Comments by "DXR" (@MrDXRamirez) on "The Grayzone" channel.

Assuming the internet was designed by the military to be a surveillance mechanism controlling thought and opinion then the accessory to this method of social control would be controlling life itself by an autonomous entity through medical devices planted in the body.
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Ukraine is a homogenous society consisting mainly of white people. The image of the west in their minds is a white man’s image and the stories and impressions they receive of the west are white stories and impressions. They are what they consume. It would be a land of curiosity for a black traveler in Ukraine, a black man would become very popular, as never before have they ever seen a black person in reality. Will they act as racists if a single black person went through the cities and rural communities of Ukraine? People on the ground are never what people in government say they are. Government says this country is dangerous do not go there but when you do go there the dangerous place is a myth. If anything it would be a positive experience for both and a way to dampen the racist beliefs broadcasted to the world of people who live in heterogenous societies. I see it as a positive thing. A black man can go to Pakistan and that would be a land of curiosity for they never saw a black man in their whole lives either. It might even be a way to eradicate religion.
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I think what we are witnessing in India is the creation of agricultural working class after all the reforms being pushed through open up the land for commercial speculation and the small plot holdings of millions of independent farmers are privatized. Forced to sell because nobody is buying their commodity anymore they seek a job to suppliment the losses, and their families being torn apart, as the ground underneath is privatized when the offers to buy come in,---- historically speaking a capitalist revolution in agriculture in India. Political alliances seem to be drawn along lines that bring about the dissolution of India's ancient system of agriculture and clearing the way for the creation of a rural proletariat in the agricultural sector. I would not say this if Modi was not dismantling the long established rule of the "Minimum Support Price". That agency ensured farmers would not get cheated by merchants, (foreign) corporations and distributors in the sale of their produce.
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Finally, a breakthrough for others to follow, perfect for all you First Amendment auditors in the US and Canada, put your money where your mouth is about the State respecting your right to photograph public property. A man who has brains, Max Blumenthal, using property that is not the property of the US to confront leased property of Honduras to the US. Americans, Canadians and the native Americans watching this should do the same as a cadre--- protest Washington not in Washington DC which amounts to fruitless endeavors, always falling on deaf ears, but in the world Washington occupies. There is no country in the world that will not welcome you. In fact, notice how desolate streets are, people curious are watching from the windows and afar what this red-haired American is doing. He is left alone to report a piece on US occupation. Occupy and pitch tents at the front entrances of US military bases with your bodies and watch how fast Trump will cave into demands to leave now. The hosts nations will never harm you unless some deranged leader goes off the wall which is always a possibility but not a probability. In fact, the people of those nations will join you. Mass occupation on camera for all the world to see will transform the paradigm of all governments from playing ball with the US to quit playing ball with the US. Nothing the US can do about it. The US has no jurisdiction over the property Max is walking on with his camera, it is the public property of Honduras. Only if he steps into the base does the US have jurisdiction and can arrest him. But outside Mike Pompeo can pressure the Honduran president all he wants and Hernandez will not stick his neck out, his people will overthrow him knowing the forces cannot be ordered to attack Honduran protesters, no nation that small will risk going to war with the US. Valid passport is all you need, the occupation kept on rotation bases new Canadian American cadres replace the old ones when their visa expires until imperialism ends. Internally the US cannot make passports harder to acquire without infringing the right of free movement as writ in the Constitution. Trump will have to broaden his travel ban only by executive order and that will not fly if Bill Gates and other wealthy Americans cannot travel the world to conduct business. Brilliant Max. You’ve found the Achilles Heel of Capitalism.
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@mikearchibald744 The baby boomers can give youngsters the real power needed to defeat the violent repressive police state to straighten society out but the young must call for their assistance. Boomers owe it to the Youth. A little guilt goes a long way. Boomers have the time and the life experience the State cannot get over on. Besides the Boomers made this State and they need to tear it down. Youth is needed to wear out and exhaust the police to get them to quit and rebuild society, therefore, youth need strategies that make cops work for their money making it not worth the exhaustion to be a rotten cop(s). This is what gives me and you the chance to be a part of Americas’ Second Revolution.
