Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "The Rational National" channel.

  1. No what he has shown is a lack of political experience. The more experienced players would have dropped a word salad and avoided the subject. The Israeli-Palestinian subject is the most toxic subject in the world. ANY answer will offend someone and get you labelled a racist, bigot, both or worse.
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  2. I'm an engineer who did a degree in aerospace but works in automation and control systems. Part of Control Systems are the Safety Functions. We call this subject area "Functional Safety." In 2007 I did a course and achieved the 2nd highest rating available to any engineer in the field of Functional Safety. Its a qualification I no longer formally hold because IT HAS NO WORTH in the employment market. You see being the guy who interrupts with "is that safe" (or similar) and then insists on applying standards simply isn't welcome. It takes me only about 5-7 minutes to explain to anyone with a basic education and reasoning ability to show how the MCAS system in the Boeing Max-8 was ALWAYS going to end up driving a plane straight into the ground. Any reasonable engineer should have been screaming it was wrong and yet they were overruled by PURE SELFISHNESS. What this clown is demonstrating the same sort of selfishness that the management of Boeing showed and the management of the surfside apartments showed and what other narcissists have shown time and time again.
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  3. Australian here: I spent time in Canada a few years ago. They are great people with an actual sense of humor. Other then adding "eh" to the end of every sentence, they have the quaint quirk of saying SORRY for almost everything. They'll even say sorry to the rest of the world for how Americans behave. Why? I don't know. Sorry Canada, but this time you really do have something to apologise for. DON'T PANIC here in Australia we are about to officially prove we have a significant racist element by voting down a referendum on a Native "Voice to Parliament" that has been several years in the making. AND just to prove how stupid we really are the NO campaign is being lead by 2 Native Australians who both just happen to work for Right Wing Libertarian Think Tanks with links to America's Right Wing Libertarian Think Tank system. Despite all the SHlT we have been through and all the advances we have struggled to make with our history we are about to flush to whole lot down the drain.
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  4. Its called a lack of political experience. A more experienced player would have dumped a world salad and avoided it. The Israeli-Palestinian subject would have to be one of the most toxic subjects. Almost any answer offends someone and gets you labelled a racist, bigot, both or worse. Its almost become impossible to have any rational discussion on the subject. That last time I heard anyone be sensible was over 10 years ago when the King of Jordan was on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart and he said that if they didn't find a solution then this conflict would just go on for another generation and get worse. He was right.
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  5. Nice way to put it - So did Australia although ours has hints of Thatcherism thrown in for variety. Sovereign manufacturing has suddenly become a hot topic around the world. Here in Australia there are calls for our Government to simply build the factories the we need as a nation. And its not the first time either. Way back in the 1930s the head of BHP at the time famously got Australia its first steel mills. Had we had not listened to him then we'd have been overrun by Japan for the simple reason we might have had NO steel to make anything with. What COVID has done is expose one of the great flaws of neoliberalism which is based in Milton Freidman's claim that companies owe nothing to society and have no responsibility to society, they only have a responsibility to their owners. I call COVID Acid Flu because its stripped off all the bullshit veneer our business & political leaders have shoved down our throats for these last 40+ years. I was actually in Canada a couple of years ago for work and 1 thing I found out was how dependent on certain foods Canada is. Canada grows almost no lettuce and other leafy greens. Its mostly from California. I was there when Trump tore up NAFTA complaining about Canadian timber and putting tariffs on Canadian products. I was there as Canada pointed out all that they imported from America - like lettuce. FYI - Australia is world leader in Vertical Farming technologies and could easily help Canada free itself from America on things like lettuce.
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  6.  @Myfriendvinny  WTF do you mean "you do not murder people" Murder is a legal term for defining or classifying what a person has done in relation to the death of another. Other legal terms include manslaughter and negligent homicide, regicide. In fact there's a list of words ending in the syllable "cide" like genocide, matricide and patricide. Sorry but murder is a real thing and it happens in every society.
