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

  1. No one who has ever suffered trauma will ever feel fully connected with other people again. Not under rabid capitalism, at any rate.
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  2. Ask anyone who dated a cop.
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  3.  @goodwifeweaver  It wasn't confusing. His comment was classic flak.
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  4. In the fall of 2019, all the major actors knew the pandemic was coming, Trump included.
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  5. No, I'm sorry -- ignoring the larger picture in this instance is unacceptable. Greece was pushed to the brink, and essentially did collapse in 2015, and for years, 25 to 30% of those under 25 had no job and no hope of finding a job. It is an EU neo-colony. When Greece elected a decent government, it was not allowed to govern. The banks decided policy instead. And then, the very same forces who did this also determined that Greece should be the stopping place for all refugees. Can you be serious? At the very end, Helen Benedict gives a nod to "a few nice Greek people -- they aren't all racists." Benedict, who has had her choice of living in London or New York her entire life, is going to pontificate to a people who still see no solution for their own predicament. She is the embodiment of petite bonne femme bien pensante. I'm not sure whether the Greeks are racist, but I have no doubt the English are. After all, they don't have to live there.
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  6. WOW, what a lineup!! What would this world be without Chris Hedges?
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  7. ​ @Eleerm  The global corporations rely on the US military as their own police force. They could never depend on foreign contracts and global logistics to offshore production without the US military to protect them.
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  8.  @stephenlock7236  Just like the US, huh?
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  9. Absolutely every physical job and every physically risky job must have a union. It's a necessity.
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  10.  @marshadingle3550  On the contrary, it should go without saying that every degree should lead to a decent job -- one that allows a person to live independently. The rest is up to the individual. A high school diploma should provide that minimum. It's not that I disagree -- of COURSE college is not vocational school, nor should it be. It should be more, not less.
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  11.  @darkstarmatter5678  Er, you don't know that husbands leave and fail to support their kids? This is a new, shocking development for you??
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  12. TRUTH. He works hard. Often deeply resented. But "Holocaust denier???" His parents' families all perished in the Holocaust. The charge could not be more perverse and obscene.
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  13.  @africkinamerican  Maybe you don't know that for the last 30 years, Business has been the most common university degree? Next are the various medical specialties, with Nursing on top. If you think Gender Studies is something that more than 1 to 3% of degrees, or that those people don't follow up their degree with an MSW, MLS, MPA, MEd, or go on to Law, then you . . . don't know.
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  14. Omg, my two favorites. What a perfect start to the weekend.
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  15.  @papaal7014  If you're so cynical, why aren't you rich?
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  16. Very compelling, and in contradiction with the interview just presented on Push Back/ The Grayzone, by Aaron Mate. Really worth it to consider both and compare them.
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  17. Of course. What was done to them is brutal.
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  18. @A_Boogeyperson  Trust your own experience. "Someone, somewhere is doing well." I thought so and was wrong so many times. I agree about categorical statements, though, you're right about that. Maybe it is possible. Humans can astound us.
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  19. There is some truth in that, but Israel also has a robust peace and justice movement, exactly as South Africa did. They are a minority, and they are suppressed at every turn. AIPAC has also been a force of suppression and has sought to influence Israeli elections in favor of right-wing extremists. AIPAC IS HERE. American journalists who cross AIPAC and report on the Israeli peace movement are fired from their jobs. The Middle East is more complex than you might think.
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  20. Her timeline seems to ignore that in 2004, Russia lacked the power to challenge NATO. This was an invasion of opportunity.
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  21. Appreciation for Marc Steiner.
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  22. What I'm having trouble with is why people say Shakespeare was poorly educated. My understanding was that he attended a Latin school, where by the 8th grade, if pupils were caught speaking English on the premises, they were thrashed. Then he was an actor, which further trained his memory. Have people lost the sense of the immense value of an education like that? I know that even today, people in France (who I grant you speak a Romance language) tell me that if they study Latin while young, they can pick up Spanish or Italian by living in Spain or Italy for the summer. These are not linguistically talented people, just regular good students. Moreover, I don't think a recluse could have written the plays, like some of the people posting appear to believe. That an actor-director did strikes me as far more plausible.
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  23. Well, how many are willing to admit that the demise of the Soviet Union was, on balance, a bad thing? Because it was.
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  24. 25:51 Chris was wise to ask exactly how these private equity bankers are able to "load [a company] up with debt." Exactly how leverage allows the bankers to double and triple their profits practically overnight is not clear. It needs to be explained, so that the listeners could explain it in turn. Without this level of understanding, ordinary people will just revert to "personal responsibility," or worse, "positivity" mantras --- or, they will believe Tucker or Elon or Donald Trump will save us. That's what's happening.
