Comments by "DXR" (@MrDXRamirez) on "DW News" channel.

  1. Dr. Rachel’s prescription is clear and necessary. Politician’s feet held to the fire and ousting the Oil Industry from government.
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  2. What a mistake! Machinery was intended to make goods for less and shorten the time people have to work to survive turned out to be the exact opposite. People work longer and the work is more intensified by new machinery and automation brought into the shop or office...so what makes you think raising the retirement age above 62 is not giving employers more of what workers give them for nothing? The deal is workers get paid a certain amount of goods that does not change much or frequent and what they produce over and above after they made their money in wages belongs to their employer. That part of the product that belongs to the employer is fantastically high; according to all reports, CEO earnings are through the roof. It would be the sheer greed of employers to want more additional working time from workers and sheer disdain by the government to propose legislation that gives more value producing labor to employers while life expectancy is down and the quality of life for working people is full of deprivation. This battle is not over by a long shot.
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  3. By the title of this report the readers are misled. Stuck in the steel factory are the fascist battalion. Holding strong but far out numbered like the Texans were surrounded by Santa Anna’s Mexican Army for three months in the Alamo i 1836. They were defeated from day one of the attack. Biden pointing to the steel factory and people trapped in the rubble are really this battalion he is concerned about. The best thing America can do for itself to gain respect from the world is to join its own International Court and let some of its own leaders be tried for war crimes, even if it means the entire generation of politicians are found guilty for their participation of war crimes. Only then can you bring Putin to trial for his war crimes.
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  4. Sure it does. Don't rebuild where water went. Build where water does not go.
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  5. Very good China, the western fledgling democracies who are chronically unable to overcome the inherent autocratic tendencies in their social systems need a mature grown up.
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  6. Rapid pressure change and inner ear compression.
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  7. Bureaucracy is at fault. Poor emergency planning. Too many chiefs no Indians. A Classic American syndrome. I would be curious to know the toxic condition of the area as no readings have been done for radiation, chemical in soil and water debris contamination...none reported by officials in any of the hearings thus far, that I am aware of... in my mind, the ferocity of the heat of the fire reduced material into dead elements. Sifting and separating work more than a environmental remediation problem. There isn’t a openness of the method of approach coming from officials and a latent hesitancy beneath the surface of the formality lingers. No process of elimination has been announced of a methodical approach to recovering singed body remains, water and sewage repair, and distributing necessaries are three big problems the authorities do not seem to have a handle on. When the mayor says Lahaina is dangerous...none of the officials behind him come forward to say “they know this to be the case because they conducted water and soil testing,” nothing to that effect. The Public will have to face it going forward that bureaucracies are designed to function after the fact and when they have nothing to administrate they are useless in a situation that calls for recovery and rehabilitation as their main purpose is not prevention.
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  8. Utterly pathetic...here is a on-the-stop-reporter who actually felt the chemicals in the air and has seen the deadly effects of the chemicals on the train and does not mention the conditions on the train exposing train workers to the chemicals for long periods of time. I think the issue here is that the workplace endangers human life inside and outside of the workplace and a train is a workplace.
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  9. All the products of private industry look durable and useful against powerful natural forces and pass all government standards but in the end they crumble for their cheap construction. Building products are not produced for their use to withstand earthquakes. Building are not planned and designed with material that can be easily sifted when it is rubble. The earthquake disaster brings together a confluence of everything wrong with construction industries.
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  10. Maybe this tragedy will bring an end to the era of de-regulation and bring real changes about who decides/enforces the safety protocols in the production of all things humans use for consumption and transport.
