Comments by "Antony Wooster" (@antonywooster6783) on "Emil Cosman" channel.

  1. You could go on to mention Kholomoisky, Victoria Nuland, Kuleba and Poroshenko, to name just a few. (8)
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  2. 1:30 You are absolutely right! You cannot talk about "Democracy" if oligarchs control the supply of information!
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  3. "It doesn't allow competition" For once you are talking ignorant rubbish. About half the Chinese economy is private, The private sector makes about 40% of the GDP, employs about 60% of the work force. There is consequently a lot of competition. You are making a typically western mistake, you think that China is modelled on the USSR. It's not and it never has been. From well before the declaration of the PRC 2/10/1949. the communist part of China, has had a mixed economy, part state, part cooperative, part capitalist. The Chinese Communists, realized from the start of the revolution that they could not plan everything and it would be a bad idea to try, so they nationalized the foundations of the economy and left the rest to private enterprise. The result was many more of the peoples' needs were catered for than happened in the USSR. At the same time they ensured that the foundations of the economy, food, education, transport, electricity, medical services, roads, railways, canals, water supply, the military, the police and so on were under government control or were government owned, but most consumer goods were made by privately or cooperatively owned firms. By the time I went to China, I had visited many of the countries in the Warsaw Pact and I had also been to Moscow and I knew of the poor selection of goods available or missing in those economies. I had worked for a while in the DDR, so I was rather surprised on first seeing China (In 1964.) The first thing that struck me was that everything looked freshly painted in bright colours! Then when I went shopping there was an amazing selection of goods on offer. It formed a rather odd contrast to the people, who at that time were all dressed in blue or grey Mao suits. But the variety of goods was certainly there. Now, of course, there is "rampant capitalism" as is, I would have thought, pretty well known. The difference from the West is that the capitalists are not allowed anywhere near the levers of power. Those that get carried away by their huge wealth and think that they can tell the government what to do, get put in their place fairly quickly. E.g. Jack Ma.
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  4. 6:55 Reminds me of something that was told me by someone who fought in the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War. He said that the first thing they had to teach new recruits, was not to act like the guy in the recruiting posters, who was bravely rushing forward with his rifle, bayonet fixed, or waving a handgreade. We had to explain to them that the best, practically the only, way to advance was on your belly, as quietly as possible. Sometimes they were quite difficult to convince!
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  5. 9:16 I think this is characteristic of modern Western weapons. A Russian pilot I read, said that Western fighter jets were beautifully made, like Swiss watches, but like Swiss watches, very delicate. When I was an infantryman, for the first part of my service, we used Lee-Enfield rifles that, I should think, were of no later than 1914 vintage. I don't remember one of them ever going wrong. Towards the end of my time we were given FN (Belgian made) rifles which were lighter, easier to carry and fire, were self-loading, could fire multiple shots. (IIRC, officially, you could fire up to three shots in a burst, but if "fixed" it with a matchstick, you could fire the whole magazine (10 shots) in one burst.) It was more accurate, in match shooting on a firing range too. However, in a sandy environment it was forever jamming.
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  6. 8:37 The Ukrainians hold three nuclear power plants and the Russians have not shelled one of them. It is , of course, true that they have attacked their connection to the grid, but that is another question.
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  7. 14:10 Dropping A-bombs on Japan was not done to "Save our boys' lives", it was done to stop the USSR invading Japan and it was done to see what effect the bombs had on a city and frighten the Soviets.
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  8. Who else? Serbia.
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  9. In the Korean war, I was told by British soldiers who had been POWs in camps run by the Koreans, they lived largely on black beans, which though very dull were reasonable nutritious. Their American comrades however died on the same diet. I myself though a soldier, never saw fighting but on one exercise in Sennerlage Heide, Germany we came across an American Army camp, and were amazed to find that every tent had electricity and gas and water which came out from the nearest town about 3kms away through a sort of cable/pipe thingy.