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  25. ​​ @klauskinski5969  Reagan gutted mathematics education for a reason. This is true.
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  26.  @handleyobusiness  Where do you see that OP was never married?
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  27. Why do you believe that a visit to a PRISON is the answer, and not just one more demonstration that "might makes right?"
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  28. ​ @lyndamonchak4072 I think the process can no longer be stopped. Not hopeless, no --- but close.
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  29. My heart also breaks for all the Jewish people for real peace and real justice. I've been reading Haaretz, I've been watching Democracy Now, I know who Uri Avnery was, and who Neve Gordon is and why he left Israel. Not news to me. Breaks my heart.
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  30. ​ @jasondavis1949 They think it can't happen to them.
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  31. Not for anybody who values mental health and warm relations with other people.
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  32. Change in management. Those with senority are often targetted, because they are making "too much" money. It happens all the time. The 19-year career IS the answer. Gosh, are most people are like the beautiful lady in this video? Do they think companies "mean well," and just need to be made aware? Good grief, no.
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  33. I have doubts about her thesis, but I don't dismiss it. I like the dialectic. See also a Aaron Mate's most recent interview on Push Back, which supports your view.
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  34. Countries with tuition-free university and universal health often have criminal penalties against such harassment, for the obvious, unsentimental reason that these societies need for everyone to be productive, rather than on disability and under psychiatric care at public expense. Sorry if I put that baldly, I don't mean it to sound insensitive, but these things go together. You invest in people, you protect your investment. Some have real compassion, others make sure not to commit crimes. So, they all behave.
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  35. And Harvard couldn't do anything about the abusive fraternities and sororities . . .
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  36. I thought so, too, and that was my first reaction, but I wouldn't go there after hearing from some of those from the festival who survived. At least some of them were from a peace and justice movement and want a ceasefire now. So, I don't want to rub their noses in it now, either.
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  37. ​ @NewOrleansSeptember There was no evidence presented here, either, just speculation, accurate accounts of certain unscholarly vested interests whom we may ignore, and deft burden shifting. Who do you think has the burden of proof on the question? Her speaking style (not anything she said) made you think that those who believe Shakespeare was the author of the plays (within the meaning of the word at the time) have to prove it. Nope. She needs to show he wasn't.
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  38. If a person could just go get a job, everyone would have one. Someone has to give you a job, and in our system, no one has to.
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  39. @edwardsisk-ix8nj  "yes, the woke answer to everything . . . " This is how you all talk now, because someone disagreed with you? Blocked.
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  40.  @mustang19ms  In Greece, a very small number of neoliberal political leaders, with support from the US/EU of course, took power and indebted the country, leaving the people with the bill and no way to escape it. You probably know how debt peonage works. What you say about Syria is undoubtedly true. I use Greece as an example for obvious reasons -- it was the victim in a "war" that never got hot, a "war" that was conducted with paper.
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  41. @weslee511  We don't have fractional reserve banking any more. We have less. I just checked. The reserve requirement has been ZERO since early March 2020. Source: The Federal Reserve.
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  42. About 50% of all economic activity is mediated in some way by government: government contracts, tax subsidies, dependence on the military to offshore jobs and import the product safely, and benefitting from government-funded basic research and technology, are just some major examples.
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  43.  @aprilk141  Are you joking? We have no general workplace harassment law, much less criminal penalties. Do you know the barriers to filing under Title VII? You have to go to the EEOC first and obtain a right-to-sue letter, and the statute of limitations is shorter than for most torts. The procedural hurdles are huge. You need the money for a GOOD lawyer --- but those who have the money are the people least likely to be harassed, because the bullies know they can fight back.
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  44.  @handleyobusiness  A lot of people do what you would rather die than do. You must have noticed.
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  45.  @Joe-qv6jh  No, 1990 was not the Dark Ages. $250k per year was certainly possible. But if a graphic artist made that, it was almost surely at the conclusion of one major free-lance contract, and not a regular salary. The first million dollar per year baseball player was in 1979.
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  46.  @imveryhungry112  CPI inflation calculator: "$250,000 in 1990 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $587,272.38 today." You're off by a factor of 5.
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  47. Are you joking? Do they read other books?