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  11. Oil and gas and minerals. Guyana is going to have more holes in the ground than farm space. Everything will be price tagged to allow the richer to do the exploiting of this natural deposit. The paper industry is killing the rain forest. Oil and gas deposits are open in the US. So much oil the price is falling. Making it cheaper to emit more carbon. Accelerating wars. Burning up money like there is no tomorrow. More industry and more consumers use up more than what nature can replace. Most of Guyana’s land would be lost to drilling, mining and excavation. These companies mine, excavate, and drill for the world market. Tons and tons of rock and mineral. Oil wells and refineries and shipping ports boom. The pace of accumulation peters out eventually. But it starts out with a massive amount of foreign investment capital and ends up with a massive amount of more capital. Many will be dispossessed of their ancestral lands of generations present with price offers or by force. If there is less farmland and more people in cities and not enough employment Guyana would be in trouble. It will have to borrow big and owe more. Bigger prisons, police, justice, army, bigger hotel industry, bigger everything and buy more from the outside than what Guyana herself can produce inside. The motive is a repeat of colonialist exploitation of the 19th century but for another kind of raw material and resource is the only difference. Seems hard to imagine; the past still operates in the present.
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  12. Argentina has such a low national income that it can only afford a small share of the world’s gold supply. That should give you a good picture of what is going on. The US would have to finance what the country needs in gold reserves to be an active partner in trade. Industries will work their people to death so the nation’s output can exceed what the nation owes.
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  13. If this tragedy does not usher into humanity the final end of the capitalist mode of production in the housing industry nationwide than humanity is truly a cursed species bound to fail and disappear like the dinosaur. Cities are built on fault lines. The demise of dinosaurs was of no fault of their own whereas man’s demise is his own fault. Capitalism does not put aside a social disaster fund for societies. Every mammal in the animal kingdom accumulates its sustenance. Human mammals accumulate for accumulation sake. The dominant reason things are built in the first place is not for a social recovery plan. The dominant reason is for some future acquisition of wealth. Wealth for an individual of the species not for the species in general that all resources are used. Either you have enough money to rely on the market or you don’t, if that, to dig out of rubble. Single home construction has two purposes. When people conform to the laws a consumer quantity, a requirement for construction based on sale of building properties, is created is the first purpose and the second purpose is to provide homes. But where human beings are a source of value at the sales end and in the production end, as consumers and producers, there is nothing in that social relationship that constitutes a form of social insurance against natural forces or natural disaster recovery and rebuilding.
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  14. What is it about the reform that has gotten people so angry? Reform is the wrong way to phrase what amounts to government actions to unload private corporate and government public debt on the backs of working people. Debt not of the making of the working people of France that shoving it down the throats of working people takes this conflict to a level of refusal to work at all! A society that does not work will die not in a month but in a week and in the death of a given social organism is the birth of a new society.
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  15. Question: Is air travel the best way to move an average of 132 million people a year?
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  16. A Vote for Trump will have two major and severe consequences for American people. The first is a tariff on imports that will force every American to pay up more in price for the same product that is American made. American manufacturers do not sell direct to the Public but through agents and dealers who add to the price of an American product. The second negative effect a vote for Trump would entail is the death of the American Gulf Coast Fishing and Farm Industry resulting from more ‘drill baby drill” policies on the Gulf of Mexico the spills and big rigs tear up the coniferous habitats of shrimp in the Gulf Coast. The disappearance of shrimp is a vote for Trump. There are social effects to having a demagogue like Trump in charge. Protectionism is one part of the problem, the other part is the shrinking size of the US workforce. Harris refers to this shrinking workforce as in need of “opportunity”, she is right, there is no opportunity for the workforce under the economic conditions of the past 45 years. As the economic slowdown procedes breaking up and changing how America does business is the least kind of policies we need. The policies needed are how America works, how to expand this workforce, adding value in communities versus extracting value from them, leaving them desperate and broke. There are only different classes of workers stuck in different industries serving a life-sentence while the expectation this workforce has for itself is “opportunity”. A vote for Trump will further shrink this workforce, millions more thrown into poverty, homelessness, shoeless, and mentally unstable the whole society is a hot house for the mentally sick. We can go deeper into this but suffice it say, a vote for Trump is a death sentence for Americans.
