason why we're in this mess.
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  4716.  @kieranoconnor4334  Grow up. Huge demographic differences aside, covid has been mishandled across the globe and some smug apparent Irish MD attempting to turn this into little more than a sectarian p*ssing contest doesn't change that.
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  4717. Oh, but I am. This 'effing moron', as you called me, wants to know two things. The first how a section of the legally ratified and long understood Scotland devolution act designed to prevent the conflict of UK and Scottish law that has been used for only the first time in 25 years can be called English oppression by you and others and, apparently, directly equated with the current situation in Ukraine? And the second being the answer to the first question regarding the Bryson case, a twice convicted rapist, and how his legal ability to declare himself a woman after only three months (whilst awaiting trial) instead of two years and without a medical diagnosis or medical certificate has no deleterious social consequences whatsoever going forward. Perhaps you'd like to indulge this 'effing moron' seeing as you chose to reply to my original comment?
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  4718. Can't believe that the US LNG export to Europe story went uncommented upon by KK there. The US always maintained it wished to break Europe's dependence on Russian oil and stoking a war in Ukraine provided the perfect excuse.
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  4719. To be fair, technically, 'the rebels' were keeping the banks safe from looters....
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  4720. Europe's migrant crisis has been driven in no small part by US/UK/Nato led involvements in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen and parts of Africa. Let's make no bones about that. Syria, in particular, was a relatively stable, diverse, liberal, tolerant albeit authoritarian country until the West spied an opportunity to play an integral role in helping to further destabilize it and exploit internal divisions. That decision alone helped displace over 6m Syrians internally and created over 6m refugees wrecking the country beyond all recognition and causing death and mayhem.
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  4721. Isn't he a Muppet?
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  4722. Yeah. That's her job. Sorry. Was.
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  4723. Oh, do give over.
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  4724. I'm British and Palestine was never in its gift to give to Palestinians, Jews or Plutrons from the planet Tharg.
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  4725. "The 'moderating' force is strong on this thread, Luke"....
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  4726. I agree with most of this but Oborne has, I believe, succumbed to TDS like so many of his virtue signalling peers. Yes, Trump has conducted policies in the past which favour the super rich in the US but he is by no measure anywhere near comparable to the Democratic Party in terms of how much he is in the pockets of big money interests. Say it quietly, but Trump 'gets' blue collar America, he doesn't pursue bloody wars designed to rinse the average American taxpayer and he has far more decency in his little finger than Biden has in his entire body.
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  4727. Covid and our utterly insane response to it, doling out literally hundreds of billions and shutting down the bulk of the economy for months on end was the real game changer here. The Tories are awful, but don't forget that ALL the other parties in the UK and devolved parliaments endorsed this madness with many thinking these Draconian measures had never gone far or fast enough.
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  4728. How do these spam crypto comments stay up when they're repeatedly reported to YouTube?
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  4729. Schoolboy error here by Russians. Should've taken a leaf out the US book on downing cheap Chinese weather balloons. Rather than just dump a few hundred dollars of aviation fuel on this $30m drone all the Russians had to do was fire a $400k missile at it...and then maybe another if the first one missed.
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  4730. Frankie Says 'Yes'!
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  4731. If Cathy Wood of Titanic Investments is still buying then count me in.
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  4732. Who's David Icky?
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  4733. No establishment conspiracy against the likes of Brand and yet Neil brands him an enemy of liberal democracy amongst many others that must all be dealt with.
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  4734. Republicans and Democrats are two wings of the same bird of prey and we know what they're always going to have for lunch.
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  4735.  @MBEG89  Vanishingly small numbers might be, but genetically they are no more an identifiable homogeneous 'race' than whites, blacks, Christians, Buddhists or muslims.
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  4736. JR must've been aware of what he was committing to when he took this job. Knowing this I wouldn't want this on my conscience quite frankly.
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  4737. Reading some of the comments here it's quite clear that this is not even a discussion that should be being had. Only Putin's removal, Russia's abject defeat and Ukraine's victory will suffice. All fair enough, I guess, but if that's the case then people should be aware of the fact that there are and will be consequences for that dualist view. Consequences that they themselves have largely yet to bear and consequences which some posting here may be fortunate enough to be well placed to avoid. The story of the Ukraine since the end of the cold war and NATO's expansion has been well-documented historically and its direction repeatedly warned against and what we are undeniably seeing are 'the fruits' of that. By all means dismiss it out of hand and denounce anyone who chooses to point that out like Varoufakis as an apologist for the horrors happening there, but just be prepared to suffer without complaint the consequences of your own choices and what you are advocating and perhaps be a little more vocal and pro-active when other such atrocities regularly occur elsewhere in the world? Y'know, be a little more morally consistent. Look forward to it.
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  4738. He obviously hasn't seen the 'recent', now 18 months long now, global excess death rates. Could be lockdowns, could be the jabs, could be both, but no one seems to be interested in finding out either way. Even WHO which has just secured a 20% increase in funding now seems to have lost interest in 'saving lives'. Perhaps what we need is Sy Hersh and a time machine?
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  4739. Le Tissier's views echo mine almost exactly whereas I have lost a couple of friendships because of them. He is obviously a far better judge of character than I am unfortunately.
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  4740. Love the music!! FFS don't stop the music!! https://youtu.be/H_GT_2Z4xlU
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  4741. Keat-O!!
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  4742. Well neither do you then unless you're prepared to say.
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  4743. Bit harsh. I'd, nevertheless, be genuinely interested to hear why you think that.
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  4744. ​ @Windband1 I kinda know a bit, but what exactly is wrong with listening to his POV? I certainly didn't agree with everything said there, but what exactly irked you and the original commenter?
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  4745. Jacinta Ardern, curiously, would likely never have mentioned 'her' name.
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  4746. Yet another censored channel on YT. Hurrah.
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  4747. They'll be sticking bloody arrows on the floor next.
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  4748. I will certainly raise a big glass the day that BNet is no more.
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  4749. If she comes across as credible, intelligent and capable enough then who cares about this? She wasn't hurting anyone, it wasn't illegal and she was acting of her own free will. When you look at the vast swathes of complete and utter amoral and immoral sh*ts that predominate in the current political landscape her alleged infractions seem miniscule. Let voters decide, not self-appointed virtue signalling moral guardians.
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  4750. What did you watch? It wasn't what I watched. He was making an aside there and at no point is he dismissive of segregation more generally talking of an apartheid America. He candidly talks of not being fully aware of it as a child, but that's not the same thing. You seem to be suffering from a bad case of presentism.
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  4751. How many of these excess deaths are due to COVID policies rather than COVID itself?
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  4752. The tragedy is that the covid experience has taught very few people anything. You don't have to be an apologist for Putin or the Ukraine invasion in order to see the duplicity and recklessness of the West in relation to Ukraine and provoking this. Basically, the world is black and white, binary, and Putin is the next Hitler and that's all most people care to understand. Putin might be a nasty piece of work, but I sometimes think there's barely a cigarette paper that separates him from many of his posturing Western counterparts I'm afraid.
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  4753. Great guest and Pascal, you're a wonderful fella.
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  4754. ​ @liamweavers9291 It's a piece of 'paper' with no intrinsic value unlike say, gold. It has value because it is decreed by the state to have value and it is thus accepted by everyone as having that face value as a means of exchange for goods and services. It is also the only means by which you can pay your taxes to the state. Money by decree or 'fiat' which, once paid, effectively disappears into the ether. In reality your taxes pay for nothing. What they do do is help curb inflation and help create the space for further money creation.
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  4755. It's not even a vaccine by any previously accepted definition. Little wonder that the CDC recently changed their very definition of what a vaccination has long been considered to be.
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  4756. Great guest. Great interviewer.
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  4757. Presumably you work for the US State Department or UK Foreign Office? Ultimately then it is the 'law' of the jungle then? Makes a mockery of the concept of human 'civilization' then. Our claimed sophistication and morality is ALL a facade? Might even have made more sense in the pre-nuclear age, but in the nuclear age of MAD that mindset is outmoded and, frankly, MADness.
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  4758.  @jonkayl9416  I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, but I won't be getting my hopes too high. Starmer, in my opinion, isn't to be trusted and Labour today is Labour in name only. He's basically long been an establishment shill but, like I said, I am happy to be pleasantly surprised.
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  4759. Spanish Flu killed many young healthy people straight after a worldwide conflagration where these people were trully precious. The average age of a covid death has barely changed from 82.
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  4760. Macmillan might have been an old school patrician doddery Etonian Tory but he saw many of these privatisations for what they were. He called them out at the time as 'selling the family silver' and we're reaping that wild wind today.
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  4761. All hippies are really FoS.
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  4762. Like Murray I hugely admire Louis Theroux, but his latest 'far right exposé' was pretty lame. Following around a bunch of saddoes and LARPers who likely couldn't get laid let alone even fill much more than a 300 seat conference centre whilst attempting to portray them as the next potential mass neo-Nazi wave in the US was just poor and lazy journalism in my book.
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  4763. Self-righteous West weaponises its financialisation in response to Ukraine invasion and then clutches its pearls in horror when Russia retaliates by weaponising its energy....
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  4764. Misogyny definitely plays a part in trans extremism.
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  4765. Harris, despite having no prior democratic endorsement to assume the role, was really the only legally and financially viable option for the Dems so close to November, hence the various minions set to work as best they could. She was, as my nana used to say, 'the last turkey in the shop'.
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  4766. Just been banned from a major US controlled Q and A site I've been using for 8 years for posting stuff, none of it illegal I might add, against this madness.
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  4767. Hey, Jaaa-hn....
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  4768. Hey, it's why we're here.
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  4769. I've just left the SDP as they were and have admitted in writing to shadow banning my YT posts on their thread for years despite making such a song and dance about the importance of free speech. I strongly suspect they're ALL at it.
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  4770. She's gotta brass neck I'll give her that. Her campaign was fined a miserly few thousand dollars in 2022 by the, I think, federal election commission NOT for commissioning the ENTIRELY discredited Steele Dossier that formed the basis for Russiagate but for misrepresenting the payment in their election filing. She and her campaign, effectively, were attempting to overturn the 2016 election result on a proven lie and, effectively, chose to hide it. This should be considered as a treasonous act and she should indeed be locked up for it. Instead she, despite having no mandate, gets to have a hand in removing the current POTUS and annointing his successor with barely a murmur from Democrats OR an entirely complicit MSM. An utter sh*tshow and an affront to democracy.
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  4771. Peter might be a mighty good-looking fella but when he speaks he could warp a plank. He doesn't exactly, 'Chatwell'.
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  4772. The UK and its population, back in the 1980s, decided to base its economy around a rentier class, ever greater wealth concentration, trickle down theory and expanding indebtedness. We are reaping the wild wind we have spent decades sowing.
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  4773. I've started calling anyone who disagrees with or irks me in the slightest 'a Nazi'. Even, on occasion, my cat. Bit extreme maybe, but the word, like the term 'far right', has become so overused and abused now as to become meaningless so I'm doing my small bit to 'take it back'.
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  4774. Freddie's great, but you can't, if what Yanis is claiming is true, say that something is idealistic pie in the sky if there's concrete evidence of it working in practice somewhere.
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  4775.  @softcolly8753  Well it either happened when he worked in the US or he was lying.
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  4776. Like all truly good Christians he redeemed himself at the end.
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  4777. To be fair, and not that I agree with him either, he was taking issue with the delivery here not the mini-budget itself.
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  4778.  @elektrotehnik94  True, but our politicians seem intent in the West in presenting our decisions to our own peoples and the rest of the world as the 'morally correct' ones when, in fact, they are so very often made in our own self-interests to the obvious detriment of others. There seems to be this prevailing mindset in the West then, certainly amongst the populations and its media, that the rest of the world is too backward and/or dumb to see these actions for what they truly are. I have no problem with the idea of realpolitik whatsoever, but what I have come to increasingly resent is the way in which these harsh choices are dressed up in a cloak of morality and respectability by our politicians and media. Our societies, generally, are more open, safe, secure and prosperous than others not least because we have leant to continually exploit and undermine others far weaker and less so outside the blessed fold.
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  4779. Certainly finally gives the lie to the ridiculous claim that the EU was ever 'a peace project'.
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  4780. Sanders in 2016, just as Corbyn was in the UK in 2019, effectively removed by an establishment coup.
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  4781. Well this is all very well, but how am I supposed to let the world know what a good person I am FFS?
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  4782.  @smillner771  D'uh. I suspect I might have a far greater understanding of inflation than you do, but exchange rates also play into the mix. Go and look at how the GBP has fared against the single currency since its inception until now and then come back and tell me it's all because of Brexit.
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  4783.  @smillner771  I don't and I'm sure you won't look either. You're peddling a self-serving well worn narrative and you're darned if you're going look at anything that challenges it.
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  4784. It is, but nuclear was always the way to go in the shorter term. It's a known, proven 'green' technology.
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  4785. 'Offensive deterrence' wouldn't fly as self-defense on the individual level in criminal law so why does it on the international level?
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  4786. Thanks for reminding me....
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  4787. After 7 decades the US is still worried about the nearby island of Cuba's potential nefarious influence upon it, so it doesn't seem entirely unreasonable for the Russians to feel the same way about Ukraine.
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  4788. These elites, if that is an appropriate word, aren't stupid. Pushing NATO previously unpopular membership at a time when by doing so anyone who vocally opposed it would likely be labelled a pro-Russian Putin apologist happy to see Ukraine fall under the authoritarian yoke was a no brainer for them.
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  4789. If Beijing is prepared to even contemplate trawling through the endless vacuous musings of most American teenagers then good luck to them I say.
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  4790. Murray, whom I usually appreciate, is losing his way here. Certainly on this subject. Time for a sabbatical in the quiet room methinks.
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  4791. Manufacture or exaggerate a problem. Propose 'the solution'. Count your ill-gotten gains.
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  4792. Whatever your opinion of them these jabs are NOT vaccines FFS!
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  4793. Happens to be correct. Fact of life. More guns than people in US and most are illegal. Dems also had plenty of opportunities to address, but never have. Bit like the NHS in UK, gun control is American politicians' favourite political football.
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  4794. On the face of it it doesn't look like the triumph, albeit qualified and somewhat muted, that Western media is seeking to portray it as.
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  4795. The first Trump administration rescinded the GoF moratorium initiated under the Obama administration. Also Trump administration initiated the jab program through Operation Warp Speed remember.
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  4796. I can see the argument - desperate times call for desperate measures - but effectively handing over your monetary policy to a far bigger foreign power who will forever base its own monetary decisions purely on its own needs seems more than a little risky and potentially even more destabilizing both economically and politically for Argentina. Out of sync business cycles, surrendering the right of being LOLR, lasting democratic implications, surrendering of seigniorage rights to US. It's effectively Argentina not just outsourcing its central bank but also, in part, its governance in perpetuity. It's a huge gamble no?
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  4797. Yes he will.
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  4798. Though nothing like on the same scale of tragedy, it's not dissimilar to the Grenfell cladding. Slap a load of cheap shiny panels over the unsightly bits et voilà everything looks the part and is good to go until, er, it isn't.
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  4799. Part of me would fear the Donald Trump 2.0 Revenge Tour and part of me would relish it. The sad truth here is that the toxic seeds for this sh*tty showdown were sown by HRC and the Democrats in 2016.
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  4800. China, after the credit crunch/financial collapse of 2008, proved to be the West's Get Out Of Jail Free card. It, through its seemingly endless cheap labour and production, allowed already hyperindebted consumer economies to effectively import 'deflation' at a crucial time. It was, seemingly, the least worst option at the time. Here we are in 2022 with entrenched inflation and China possibly, and I stress possibly, if not in a meltdown then in serious, serious economic/political difficulty....
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  4801. Let's go...Joe.
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  4802. I like Mary Harrington a lot, but her constant references to 'priapic excesses' are very clearly meant to suggest a male power dynamic in which women are ALL somehow fragile paper boats powerless to resist its treacherous overwhelming currents. It is a matter of record that thousands of women make it their business to actively pursue people like Brand with a view to getting a notch in their proverbial bed posts. This isn't automatically always a one way street policed solely by an oppressive male patriarchy as Mary Harrington is disingenuously seeking to imply.
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  4803. I'm still baffled as to why governments pretty much globally are intent on sacrificing their economies on the altar of covid??? I mean, seriously, how do they expect this to pan out?
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  4804. This interview is akin to the parable of the Blind Men and the Elephant. 'The parable of the blind men and an elephant originated in the ancient Indian subcontinent, from where it has been widely diffused. It is a story of a group of blind men who have never come across an elephant before and who learn and imagine what the elephant is like by touching it. Each blind man feels a different part of the elephant's body, but only one part, such as the side or the tusk. They then describe the elephant based on their limited experience and their descriptions of the elephant are different from each other. In some versions, they come to suspect that the other person is dishonest and they come to blows. The moral of the parable is that humans have a tendency to claim absolute truth based on their limited, subjective experience as they ignore other people's limited, subjective experiences which may be equally true.' Wiki 'The elephant' they're referring to has been around for millions of years, not just the last few hundred. One fella gets that here and the other one clearly doesn't.
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  4805. 'It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal' - Henry Kissinger. Something that decades of European leaders have failed to grasp or, perhaps, chosen not to.
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  4806. Why you always Leyen?
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  4807. Karamalalah?
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  4808. The average age of a UK covid death still remains at nearly two years higher than an average UK death. 83 as opposed to 81. 7m on the NHS waiting list (up from 4m pre-covid), at the very least tens of thousands who will die who might otherwise lived, hundreds of billions spunked on furlough and propping up zombie companies, hundreds of thousands of once viable business sent to the wall, millions of kids deprived of the education, usual socialisation behaviour that enforces herd immunity against a range of diseases shut down, millions of predominantly poorer essential workers forced to go to work anyway... This list of shame just goes on and on. 'Saving Lives'? My @rse.