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  48. @edwardsisk-ix8nj  I'm sorry. This is a program featuring a discussion with a psychiatrist, and I had simply presumed that we were using the term as it is used in psychiatry, not as, say, poets might use it. Trauma is not subjective and does have a threshold, and generally involves coming face to face with some existential threat. For example, distress in a woman whose pet rabbit got away and distress in a woman who was assaulted at knifepoint while living in a homeless shelter would very likely not receive the same diagnosis. I'm not making light of anyone's feelings by drawing the distinction. (The woman whose rabbit was lost might have been reminded of the time she was asked to babysit and was too young to do that. That's not trivial by any means --- but I don't call it trauma.) If everybody has it, then call it life. And turn away. You obviously have more important things to do, like abuse strangers on message boards.
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  49. ​​ @Augfordpdoggie How did Martha Argerich become a polyglot without formal schooling, when she was staying up late a lot and playing piano all the time?
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  50. ​ @brianbutler3318 She politicized the issue and deftly shifted the burden of proof.
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  51. 17:39 To the furor in the Muslim world, add the furor against us because of all the innocents the US has bombed, and all the economic sanctions we impose on poor countries.
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  52. ​ @theblindowl2 Yes and no. One person's sworn testimony IS evidence. We can never lose sight of that. I fear we have.
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  53. @MargaritaMagdalena  A LOT of people felt trapped with abusers, and trapped without a job, and trapped into taking a very poor vaccine they had misgivings about. Even Angela Davis, no less, observed that home is not "safe" for everyone, especially for a lot of women. Being deprived of basic liberties and isolated from other people can traumatize a lot of people --- a wife who was forbidden to go out except to shop, a kid who was locked in their room. Or, those with no families can become very fearful, being forced to face all this fearmongering by themselves. Did you think house arrest was a cakewalk? Ask Donziger about that -- or ASSANGE.
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  54. Remember when the Libertad, a ship in the Argentine navy, was seized in Ghana by a HEDGE FUND? Argentina remembers. It has applied to join the BRICS. Wonder whether Ghana wants to, too? Ethiopia and Egypt, check.
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  55.  @aprilk141  Correct. They have the war chest. I know more about it than I wish I did. I represented a first grader with pediatric cancer in a civil rights/public education case, administrative, for free. The first arbitrator who gave us a complete victory (which I found strange) was overruled and soon quit. The public school system discriminated against a child with cancer and his mother. No, not the only such case I know of. It takes serious money to challenge injustice, almost always. The family moved, the child is fine by the way.
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  56. No she's not. She is clever at burden shifting. You missed that she presented no real evidence in this interview, apart from the indisputable fact that there are serious vested interests in not reopening the issue and reexamining the evidence. That does not change the fact that she has the burden of proof here, not those who believe Shakespeare was the playwright of those plays, within the meaning of that term at his time. (Modern notions of authorship were not current then.) These other candidates for being "the real Shakespeare" were all more powerful than he was, and England was always a class-ridden society. Why didn't they insist on placing their names on this work? Even if the theatre was considered risque, and we know it was, you would still expect the real writer(s) to whisper about it to someone, especially after a triumph.
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  57. ​ @cosmo43095 Don't tell anyone what to do. Work for comprehensive psychotherapy. No one should have to wait for that. It is not a frill.
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  58. Hard question. The standard of review for any such statute would depend on the power invoked, and how compelling the reason was. It could only be prospective. But there is less problem with setting standards for government contracts, such as having to justify layoffs first, in order to bid, with stock buybacks being presumed to be evidence that layoffs are not justified.
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  59. A lawsuit was filed. That means there was some measure of investigation and the family, by their attorney, has witnesses prepared to testify under oath to the facts alleged. But you're right that nothing has been proved yet. Still, it's a better foundation than most of what people hear on the news and believe.
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  60. @imveryhungry112  I'm not saying I do. 1) I have no idea whether it's true; and 2) people lie. People lie a lot. I'm saying it is possible. It is possible in exactly the way I described: freelance contract that almost certainly took more than a year to conclude. Were you in the work world in 1990? In NYC or LA?
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  61. Now I seriously worry for them.
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  62. No one used to have to take out massive debt for in-state tuition. A summer job covered a full year.
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  63.  @bboldt2  Well, I wish them the best. That is scary. I hope you have some soulmates to talk to.
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  64. What I want to know is, how did people get so credulous? This sets us up for a worse, but more deft, version of TRUMP.
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  65. Absolutely all of this is illegal. All.
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  66. Fighting for universal civil rights and civil liberties does not require identity politics and is not advanced through identity politics. Identity politics insures that a number of prominent token individuals will be paraded before the mainstream media and achieve prominent political positions --- and nothing more. It teaches people to pit themselves against one another and use whatever they've got to get ahead. That just describes more of the same. It is antithetical to true universal rights.