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  17. A helpful aspect of western workers going on general strikes across Europe is; it has the power to change the course of history, it shows those countries in eastern Europe that becoming capitalist gives them second thoughts about joining NATO. Doubts about what may come to them by opening up their societies to western capitalism, particularly from the US given its poor track record of raising wages and unloading private and public debt on the backs of the American people. This doubt and reticence is needed more in Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Netherlands etc., it would throw Ukraine into an even deeper isolation and force a ceasefire, a restart of the original agreements, or the China plan for peace between Russia and Ukraine and the people there can stop suffering as the inconsequential victims of a proxy war. The western workers do have the power to change the course of history when it is not the US world leaders are going for answers to perplexing social problems in their societies. This is in itself a historic decline as the rich capitalist nations are examples of failures they do not want to become.
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  18. @Null Pointer The opposition is out of sync with the majority.
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  19. Haiti's political elite did not like Moise. Solage must have had the backing of the political elite if he was so bold as to claim the presidency. But he is not dead so a trial should reveal who his supporters are? This would be like all landowners in the US and those who own large scale property in the US who are not American giving their full backing to Trump, a landowner himself, if he succeeds in stealing the presidency from Biden.
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  20. Conflict between China and the US puts Europeans in a bad spot. Americans too. War is inflationary. The War with China is a crazy idea for poor nations. One of the two super powers will make your country a ‘sentry state’. Your country will never have the choice to decide neutrality as a ‘sentry state’. What resources a poor nation has will go to use as a sentry. The same resources that could electrify the rural country side or build better roads, etc. People want the value they make back.
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  21. According to Trump, nobody builds weaponry better and Boeing is a weapons manufacturer. Boeing must be included in that group of special industries the president has identified as the best in the world. These industries are the crown jewels of the American economy. I leave it to a scrutinizing Public to examine the situation a little closer as to why Boeing among others are the best in the world yet fail to make a safe passenger plane after we have ruled out the president's sanity or preference to weaponry over human lives as the case may be?
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  22. Do not pay attention what they say Putin said it is more important that you keep your eye on all the staged events created to get defense money from lawmakers and also very important to pay attention to the timing of staged events. They are always when lawmakers are getting to the bottom of a sophisticated spy technologies and when a war is not going well. Remember and many of you might not remember or know at all the Gulf of Tonkin incident of the Vietnam war, staged by the US to expand the war. These are more important than anything being said by Putin.
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  23. Biden did what he can to save the Dollar but saw it would not be possible to stop the rise of developing economies who combined surpass the GDP of all G7 nations. India is expected to grow by 6%, Russia by 5%, China by 6%, other nations can participate in trade without buying dollars while the G7 nations average a 3% GDP are struck by inflation and high rates of unemployment and shrinking markets.
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  24.  @myaatheist2744  Good comment, refreshing to hear and reassuring. Religion is the opiate of the people.
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  25. @@simonjohn6156 ...billions sounds like an exaggeration.
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  26. Build up more freight and consume more coal.
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  27. It would have been the first time an army actually took Moscow. Rumor has it that convicts make up the Prigozhin mercenary army and you are shot to death if you retreat from a battle. Trotsky was the first to have used these methods in the Red Army. Prigozhin the former chef to Putin is a Russian capitalist. If governments were ruled by the people and not capitalists there would be no Wagner Groups to potentially recruit younger generations into a life of high risk and high profit in crime, corruption and terror. The people do not have a private interest to protect or defend, they have a general interest to defend in making the next generation a better kind of person and human being. What about the convict mercenaries of Prigozhin? He will go into exile or retirement, sell his weapons inventory, to one of his rank and file and they will go into business for themselves having known the inside operations of the government they have been paid to defend and protect. There is no re-entry into normal society and a normal job in society for mercenaries in the prime of their lives so when they get old there is no pension or social security for them. Like the early Madams of the Victorian Era they have to make a lot of money in a short period of time which can only mean mischief. Its a labor that produces no value to society and society can never restore the illicit wealth they extract in the name of force.