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  7. Dr. Michael Osterholm (director of CIDRAP) put everyone into 3 groups. 1: Those who have gotten vaccinated or who plan to get vaccinated. 2: Those who haven't gotten vaccinated for personal reasons BUT THEY MIGHT get vaccinated. As in they haven't ruled it out. 3: Those who will never get vaccinated because they will never accept a vaccine for whatever reason they claim. Dr. Osterholm was fairly adamant that we have to be very careful with the 2nd group that we don't push them away and most of all that we don't force the issue. He said the first group are fine and the 3rd group we just don't have time to waste on right now. Its the 2nd group that we have to reach out to. Their reason could be as simple as they are scared. Don't forget its been a turbulent and stressful time for everyone. So its important we don't alienate them and that's the advice from one of the real experts in this field.
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  8. I'm going to go a bit against the tide on this because its all fairly one sided and the problem with taking sides in the Israeli-Palestinian is that its the most toxic political subject on the planet. Anytime you take even the slightest movement to one side or the other the other side immediately paints you as a racist or bigot or both or worse. A more experienced politician would have known how to dodge this, subject. Running for mayor of NY where there are powerful lobbies on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian subject is a nightmare when something like this happens. Other than a clever word salad to dodge the subject there is no answer that wont get you into trouble.
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  9.  @SuperCroc69  Good of you to point out Grenfell because THIS IS NOT AN AMERICAN PROBLEM. Here in Australia we had to evacuate 2 apartment blocks and neither was old (Opal Tower and Mascot Tower). This is going on EVERYWHERE. A few years back I saw a story on Spain where along its Mediterranean coat apartment blocks were going up at a staggering rate AND MANY WERE NEVER APPROVED let alone inspected. This is where this clown is so utterly ignorant of our current society. Remember Ronald Reagan's famous "government isn't the solution its the problem." Yeah well thanks to 40+ years of libertarian crap like that we now have government agencies that barely exist let alone exist well enough to be effective. I'm just blown away by the arrogance of them "finger pointing" about ineffective government when they were the ones who made it ineffective. Saddest of all they NEVER GET HELD ACCOUNTABLE. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  10. The problem with a pardon is that the person receiving it has to accept that they are guilty. This has been well explained recently with respect to certain people Trump pardoned. However - you are absolutely right that there will be women who do not seek medical help during pregnancy and that can be disastrous.
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  11. Sovereign manufacturing has suddenly become a hot topic around the world. Here in Australia there are calls for our Government to simply build the factories the we need as a nation. And its not the first time either. Way back in the 1930s the head of BHP at the time famously got Australia its first steel mills. Had we had not listened to him then we'd have been overrun by Japan for the simple reason we might have had NO steel to make anything with. What COVID has done is expose one of the great flaws of neoliberalism which is based in Milton Freidman's claim that companies owe nothing to society and have no responsibility to society, they only have a responsibility to their owners. I call COVID Acid Flu because its stripped off all the bullshit veneer our business & political leaders have shoved down our throats for these last 40+ years. I was actually in Canada a couple of years ago for work and 1 thing I found out was how dependent on certain foods Canada is. Canada grows almost no lettuce and other leafy greens. Its mostly from California. I was there when Trump tore up NAFTA complaining about Canadian timber and putting tariffs on Canadian products. I was there as Canada pointed out all that they imported from America - like lettuce. FYI - Australia is world leader in Vertical Farming technologies and could easily help Canada free itself from America on things like lettuce.
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  12. Australian here: I spent time in Canada a few years ago. They are great people with an actual sense of humor. Other then adding "eh" to the end of every sentence, they have the quaint quirk of saying SORRY for almost everything. They'll even say sorry to the rest of the world for how Americans behave. Why? I don't know. Sorry Canada, but this time you really do have something to apologise for. DON'T PANIC here in Australia we are about to officially prove we have a significant racist element by voting down a referendum on a Native "Voice to Parliament" that has been several years in the making. AND just to prove how stupid we really are the NO campaign is being lead by 2 Native Australians who both just happen to work for Right Wing Libertarian Think Tanks with links to America's Right Wing Libertarian Think Tank system. Despite all the SHlT we have been through and all the advances we have struggled to make with our history we are about to flush to whole lot down the drain.
