Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "George Galloway" channel.

  1. Why did anyone think billionaires are a good idea?
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  2. Why George is great. If only America had someone like George.
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  3. The aide workers' murder was a torture murder.
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  4. The proposed harbor is a transparent move, and will attract even more countries to the BRICS+.
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  5. No, he was there. He is a worthy spokesman for another view, unlike Americans who still cannot find Ukraine on a map but do know how to moo and bray in unison. I don't agree with him, but I agree with inviting him. George is a great man.
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  6. Once you are full grown, always remember: if you apply for a job and are rejected, you don't know why. You don't know why the person hired was hired. If you apply to a prestigious school, or for a loan, or an internship, same story. Don't read the articles on how to interview, etc., as though they were written in good faith. Don't be immobilized by self-reproach. Watch this video and think. Sex, drugs, money, . . . who knows what changed hands?
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  7. Bless you, George. Go get 'em.
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  8. Whatever else one may think of this man, and whatever valid criticism he deserves, EVERYONE wants political leaders to SPEAK EXACTLY LIKE THIS.
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  9. Whatever one's politics, one should consider that in this world, most people believe Putin, not Johnson.
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  10.  @ExpatZ266  Anne-Laure Bonnel is the war correspondent and filmmaker I trust the most. Her documentaries are subtitled.
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  11. @johnjames4681  And this booing helps bring peace --- how?? Would you have supported booing people from Iraq or Afghanistan?
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  12.  @ExpatZ266  You may be right about that. I know for fact certain things he said were misleading. Example --- We know that we DON'T know who is responsible for the Bucha atrocities, and we know that the story propagated in the West is impossible, while the Russian explanation has not been confirmed.
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  13. And by the way . . . On June 15, Reuters reported that China's holdings of U.S. Treasuries had skid to 12-year low. Japan had been picking up the slack but now it is also cutting its holdings. How about that? Of course interest rates must go up. And dollar hegemony must go down.
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  14. Yes, please!!
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  15. He tagged him as official Russian state media. Whether he said more than that, I don't know.
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  16. George, you were the only political leader to predict a landslide.
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  17.  @janeclarkson8471  I'm so sorry. ;/
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  18. In all seriousness, where did this come from? Why is it here?
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  19. Don't doubt it, there are a lot of people around who would welcome a repeat of Kent State. So glad George asked!! ❤ love him 10:25
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  20. Now is a good time to watch Stephen F Cohen again at the 92nd Street Y in New York from a couple of years ago. He was prescient. Remarkable scholar.
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  21. Yup!
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  22. I knew Blair was vile. I knew he was shameless. I didn't think he was in the throes of malignant megalomania.
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  23. On June 15, Reuters reported that China's holdings of U.S. Treasuries had skid to 12-year low. Japan had been picking up the slack but now it also cut its holdings. How about that? Of course interest rates must go up.
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  24. The US Embassy in Ukraine states on its website that the biolabs were funded by the US Department of Defense. Not NIH. (Interesting, huh?) Not sure about the claimed Hunter connection.
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  25. Face consequences, for faking? My goodness, it pays well. "Money is truth."
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  26. Pause for a moment and look at the expanding BRICS+. Now ask yourself why Westerners cannot get along most of the time with the global south? During the recent summit, Lavrov made an ironic observation about "diversity, equity, and inclusion" as he was introducing the new members. I didn't think the BRICS would expand before peace was concluded between Russia and Ukraine, and I'm not thrilled, to put it mildly. But what does that tell you???
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  27. I did, too.
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  28. My father and my mother's only brother were both WWII British Army veterans, and they were born in Yugoslavia! Seriously, who wasn't in the Resistance from Day 1??
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  29. @johnjames4681  So then why the comparison? It also does not compare to being BOMBED WITH DEPLETED URANIUM, as Djokovic was as a child. As infants, children, pregnant women, and other innocent civilians were.
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  30.  @damer651  Not enough to disrupt his game or his composure, frankly.
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  31. @Jesse Burgen Not what the US Embassy in Ukraine website says. How odd.
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  32. If you press me, yes, of course the Anglosphere is a bigger worry. Let's not exaggerate the difference however.
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  33.  @aprescoup Who do you label "the" attacker? Only by ignoring the eight years of killing sprees in the Donbass by neo-Nazi dominated militias could you identify "the" attacker.
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  34.  @rap3208  US control over global media is impressive, and will last as long as their money dominance lasts.
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  35. Doesn't bother him. :)
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  36. Why is that woman staring at her phone?
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  37. "Blame the worm." 😂😂😂
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  38.  @pascalpoussin1209  Amen to that! We might actually know where COVID came from, the real source of the Syrian gas attacks, Bucha . . .
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  39. Serbian cities with anti-Milosevic governments in place were bombed with depleted uranium anyway.