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@mikearchibald744 The word has a bad rap. The classical definition of the word meant when one mode of economic life changes into a new form of economic life. The Stone Age and the Iron Age, feudalism became capitalism and slavery became capitalism, etc. This got downgraded into a negative connotation associated with violence by the victims of revolutions. France was the bloodiest 1789. I am at the tail end of the Baby Boomer generation. Boomers owe it to Millennials their time and dedication to unite as a social force for change. I always felt the boomers did not bring to completion what they started and they should do that now. Be an aid to the millennials who are the work force in the main. Politically aware Retired people have the time and the life experience. Millennials need the hindsight of age behind their actions. Boycotts and strikes combined is how solidarity can play out. Boomers do not know what products to what industries millennials fight against. Combining the two generations is significant social power for planned and spontaneous pressure. I never liked protest placards. I like one large banner and if placards are a must they should read the same thing stating the section of the population carrying them by occupation. One universal message and one united group is the function of a banner. “End Violence Now” covers all violence in every form. Universal messages get lost when placards read a bunch of single issues. Authorities are then able to twist words against a movement and the messaging makes them think protesters are dumb. Their attitude then lowers the quality of the opponent. The new politician runs against an incumbent is worse than the incumbent even when you think they were better than the last one, is true at the national level. Locally things are different. It would be a revolution without violence if people planned boycotts, strikes and hold events of solidarity.
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@Amadeus8484 Japan will no longer be a country without a military is the historic side of the question.
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@Amadeus8484 You can say that again.
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Good interview. Informative. Gave me a new found respect for Mr. Zalaya.
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Excellent. I have a suggestion to Grayzone, do an organizational chart of news outlets and their relationship to organizations and persons, when reporting. Anything would do. A graphic, a white board, would do to help the audience see the relationships of the entities manufacturing consent charted out as a visual aid. Thanks for your excellent work.
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Can't forget the Iraq War Veterans, so angry at the liberal establishment who at the time was Joe Biden put them in harm’s way using 9/11 for a call for freedom and liberty against Sadaam Hussien and liberate Iraq. Congress went along with it hook, line and sinker. They gave Al Queda a place to fight Americans. The Vets came back destroyed, and used the only power they have to elect Trump, a spite vote against the liberal establishment. What did the left do? Nothing. What did the left do when these same vets showed up in Virginia armed to protest Northam's gun laws on MLK day 2020? Nothing. The left should have been there arm and arm with the Iraq vets. Biden was then and is now in the pocket of Raytheon Lockheed Martin. Grumman, GE, Exxon Mobil, the largest oil dealer to the Pentagon. Biden formerly head of the arms services committee then became VP to Obama, hand-picked by Obama to initiate another war, the war we are in today, the war with the Russians to build up Ukraine. The next group of Veterans sent to war are not going to come back as close as it came with the assassination of Solemeini of Iran, because now they will be fighting entire nations in the Middle East. His America First policy puts all of Europe in the untenable position to choose between the US or Russia and China. With half of the British parliament invested in Hawei, England, France and Germany slides into a deep stagnation with Trump’s trade war on China. As for Trump, he is the wrong man for the job. Wrong, because his path is not to deconstruct the arms industry and wrench the grip the arms industry has of our government, his path is to become an autocrat. Undo all the wrong wrong-doers prosecuted by the liberal establishment and create a fealty of the justice department. The people supporting him never went to war. An autocrat is natural to them, they are chiliasts, believers in the second coming of Christ, God, Family and Country. They are the NASCAR enthusiasts, rich, spoiled Americans, country music stars, with pro-fascist leanings. Only Bernie opposed the Iraq War. Only Bernie opposes the misuse of the military, opposes invasions, opposes the arms industry, opposes industries with the highest carbon footprint. Vote Bernie if you are going to vote, it’s the last chance to restore America back to its original roots of American progressivism.
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The rich, well connected and wealthy of Lima Peru have a deep seated racism and hatred for indigenous people in the southern part of the country that when one of their own not from Lima’s Elite Oligarchy gets elected they are quick to launch a pro-slavery rebellion. They would rather destroy the entire society than give the people the chance to govern themselves.