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  13.  @RilianSharp  No - his kind believe THEY are entitled to everything THEY WANT but don't believe they have any responsibility to ensure or help or assist that others get the same entitlements. He's a pure self centered narcissist. If you have ever wondered what PURE narcissism looks and sounds like THIS IS IT.
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  14.  @RilianSharp  Fark mate I am not going to go around in circles EITHER you get it or you don't and clearly YOU DON'T. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  15. All he's proven is that America is ruled by selfish greedy disconnected old people who all should have retired long ago and don't give shit about the future. The same can be said of a few other countries, but its most prevalent and most obvious in America.
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  16.  @SuperCroc69  Fun and games. Sorry for the longish reply but as a Sydney sider you and others should be asking the RIGHT QUESTIONS in the RIGHT PLACES. FYI - I'm an engineer with 30+ yrs in automation, robotics and control systems. I started with a degree in aerospace but we don't have a space program YET. I ended up in the mining sector as most of us now do and did about 15years there. Way back around 2010 the civils got all "concerned on a project I was on." It turned out that they had found out WHY a lot of new buildings fell down in the previous Chinese Earth Quake - sub-standard reinforcement bar (rebar). The Chinese had developed this idiotic "scam" called thinning. They would take standard rebar and stretch it SO FAR that it would NOT spring back. Just like if you take the spring out of a pen and pull on it to hard. They'd cut it back down to length and sell the excess for scrap. The new piece of rebar would look just like a perfectly good piece except it was just slightly thinner (hence the label - thinning). There's 2 monstrous issues. First its now NOT the same mass of steel providing strength. Second because it was stretched so far its LOST MOST of its TENSILE STRENGTH. That's super important in reinforced concrete. You see the concrete itself is brilliant at handling compressive load (as in when its squeezed) but has crap tensile strength (as in when its stretched. The job of rebar is to give the concrete structure tensile (stretching) strength. BUT if its Chinese Thinned rebar ITS GOT STUFF ALL TENSILE STRENGTH. I learned all about this stuff back around 2010. When I heard about it I asked our civs and they had (by that time) confirmed NOE of it was in the mine site works. I asked a mate of mine who does structural engineering about this stuff and he could barely believe anyone would be that stupid. JUMP A HEAD TO 2019 and after I saw the 60 minutes on Opal Tower my brain was WTF did they use Chinese rebar. I waited for the report and there is NO MENTION of rebar. Jump ahead a few months and at a bar-bi-q I meet this guy who says he's one of those guys who installs rebar. So I ask him about my concern with rebar and wonder if someone was using cheap Chinese rebar. YES, Australia does import cheap Chinese rebar and YES it was used throughout Opal Tower. How did he know that? Because he worked on it. How did he know the Chinese rebar was crap? "its light and flimsy" his words and I never prompted him for a description. The question isn't was Opal Tower made using sub-standard materials critical to its safety the question is HOW MANY OTHER BUILDINGS does Australia have with this crap in them. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  17. There's an obvious narcissistic hypocrisy to them as well. In their view NOBODY is allowed to do anything that has consequences on their life and yet they demand to be allowed to do things that have consequences on the lives of other people. Charles Koch is a classic example of that mentality. In his Axios interview he claimed any politician he financially supported had to do what he wanted. The people who actually VOTED for those people had no right to ask the promises made get delivered.