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  40.  @User0resU-1  I'll have to listen again. I'm not shocked, frankly.
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  41. These numbers are reality. Regardless of any other beliefs a person may have, these are the FACTS.
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  42. If Victoria Nuland told the truth about the "danger Russia will gain control" of the microbes in US Department of Defense funded biolabs in Ukraine, why are WE not demanding inspectors and threatening war, like we did in Iraq? Why are WE resisting the call for independent weapons inspectors?
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  43. He's a tool. Mr. Galloway cleaned his clock. He came across as a schoolboy, the little sniveler of his class. He did not have sufficient gravitas to be disgraceful. Only a grown man or woman can reach the level of disgrace. This was far below that.
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  44.  @annarock8966  True.
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  45. Now I understand why they keep telling us Russia is losing.
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  46.  @jamesadey8744  Some corporations indeed are.
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  47. That photo of the Prime Minister standing at the podium looks like it must be AI. And yet . . .
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  48. Love this comment.
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  49. George, you give people too much credit. Hardly anyone cared.
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  50. I appreciated his respectful interview of the journalist who is in Poland, on the Ukrainian border, and in opposition to the views of the panel. He rose in my eyes with that.
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  51. I have always thought that dollar hegemony was ultimately based on brute force.
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  52. It will.
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  53. Lie, and demonstrate prepotence in one fell swoop. It's more powerful to display it.
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  54. Don't feel bad. The ruble collapsed in 1998; hence the symbolic stomp dance on Serbia in 1999. We know.
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  55. BOTH. Face it. Both.
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  56. Thank goodness vodka and cats are banned. That'll show 'em.
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  57. My father was in the 8th British Army!!!!!! Small world. Uncle in the 2nd, North Africa. My GOD.
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  58. No she didn't. She knows nothing about the law, and little or nothing about rational responses to mass hysteria.
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  59. Best thing I've heard in this decade for sure.
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  60. ​ @HarmonixHealing  He tagged him as Russian state media. I don't know whether that was all.
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  61. ​ @bernardedwards8461  Please explain to me how anyone can be duped into hero worship in 2024.
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  62. It is not certain that it was a weapons lab. That is the unconfirmed part. There are biolabs, they are funded by the US Department of Defense, not the NIH. That much we know. Serious questions.
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  63. Well, we have a result. Looks to me like the jury looked beyond First Amendment law and provable damages to punish wrongdoing, in the proportion they saw fit. If that is what happened, that means we all lost. As usual. This was a shameful spectacle.
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  64. I can't watch the news anymore. A hospital hit. No, I have got to rest now. This is too much.
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  65. That is precisely what always happens.
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  66. Put up a monument to celebrate the United States participation . . . in the rat line.
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  67. Russia is wrong as well. But the US also has bloody hands, and may escape punishment again. US enjoys filthy impunity for filthy crimes against the rest of the world all the time.
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  68. ​ @AntoinetteTurkie 💯 A son of Canada plus the son of a true blue Chicagoan. It's great. 😊
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  69.  @pbworld7858  And now we know why this will not end. :/
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  70.  @rushshukla4636 Nothing visible to me is clear in the least. I doubt very much that you can see all I wrote. This is the New YouTube.
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  71.  @rushshukla4636  Where do you see that I started attacking anyone?
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  72. Actually, the Five Eyes are a much bigger problem in the world, yes, you're right. "Upon further reflection . . . "
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  73.  @dimitrisgregan553  The market on all the essential minerals needed to make the devices we are using at this moment is nearly cornered by the BRICS. Frightening times. No one is telling the truth, that I can see.
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  74. ​ @Ego-Kills perfectly said . . . of course
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  75. Give Hunter the plea deal, Joey will retire to his ice cream bunker.
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  76. @johnjames4681  Good that you admit your real interests. I would rather work until I were unable --- in fact, I need to.
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  77.  Thanos7575  Someone who joined 4 months ago and follows Sam Seder and Vaush. At least read The Guardian or something.
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  78. @tonyscott1658  Eastern peoples have better reading skills, for which you've just provided evidence.
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  79. I agree, but I urge you to suspend judgment for real. I have been following other press, including mainstream Indian and mainstream French. None have said this story is Russian misinformation. There was US DOD money pouring into Ukrainian biological laboratories. The risk that bioweapons, or bioweapon technology, would escape was highest in the 1990s, after the fall of the USSR. What is all that money for now? The questions are real because they have a foundation. We do not have answers.
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  80. Not exactly. The "weapons" part is as yet unconfirmed. IOW, the precise nature of the research has not been established. We need the UN to send in independent weapons inspectors.
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  81. We've never been closer to nuclear war? WWII was a (one-sided) nuclear war.
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  82.  @chrisj2502  I support independent weapons inspectors to be sent immediately.
