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

  1. I'd called it "Here's another Boomer claiming they know stuff!"
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  2. If you can find it there's a staggering interview Milo gave Australian TV a few years and he described himself as a provocateur and it was obvious that the only thing he is interested in is attention. Milo is just another of these attention seeking narcissists.
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  3.  @meowy4720  You're touching on a very touchy subject but its a subject that needs discussing and some have tried in the past and some of those people were WOMEN. Sorry for the long reply but I think you'll find this interesting. Years ago I came across 2 articles 1 is about a book written by a woman and the other was a news paper article written by a woman. Circa 2010 I read this odd book review in the Sunday paper in Perth Western Australia. I've tried to find it with no luck. It was about a book written by an American Psychologist. SHE had so many female patients with the same issues she wrote a book about it. They were all well educated, career orientated, successful types BUT with a description like the female version of an incel. She said the main problem was they judged men from the glass half empty view. It wasn't about what any man was or had or did. Their judgement was based on what they weren't. They all had these insane lists of things a man HAD TO BE and if just 1 thing was missing they were rejected. This psychologist said these women were all demanding a man that has never existed. They were all miserable and frustrated and complained about why their demands weren't being met. But that was one of the main tenements of feminism - be demanding. I'm sorry I can't tell you the book title or author. One day I really have to track it down. Circa 2005-06 Australian journalist Virginia Haussegger wrote an article titled "The sins of our feminist mothers." Its easy to find via google. She still has it as a pdf on her own website. BE WARNED that article caused a nuclear level shitstorm when it was published. Even years later you need to be careful who you wave that article at because it can be like throwing rocket fuel at a blazing fire.
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  4. I know its a hand grenade comment but its called trying to win the Latino vote in Florida 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  5. I'm Australian but went to college in America. A bunch of my friends were pre-law and they used to drag me into all sorts of arguments. So I ended up with an odd take on the US Constitution. These days I get to see this from a distance and also without the emotion. I happen to think the US Constitution is one of the greatest achievements in human history, BUT it has flaws. Its biggest flaw is the system that was setup to make adjustments and maintain America is broken. The purpose of the House is to make adjustments to the laws. The purpose of the Senate is to CHECK those adjustment and make sure they are BALANCED. The purpose of SCOTUS is to make sure no laws are being enacted that infringe on the Constitutional Rights of the American people. ALL OF THAT IS BROKEN. The Constitution is NOT broken the systems that are meant to protect it and maintain are BROKEN.
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  6. Why TF should Venezuela switch their currency? This is such American centric stupidity. The US Dollar has been the worlds reserve currency since the Bretton Woods agreement in 1944. Even after Nixon tore up Bretton Woods and the WTF eventually came in to being the US Dollar was and still is the worlds reserve currency. Most international trade is done is US Dollars. EVEN when deals are made between countries and America is nowhere in sight it still involves US Dollars most of the time and when it doesn't the deal is usually made on markets and traded through banks underpinned by US Dollars. Go listen to some of Mark Blyth's lectures on the main issue with the common currency in Europe. Yes it has benefits but also has some very bad side effects.
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  7. No they are a threat they just anything like the threat these fear mongers make them out to be. The rhetoric in North Korea is for their own internal society. Years ago one expert on the subject and who actually dealt with them in negotiations described a discussion he had with one of their generals. He asked the general why they kept up the parades and propaganda and threats, because nobody wants war and we hate being threatened. The general let slip that they WERE NOT worried about America they were worried how their own society would react if they suddenly told them America wasn't a threat. Its the flip side of what these clowns are saying. The entire North Korean society has been convinced America is about to invade at any second so they have to go hungry and do missile drills and all sorts of other stuff to keep safe. Their generals know its bullshit and they are scared what might happen if the whole lot broke down.
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  8.  @ross4  Can people like you please just stop with the whole "imperialist" and "capitalist" and "socialist" and "communist" rhetoric. It does NOTHING, means NOTHING, and it just plain STUPID.
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  9. Actually it should become an Olympic Sport. Just imagine how much of a ratings winner it would be.