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  18.  @johnkosowski3321  You have half made a reasonable point in the claim that greedy capitalists shouldn't risk there in investments. BUT THE REALITY is those peopel are also RISK TAKERS. Further they are people willing to risk other people's lives and wealth. This is the complete bullshit of libertarianism. They DEMAND others do not interfere with their lives yet also DEMAND the right to take risks that affect other people. You final remark about a failed regulatory system is true in that the system failed, but you are staggeringly IGNORANT that regulatory systems are failing because libertarians have been dismantling them for the last 40-50 years. CASE IN POINT - the FAA which instead of certifying the Boeing Max-8 let Boeing do it themselves and OUT OF GREED they delivered a substandard airplane that crashed twice. DON'T be so stupid and idiotic to claim something has failed and and then completely ignore the reason WHY it failed.
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  19.  @TybudX  Interesting while I was there (late 2017) I heard nothing about salmonella outbreaks. Not surprising about the regulatory issues. If you get into any of the current discussions regarding the legacy of Reaganomics and Thatcherism (what's called neoliberalism or libertarianism) one of its trademarks is de-regulation. Reagan famously said government is the problem not the solution. Its now pretty much accepted that he was not only senile he was an idiot as well. Don't forget he was the actor made famous for doing the "duck and cover" commercials for handling a nuclear attack. If there is a scary thing about Reagan its that some claimed he wasn't far enough to the right. One of the famous Koch brothers ran against him claiming he Reagan was too LEFTIST and wasn't libertarian enough. With COVID I have had some time to look into where its all gone wrong. Partly we are living in the last days of an economic system that's failed. Prof. Mark Blyth has been talking about this for a few years and been trying to tell people we are at the end of the Reaganomic era. Here's his primer on it -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXJD5rE4omY Here's a lecture he gave on it (2019) -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJoe_daP0DE Part of the reason its getting really bad is that we should have had a system upgrade after 2008 but it didn't happen and now the system is just falling apart. I've seen/heard reports that the US Economy actually started falling BEFORE COVID-19 really struck and they what COVID-19 actually did was push it off the cliff it was already falling over. I call COVID "Acid Flu" because more than anything else it has exposed the flaws in our current economics. I don't think a radical leftist agenda is the solution but we need a completely new way of running the worlds economy because this idiotic shit we're doing now is killing us. What you've pointed out with the salmonella and no way to regulate what these companies do is just another symptom of the disease. I just watched a vid story about an Australian swimmer (I used to swim) who got caught with Ligandrol in her system. Ligandrol is one of the current FAD drugs among gym junkies. Its actually experimental and not yet approved for human use. How the farq is it even available and yet gym junkies are claiming its easy to get? Same disease, different symptom - a lack of regulations and enforcement of regulations. We've just had ANOTHER major building project in serious trouble. We almost had a brand new massive apartment block collapse a couple of years ago. Same disease, different symptom - a lack of regulations and enforcement of regulations. What did Reagan and Thatcher and the others want? Those farqers might be gone but we've been left to clean up the mess.
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  20.  @TybudX  When you get time watch the Mark Blyth stuff. I know its long but worth the effort. There is something he doesn't really address and that's the underlying reason we didn't have a reset after 2008 and that is because the elites have such an incredible strangle hold on the political system. He recently wrote a book with Eric Lonergan called "Angrynomics" in one of the book talks he mentioned a report that said during this neoliberalism era the top 1% have made of with $55 Trillion. That's $55,000,000,000,000. I'm an engineer and engineers like finding ways to visualize numbers and here's mine on that. In Australia we used to have a quiz show "Who wants to be a millionaire" it was the same as other versions around the world. It had a clear box on it with a million dollars in it and it was approximately a 1ft cube. A 20ft container at about 1140 cubic feet is roughly $1 Billion dollars so the worlds largest container ship the Emma Maersk can carry away $11 Trillion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-foot_equivalent_unit). It takes 5 Emma Maersks to carry off what the top 1% have done the past 40 years. So they really have made off with boat loads of cash. That's unsustainable and will break the system. Its not the first time a ruling Elite has broken a system. Look what the Capets did in France and the Romanovs in Russia and neither of those worked out.