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  67.  @Learner376  They played a major role, yes.
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  68.  @sharondavid-melly1498  You are being lied to. Massively.
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  69. I used to think Klein was bought, but now I am persuaded that she means well. She doesn't know how detached and contemptuous she has become. I can't understand it, actually. A lot of strong people were brought down by the pandemic, and now we know we cannot count on them when times get truly tough. Chris is nothing like that. He's real.
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  70. 11:09 This aged extremely well. Sadly.
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  71.  @peoplenewstoday  Please stop polluting these boards with your special axe to grind. It's graceless. A fine human being is dead. Blocked.
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  72. General Strike
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  73. I found it. 🤷‍♀️
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  74. Not only do I disagree but I'm surprised anyone reacts to her this way.
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  75. Part of the reason for apathy toward police brutality is the fact that we have a gun-drenched society. It's a vicious circle.
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  76. Absolutely outstanding subject. Please add a reading list!
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  77.  @republica7337  I don't think that's fair, given that he was a war correspondent at grave danger to himself for two solid decades. As for Benedict, she deserves it for this performance.
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  78. Yes, but he is not a good speaker and should have prepared better. He is a brilliant writer, and the gap between the two is wide in his case.
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  79. The rich like it like that.
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  80. ​ @MundaSquire These other candidates for being "the real Shakespeare" were all more powerful than he was, and England was always a class-ridden society. Why didn't they insist on placing their names on this work? Even if the theatre was considered quite risque, as we know it was, you would still expect the real writer(s) to whisper about it to someone, especially after a triumph. Also, didn't Queen Elizabeth I commission one of the plays? To whom was this commission addressed?
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  81. ​ @JuanEchevarria-mz2dn  Sadly, you are mostly right.
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  82. @doreekaplan2589  I never dwell on the things I know. It's the things that affect me but that I do not understand that occupy my mind. Hence, the pandemic. For example. That was on my mind.
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  83.  @magoo1950  LOL, brilliant and funny.
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  84. @troywalkertheprogressivean8433  Why was my agreeing with you shadowed? Weird. It was a one- liner.
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  85.  @peoplenewstoday  Wrong. Retaliating against anyone who reports Title VII violations using proper channels is, at least in principle, fully protected by federal law. The problem is money. You need serious money to enforce your rights.
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  86. 💯
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  87.  @youtubesucks1499  What I said, bro.
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  88.  @OutragedPufferfish  Then no one can ever say those words to anyone, at any time, for any reason, and escape self-contradiction. Are you sure you've thought this through? Russell solved the problem with the Theory of Types. Check it out.
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  89. You have GOT to find new friends, to add to the old, not replace them. Please take it from someone who didn't . . . Well, I made a real start just in 2018 and 2019. You know what happened next. :/ Trust me on this. It is essential.
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  90. I adore her style. I can exhale, finally.
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  91.  @hildolfrdraugadrottin7279  I love your perspective and hope it's on target.
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  92.  @OutragedPufferfish  Some people read a lot.
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  93.  @OutragedPufferfish  Blocked
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  94. J-L Melenchon seems to be making a serious run.
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  95.  @Max-rw8nc  It's not just that. Most French people don't stop working. They find another job that they really like, something part-time of course, or they open their own shop. Or if they were a professional, they retain the clients they really liked. When they retire is when they get to do what they've always wanted. They're not unproductive. It's not a custom to just veg out.
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  96. Oh yes he does.
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  97. Whoa, I . . . I can't listen. I have a strong, strong stomach and I am feeling sick and dizzy. I'll try again later. :/
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  98. ​@jaeboston9228 Consider only Bob Woodward's report. If that doesn't motivate you to look more deeply, well . . .
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  99. The rest of the world has. Putin escalated a brutal war, which better diplomacy could still have avoided, and it doesn't matter to anyone but the alphabet-identity decadent West -- you still have Argentina, Ethiopia, Egypt, et al., clamoring to join the BRICS. People hate us more today than on September 10, 2001. 😢
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  100. You missed France --- where firefighters joined protestors to protect them against the police. Yes that line was crossed, many weeks in a row, until the COVID lockdowns.
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  101.  @biff408  This is simply more EU abuse. They abuse Greece because they can. And Benedict reminds me of those missionaries during imperialism who helped a handful of people, but instead of remaining modest about the nature and extent of their contribution, used it as a license to pontificate.