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  4809. ​ @6thhistory Very well said. Don't let them divide and rule.
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  4810. So the West apart from managing to shunt much of its passed its sell by date military hardware out to Ukraine, it has also helped to dispatch the flower of its youth, utterly destroyed parts of the country, likely diminished it in size, destabilised it and saddled it with huge debt and yet the country can apparently still win the war against Russia? As Mearsheimer said in 2014, Ukraine has indeed been led down the primrose path by the West.
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  4811. Around the same number or more want single payer healthcare. They ain't getting that either on current evidence.
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  4812. The UK rebate was specifically referred to in EU accounting terms as 'the UK Correction' and it essentially came about because the UK as was contributing significantly disproportionately to the hugely wasteful, seemingly unreformable after decades Common Agricultural Policy.
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  4813. Trudeau is Canada's Blair just as Blair was the UK's Clinton.
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  4814. Yet another censored channel on YT. Hurrah.
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  4815. Basically it's double down time on the lies ain't it.
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  4816. What does that even mean FFS?
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  4817. Presumably never enough trade there, plus it's the German economy that funds the EU and the German economy that's been sustained for decades now on reliable, cheap Russian energy and a growing Chinese market.....
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  4818. Here in the UK at least, John Anderson's rather fantastic somewhat ominous sounding theme tune has been emulated at the beginning of this piece to advertise a local fish and chip shop.
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  4819. Hilarious. Just had a comment removed 'defining' what constitutes 'hate speech' in the UK. England and Wales, according to UK parliamentary figures, are the 'hate speech' capitals of the world apparently long before this kicked off.
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  4820. Trouble is, largely thanks to its highly ill-advised support for the Ukraine war, a fracturing Europe's just painted itself into a corner and simultaneously has to get its sh*t together without the US just as its economy is stagnating.
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  4821. Weird all of this. US making a huge fuss over an apparently straying weather balloon, but also equally weird that China is making a fuss about it being shot down. Paranoiacs' 101? 'Just because you're paranoid it doesn't mean they're not out to get you.'
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  4822. I urge everyone to read the 1917 Montagu memo published just after the Balfour Declaration. It reflects how many British Jews felt about the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine and how it, effectively, threatened to undermine their own extremely long held places in British society. Zionism was then and remains today a threat to Jews across the globe.
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  4823. Banks will, as a general rule, lend as much as they possibly can against a property not least because they figure as assets on their balance sheets and the interest payments count as profits. Obviously this is usually predicated on the likelihood of the loan being paid back, although 2007/8 saw even this Golden Rule cast to the wild winds. Wild winds we still continue to reap to this day.
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  4824. Tom's lookin' killer in his Elvis suit.😎
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  4825. Agreed. We all have our blind spots I guess, particularly when we're too close to something. Nothing good about JB.
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  4826. The famously endlessly corrupt Ukraine has been duped and used by the West aided and abetted by its own rabid nationalist elements.
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  4827. The EU isn't just 'a rules based organisation' it is a regulating machine. Like a bike, it will fall over if it stops moving.
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  4828. Kennedy was a deeply flawed human individual. That is without a doubt. The crucial point of note here is that despite his myriad of personal and political flaws he still likely saved the world in this instance, by luck or design - albeit in no small part thanks to initiated US belligerence - from annihilation. Should he be lionised or canonised for it? I would argue not given the circumstances around which this situation arose, but were it not for him we likely wouldn't be having this conversation today as we are either.
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  4829. No offence Glen, but I genuinely can't watch these two dreadful women lie so egregiously knowing that they're continuing to get away with it in the eyes of millions of Americans.
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  4830. Doesn't HRC still deny to this day that she was robbed by Trump in 2016? I still remember the street numerous protests by Democrats agitating against that entirely legitimate result. Russiagate was a now entirely debunked conspiracy cooked up by the Dems and perpetuated by a complicit media for years. If Trump is in the dock where are the prosecutions and multiple long overdue mea culpas for that particular vicious little lying sh*tshow? Answer? Nowhere. Disgusting, quite frankly.
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  4831. A tenacious Toto pulls back the curtain and Dorothy, the Lion, the Scarecrow and the Tinman all choose to look away.....
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  4832. My sympathies. Was it emergency surgery or elective? If she was due to go into hospital for cancer surgery why was she pushed down the list in favour of COVID patients? Cancer surgeons and specialists generally don't treat COVID patients and certainly not in operating theatres so why was she left waiting in a corridor on a gurney untreated?
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  4833.  @aalvarezjr0827  Exercise your own personal choice. Good on you.
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  4834. 'America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests' - Henry Kissinger
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  4835.  @deanodebo  YT will not permit my reply. Very sad. Happens a lot now.
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  4836. Look at the USSR. Gerontocracies don't generally end well.
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  4837. It's a little surprise that the Bushes, the Cheneys and the Boltons of this world now seek to align themselves with the Bidens, the Obamas and Clintons of this world. US Deep State neocons all. Two cheeks of the same @rse. Two wings of the same bird of prey.
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  4838. Ooh, ooh I know what a ghetto is. Will Spotify pay me millions of dollars now? 🤑
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  4839. So Nancy Kelly from Stonewall says that women who only like women and who would refuse to sleep with a person with a penis but who identifies as a woman are 'sexually racist'? That truly puts the 'moronic' in oxymoronic.
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  4840. Alex M is 💯 correct. There is NO Left left in the West. By design.
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  4841. X2
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  4842.  @daraorourke5798  Yep. What do you wanna know?
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  4843.  @briancarno8837  Great illustration.
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  4844. FPTP has had its day. It might have made more sense in the past when the two main parties dominated so completely it would have likely made little difference. Today UK politics is far more of a patchwork of views than ever and the supposed internalized coalitions and tacit agreements within the two main parties formed behind closed no doors no longer appear to exist or function. I didn't vote for either, but UKIP getting 3.8m votes and the Greens 1.1m in 2015 and only one seat apiece said it all.
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  4845. If there is a God then Netanyahu is going somewhere mighty warm. Evil man.
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  4846. Bernie should've fought HRC in 2015/16. He didn't.
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  4847. At least you took the time and trouble to listen to it. Anything in particular that you found so outlandish?
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  4848. To be fair, the one thing that Pappe and Blumenthal didn't mention there is assimilate. Easier said than done but genocide and ethnic cleansing were never the only options in first half 20th century Palestine. The state of Israel, essentially, was conceived and came about in original sin ie it was the culmination European anti-Semitism. It was an intrinsically flawed solution to a 19th and 20th century European caused problem.
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  4849. Aspirationally, yes. Without a doubt.
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  4850. Where does the democratic mandate for the two people either side of her telling her what to do come from I wonder?
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  4851. Proof positive the BBC today is FoS.
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  4852.  @lll9409  Ozone or Parazone?
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  4853. Yep. They do that. A lot more in the last two years I'd say.
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  4854. 'Sooth' FFS!!😁
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  4855. Greenspan wasn't right about most things but coining the phrase 'irrational exuberance' is certainly one of them.
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  4856. Cryptos, including BTC, are a plaything of the wealthy at the expense of the poor. Sure, there's inevitably always the odd winner as with any Ponzi scheme, but essentially it's a perennial pump and dump scheme sucking in a constant stream of the unwary and the desperate.
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  4857. The 'French' talking heads were having a laugh there weren't they? Performative nonsense about the UK no longer being seen as an honest broker by the EU over the NIP. One only has to watch Brexit: Behind Closed Doors to see how straight a bat the EU was playing with over NI. Strange how that's been forgotten. BoJo agreed to the NIP in order to fulfill his 2019 manifesto pledge to 'Get Brexit done' having previously been hamstrung by the 'no to no deal' Benn Act. Any politician worth his salt would have had half an eye on Article 16 of that dreadful agreement - an agreement which completely subverts the allegedly sacrosanct 1988 GFA incidentally - as indeed it has undermined trade between NI and mainland GB and is stoking tensions through its over zealous implementation by an EU cheered on by the Irish.
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  4858. A war that was provoked and sustained by the West, in which hundreds of thousands of both Russians and Ukrainians have died, that should never have happened in the first place, to which a solution was rejected by the west and which will now likely lead to a carved up Ukraine. What a sh*tshow.
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  4859. Certainly not its proles that's for sure.
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  4860. Sadly, by and large, governments are agnostic about where they get their revenues from. Many of these companies from oil companies to energy providers to supermarkets ARE profiteering and will inevitably pay higher taxes as a result of their higher profits. Essentially this is pure politics masquerading as market forces at play and our politicians have essentially decided which horse they're backing. A further point to consider is that governments, particularly increasingly indebted ones as many are post-covid having spaffed billions into the economy, welcome inflation as it helps to reduce the burden of the debts they've elected to run up.
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  4861. Not wishing to sound rude, but 'Sarah' is really a fella, yes? Edit: Not going mad. Just Googled him. He's definitely a fella. As you were everyone.
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  4862. Anthropogenic climate change is a scam and a grift. Environmental destruction and overexploitation isn't and nor is the fact that fossil fuels won't last forever. If we're going to have a debate, a genuine, grown up debate, then those are the things we should be talking about.
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  4863. Masayoshi Son Bankman Fried.
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  4864. The bottom line is, wherever you are pretty much, billions have been misappropriated and honest tax paying citizens who chose not to defraud are going to end up paying for it in numerous forms, including through inflation. Governments and state tax authorities likely don't give a sh*t because it'll ultimately have to be paid for anyway, just proportionally less by the people who stole it in the first place. Essentially they've set the precedent and posed the moral hazard should it happen again.
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  4865. I'm amazed that these two have ANY credibility left at all. On the plus side, at least Maitlis doesn't have the blood of hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis on her hands. I would say 'conscience', but Campbell obviously hasn't got one.
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  4866. @mikesmith1485 Glad your similar comment to mine got through. Mine didn't.
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  4867.  @rebelmango2141  The original 1991 Constitution of Ukraine contained within it its commitment to neutrality. "The Ukrainian SSR solemnly declares its intention of becoming a permanently neutral state that does not participate in military blocs and adheres to three nuclear free principles: to accept, to produce and to purchase no nuclear weapons". Its parliament only voted to end its neutrality after the CIA sponsored Maidan coup in 2014 which is particularly odd given its previously stated constitutional aim to remain neutral and how NATO first mooted the prospect of it joining 6 years earlier in its controversial 2008 Bucharest Summit Declaration. 'NATO welcomes Ukraine’s and Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic aspirations for membership in NATO. We agreed today that these countries will become members of NATO. Both nations have made valuable contributions to Alliance operations. We welcome the democratic reforms in Ukraine and Georgia and look forward to free and fair parliamentary elections in Georgia in May. MAP is the next step for Ukraine and Georgia on their direct way to membership. Today we make clear that we support these countries’ applications for MAP. Therefore we will now begin a period of intensive engagement with both at a high political level to address the questions still outstanding pertaining to their MAP applications. We have asked Foreign Ministers to make a first assessment of progress at their December 2008 meeting. Foreign Ministers have the authority to decide on the MAP applications of Ukraine and Georgia'
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  4868. The censors are all out on parade on this thread today.
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  4869. If crypto is supposed to be so secure then why has it gone hand in hand with billions upon billions in fraud to date?
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  4870. In everyday life when the chips are down you find out who your real friends are. In the brutal business that is show that increases by the power of 10. Rightly or wrongly, HW knows there's blood in the water and is now swimming like f*ck to get away before she gets savaged by association.
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  4871. Don't be too hard on yourself.
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  4872. Interesting 'slip' there by Pelosi. "I don't wanna call it aid....our commitment"
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  4873.  @beneytan9440  In current circumstances, bizarrely, Zionist ethno-fascists are able to hide behind the false charge of 'anti-Semitism'. Similar 'jokes' as yours and others, quite rightly might I stress, about gas chambers were and still are rightly condemned. I'll leave that to your own conscience. Tw@t.
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  4874. C'mon, guys. You can say it out loud. You can't teach stupid. 😁
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  4875. Russell Brand, certainly in the past, was an unreconstructed, frequently appallingly behaved d!ck and I suspect he would freely admit that now. Sachsgate was a real nadir and is something that should haunt him and 'Wossy' to their graves. At least Brand had the vague excuse of addiction there, unlike Ross. That said, there seems to be this bizarre refusal to understand that literally thousands of young women in his less than glorious heyday were literally throwing themselves at him on a daily basis. They weren't his victims. They weren't mindless automatons. They weren't cynically manipulated idiots. They were, and let's be brutally honest and grown up here, after a sh@g and, ideally, a relationship with the openly admitted sex addict and bad boy Russell Brand. They weren't after his autograph or a cosy fireside chat FFS. They were after a piece of the man and he inevitably duly obliged. Yes, it's sordid, but all those pearl clutchers out there feigning shock and disgust that he should apparently be taking advantage of these supposedly sweet innocent souls either need to grow up or ask themselves what it is that's truly motivating their animus.
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  4876. Bombshell!! The creative industry is full of narcissistic, spineless, vacuous, self serving, virtue signalling, money grabbing sh*ts.
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  4877. Gacks ga way coo goo it!!
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  4878. "Here's Johnny!"
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  4879. The BBC covered the WSJ Gershkowitz angle I think.Talking to his boss. Nowhere was this mentioned surprise surprise.
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  4880. China is the master of the long game.
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  4881. So had they voted for Harris it would've been different?
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  4882.  @topdoted  So the alternative was to?
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  4883. The Guardian long ago became a busted flush.
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  4884. So all those burnt out vehicles randomly strewn along the road facing towards Gaza were attacked by Hamas?
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  4885. Amidst the backdrop of Western sanctions and what is quite plainly 'a war', it makes me laugh deeply darkly when I hear Western media throwing their hands in horror that Russia is retaliating accordingly using energy and food as a weapon of war.
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  4886. In recent months it's becoming more apparent that YT is clamping down on sites like these and their below line comments...hmmm.
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  4887. That's why, like sh*t, he won't rise to the top sadly.
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  4888.  @lisalph8922  I only did a cursory search, but that sure as hell is weird ain't it? Glad you couldn't either. Nothing, nada not a sausage. Just close ups and pictures with mountains behind which, as Moore points out, have no business being in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Happy to be corrected, but whether you're a climate sceptic or not, it's quite clear that people seriously need to stop automatically believing what they're told all the time.
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  4889. Doesn't President Biden's clear abuse and weaponisation of the justice system in pursuit of his main political opponent not amount to treason or criminal abuse in office?
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  4890. A lot of people who frankly couldn't afford to borrowed large sums of fiat money to buy the many thousands of cryptos on offer over the lockdown. Crypto is a Ponzi scheme proper and relied upon the principle of the next greater fool. Many of these 'fools' were driven as much by desperation as greed though I suspect and this is an unfolding story. For me what governments around the world were doing allowing this to happen is the real moral question at the heart of this.
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  4891. 100% agree!! We need more independent thinking.
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  4892. In the UK media the Russian invasion of Ukraine is constantly referred to as 'Putin's full scale invasion of Ukraine' even after 3 years. Why would this bear endless repetition I wonder?
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  4893. Room service? Nothing compared to the US allowing Netanyahu to act with utter impunity as he made the photographed call ordering the extra-judicial assassination of the Hezbollah leader Nasrallah from his NY hotel room.
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  4894. Always very entertaining, but I never really understand what he's talking about.
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  4895. No disrespect to the fella but I've yet to hear a decent definition anywhere of what the Metaverse will be.
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  4896. And if you watch CNN, you're disinformed.
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  4897. No. Whoever is pulling Kamala Harris's strings and was pullIng Biden's up until they decided to get rid of him will be your next president.
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  4898.  @HelenA-fd8vl  Of course they don't. They can't possibly. As PH puts it though, 'giving a man a Mercedes doesn't suddenly make him a democrat'. The one thing I would say is that Bill Clinton got many, many things wrong but by the time they manifested themselves he was long gone. Sowing the seeds of the subprime crisis and letting China into the WTO were the real biggies there and two things which, I believe, are now inextricably linked and we are now enduring the consequences of.
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  4899. Great conversation, but he doesn't answer the last question.....
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  4900. Don't know what you're missing here.
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  4901. America: The richest poor country in the world.
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  4902. Lovely to see Pascal even more animated than usual.
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  4903. I agree that that appears to be the outcome.
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  4904. As the popular saying goes he said the quiet part out loud. Ultimately, the First Amendment protects the American people from their governments getting too big for their boots. Largely thanks to the internet establishments are losing control of the central narrative, they know it and they are now lashing out.
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  4905. I think he says in the interview why he couldn't speak out. He also has a career and professional reputation to protect whether you like him or not. Going to ITV bosses with then unsubstantiated rumours would not have been a good look.
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  4906. Capitalism, or least what we choose to call 'capitalism', demonstrably creates monopolies and destroys competition. These monopolies then have the accrued power and wealth to completely capture our body politics and nominally democratic systems. To paraphrase Mussolini, fascism is defined as when the interests of the state and its government can barely be separated from the interests of the corporations by a cigarette paper. Are we on a slippery slope or are we already far too far down it I wonder?
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  4907. China been buying Russia's heavily discounted oil embargoed by West since this began. These sanctions are a massive act of self harm by the West. Inflation we're currently seeing is primarily due to those insane covid measures without the Russian invasion properly factored in yet.
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  4908. If you're buying in USD now's probably a great time to buy one.
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  4909. The BIG STILL unanswered question is why EXACTLY the world's MSM pretty much ALL suddenly got behind the previously sidelined by the Dems as an abject embarrassment Harris from the get go? Barely ANY questions asked. In the UK the big broadcasters' universal sycophancy was truly nauseating.