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  21. Australian here: I spent time in Canada a few years ago. They are great people with an actual sense of humor. Other then adding "eh" to the end of every sentence, they have the quaint quirk of saying SORRY for almost everything. They'll even say sorry to the rest of the world for how Americans behave. Why? I don't know. Sorry Canada, but this time you really do have something to apologise for.
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  22. DO YOU KNOW HOW TO SIMULATE A LIBERTARIAN? Grab a 2 year old boy who's already jacked up on his first burst of testosterone then jack them up further on Red Bull and sugar and then take away his TV, his toys and tell him to go sit in the corner for some quiet time. In other words the worst possible 2 year old temper tantrum imaginable.
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  23. You forgot to add "and I don't want to take ANY RESPONSIBILITY for anything."
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  24.  @ottz2506  That's actually a fair comment. Mark Blyth points out that populist movements like Trumpism are present in both left and right forms. If there is a difference I think that right wing populists and libertarian's are far more "in your face" about it or at least far more vocal. If there is one thing many on the left do not recognize is that when the EXTREME left go off they go truly berserk. Look at people like Robespierre, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and the Kim family and others from the EXTREME left.
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  25.  @ottz2506  That's almost a crazy definition because ALL people want some form of liberty and that has been the case for 1000s of years across 100s of cultures and political systems. What we really have are Anarchists on the FAR left and Libertarians on the FAR right who BOTH want to do whatever they like. THEY BOTH hate any and all forms of government rules or regulations. THEY BOTH scream "police state" whenever they get adjudicated on. THEY BOTH scream and complain when they are in trouble and demand others help them. To be honest I wished both the FAR left and FAR right would just STFU and let the rest of us breath for a few minutes without being screamed at. We have real genuine problems facing the entire planet and instead of dealing with any of them these selfish farkers just wont stop howling at us.
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  26.  @RilianSharp  You're right HE never SPECIFICALLY said that. My comments more to the general nature of these people. He's basically advocating that its wrong to enforce people to contribute to the overall welfare of a society. But then these same people BENFIT from public services - roads, sanitation, police, fire,...etc. There are so many things WE ALL benefit from these days that most people take them for granted. This clown is advocating that its WRONG to force people to contribute. If he really believes that he should never flush a toilet again unless he installs his own personnel system to handle it. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  27.  @RilianSharp  For reference on the absurdity go watch Monty Python's "Life of Brian" for "what have the Romans ever done for us"
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  28.  @RilianSharp  Typical dismissive arrogance of a clown who wont listen, cant think and tries desperately to be relevant. Enjoy you libertarian delusions, but don't bother others with them.
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  29.  @Northstar1989  Good comment, although I would tend to say that libertarian socialists never called themselves that (or at least I never heard them call themselves that) but they did call themselves anarchists. I'd always thought anarchists were about causing mayhem and chaos until I met one first year of college. We were in mechanical engineering so he was a pretty logical sort of person. His main belief (if it could be called that) was that conforming to societies social rules and norms was idiotic. He sort of voiced some of the ideas this clown does EXCEPT for one major thing. He still believed in being socially responsible. Like for engineering we need regulations, standards,.... etc. or bad stuff happens and people get hurt. Lookin gat other comments that's where this guy has set people off. He wants ZERO responsibility for anything and everything.
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  30. As an Australian who went to college in America let me say America NEVER HAD A REAL LEFT and America has never understood what a real left is. America has a centre right and far right. The Democrats might be to the left of the GOP but they are NOTHING like the left wing parties of the rest of the Western world. The only time America ever had anything close to a left was during FDRs New Deal era when he brought the Unions onside. Australia like Britain (and some other countries) has a Labour Party that started in our union movement. Most of Europe has similar Socialist and Communist Parties that started among their working classes and unions. The difference is they are Western democratic parties and not the Soviet style maniacs. One of the easiest ways any America can sound ignorant and stupid is to talk about the Left to people form other countries. Even Obama said his polices we close to Reagans 1980s policies. Obama care was Mitt Romneys plan written up by the Heritage Foundation one of the most hardcore Right Wing Libertarian think tanks on the planet.