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  102.  @nancyk7954  Bless you and I hope you are doing well. And if you are, I don't think most people in the US can begin to appreciate how unbelievably hard that was. They cannot fathom it, and of course it goes contrary to all of their mythology -- which they will never abandon, no matter what they are faced with. (My parents were refugees, too, and by comparison had it good, because most of their families survived, a sheer miracle.)
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  103. @briannerk3373  He's trying to get other people not to listen, or to fear agreeing. That's the strategy now.
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  104. Thank you. The theatre is a collective art form.
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  105. The same society that won't allow teachers to select the books they will teach from proposes to arm them -- Vijay Prashad. I will never forget that.
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  106. How about voting in person?
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  107. Will this ever stop? Do we have a chance?
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  108. @A_Boogeyperson  It has devolved into cultish score-settling, done for personal advantage posing as justice. Yup, pretty bad.
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  109. ​ @maluribeiro68  It's because she isn't American.
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  110. You're entirely right. The Inspectors General were all fired, and no auditors hired. So, what is happening here? Chaos for its own sake, and Musk's.
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  111. The college presidents who were ousted were women, and the cat's paw was a white ethnic woman. Get it?
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  112. @edwardsisk-ix8nj  Well, if you redefine it as a universal experience, then of course you're right. We would have to agree on what trauma is, before talking about what it does. Nor did I say "meaningful" relationships were foreclosed. That didn't cross my mind.
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  113.  @edwardTisk-ix8nj  Well, then we need a new word.
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  114.  @edwardTisk-ix8nj  You joined 4 months ago?
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  115. I always what to hear what Israeli dissidents, of all backgrounds, have to say about their government. Why are they silenced? Why indeed.
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  116. "Babies cut out of wombs" --- see The Brothers Karamazov for the origin of that accusation.
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  117. Huh? Matt Taibbi???
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  118. Where do you think that money went? And why did deficit spending sharply rise after the 2008 Financial Crisis? It wasn't on track to be a serious problem before that. Even the costly and wasteful War on Terror didn't accelerate the national debt the way measures taken in 2008- 09 did.
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  119. That's why he called the invasion a "war crime." Maybe you have a point: RT grants more freedom to its journalists than American MSM does.
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  120.  @Sneakyboson  On March 3, 2022, Abby Martin tweeted that closing down RT America was "devastating news." She also said RT America "gave unmatched platforms to consistent anti-war voices like Lee Camp, Chris Hedges & myself," free of American "corporate domination." GO LOOK.
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  121.  @Sneakyboson  What makes you think people don't know stuff? Well, I can imagine. Anyway, you're wrong.
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  122. Not in France.
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  123. If you don't know yet, pay attention. You'll figure it out soon, unfortunately.
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  124. ​ @zacboyles1396 This has nothing to do with the left. Taibbi's reporting on Wall Street and the 2008 financial implosion is paradigmatically left.
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  125. 25:51 Chris was wise to ask how these private equity bankers are able to "load [a company] up with debt." Exactly how leverage allows the bankers to double and triple their profits practically overnight is not clear. It needs to be explained, so that your listeners could explain it in turn. Without this level of understanding, ordinary people will just revert to "personal responsibility," or worse, "positivity" mantras --- or, they will believe Tucker or Elon or Donald Trump will save us. Look, this is more serious than you're making it, not less.
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  126. 26:48 to the end is TREMENDOUS. Brilliant.
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  127. CGT is French. You could have researched it.
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  128. THAT'S how you judge???
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  129. @MundaSquire  I know about that. I don't dispute that it's possible. As for this author's interview, all I heard was clever burden shifting. She presented no real evidence in this interview, apart from the indisputable fact that there are serious vested interests in not reopening the issue and reexamining the evidence. But that is merely a political point (who's on whose side, and so forth). That does not change the fact that she has the burden of proof here, not those who believe Shakespeare was the playwright of those plays, within the meaning of that term at his time. Modern notions of authorship, copyright, and plagiarism were not current back then. I heard little above the level of gossip here, and as far as her personal "quest for the truth" is concerned, let's say she is no Janet Malcolm.
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  130. Have you seen his webpage with his photographs? You have to see it.
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  131. 12:25 -- what got Katie fired, I think. Too many facts for some tender ears.
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  132. No, you absolutely should listen. The stupid comments are because she is saying something different.
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  133. All the time
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  134. ​ @chrisdoc8431  Drop the Rooskie nonsense.
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  135.  @starloszelson4541  A movement to force Congress to deal with it would be very difficult to launch, even assuming you could inform and organize people. They just trade insider stock tips and investigate each other.
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  136. @xqt39a  Fractional reserve banking, where the reserve requirement is zero: even assuming FRB works, how could it possibly work when the reserve requirement is set at zero? 🤡🌎 at this point???
