Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "The Grayzone" channel.

  1.  @raindogs451  The first comment is right on target. Every member of the public should pay their fair share of taxes and have no special influence over public policy that affects hundreds of millions of people. The system we have has veered away from essential equality, one man one vote, to a tiny bunch of oligarchs being able to determine what happens to everyone else, and to influence their most private and intimate decisions, no less. Gates has unparalleled resources to vet anyone he comes in contact with, and in puff pieces he bragged about how his daily calendar is planned in 15 minute time segments. He chose to frequent Epstein and Maxwell. I didn't suggest it to him. He is also objectively unqualified to set educational policy, public health policy, and a slew of other things he is determined to dictate on a global scale, and he has in fact made messes wherever he has tried to exceed the scope of his very limited expertise.
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  2.  @raindogs451  Laughable. Gates does not have the influence he does because he is "a functional expert," but precisely because he is a billionaire and for no other reason. Had he a doctorate in virology and worked in the field his whole life, he would have no more influence than anyone else does absent his money. But with the money, he would have it. As for the lame politicians you quote, they are an example of people with money behind them, every last one. That's what money does to a system.
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  3. If Cuba is so bad, lift ALL sanctions, return Guantanamo, and let them fail all by themselves. As you indicated, it should happen quick.
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  4. Well, I just shared some information that The Guardian reported, and my comment failed to post. It was about polio.
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  5.  @aesop8694  This is SO right! This is what I never understood, Australia abandoning Assange.
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  6. He didn't get where he is by being stupid.
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  7. Katrina vanden Heuvel is transcendent. This program is so moving. The world contains some very good people.
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  8. Aaron is the best journalist covering international affairs today.
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  9.  @kristinchamberlain531  I think a lot of the Russian interference is experimentation. They try to float something, then wait to see whether there will be a reaction. It's one of the things they do to collect intelligence. I believe they do it all the time.
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  10. Our Department of Defense openly stated that it funded many such facilities in Ukraine like it was a good thing. The posts were still up on government websites even after Nuland testified. I don't think her testimony was a surprise to anyone. It was a test balloon. The test was successful.
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  11. BTW, I edit as a test of whether I'm being censored or shadowed.
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  12. And I am. Too bad.
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  13. The Red Army defeated Hitler's Wehrmacht. But the United States won the war. :/
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  14. 15:57 She did not say that. That was obvious anyway. "Suppression explains . . . a very, very small percentage of it . . ." IOW, people did not fail to vote because of voter suppression; they decided not to vote because they lacked interest in voting, and that lack of interest was due to the uninspiring candidates. DUH
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  15. It's going back to the tyranny it was, as far as non-Western Europeans were concerned. This is a "free" country only if a lot of people do not count as people!
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  16. Rittenhouse was allowed to leave the scene and go back to Illinois. We do need to know why, ESPECIALLY because earlier, police interacted in a friendly way with heavily armed males who appeared to be acting as vigilantes. Rittenhouse was also charged as an adult. It has been stated that bringing adult charges against a 17-year-old in a homicide case is "automatic" in Wisconsin. I'm opposed to such laws.
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  17. ​​ @drewdrewson1384 OH PLEASE, no comparison. Do you know that countries that have proportionately more cancer (and even more smokers) also have longer life expectancy? France, Netherlands, and Denmark are all examples. Of course the difference is their comprehensive, universal health care.
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  18.  @angelshalo06  Guess what happens to accurate information? 🤔 Yeah, I can't see it, either.
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  19. ​ @RobinHood-pf2bf NO At least not as I read it.
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  20. The Jeffrey Epstein story sounded a lot like a conspiracy theory. Someone like him had influence over everyone from Prince Andrew to Bill Gates, picking up several presidents along the way? The point is what Glenn and Aaron keep saying, EVIDENCE. Demand evidence, and go where it takes you.
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  21. "Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War" by Frances Stonor Saunders REDUX, Max! And then some. Congratulations.
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  22. They have a detailed platform. If you listened to their voters, you'd know that many voted for Stein for her position on war, but were not in agreement with her environmental positions.
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  23. Assassinating Iranian official(s) cannot be called nonintervention. Attempts to flip Venezuela cannot be called nonintervention. The continued action in Yemen cannot be called nonintervention. Then there are the hot spots we don't hear about until an American service member is killed. Our bases are everywhere, and how "hot" the region around each one, is at each moment is something we do not know.
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  24. @johnybalohny  I don't provide someone like that with a writing sample. Yes. I am serious.