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  31. I'm going to go a bit against the tide on this because its all fairly one sided and the problem with taking sides in the Israeli-Palestinian is that its the most toxic political subject on the planet. Anytime you take even the slightest movement to one side or the other the other side immediately paints you as a racist or bigot or both or worse. A more experienced politician would have known how to dodge this, subject. Running for mayor of NY where there are powerful lobbies on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian subject is a nightmare when something like this happens. Other than a clever word salad to dodge the subject there is no answer that wont get you into trouble.
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  32.  @allegory6393  Great well thought comment, but be careful that's a logical argument in a situation where logic is almost a crime.
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  33.  @posternutbag4415  I think he actually believes he's a progressive. And he may have once been one. After all the basic meaning of being progressive is that you want society to make progress. BUT here's the rub when people get to his age they want progress to STOP. Old people don't like change. They like things as they are. He may once have been progressive but that is strictly past tense.
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  34. I'm Australian but went to college in America in the late 80s. I tried telling them back then that America did not have a left. It had a Right and Further Right. These days I'd describe the Dems as where the GOP was and the GOP half way into crazy town. What the rest of the Western world doesn't get is that America never had a major party founded in the working class like the Labour Party's in Britain, Australia, Canada,... etc. Nobody anywhere except in America thought Obama or Clinton were lefties. Do you remember that Obama admitted some of his policies were close to what Reagan did? Don't forget Obama Care was partially based on Mitt Romneys health care plan. What Justin fails to get right is that the radical left (and I mean the real crazies like Robespierre, Pol Pot, Stalin type crazy) are few in number and have almost no political power anywhere in the Western World. The radical right these days have the backing of billionaires.
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  35.  @jokerswank6082  Dude Pol Pot was university educated in France. Its where he became (as we now call it) radicalized.
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  36.  @jokerswank6082  If you have ever listened to people like Prof. Richard Wolff you'd know that none of those maniacs actually practiced Marxism, communism or socialism. They were just the labels they put on what they did. Don't forget that both East Germany and North Korea had the word Democratic in their names and yet never practiced any form of democracy. Its like America, they might still have elections and can still do things but its slowly turning into a weird form of techno-feudalism run by competing packs of plutocrats and oligarchs.
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  37.  @jokerswank6082  Don't get snarky - actually read what people are saying. Drop the arrogance as well. You've clearly got brains so use them.
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  38.  @Tijggie82  I'm not avoiding it and not ignoring it. I'm pointing out that ANY commentary about the Israeli-Palestinian is an invitation to an bad argument. Like this one. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ If you want to talk about genocide do we talk about the Arab view that Israel has no right to exist which is a form of genocide or do we talk about the Israeli refusal to accept hat the Palestinians have a right to exist which is ALSO a form of genocide. Avoiding a discussion on the utter mess that is the Israeli-Palestinian situation isn't an act of cowardice its common sense. If you think you can get both sides to agree to a solution when there are elements on BOTH sides who devoutly believe that the extermination of the other side is necessary then good luck.
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  39.  @Tijggie82  WTF are you trying to claim? Go back and READ what I wrote. I didn't directly say it, but it is kind of evil when you call for the eradication of a population and even more evil when you actually start doing it. I don't know how you consider it weird? On the intercept article that is great link. I'm not a great fan of Mehdi Hasan but he pretty much nailed that. It reminds of a conversation I had with a young Pakistani engineer I worked with about 6 years ago. It turned out his father was a member of the Pakistani Cabinet and he told me about dinners in his house (that he was present at) with US and Pakistani officials where he heard them discuss the Taliban and its funding. I first thought you were nuts with the Israel funded Hamas and in a way they didn't directly fund them. It was the usual method of infrastructure support. That fact that its explained as another "divide & conquer" gone wrong gives that story a lot of credibility. History is littered with failures in that area. The US support for numerous regimes that turned out to be atrocious human rights abusers is well documented. Most of those came about via "divide & conquer" plans many of which backfired.
