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

  1. 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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  2. ​ @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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  3. @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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  4. 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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  5.  @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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  6. 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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  7. ​ @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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. @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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  11. Now I seriously worry for them.
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  12. 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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  13.  @bboldt2  Well, I wish them the best. That is scary. I hope you have some soulmates to talk to.
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  14. 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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  15. Absolutely all of this is illegal. All.
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  16. 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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  17.  @Learner376  They played a major role, yes.
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  18.  @sharondavid-melly1498  You are being lied to. Massively.
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  19. 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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  20. 11:09 This aged extremely well. Sadly.
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  21.  @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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  22. General Strike
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  23. I found it. 🤷‍♀️
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  24. Not only do I disagree but I'm surprised anyone reacts to her this way.
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  25. 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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  26. Absolutely outstanding subject. Please add a reading list!
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  27.  @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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  28. 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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  29. The rich like it like that.
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  30. ​ @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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  31. ​ @JuanEchevarria-mz2dn  Sadly, you are mostly right.
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  32. @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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  33.  @magoo1950  LOL, brilliant and funny.
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  34. @troywalkertheprogressivean8433  Why was my agreeing with you shadowed? Weird. It was a one- liner.
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  35.  @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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  36. 💯
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  37.  @youtubesucks1499  What I said, bro.
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  38.  @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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  39. 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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  40. I adore her style. I can exhale, finally.
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  41.  @hildolfrdraugadrottin7279  I love your perspective and hope it's on target.
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  42.  @OutragedPufferfish  Some people read a lot.
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  43.  @OutragedPufferfish  Blocked
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  44. J-L Melenchon seems to be making a serious run.
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  45.  @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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  46. Oh yes he does.
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  47. 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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  48. ​@jaeboston9228 Consider only Bob Woodward's report. If that doesn't motivate you to look more deeply, well . . .
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  49. 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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  50. 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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