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  10. I have repeatedly pointed out that in ANY OTHER COUNTRY that Trump would already have been thrown in jail and in many countries already been executed along with people like Mike Flynn, John Eastman, Rudy Giuliani,... etc. Do you really think the Chinese, Saudis or Iranians would have tolerated this for a heartbeat? Think about what China did to the Tiananmen protestors and what the Saudis and Iranians have recently done to protestors. I'm Australian but went to college in America (late 80s) and I can barely believe how far Trump has been allowed to take this, BUT THEN this was predictable. Although the the US Constitution including the Bill of Rights is one of the greatest achievements in all human history it has a weakness. This its the tragedy of the "American Experiment," ITS OPEN TO BEING EXPLOITED and in Trump's case being exploited by a pure narcissist. And before any of you tell people form other country to mind our own business. Sorry but Trump is our business because we all have to deal with America and an unstable America is a very serious issue for the rest of the World.
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  11. They are Republicans if they could blame the Dems for gravity they would. I once heard a Republican blame the DEMs for making their dog stupid.
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  12. That's why they have lawyers, teams and teams of lawyers. Until somebody actually takes them to court and criminally charges them NOTHING will ever change. Look at what's happened with the Sackler family over oxycontin so far. Look at what's happened with the Boeing Executives over the Max-8 so far. Look at what Chevron just got away with over the Steven Donziger case. Look at how the tax evasion of the worlds top 1% was exposed with the Panama papers and NOTHING HAPPENED and then was exposed again with the Paradise Papers and NOTHING HAPPENED and how its been exposed again with the Pandora Papers and NOTHINH HAS HAPPEND YET AGAIN. At this moment in history the entire Western World has fallen (or falling) into a plutocracy ruled by the wealthiest 1% who can get away with anything they want. Its just more obvious in America than other places.
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  13. And yet somehow she graduated from college. Go bulldogs 🙁😨
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  14. A while back Glenn Kirschner said there's a basic practice for all lawyers. When you have facts on your side slam your hand down on the table and hammer away at the facts. When you have truth on your side slam your hand down on the table and hammer away at the truth. When you DON'T have facts or truth on your side slam your hand down on the table and hammer away at anything you can AND whatever you do don't stop.
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  15. Well nuanced thought and there's not enough of that. This is probably the single most frustrating thing about social media. Most of them seem to like starting fires and then throwing gas at the fire to see how hot they can make it. They simply aren't interested in sensible public debate to trying to promote solutions. Their MO is simple "That's a problem. Where's the gas and the matches?"
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  16. Kyle's forgetting what Jesse Ventura told them a few weeks ago. Remember what Vince McMahon told JV at the start of his commentating career "Reality is what you say it is!" Trump learned that and has exploited it for almost 7 years now. That's why his base behave as they do. Its likes an extreme version of mob psychology. Its not just getting a mob to respond to an event. He's getting the mob to respond to political spin. Everyone should go back and re-watch that interview. JV actually explained so much of how Trump operates. Trumps rallies are straight out of the Vince McMahon wrestling promotion playbook.
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  17.  @mgm8822  I saw your other comment. We aren't that engaged in Australia either and we get a similar result. The main difference is that we aren't as far down the path that America has taken, but we are following a similar path.
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  18. I'm Australian and this result is a huge relief to us and others. I know a lot of people think its not our business but America's economy is so huge and has such an effect that when the NYSE blinks our stock markets have heart palpitations. America's security is so encompassing that when the Secretary of Defense speaks we HAVE to listen. But if any of our stock exchanges have major event it barely causes a ripple in New York. If we make any major defense announcements, unless its one of those incredibly rare events like last years submarine deal its not even noticed and my bet is NONE of you know what I am talking about with submarines. So America having common sense prevail and clowns like Kari Lake being told to take a hike is a huge relief to the rest of the world. No hopefully the rest of the GOP will WTFU and get back to some sort of rational behavior. They can start with throwing Trump and others under the bus.
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  19. Yeah same here. I've never used it and don't ever want to use it. I think its the most overrated pile of hype/crap in the history of overrated piles of hype/crap.
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  20. ONE WORD - Payoffs. That $2B is part of the Saudi's Sovereign Wealth Fund and most of it is to be invested in Wall St. Who owns shares all through Wall St? How does the company you own shares in get any of that money if you're also trying to shut it down?