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  4910. I'm amazed that Melinda Gates wants anything more to do with this. Perhaps I'm naive, but she seems like a pretty decent person to me whereas Bill is about the closest thing we're going to get to the Devil incarnate.
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  4911. It's ironic that ascendent countries like China are actually embodying what was once proudly considered the American Dream in America. Constantly striving to improve their lot through ingenuity, tenacity and sheer hard work. America and others in the West see this, fear it and endeavour to stifle it not least because through their own increasingly neo-feudal technocratic systems 'the plebs' feel less and less invested in and more alienated from their own societies.
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  4912. Brexit tropetastic!! Naughty, naughty dishonest piece this. If anyone is genuinely interested, look at the growth (and inflation) figures for EU member countries' economies and focus primarily on those comparable to the UK ie Germany, Italy, France and Germany. Very little between them ie they're all pretty poor and very little separates them. I think I'll struggle to ever take this channel seriously anymore after this hatchet job.
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  4913. Elon Musk is half huge c*ck and half huge brain....
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  4914. Didn't AOC just vote to send billions more US 'aid' to Ukraine? Most of which will just feed the US MICC. At least we know for certain that most of those US politicians who voted it through are corrupt self-serving war mongering sh*ts, but in many ways she's worse as she pretends to be something she clearly isn't.
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  4915. It wasn't just in the US that the Harris juggernaut was orchestrated and peddled by MSM. It happened ALL over the Western world.
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  4916. Doesn't matter whom you vote for, the government always wins.
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  4917. DeBeers keeps its profits up by strictly regulating supply. Release it all in one go and their value would drop like a stone...pardon the pun.
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  4918. The Smolensk air disaster was a human error accident that occurred in thick fog no?
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  4919. They're ALL war criminals.
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  4920. ​ @User-r5g5f Biden had more of a run up.
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  4921.  @rosemaryspiota9836  Check out the Blinken/Maxwell connection.
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  4922.  @PhillipUranus  Yeah, weirdly I think he's the kinda guy that doesn't enjoy America starting new wars. You're just obviously not on the same page.
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  4923. The big takeaway from this UK General Election was the turnout. One of the if not the lowest since the end of WW2. THAT'S what should be concerning our political masters and all of us more generally.
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  4924. Yep. Just looked. Plenty of his books in UK are though. Amazon are utter scumbags.
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  4925. The point Peterson makes about us all having our inner Hitlers is a profound one. This was why covid and the often hysterical global reaction to it has been so scary, nevermind the undeniable, if relatively narrow threat of the virus itself. It so obviously instantly appealed to the authoritarian streak in hundreds of millions of people. Nazism wasn't an anomaly or something unique to the psyche of Germans I'm afraid.
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  4926. Germany, along with France, and to their credit have been trying to avoid all this sh*t for years through the, yes imperfect, Minsk Accords. Yes, Germany shouldn't have staked its stratospheric economic growth on forever cheap Russian energy, but that largely misses the point. The records long show that the US, I'm afraid, has long helped to stoke this conflict and that should be duly noted.
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  4927. At least we can all tell our grandchildren that we were ALL there when nuance and the ability to contextualise died.
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  4928. Superman's was Kryptonite and Ms Terry's was sushi.
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  4929. Liam hits the nail on the head here. The 'I'm alright Jack' people who might go 'ballistic' over more targeted state pension funding labour under the misunderstanding that they paid into a pot. They didn't. End of. It's paid for by today's working population so suck it up and let that sink in.
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  4930. I'm genuinely interested and I know someone personally who would agree with you, but what exactly is he saying that is 'sus'?
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  4931. People need to wake up to the idea that Judaism and Zionism are NOT the same thing and FAST. Judaism is a peaceful world religion. Zionism is an ethno-nationalist ideology. This constant disingenuous conflation of Zionism and being Jewish gets to the very heart of this problem and helps to feed the growing monster of anti-Semitism. Mr Netanyahu, a self-proclaimed secular Jew, and his kind are potentially imperilling Jews across the world with their vile rhetoric and actions.
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  4932. Lies, damned lies and statistics. Economics isn't a science and it's often just heavily politicised number wanging in order to try and propagate a narrative in the hope it will seed. Those earlier IMF figures were no different as evidenced by the unbridled glee with which Remainer-types pounced upon them at the time. 'Look, see...the numbers NEVER lie!!' Well, they obviously do. They're more than a little sheepish now about these revised figures, obviously. Still, that said, the UK is undoubtedly heading towards a recession, but that has sweet FA to do with it not being a member of the EU any longer.
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  4933. The Western media disease is this style of aggressive interview. More heat than light.
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  4934. Trump running with RFK jr as his VP. Might seem utterly impossible at the moment, but it looks to me to be the best way to crack the tough US electoral nut. The DNC will try and eviscerate RFK at some point and hopefully he'll be so narked he'll finally cut their poisonous umbilical cord. If Biden reaches the point that he's literally soiling himself live on stage by 2024 then perhaps we'll see a Newsome coronation from the Democrats?
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  4935. When it comes to reverse racism the CRT crowd have already got this well and truly covered I'm afraid. Black people CAN'T be racist toward white people because they don't have 'white privilege'. It's a one way street, so suck it up buttercup.
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  4936. I gave this lady the benefit of the doubt I'm ashamed to say, but it now appears that there was malice aforethought on her part in setting up this poor woman for a fall. Shame on me, shame on her and shame on anyone who still gives this woman any credibility.
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  4937. Very entertaining, super confident, but one can't help feeling he's talking a good game here rather than actually playing one. His mouth says one thing, but his armpits say another.
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  4938. Sean Foo is no shaun fool.
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  4939. Cometh the hour, cometh the man. Tragically Ian Duncan Smith's watch was set a decade or so too fast.
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  4940. Kamala has no connection with a brain let alone Gen Z.😂
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  4941. You can certainly see why people believe in lizard people and illuminati after watching this sh*tshow unfold. These 'people' will not only argue black is white, they'll argue it having previously unequivocally declared the complete opposite.
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  4942. One can't help feeling that the SNP leadership have been cynically engaged in a don't look there look over here tactic since both the 2014 referendum and the 2016 Brexit referendum. Nationalism is without doubt the most potent political force out there and has been (ab)used to great effect by the SNP for years now it seems.
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  4943. Is this what they call, 'talking up his book'?
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  4944. ​ @richardgallagher4880 You obviously know me better than I know myself.
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  4945. The ultimate key to making money is controlling the market for a perceived necessity and promoting the notion of scarcity. Money IS debt and mortgages are the biggest creators of debt. The state effectively has a monopoly on property. Work it out.
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  4946. Meanwhile KSA is steadily buying increasing amounts of discounted Russian oil over its peak summer period and selling its own on the world markets for the far higher price. What an absolute f*ck up.
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  4947. Ding, ding, ding....Round 2.....
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  4948. Not a popular point to make, but 100% correct. We in the West are the aggressors and anyone who's spent any time looking into it instead of listening to the propaganda drivel we're constantly fed knows that.
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  4949. 'Politics is just showbusiness for ugly people' Ardern and Trudeau's apparent abundance of empathy and relative photogenics only goes to show how susceptible we all can be to falling prey to our basest of human instincts. A healthy dose of cynicism and checking in with our brains a little more often instead of our hearts can only be a good thing. Hopefully a lesson learnt for all those more inclined to bleeding hearts out there who now see these dreadful people for what they are.
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  4950. Well said. The only thing I would add to that is that Putin - and I'm never sure if he was entirely serious or not - offered to join Nato back in the early Noughties. Initially greeted positively by the US, at least publicly, they then went away and thought about it and the answer was a big fat no. For obvious reasons.
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  4951. Paradoxically, thanks to its provoked war in Ukraine, US led NATO has proven to be a dangerous self defeating paper tiger for Europe.
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  4952. Technically, although arguably not practically as no European countries really were, Franco's Spain (as well as dictator Salazar's Portugal) was a neutral country in WW2. Neutral Sweden provided Hitler's war machine with vital iron ore and ball bearings for example and neutral Ireland havered between supporting both the British war effort and the Nazis for its own political reasons. In terms of Western hypocrisy regarding defending and exporting the liberal democratic ideal one need look no further than its attitude to countries like Saudi Arabia over the decades. A hard and fast principle it is not. Basically, it's the ideal form of governance except where it isn't and doesn't suit.
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  4953. Agree with much of what Murray says most of the time, but he's way out of line here and shows a wilful ignorance of the situation in Israel/Palestine.
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  4954. Great dissection.
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  4955. So if we accept we're on the edge of a carbon induced precipice why aren't we all stopping what we're doing? Sure, I hear people envangelising, but I don't really see much in the way of actual positive action. No cancelled foreign holidays or big purchases. Nothing really. Just a lot of 'for thee and not for me' going on, but little else.
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  4956.  @enderwiggin1113  Well, yeah and that's the point. I'm rather cynical about all this truth be told, but that's irrelevant. All I hear is lots of 'the end is nigh' gnashers and wailers - a good many likely commenting on this thread - saying 'why don't we do something it's one minute to midnight' and yet I'll bet my life that most of them are actually just chin stroking and doing bugger all about it in real terms. Buying something like an electric car is not 'green' FFS. NOT buying an electric car is a darn sight greener but far less conspicuous, but hardly anyone will do that. If you buy into the narrative, endless consumption is the real problem here, but as far as I can see no one really has any intention of curtailing that established habit anytime soon.
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  4957.  @enderwiggin1113  Chance I'll have to take, but I see very little evidence going on a around me. Even had to listen to an (very nice) Australian bemoaning how Australian politicians weren't doing anything in terms of ACC about terrible bushfires after he'd just flown all the way to the UK, then planned flying to Ireland, back to the UK again and then back to Australia. Not his only foreign trip that year either I might add. Still, as an example to others on here, what steps are you taking and seeing others take?
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  4958.  @enderwiggin1113  I suspect you're doing way more than most and certainly way more than literally anyone I know. And I meet and talk to a lot of people in my job. I hereby grant you a licence to preach to others with a reasonably clear conscience about climate change. Believe me, you're the first and there isn't a queue forming.
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  4959.  @enderwiggin1113  No UK.
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  4960.  @enderwiggin1113  Sure, thanks. Maybe I just know more people who like to throw it into conversation with little real intention of doing anything about it. The big issue really is people changing their habits and being willing to change their habits. That I am not seeing. Just lots of jabbering and talking about the undeniable science. Relatively easy stuff if you think an apocalypse is imminent like consuming far less, making stuff last longer, making stuff that's repairable at an affordable price, insulating your home, reusing your bath and shower water in the garden, massive national investment in public transport infrastructure, shared car ownership, eating less meat, stopping flying and all long distance travel, zoom meetings, working from home instead of commuting to offices, the list goes on.
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  4961. Sweden's property market is particularly vulnerable to current interest rate rises because fewer people own their homes there, half of the housing market is mortgaged (more than elsewhere), more of it is on variable rates (than elsewhere) and household debt levels are extremely high. Not for nothing did its Central Bank Governor say he was sitting on a volcano 🌋.
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  4962. 'We make our own monsters, then fear them for what they show us about ourselves'
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  4963.  @ryanwalters6184  Russia has, by default, elected to pivot towards China and the RoW and away from the West because of this invasion. Even before it it was sometimes referred to as China's gas station. This does indeed render it a quasi-vassal of China, but it in no way changes the view that Russia cannot afford to and will not lose this war. Its military doctrine allows for a preemptive nuclear strike if it feels its sovereignty is threatened and/or it feels it is losing a conventional exchange that might prove existential. Now I'm sure that China does indeed hold immense sway over the Russians at the moment, but if either of those criteria mentioned above look like they're being met then China's current influence would become moot.
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  4964. Tease.
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  4965. The private jet?
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  4966. Everyone knows that one has to escalate in order to de-escalate. Israel showed us that.
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  4967. The US is a mafia state as matter of policy. It has, essentially, been running a global protection racket since the end of the Second World War and it went up a considerable notch when the USSR collapsed. As long as each countries' elites keep paying their pre-agreed tribute and toeing their line then the US will do its best to ensure nothing 'bad' happens to them. Only with the ascendency of China and the more recent freezing out of Russia since Ukraine has its near complete global dominance been seriously threatened.
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  4968. The man who literally gets richer the more he tries to give away you mean? He's far more into farming and pharming nowadays.
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  4969. Fifty people earning and spending $20k in an economy and society is far more useful than one single millionaire. End of.
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  4970. Interesting insights here, but I found this a little incoherent.
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  4971. The two most obvious common factors in this in terms of all the shown countries are lockdowns and the jabs. According to the most recent OECD figures on the 5 year average excess death rates, the UK is running at 10%, NZ and Australia at 7% and Sweden, which largely avoided lockdowns altogether, is running at just above 3%.
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  4972. How is that site allowed to publish such hate-filled material in this country by law? That's not opinion that's very obviously incitement to violence and those, we are told, are some of the tamer examples. According to the Met, 'Hate content may include: messages calling for violence against a specific person or group'. Now THAT bile seriously does qualify as an actual hate crime, so why isn't anything being done about it both in terms of the website and the individuals who posted them?
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  4973.  @jjefferyworboys8138  The vulnerable groups were clearly identifiable and identified after the first wave. Children weren't dying and hardly was anyone under 75 unless they had those certain comorbidities. Unlike now when the UK excess death rate is 10% and includes much younger people than during covid. A pattern which is reflected across other European countries, but not Sweden.
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  4974. RFK jr knows his stuff on vaccines but, unlike Blumenthal, he demonstrably knows next to f*ck all about the Israel/Palestine situation. Blumenthal would annihilate him. Problem is, just like ALL the serious US Presidential contenders Kennedy knows what side his bagel is buttered on.
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  4975. Along with the blanket immunity issue which it wouldn't grant, I suspect another reason why the Indian government wouldn't let Pfizer or Moderna in was that it was developing its own vaccines as well as an mRNA jab that didn't need to be kept at such low temperatures. Tough in such a warm country.
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  4976. Glen, you're being far too kind. Megyn Kelly clearly ain't that smart.
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  4977. People who cynically lob the claim of anti-Semitism about without care, much like that of racism, ultimately demean the term, its history and those who were and are genuine victims of it.
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  4978. 'I really like his wife Casey (Desantis)'. Those Kennedy boys are still incorrigible.
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  4979. Not what he meant at the time obviously, but Fukuyama's 'End of history' quote regarding the collapse of the Soviet Union is looking more correct by the day....
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  4980. Nope. Too simplistic. The Western powers are though.
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  4981.  @gooniesmoonies4606  Wisdom has got nothing to do with it. I only deal in facts.
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  4982.  @gooniesmoonies4606  The brutal truth is is that a new Israel in Palestine was a solution to a problem essentially created by the Western powers at the time, including Russia. Antisemitism was on the march across the already deeply divided European continent in the early 20th Century, particularly in places like Germany and Russia, and many European Jews were looking for an escape route. America, the UK and others were reluctant to take in more Jews than they already had in any great numbers and Mandated Palestine, a recent spoil of the First World War and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, seemed to be the best way to fulfil the brief and minimise the problem. Domestically, at least. A narrative helped along considerably by Judaism's strong historical connections with Palestine, although there were no significant numbers of Jews in Palestine until the late 1920s. Israel, of course, has subsequently gone on to flourish, but it couldn't ever have done so without continued Western support. The US, I believe, was quite late to the party when it came to supporting Israel as the penny slowly dropped there some time after WW2 quite how useful a friendly outpost could be in a restive oil rich region often largely hostile to America's interests.
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  4983.  @gooniesmoonies4606  The brutal truth is is that a new Israel in Palestine was a solution to a problem essentially created by the Western powers at the time, including Russia. Antisemitism was on the march across the already deeply divided European continent in the early 20th Century, particularly in places like Germany and Russia, and many European Jews were looking for an escape route. America, the UK and others were reluctant to take in more Jews than they already had in any great numbers and Mandated Palestine, a recent spoil of the First World War and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, seemed to be the best way to fulfil the brief and minimise the problem. Domestically, at least. A narrative helped along considerably by Judaism's strong historical connections with Palestine, although there were no significant numbers of Jews in Palestine until the late 1920s. Israel, of course, has subsequently gone on to flourish, but it couldn't ever have done so without continued Western support. The US, I believe, was quite late to the party when it came to supporting Israel as the penny slowly dropped there some time after WW2 quite how useful a friendly outpost could be in a restive oil rich region often largely hostile to America's interests.
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  4984.  @gooniesmoonies4606  YT algo will not permit me to share unfortunately despite attempting twice.
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  4985. The remains of Jeffrey Epstein were laid to rest beside his parents Pauline and Seymour Epstein at IJ Morris Star of David Cemetery in Loxahatchee, Florida, allegedly.
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  4986. Another problem that most of the world wasn't yet aware of that America can miraculously provide a highly profitable solution to.....
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  4987. 'Europe will be forged in crises' Yay!! Who votes for even more not less EU? Not that you can vote really....
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  4988. Huh? So the Kremlin can't be trusted to handle nuclear weapons, but the Kremlin is still currently in charge of them. Forty five percent of the world's entire nuclear arsenal in fact. In your 'dynamic future' this might well change, but the world is currently faced with today's reality not what you fondly imagine it to be one day.
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  4989. Good of you to do this.
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  4990. Bingo. Which is why governments want to crush these alternative sites which actually provide REAL, if inconvenient news.
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  4991. Fascinating discussion. Also worth taking away from that that if somewhere so relatively small as the Netherlands is second only to the US as the world's biggest food exporter then the UK has the potential to do the same if the political will and expertise is there....best get a wiggle on, eh.