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  28. American business was against Covid policies. They want the workers in the office and in the factory and not working from home. Too bad if they got Covid they still have to work or be replaced was and still is the position of American business. The CDC came up with the idea of ‘shelter in place’, and those workers who could did and have not changed their way is now a battle line for the bosses. Shelter in place here was mild compared to China which was forced sheltering in place that many Americans felt the Americans should do and Fauci came close to doing it to the consternation of America’s big bosses. Trump came out with we don’t want the problem to become the problem was a win for the bosses and a loss for the workers. All governments are fearful of different groups linking up in different places, different workers linking up with other workers and shutting down the economic system, this would be a serious loss in profits to the bosses, if commerce can to standstill. They reacted by firing people and closing stores in neighborhoods where robberies and break-ins happened. That and Covid restrictions tanked profits which were compensated for by government. thanks to the government the bosses did not lose but gained more profits while the workers were home sheltering from Covid and getting vaccinated. The bosses moderated their positions and ordered their workers be vaccinated and get back to work or be fired the CDC gave a near 100% effectiveness in the vaccinations as did Big Pharma. Now the test trials of Covid vaccine data is a subject of an investigation if they are so sure its safe why hide the data from the public? The battle between bosses and workers show no signs of slowing down, to the contrary, it was on Covid restriction two years ago but now the battleground is on inflation and shrinking airplane seats with bad service, low wage incomes and high energy costs, work/life issues, and general food and necessities. Bosses barraging workers on all grounds the battle got wider and is spread over a range of issues proving to be an acid test for the next president.
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  29. What is a work/life balance to you?
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  30. If the coup took place and the new cabinet installed the armed forces of Germany would not be disbanded but its high command would lose the power of commanding the army and thus, unable to defend Germany from the coup if ordered by a new high command. Democracy is a weak system in the end. Once you cut off the head the body no longer operates or functions. Unfortunately, citizens are the least empowered social group in society would have no choice but to either rebel or submit since democracies are not direct democracies but are representative democracies operating on a constitution which would have been annulled by the new head of state. Our friend Heinrich the whatever it is to his title, would be Germany’s new dictator. I would consider this a serious problem for the German people. This could happen in the US as well. Assuming Trump had succeeded and he later announced the nullification of the US Constitution, and if the insurrectionist were armed, they would have immediately decapitated the US military with the nullification of the Constitution and established Trump as America’s first dictator. America’s constitutional republic is also a representative democracy, all the people we know and have come love or hate in Congress, would have been either arrested on trumped up charges for their removal or forced to resign. We are living in times where coups are standard operating procedure used by the Right more than the Left. Its time people defend their society from these forces and the best way is to take the military away from a high command and create a war department that is not under the command of a prime minister or a president. The power of the military must rest with the majority which was the original point behind the US Constitutions 2nd amendment, that the militia of 1779 later evolving into a modern industrialized military be autonomous from the government of elected officials.
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  31. Women can be dictators too. The AG is one, Poras (spelling?) using her office to prevent a popular elected president, she blocks the transfer of power is a dictatorial move. If anything is learned from Jan 6th it would be you have to put your money where your mouth is. The Washington establishment on both sides united against Trump and the AG Garland, appointed a Special Prosecutor to try Trump, consequently remove him from the ballot. This action constitutes a coup dé état by democrats. A coup is anything that blocks the transfer of power from proceeding...what is gained...Poras gains the use of her office to crush the opposition of the indigenous people of Guatemala, the Maya. Lula DeSilva was jailed in Brazil and popular presidents elected in Peru, Ecuador removed. It is an international conspiracy but that would mean they meet up in secret and strategize among republican ruling elites, some do but most are caught up in their own societies, in struggles like this one, fight like their existence is at stake too busy to be part of a conspiracy, crush any opposition. Who do meet once a year are the international billionaire class at DAVOS and they conspire all day and night. But give dictators an inch they take an arm. Question remains why even bother with institutions that are inherent contradictions the people of Mexico, Canada, and the US are living under regimes who stay in power by means of a coup. If we scan across to Europe the people there are living under monarchies, some quietly rule, others rule overtly in the open with Public acceptance. Monarchies rule the Middle East as well that this century is more like a restoration of the politics of the 18th century.
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  32. The entire premise of this is a fallacy and a ruse. Since there are no markings recovered from the craft it cannot be traced to its creator. Likely nobody in their right mind will come forward to claim the object.
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  33. All of this footage has o be verified, they can be of anything unrelated to the attack itself. The damage they are showing could be the work of others though the report is about Russia. Doubt everything is my message to you!