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  40.  @Tijggie82  Naive - are FKing for real. How do you claim that being on the receiving end of terrorist attacks is a good thing. I can't believe you can be that idiotic to think those sorts of consequences justify supporting Hamas to get at Fatah. Go seek help because that's sociopathic thinking. That's Machiavellian at its worst. Do you know that Machiavelli coined the term "the end justifies the means" but he didn't believe it. He was actually trying to explain how others behaved and operated.
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  41.  @Tijggie82  Is English your first language, because its getting obvious you either can't read or are just trying to start an ugly argument for the sake of starting an ugly argument. Either be sensible of FK-off.
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  42.  @spacemanx9595  Well clearly you don't and that says a lot about you.
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  43.  @ClaytonGinther  Another person (tag - allegory) in a related thread started by "FTW ALL DAY" in an answer back to me. Its a well thought logical comment, but as I replied its in a situation where logic is almost a crime. I remember years ago the King of Jordan was interviewed by John Stewart (on the daily show). He was in America as part of talks on the Israeli-Palestinian "Peace Accord." He told JS that if they didn't solve the Israeli-Palestinian issue then we'd (the world) suffer for another generation. I have tried finding a copy of the interview without luck. I remember it because he was so blunt and straight forward about the whole middle east situation and the war on terror. Its now about 10-15years later and he was just so right on what he said. It hasn't been solved and its now got global effects. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  44. TO ALL - I could be wrong but I suspect this person is FAKE or is a FRAUD. There's a common trait among FAKE people and bots posting on social media. They make grammatical errors that should be obvious but we tend to gloss over them and focus on the stupidity of what they are claiming as most of you have done with pointing out actual historical facts. TAKE NOTE of what he first says: "My Father was a World Veteran and he told me several things" What's a "World Veteran"? If this guy was a real native English speaker he wouldn't use that expression in fact I can't ever remember ANYONE describing their father like that. They always use the term Vet or Veteran by itself or with the specific war like WW2 Vet or Korean Vet or Vietnam Vet. When have any of you heard the term "World Veteran"? This guy is either an idiot or a fraud.
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  45. I'm Australian and your 3rd point about the media is arguably the biggest problem across the World right now. The complete failure of both mainstream and alternative media to EFFECTIVELY INFORM the general population is so profound its hard where to say we start. I'd argue the problem started here in Australia when we let Rupert Murdoch go without any restraint on what his people did and especially with respect to MISINFORMATION. Before he went to Britain Rupert, cut his teeth with magazines and newspapers that disgusted many but always found a willing audience he could tap into. We tried warning the Brits what he was like when he went there, but they didn't listen. We tried warning the Americans what he was like when he went there, but they didn't listen either. In the 2004 documentary Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism there was a prediction that eventually the rest of the media would follow the Fox business model down into Rupert's gutter. As your comment shows that prediction has come true.
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  46. ​ @Eyeluvlola  That goes all the way back to Milton Freidman and his near fanatical hatred of all things government. I'm just watching Steve Keen (who was one of the few economists who predicted the 2008 GFC) talk to Chris Keefer on the YT channel Decoupled. Chris's channel is mostly about energy and in particular nuclear energy. I'm an engineer and despite some of Chris's attitudes he often has some great people on and Steve is one. At one point Steve explains the difference between the "Theory of Capitalism" and the "Practice of Capitalism" and it goes RIGHT TO YOUR POINT. Ona side issue. If by chance you are interested in nuclear energy from either side. Chris has had James Krellenstein on several times. As an engineer I find James incredibly well informed on the subject of nuclear energy. Both his father and grandfather worked in the nuclear energy industry so he's 3rg generation. He's NOT pushy or let his passions get the better of him, like Chris does at times. James simply explains various aspects of the nuclear energy industry, including where there are some significant issues like construction costs and where the enriched fuel comes from.
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