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  4992. Obama's 2015 Executive Order was most likely predicated on continued US efforts to destabilise the country resulting in more Venezuelan immigrants expected to arrive at the US Southern border. A good many European immigration problems are the direct result of US-led foreign policy decisions designed to destabilise otherwise relatively stable countries. Seriously you could make this sh*t up.
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  4993. Like it or not, Germany bank rolls the European Project so anyone with skin in that particular game better hope that whatever ails it is short lasting.
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  4994. Agreed.
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  4995.  @samanthaerasmus7530  Staged by whom?
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  4996. Don't normally ever switch these guys off, but I have on this occasion.
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  4997. Call me an old cynic, but this lady knows her stuff. Campbell, like the seasoned, consumate media professional he supposedly is and though he purported to not have barely heard of her, seems to have adopted a tactic deliberately deployed to squash any meaningful debate with her. Hmmmm...
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  4998. Isn't it weird how most people seem to be entirely accepting of blatant corruption and egregious self-serving abuses of power in public office and yet they fixate on the inevitable human flaws and imperfections of incredibly rare and brave individuals like Assange and Snowdon who make it their business to expose this stuff against their own self-interest?
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  4999. And the BBC's man on the ground reporting on months of ongoing Israeli atrocities in Gaza is???? Trick question, obviously.
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  5000. Failing to prevent Boris Johnson from becoming PM and a hard Brexit were not in his job description, nevermind an ambition when he became a politician. Lots of false modesty here akin to 'my biggest fault is I'm a perfectionist'.
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  5001. What difference does it make, if any, that most of the Japan's debt is owned by its own people rather than by foreigners?
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  5002. What's in a name? Alphabet agency NGOs like NED just do what the CIA used to do. They've admitted it themselves FFS.
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  5003. Nevermind the US Constitution, actively preventing the sharing of accurate information regarding covid jabs (they shouldn't really be referred to as vaccinations as they are here) on the basis that it might inhibit their uptake is a blatant violation of the fundamental principle of informed consent enshrined in the Nuremberg Code regarding human experimentation.
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  5004. Not that I agree with her, but Truss was upfront about her policies before she became leader. There seems to be a serious disconnect here then between the Tory Party membership and parliamentary Tory Party. Not only that, but nor did she have a parliamentary mandate or electoral mandate for what she was proposing.
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  5005. The Guardian was a lost cause years ago.
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  5006. Like the rest of us? Desperately clutching at straws.
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  5007. 'Weapons that don't work created to counter threats that don't exist' Love that. Takes me back to Reagan's great Cold War Star Wars bluff.
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  5008. Therein lies the rub.
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  5009. BTC is BS. It's a globalist establishment backed Ponzi scheme. Like 'the House' they are weather makers, take their 20% regardless and don't give a sh*t whether 'the next greater fools' win or lose.
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  5010. All women are different, but all men are apparently pretty much the same according to Cathy Newman here.
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  5011. Granted in very simple accounting terms, but the public debt is equal to the EXACT penny or cent of the private surplus. Think about that for a minute and then wonder in whose hands the bulk of that private surplus rests. Collectively we are ALL to a greater or lesser extent responsible for the interest bearing public debt but we don't ALL get to benefit from the interest bearing surplus. Much, but certainly not all, wealth is 'earned' by a relatively tiny number in their sleep ie with little to no effort or risk. Something to reflect on...
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  5012. This is a classic propaganda trick that's been used for centuries by numerous powers in order to drum up support for their own future atrocities. YouTube, in its infinite wisdom, will not allow me to name it and never has despite repeated efforts, but it's clearly done its job and allowed for Israel to act (with permanent US backing) with utter impunity for EXACTLY a year as of today....
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  5013. Increasingly the Left has become the Right and vice versa.
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  5014. ' Meta-experts' invariably are, somewhere along the line, pipers who are paid handsomely to play the note perfect requested tune.
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  5015. You're welcome to express your own opinions just so long as they don't deviate too much from mine basically.
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  5016. Like so many of these things, people don't like to admit they fell for them. Even when public admissions eventually come to light - like the CIA 'reluctantly' admitting recently that C19 likely came from the Wuhan lab doing US sponsored Gain of Function research or the HRC campaign being fined a derisory amount by the FEC for paying for and not declaring its role in commissioning the Steele Dossier - they are deliberately barely reported on.
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  5017. Has Fraser got COVID again?
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  5018. ACAS sounds like it's been infiltrated. It needs root and branch reform AKA a good pull through with a Christmas tree.
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  5019. That WAS a good impression.
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  5020. Easter Bunny definitely wasn't Biden. It knew how to exit that small stage.
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  5021. We all come into this world with nothing and leave it with nothing.
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  5022. Chilling.
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  5023. Yep. Superbright and rather easy on the eye too. Wot's not to like?
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  5024. They'll just gradually tax the old fashioned normally aspirated, non-hybrid vehicles out of existence sadly. Remember. The House always wins.
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  5025. Germany is currently an abject example of why you don't really want the Green Party too close to the levers of power either. Predominantly, though obviously not exclusively, well off people with luxury values whose primary interest is not the plight of the working classes. That said, the DNC pursued them so voraciously and at great cost to keep them of the ballot because they believed it would eat into THEIR vote not the GOP's.
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  5026. I sense more and more of us are red pilling.
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  5027. Worst thing is is that these people all think they're SO clever when in fact they're just relying on exploiting the majority's ignorance and blind trust in order to achieve their wicked aims.
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  5028. A POI for those who might be interested. The average annualized return on the S&P 500(or equivalent) for the last 150 years adjusted for inflation and excluding dividends is a whisker under 2.4%. Over both 100 and 50 years it's around 3.2%, over 30 it's just over 5%, over 20 it's 4.9%, over 10 it's 8% and over the last 5 it's 4.5%.
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  5029. Unless you plan to vote positively in the next election ie FOR a party and manifesto you broadly believe in rather than AGAINST another, then I think people shouldn't vote at all this time round. Personal choice obviously, but a mass abstention is the thing most likely to send a message to our political classes that enough is enough. A Labour government is highly likely next time round anyway so rather than give it a landslide because you understandably have nothing but contempt for the Tories just stay at home or failing that, if you must, just draw a willy on your ballot paper. Failing that, if you have the option, vote for the SDP.
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  5030. Much of that is what Trump would call 'alternative facts' there.
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  5031. Can't stand any of those 3 dreadful men, but that looked heavily like a piece of Russian propaganda to me.
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  5032. ​ @lorilea3188 On this all too rare occasion I think they are correct.
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  5033.  @Drummo-ef6kx  Bless you. You may not be aware but people can't 'grow a brain'. That you happen to disagree with me is fine, the fact that you're incapable of sensibly or respectfully articulating it says more about you than it does me I'm afraid.
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  5034. I agree with Yanis on many, many things, but ACC ain't one of them.
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  5035.  @jglammi  I'm sure you are.
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  5036. Trompe l'oeil behind not enough for ya?
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  5037. Can anyone point me to the Ukrainian denials over this signed document?
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  5038. I've just looked into this, not at great length I hasten to add, but it looks like you and your dear old grandma are correct. Extraordinary, but like I always say 'fake news' is hardly a recent invention.
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  5039. Sounds awful, but after half an hour I think I'm gonna pass on this one.
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  5040. What a daft comment.
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  5041. Great summary there, Glenn.
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  5042. Looks like they did.
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  5043. Biden doesn't know if it's strawberry jam or Tuesday FFS. Calling for regime change in Russia is a truly idiotic, provocative act. Little wonder the WH is rowing back on it.
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  5044. Yet more oppression Olympics so think I'll pass. I have no issue with people subjectively identifying culturally as something like being Jewish, Muslim or Christian etc, but it's this long established and accepted insistence that 'Jews' or 'blacks' are somehow racially homogeneous groups that not only defies reason, it also creates way more problems than it solves.
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  5045. Just doing their jobs and just obeying orders.... familiar....
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  5046. Assisted dying, much like incarceration, funerals, healthcare, cancer and palliative care etc would simply become monetized like everything else, so what's with all the pearl clutching?
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  5047. And yet, ironically, my balanced comment made two hours ago has just been censored I notice. This I can only assume is by YT not Kim's own moderators I hope?
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  5048. Political lobbying is blatant corruption of the political system occuring in plain sight. The big problem as I see it is that most people think it's ok just so long as the donations go to their team.
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  5049. The NIP was a betrayal of the 1998 GFA and the fundamental Principle of Consent contained within.
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  5050. The economic damage and instability are primarily the product of the EU's punitive interpretation of the protocol not Brexit and is in blatant disregard of both it and the 1998 GFA under its Principle of Consent. A central tenet. If nothing else read Article 16 of the NIP and the Principle of Consent in the GFA before you go around labelling other people 'clueless'.
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  5051. And what about all those poor South American countries that bought into all this nonsense? This could be politically destabilising for them. The crypto 'whales', Western financial institutions and corporates have a large degree of responsibility for this sh*tshow.
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  5052. That's hardly difficult nowadays.
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  5053. From fiat to equities to cryptos they're all Ponzi schemes to a greater or lesser degree and they're all predicated on the boring everyday genuinely productive economic tangibles that are necessary to underwrite them. Cryptos, and it wasn't that long ago there was one coming along every five minutes it seems to the extent that there are now thousands in existence, are underwritten ostensibly by the enduring faith people have in them. Despite the fallacious democratisation of money rhetoric that faith is increasingly found to be wanting and the genuine tangibles next to non-existent. The sad thing is it's largely poorer, more desperate people who will feel the pain of this inevitable collapsing house of cards as is the case with all ponzis when the reckoning eventually comes.
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  5054. Scargill was and is still a scumbag. Corbyn wasn't and still isn't.
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  5055. Sure. In 1880, around 150 years ago, there were 20-25k Jews in Palestine. By 1903 there were 35k By 1914 there were 94k By 1922 there were 84k. By 1931 there were 175k By 1947 there 630k. Today there are around 10m. It might make this video FoS, but I'm guessing that's what they meant.
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  5056. ​ @MisterMax323 Yep, cesspools that like to quote hard facts at you. The very worst kind.
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  5057. 'America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests' - Henry Kissinger. An incredibly naïve Europe, apparently, is only just finding this out. D'uh.
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  5058. Grow up.
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  5059.  @dertythegrower  So does that mean that they use their own 'filter bubble' their end?
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  5060. Don't be fooled All modern wars are bankers' wars. War is a racket and business is good.
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  5061. 'No-bo-dy expects the......the US recession!'
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  5062. We may choose to have pets but we don't choose to 'have' ourselves. America's healthcare system isn't just one of the most iniquitous in the world it is, in terms of overall benefits delivered for money spent, one of the most inefficient in the world. THAT contrived and enduring inefficiency is EXACTLY where the profit lies and helps to explain why the hapless Mr Thompson, a prime perpetrator and beneficiary of maintaining that inefficiency, met his maker that day.
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  5063. One can't help thinking that if Democrats, aided and abetted by an openly hostile, lazy MSM, hadn't spent Trump's entire term trying to delegitimise his 2016 presidential victory and just bided their time then things could have been SO much different in America. The genie's now out of the bottle unfortunately.
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  5064. If Starmer is a secret Socialist why on earth did he conspire to rid the Labour Party of Jeremy Corbyn on an entirely fabricated pretext of being an anti-Semite I wonder? Starmer's Labour landslide majority government was won on a massively reduced vote from both 2017 and 2019 for example. Further to that he became the MP for Holborn and St Pancras this time round with a vote of 18k compared to 36k in 2019. If Starmer is 'a secret Socialist' then stick a flower up me jacksy and call me Mabel.
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  5065. Er, don't do it.
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  5066. All fine. Just so long as it's voluntary.
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  5067. In 2014 the US and the West helped to overthrow a widely recognised democratically elected government, albeit an outgoing one. The US, Nato and the West have NOT been defending democracy they have actively and consistently sought to undermine it whatever yarns some might still choose to invest in.
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  5068. ​ @jamesmorrow1646 Yeah, that's the narrative....
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  5069. ​ @Moscow_Will_Burn To be fair Jaffa doesn't exactly come across as the sharpest tool in the box. One of the biggest? Yes. Sharpest? No.
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  5070. Common sense just ain't very common nowadays. Mr Loury speaks it and yet is apparently forever put in the unfortunate position of having to defend the bleedin' obvious. Sad. Just very, very sad.
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  5071. Warhol meets Van Gogh.
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  5072. The only President in the White House to get his brains blown out and survive.
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  5073. The problem being is that massive 'investment' in its military its ultimate insurance policy against its debt based economic model going seriously t*ts?
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  5074. D'oh.
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  5075. Truman Show. Highly localized storm above yacht?
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  5076. 'Defending democratic Taiwan's sovereignty' is a useful if spurious narrative for the US instigating conflict with China just as it was with Ukraine. Most of the world, including both the US and UK incidentally, DOESN'T recognise Taiwan as a de jure sovereign country.
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  5077. At least Joe Biden can hold his head high and say that America's recent 'punitive' actions against Israel might have prevented one attack on Gaza even if they've effectively helped facilitate all the other ones to date....
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  5078. That's not nearly as impressive as I suspect it's meant to sound. $1m in 1980 would be worth $3.6m today at an annualised inflation rate of 3.12%. To boot average US house prices have risen over 1000% since 1980. Basically being a millionaire in the US in 2022 is nowhere near as rare, unusual or difficult as it was in 1980.
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  5079.  @bradhaaf4749  Trickle down theory right?
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  5080. Cue, just as we had with the 2016 Referendum, some people calling into doubt the legitimacy of this vote. Both Labour and Lib Dems were super smart in how they played our granted execrable outmoded FPTP electoral system. Fin.
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  5081. Definitely worth mentioning. Thanks.
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  5082. How does this growing obsession with the green agenda and a fossil free future, particularly in the West, square with this scramble to secure wider control over global oil reserves I wonder?
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  5083. How else are you supposed to convince the world that they shouldn't be flying for the sake of the planet unless you fly there and them?
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  5084. The average age of a UK covid death still to this day remains at 83. Two years longer than than the actual average death age of 81 FFS!!
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  5085. Sadly, it's not.
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  5086.  @spanishjohn420  I'd point you to my other recent comments on this thread.
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  5087. Is there no contractual obligation on GoFundMe's part to fulfil its duty to provide the services it claims to provide?
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  5088. Biden's history is there on video and in print for those willing to seek it out and endure it. The man's clearly been shilling for years on behalf of Israel and old clips show quite how ill tempered and vociferous he once was at it. Just because he can't properly negotiate a flight of stairs, a simple exit or even a full sentence on an autocue nowadays it doesn't mean he's not the same mean ol' Joe of old.
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  5089. Ballooning Insurance payouts and increased premiums are ironically, I would argue, the result of man's economic 'success' ie increasing exploitation and expansionism NOT the dodgy narrative that is ACC.
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  5090. No to NATO. Bizarrely, Trump might just be our White Knight here, but should he become POTUS we'll find out quite how deeply in the pockets of the US MIC he is....
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  5091. How many you got?
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  5092. The West's hypocrisy and double standards over Ukraine and Gaza are truly unbelievable.
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  5093. 'They know the jig is up' best sums it up.
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  5094. Chinese loan forgiveness in Africa, for example, is much much lower than it was at its peak in 2007 when it hit almost $600m. Between 2007 and 2019 most years it was close to zero, although 2019 itself was unusual when hitting $232m according to estimates. Most of this debt was in the form of interest free loans which only makes up 5% of China's total $843bn loans made to 165 countries between 2003 and 2017. Zambia, Africa's first covid debt default, has seen most of its debt restructured and payment times extended and some haircuts for creditors, but not written off as such. None of this is helped by China's infamously opaque lending practices but nor does that excuse the hugely damaging neoliberal 'conditionalities' attached by the IMF and World Bank for the granting of their loans to these poorer countries either. Let's be honest then, both the West and China are involved in 'debt trap diplomacy' for self serving reasons with the western powers usually offering cheaper loans with more punitive economic conditions attached and China offering more expensive loans with fewer strings Neither comes out smelling of roses here.
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  5095. Jacinta appeals to the authoritarian side that's in everyone. She happens to appeal to a certain group that considers itself to be 'of the left'. She just goes to prove that authoritarians don't always have to have a toothbrush moustache and wear jackboots to get the job done.
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  5096. EVERY currency is ultimately debased by its issuing elites. Apparently a controversial, oversimplistic statement according to Google AI, but you get the gist....
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  5097. Would you like to take specific issue with what either of them are talking about or are you just here to spout vicious ad hominems in place of actual considered arguments?
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  5098. The real killer in terms of central bank funny money creation, money that mostly benefitted the wealthy, was QE funding for covid 20/21. Most people still like to believe in the narrative of trickle down as if the already rich take this central bank largesse and invest it in something genuinely productive each time they're given these huge gobs of money. They don't. It often amounts to yet more state funded wealth extraction for the haves (the rentier class) at the enduring expense of the have nots.
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  5099. Think, know or want to believe? The multiple rapes and burnt babies were proven lies and Israeli media admits that its forces killed Israelis using its helicopter gunships so what, exactly, are you struggling with here?
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  5100. Just to clarify Venezuela uses Smartmatic voting system which uses the same software as Dominion. This was deemed to be rock solid in the US by Dems in 2020, but not in Venezuela in 2024....
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  5101. Biden can only be impeached for the alleged crimes he's committed only whilst in presidential office not prior. If they were committed prior to him becoming president then impeachment ain't gonna fly.
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  5102. Irish media minister there shamelessly and disingenuously launches straight into 'protecting the children' whilst studiously avoiding the question about the real world implications of these laws.
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  5103. 'Moving forward', Kamala Harris will at least be more lucid in explaining America's murderous intentions.