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  21. As an Australian who's just watched Sagaar Enjeti completely botch this story and Kyle make a bad mistake (at one point) THANK YOU for getting the distinction right Kyle makes a pretty bad mistake at 6:15 when he says Sky News doesn't have the connections. They are part of the Murdoch Empire and they certainly have the connections. For anyone interested I go over all the things Sagaar got wrong on that page in the top (pinned) comment. What he and Sagaar both screwed up is that Alan Jones was forced by Sky Management to correct himself on air. That's the first time I have ever seen Alan jones apologize for anything. For the Americans Alan Jones is our equivalent of Sean Hannity and he NEVER APOLOGIZES. The other thing they both missed was that one of the others banned by both Twitter and YouTube is a sitting member of our Parliament Craig Kelly. He's the equivalent of a Congressman in the House. He's a far far far right winger who has been in trouble several times over recent years for climate change denial and other conspiracies. He'd be right at home as Australia's US Ambassador if Trump wins in 2024. For anyone else watching we have a program called Media Watch. Its on Australian ABC our equivalent of PBS so don't be confused by the ABC it has nothing to do with the American ABC. Here's their report on this starting at 3:21 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnPgDf8RFR0 This is the original story presented 2 weeks ago starting at 3:29 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df1Fnw2M6f4
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  22.  @JB-tr6nu  The rarest thing in democratic politics is the elected officials taking away from themselves their sweetheart bonuses for being a politician. That's NOT and American thing that's an everywhere thing.
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  23. Don't forget we can ask DON Jnr where to go get the first one!
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  24. I'm Australian and I remember those interviews. And its about time people started calling Joe Rogan out for his nonsense. He's comes across as just another college dropout who thinks he knows what he's talking about. I actually went to college in America and did aerospace engineering. They made me take a bunch of humanities classes which I hated. NOWDAYS I wished I had taken more, because I can discuss things in CONTEXT. My favorite subject right now is Energy and the crisis economists have caused. BECAUSE I did ECON-101 I can explain what they got wrong and how the mismanagement by economists has caused the energy crisis that's across the developed world. One thing I have noticed is the number of college drop outs who are NOW trouble. Look through the Tech Bros. brigade and there's a staggering list of NEVER FINISHED college. I genuinely think part of the problem with people who never finished college is they didn't have those classes where they had to deal with other people with different views. I think its also compounded because even in their early 20s they didn't think they had things to learn because they believed they knew all they needed. These people seem to have never had that moment of realisation where they found they didn't know what they thought they knew and then had to re-think.
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  25. I'm Australian and and on one of our public discussion panels someone quoted Jonathan Haidt who said: "There's this cacophony where the Radical Left and Radical Right just scream at each other and the rest of us trapped in the middle are exhausted." Its from memory so I am not certain if I have the wording exactly right, but its all we see these days. Maniacs form BOTH SIDES screaming names and nonsense at each other. Professor Mark Blyth (Brown U.) said words to the effect that the Murdoch's main product is "rage" and that ahs spawned an entire industry. Look at how agitated and outraged Kyle gets and he's just one of dozens. Politics is now almost a case of where policy is irrelevant and outrage at some public issue is political currency.
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  26. Don't forget that if you go far enough to the left you find people who are just as bonkers. It doesn't matter if people get radicalized to the far right or far left its dangerous. They lose grasp with reality, facts don't matter and only their tribal group think means anything. And anybody who questions the group think in even the slightest way is immediately labelled a heretic that must be purged. We've seen this in the COVID lab leak discussion in recent weeks. David Pakman had on a virologist who was very good on most points but made a terrible mistake (and I don't if it was deliberate or just a simple mistake). He claimed the Chinese were NOT working on these viruses when we know they were. For putting up a correction to what he said people went bonkers. For putting up evidence that what he said was wrong people went totally off the deep end. I know Jordan Peterson is controversial and I certainly don't agree with some of what he's said but there was a point where he was being screamed at by far left SJWs as a right wing Nazi while at the same time Right Wing nutters were calling him a left wing shill. Its certainly more obvious amongst the right (at the moment) but never forget that people on the left can be just as radical and just as bonkers.
