Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Secular Talk" channel.

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  15. ​ @ChewEberrie  I wouldn't doubt it at all. I actually went to college in America and one thing I found that the rest of the world does NOT understand is just how complex of a society America is. Just on basic population you're 13 times larger than Australia. So at just a basic level you generate 13 times as much news. I have to explain this to Australian's all the time in defense of Americans. What we can get in a 1/2 hour new program would take an American 6-1/2 hours. I also have to explain it to Americans once they get over the shock of how little they actually know about the world. Think about how much time it would take to hear the news from Washington, then the news from the major centers of LA, Chicago, New York, Dallas and a few others. Then try and get the State News from what ever state a person is in. Then there's SPORT - pro-sport, college sport, local sport.... In some ways Australia is lucky we only have 26 million. We don't generate enough news so we have time to look at the rest of the world. Americans just don't unless its a major story. BUT what I'd like to see is more Americans taking a bit of time to realise where America sits in the world. A lot of the stuff we're dealing with now was set in motion decades ago. Things like Breton Woods which being honest I knew little about until a few years ago. Its effects on the world are staggering and GENERALLY POSITIVE. I honestly believe it was a good thing to do and its still a good thing to have in place BUT IT ALSO HAS TO BE MANGED RESPONSIBLY and that's my issue with the GOP. They have no sense of responsibility. And YEAH I know Rupert Murdoch has done a lot of damage to America and PLEASE feel free to deal with him.
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  37. I'm Australian and before that shit he pulled at the UN he had a decent reputation from the first gulf war. Maybe not perfect, but Gulf War 1 was over and done in a month and then everyone was out. Instead of it becoming Vietnam 2.0 the US and its allies were out. Saddam had his ass kicked, Kuwait was back in the hands of Kuwait and no one was bogged down in some endless disaster. So by about 2003 EVERYBODY WANTED TO KNOW how Gulf War 2 had become the disaster it was. Everyone wanted to know how the same people who did Gulf War 1 screwed up so badly with Gulf War 2. America's own PBS delivered and in 2004 gave the world the documentary "Rumsfeld's War." I first saw it in Australia in either 2005 or 2006 when it was televised on free to air by SBS Australian one of our 2 public broadcasters. Here it is on YT -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPEWIDBrKyM So yeah a lot of people KNOW and have KNOWN for around 16 years, (I have known for at least 14years) that: - Powell LIED to the UN and knew he was lying. - Powell told Bush in a private dinner NOT to go into Iraq and that Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and others were wrong. - Powell, Shinseki and others were shut out of the planning by Wolfowitz on Rumsfeld's direction. Before any of you tell me (an Australian) to F--K off let me tell you something. The Australian Prime Minister at the time John Howard is/was a lawyer, which means he knew the basics of International Law and that its a crime to invade a country that has NOT committed an act or acts of war against you or your allies. The invasion of Afghanistan was legal as the Taliban Government by supporting Osama Bin Laden had attacked Australia's ally on 9/11. But Iraq was NOT legal and our PM knew it wasn't legal and we helped destroy that country and and played our part in the deaths over over 100,000 innocent civilians including the 14 killed at Nisour Square by the Blackwater 4 that Trump just pardoned. So before we all go condemning Colin Powell for his part in the Iraq clusterf--k, just know that a lot of other people were involved and very few have ever been held accountable.
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  38. Somebody needs to ask Mark Levin the following Question: When did BLM, ANTIFA, Democrats, 1960s counter culture hippies, tree hugging Kumbaya singing environmentalists, Occupy Wall Street, Lafayette Park or any other protesters storm the capitol, kill a police officer, tear down the American flag and replace it with another flag? For anyone interested please feel free to copy that question and post it anywhere you like. Someone else first directed me to this quote by Vice POTUS Wallace, who was alive when Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin were in power to personally see what those sorts of people are like. the 2 highlights about method and patriotism are mine. Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States in the New York Times, April 9, 1944 “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.”
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