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  5104.  @mikeymike2195  Looks like you missed your calling....
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  5105. The West never seems to learn. You can't export and transplant democracy where there is no real history of it. These great brutal tyrants are there because they're the only ones who can hold these places together and offer any sense of stability. Remove them and you create a vacuum, you get anarchy and leave the place far, far worse than when you found it. Look at Iraq, Libya, Syria and Afghanistan. Further to that you then often create an immigration issue you didn't have before. Learn to leave well alone and stop listening to the warmongers.
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  5106. Jimmy Carter's Democrats set in place many overdue unpopular economic and political policies the outcomes of which Reagan, like Thatcher, would later reap the rewards of. Carter was inevitably a captive of the extremely difficult time in which he was president but, just as in the UK, that difficult time was laid at the door of those in charge and went on to form the unchallengeable folklore that perpetuates to this day as to why we should never ever return to those dark days.
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  5107. And yet, weirdly, it's our 'lefty progressive' governments and our 'lefty progressive' global corporations who seem to be at the forefront of advancing this alleged 'progression' in social justice. It is apparently vast swathes of right wing reactionary voters who are out of step with their progressive elites and who are standing in the way to this egalitarian utopia? How do you propose we square that circle?
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  5108. Hey, shit usually floats. Epstein managed it for years and no one really knows where his money came from or went. At least Musk has a better constructed more plausible narrative than Epstein.
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  5109. Bojo wouldn't have done diddly without DC's say so whoever was in power. He was just their messenger boy. Nothing more.
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  5110.  @igypop.  Arguably they don't, but the EZ is essentially.built around a conspiracy of silence and ignorance.
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  5111. Of course the US blew up NS2. It was, in effect, an act of war and one which would help cripple the German economy. Condoleeza Rice said, ironically in an interview with German TV in 2014, that the US intended to end Europe's dependence on cheap Russian energy. The clips still there and it's no mystery. The US sponsored a coup in Ukraine in 2014, overthrew its internationally recognised democratically elected leader and supported the Ukrainian state's low level war in the Russian speaking regions from that point onwards. A war which led to Putin's invasion in 2022. It's not up for debate. The facts are there for anyone who cares to see.
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  5112. If I was extremely fat, diabetic or very old I probably would have chosen to subject myself 'the vaccine' too - it's an odds game - but that's not the same thing as forcing something untested upon otherwise healthy younger fitter people where it potentially poses a far, far greater risk than the virus itself. Myskow is an ignorant menace. She knows nothing of what she's talking about and yet she's on here expounding as if she does. That now repeated jab using essentially novel technology doesn't stop you contracting or passing on covid. Take it as many times as you like Nina, but don't inflict it upon those who might chose to do otherwise.
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  5113. Nice to see Miriam Margolyes gets to put her two penneth in at the end.
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  5114. Not for nothing has the USD become known as the least worst looking horse in the glue factory.
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  5115. 'Out damned spot'. Looking at that picture of Nuland at the beginning there was like staring into the eyes of evil. I'm sure she was staring back at me. This woman has SO much blood her hands.
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  5116. The UK effectively already interfered in the 2016 HRC/Trump election with the Steele Dossier, paid for by the Clinton campaign, which formed the central plank of the discredited Russiagate allegations. Steele was an ex-MI6 agent which if nothing else gave the UK plausible deniability for its role.
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  5117. Dozy mare.
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  5118. The perennial debt ceiling debate is political theatre for the two US political parties pure and simple. It plays on the majority's ignorance of the basis of money/debt creation and how a nation state like the US blessed with exorbitant privilege budgets. As long as the US remains the least worst looking horse in the global fiat glue factory, which it does and easily looks like doing so, then it will simply be used to throw some red meat to their various constituencies to give the appearance that 'vital' concessions are being or have been extracted regarding their various hobby horses.
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  5119. Because it was a tightly clipped interview from a much longer interview cynically designed to portray her in an unsympathetic light. The woman interviewee was repeatedly repeating already long debunked talking points of the Israeli government and then finished up by basically saying that Briahna should automatically believe ANY woman who claims to have been sexually assaulted. The eye roll was likely instinctive and was the culmination of what had preceded it. There. That answer your question?
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  5120. ​ @metalopoly2569  Understood. She politely refuted much of what the interviewee was saying throughout because it was patently and provably false and then instinctively rolled her eyes at the end when she effectively said all women should be believed if they claim to have been assaulted. Her employer apparently believed this to be a sackable offence and clearly so do you. She endured the consequences of actions right?
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  5121.  @metalopoly2569   @metalopoly2569  Well that, I guess, we don't fully yet know but the timing certainly seems suggestive of that. Without knowing fully the terms of her dismissal and her employment T and Cs then we can't be 100% certain of course.
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  5122.  @metalopoly2569   @metalopoly2569  Well that, I guess, we don't fully yet know but the timing certainly seems suggestive of that. Without knowing fully the terms of her dismissal and her employment T and Cs then we can't be 100% certain of course.
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  5123.  @metalopoly2569  Just watched it and she was being stubborn, evasive and dumb with Taibbi, but not fire-able stubborn, evasive and dumb given the intentionally confrontational format of the program. Comparing it to the full form interview with the Israeli hostage sibling there's no comparison though.
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  5124. Liam Halligan, UK economist and Daily Telegraph journalist has been warning about the fertilizer issue for a long time. Long before the Ukrainian conflict even. Guess where much of the world's, particularly Europe's, fertilizer comes from? Ukraine and Russia.
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  5125. Sean Penn is as mad as bucket frogs. Always was. Hollywood BS isn't real Sean. Live in the now!!
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  5126. What is it, I wonder, that presumably everyone in the world understood in the 1980/90s as MAD, Mutually Assured Destruction, that most people today seemingly don't? Ninety percent of the world's nuclear weapons are split evenly between Russia and the US/Nato and neither has a doctrinal policy of NFU or No First Use, unlike China or India. How do people seriously think this is going to end well if Russia is pushed into a corner and is threatened existentially? FFS people, put away your mom's apple pie, stop waving your star-spangled willies and wake up!!
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  5127. It might be accepted practice in totalitarian states to persecute and imprison your political opponents, but I'm getting a mighty weird feeling about that self-styled beacon of democracy the USA here.
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  5128. Ultimately, we're all dead in the end and we're all a long time dead. There's hope for this fella yet.
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  5129. Look Max, the woman says categorically that NED doesn't work with the CIA. That should be proof enough for anyone surely?
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  5130. The so-called 'liberals' are the new authoritarians. THAT'S what's so f*cked up and scary.
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  5131. Chris Hedges, like Galloway, certainly isn't perfect but compared to the alternatives? Don't let perfect be the enemy of the good.
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  5132. Cryptos are a scam milked by the pump and dump rich endorsed by amoral governments where the poorest and most desperate will ultimately be hit hardest. Nothing good about this really other than it looks like it's finally coming to its sorry end.
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  5133. I've got solar panels for economic reasons not for environmental reasons and they're great. I can't find any evidence about what you claim re Austrians covering them so can can you point me in the right direction?
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  5134.  @christopherrobinson7541  Hence, 'Variations thereof'. Flu and shingles can be had together as can covid and shingles, although it is recommended that they are done separately according to the NHS so that if there is an adverse reaction they have a clearer idea of which one caused it. I know of people who have had them together. Flu boosters and covid shots can also be had together.
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  5135. Mention this to almost anyone and they say Russia is bluffing, it's a spent force and Putin, like Hitler, cannot be appeased. Supremely ignorant, complacent positions all of them, but what can we do when that seems to be the prevailing mindset?
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  5136.  @amraceway  Aah, another insecure know it all who likes to big up his intelligence and yet is apparently incapable of using the internet. YT doesn't like live links and the paper is on NASA's own website, but if you're just up for acting like a d*ck then be my guest.
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  5137.  @amraceway  So, despite having asked for the link you've decided to sidestep it and go off on your own unlinked tangent then, have you? Funny that. ACC carbon induced catastrophism is an article of faith beloved of holier-than-thou virtue signallers, perennial doomsayers and those who seek to profit from it whereas environmental destruction and overexploitation very clearly is a reality. Talk about that by all means, but don't disingenuously conflate the two in order to serve your own agenda. Frankly, I'm sick of listening to self serving quasi-religious zealous 'for thee and not for me' eedjuts like you, most of whom talk about 'the science' when, by definition, there is no such thing and most whom very rarely actually practice what they preach anyway from my experience.
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  5138.  @ddoherty5956  D'uh.
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  5139.  @snorttroll4379  These threads get very confusing on YT, particularly after some time. Can you remind what you're replying to of mine please.
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  5140.  @snorttroll4379  If you could find something more intuitive that would be great. I used to use Quora a lot more than I do now which is better in this respect in my opinion but not perfect. Knowing which comment specifically someone is replying to certainly helps.
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  5141.  @Trevorjesuischarlie  Struggling with the logic of that statement.
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  5142.  @Trevorjesuischarlie I'm not stopping anything. Would that I could. Unlike you I don't possess great wealth, but I do possess an ability to listen to and process facts. I'm forced to live in the real world and not rely on often huge public subsidies in various forms to sustain my business. Like it or not there's lots of 'for thee and not for me' posturing going on in the West not least from those in the most comfortable position to do so. A lot of these policies directly and ostensibly impact the poorer members of our societies whilst those who advocate them make conspicuous token changes to their lifestyles and believe it washes with the great unwashed masses. It doesn't. Further to that, one only has to see that the developing world is actually increasing its consumption of fossil fuels like coal in order to try and improve the lot of their citizens so all the preaching from the West is rightly regarded with more than a degree of suspicion. Apart from the undeniable polluting effects of fossil fuels the best justification I can see to seek alternatives is the fact that they are indeed finite and thus any alternative, ideally a 'clean', sustainable one, is desirable over time.
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  5143.  @Trevorjesuischarlie  Extreme in what way?
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  5144.  @Trevorjesuischarlie  So you and your father are experiencing more examples of these? Presumably this must have affected your yields quite substantially over the decades?
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  5145. According to Reuters, 'RICO was originally conceived as a tool to go after mafia kingpins who kept their hands clean by parking ill-gotten gains in shell corporations and leaving the dirty work to underlings.' Is it me, but I'm getting far more of a Biden family vibe than a Trump vibe here.
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  5146. ​ @Uarehere  Bit perverse of you that don't you think? She's either rich, corrupt part of the elite and milking the system or because she's poor and she won't or doesn't know how to milk the system so she can't be trusted with money in your opinion. Really?
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  5147. A great guest. I learned a lot.
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  5148. US isn't a signatory to ICC. Deems it 'unconstitutional'. Loudly references its pronouncements as and when it suits of course but the ICC is for 'the others' never the US.
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  5149. No mention of the huge amounts of money being lost through cryptofraud by Lynn or the fact that it's a great way to squeeze the pips of already financially desperate people by those in an elevated position able to do so?
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  5150. I really don't know what happened to people like Emily Maitlis and Paul Mason. I'm old enough to remember when they were actually pretty good at just doing their jobs, even Owen Jones had his good moments too, but over the years they really have been reduced to being purveyors of hate and sowers of division. I wouldn't mind so much but my politics is broadly of the left they purport to represent and it's nasty, divisive figures like these who have effectively undermined it seemingly only in pursuit of their own self-aggrandisement.
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  5151. The 'Democrats' at the very least should consider changing their name to something more fitting. This is false advertising surely?
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  5152. Bitter, bitter irony. One of history's most oppressed peoples become one of its greatest oppressors. Thoroughly depressing.
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  5153. What form has your bet taken?
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  5154. In modern fiat economies all monies come courtesy of state. The claim that the state is the enduring major impediment to these alleged free markets is a sick joke. Unfortunately it's a sick joke that too many people still believe and it suits those who tell it to keep doing so. The biggest welfare scroungers today aren't those on food stamps but those who fine dine every day effectively subsidized by the state.
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  5155. And his brother.
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  5156.  @JohnSmith-ji6lu  In what way?
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  5157.  @JohnSmith-ji6lu  We know that the jab prevents neither contraction nor the ability to pass the virus on so I'm not sure what you mean? I know loads of people, essentially because I come into contact with around 1000 a week, who've been jabbed at least three times now, some more, who've had covid. In some cases up to three times. Some mild and some quite badly. Are you telling me that the covid they've all had isn't transmissible or is less transmissible because of the jabs?
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  5158.  @JohnSmith-ji6lu  That's simply not true I'm afraid. Average age of a 'with covid' death is still 83. Almost two years higher than the average death rate. Death rate also still well below 0.5%. What about all these other illnesses that were suppressed by lockdowns cancers, strep A, childhood liver conditions plus postponed operations and an NHS waiting lists ballooning to 7m. Is it only covid related deaths that count in your book perhaps?
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  5159.  @JohnSmith-ji6lu  Problem there is that they're verifiable facts. Presumably you're capable of checking them out in the internet age? It seems not that I'm choosing to believe what I want but more that you are. You finding them inconvenient to your own narrative doesn't change that unfortunately. The pro lockdown nutters like Myskow actually have a helluva lot to answer for and if anyone should have any deaths on their consciences it should be the likes of her.
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  5160.  @JohnSmith-ji6lu  We're not talking about matters of opinion though, are we, we're talking about facts. Verifiable facts which apparently you seem less than keen to accept. Take the plunge. Go and look for yourself. What's stopping you? Throughout science there are lots of experts whose opinions differ with each other so you're really saying that you agree with the broad consensus without really knowing or understanding the reason why either.
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  5161.  @JohnSmith-ji6lu  They can, either way, but you can't argue with verifiable facts. Like I said 7m now on a still growing NHS waiting lists, thousands of elderly dying alone because of these lockdowns and cruel covid policies, millions of kids unnecessarily deprived of their educations and normal socialisation activities, knackered global supply chains, rising inflation and a death toll 'with' but not 'from' a virus that allegedly killed 0.003% of the population with an average age of 83 to date officially but, as you say, it was ALL still all worth it.
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  5162. Could go either way of course, but it doesn't take a crystal ball to guess which way.
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  5163. Not exclusively, but young healthy males do seem to be particularly vulnerable.
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  5164. All this covid era 'funny money' stimulus has helped to fuel demand in excess of crippled supply ergo inflation and stoked the housing, stock and crypto markets.
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  5165. The US has become the unparalleled master of creating and/or profiting from existing problems. 'Problems' and volatility are central to the US DNA and thus its economic model.
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  5166. Neil Young suffers from the same egomaniacal tendencies that afflict a good many artists. Just because someone excels in a particular field, particularly the arts it seems, they then think they're world experts on anything and everything. Stay in your lane, Neil.
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  5167. Used to have a reasonably high opinion of Steve Baker until I heard him interviewed by Stephen Edgington for the Torygraph.
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  5168. The USI is by far the greatest threat to world peace in my lifetime. The US, the only country to ever use nuclear weapons in anger on two specifically chosen civilian populations in order to assess their efficacy.... ...and a desperate Israel which in 1973 threatened to deploy them under Golda Meir in the Yom Kippur War in order to garner much needed US support. Enough said.
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  5169. Actually interrogating arguments so that one can arrive at an inevitably imperfect consensus? How novel!
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  5170. Typically, the US wants to have its cake and eat it. Not content with its corporations already creaming off their cut from the European economies and European governments dutifully buying US weaponry and allowing the US to permanently station their troops here against the alleged permanent Russian threat, they now want Europe to pony up even more for the pleasure. Even under Trump, despite the rhetoric, the US will never abandon Europe not least because they wouldn't want Russia, the continent's biggest most militarily powerful country by far, to play a far more significant role in it.
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  5171. Irony.
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  5172. Elon Musk is a sower of chaos. Or should that be sewer? He would probably like to be seen as the ultimate 'disruptor', but he knows that he, and those relative few like him, can always find ways and means of profiting from the chaos and crises he foments regardless.
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  5173. Unless there's a delay it looks like PensionCraft is heavily censoring its comment section too now on YouTube. At this rate they might just as well do away with them altogether because unless you saying 'great', 'rubbish' or something of little import then it never seems get past the gatekeepers nowadays.
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  5174. This gives the lie to the oft now peddled claim that nobody EVER said the jabs would stop people getting or transmitting covid. Even if it wasn't the drug companies somebody must've convinced the likes of Young, Stern, Mitchell and Simmons that being around the unvaccinated was potentially deadly to THEIR oh so precious health. Now who was it?
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  5175. I'm amazed that so many Americans give this man any credibility to be honest. He's a just about ok actor that made some ok but mostly largely forgotten films and that will be his legacy. Not secretly banging his maid or marrying into an American politcal dynasty.
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  5176. KH was, prior to the DNC finally admitting that there was, in fact, an elephant in room ie Biden's brain was blancmange, largely hidden away from media for years. That doesn't mean to say that there weren't periodic 'fawning' attempts by a compliant media to polish the turd that was her execrable political reputation. There were numerous reasons why the DNC 'elites' alighted upon KH after the 'Biden epiphany' many of which were legal and practical. This was a women who not only hadn't ever won a primary, she actually came 4th in her own state FFS. Unheard of. So before you dismiss these 'hacks'' talking points I'd get your own story straight first and avail yourself of some inconvenient facts.
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  5177.  @leem5872  Presumably the same ones everyone else is using including yourself?
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  5178.  @leem5872  Strange. Perhaps I'm unique, but YouTube has provided me with a 'reply' option which allowed me to reply to your comment. Any ideas?
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  5179. Truly great show.
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  5180. Much as I enjoy Triggernometry and like and appreciate these two, KK in particular seems to be promoting the idea that these 'vaccines' are unquestionably a good thing as the once frantic doomladen COVID soundtrack that has informed our lives starts to slow. The facts are not only do we still not know as they are essentially untested by the usual scientific protocols as anything similar would have been in the past, but their alleged bombproof longterm safety profile is itself being used as an excuse to push them onto every section of society. Even age groups which not only have a negligible statistical risk from COVID itself and for whom the administering of 'the vaccine' looks like it presents a far greater risk.
