Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "NBC News" channel.

  1. Just a word of caution. There were a staggering amount of conspiracy accusations following 9/11 and when the dust settled it was nothing more than an incredible intelligence failure of the CIA, NSA and FBI simply not sharing vital information. In the early days of the Bush Admin they pulled apart the FBI team that had been piecing together the entire Al Qaeda network. So there was no one coordinating the information and responses to threats. PBS Frontline did an episode called "The Man who knew" in 2002. Its kind of a legendary doco on what happens when management and/or politics interferes with expertise and common. Look at what Trump did with Obama's pandemic plans. Look at how Trump dealt with Dr. Fauci when Fauci contradicted him. My caution is to realise that Trump has screwed up institutions like the FBI - sacking anybody who said anything he didn't like. Was there a conspiracy to storm the capitol? I don't know, but if there was it has backfired spectacularly. We can say for sure was that there was a catastrophic security failure. We can also say for sure that Trump did not deploy additional security resources as it started to break. We know it cost 5 lives including a police officer on the same day COVID took a record 4134 lives and that Donald Trump has mismanaged BOTH. There actually isn't any need for theories no one can prove at this point. The simple facts tell enough - Trump is incompetent.
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  2. Its the second week of January 2021 and America is about to go past 400,000 dead just as Joe Biden takes the oath of office.. A few weeks ago Michael was warning about how bad the Christmas - New year could be. I'm Australian but went to college at U. Illinois. I've been watching Michael since the early days, because it was clear he was one of the very few who was being honest with us. He was even interviewed a few times on Australian TV. Like many others from around the world I have followed his updates over much of the last year -> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI7n04W1HWAPMrI4_41StSg If you actually add up the populations of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin its 25.2 million which compares to Australia's 25.6 million. Yes I know quite well there are significant differences in geography, population density and winter conditions, but in terms of medical technology, transportation and technical capability there's zero difference. We got very lucky with the initial spread. We cancelled many events and had NO crowds at all our major sports for the year and all that resulted in us not spreading it. But none of that explains the staggering differences. Australia has a total of 909 COVID fatalities while Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin total over 33,812 as of 12/1/2021 In the 7 days from 4 to 10 January 2021 Illinois had 971 COVID fatalities. In one week Illinois with half as many people as Australia had more deaths from this than Australia has had in 12 months. On the main table at -> https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ Australia is 54th in population and 86th in COVID fatalities. If Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin were a country they would be 16th. Illinois by itself would rank 21st in the world. New York by itself would be 14th. In terms of death-rate (deaths/1M.pop) Illinois, Indiana & Wisconsin would be 4th (at 1342). 3 American states (New Jersey, New York & Massachusetts) have a higher death-rate than any nation or independent state in the world. For whatever luck and other things that may have favored us, nothing explains that discrepancy other than a complete failure of leadership.
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  3. As an Australian I do understand your sentiment and we are having serious public discussions here right now about our future, but the British Royal family is not even close to a fraction of 1% of the problem. Do they represent a part of the problem? Absolutely and that's a significant part of our discussions - hereditary entitlement. Don't forget the British Crown was clipped of a lot of its entitlement with the Magna Carta. Yeah for centuries people claimed to do things in the name of the crown, which a major talking point here in Oz right now, but the actual King or Queen had NOTHING to do with any of it other than sign stuff they were told by the British Parliament to sign. If you have a look at it the Magna Carta is lauded as this "landmark of rights" document and it actually wasn't. It was this landmark "we the aristocracy shall have the real power while you the clown with the crown shall sign for everything." The current oligarchs are just an updated version of the old feudal aristocrats. Look at Trump and his kids. they are perfect examples of hereditary wealth and entitlement. Also, in case you missed it, during the last time Australia had the discussion Charles actually said that the rest of the commonwealth needed to grow up. He wasn't blunt about it, but tactfully said something like "reaching maturity" or "now that you are mature nations you should reconsider your positions."
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  4. Its the second week of January 2021 and America is about to go past 400,000 dead just as Joe Biden takes the oath of office.. A few weeks ago Michael was warning about how bad the Christmas - New year could be. I'm Australian but went to college at U. Illinois. I've been watching Michael since the early days, because it was clear he was one of the very few who was being honest with us. He was even interviewed a few times on Australian TV. Like many others from around the world I have followed his updates over much of the last year -> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI7n04W1HWAPMrI4_41StSg If you actually add up the populations of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin its 25.2 million which compares to Australia's 25.6 million. Yes I know quite well there are significant differences in geography, population density and winter conditions, but in terms of medical technology, transportation and technical capability there's zero difference. We got very lucky with the initial spread. We cancelled many events and had NO crowds at all our major sports for the year and all that resulted in us not spreading it. But none of that explains the staggering differences. Australia has a total of 909 COVID fatalities while Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin total over 33,812 as of 12/1/2021 In the 7 days from 4 to 10 January 2021 Illinois had 971 COVID fatalities. In one week Illinois with half as many people as Australia had more deaths from this than Australia has had in 12 months. On the main table at -> https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ Australia is 54th in population and 86th in COVID fatalities. If Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin were a country they would be 16th. Illinois by itself would rank 21st in the world. New York by itself would be 14th. In terms of death-rate (deaths/1M.pop) Illinois, Indiana & Wisconsin would be 4th (at 1342). 3 American states (New Jersey, New York & Massachusetts) have a higher death-rate than any nation or independent state in the world. For whatever luck and other things that may have favored us, nothing explains that discrepancy other than a complete failure of leadership.