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  83. That's why he calls the truckers Nazis. So he can support the real ones. It's the new ruse, just like the old ruse..
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  84. Whaaaa . . . ?
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  85.  @paulagbaku3025  I suggest you listen and read. Or have you mixed him up with someone else?
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  86.  @frenzalrhomb6919  Sadly, nothing surprises me anymore, either. ;/
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  87. I suspect he is also in very serious danger due to internal elements -- and that he stands to gain by being a US puppet. It is quite a tightrope the man is on.
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  88. "Mass formation psychosis"
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  89. @Jesse Burgen The USSR ended in 1991. Well over a generation ago, going on two. Math is no longer stressed in schools for a reason.
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  90.  @kennycook8691  I've had actually false accusations made against me, LOL. Had to leave a job when I was harassed and the harasser reported me. This is normal in the US.
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  91. That is something I have noticed in the corporate world: when the ones that were relatively clean go bad, it's not a little bad, it's a veritable frenzy. Also, they are able to get away with it because they can ride on their prior reputation for a long time.
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  92. Censorship never meant strength. On the contrary.
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  93.  @aprescoup  Try clarity.
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  94.  @rushshukla4636  WHO is? How so? Comments are being disappeared as we speak.
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  95. Worse than that -- his words were that he got "tricked" into signing permission. Well, second opinions, lengthy psychotherapy, and all that are expensive. I can understand.
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  96.  @charleshunter7864  The difference is Americans bomb places they can't find on the map. Geography is a thing for a lot of people. I had to memorize African countries and their capitals, much less European. As a kid, my uncle could name the islands of Japan. He'd compete with my mother. Parents from former Yugoslavia.
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  97. It was false, or you chose not to believe it? Did you read the article?
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  98.  @StandUp6710  Certainly not. Have you read the complaint? A defamation case is about one thing only, whether speech or writing is false. Every defamation case chips away at First Amendment freedom of speech. Every speech or written expression is assumed to be First Amendment protected and must be proved to be otherwise. A defamation case is not about who was worse. It's not about persons, but only about texts. If you thought something else was at issue, then Depp's ruse is working.
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  99.  @kundalini1953  To force escalation, in which case the US has the upper hand over all others. You don't think they care about the people? They care about who wins purely based on the effect it will have on its own ability to control the natural resources in the region.
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  100.  @damer651  That, too.
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  101. Oh come on. He knew not to, on stage.
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  102. He has a scar from an attack.
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  103. Of course the ultimate blame for the invasion rests with Russia. People looking forward to a respite from COVID, and a peaceful spring, are now refugees, being killed, their homes shelled. But wars have multiple causes. The causes for this one are looking worse for the US government and NATO by the day. They do, however, expect impunity, again. I wonder if they can pull it off -- again? The Indian press and TeleSUR are reporting China has demanded an accounting of the biolabs the US Department of Defense funds all over the world. P. S. Started well before 2014! Look at Clinton. Look there.
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  104. Who are the war profiteers? I smell a rat, too.
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  105. No, it's not. Eastern Europe has a few advantages over West, but that's the most that can be said.
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  106. 15:04 I admit it, I never saw THIS coming.
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  107.  @joecater894  The odd part is that Wuhan had NIH funding, possibly in violation of the moratorium on GoF research. The Ukraine labs were funded by the US Department of Defense.
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  108.  @jaromor8808  I meant that I answered him at least twice.
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  109. Has become? 😅
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  110. You've just summarized it perfectly.
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  111. ​@upstairs1307 He wasn't in the camps, but was hidden away as an infant by his mother, to prevent him from being sent, and he became very ill and almost died. Dysentery, I believe. I have never heard Dr. Maté himself refer to himself as a "Holocaust survivor." His father was interred at the time. His mother expected to be captured and sent to the camps, but I don't think she ever was. She suffered from severe depression during and right after the war. I'm not sure she ever recovered fully. The father survived as well, and the whole family was ultimately reunited. When as a young man Dr. Maté began questioning Zionism, his father threw him out of the house.
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  112. This has nothing to do with high nose or elitist eye-rolling, George. This woman is flat-out misrepresenting this case. Sheer demagoguery, and a great example of American woman-on-woman hate.
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  113.  @marshalljulie3676  When people snap out of it, they'll be embarrassed they fell for the latest moral panic/Official Enemy/ritual stoning. Well, some will be.
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  114. They really should cut it out.
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  115. He did.
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  116.  @jokers7890  thank you
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  117. No solid evidence for that. Evidence that Azov was imposed on Zelensky. Too serious to say just like that, without clear proof. This is the worst thing a person could be.
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  118. Is abuse the weapon of choice of most men?
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  119. Yes, we need to retake the discourse. We also need to laugh, right in their faces. Don't let them know they have the upper hand in any respect. They are bullies.