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The left seems to lack insight into the limits within which Kahn could not disentangle himself. The political and social structure of Pakistan’s military itself had him trapped,-- the only way out was to be ousted. His other way out would have been a coup taking all power, but that would have not have been a social revolution. Reforms are possible within the framework of the system and impossible for transformations of that system. The whole situation does show despite the level of protest, political power consolidated in the military and the Assembly (Parliament) is for now greater than the protests.
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The problem with American society and the working class is right inside that very image we are watching of these two men in that lofty space discussing what the problem with capitalism is. Ironic but it stares us in the face and viewers would never find the monster of a social relation permeates our existence as a capital relation invisible to the naked eye. Even non-material thing like the internet is turned into a capital relation. We see father and son, two men discussing politics in a giant room, presumably a space in a building, and yet the space in the building and the building itself is a social relation so hidden that we take it for granted the property relation as a general realtionships between individuals that whole cities, towns and rural can be finance by debt bonds we pay to bondholders. The property of other's invades every aspect of our lives. The two men are working, expending intellectual labor-power, in someone else' capital. We are unconscious of how the transaction between labor and capital is veiled by the commodity form of the product and by the money-form of the commodity. This is the why labor recives no share of its own product in the US. A wage is the commodity-form of the product and profits are the income of the money-form of the commodity bought and sold.
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On Covid, if you are not sick or have developed natural immunity to Covid because you caught the virus and lived through it and you are not compromised by lung medical issues, you are not over 65 and frail, you are not medically fragile then they are going to tell you to get the shot and boosters because vaccines are not only vaccines but are also commodities and critical to the existence of commodities is their conversion into money and profits. Simple deduction than will help you: If vaccines have a double existence than the producer of the vaccines has a double existence. Anything Big Pharma does and says will be to promote the vaccines as commodities and the actual vaccine themselves if questioned and studied as to their real effectiveness will cut into Big Pharma’s profits. When politicians side with Big Pharma using the law to promote the profits of Big Pharma, --what the politicians are doing is ensuring the population gets worse health care and their health declines creating a market for the sale of other medicines. A law that would control what doctors tell their patients about the drugs recommended and their health becomes a law that empowers politicians to dictate the health of the community and society. A merger between State and Private Interests constitutes fascism in the form of laws is opposite to the direction society wants to be; society wants officials, legislators and law makers to solve social problems in a political way.
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Expropriation of the mass of people is done by a few usurpers regardless if the government of your country is despotic, democratic or republican.
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An American brand of socialism would make America great again.
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I would say work on making your channel a real news source. If there is not a contrast between media channels for news audiences will never see a difference.
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Hard to call America a democracy when America is half democratic. When you become a full democracy you can make that claim with pride but until then America is still a republic and a half dictatorship. Why do I say this? There are two parts to every society; a part that puts wealth into people’s hands and a part that makes wealth. In the second part where wealth is produced democracy does not exist. Work is dictated by an authority. If you don’t like the job there’s the door the Constitution of the Republic has no authority in the workplace that gives you the right to make the job according to what you think is right is what a boss will tell you. Outside of the area where people create wealth is democratic; you are free to tell all bosses in general to kiss your ass outside of the workplace, but you cannot say that to a particular boss inside the workplace where the criticism counts, so in the sense that everyone is equal; that just is not true once you enter the world of work as a partner involved in a job that you did not create. Constitutional Republics chronically entrenched by dictatorship are hybrid democracies. Democracies in waiting because the workplace is still a place where the relation of master-slave appearing in different social forms down through the ages takes the social form of a employer-employee relation in America and in west Europe.
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It is an obvious attack on journalism because Assange did not do anything worthy of becoming Public Enemy No. 1. He should be let go, be done with it. We need to watch the movement of the GOP toward a constitutional convention where they can make the publishing of government information a crime and control the press en toto.
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Jewish Nazis.
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Good piece...relevant and real news...Cruz is a lawyer but using his lawyering for the public to not get snarled into traffic from the police blockade seemed to go right over his head.