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  27. This is exactly why the Republicans have confidence they will be back in absolute control of BOTH houses in 2022. Its the same for other left or leftish wing parties in places like Britain, Australia, Canada, ALL of Europe,..... They get a result in an election and then turn on each other. The only difference is that if its a good result they wait a little longer before starting this crap. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  28. ​ @pipz420  I'm Australian but went to college in America. So I know American politics and issues reasonably well. PLUS since America is our most important trading and security partner there's a real interest in having America FUNCTION properly which it simply isn't. You are 100% right on medical costs and student debt. We've managed to control out medical costs but are blowing the student debt issue almost as bad if not worse than America. But those a longer stories to explain. You are 100% right on foreign policy America needs to stop funding wars. It also needs to stop funding psychotic maniacs because its convenient. That's also a long story. You are 100% right the Military Industrial Complex needs to be reigned in and this is a major issue in Australia because we are drinking the Pentagon Kool Aid by the bucket right now. AUKUS is just 1 part of a much larger issue both our countries face. FYI - I'm an aerospace engineer (U. of Illinois) and the problem isn't the stuff our governments buy whether its military hardware, infrastructure or other stuff ITS THE COST. As a profession engineering has been hijacked by a collection of economists and lawyers and charlatans who have become incredibly adept as rorting projects in both the Government and Private Sectors. That's a really long discussion and I hope to be on an economics podcast shortly to explain it. So you are right on the problems BUT Sadly I don't think RFK is going to be able to solve any of them. He's already tied himself to big tech with his VP candidate and Big Tech is as much of a problem as anything else on the planet. But then Biden and Trump can't do the job either. America needs a generational change away from where it is AND SO YOU KNOW so does Australia and many other countries.
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  29. The late great Joan Rivers said of Bo Derek "She's so dumb she'd need to study for a pap test." I wonder what Joan Rivers would say of Tomi Lauren, because Tomi makes Bo Derek look like a genius.
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  30.  @jmb3d  I think its timely reminder that we all need to watch for that.
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  31. Good I'm not the only Aussie watching Kyle. Good points all round, I just watched Saggar Enjeti over on Breaking points make a mess of this. Kyle even makes a pretty bad mistake at 6:15 when he says Sky News doesn't have the connections. They are part of the Murdoch Empire and they certainly have the connections. What he and Sagaar both screwed up is that Alan Jones was forced by Sky Management to correct himself on air. That's the first time I have ever seen Alan jones apologize for anything. For the Americans Alan Jones is our equivalent of Sean Hannity and he NEVER APOLOGIZES. The other thing they both missed was that one of the others banned by both Twitter and YouTube is a sitting member of our Parliament Craig Kelly. He's the equivalent of a Congressman in the House. He's a far far far right winger who has been in trouble several times over recent years for climate change denial and other conspiracies. He'd be right at home as Australia's US Ambassador if Trump wins in 2024. For anyone else watching we have a program called Media Watch. Its on Australian ABC our equivalent of PBS so don't be confused by the ABC it has nothing to do with the American ABC. Here's their report on this starting at 3:21 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnPgDf8RFR0 This is the original story presented 2 weeks ago starting at 3:29 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df1Fnw2M6f4
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  32. Actually North Koreas official title is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea often abbreviated as the DPRK. They weren't the only dictatorship to do this during the cold war. East Germany was infamously the Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR) or in English the German Democratic Republic (GDR). These are just labels people put on their causes. How many times have you heard a terrorist organisation calling themselves some sort of "freedom front." Its more notable among the Left than the Right. Look at how the left hijacked the word "woke" in recent years. For decades it was used to specifically apply to the economic plight of African Americans. Now it means anything the social justice warriors want on the day. The Right don't do it as often but when they are given the opportunity by the Left like they have with "woke" they will scream and rant about it every chance they get.
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  33. John Fetterman isn't the only person pointing out the discrepancy between the last time there were high oil prices and this stuff. I'm Australian and we are having the same issues here AND it involves companies like Chevron who's a major player in our oil & gas industry. In a way I see this as them punish our countries for electing people who want to get us OFF fossil fuels.
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  34. Well summed up. And it applies to many other corporations and governments and politicians who just don't get that we now live in the 21st century and things have changed. Vladimir Putin is finding out right now in real time that having the best 20th century army doesn't necessarily work against an insurgency using 21st century tactics. America still hasn't really woken up to that even after Afghanistan and Iraq - certainly America's politicians haven't.