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  120. See the Glenn Greenwald video of Victoria Nuland testifying on the Ukrainian biolabs, funded by the US DOD. There is more to this story that we do not yet know. The Indian press, TeleSUR, even AFP are reporting on the issue, and asking questions for which we do not have answers. Yet.
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  121. This story has no traction, bro.
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  122. US paws are all over this, as usual -- it is the world's second most corrupt country after Ukraine. But make no mistake, Putin bears responsibility as well. He should have secured the Donbass after 6 weeks, not still be fighting after six months. Terribly tragic all around.
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  123. @Jesse Burgen "Butt hurt," huh? Smoked you out, and wasn't even trying. Why is it so easy? 🤣 Get busy cleaning up those labs, a three-decades-long project.
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  124.  @kennycook8691  The rapid substitution of one moral panic/scapegoat for another is the story here. The US can't seem to stop itself anymore.
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  125. So the US found poor Laika.
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  126. 5:24 Check out Colonel MacGregor's microexpressions. Loved it. 😅
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  127. This case is being misrepresented here and giving rise to a new moral panic. The rapid substitution of one moral panic for another is the story here. The US can't seem to stop itself anymore. Mob mentalities are normal, thinking for yourself is deviant.
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  128.  @gruust1  "Both sides" is an insipid slogan. Russian prisoners are being tortured with impunity, and the West is nevertheless winning a blatant propaganda war. You call that "protecting?" I call that a poor performance from any standpoint, and all the while millions of innocent civilians who were looking forward to a spring without pandemic woes have instead been driven from their homes. At least for the time being, the Nazis in Ukraine are stronger than they were! So, who, exactly, is suffering?
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  129. You were in Belgrade, George. Do you include Belgrade in your observations of general decay?
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  130. As Col. Douglas MacGregor said, this anti-Russian campaign is a grave sign of weakness. It makes people in the West look crazed and desperate.
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  131. New COVID variant identified: BS 24-7
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  132. They are also accosting them with strange LGBTQ+ propaganda, not to stop bullying (which is a very grave problem in the schools) but to confuse them.
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  133. They are consistent in their support for the radical right. No surprise.
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  134. "Men are victims, too!" -- Brian Laundrie "It was my fault." -- Gabby Petito, said to police
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  135. Correct, yes. But the question can easily be eliminated. Is NATO a military alliance expressly designed to counter the threat of Mexico? Is the entire United States formerly a part of Mexico? Did the US promise neutrality to Mexico in exchange for retaining the states Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona? Do any of those states have a civil war, with combattants that have the aim of joining Mexico? Are one of the factions in those disputed regions fighting to execute Mexicans and the pro-Mexican people living there? We could continue. Aaron Mate just did a good interview on Push Back that treats these questions fairly and condemns the Russian invasion. I think you'd be relieved to hear a lot of it.
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  136. OTOH, The Real News Network has an interview with a journalist who insists this invasion has nothing to do with NATO. Interesting stuff.
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  137.  @charleshunter7864  Well, I did mean it as a generalization, which will have exceptions for sure. But if a country bombs somewhere, pretty much everyone should know where that is. Not to endorse "collective responsibility." I know most people aren't consulted. :/
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  138.  @charleshunter7864  All true. 😂, albeit a bitter 😂
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  139. Chris Hedges didn't vote for Hillary or Joe. He is not their tool. Also, he speaks out about neoliberal globalism all the time. 😂😂😂😂😂 your fantasy post
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  140. Did you used to worship Bill Gates, too? 😂😂😂
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  141. She's flat-out misrepresenting this case. I can see through it, because I'm a lawyer. This is more titillation, and a new focus for the ever-growing mob mentalities in the US. Worry about that.
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  142. The bigger picture is Mob Psychology, Episode 23.
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  143.  @StandUp6710  Slogans can really get you to divert your attention, huh? The victimhood sweepstakes are legit? There is a Good Guy and a Bad Guy in this movie? And if we could only beat down the Bad Guy, society could purify itself and get back on the correct path . . . The bad guy is the one who keeps suing.
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  144. I urge everyone to suspend judgment for real. I have been following other press, including mainstream Indian and mainstream French. None have said this story is "Russian misinformation." There has been US DOD money pouring into Ukrainian biological laboratories. The risk that bioweapons, or bioweapon technology, would escape was highest in the 1990s, after the fall of the USSR. What is the money for now? The questions are real because they have a real foundation. We do not have answers.
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  145. "Have you people gone mad?" YES
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  146. ​@waltonsmith7210 Exactly. Will he also say he was "tricked" into microdosing hallucinogens?
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  147. Google doesn't take this video down. They think they are being far too tolerant. Their minds stopped working normally long before Joe Biden's did.
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  148. Totally wrong, to boot. A defamation case is harder to prove in the US. Speech is presumed First Amendment protected, and proving that it should not be means overcoming that presumption.