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  25. @johnybalohny  Did you ever see the Nicole Kidman film Dogville? 😂
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  26. @johnybalohny  I think you'd like it. Quentin Tarantino did, a lot. But that also serves as a warning. There are days you might not want to watch it. Not light fare.
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  27. ​ @wtice4632  Who's crying? You hear real leftists in this video saying what they really think.
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  28. How much organized crime is ignored in Russia, due to partisan politics and corruption? Not a sign of consolidated power -- nevermind the possibility of false flags. Or, actual Kremlin operations made to look like false flags? Truth is, we don't know who is behind this; we can speculate on who has the real motive. Who takes Germany's word, or UK's? Please.
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  29. By the mid-90s, it was compromised. 9/11 ended it. Sad.
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  30. @J mitchell Not at all. I commend Aaron for inviting this commentator, because it IS people like him who have vastly more influence on foreign affairs than they should. This is how conversations in the State Department go.
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  31.  @andrethorpe6183 Links are removed from most channels, and were even before this war. They claim, and not without foundation, that links are too hard to monitor for TOS. But even references are removed. I've only seen an "innocuous" search term stay up.
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  32. Respect to these gentlemen for maintaining their demeanor rather than laughing their heads off. How many people could keep a straight face?
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  33.  @dukedematteo1995  I've read more blatant lies about Aaron's position on Ukraine lately -- including the exact opposite story from the one you spin. Makes you think.
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  34. ​ @chippsdubbo89 A prominent abolitionist once said of the Nate Turner rebellion that it was horrifying, but what did you expect? I think both "horrifying" and "what did you expect" apply here. Hard to say which applies more. :/
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  35. 16:47 ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL THIS is what happened. THIS.
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  36. I love when someone takes the time to really say thanks! :)
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  37. This is a classic Trump story, isn't it?
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  38.  @SlackKeyPaddy  Disagree. Aaron Mate is great. Those others you mentioned are a different breed, but even they are talking down the war psychosis resolutely.
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  39. Did you miss the latest? The biolab issue isn't propaganda. Nuland just addressed it, an excerpt of her sworn testimony is on Greenwald's channel. TeleSUR just reported (in Spanish) that China has demanded the US account for all the money it is pouring into biological laboratories around the world. The Indian press and even AFP have been raising questions about the DOD funding of biolabs in Ukraine and George Galloway was denounced over the weekend for reporting on this. Stay tuned.
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  40.  @stupedcraig  You poor thing. What won't YOU swallow? You have all the information here to find authoritative sources. You ask for what you know will be excised, and that is deliberate.
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  41.  @stupedcraig  The US Department of Defense funds these, and the US Embassy admits to six such labs. DOD, not NIH. "So what," huh? Recall our excuse for invading Iraq, or has a steady diet of propaganda and abuse ruined your memory?
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  42.  @stupedcraig  A familiar trajectory, so far: Biolabs in Ukraine is a conspiracy theory. Biolabs in Ukraine is Russian misinformation. Biolab funding is to make sure dangerous pathogens are destroyed. Biolab funding is in one place only, and is purely peaceful. Biolab funding is by the US Department of Defense, in its threat reduction initiative. Biolab funding is in six labs, at least, for the purpose of comprehensive threat reduction. Biolab funding by DOD exists throughout Ukraine, to reduce the threat. . . . "Putin puppet!!! Putin puppet!!!" That's how they sell it to you. The entire pandemic followed the boiling frog paradigm.
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  43. The war is being privatized (the contractors will remain). But you're right, if the story pops back up, we will know why.
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  44.  @shameiti  So much death around, and yet we are hell-bent on directly causing more more more, and with cold deliberation. That was what I meant. I thought the George Floyd murder was all the more shocking, at a time when I would have expected people say to themselves memento mori. But oh well.
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  45. Don't worry, guys. When the first criminal chops off a thumb, chipping will be over.
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  46. What few Americans know is that cities throughout Serbia that had anti-Milosevic governments in place were bombed anyway, with depleted uranium.
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  47.  @GordanaStetin  What is sinister is that I can still see it, and won't know unless I sign out. That's the new new thing. :/
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  48. Cosplay. Consider where stocks are. That's all they look at.
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  49. @Abe Tsenoh Oh goodness, LOL . . . Was this deserved? Hm. I have to agree it was . . .
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  50.  @dameongeppetto  But it isn't a "biological fact." If someone wants to say it is, I certainly would not silence them or censor them in any way, but I have no idea why they are so invested in believing it.
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