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  5181. 'Liberals' still don't see what they're doing with their Trump bashing which makes me wonder how bright most of them really are. They're effectively giving the deeply corrupt, increasingly authoritarian Democrat establishment a free pass whilst also ensuring the Trump supporters double down in protection of their man. This doesn't bode well currently.
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  5182. $18k in your your car?
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  5183. ​ @stogies3 You cannot have an irresponsible borrower until you first have an irresponsible lender.
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  5184. Though it's probably too late US anti-trust laws need to be invoked against these tech giants. Their effects on our society and their hijacking of our body politic are far more insidious and far more profound than the oil companies of the early 20th century ever were.
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  5185. There's are good reasons why the Tony Blair Institute is being funded to the tune of tens of millions by Larry Elliott of Oracle and it's not because of Bliar's winning smile (or rictus grin). These people understand that vast databases are the future and where it's at.
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  5186. This phenomenon, broadly speaking, was picked up upon by the theorist David Goodhart during the UK Brexit vote. He called it 'The Somewheres vs The Anywheres' where the diverging interests of the two groups were reflected in that vote and the fundamental principle of sovereignty and sense of shared national interests that ultimately, if narrowly, informed its success. Not surprisingly, the phenomenon was reflected again in the 2016 election of Trump. Needless to say these oppositional forces were immediately rounded upon by 'the Anywheres' as being 'populist', dark, extremist, bigoted, small-minded etc
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  5187. And this why the CDC quietly changed the longstanding, long understood definition of the word 'vaccine' recently. Thanks to the requirement to have repeated 'boosters' ad infinitum the definition no longer fitted. The fact is is that there is no and has never been a 'vaccine', in the previous definition of the word, against ANY coronavirus and yet here we are still wholesale buying into the lie that there is. This is why language is SO important people.
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  5188. Bizarre answer.
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  5189. If you look at the history of the UK's membership of the EU no UK political party did more, ironically, to embroil this country in the EU than the Tories. From Heath to Thatcher to Major who delivered the real coup de grace with signing the sovereignty busting 1990 Maastricht treaty with no direct reference to the UK electorate before or after doing so. As Douglas Hurd, then Foreign Secretary, blithely quipped at the time, 'now we've signed it, we'd better read it'. No surprise really. It's a neoliberal project at its heart and little wonder that Euroscepticism used to be the unique preserve of the Left until 1990.
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  5190. Wizard of Oz curtain pull moment. Even the mainstream media can't keep covering up for Biden any longer. They're not in Kansas anymore.
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  5191. If people want to make dramatic claims in the comments section about covid associated figures it's important they provide sources for those claims, otherwise they're little better than the MSM they're railing against. 'I've heard' and 'it's been reported', just doesn't (and shouldn't) cut the mustard I'm afraid.
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  5192. Is that why you're here?😁
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  5193. When did people start thinking that other people can't be trusted to think the right way? When did discourse become something to be feared, stifled and controlled? The really scary people in this are the ones that think there's only one way to think and you can likely times that scariness by billions if they happen to own and control a major media platform.
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  5194. A group of people who today constantly seek to justify their own utterly indefensible actions through their own equally utterly indefensible historical experience. People like the secular Bibi cynically plays off this conflating antisemitism with ethno-nationalism thereby dishonouring the Jews who genuinely sacrificed, suffered and died during the Holocaust.
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  5195. Talking of 'crisis actors', the, I think, MSNBC or CNN interview of the girl who claimed to have been poked in the eye by protesters is hilarious.
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  5196. In regard to the wider US strategic interest in perpetuating the war, the longer it goes on the weaker Russia gets militarily, economically and internally. The problem with that is that is that Iraq, Syria, Libya and Afghanistan all show that this creates a power vacuum and you can't always predict or control what follows.
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  5197. American interests in Israel only really took hold in the 1960s as part of its Cold War manoeuvrings and likely as an extension of its anti-communist Domino Theory that led it into Korea and Vietnam. Before that, outside of the region, there seems to have been a collective global brain wipe of the still less than a century old story of the state of Israel and the rise of Zionism that led to it. Even amongst Jews, both American and European, it wasn't really 'a thing' until the early 1900s and they effectively had to be lobbied in support of the idea. 'Support for Zionism among American Jews was minimal, until the involvement of Louis Brandeis in the Federation of American Zionists, starting in 1912 and the establishment of the Provisional Executive Committee for General Zionist Affairs in 1914; it was empowered by the Zionist Organization "to deal with all Zionist matters, until better times come". - Wiki.
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  5198. Propaganda 101. You absolutely must always have an external enemy to distract and focus your population's ire upon.
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  5199. He can't leave without fighting it because it amounts to a three year ban from re-entering the country. Three years is a long time if you're a world class sportsman in your twilight years.
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  5200. Great time to short all this negativity, no?
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  5201.  @andrewpintex  Oliver Smith seems to believe that all this is currently seriously overblown so I would argue no. Great opportunity for him and others who believe the same surely?
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  5202. The self-styled iconoclast now makes a living selling icons? Something sits a little odd here....
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  5203. Boy-neez right of course, but not enough people are listening and by the time they do it'll be too late anyway.
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  5204. Worth remembering that Musk was highly instrumental in the pumping of cryptos.
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  5205. Think governments globally are behaving in a very peculiar way personally if we're truly on the precipice of a climate catastrophe. If we are then, at the very least, they should be getting us to cut our consumption drastically, including purchasing hugely energy intensive privately owned cars, and investing heavily in public transport in order to get us out of said environmentally damaging cars.
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  5206.  @nocensorship8092  In a way, yes, particularly if you're a here today, gone tomorrow politician, but I'm just amazed that SO many people choose not to see farther than the end of their noses. I wouldn't mind but it's all the nauseating endless virtue signalling we all have endure in the meantime.
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  5207. Nevermind its diminutive size compared to the UK Singapore, thanks to its geolocation and not just its established westernised culture, has essentially become the gateway to the entire Far East for Western multinationals. It's the 'not too Western, not too Eastern' stepping stone where they can easily send their highly paid, pampered execs without too much pushback or too many issues. Difficult to imagine really why anyone could compare the two let alone one emulate the other.
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  5208. America hasn't legally declared war since WW2. After, yet again, inventing a reason for its intervention into Vietnam the US eventually just pulled out, albeit hastily. It's 'a war' that never officially ended because it never officially started.
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  5209. Hopefully, like Sturgeon, this will be the completely misjudged hill that Lineker and his deaf, dumb and blind coterie gets to die on. Lineker has overplayed his hand here, he's utterly wrong, he's misinformed and the rhetoric he employs is offensive to those Jews who actually experienced and survived the Nazis. Just yet more unwelcome 'luxury views' from another wretched overpaid puffed up virtue signaling out of touch celebrity.
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  5210. Get lost from where exactly?
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  5211.  @sophiaherschel567  Took you two weeks to think of that gem?
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  5212. Kevin Spacey, Alex Salmond, Cliff Richard, Julian Assange, Jim Davidson, Paul Gambuccini. These are just the high profile ones we know about. All examples of people who have been the subject of these kinds of allegations and who have either effectively been found innocent or seen charges dropped. There but for the Grace of God go the rest of us basically and anyone who thinks that what is happening to Brand without due process is ok or him getting his just desserts should hang their heads in shame. Including this vile Drainage woman.
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  5213.  @DolphinsPlayingInAquaMoonlight  You either have faith in due process or you don't. The legal system is always inevitably flawed and fallible but once you cease to believe in it as, at its core, a separate, truly independent arm of our government then all is lost for our democracy.
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  5214. Trump might seem like an oaf but he sees and has long seen the problem for the US thanks to its exorbitant privilege and permanent debtor nation (since 1975) status. The country and its people - apparently a nation of temporarily embarrassed millionaires - surprise surprise, have effectively been betrayed by their own trousering 'elites' peddling their plausible narratives. Trump's long belated 'solution' is highly questionable nevermind half-arsed and betrays a fundamental weakness of purpose. The long term prognosis, however, isn't.
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  5215. Worst thing here is that the numbnuts who ran Twitter are in clover for the rest of their lives thanks to Musk's considerable overpayment. I hope he does go after them now for all those dodgy accounts just so he can be a pebble in their shoes in perpetuity.
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  5216. Seeing a supposedly trained police force act in this manner is truly shocking. If this outrageous illegal behaviour by them goes unpunished then the future looks increasingly bleak for the US.
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  5217. Predominantly affluent Green voters can afford to hold luxury views? Who knew?
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  5218. An honestly and independently brokered two state solution sufficiently amenable to both Jews and Palestinians is the only answer to this in the longer term....and that's assuming we eventually get beyond this horrific dangerous time. Decades have been squandered for a myriad of different reasons by all sides, including the West, but both Jews and Palestinians deserve to live in reasonable comfort, peace and security, if not harmony. Unfortunately we've arrived at a point where the extremist elements hold sway and, as ever, it's always the innocent who suffer.
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  5219. I remember hearing a senior British army official stressing as the Ukraine war kicked off that we had not previously been living in a period of peace with Russia but in fact 'a strategic peace'. Speaks volumes about the prevailing 'peace is war postponed' Western mindset at play.
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  5220. Fear sells unfortunately. Always has and always will.
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  5221. The US maintained it ended the INF treaty because Russia had repeatedly broken for years anyway. I've seen little actual evidence of this claim so I would be interested if anyone has any?
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  5222.  @crayzee1372    You're dead right, Mr crayzee. There's a wealth of scientific evidence out there that contradicts our porky friend above regardless of RB's pronouncements.
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  5223.  @crayzee1372  Not that weird. You just prefer alternative facts.
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  5224. Daft comment.
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  5225. Try posting some crypto spam. They don't seem to mind that even when reported.
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  5226. Conspiracy theories are questioning the established narratives of proven liars and this gentleman embodies this.
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  5227. He often clarifies or neatly summarizes what's been said for HIS audience. Not the same thing. Listen more carefully.
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  5228. Chris Hedges has done more for independent journalism in America than anyone I can think of. I don't agree with everything he says, but the world would be a much poorer place without him. He has been the scourge of those who have unquestioningly supported vicious, illegal US foreign policy and war crimes for decades and yet you call him a loser? I'd rather live in a world with more people like him in it than a world which 'some' are clearly aiming for.
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  5229. Talking to Mike Hunt. Helped me navigate through these very difficult times.
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  5230. It's not a revolution. First, the Syrian people aren't some glorious united homogenous group and second they have essentially been bystanders in this 'glorious' Western, Israeli and Turkish sponsored 'liberation'. Ultimately this is about resources and Russia, but I agree this could be a Pandora's Box that could yet backfire.
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  5231.  @Braveheart1966-d6t  It wasn't a regime overthrown by 'their people'. It was a regime overthrown by western and foreign sponsored jihadists, a good many of whom were also foreign. Don't be so naive as to assume that what replaces Assad is going to be any better either.
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  5232.  @Braveheart1966-d6t  I did, but YT wouldn't let me.
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  5233. Is Nick Ferrari always in a draught?
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  5234. Excellent documentary piece. The exclusively peaceful Trucker Protest and how it was closed down told the vast majority of Canadians what their government and their establishment elites think of them. Precious little is the answer.
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  5235. Owen, again, shows himself up here. Russia's importance can't just be measured by its GDP FFS. Nevermind that its debt to gdp ratio was a fraction of many countries in the west, particularly prior to covid, it also possesses around 45% of the world's nuclear weapons. Pathetic willy waving, quite frankly.
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  5236. Oh, do give over.
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  5237. I think I can speak for everyone here when I say I'm still recovering from the dreadful fallout from the Millennium Bug 🐛 Thankfully though, no one ever cynically preyed on our primal fears and sought to monetise and profit from that disaster.....
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  5238. Everything is monetized sadly even cancer, and don't anyone believe that it isn't.
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  5239. Holly's still fit though.
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  5240. ​ @tpeterson9140 Unfortunately, whatever your personal opinion of the man, the West gladly supported and armed him for profit and perceived gain for decades.
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  5241. Does anybody know how many unsolicited mail in ballots in total were sent out in 2020 by all the states during covid?
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  5242. @SaintKimbo  Reason I ask is that I can't find out exactly how many were sent out in 2020. I've read, but I can't confirm, that due to covid millions were sent out unrequested. Hence I'm trying to find out.
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  5243. What sort of new trade deal? Thanks to the USD the US already has long had a super sweet deal going so do you think Trump is pushing for even more?
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  5244. Matt Kennard is the real deal out of the Pilger mould. Sadly way too few like him.
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  5245. If anyone deserves to be professionally cancelled in this day and age ICL's Ferguson should be at the top of the list.
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  5246. No surprise here. Trudeau's Canada has lost the plot. The big mystery is who still votes for this evil individual and those who support him. Millions of Canadian dollars handed out already to indigenous groups based on alleged atrocities against missing murdered children for which there is literally no evidence. Zero. No reports of any missing children and simply originally based on a ground radar survey showing disturbed earth which could, only could you notice, point to the potential presence of bodies. Worse than that, the potential for providing any proof is forbidden because these alleged burial sites are now deemed sacred and cannot be dug up. A bit like CRT, if you are white you are either automatically deemed a racist or should you foolishly choose to deny that you are then the denial in itself is worse and irrefutable confirmation that you still are. Truly Orwellian times.
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  5247. Covid and its handling was such a disaster socially, economically and in terms of health outcomes. Meanwhile much of the rest of the Western world, including the UK, studiously ignores the near unprecedented excess death rate at the moment. Twenty percent here and even higher elsewhere.
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  5248. What's happening in the US to Trump is truly criminal, truly a travesty and truly a worry.
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  5249. Sumption's got a 'Grieve is a d*ck' look on his face there throughout.
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  5250. Are we now all allowed to freely admit that this utter f*cking self-harming inflationary insanity started with covid?
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  5251.  @ramadantarantino4004  It definitely started under Trump's tenure and lots of people seem to have conveniently forgotten, for tribal reasons I suspect, that he instigated the MRNA vaccine programme through Operation Warpspeed.
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  5252.  @ramadantarantino4004  Operation Warpspeed effectively gave the green light to mRNA vaccines. Vaccines which weren't actually vaccines in the long held sense of the word and employed a technology that had never for decades been deemed either safe and/or effective. The apparent miracle of the 'cure for covid' was announced just a few days AFTER Trump's election loss I believe. Non-mRNA vaccines in the rest of the world had different issues, but nor were they vaccines either. Thus you'll need to elaborate your point for me...
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  5253.  @ramadantarantino4004  A bit clearer yes, but I think you're overestimating European progressivism. Are you American?
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  5254.  @ramadantarantino4004  European elites still get their unfair share, just less of it than their American counterparts you mean? Best summed up by the idea that in Europe 'the state' takes 40% of the wealth, in the UK it takes 50% and in the US it's 60%. Well, I would broadly agree with that, but Europe is far more precarious than you might believe and is far more dependent on 'the kindness of strangers' like the US for its stability, security and comfort. The US, the richest most powerful country in history, could certainly learn a thing or two from Europe on how it treats its citizens, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
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  5255.  @ramadantarantino4004  Lost me a wee bit there. Are European 'progressive' values something for America to aspire to aspire to or reject?
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  5256. She will.
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  5257. Presumably all those football fans in Ireland were arrested for their chants which were an obvious 'hate crime' and at the very least given a caution?
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  5258. @@Phil-cl9ce Yep, it's not a happy coincidence that the dominant asset owning classes in the US, most notably the top 10% saw their wealth gradually increase substantially after the years following the 2008 financial crash and the debt chicanery that was undertaken in order to 'save' the financial system.
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  5259. Perhaps, a wee bit like The Hunt For Red October but with a twist, there's a rogue Russian general who quietly planned to turn on the gas to a hard-pressed Europe when Putin (not the dead namesake in the film obviously) wasn't looking? Vlad (the real one) got wind of it and decided to make sure, once and for all, that such potential traitorous shenanigans would be well and truly put to bed?
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  5260. John Anderson: One of the smartest, most decent people around.
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  5261. The elites approach to war generally is akin Netanyahu's 'mowing the grass' in Gaza. The potentially uppity 'proles', unfortunately, sometimes need to be reminded as to who is boss and must be periodically pared down accordingly.
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  5262. Still utterly mystified as to why the nation of America, admittedly now under Trump, gets a free pass for long fomenting this war in the first place??? Even, implicitly, from these two boys.
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  5263. Netanyahu is an evil PoS.
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  5264. Personally, I'm willing to give Musk the benefit of the doubt here simply because he's made it his first mission to throw out the Twitter thought police. What concerns me is that he sees Twitter as a potential vehicle for being 'everything'. Over Covid western 'elites', and I use the term loosely there, have shown that they're certainly not averse to copying China's lead - I'm thinking social credit scores in terms of Twitter here - so if Musk thinks this is his key to unlocking 'everything' then he can f*ck the f*ck off as far I'm concerned.
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  5265. Between the two world wars the US had a preliminary military plan in place to invade Canada called War Plan Red.
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  5266. I'm seriously not here to defend Russia's wider actions in Ukraine here but how can someone begin a credible justification for the blowing up of the NS pipelines by Russia by resorting to the bizarre argument that it's a completely irrational act but it's because Russia has now become a totally irrational actor? Imagine a Columbo where our resident detective used such a motive as proof. FFS. Grow up. There are other potential actors in the frame here that would have perfectly rational reasons for doing so and one of them, the USA, has repeatedly claimed that it would be happy to see the end proper of Europe's reliance on Russian energy.