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  149. Okay, you can figure this out: Prince George would have a regent until turning 18 (or 21). That's how this nonsense works.
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  150. As it happens, Moira Donegan called this. The Guardian.
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  151. "And besides, she had it coming!!!" 🤣
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  152. 0:07 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  153. Sick, sick people
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  154. The idea is to goad them. :/
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  155.  @kundalini1953  East Europeans kill each other . . . This would be a problem for the US, er, why, exactly? Raise your cynicism quotient.
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  156. In all seriousness, placing biological males into women's prisons is a grave human rights violation. The women must be protected from assault. You never heard of things like this in the semi-deveoped (supposedly developed) world.
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  157. Lord, what America has done to you . . . my GOD.
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  158.  @maitreya1906  Yes, and "suck it up," too!
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  159. "She asked for it." "She had it coming."
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  160. Truth
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  161. Hitler never set foot in North America.
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  162.  @rockyfjord3753  It is true. Someone misled you somehow. A misprint? It was JESSE OWENS who got a ticker tape parade in NYC after the 1936 Olympics. Hitler never set foot on this continent, or on British soil, either.
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  163.  @rockyfjord3753  Nor could you have a false memory. I assume you were not alive in 1936 to see it, or imagine you did. You were misled somehow.
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  164.  @rockyfjord3753  Someone on Quora spread a story that Socrates wss fictional, and I had students who dudn't believe me that he existed. 🤣🤣🤣 🤡🌎
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  165.  @rockyfjord3753  Aryanism in the Anglosphere predates Hitler. His brand of racism wasn't new with him, and having Nazi Germany destroy the Soviets was overtly hoped for. Nevertheless, Hitler never had a parade in New York.
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  166.  @rockyfjord3753  You have no physical proof Plato existed, by that logic. He wrote stuff? Oh come on. Someone put the name "Plato" on some texts.
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  167.  @rockyfjord3753  You know, you really are off. Get your head together before the next wave of catastrophes.
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  168.  @rockyfjord3753  I have an advanced degree in ancient philosophy from Paris IV. Among other things. No interest in continuing with you.
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  169.  @rockyfjord3753  You claimed I was just winging it, when that is what YOU do, obviously. Typical wh it emerkin, projecting to infinity. No, I actually devoted years to the study. What, do wh it emerkins just buy diplomas, or inherit them like titles? That would explain a lot. You think you're disciplined because you say you are? You just changed the definition of a ticker tape parade! 🤣🤣🤣
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  170.  @rockyfjord3753  Also, it's TOUT, not "taut." Tout credentials. If you assert someone has none, expect to be contradicted on that point. I think we have a good idea of your knowledge base. So tell me, are you the creative type?
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  171.  @rockyfjord3753  Well, yes, I do have better things to do than respond to your posts, but that's true of everyone. Tootles.
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  172. Hillary Clinton Joe Biden Macron Tony Blair Come to mind . . .
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  173. The fact that the Bidens were flagrantly corrupt is reason to believe the rot is everywhere. The Bidens were generally more timid and uncreative in their approach. Biden is a follower, not an innovator, in matters of corruption. He only takes the well-worn path.
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  174. @johnjames4681  I know. That's why it's very important to add depleted uranium, so that the Serbian kids and the unborn know what their lives are worth in the humanitarian scheme of things.
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  175. @johnjames4681  Albanian kids got doused with DU, too, come to think of it, . . . for good measure I suppose.
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  176.  @johnjames4681  I did, too. But you had said you rely on empire for your crust of bread. I'd rather not, thanks.
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  177. How did we get any of these leaders??
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  178. The emails were widely reported as authenticated. Much of the rest could be "deep fakes," one must suppose. The emails are apparently real.
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  179. The burden of proof is on the party bringing a defamation case.
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  180. You mean like that Rachel Maddow hoax, where she spread the story that Putin was offering a bounty for US soldiers? Why does someone join (only a few months ago) to write stuff like this?
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  181. Jacques Baud reported this. Kim Iversen just featured his recently-translated article.
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  182. In America, it is very easy for a bullet to find you, George.
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  183. ​@BigMrFirebird-ne1wt. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 That wasn't even a nice try. I guess it's too easy?
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  184. Celts lived next to the Slavic tribes in good relations for a long time. They were the first to settle what is today Belgrade. This is the basic prehistory of Europe -- the Celts were everywhere.
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  185. Look at the US Embassy in Ukraine website. The US Department of Defense funds these biolabs, not the National Institutes of Health. The Indian press and TeleSUR are reporting China has demanded a full accounting from the US.
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  186. He's not on trial. He's pursuing his second defamation case after losing a stronger one.
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  187. Except that Depp already lost a defamation case in UK, and was not fired from anything based on the article at issue here. So, anyone telling you this is "just like" that is fabricating. Typical, it's what the media does.