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  5. Its the second week of January 2021 and America is about to go past 400,000 dead just as Joe Biden takes the oath of office.. A few weeks ago Michael was warning about how bad the Christmas - New year could be. I'm Australian but went to college at U. Illinois. I've been watching Michael since the early days, because it was clear he was one of the very few who was being honest with us. He was even interviewed a few times on Australian TV. Like many others from around the world I have followed his updates over much of the last year -> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI7n04W1HWAPMrI4_41StSg If you actually add up the populations of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin its 25.2 million which compares to Australia's 25.6 million. Yes I know quite well there are significant differences in geography, population density and winter conditions, but in terms of medical technology, transportation and technical capability there's zero difference. We got very lucky with the initial spread. We cancelled many events and had NO crowds at all our major sports for the year and all that resulted in us not spreading it. But none of that explains the staggering differences. Australia has a total of 909 COVID fatalities while Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin total over 33,812 as of 12/1/2021 In the 7 days from 4 to 10 January 2021 Illinois had 971 COVID fatalities. In one week Illinois with half as many people as Australia had more deaths from this than Australia has had in 12 months. On the main table at -> https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ Australia is 54th in population and 86th in COVID fatalities. If Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin were a country they would be 16th. Illinois by itself would rank 21st in the world. New York by itself would be 14th. In terms of death-rate (deaths/1M.pop) Illinois, Indiana & Wisconsin would be 4th (at 1342). 3 American states (New Jersey, New York & Massachusetts) have a higher death-rate than any nation or independent state in the world. For whatever luck and other things that may have favored us, nothing explains that discrepancy other than a complete failure of leadership.
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  6. Its the second week of January 2021 and America is about to go past 400,000 dead just as Joe Biden takes the oath of office.. A few weeks ago Michael was warning about how bad the Christmas - New year could be. I'm Australian but went to college at U. Illinois. I've been watching Michael since the early days, because it was clear he was one of the very few who was being honest with us. He was even interviewed a few times on Australian TV. Like many others from around the world I have followed his updates over much of the last year -> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI7n04W1HWAPMrI4_41StSg If you actually add up the populations of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin its 25.2 million which compares to Australia's 25.6 million. Yes I know quite well there are significant differences in geography, population density and winter conditions, but in terms of medical technology, transportation and technical capability there's zero difference. We got very lucky with the initial spread. We cancelled many events and had NO crowds at all our major sports for the year and all that resulted in us not spreading it. But none of that explains the staggering differences. Australia has a total of 909 COVID fatalities while Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin total over 33,812 as of 12/1/2021 In the 7 days from 4 to 10 January 2021 Illinois had 971 COVID fatalities. In one week Illinois with half as many people as Australia had more deaths from this than Australia has had in 12 months. On the main table at -> https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ Australia is 54th in population and 86th in COVID fatalities. If Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin were a country they would be 16th. Illinois by itself would rank 21st in the world. New York by itself would be 14th. In terms of death-rate (deaths/1M.pop) Illinois, Indiana & Wisconsin would be 4th (at 1342). 3 American states (New Jersey, New York & Massachusetts) have a higher death-rate than any nation or independent state in the world. For whatever luck and other things that may have favored us, nothing explains that discrepancy other than a complete failure of leadership.
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  7.  @tattooedtina327  Actually not in the slightest. The article of impeachment has to do with Trump inciting the crowd at his rally. This might be a contributing factor to the riot but it has nothing to do with his behavior at the rally.
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  8. @Van Nguyen Seriously take that idiotic crap and get lost. This is no place for mindless advertising of garbage.
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  9.  @00bikeboy  The worst thing that can happen is they don't give a clear and concise explanation. That and the people who made bad decisions get demoted or sacked. And that's an issue that goes well beyond this. Governments and corporations across the world are experts in NOT holding people at the top accountable.