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  5267. He's making money for his efforts. Do you not do the same? If he's doing so by persistently peddling lies for profit then yes he's a grifter, but it's your and others job to point out where he's lying rather than repeatedly only question his motives. What specific issues did you have with the above presentation?
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  5268. BTC is an establishment backed Ponzi scheme. The US Government itself owns $5bn of them and sovereign governments elsewhere own around $8bn. Further to that, look at how much is held by relatively few corporations, most notably US ones. Crypto 'sovereign' whales make the market weather and lay in wait for the next batch of greater and/or desperate fools and governments get their tax cut when these 'assets' are sold for profit. Inevitably there's always someone who'll make money from cryptos, but invariably it's because someone else loses. It is the very opposite of the democratization of money people insist on claiming it is and nor is it the super secure untouchable payment system some people also claim as evidenced by the Canadian trucker protest cryptowallet freeze by Trudeau's government. The most telling thing there was that it happened, not whether it was illegal or not. And that's without going into the tens of billions a year of fraud that cryptos have spawned or its increasing criminal associations.
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  5269. 'Sea level has been remarkably stable for 10,000 years'? During the early Holocene period a rapid sea level rise of 60m occurred over the Eurasian Mesolithic around the time period you're talking about. Britain an estimated less than 10,000 years ago used to be connected as a peninsula to the European continent until sea levels rose significantly rendering it an island today. As far as I'm aware the industrial revolution only started around 250 years ago so what would you attribute these past profound rises in sea levels, significantly greater than those predicted today, and profound changes in climate to back then?
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  5270. The Trump case was even worse than that. Not only was it her word against his in a civil not criminal case and she couldn't even remember the year the assault took place the prosecution in the subsequent defamation case was seeking $18m and the NY jury instead awarded her $83m. This is modern lawfare conducted in politically partisan kangaroo courts. America is in a truly dark place at the moment and we're not far behind.
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  5271. As ever, it's still a right bugger trying to get comments shown on SU. Shame.
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  5272. All related to reasons as to why the mysterious assassination of Swedish PM in 1986 might still be relevant today....not least to Swedes.
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  5273. How much public money was p*ssed away on barely used 'Nightingale hospitals'? Emergency hospitals constructed with apparently no trained staff to man them even if they had been needed!!
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  5274. The US ideologically supposedly 'won' the Cold War in the 1980s and 90s, but is set to lose Cold War 2.0 in no small part thanks to its elite's endless greed, staggering arrogance, sheer complacency and utter contempt for its own people.
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  5275. Fewer!! Not 'Less'.
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  5276. ...yep, refuses to take them down despite repeatedly being reported. Speaks volumes that.
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  5277. The 1917 US Espionage Act is notorious for being almost impossible to defend against. It is the State's ultimate blunt weapon of choice both to punish and 'pour encourager les autres'. The Act does not allow for such defenses as public interest, whistleblowing, exercising of First Amendment Rights or over-classification of documents.
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  5278. Knew Obama was a bad 'un from the off only because I'd experienced Blair in the UK. The Wall St bailouts told me everything I needed to know even back then. Criticising him at all was a complete no no at the beginning though. Let's face it because he was black and that staring into the middle distance shtick delivering some MLK-esque silky oratory (MLK was the real deal) like he was some kind of prophet from God had a lot people fooled. In a way he was. Wall St couldn't actually have come up with a better place man if they'd tried at the time....
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  5279. American law is increasingly an A$$. Worth noting that the ONLY way they could get J6 protesters on any serious charges was by applying anti-racketeering RICO legislation. Essentially they weren't charged with 'trying to overthrow the US Government' as many Americans still probably believe.
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  5280. This denouement is, if nothing else, a complete acknowledgement that the US started this war in the first place.
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  5281. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a fascinating one I tell ya.
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  5282. Respecting and upholding 'the international rule of law' indeed. One big sick joke. We in the UK should be utterly ashamed of ourselves.
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  5283. It goes to show you that YouTube can't be all bad. As long as these sites remain up in here then it shows its willingness, broadly, to allow the right to free speech. If they start getting taken down in numbers then I'll seriously start to worry....
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  5284. Biden, Harris and numerous other politicians still to this day peddle the 40 dead b* bies proven propaganda lie without a hint of a blush. We cannot trust a word they say.
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  5285. This bloke thinks he can alter the earth's climate like he's tweaking a recipe.
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  5286. Who's Tresemmé???
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  5287. They are the masters of that wonderful euphemism 'creative destruction'.
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  5288. In terms of the time factor in these matters Democrat NY actually changed its statute of limitations specifically in order to pursue the Trump civil rape case. His accuser couldn't even remember when the alleged assault took place and it was basically her word against his. To make matters worse if no other women come forward to avail themselves of this law change within 6 months it will revert to its original state. Hence the reason they've been imploring other women to come forward to try and justify its change so that it doesn't look like the political move to get Trump it so obviously was.
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  5289. Interesting that Jack Smith hasn't bought specific charges against Trump for insurrection. Like vultures they're all circling around the idea hoping that the mere insinuation and the endless legalese is enough to do the job in enough people's minds. These wicked people are anti-democrats pure and simple whether you like Trump or not.
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  5290. Mandelson: The Mince of Darkness.
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  5291. Well said. History, famously, is always written by the victors but it's sometimes far from clear who the victors are.
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  5292.  @petermallm149  Perhaps the saying, 'all wars are bankers' wars' is truer than most of us feel comfortable admitting to ourselves?
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  5293. It's also been proven that some of these anti-genocide protesters on US campuses are actually pro-zionist infiltrators sent in to discredit these protests with anti-Semitic chants. Given that a fair few of these anti-Zionist protestors are, in fact, Jewish it makes claims of anti-Semitism even more bizarre.
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  5294. End of ZIRP. Painful in short term. Healthier in the longer term.
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  5295. That's yer yin an' yer yang.
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  5296. Anyone who doubts this should ask themselves why, as the economy apparently grows annually and the nation gets richer, why many people feel and are effectively getting poorer.
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  5297.  @timl9724  Interested. Go on.
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  5298.  @timl9724  Well there's definitely a supply side problem caused by the lockdowns and covid policy more generally, plus there's also an associated excessive demand problem. The official inflation narrative goes that supply needs to be married more closelywith demand after all the money that's been thrown at dealing with the covid issue over the last two or so years. What's your take?
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  5299.  @timl9724 The aim and upshot being?
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  5300. Unfortunately, much of the American religious Right's views on Israel are 'informed' by Biblical prophecy and their perceived crucial role in helping bring it about. That's a darn sight more scary than racism.
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  5301. EU just announced plans, subject to members' agreement, to ban ALL Russian oil imports by the end of the year. Russia is a major producer of Europe's diesel. The fuel that powers pretty much all of its big commercial trucks and heavy plant. Hope the US has got plenty to spare then? Hopefully I'll find out in this video....
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  5302. Decent interviewer mostly but a pretty cr@p comedian, Kisin has a terrible blindspot here sadly. He's a self-appointed expert on a subject that he's really more of a propagandist on.
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  5303. And all completely avoidable. A beautiful country laid waste, hundreds of thousands on both sides dead, millions displaced and the well of international relations poisoned for the foreseeable future and all for what? Seriously. The world's gone mad.
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  5304. Boris is a gonna.
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  5305. Wouldn't really wish that upon anyone, but if anyone's to blame here it's those covidiots who advocated those insane useless deeply harmful COVID lockdown policies which I'm sure you're not one of.
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  5306. And you're entitled to your view but at least you took the trouble to watch it👍
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  5307. Two high profile journalists who both effectively evaded the questions put to them and a further blatant attempt at deflection from the CNN guy. The short answer, as illustrated by their 'answers', is that the canon is indeed stone dead and in no small part thanks to these people.
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  5308. Most of the aid sent by the US (and others) has been in the form of arms and nobody really knows where most of this is going. Also, is any of this 'aid' expected to be paid back by Ukraine in the future one wonders? The US needs to be mighty careful, unless that's it aim of course, that it doesn't repeat the same mistakes it made in Afghanistan and Iraq whereby it creates its own and the West's future monsters.
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  5309.  @sandilengcobo7904  Chronically indebted Gen Zers ARE increasingly rejecting the 'progressive' ever more nonsensical neverending escalatory victim card game of intersectionality once everyday reality bites for them. The harsh reality that being 'woke' won't protect them from is being 'broke'. It is an elitist luxury value ostensibly spawned and monetized by millennials often with pernicious outcomes. Why should two middle aged white men who might wish to discuss and explore that idea be precluded from doing so?
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  5310.  @sandilengcobo7904    Chronically indebted Gen Zers ARE increasingly rejecting the 'progressive' ever more nonsensical neverending escalatory victim card game of intersectionality once everyday reality bites for them. The harsh reality that being 'woke' won't protect them from is being 'broke'. It is an elitist luxury value ostensibly spawned and monetized by millennials often with pernicious outcomes. Why should two middle aged white men who might wish to discuss and explore that idea be precluded from doing so?
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  5311.  @sandilengcobo7904  YT doesn't appear to permit a reply....
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  5312.  @John-bc9ml  More chronically indebted members of the younger generation ARE increasingly rejecting the 'progressive' ever more nonsensical neverending escalatory victim card game of intersectionality once everyday reality bites for them. The harsh reality that being 'woke' won't protect them from being is permanently 'broke'. It is an elitist divisive luxury value ostensibly spawned, propagated and monetized by a small group of individuals often with pernicious outcomes for those unfortunate enough to find themselves on the wrong side of it. Why should two men who happen to be middle aged and white who might wish to discuss and explore that idea be precluded from doing so?
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  5313.  @adrianrouse5148  This inflation, which started to rear its head in June 2021, was widely regarded by central banks across the world as 'transitory'. A rise in interest rates would have unnecessarily hampered the expected 'V-shaped' recovery. Covid and the economic and social policies associated with it has been an abject disaster, particularly for the UK, and was bleeding obvious to many of us from the very beginning. Meanwhile the average age of a covid related death remains stubbornly over 80. Nuts. Complete and utter nuts.
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  5314. Drier than dry. Just when we thought you couldn't get any drier Patrick.
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  5315.  @naas699  And not just US ones either. Ukraine has been a boon for weapons manufacturers elsewhere too.
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  5316. Wonderful interview.
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  5317. Unfortunately history isn't a morality play. Don't go looking for moral consistency. Tragic, but true.
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  5318. Oh, do give over. His wife is of Indian descent.
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  5319. In terms of BLM, Floyd was NOT murdered and there are 3 police officers in jail on entirely trumped up by the establishment charges . No one seems to want to touch that one.
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  5320. Hate to sound paranoid but I can't upvote this as the thumbs up icon is off my screen. Might be a technical issue I suppose.
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  5321. Yup. We're being played. Proper. This isn't about Left vs Right. It's about libertarians vs authoritarians. Frankly, free thinking people vs mindless robots.
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  5322. I can certainly appreciate Glen's conundrum here. It's always a fine line between giving the majority of your 'paying' audience what you believe they want and what you think they need to hear on a divisive issue like this, particularly in a fragile monetized environment such as this. Eyeballs are cashflow one way or another and a 20% loss is not a trivial sum. What I would guess is that the majority of those who have stopped watching have likely also unsubscribed so they're already lost. Not necessarily forever, but likely for some time. One thing's for sure I believe enough in the integrity of this man, unlike many others, to ultimately do the right for the right reasons.
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  5323. Jesus. If even Dr (pr)Offit doesn't support widespread boosting then you know it's a bad thing.
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  5324. Watch Chris Orfalea's recent 'Fiery Joe Biden' compilation to see what Trump is up against. To say it's the almost entire MSM is not an exaggeration and nor is it to say it's an obvious conspiracy.
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  5325. The YouTube algorithm is a fickle beast and always always hungry. Good news doesn't sell unfortunately.
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  5326. People have been predicting the end of the world for as long as humans have walked the earth and no-one has been right yet. Invariably there's power to be gained and money to be made from doing so. People need to stop confusing environmental degradation and destruction with so called inevitable climate change. The first we can and should do something about, the second I somehow doubt we can.
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  5327. I've been doing my job for 21 years now. It's, on the face of it, a very small world but, in reality, it involves literally tens of thousands of interactions in a year. I get to hear about all manner of illnesses, family issues etc and I try and be discreet. Two unprecedented (in that extensive period) and unexplained incidents that have caught my attention recently are 1) a customer's 42 year old son found dead in his bed from a massive heart attack with absolutely no previous history in the family and 2) a previously extremely fit 23 year old naval rating who suffered a massive stroke that put him in ICU for weeks and which he will likely never fully recover from. These aren't made up examples. Similarly, last year, a customer's husband was effectively coerced into having the Pfizer jab by the game software company he worked for having tried to hold out. Next day he ended up in an ICU with doctors apparently at a total loss to explain what caused his admission. I haven't seen his wife since, but I believe the long-term effects have been life-changing for them. Now I don't have a problem if people like you elect to take these entirely experimental, essentially untested jabs - they are jabs not vaccines which is why the CDC recently changed the very longstanding definition of what a vaccine actually is - but forcing other people to take them, which I suspect you would from your comments, is an unforgivable position.
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  5328. Nice jibe at WHO there Dr C. Why aren't they jumping up and down as they were during covid? They've just had their funding increased by 20% which, now they've secured it off the back of covid, they're probably no longer interested in who's dying, in what numbers and why any longer.
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  5329. Putin's Russia certainly isn't bankrupt and it was never looking to re-establish its Soviet empire. Pure propaganda. It is still a great power and wants, nay expects, to have its immediate sphere of influence. Quite modest ambitions compared to the US to date in fact.
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  5330. The point Max makes over the honour system over car loans makes perfect sense when you think about it. Can't believe it's never occurred to me before seeing as the 2008 bank bailouts were so obviously just the nation states bailing out themselves. D'oh!
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  5331. This gentleman, along with many others on here, clearly doesn't understand the difference between anti-Zionism and the genocidal actions of the state of Israel and anti-Semitism. Many of the most vociferous and eloquent critics of Israel's actions ARE Jewish, but that clearly upsets their pat narrative.
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  5332. This is just yet more CRT nonsense contrived to foment racial divisions. Whoever is doing it is dangerous whether it's this Fulani woman, the woman in the interview above or the usual suspect virtue signallers in a our press. My business is neighboured by Turks, a Punjabi Indian, a Vietnamese couple and a Kurd I believe. All delightful, assuming I'm allowed to say that? ALL are 'British', but only one of them was born here. Where are THEY from?
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  5333. YTD the GBP has fallen just under 18% against USD and the S and P has fallen just under 24% for those who are interested.
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  5334. I have a hunch that if Venezuela were a desert with nothing above it or below it the US wouldn't be quite so interested who ran it.
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  5335. Fascinating.
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  5336. I'm assuming that Ireland's neutrality was suspect during WW2 given the troops it sent to fight with the British against Hitler. De Valera's own public views further complicate things I suspect . That said, so were both Sweden's and Spain's actual in practice neutrality. As was Lottaz' homeland Switzerland upon closer inspection. Like everything else I guess, even 'neutrality' is a movable feast?
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  5337. There are articles going way back regarding far right elements in Ukraine and the potential threat they pose to peace and stability in the region. They can be found across UK mainstream media including The Guardian and BBC's Newsnight. To call them a simple propaganda tool of Putin is demonstrably false.
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  5338. Yes a bit odd that but I took it to mean his mind must be on higher things. Pound to a penny he's replaying that 'd'oh' moment in his head on a regular basis.
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  5339.  @buzzbuzzard3809  So you're only interested in hearing people you entirely agree with?
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  5340.  @buzzbuzzard3809  Nuff said.
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  5341. ...and meanwhile whilst all this consumption is crucial to economies it apparently inevitably fuels the imminent climate catastrophe... An impossible circle to square here surely?
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  5342. China has been by far the biggest contributor to the West's desperately needed imported disinflation since the 2008 crash. China was the devil we chose to cross the bridge with at the time basically and now it's time for the West to face the consequences of that expedient decision.
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  5343.  @newsduke  I think at least three of the indictments to date involve entirely novel charges that have been created by democrat sympathising prosecutors especially for the pursuit and persecution of Trump so, yuh, something smells more than a little off to me. In terms of the Biden family's criminal history, most notably over its financial and political dealings in Ukraine, I know which way the scales of justice should be hanging in relation to these politically motivated charges against Trump.
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  5344. If I were Russian I'd be extremely skeptical about what's on offer here. A winning Russia has no need to pause this war other than perhaps global optics and by doing so it could seriously compromise its future position and lead to the unnecessary loss of its soldiers' lives. The Americans started this proxy war against Russia and now they're apparently trying to finish it as best they can on their own terms, but what's in little doubt is that they have proved repeatedly that they cannot be trusted, Trump or no.
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  5345. I think these guys obviously lost the thread somewhere, bizarrely ending up talking about how the left has lost its way instead of the MX5's road handling capabilities.
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  5346. Re Syria chemical attack. First question we should always ask ourselves when things like this happen is 'cui bono' and the second should then be 'could this be a false flag' designed to justify a response and/or send a message. Assad had zero to gain by using chemical weapons in Syria and much to lose just as Putin had nothing to gain by destroying NS2 and much to lose.
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  5347. No you're not. 'You' are defending your own country in your own self-interest which you're perfectly entitled to do as is this gentleman to express a reasonable opinion on what is happening there and his wider fears as to where it might lead. Not least because there would be no real fight without continued Western military and economic aid to Ukraine.
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  5348. Love these...
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  5349. Moral of the story? History is not a morality play.
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  5350. Eighty percent of the world's energy needs still comes from fossil fuels despite the narrative.