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  188.  @tsensuke5259  It MEANS that he was not fired due to Heard, but due to losing that case against Heard -- Depp had a stronger case in UK, and defamation is easier to prove in UK, not harder, because there is no First Amendment protection in UK. When Depp v. Heard comes up, reason flies out the door, and for what?
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  189.  @tsensuke5259  And AMERICAN ones are fair? Police, too. Their testimony is rock solid. /s In any event, my point stands: he lost work because he lost a case, not because of the article at issue here. (Did you even read it?) Not because of he said she said, but because the judge said. Reason out the window . . .
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  190.  @tsensuke5259  No I'm not. The fact that movie studios treated it as significant is the point. Sorry you are so enthralled by this hysteria that you still cannot grasp that.
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  191.  @tsensuke5259  Being removed from a job based on mere accusation, and losing a role after a trial has taken place are not the same. If you don't see that, some emotion or other is interrupting your thought process. Where is your proof Depp's suit was lost due to corruption? It was HIS suit, he brought it and he could have withdrawn it if he thought the court was biased.
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  192.  @tsensuke5259  You still don't get the point. Not my problem. "Poor poor multimillionaire victim Johnny, everyone so unfair, and SO hard to fight back. That Bad Woman and that Bad Court and those Bad Movie Studios, we'll show 'em!!! Well, one out of three at least." That's what makes sense to you.
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  193.  @tsensuke5259  If you bring a lawsuit, and you refuse to withdraw that lawsuit or settle that lawsuit, or you fail to appeal or fail to win an appeal, are third parties entitled to take cognizance of the fact that you lost? If you whine to them that IT WAS UNFAIR!!! and your fans all agree, should they just believe you? This guy's fans treat him like a child, not a grown man.
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  194.  @tsensuke5259  Why does it bother you?
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  195.  @tsensuke5259  Because I'm making entirely different points in the two, and long posts are uninviting to read.
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  196.  @tsensuke5259  Sure I did. First, if one post is shadowed, the other may get through. Second, you refused to acknowledge the point, that losing a job over a bare accusation and losing a job after losing a court case YOU decided to pursue, are not comparable. Keep it up, and let everyone see the irrationality on full display. No problem for me.
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  197.  @tsensuke5259  It's a fact that the verdict exists. Lots of verdicts are incorrect. People in business rely on them anyway, and cannot be considered blameworthy for doing so absent some truly remarkable circumstances which you do not find here.
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  198.  @tsensuke5259  Tell me, are you as concerned for Julian Assange?
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  199.  @tsensuke5259  Sorry, forgot to block you. I didn't have you pegged as a reader, no.
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  200. Looks as though the jury ignored First Amendment law (and provable damages) to punish wrongdoing, in the proportion they saw fit. If that is what happened, then we lost again, as usual. That's what happens to ordinary people when drugged millionaires duke it out.
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  201. It took 10,000 9/11s for the Soviets to go mad, and still they defeated Hitler, and still Arkhipov prevented a nuclear exchange. Why is the US mad? After one horrific day? If you're British, I know you know better.
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  202. He has a lot of money. And she's too lucky. Remember the hate mobbing of Heather Mills? I do.
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  203. Glenn Greenwald just posted a very short excerpt of Victoria Nuland testifying on the Ukrainian biolabs. There is more to this story all right. What it is, we don't know.
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  204. Thank you. Keep in mind, however, that the right wing routinely conflates the money spent on a given sector and money that actually reaches people. Does anyone think ordinary Ukrainians are receiving any of the money allotted to Ukraine? Or that the per-pupil public education expenditures mean better textbooks and school supplies for the kids? They don't even have air conditioning during a hear wave. This propaganda has been current since Reagan. It existed before him, but most people saw through it. Post-Reagan, they lap it up.
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  205. ​ @Bitwise1024 I think you both have good points this time. What you are saying is not necessarily contradictory.
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  206.  @FaranFronczakTV  Oh, and here we thought you were fair and balanced!
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  207.  @FaranFronczakTV  Of course not. The issue in a defamation case is not who was the worse person, the issue is whether the speech or writing is defamatory, and hence should not have First Amendment protection. The case isn't balanced at all, it is clearly not defamation, even if the person claiming abuse was abusive as well, even more abusive -- and even if some expert claims they were "the primary abuser," whatever that's supposed to mean. So the strategy has to be to get the jury to focus on something other than the law and the facts. They can't return a verdict for the plaintiff if they are objective. But the real reason Depp brought it was revenge. He can claim anything he wants about Heard, if he truly believed it in his drugged state. It's not perjury. The real tipoff is your glee at describing the petition to get Heard cancelled from her film. Tremendous stand against cancel culture, huh? (Notice that Galloway listeners spotted it. They are not stupid.) Shame on you for promoting hate on a woman 23 years younger than her ex. She has a lot longer to live with this.