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  137. He made it by reporting from actual war zones for 20 years, then writing best sellers. Don't buy his books if you think making money in this way (among the most honest ways possible, in my opinion) is somehow wrong or unfair.
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  138. I HOPE you're right.
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  139. Hmm. Trump lost, in any case. Sounded like a worn out Archie Bunker.
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  140. Side issue: how did Vance get into Yale?
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  141. What I'm having trouble with is why people say Shakespeare was poorly educated. My understanding was that he attended a Latin school, where by the 8th grade, if pupils were caught speaking English on the premises, they were thrashed. Then he was an actor, which further trained his memory. Have people lost the sense of the immense value of an education like that? I know that even today, people in France (who I grant you speak a Romance language) tell me that if they study Latin while young, they can pick up Spanish or Italian by living in Spain or Italy for the summer. These are not linguistically talented people, just regular good students. Moreover, I don't think a recluse could have written the plays, like some of the people posting appear to believe. That an actor-director did strikes me as far more plausible.
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  142. @alkhemiegypt  I've read that it's known that he did, not that it's presumed. I don't know how that could be confirmed or disproved, so I don't know why to believe your sources rather than mine. I wonder exactly what you were taught, frankly, if Latin didn't change you. Many prominent writers to this day began with a serious study of classical languages and literatures -- Latin in particular. Toni Morrison minored in it.
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  143.  @SekhmetHeka  Where is this quotation from?
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  144. @niemann3942  I have no way of independently evaluating those assertions. Scholars from Oxford and Cambridge assert that he went to a Latin school. What evidence they rely on is something I've never independently examined. You could provide your sources, for example. I have never said that it is categorically impossible that Shakespeare is not the true author of the plays. I agree it IS possible he didn't write the plays. I have said that those who deny that he is their author need to bear the burden of proving it. I still say that. This interview didn't come close to doing it; all she said was that Powerful Interests are opposed to reexamining the evidence. Okay. That's not impossible, either. Then what?
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  145.  @niemann3942  Okay. I never read it, obviously.
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  146.  @troywalkertheprogressivean8433  💯 . . . Every time
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  147.  @matthewingerson  So well said!
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  148. Computers don't suffer. Replace people with computers. Problem solved.
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  149. Because they are a criminal gang gone berserk.
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  150. Trump's DOJ indicted Assange, Obama's didn't. He put John Bolton and Mike Pompeo in charge, and did nothing to rein in Fauci. Why don't people see how LAZY Trump was? Because he said a handful of true things?
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  151. I love his description of the old England of the 1960s.
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  152. Will the president of Princeton now be removed? Keep us updated.
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  153.  @MichelleHell  I agree wholeheartedly. BTW, if you weren't sure, that's a troll.
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  154. The Guardian put up a video entitled something like Mourning a queen, . . . the view from Britain’s streets, about 3 months ago. I hope I'm not shadowed for recommending it. It provides stark and graphic evidence of what you just wrote.
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  155. The United States The United Kingdom The United Arab Emirates The Philippines The Netherlands etc.
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  156. Did it ever cross your mind that the attitudes you express and the policies you push are exactly the reason why American public education is poor? Or, not to exaggerate, a big reason why? EVERY country with outstanding education respects and rewards its teachers, demands academic excellence from them, and values that excellence.
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  157.  @robyenney951  Brilliant. Have you considered writing a memoir of your work? The schools are in crisis post COVID. You KNOW what you're talking about. People would listen to you.
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  158. Gates
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  159. I think the West is totally clueless about the West.
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  160. Now THIS makes sense. He was not merely a playwright, but an actor, director, and producer. Could one man have done all that? Theatre is a collective art.
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  161. Also, as director, he was likely the final editor of the script before it was performed and during its run. Think about how screenwriting is done.
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  162. Who funds the wars? We borrow money, by selling Treasuries, to fund our wars. Japan and China fund our wars.
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  163.  @angieabadie4579  Maybe we should have a petition to abolish the Eighth Amendment. We could also have a petition to abolish constitutional rights without having to go through the muss and fuss of amending the "constitution," so called. We could put it online.
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  164. 💯 ❤❤❤
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  165. It also follows that we all support it in some way. I consider that nonsense.
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  166. ​ @maddogilmc812  Exactly. How strong a signal that surveillance is the sole avenue open to them? This is definitive. This lady is SUPER.