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  10. Why can't any of these idiotic journalists do some basic fact checking. What really hurt Concorde wasn't the technology or noise or costs - it was 9/11. This was all made clear on a documentary that a group of the pilots help make. FIRST Concorde made money, in fact for most of its life it was British Airways most profitable division. After losing buckets at first British Airways were going to cancel the entire program and the pilots challenged management that they had the ticketing wrong because the planes were MOSTLY FULL. Management challenged the pilots to run it better which they then did for more than 25 years (and profitably). The first thing they did was one of the great exercises in market research. they found they had a group of lawyers and bankers using Concorde several times a week. Those people flew across the Atlantic for sensitive document and contract signings. So they changed the ticket price to what that group believed a Concorde ticket was worth. The original pricing was based on standard subsonic flights. The tickets they were initially selling were grossly under valued. The main users of Concorde were business people for who time was very serious money. The cost of jumping on Concorde flying across the Atlantic for a quick meeting and then flying back were worth it for the type of business those people did. SECOND what really hurt Concorde was that over 50 of its top 100 users died in the Twin Towers on 9/11. THIRD what killed of Concorde wasn't the accident but Airbus who owned all the technology rights refusing to maintain Concorde so they could sell more of the normal aircraft. Don't ask for the logic on that. FOURTH Concorde was NEVER outdated because nothing else came along that was better at doing what it did AND STILL HASN'T.
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  11. Its the second week of January 2021 and America is about to go past 400,000 dead just as Joe Biden takes the oath of office.. A few weeks ago Michael was warning about how bad the Christmas - New year could be. I'm Australian but went to college at U. Illinois (1988). I've been watching Michael since the early days, because it was clear he was one of the very few who was being honest with us. He was even interviewed a few times on Australian TV. Like many others from around the world I have followed his updates over much of the last year -> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI7n04W1HWAPMrI4_41StSg If you actually add up the populations of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin its 25.2 million which compares to Australia's 25.6 million. Yes I know quite well there are significant differences in geography, population density and winter conditions, but in terms of medical technology, transportation and technical capability there's zero difference. We got very lucky with the initial spread. We cancelled many events and had NO crowds at all our major sports for the year and all that resulted in us not spreading it. But none of that explains the staggering differences. Australia has a total of 909 COVID fatalities while Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin total over 33,812 as of 12/1/2021 In the 7 days from 4 to 10 January 2021 Illinois had 971 COVID fatalities. In one week Illinois with half as many people as Australia had more deaths from this than Australia has had in 12 months. On the main table at -> https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ Australia is 54th in population and 86th in COVID fatalities. If Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin were a country they would be 16th. Illinois by itself would rank 21st in the world. New York by itself would be 14th. In terms of death-rate (deaths/1M.pop) Illinois, Indiana & Wisconsin would be 4th (at 1342). 3 American states (New Jersey, New York & Massachusetts) have a higher death-rate than any nation or independent state in the world. For whatever luck and other things that may have favored us, nothing explains that discrepancy other than a complete failure of leadership.
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  12.  @jeffc1347  Mate, come to Australia and see how satirical it is that a 1/2 the country still lives in the 18th century where we owe allegiance to the crown!!!! If you ask me if Britain an important trading and security partner? You can ask the exact same question about Australia & America. Both times the answer is ABSOLUTELY, but they key word is "partner" not colony or subjects. Too many Australian's don't get that.
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  13. Its the second week of January 2021 and America is about to go past 400,000 dead just as Joe Biden takes the oath of office.. A few weeks ago Michael was warning about how bad the Christmas - New year could be. I'm Australian but went to college at U. Illinois. I've been watching Michael since the early days, because it was clear he was one of the very few who was being honest with us. He was even interviewed a few times on Australian TV. Like many others from around the world I have followed his updates over much of the last year -> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI7n04W1HWAPMrI4_41StSg If you actually add up the populations of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin its 25.2 million which compares to Australia's 25.6 million. Yes I know quite well there are significant differences in geography, population density and winter conditions, but in terms of medical technology, transportation and technical capability there's zero difference. We got very lucky with the initial spread. We cancelled many events and had NO crowds at all our major sports for the year and all that resulted in us not spreading it. But none of that explains the staggering differences. Australia has a total of 909 COVID fatalities while Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin total over 33,812 as of 12/1/2021 In the 7 days from 4 to 10 January 2021 Illinois had 971 COVID fatalities. In one week Illinois with half as many people as Australia had more deaths from this than Australia has had in 12 months. On the main table at -> https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ Australia is 54th in population and 86th in COVID fatalities. If Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin were a country they would be 16th. Illinois by itself would rank 21st in the world. New York by itself would be 14th. In terms of death-rate (deaths/1M.pop) Illinois, Indiana & Wisconsin would be 4th (at 1342). 3 American states (New Jersey, New York & Massachusetts) have a higher death-rate than any nation or independent state in the world. For whatever luck and other things that may have favored us, nothing explains that discrepancy other than a complete failure of leadership.
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