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  5351. Ironically, what defines liberalism today is intolerance. Liberals essentially get to rigidly define what is ok and what isn't and woe betide anyone who crosses their lines.
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  5352. More power to your elbow.
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  5353. Well, presumably because thousands of people are interested in what he has to say because he speaks to a somewhat wider audience than the intellectual heavyweights that you enjoy? It's quite telling how most of the negative responses to him are ad hominems like yours rather than taking issue with what he actually says. What does he say here that you find so laughable or lightweight pray?
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  5354. True. His face was shot AT, but he turned his head and it nicked his ear Poor bloke behind him wasn't so lucky.
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  5355. Turning tricks for cash? They wouldn't ever sink that low surely?😊
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  5356. They ALL are FFS! To argue that Biden or the Dems aren't Zionists either is for the birds.
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  5357. Good time to short Pfizer stock?
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  5358. Thought it was quite endearing that he was still determined to enjoy his brew there regardless.
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  5359. Biden's oddly named IRA, Inflation Reduced Act, doesn't seem to be working as intended does it? Inflation remains sticky, the economy and employment isn't slowing significantly and the FED is still holding fast on any interest rate cuts as its numerous back to back rises haven't worked anywhere near as expected yet. Similarly, other European countries didn't do anything like on the scale of Biden's IRA and yet inflation has still fallen in similar terms. Maybe it's because at its heart Biden's IRA was a massive public financial stimulus program which, arguably, is in itself inflationary?
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  5360. Must admit, to my shame (my excuse is time) I've only really just started to question the narrative I've long believed about the world wars for my 55 years.
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  5361. The war in Ukraine was TOTALLY avoidable. Insane.
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  5362. Honestly can't see either Russia or Turkey sitting idly by if Iran is attacked with US help and Israel couldn't do it without it. The West completely tore up the 'international financial rulebook' with its sanctions regime against Russia, seizing its assets and the weaponisation of the US Dollar. The leaders of nations around the world, particularly in the global South, are looking at this playbook and thinking they might be next. The US led West looks to me like it's seriously overplaying its hand.
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  5363. Scared of nuclear war? Russia and the US possess 90% of the world's entire nuclear arsenal between them so it's a kinda 'yeah' there from me. This is a war that Russia cannot afford to lose and even if Putin were deposed what makes you think that what follows him would be any better? And when it comes to respecting sovereign territory what makes you think the US has an unblemished track record and what makes you think that the US doesn't try and heavily determine what goes on in its own backyard?
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  5364. Rarely, if ever, admitted by our political and financial masters but full employment is inflationary. Both politically and economically useful to have a permanent bank of unemployed workers to keep prices down.
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  5365. NATO isn't a defensive military alliance. It is patently an aggressive tool of US/Western hegemony.
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  5366. No one, particularly in the 'liberal democratic' apparently enlightened West, seems to EVER ask the question as to why the US and its Western allies are apparently so obsessed with securing 'yesterday's' fuel ie fossil fuels. The world, we are told, is literally teetering on the edge of a climate catastrophe because of the consumption of these fuels so why all the blood, sweat and treasure expended to secure exclusive access to them?
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  5367. So the 'international rule of law' West is now surreptitiously cheering on a rebranded, softened at the edges Sunni 'responsible for 911' Al Qaeda, apparently minus its mad 'death cult' offshoot ISIS, on the basis that our (Shi'ite) enemies' enemy is our friend? Pythonesque doesn't quite cover it, does it?
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  5368. 'Western Europe's main reaction to the end of the Cold War was to take a 30 year holiday from defence spending' - Kevin Connolly, BBC.
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  5369. I'd agree that Reagan wasn't good for America in the longer term just as Thatcher wasn't good for the UK, but I personally don't think that either were bad or insincere people as such. Just misguided.
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  5370. I've always had the feeling that he's no stranger to knowing how to enjoy himself that one🥳
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  5371. I agree that the West, generally, is definitely seeing the flip side and darkside of democracy at the moment, but it still remains the 'the worst form of government, apart from all the others'.
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  5372. And much like Senator Joseph McCarthy and his vicious psychopathic witch-hunts, let's hope that cancel culture meets a much deserved swift, early, ignominious demise.
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  5373. Alladin'll probably do what ex-UK deputy PM Nick Clegg did and land a plum job with some global corporate like FaceAche and ultimately walkaway with millions. These political connections are worth that apparently in 'the market' and it's probably always been their long-term personal plan anyways.
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  5374. When you have to keep hammering the 'Russian FULL SCALE invasion of Ukraine' line after 3 years as this fella and Western media does then you KNOW that something's a wee bit fishy.
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  5375. Most major wars are bankers' wars. Ukraine has been played and its nationalism, one of the most potent of human forces has, yet again, been exploited by the moneymen.
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  5376. Thames Water, which is now billions in debt, was privatised in 1989 as part of the Conservative privatisation schedule to off-load 10 regional water and waste companies. Conducted under the bizarre promise of greater competition, lower bills, greater investment and improved quality and service. Today it's mostly turned to sh*t. Bills are rising inexorably, sewage pollutes our rivers daily and investment is non-existent, partly thanks to obscene shareholder dividends paid in the past. This vital public utility was sold of in its entirety with any debts wiped clean to sweeten the deal for 'private investors' for the princely sum of £7.6bn. Thames Waters' debt pile alone today is around £19bn. It was a shakedown, a robbery conducted in plain sight by the financial and political elites of this country. Shame on them.
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  5377. So Herr Netanyahu is intent on expanding the lebensraum for the mythical master race he leads? History might not always repeat itself exactly, but eerily it does often rhyme.
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  5378. @AMPLIFIYAH  My jealous what?
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  5379. The Iranian missile and drone attack proved that Israel's air defence is ostensibly in the hands of the Americans and, to a lesser extent, NATO forces.
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  5380. Built in obsolescence. It's a fact.
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  5381. Perhaps because it was the end of Sukkot, a Jewish festival, and everyone was on holiday?
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  5382.  @sandlotscout6358  It's difficult to believe I agree. Just throwing it out there.
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  5383. I recommend looking at Positive Money's 'How Much Money can Banks Create' page to answer your question.
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  5384.  @mikemcgurk1447  And Mr Farage, living in a democracy as we do, would have been perfectly at liberty to carry on his campaign. As to how many people would support him after such a referendum result would be pure conjecture, but I suspect it wouldn't have been significant. Most leave voters, I believe, would have accepted that democratic result for what it was, unlike many remainers. In a way that encapsulates the difference in mindset between the two groups and as epitomised by the likes of Campbell. Some regard the process and the result it delivers as sacrosanct, whether they agree with it or not, and some, unfortunately, do not....
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  5385.  @laurenceBDontYaNo  The Tory party certainly are not my party I can assure you. By far the majority of the MPs voted in in 2017 stood on manifesto pledges to fully honour that referendum result to leave the EU as per the VERY specific referendum question. Would you swear on your life that those very MPs that took their seats that year, all to a man and woman, did their utmost to honour that pledge that helped to secure their parliamentary seats? What is obvious to me, and it's not exactly surprising to me given the structure and attitudes which prevail in the EU itself, is that the really vociferous remainers (which I assume includes the likes of you and Campbell) aren't simply undemocratic you're actually 'anti-democratic'.
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  5386.  @laurenceBDontYaNo  Once someone sinks to using 'ROFL' emojis in an exchange then you know you've won the argument. You've certainly very little to feel proud about - what you've said already is very revealing - but at least you've yet to sink as low as that murderous, ignorant bully, Campbell. Sleep well.
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  5387.  @1967deek  How so?
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  5388. Always found it odd how in NATO's 2008 Bucharest Declaration Ukraine, a constitutionally neutral country for almost 20 years by then bordering Russia, would be invited to join a US military alliance predominantly created to counter Russian influence in the region????
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  5389. Bush was a war profit and Gore was a climate profit.
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  5390. No-one has the monopoly on wisdom. As I've replied to someone above he was a product of his time and someone who evolved and endeavoured to learn from and reflect upon his life experiences over his lifetime. If that makes him 'a hypocrite' and enables you to summarily dismiss his views as a result then so be it, but how many people do you know (perhaps including your inestimably goodself) who are capable or are willing to make that stretch?
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  5391. It's refreshing, finally, to hear these commentators not trying to frame this solely as a Big Bad Orange Man created fiasco. Trump knows there's a BIG BIG problem with the US and whether he's got the correct solutions and whether they're motivated by doing the right thing is now largely a moot point.
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  5392. Love tha theme toon.
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  5393. There was a theory, only a theory I stress, that the likes of both Gaddafi and Hussein were probably deposed because they were in their time exploring dedollarising and looking to sell their oil using other means.
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  5394. So why does that make him wrong?
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  5395. Seriously don't see what the fuss is about? When the local mafia guy comes round and tells you bad things can happen to good people if you don't have 'protection' then he's not 'forcing' you to get 'protected' he's merely warning you of the potential consequences if you don't....
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  5396. ​ @chkldstgee2433 Deep states will resort to killing their own if they're viewed as a significant security threat. The UK has likely done it, as shown in the examples given, as has the US with both the Kennedy brothers. Portraying Russia or Putin as somehow heinously unique is for the birds...gulls mainly.
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  5397. It wasn't touched on between Lionel and Hamish but the problem with debt, and it's not a popular thing to say, is that it effectively fuels modern economies rather than old fashioned savings. 2008 was called 'the credit crunch' because there was a real danger that 'money/debt' might dry up, seizing economies. Interest rates are low and asset and equity prices have rising, up until recently anyway, because it has become an established paradigm driven by both fear and greed. The only way to keep the money/debt flowing ergo our economies (which are, in turn, sustained by rising asset prices fuelled by debt) running is by making the price of borrowing perennially cheap.
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  5398. I strongly suspect that most of the negative comments on here come from backers of the government and financial establishment backed crypto Ponzi schemes.
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  5399. Nope. Other way round. Israel offers US plausible deniability just as Wagner Group offered Russia.
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  5400. Yep. Used to be good, but seriously has been going down the toilet for years. Polly Toynbee?? The ultimate Champagne Socialist if ever there was one. Also its journalists were responsible for betraying Assamge whilst working on the wikileaks stories.
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  5401. It's the worstest.
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  5402. Of course Israel has nuclear weapons. It's the worst kept open secret in history. Some of its own politicians have admitted as such over the years. Including one recently in the act of threatening Palestinians with total annihilation after October 7th. Israel's Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu was suspended indefinitely after he said in an interview that dropping a nuclear bomb on the Gaza Strip was “one of the possibilities,” according to Politico. If it did officially admit to having them though it would have to be subject to all the Western led inspections and treaties, including NPTs, that would be required of it in order to remain in the Western fold. Technically then, western countries shouldn't be dealing with it nevermind funding it copiously and selling it the very best of its weaponry and technologies, but this 'three wise monkeys' approach allows all current vested interests their chance to have their cake and eat it.
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  5403. Kim's right, lots of people do seem to confuse shareholders and depositors. Shareholders are always, essentially, taking a speculative risk. Depositors are very obviously not. Shareholders will always speculate for profit whereas depositing your money is a fundamental question of trust. If that trust is broken or seen to be something that can't be relied upon in future more generally then the whole system breaks down.
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  5404. China has been by far the biggest contributor to the West's desperately needed imported disinflation since the 2008 crash. China was the devil we chose to cross the bridge with at the time basically and now it's time to face the consequences of that decision.
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  5405. One can't help feeling that there's more to the Corbyn takedown than just the internals of the Labour Party. Like him or loathe him, he represented this country's one chance of a fundamental change in direction and for that I suspect there were forces outside the Labour Party itself who wished to not only see him removed but totally and permanently discredited in the process.
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  5406. What about all those extra hospitals they threw up at great cost?
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  5407. Truth is like wisdom. No-one has a monopoly on it. Those who constantly try to limit free speech are essentially saying that most people are incapable of making up their own minds so let us do it for you. At its heart it's a trust issue and it boils down to a small group of largely faceless, unaccountable, powerful people saying that 'the masses' can't be trusted to think the 'the right thoughts' so they need to be told what those 'right thoughts' are. Toxic for democracy and toxic for intellectual progression.
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  5408. Don't need to. Look at how shots which were being given at 43m a week globally at their peak have now plummeted to 3m a week now and will likely fall much further. Quietly, fewer and fewer people are lining up for them whatever their reasons. Safety, efficacy, 'done their bit' etc. The cost of this exercise is gradually shifting back off the public books back onto the private's and the vaccine producers are starting to get nervous as their cash cow is drying up.
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  5409. Long story short? You can't have ever rising national debt and government spending when the economy isn't growing and shows no signs of growth.
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  5410. WTF has criticizing the violent, quasi-imperialist actions of the apartheid state of Israel got to do with anti-Semitism? Israel is offended by everything and ashamed of nothing. Erdogan is a shameless, two faced, double crossing murderous scumbag. Does calling him so make me an Islamophobe? Stop playing the victim and hiding behind anti-Semitism.
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  5411. Nice to see Alex got the memo and is uncharacteristically wearing a suit😂
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  5412. Off shoring, cheaper goods from developing economies and shift to increasingly more expensive service economies. It's all starting to make a lot more sense now!!
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  5413.  @proselytizingorthodoxpente8304  What I'm saying is that various groups had their own interests in promoting and sustaining the lockdowns. It wasn't a conspiracy as such but many were acting in their own self-interests and ignoring mounting evidence showing not only that they didn't work, but also that they were causing huge, costly unnecessary harms. Harms we're living with to this day. Politicians absolved themselves of their ultimate responsibilities. Science suddenly became 'the science' - scientists previously highly regarded were silenced - and something for them to hide behind and worst case scenarios were invariably the ones which were presented to the public even when other far lesser scenarios were posited.
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  5414. All of this identitariarian nonsense is designed to divide and then rule. Why should someone's sexuality or the colour of their skin mean that they should all think the same way about something? It's a supreme insult to people's intelligence and were I gay or black I would be incredibly offended by people, politicians and institutions repeatedly assuming so and continually peddling this fallacy.
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  5415. Institutionalised child abuse.
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  5416. John McCain famously never a met a war he didn't like. Why that dreadful human being is so lionised by SO many Americans I'll never know.
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  5417. Today's SBF's banana procurement problem solution is tomorrow's Zuckerberg metaverse .
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  5418. You're obviously unfamiliar with US law, yes?
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  5419. Trump is a totemic. 'If only people could see sense' is not really a decent political argument from Shriver. The US electorate is polarised, it's polarised for a reason and yes even a brain dead Biden or even a Democrat stuffed monkey will likely win in 2024 just to keep Trump out, but it doesn't address that polarization and sense of alienation that many Republican US voters feel.
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  5420. When and why did Judaism ever become a race? It's a religion NOT a race. Even classing it as an ethnicity is highly dubious. The world's f*cked up.
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  5421. @VincentRE79  Yup.
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  5422. Whilst true that Obama refused to send lethal weaponry to Ukraine for fear of escalating tensions with Russia as Mearsheimer points out, records show that Trump only subsequently did so extremely reluctantly and under extreme pressure from his aides believing it to be of economic benefit rather than a strategic proposition.
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  5423. 'The love of money is the root of all evil' The way things are going, this will not end well. There are obviously a relatively few human beings on the planet for whom even too much is never enough and where riches far beyond the dreams of avarice will not suffice.
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  5424. This was a Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the US Military Industrial (God) Complex. I'm Joe Biden and I approve of this message.....wibble wibble....
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  5425. Proof positive either the BBC or YT is shilling for a certain constituency. Or both. Just posted a famous CS Lewis quote vaerbatim and it was taken down.
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  5426. What's fascinating is watching all these 'this is for thee, not for me' public figures espousing all this stuff whilst they go about their daily business as if nothing's happening. Call me old fashioned, but if I believed that I, along with others, were plunging headlong into an imminent disaster I'd be inclined to profoundly change my own behaviour first before lecturing those around me.
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  5427. I think the question every serious person is asking is what, exactly, is Linda Wilburn doing about this?
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  5428. Never normally one to defend him, but he was always quite sketchy about that claim.
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  5429. She's out of her depth here and should've conceded she was wrong. Definitely unprofessional but an impartial audience can see that for themselves.
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  5430. Little wonder that the US is spiritual home to things like the 'trickle down' narrative and the 'Laffer Curve' designed to help justify and reinforce this inequality.
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  5431. Like the rest of us, better be careful what you say then....
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  5432. 'The plucky little guy', as Freddie puts it, could never be quite so 'plucky' without ever more western military hardware and money behind them. This isn't the David against Goliath existential struggle that western media seems intent on peddling and if it were it would be more applicable the other way round. Ukrainians, if nothing else, are outnumbered by Russian bods on the ground so, barring yet further interventions by the west, they're eventually going to run out of manpower on current form. Frankly, this ongoing situation is insane.
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  5433. Is it Wilhelm or Robert we're talking about here pronunciation-wise?
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  5434.  @sshender3773  So you've watched it then? I've long been sceptical about the 9/11 conspiracy theories, but by the same token I like to keep my mind open. The recommended video demonstrates the plausible false flag narrative - demonstrably and provably used before including in Vietnam - without going into huge detail about the nature of collapses. If you're not remotely interested in the world and always like to believe what you're told then my advice to you is to stick the MSM and leave us 'crackpots' to our own devices.
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  5435. There were apparently no Israeli professionals able to properly examine the dead from October 7th because they were all to a man and women focused solely on defeating Hamas? We were ALL concentrating on x so we couldn't do y. We often hear this ridiculous, dishonest, frankly insulting claim. As if, somehow, there weren't different people with different skills available to deal with different problems.
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  5436. Just too many odd things occurred to believe this report is anything but a whitewash.
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  5437. Short answer is that nobody has a monopoly on wisdom.
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