Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "The Untouchables (full documentary) | FRONTLINE" video.

Go anywhere in the world and they are one of the last vestiges of what's called investigative journalism. I'm Australian but went to college in America (late 80s). About 10-12 years ago an American was here doing a book tour and his book was about the decline of journalism. Recently I found out he was Robert McChesney who's a professor where I went to college (but after my time). What he's written abut a lot is the lack of real journalism. In Australian we have an equivalent to Frontline called 4 Corners and its also part of our public broadcaster ABC Australia. The Canadians have a similar program called the 5th Estate and the BBC in Britain has Panorama. I know New Zealand ahs a similar program. Aside from these last few vestiges there's not much left of real investigative journalism ANYWHERE. That really should concern everyone. Right now a lot of people are wondering how the mega-rich get away with everything. There have been the Panama Papers, the Paradise Papers and most recently the Pandora Papers and no major player has been charged. The whole world saw Trump and his cronies instigate an attempted coup and other than small fish NOBODY has been held accountable. The whole world knows about Jeffery Epstein and other than Ghislaine Maxwell and Prince Andrew NOBODY including Trump, Clinton, Dershowitz have even come close to any accountability. NOW WE KNOW WHY - our major legal institutions are full of cowards.
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@genkiferal7178 I'd agree, but I'd be very careful with RT at the moment as we should be with EVERY American media outlet for one simple reason: "the first casualty of war is the truth." Or do we all need a reminder of the things we were all told right before the Invasion of Iraq?
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@genkiferal7178 I agree on WION and Al Jazeera but definitely NOT TR. I have seen some and what I have seen is usually reasonable but underpinning it all is pro-Russian anti-American money. Its like watching the sensible news part of Fox and thinking its Ok. Its not the sensible parts of any of these networks anyone needs to be wary off its the opinions presented as facts that's the problem with all of them. The other aspect are the stories they don't tell. Most of these commercial networks avoid telling anything that puts their vested interests in a bad light.
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Your right but "Citizens United" fixed that issue. Just 2 years after this story (in 2015) it was reported that Wall St bonuses topped $28 Billion while the entire minimum wage bill for America was $14 Billion. In the years since there have been no major anti-trust cases to break up the "too big to fail" crowd. In fact the DOJ has not pursued any major anti-trust case for decades. In the years since there have been the Panama Papers, the Paradise Papers and most recently the Pandora Papers and no major player has been charged. The whole world saw the January 6 attempted coup and everyone's wondering what's happening because no major player has been charged. Watching Lanny Breuer give nothing but cowardly excuses explains why nothing is being done about ANYTHING to do with Wall St, Trump, The Trump family, any of the people linked to Jeffery Epstein (including Trump, Bill Clinton and others). What this shows is that the cancer in the DOJ goes back well before Trump.
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@-astrangerontheinternet6687 Typical of right wingers if you can't deny it then claim its irrelevant or fake. You people are so pathetically predictable it should be classified as a form of psychosis.
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@aworldwithoutsin Its not just an American thing - its a world wide thing. its just a lot more blatant and in your face in America. I think after some of the idiotic judgements, appellate decisions and jury decisions of the past 30+ years have made prosecutors reluctant to try on anything but slam dunks, but that's not a reason to not try.
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ITS FEBRUARY 2022 and the world is in an even worse situation. Just 2 years after this story (in 2015) it was reported that Wall St bonuses topped $28 Billion while the entire minimum wage bill for America was $14 Billion. In the years since there have been no major anti-trust cases to break up the "too big to fail" crowd. In fact the DOJ has not pursued any major anti-trust case for decades. In the years since there have been the Panama Papers, the Paradise Papers and most recently the Pandora Papers and no major player has been charged. The whole world saw the January 6 attempted coup and everyone's wondering what's happening because no major player has been charged. Watching Lanny Breuer give nothing but cowardly excuses explains why nothing is being done about ANYTHING to do with Wall St, Trump, The Trump family, any of the people linked to Jeffery Epstein (including Trump, Bill Clinton, Alan Dershowitz and others). The only case the DOJ seems really interested in is that Australian guy. You know the one who told the truth about some war crimes.