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A different set of rules justifies opposition to the rules; there should be remorse but not guilt about not trusting corporations and corrupt government agencies; there should be reason not pure nostalgia about corporations and government today are the same as before; there should be common sense not confusion that government and corporate actions make an enemy of people by their set of rules that promotes corporate immunity and another set of rules that criminalizes a community for being a community.
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It is true that if America went socialist the world would go socialist and vice versa, if it is capitalist the world becomes capitalist. This awareness is a modus vivendi of the Pentagon and NSA, and the White House. But if I were Bernie I would have flatly stated it was irrelevant to the main problems involving Americans and just stuck to his plan for America. Russian meddling and the anti-socialism is too abstract to care about it while there are more concrete problems that will give him the election such as making black lives safe and families secure with health care. He would have taken South Carolina if he stuck to the matter of making black lives safe and secure from the criminal injustice system. Social democrats tend to shoot themselves in the foot in this way when they come up against the elites and the black community is just learning more about him and his policies, in this sense he missed that chance. He does not even have to answer any questions on Castro or anyone. No matter what he says it will be used against him. Or he should make comedy about the anti-socialism...tht shows more strength and conviction that he is not worried about it. Its an old useless paradigm anyway. A vestige. This way when he gets into office he can let the right wing attack the American people demanding single payer and getting it, then let the working class do the dirty work of attacking the right wing as anti-American, turn the tables on the elites. He has the popular vote.
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The term “empire” does not work for me. Empire is the productivity of labor and its economic surplus, total GDP. The task is to place that productivity of labor into the hands of the actors of the productivity of labor not into the hands of the owners of that productivity of labor. Its the relationships between surplus product and the degree of exploiting the labor of that product. Its the difference between value and the value of its constituent elements. Its the amount of use-values necessary for social reproduction that the value side of GDP registers as a given level of exploitation. Its a crucial relationship between which the class struggle is explained qualitatively and class expansion is explained quantitatively, that the term ‘empire’ hides. Empire is a cultural term of enigmatic importance; it suggests that it does not belong to the rulers but the actors of that productivity are not fit to appropriate their own labor. The recruitment standards for joining the military expresses the level of exploitation a working class experiences; a direct consequence of higher GDP and capital expansion.
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Spoken like a true nationalist.
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That neocon guy Ned Price and cohort in the Pentagon have to go! As a country if there is no end to this war there will not be a country. War bleeds the US economy. War generates higher taxes to the government and every home-owning American hates taxes on top of taxes. We are not lending money to Ukraine we are giving it away and tax payers will not get paid back by Ukraine. The point is to end the war in a cease fire and start talk directly with the Russians. Not matter how you try to sell this war it is a war between Russia and the US. There is a direct correlation between war and taxation this generation does not know that spending GDP on the Vietnam War was followed by a profound double-digit recession and stagnation in the 70s,---this led to crime the only domestic issue republicans got elected. It was a democrat LBJ who escalated the bombings in Vietnam and he paved the way for a deep recession that gave Reagan and Bush a platform...pure propaganda that works on a racist segment of the population and works on dividing cities from the suburbs. But this time, war is ecoside, it is not the Vietnamese America provokes into war its the Russians it provokes into nuclear war. Neocons in the Pentagon always have their finger on the trigger as if the world is static, unchanging, the same as it was in 1945, ---they can’t tell when their time is over. Neocons have to be told in no uncertain terms. If this means throwing rotten eggs at war mongers, so be it! Taxation is unequal from the start is enough reason to oppose this war.
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The first Chinese war with Japan in 1894 delivered the death-blow to the old China was a period of forced emigration as millions made their way to the US and Europe. Isolation became impossible for China with that war which introduced railroads, steam engines, electricity, and large-scale industry, was developed for purposes of military defense. The second war between China and Japan of 1937, finally overthrew the old economic system of small peasant cultivation, where the family also made its industrial product itself, fell to pieces, and the whole economic system under which a relatively dense population was possible as millions were turned out of their homes and forced to emigrate; and these millions found their way as far as Europe, the US, Central and South America. Once China’s industrial base was established on a mass scale, it brought rapidly to a head, the conquest of China by capitalism and gave impetus, at the same time, to the overthrow of capitalism in Europe and all the Americas. In this historical context, that we should understand the present.