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  34. If people had the power...if power went to the people....coup dé état would be a thing of the past. I agree with the gentlemen that the promises to restore democratic civil society following all coups were lies for a power grab. Militaries want possession of the power the state represents not the state itself. The State itself and why it embodies power is the real question? This power that the State holds has implications... For one thing its power comes off as permanent. There will always be a state, therefore, always a matter of what kind of state? Second thing, the State is powerless in changing or elevating society from its corruptions due to its own corrupt influences. If in society there is slavery the State leaves slavery intact because slavery is not a political interest of the State. The political interest of the State is the political individual not the real people in society who the political individual represents in writing. The State only comes out taking an interest in society only during times when society is interrupted by major disasters of some kind. This is the only time a president visits a state unless they have to campaign for a re-election in a state.
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  35. A hostage taking could never happen in outdoor open markets where a perpetrator has the mass of people to deal with. Just from the standpoint of the distribution of products, open outdoor and street stores rule out this kind of terror tactic and make society a little more safer. A perpetrator would have to resort to other methods but at least people can go about their business not becoming a hostage on the chance day of going to the Mall. Malls are not a safe method for people to access the products they in some way helped to produce. A new design is needed. On the other hand, a perpetrators finds other methods and these too can be minimized or made more difficult, by sanctioning the producers of the objects used in the terror episode and by applying technology to the list of objects that form elements into making an object of destruction possible. This means people will have to be willing to give up the immediacy of convenience a market system offers to get what they want but life is worth more than a market system, isn’t it?
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  36. Oh, I see, this action was a way for these guys to get into prison and help their gang brothers. There had been uprising in prisons around the country ever since a powerful gang leader went missing. Kidnapping guards and threatened by inmates all this has escalated prison unrest and this action at the TV station is a serious enough charge to get into prison over all the other petty crimes the police are probably letting go because they have more important matters like a full blown war on their hands and most likely lead to a lack of confidence and defeat in the next election for this president (if it isn’t rigged). Now it all makes sense. Poor job in journalism here DW.
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  37. The opposition is not in sync with the majority in Russia and this support makes a CIA backed overthrow of the Putin regime more challenging is how the State department would take interest in this event. There is nothing here to capitalize on would say a state department official. Everyone foaming at the mouth for the overthrow of Putin will have to wait and see meanwhile NATO will not intervene with the Ukrainian offensive to take Russian controlled territory much less expect to hold it. You can have the arms but without the manpower a war will be lost. The crackdown on Novalny supporters is tolerated by a majority of the Russian public, they see his actions as the right thing to do...the concern being the penetration of western oligarchs and political forces to disable a Russia so that China has one less ally in the march to capture the Asia-Indo markets and under circumstances of an opposition as a militant arm of a particular oligarchy in the west... any internal Russian homegrown opposition alignment to that foreign intervention has no chance, a change depends on how Putin treats the majority. So far he’s solid with them. The bigger change in process are old conflicts settled in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, past colonized nations are coming into their own, is the bigger change is a new path for Russia.
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  38. This never would have happened if Iran had not been made a proxy dictatorship for the US to contain Russia during the Cold War. Before this countries like Iran were on the path toward democracy and modernization. If you do not believe me see pictures of Iran before the Shah was installed by the CIA, women dressed like Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Kennedy and were infatuated by western culture. The CIA threw that country off course. Backing an iron fisted King made that country fertile ground for fundamentalists to rule Iran and too many countries enabled it through their cooperation with the CIA at the time.
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  39. Truth be said NATO is not NATO if Russia is no longer the USSR. NATO should go before it becomes another threat to humanity. Regardless of how much you think this side or that side is right.
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  40.  @urkiddingme6254  Truth based on a idea you have ain’t going to fly.