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  35. Good I'm not the only Aussie watching Kyle. Good points all round, I just watched Saggar Enjeti over on Breaking points make a mess of this. Kyle even makes a pretty bad mistake at 6:15 when he says Sky News doesn't have the connections. They are part of the Murdoch Empire and they certainly have the connections. What he and Sagaar both screwed up is that Alan Jones was forced by Sky Management to correct himself on air. That's the first time I have ever seen Alan jones apologize for anything. For the Americans Alan Jones is our equivalent of Sean Hannity and he NEVER APOLOGIZES. The other thing they both missed was that one of the others banned by both Twitter and YouTube is a sitting member of our Parliament Craig Kelly. He's the equivalent of a Congressman in the House. He's a far far far right winger who has been in trouble several times over recent years for climate change denial and other conspiracies. He'd be right at home as Australia's US Ambassador if Trump wins in 2024. For anyone else watching we have a program called Media Watch. Its on Australian ABC our equivalent of PBS so don't be confused by the ABC it has nothing to do with the American ABC. Here's their report on this starting at 3:21 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnPgDf8RFR0 This is the original story presented 2 weeks ago starting at 3:29 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df1Fnw2M6f4
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  36. That's a great suggestion. As a guy I had a huge eyeopener a number of years ago when a friends wife turned to me and asked if I had any idea about what actually happens once a sperm hits an egg. Thankfully my brain didn't say anything stupid and she left my head in place and instead told me a few things. I found out just how little men are told. If there's any girls in this thread who can correct anything please do. 1) The percentage of eggs that get fertilised and attach properly to the wall of the uterus and then from into a human being that is birthed alive is incredibly low. 2) Most simply don't attach tot he wall of the uterus and are just discharged without the girl every knowing anything because they are still microscopic at that point. 3) The number that do attach and then have an issue of some kind also then discharge before there's any real development is also high and also the girl never knows anything about this unless they have a blood test and certain hormones are present. 3) Because of certain body chemistries some women cannot easily carry to full term. A friend of mine had multiple miscarriages and then finally 2 girls. The doctors concluded in her case because of some oddity that she cannot carry a male foetus to full term. There's so much that men rarely or never get told that its ridiculous for men to be telling women what they can and can't do with their bodies or hold them accountable for what they do with their bodies.
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  37. That's a smarter comment than most. This stuff about Trump's decline wont make a micro-gram of difference because the MAGA supporters wont care, the Dems already have made their choice and if their undecided by this stage they wont vote anyway. So your right - the goons who wont certify the results are far more important.
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  38. Sacha Baron Cohen's character Admiral-General Haffaz Aladeen from the The Dictator (2012 film) was supposedly inspired by real-life dictators like Kim Jong-il, Idi Amin, Muammar Gaddafi, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Mobutu Sese Seko, and Saparmurat Niyazov. What does Trump inspire????
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  39. Nice comparison. But then that just shows that no matter what tribe, culture, race, language,.... etc. everyone has these people. I just hope that if anyone gets hurt (or worse) from taking the advice from these types that the families of the injured take serious legal action.
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  40. Its not just the SEC its all of them around the world. In Australia we have the ACCC (referred to as the A triple C). They are utterly hopeless. They are as effective as a wind down winddown on a submarine. Even when they have dead certainties they find ways to lose the court case or do nothing at all. They have scandal after scandal, failure after failure AND NOTHING EVER HAPPENS. They are so bad there are regular calls to have the entire agency dissolved.
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  41. Hey everyone a history buff and one that actually understands it. My mom was a high school teacher who loved history. You sound like one of her students and yeah you are right except the time frame is dramatically shorter. It took generations for Rome to degenerate and finally collapse. Even then it hung on for centuries as a religious Empire. The American Empire has risen, peaked and now starting its collapse in the space of about 70 years. I'm an engineer and normally hate economics and politics because its just a cesspool, but I have taken to listening to people like Mark Blyth because he like to rip it open and expose the BS. One of his compatriots is a historian, Adam Tooze, who specializes in economic history. Some of the comparisons he's drawn to past eras are amazing. Its not that we are repeating the collapse of Rome or other empires. Its like we are taking all the worst aspects of those collapses and doing them all at once. I call it neo-feudalism and I think it started after 2008 when the whole world got told that we have to pay for and support the billionaire class.
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  42.  @tc2241  Nicely summed up.