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  208.  @FaranFronczakTV  BTW, in the UK, a defamation case is easier to prove than in the US. In the US, it is presumed that an article in a newspaper is First Amendment protected freedom of speech/freedom of the press. The plaintiff has a heavy burden of proof to show that it's not protected. Otherwise, he cannot recover. If your opinion is something different, then it's wrong.
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  209. 8:59. Musk comments begin
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  210. Biden and the Clintons put an end to MeToo during the 2020 primaries. This isn't their divorce case, which ended a long time ago, and Depp is using this claim to replay it. Every defamation case chips away at First Amendment freedom of speech. Even creeps, even criminals have that.
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  211. The end of the draft was the end of anti-war as a position in American two-party politics.
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  212. Will young Americans trot off to war before the entire Epstein files are released?
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  213. The US fights Russia and expects China to pay for it.
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  214. No, it wasn't. SMH
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  215. This case is being misrepresented and giving rise to a new moral panic. The rapid substitution of one moral panic for another is the story here. The US can't seem to stop itself anymore. Mob mentalities are normal, thinking for yourself is deviant.
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  216. Glenn Greenwald posted an excerpt of Victoria Nuland testifying on the Ukrainian biolabs -- which, oddly enough, were funded through the US Department of Defense, not the NIH. The US Embassy has admitted to six such labs. TeleSUR reported that China demands the US provide full information on all biological laboratories it funds throughout the world. The Indian press reported that China states there are 26 such labs in Ukraine, not six.
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  217. "It" refers to what?
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  218.  @ShamanKish  The way it started in Yugoslavia was with Western encouragement. See what Oskar Lafontaine said about it, ot Tariq Ali, or Alain Badiou. Lafontaine has more inside knowledge and probably more objectivity than the others I mentioned.
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  219. Obama's chefs drown? And I thought working for the Clintons was dangerous.
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  220. Hardly the first time.
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  221. BREAKING: Glenn Greenwald just posted a short excerpt of Victoria Nuland testifying on the Ukrainian biolabs -- which, oddly enough, were funded through the US DOD, not the NIH. TeleSUR (Spanish) has just reported that China demands the US provide full information on all biological laboratories it funds throughout the world. The Indian press and even AFP have been raising questions about the DOD funding of biolabs in Ukraine, without pretending we know the true answers. George Galloway was denounced over the weekend for reporting on this, for so much as daring to mention it. My GOD.
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  222. Perfect. Literally. 💯 +
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  223. Why? Did he sock his wife? Or cheat? Or get stoned? Or make a movie? Then why would it be titillating?
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  224. Not even celebrate (and after all, the USSR no longer exists) -- commemorate the event. Simpler than the neoliberals are trying to make it.
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  225.  @alterego157  I still found some of them.
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  226.  @joecater894  Still not proof. Reason enough to demand answers, though.
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  227.  Erol Sayn  You should go to the UNSC and tell them that. Maybe you can get a grant.
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  228. Not the same.
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  229.  @MsLuath  Try the Indian press. In fact, there should be an archived page from the US Embassy in Ukraine that talks about the DOD Threat Reduction Program or some such.
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  230. We don't know yet, but the US MSM is trying to set the stage for painting this story as misinformation. I think we need to practice suspending judgment, after the way we've been whipped around for two solid years. No other press I'm reading, like mainstream Indian and mainstream French, have labeled this story "Russian misinformation." There has been US DOD money pouring into many Ukrainian biological laboratories. The risk that bioweapons, or bioweapon technology, would escape was highest in the 1990s, after the fall of the USSR. Why is the US money pouring into those labs now? We do not have answers yet. I HOPE we will.
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  231. Good God, what IS happening in Germany??
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  232. He needs to stop microdosing hallucinogenics. That might help. Go on a retreat, get away from the screen life . . . Reacquaint himself with trees. Could be hopeless . . .
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  233. ​ @HarmonixHealing  answered at least twice . . .
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  234.  @FaranFronczakTV  😂
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  235. A few aspects of the misogyny displayed are similar. Also, both women were blonds who married great wealth. Neither had a pristine character, which all female victims must have.
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  236.  @GenXer333  This frankly makes no sense. I have the impression this case was not well tried by her lawyers. (I wonder what they did to fight the absurd venue, for one thing.) I'd have to read the entire transcript to give an informed opinion. The Guardian coverage was outstanding, for a change!
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  237. 💯
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  238. Wake up before the people around you start accepting chips in their brains.
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  239. Donald Trump: Firing, jailing, and bombing. And it has only been two months, with forty-six more to go. Don't think his supporters don't like it.
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  240. Well, but as long as you support gender affirming care . . .
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  241. Gonzalo Lira is alive and physically well. His computer and phone have been confiscated, and he cannot leave the area where he is, or speak freely.