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  167. The clubs made the mistake of thinking the women would be too embarrassed to go public and organize. Why should they be? As she said, this is an entirely legal form of entertainment. If Boogie Nights could be made 25 years ago, I don't see how the club owners thought they could shame anybody today for dancing. Serious fim and cabaret/erotic dance has fewer guardrails in Europe.
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  168. State schools used to be so close to tuition-free that a summer job at minimum wage covered a full year of tuition, fees, and books. Work-study covered most of the price of a dorm with food. WHAT HAPPENED?
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  169. @gortnicktu3177  I'm not of any school. I accept that it's possible that Shakespeare did not write the plays (or at least all of the plays) attributed to him, or at the very least did not write them alone. Perfectly possible. I have not read this author's book, and have only heard her in this one interview, which amounts to clever at burden shifting. She presented no real evidence in this interview, apart from the indisputable fact that there are serious vested interests set against reopening the issue and reexamining the evidence we have. That does not change the fact that she has the burden of proof here, not those who believe Shakespeare was the playwright of those plays, within the meaning of that term in his time. (Modern notions of authorship were not current then.) These other candidates for being "the real Shakespeare" were all more powerful than he was, and England was always a class-ridden society. Why didn't they insist on placing their names on this work? Even if the theatre was considered risque, and we know it was, you would still expect the real writer(s) to whisper about it to someone, especially after a triumph. If it were to turn out that one of them was the author or principal author, I'd find that interesting. If authorship was in some sense collective, just as theatre is a collective art, that would be even more interesting. (Personally, I doubt that it wasn't collective. But that's just an opinion, and my opinion is not evidence of its truth. Laugh out loud.)
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  170. @gortnicktu3177  You know something else? The lionization of Shakespeare is relatively recent. No one in his day took him to be a genius. I sure hope my primary reply, above, is visible.
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  171. @gortnicktu3177 You think you know what his last days were like, and what he said? Reminds me of people who insist Socrates and Plato had s3xual relations.
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  172.  @gortnicktu3177  What were the laws for bequeath of intellectual property back then? Did anyone else's will bequeath those plays, or any others?
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  173. @Nullifidian  Thought as much. :) So it is not a case of "the dog didn't bark." ;)
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  174. Let's be honest: 50 years ago, the top four quintiles had a decent life and a real shot at becoming rich. It was still an unjust society, but materially, 80% had a fairly decent material existence. Today, at most 10% are truly well off and fairly stable in their standard of living. They have more luxury than anyone had 50 or 60 years ago, but even they are not as secure as we once were.
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  175.  @chinookvalley  Why would you believe police rather than seeking legal representation? Police know nothing about the law.
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  176.  @chinookvalley  It is NOT a common crime, in the sense that "everybody does it and gets away with it." Not true.
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  177. @imveryhungry112  The only true rags to riches story I know was an artist. He had a National Geographic cover barely out of art school, and eventually went into advertising with his own production company. At least a few of his ads were Super Bowl worthy. (He's unhappy now that he gave up painting and never made a real movie. But I digress.) He made more than that in a year, before this century.
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  178. You don't understand the meaning of those words. "Plausible" MEANS the existence of credible evidence. It is analogous to probable cause, as compared with proof beyond all reasonable doubt.
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  179. ​​ @karenhaynes3125 Taibbi wrote Insane Clown President. Excellent book, btw.
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  180. ​ @jacklanham7311  I hear you. She taught at Harvard, which "could not do anything about, . . . , " and has taken money from Epstein's mentor Wexner. But she could not go teach at U Mass, SUNY, City Colleges . . . Sure, I get it. I guess she needs more support from a group. She can't do it alone. /s Don't let these people turn you away from education.
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  181.  @bboldt2  :)
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  182.  @nancyk7954  Needless to say, I told a Ukrainian friend back in March that if anyone in his family or close to him were ever to need a place to stay, my door is open. I reiterated this several times during the year so that he would know I was serious. The real kicker is that my family in America died out, I'm not wealthy, and I will have to leave the States to live near family and have a decent old age someday. All true. (Of course!!) These people blow my mind.
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  183.  @bkolumban  "Good parrot?" Look who's talking.
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  184. These other candidates for being "the real Shakespeare" were all more powerful than he was, and England was always a class-ridden society. Why didn't they insist on placing their names on this work? Even if the theatre was slightly risque, you would still have the real writer(s) whisper to someone, especially after a triumph. See? I can think critically. 😉
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  185.  @King-IbnDragon  Or to be armed against their students. I agree, we're there. We have been since Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold.
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  186.  @King-IbnDragon  I know you didn't. I did.
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  187. Check the news, Bub.
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  188. 11:10
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  189. Of course.