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Is the state that fragile that republican reaction to world events resort to censor and violence? No grey area between, I think the answer is yes, one example is the Grey Zone is thinning out to the forces of reaction prosecuting it. The weight of prosecution can be lifted from the shoulders of individuals in custody of the police held for trial just to be jailed, silenced, an permanently put out of sight and mind forgotten by the public. We all read Alexander Dumas, or should have read his novel Man With The Iron Mask, and George Orwell's 1984. The ruling classes cross connect and intersect in the American police state. The people can lift that weight off the shoulders of Jullian Assange and Max Blumenthal, by challenging the bully state up front.
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Should look at how the State cracked down on certain drugs as a means of repressing or segregating certain cultures in America in the west around the 1920's. Places like Wyoming were settled by Nazis sympathizers established Dude Ranches in places like Kirwin, Wyoming. After 1900, pot was associated with Mexicans, opium associated with the Chinese, alcohol associated with the Irish. Films like "Reefer Madness", meant to stir racial attitudes against Central Americans and Mexicans as destroying the minds of white young people. Native Americans and black people were not associated with a drug through which the State can crack down on Native Americans and black Americans but were subjected to the racial attitudes that steretyped them as half human before 1900 and by the lack of enforcment of the E. Proclamation of Lincoln. There is not one aspect of American culture that is not shaped by racism. Not one. I often wondered how Malcolm X and King would have reacted to Obama had they remained alive. Now that we are here, what does this mean for Bernie and the black vote after Iowa's debacles which we know was not won by Buttigieg?
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The allegation is fine but the cover up needs a motive for the suppression of the science. Herein are the reasons Wikileaks is suppressed. It could get documentation of policy decisions. Is chlorine gas merchandize and the battlefield the market...seemingly what begins with a war crime allegation early in the progression of war in the Middle East culminates into a world conflict in a eastern Europe surrounding Russia through Ukraine by NATO and US forces to isolate China, could detail the motives of the State Department.
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Two things Americans must be more mindful about is the double function of the tendency for capitalism to over produce. It used to be thought the source of capitalism's downfall is overproduction. Through mass psychology they managed to turn overproduction into a double edged sword and tool for social control. The first is whatever excess product of the primary commodity most consumed by the society is stored. For example, oil reserves replace oil consumed. This means, if all countries do the same with their excess, and they do, their militaries are never out of petro fuel and the populations are in dire straights without it. The second thing about over production people should take more seriously is the storing of a mass of goods for the gradual consumption of the rich and powerful. This action withdraws commodiites from circulation, and... ...withholding money from circulation is another way overproduction is effected. When too much of one currency or too little is present in circulation for all goods to change hands causes indusries to over and under produce their commodity. These are serious effects controlling the mass of Americans as they are able to control consumption habits and biology of the masses and keep them in perpetual need and dependency when overproduction is used in a controlling manner.
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Only if you were born late would you not know Bill Clinton’s AKA was “Slick Willy”. It takes someone slick to know a slick in the Clinton Family oligarchy.
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I am proud of these two, I have no relation to them, other than as a viewer. Blumethal and Maté are the ONLY team of reporter/journalists history will use to write itself. The contribution they make is indispensable for historians. When Stoltenberg says the world is made more dangerous he refers to an objective tendency history records and which Dr. King noted as the long arch of history bends toward an emancipation; humanity is moving toward an expropriation of the few. For which he feels requires a defense or inevitable death is the consequence. At the same time as the few are expropriated the many become free to develop commerce, trade, among them, and the social process of expropriation of the many pursued by the possessors of wealth quickly evaporates into an emancipation of the many. If it is not Stoltenberg it would be another Stoltenberg caught up in the desperate reaction of the World Oligarchy for their own survival. For Stoltenberg the comment “...makes us more vulnerable...” the “us” in his speech are the few in possession of the world’s economic and political resources, many former colonies and multi-national corporations, kings, princes, monarchs, dictators, are losing possessions attend DAVOS yearly is an act of desperation as Blumenthal notes. It would be a revealing moment if a US president attended DAVOS.