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  43. The tragedy of that statement is that its not that far from the truth. I'm an Australian U.of Illinois graduate and this week I did some math & stats. Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana have a combine population of 25.2 million which is very close to Australia's 25.6 million. Australia has 908 COVID deaths while Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana have over 25,700. Australia has just over 1,400 active cases while Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana have over 255,000 active cases heading into winter. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ Its not simply a tragedy its a catastrophe and its only going to get worse as I know what winter is like in those states. America just past the 300,000 dead mark which puts it over 100 times worse than 9/11. Its quite likely that number will go past 400,000 before Joe Biden takes the oath of office. Australia does not have a magic juice as some claim, mostly we got lucky being an island and having lots of space and a mild winter. I truly hope America finds a way past this - bets wishes to all. Take Care & Stay Safe. 👍👍🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘
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  44. It gets way, way, way...... way worse than that. Here's 3 points I have made several times in recent months. POINT 1: Only 3 times in the last 4,500 years has anyone successfully invaded Persia (Iran) - Alexander the Great, Mohamed and Genghis Khan. Without doubt its one of the greatest homefield advantages on the planet. POINT 2: Go and look at the basic geography of Modern Iran. In the North East Mountains and borders with Iraq, Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan. In the North The Caspian Sea with direct link to Russia. In the North East Mountains and borders to Turkmenistan and Afghanistan. SOUTH OF THAT is desert, desert and more desert and that's the only place that an invading force large enough to subdue 88 million people could land and set up a base of operations. POINT 3: The population of Iraq was 25 million when America FAILED. The population of Iran is 88.5 million more than 3 times the population of Iraq when America invaded. There were experts (including Eric Shinseki) who told congress they'd need a force of 400,000 or so to SECURE (as in subdue) the Iraqi nation and its people. That was ignored and look what happened. Based on Shinseki's estimate (who was an expert) you'd need a force of at least 1 million to land and then subdue those 88.5 million Iranians. How many jets and ships would it take to move 1 million soldiers and support staff? How would you feed those 1 million soldiers and support staff? How would you provide fuel for all the Jets, Tanks, Trucks, Gensets and everything else you'd need? Just the basic logistics makes invading Iran almost impossible and that should be obvious to anyone.
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  45. I'm an aerospace engineer who's spent 30+ years in industrial control systems and automation. Over that time I gained formal qualifications in safety engineering including the second highest any engineer can get for what we call Functional Safety. I can tell you for a fact those qualifications have NEVER GOT ME WORK (contract or permanent). Pointing out that I was qualified got me into trouble on numerous occasions and even licked off projects or off site. The simple fact is that when you are QUALIFIED in safety engineering you do get sacked and there is no support or mercy coming from anywhere. This is how this stuff happens and things like the Boeing Max-8. In Australia where I am there are a couple of rare areas where formal qualifications are required by law. Most notably in structural engineering. I actually went to the Institute of Engineers in Australia to try and get them to lobby for rules requiring QUALIFIED people to approve of high risk installations. They and the other professional organisations were simply NOT INTERESTED. We have never needed more engineers across the developed world. Due to the neoliberal economics massive amounts of infrastructure everywhere is either so old it needs replacing or its so badly maintained by cost cutting it needs replacing AND YET I can't think of a worse profession to be in right now. Engineering degrees are NOT Easy there's a lot of math because engineering is fundamentally a profession of applied math. Structures, thermodynamics, aerodynamics,... is all applied math. WORSE our careers and job paths are dominated by Human Resource clowns. I have ACTUALLY DEALT with so called professional recruiters who could not tell the difference between an electrician and an electrical engineer or a mechanic and a mechanical engineer or a chemist and a chemical engineer. I have heard things from from other professions but can't really comment, but I can assure the entire Human Resources industry has been a disaster for STEM fields.
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  46. What did the CIA hitman say to the MI6 Hitman? A: Your tying the knot wrong! What did the MI6 Hitman say back? A: Shut up and hold him still! What did the MOSAD Hitman say? A: Will both of you just shut up and get it done, I only paid the guards to be gone for 30minutes!
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  47.  @Tao-fp3yr  Yes I agree. Irrespective of if we are talking about Australian Labor (where I am) or any of the others they are now dominated by collections of lawyers and economists. Right now Australian Labor is run by a lawyer - Albanese. Just this last week I saw Chris Bowen the minister for climate change say live on TV that he doesn't believe in government ownership of power stations. That's a 100% pure neoliberal economic stance. I can give you example after example of Australian Labor being right wing on economics.
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  48. 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 is 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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  49. I'd never heard of him until a couple of years ago when he was interviewed on Australian television. He must have thought it was going to be easy because it was a morning TV show, but he didn't count on a couple of the girls being a fairly serious and decent journalists and they took took him to task about being disingenuous and not having any responsibility. He defended himself by proclaiming as a "provocateur" it wasn't his job to be responsible. You can see it here -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ef7Us0zw8Q
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  50. There's a reason we have dictionaries and go to school. Its called being able to communicate. How TF she ever graduated from grade school defies logic. Yet somehow MTG has a college degree.
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