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  190.  @glintinggold  Shocking that you have to point that out. Imagine the surveillance necessary to do such a thing.
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  191. Good luck with that. If your family had a small farm, that would be different.
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  192. In a recent documentary, Adam Curtis talked about how Putin's intelligence services were doing exactly this -- creating or provoking "movements" where no one knew who was really behind the scenes pulling the strings. Obviously the goal is to undermine all trust. Even more obviously, this technique is being used all around us. This is why Curtis highlights it.
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  193.  @debbiedogs1  I'm gullible? I've been following the uprisings in Europe for longer than that. In France, the firefighters were already taking the side of demonstrators against police, and protecting them -- and I don't mean just once. This happened before the pandemic, of course. If you think you can rely on Americans, or anyone from the Five Eyes, to be authentically what they seem to be, and not be bribed, well . . . have it your way and good luck.
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  194.  @debbiedogs1  When did I say Russia was causing any of that? If any Westerner read what I said that way, that says something about them. If I want to know about Russia, all I have to do is to compare the mourners in Moscow for Gorbachev with those in London for the Queen. The English look so much worse that it is shocking, and disturbing to anyone with a heart. I'm saddened, truly. That doesn't change the fact that Putin experimented with propaganda exactly as described, and that his experiments did not go unnoticed here. It's the only thing these oligarchs will emulate.
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  195.  @debbiedogs1  I should have been clear -- Putin experimented with funding movements in Russia proper. Remember how the US co-opted and funded Otpor in Serbia? Some of the young Serbian members of Otpor featured on ABC Nightlight could not manage to hide their smirks. This is the sort of thing I was thinking of. I should remember my audience; most have no clue about it.
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  196. Everyone is imputing something different to her.
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  197.  @couldbe8348  Exactly
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  198. I see your point. So, Russia moves nuclear warheads into Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua. No problem. You're not even listening. Hedges explained why this invasion is nevertheless an illegal war. "A satanic level of evil," huh? What countries has the US bombed or droned since it sponsored the Ukrainian coup in 2014? If you can name them and find them on the map, you are a rarity.
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  199.  @Sneakyboson  Ample. Start reading, from sources before the invasion. Stephen F Cohen is a good place to start.
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  200.  @Sneakyboson  IOW, you can't name them or find them on the map. Don't feel bad, you're not alone.
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  201. I think this is reversion to the mean. Those with property held the vote for themselves until they found a way to grant it to the rest of us while maintaining full de facto control of the reins of power. This is what they always do. The real vote mirrors a corporate election: not one man, one vote, but x shares, x votes. They don't even have to work particularly hard to hide it anymore.
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  202.  @vanforeman3829  Thanks!!
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  203. 15:15 -- hmm, the "support it gets from us," Marc said. Members of Israeli's Labor party and a lot of people who write op ed pieces in Haaretz believe that people in the US are supporting the Israeli right and preventing a solution. I take them at their word.
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  204. THIS is how you'll stop Musk? Seriously? Streams of profanity, and like, evil salutes, and like, "conspiracy theory" and, like, "Alex Jones sh_ _?" You sound like you're on his side. And you're (rightly) criticizing the mass media for failing to do its job. Try filling in what they left blank.
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  205. Can you imagine any words today making any difference?
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  206. But Shakespeare did do vastly more than write the plays: he was an actor, director, and producer. Authorship had a different meaning before modern copyright laws and plagiarism conventions. The plays, or at least most of them, were probably a collective effort to one extent or another, and Shakespeare, as director, made the final cut.
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  207.  @greatopinionator6146  THANK YOU for this. (In case you have the stats on Victor Hugo, please share!)
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  208. Wow did this prove true this past week. My God. I knew what Gates was -- he tried to push Paul Allen out of Microsoft while Allen was undergoing radiation treatment for lymphoma. That tells you everything. But even I would not have expected the extent of his dealings with EPSTEIN. It is sobering.
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  209. Where did you get this idea??
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  210. Almost 4 years before George Floyd. Staggering.
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  211. ​@larryedwards1776 The President's nominees were all just confirmed by the Senate to head the various agencies and departments. Perhaps it would make sense to hear their views on how to improve efficiency and cut costs? (Why do you think Patel and Gabbard immediately told their employees not to respond to the Ketamine Kid' email? Because they want to hide fraud?)
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  212.  @Sneakyboson  What percentage of the guns do they have?
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  213. How much did Harvard get from Epstein's mentor, Les Wexner, tell me again? And you never thought to teach at, say, SUNY? Or City Colleges? Mm hmm.
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