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@stupidwars88 I agree. Used to be Sentry States to shield and spear China and Russia their government leaders are too stupid or submissive a people to know it.
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The overthrowing of elites is the least important thing about ending the suffering of the working people in this world. Its only in a revolution people can take off their personal armor and defenses and not be pressured to hate each other; be themselves and more.
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Excellent report! Papa Smurf said the diamonds are valuable in the human world. Worthless in the natural world of serfs. Hardest rock on earth turns to dust if it is pulverized. What good is it? Rude little Smurfs bullyfye one of their own and cast blame and shame in the heat of their anger. Telling the family of Smurfs, Papa Smurf said their friend was taking advantage of their time. "Time", the human world did not always use time in such a way as to measure how it long takes someone to make something. Smurf time was used for a specific aim and before man used the labor of other men for wealth accumulation as a specific aim, human labor of any kind was a natural activity in finding and creating useful things. An activity of some useful kind, constructive, be nice to go back to that, live in the natural world of Smurfs, where time is not used to measure labor and labor is not time. Before there was a Gargamel invading the natural world of Smurfs, Smurf activity was spent producing use-values. Anybody who interpets the Smurf barter system economy of one use-value for another use-value is a real life Gargamel in propagandist clothing. Naturally, the serfs spending their labor time on something valuable in the social world of capitalism whether by chance or trickery, angered them. Gargamel needed their labor time, as in the world of capitalism, capital needs the labor time of the working class first. Diamonds, gold, drugs, oil, or food second, and then to avoid an expropriation by the angry Working Class, Capital must annihilate labor! They have enough wealth the working class is no longer useful to capital. Gargamel can't get off that easy, if he is accumulate more diamonds out of the same place in the future he needs more Smurf activity to be useful as a value -producer. The rage of the Smurfs against the fear of the Gargamels and a planet that cannot tolerate the conflict. Happy X-Mass All.
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What gaurantees others do not follow Camacho when he is kicked out? Camacho is a Judas, sells one soul for money. History has a long line of Judases willing to betray their own for money and property. State department has the power to set you and your family up in America for life. No worries in exchange for vital information leading to the arrest and capture of the true leaders of the people. We all know the story. Something more profound is needed to really deal with the problem of what makes revolution necessary?
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manuen Gonzales...what can they do about it? Let's analyze what they can do about it together? This is not a challenge to you. Its an invitation to cover all the angles where you think Max can be harmed. Let's start with what crime is he committing?
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Its not going to stop what the administration is going to do but it is a start.
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Horrible comment...Brother or not, prayers perpetuate the violence of the State attacking indigenous people!
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Two left candidates against one candidate on the right deliberately splits the vote. The right candidate wins. No question that was strategized from Washington via its command center in Florida monitoring the Caribbean and southern hemisphere.
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Democratic party are not an opposition party, period. Americans do not have a democracy they have a "One State Two Party System", in appearance but in reality they have a One Party State System. Impeachment will go nowhere and Trump will get re-elected because of the Democrats. If the Democrats are not an opposition party then the people need to be a mass opposition.
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I agree the young man was composed and got his points across. It takes guts to go face to face with power of any kind. What these people are doing as foreign policy experts so called; is destroying social relations in more than one society that are not compatible or inappropriate to capitalism. They invest as a life choice their talent in destructive forces against their own species and this should be made clear to them.
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The more this continues the more discredited the Left becomes in the eyes to the working classes oppressed by the corporatization of the world economy. A real left opposition will have have no credibility. Imposters, frauds and fakes working within the political structure will have completely decimated the viability of a real conscientious political program in general and a real working class movement in particular. The whole political system becomes a verbal masquerade where individuals in the political left derive benefit for themselves by doing harm to someone else is the actual case of the corporate ruling elites masqueraders adopt as a religion. How does a real left movement deal with this political charade?
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