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  242. You joined a few months ago --- for this?
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  243.  @cheguevarasfist4018  Never. Never is good.
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  244.  @cheguevarasfist4018  Joined in 2020 during the lockdown. I don't do soc med.
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  245.  @cheguevarasfist4018  I was surprised by your first retort. Maybe I misunderstood you.
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  246. See Glenn Greenwald's new post of Victoria Nuland testifying on the biolabs. Familiar trajectory: 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 in Ukraine, 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!!!"
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  247.  @chrisj2502  You make a compelling point. This being Ukraine, and Russia, I think objective inspections are more likely, but there are no guarantees.
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  248.  @strongchallenger2269  Some of the information is still up on the US Embassy in Ukraine website. Then there is the Nuland testimony. Show them. They may be shocked if this deteriorates.
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  249. This story still could be true, or indeed may not be. How does his war record have any bearing at all on the issue? I hope you don't mean that one cancels the other. That is truly repugnant. Let the chips fall where they may.
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  250. Precisely. She is a demagogue here, however. That never goes out of style.
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  251.  @FaranFronczakTV  If you read the complaint, the answer, the actual article at issue, and a basic summary of defamation law, such as is available on Cornell's website, I'll faint. You're reporting on the reaction to the trial, not the trial. Consult Mattias Desmet on that issue, sadly.
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  252. Glenn Greenwald just posted a short excerpt of Victoria Nuland testifying on the Ukrainian biolabs -- which, oddly enough, were funded through the US DOD, not the NIH. TeleSUR (Spanish) has just reported that China demands the US provide full information on all biological laboratories it funds throughout the world. The Indian press and even AFP have been raising questions about the DOD funding of biolabs, without pretending we know the true answers. George Galloway was denounced over the weekend for reporting on this. I remember how the US bombed Serbian cities that had anti-Milosevic governments in place with depleted uranium anyway. It happened in easily a dozen places. The US is always looking for ways to promote unconventional weapons. "To keep us safe."
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  253.  @william_marshal  NATO bombed at least a dozen cities with anti-Milosevic governments in place with depleted uranium anyway. NATO bombed Montenegro, which had an anti-Milosevic government and was receiving refugees. These facts were reported in the MSM, including the New York Times. This was a WAR CRIME, poisoning people not yet born.
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  254.  @dkoz8321  Milosevic was actually acquitted of such charges after his death.
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  255.  @william_marshal  Mm, really? You need to hit the pause button. There is more here than meets the eye. See my breaking news update in this thread. It's not pretty.
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  256.  @william_marshal  False. Montenegro did NOT have a pro-Milosevic government, its government was opposed to Milosevic. It's free THANKS TO NATO?? Wow, I'll be sure to let my family know about that. Svinja!
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  257.  @william_marshal  BLOCKED
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  258.  Kevin Young  So were my parents. So, you had the presence of mind to change your name, did you? In the West, branding is vital.
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  259.  Kevin Young  Blocked
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  260. How do you think he got where he is? By being Creative? No, that would be, say, Martha Argerich. J. M. Coetzee.
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  261. Yes, the US bears most of the fault by far, and it has the worst leaders in its history. But Putin is responsible as well. He should have secured the Donbass by April, not allowed Crimea to be destroyed in August. This war should have been over months ago.
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  262.  @shenebraskan4945  I know his work well, since before the Snowden revelations.
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  263. Remember when Musk got away with defaming the British caver Vernon Unsworth? Unsworth helped rescue the Thai schoolboys trapped in a cave. Musk is a fraud. He pushed one of the two actual founders of Tesla out of the company with money he got with Peter Thiel. His cars depreciate about 5 times faster than a Ford. He is constantly in court due to near-criminal business practices. Nearly all of Tesla's profits are from trading emissions credits, and Musk's biggest contracts are government contracts. A creature of the Deep State, a poseur.
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  264.  @marshalljulie3676  Sure is.
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  265. Tariq Ali edited a collection of essays about it that is valuable.
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  266. Not in "the West," in the US. Americans are simplistic. Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of James Baldwin. His essays say it all.
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  267. He won
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  268. So far, Putin is falling into every trap. This is the Realpolitik fact of the matter. Such empty shells and shameless killers, such as for example a Bolton, should not have the ability they do to manipulate non-Western peoples. And yet . . .
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  269. Death throes of empires. I doubt they've been the worst. We "moderns" only think we're better. :/
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  270. I think you mean tryst. Triste is what whoever is with Jill will be, for a long time.
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  271. Biden has a high approval rating, considering no more than 10% of whites and a smaller percentage of people of color live well.
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  272. Breaking News: GEORGE GALLOWAY WON Acknowledged just under two hours ago; NYTimes reported in the US, to much neolib consternation
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  273. No one will be left.
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