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  41. 4 parties likely to vote No Confidence. Will the government fall? Even ranks within the Republican party will vote against the bill. Unions urge the working classes to be calm. Heavy street action and confrontations is making a real mess. Do the protests pose a threat to the government? Yes, or No. The government is under pressure...but will it fall is not answered? Who can predict. Why is Macron bent on attacking the retirement system? Good question. Associated with the retirement system is the working day to which employer and employees are brought together contribute a value to society as productive only when together and not apart. One side no longer wants to be partnered with labor in production the sentiment they no longer want to make this contribution and by extending the retirement age they extend the working day. A worker does not retire at 6 pm they now retire at 8 pm closer to the hour of the end of the natural lives while the two additional hours are given for nothing, mind you, to the the whole class of employers. The retirement battle is a matter of a fight between one class against another class dragging society down with it. Will the government of Macron fall, it could and will if this keeps up. A cabal of capitalists Macron is representing as its leader have a profit interest in extending the retirement age as a motive. The legislation on the floors of many European Parliaments and in Congress serve the same cabal. A vote of no confidence is the surest way the government of Macron will not fall. But he isn’t worth saving is the problem. France is the weakest link in the whole capitalist chain thanks to him is directly concerning to the rest of the nations stuck together through NATO and the EU involved in a war against Russia. Macron is making it more real that France will leave NATO; the anger of the masses is not only about the retirement age. The spread of mass revolt is under reported in the US for this reason. Germany the strongest link in the chain but no matter to the International cabal of capitalists all working in lock step that after all anti-working class laws are in place this cabal will crush government ending the Age of Constitutional Republics. In effect a pro-slavery rebellion of a Capitalist Class. Unions have a little more of a cushion and protection than do the rest of the working classes they have more to be conservative about compared to non-union workers who have nothing to lose and more of them are willing to cut the chain, and strike and take down government(s) for what they have become in the name of humanity.
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  42. The problem with the Rhine River is not the Rhine but Germany’s use of the Rhine to measure total GNP. Its going to be harder, more costly, with more cuts in social spending, for German GNP not to fall. Same thing in the US, using the high earnings in real estate investments to measure total GNP and not production. Come to find that real GNP took a nose dive into a deep abyss of economic stagnation and by then its too late to yank the economy out of a crisis.
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  43. Good to see the working class rising up. I see it happening in the US as communities are supplying their children with school supplies through community organization. People take school supplies for granted but the industries involved in producing pencils and notebooks are significant parts of the total world economy. And if the economy does not have a lumber industry, or does not have manufacturing of lead for pencils, it has to buy paper and pencils for its society. School supplies as small as it may appear is a catalyst for working class mobilization and organization and this empowers the working classes to push off the burden for the mistakes made by the government and the rich back on to them, let them bite the bullet, and take responsibility for their own actions. Working classes must take real action to fight off extremist groups infiltrating their neighborhoods and poisoning the minds of their children.
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  44. And what happens when the Creator does not come? @sandradixon6205 
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  45. The media reports only on the progress of the right never do they report on the effects of the policies of the right on the Public. Biased journalism.
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  46. The coming of age of West Africa reflects the decline of empire in Europe and the US. The “gravy train” has stopped. I think it is going to be a while, maybe never, for mainstream media to wrap their heads around on what just happened.
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  47. So do nothing is your position.
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  48. The Russian Defense Ministry did not go off the wall the way Israel went off on Palestine says something of the Russian restraint in the conduct of the war on Ukraine. Israel makes Russia look like an angel by comparison. The elites are human and it could be a matter of an early onset of Alzheimer’s that Putin decided to shuffle his cabinet. Where is General Austin and who is running the Armed Forces in his absence? American can’t even put a face to who leads the US Military. Biden is on track to losing the election because of the age factor. The Youth in the West is the Age Factor that will do Biden in and the Russian elites in the East are united under Putin till death do they part.
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  49. So,---NATO’s eavesdropping drone got knocked out of the Crimean sky. Western forces are ganging on up on Russia.
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  50. Why rent to a local when you can rent to an endless stream of visiting BnB travelers at prices that keep going up? Vulture and monopoly capitalism Barcelona style.
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  51. The German diplomat sees the agreements the Russia see the agreements as concessions. Give the west an arm and they will take a leg.
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  52. I like the way there are well documented cases in certain provinces of bad treatment or killings by the Taliban and yet we can't see any of that documented evidence! This channel has no respect for the public!
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