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@wolfejar FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America in the late 80s when Reagan was in the WH. It wasn't that hard to see then that what he was doing was going to have some very serious outcomes eventually. I did engineering but a bunch of my frat brothers were pre-law and they used to drag me into all sorts of discussions mostly the amendments. I'd studied Orwell (1984 & Animal Farm) in high school as almost every Australian does. I used to argue any country could slide into a totalitarian nightmare if it wasn't careful and it was fairly clear to me American's had a number of false beliefs. The number 1 false belief was that the US Constitution (despite being brilliant) was indestructible and it would keep America safe. What do we now know? Can the US government get around the Constitution? 2 words "Patriot Act" What have you just highlighted? A piece of legislation that was brilliant and did the job got dumped and 23 years later the consequences have landed like a sledge hammer to a skull. What did I see back in the late 80s? Reagan pulling apart the health system, the savings & loans system and other things with the idiotic stupidity that the private sector does everything better. If that concept was true then why did the Great Depression happen or any of the other stock market crashes happen. I was there in America when one of those happened. A bunch of my frat brothers lost bad. The money they had made from summer jobs was in the stock market. They went to class one day and by by the time they got home it was over. I did aerospace engineering and was there when Challenger crashed. I'd actually been in Florida and watched Columbia take of only weeks earlier. In the aftermath (when they were choosing to replace it or not) Kelly Johnson (famous for the SR71, U2,...) said "DON'T replace it. Use the $4 Billion to do something better." I got into an argument with a bunch of my frat brothers at the time. I repeated what Kelly Johnson said and they screamed back that America HAD to have 4 shuttles to counter the Soviet threat. After that was the idiocy surrounding Space Station Freedom. Yeah the reason America hasn't gone back to the moon (and a lot of other things) is because decisions were being made for the wrong reasons with no consideration of lessons learned from history combined with not considering long term effects.
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@Stopinvadingmyhardware Which comment are you referring to? If your asking about Epstein there's not much we really know for certain. He was extremely good at picking vulnerable young girls out of a crowd and just as good at serving them up to specific men. We'll never really know for sure but my bet is, he was one of the most clever blackmailers in history. I suspect he's dead because somebody got hold of his information stash. Ask yourself how does somebody in that game stay alive? Leverage. How do they get killed? They lose their leverage. What amazes me is that Ghislaine Maxwell is still alive. She must have something stashed away that people know about but not where it is and that's kept her alive. If you have any better answers feel free.
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@wildmano1965 Yeah it started under Reagan when he castrated the DOJs ability to prosecute anti-trust cases. Now 40 years later the western world is paying the price of being dominated by monopolies and the 3rd world has been raped of their resources. Its one reason I hate the American Right. They are always screaming about how they believe in and protect the Constitution and yet have trampled on and neutered parts of it to their own benefit.
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@a.k2483 WTF doe you mean by "No"????? Have they not explained in this how the top level of Wall St. got away with everything they did that caused the 2008 GFC??? If you don't like being called a M0R0N then don't be a M0R0N.
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You're absolutely right but what this shows is WHY we aren't seeing anything on the January 6 attempted coup. Just 2 years after this story (in 2015) it was reported that Wall St bonuses topped $28 Billion while the entire minimum wage bill for America was $14 Billion. In the years since there have been no major anti-trust cases to break up the "too big to fail" crowd. In fact the DOJ has not pursued any major anti-trust case for decades. In the years since there have been the Panama Papers, the Paradise Papers and most recently the Pandora Papers and no major player has been charged. How far has any investigation gone on the Jeffery Epstein situation or his involvement with Trump, Clinton and others. Watching Lanny Breuer give nothing but cowardly excuses explains why nothing is being done about ANYTHING. What this shows is that the cancer in the DOJ has been festering for decades. They are so scared of losing a case they don't prosecute anything but the surest of cases. Its cowardly and its helped wreck the world.
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