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  10. You are so correct! Almost all the trouble in the World is caused by the warmongers in this relatively small group that constitute a closed loop consisting of arms mfgs, lobbyists, congress critters, USG, and back to arms mfgs. The taxpayers are robbed by the USG to feed money into the loop and the shareholders take some out and use part of it to pay lobbyists as do the arms mfgs also. Since this vicious circle is immensly profitable and very wealthy and ruthless in dealing with anyone who wants to break it up, it is very stable. Perhhaps, when Russia has decisivly defeated the US, among their conditions will be to break it up. Who knows? One can but hope!
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  11. I am British, I have travelled extensively in Europe and I once went to China. I regret to say the only place I have ever seen a bedbug was in London.
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  12. When the USSR broke up there was a referendum in Moldova and the majority voted to stay with Russia. This result was ignored and Moldova became independent. The people in Transdniestria did not accept that and that area broke away and a war broke out between the ruling groups in Chishinau and Tiraspol. Russian troops came in to keep the peace and are still there. Before Stalin grabbed Moldova from Romania, there was a republic in the USSR called something like the "Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic". I don't know how extensive it was, but I think that Transdnistria was the westernmost part of it.
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  13. As I have said elsewhere, in view of the definition of "Democracy" as being the "rule of the people by the people" and seeing that the definition of a "populist" is a politician whose policies or proposed policies appeal to the broad public, using the term "Populist" as a term of denigration or in a dismissive way, is Anti democratic.
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  14. When I was a child(a long time ago) there was an advert by the Wool Utilization Council, (of the UK) which proclaimed: "There is no substitute for Wool!" I oftern think that equally, or perhaps even more so, "there is No substitute for Information!". Alas, it is easier to find wool than reliable information. People like you and Alex and Alexander and Earl Grey and Gonzalo Lira,, ScottRitter, Jason Hinkle, and some half-dozen others are doing a really valuable service in providing different points of view from the MSM. In addition I find that the picture can also be filled out by WION and VFT although they are rather anti-Russian- and very anti-Chinese biased, do provide another view on the situation which is different from "our" MSM and consequently valuable. So, of course do Press TV, TASS and Global Times. I find the MSM almost unreadable because they usually strart off any article with such whopping lies that one feels inclined to disbelieve everything that follows and it feels like a complete waste of time.! Also, unlike the MSM which seems to get its "Information" from a very few sources such as "an anoymous spokesperson for the State Department or Bellingcat or No.10 Downing St, you alternative sources collate, for internet browsers like myself, vastly more sources of info than I could ever hope to do. Thank you very much!
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  15. 7:17 Don't forget about Diego Garcia! It was not just taken by the British, but was "cleansed" of its population and handed over to the USA as a military base, which is still there in spite of a UN resolution telling them to give it back to the people who were living there before they were evicted.
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  16. When the USSR collapsed, there was a referendum in Moldova to decide whether people wanted to remain part of the Russian Federation or become independent. They voted to remain part of the RF. The vote was, (Surprise, surprise!) ignored. There was, when the USSR was formed, and before Stalin got what is now Moldova, a Republic in what is now Ukraine and Transdniestria called the Soviet Socialist Republic of Moldova (or some such). When, post USSR, Moldova was declared independent the part that had been part of the SSRM (Transdniestria) fought to become independent of Moldova and there was a civil war. I do not know how it ended but it did and the peace was kept by Russian peacekeepers and has been ever since. Last time I saw it, about four years ago, it looked very peaceful, well-run* and moderately prosperous.
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  17. 3:00 The word you were searching for is "superlative". E.g. absolute = good. Comparative = "better". Superlative = "best".
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  18. Another example of "The Rules Based International Order". (We make the "Rules and You obey them. Or else!)
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  19. 1:44 I think it was you, Emile, that called the Baltic countries "The Baltic Chiwawas". That was about right! I live opposite a house, that has a very small dog, that I name as "Odio Tutti", who barks very loudly indeed, at everything that moves in this vicinity.
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  20. Isn't Putin calling the Western governments "Partners" a bit reminiscient of characters in old Coyboy Movies, calling each other "Pardner"? Even though they were shooting at each other ?
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  21. This is the first, second & third type of lie all in a couple of sentences. There are three types (as far as I am aware). Type 1. "The lie direct". A plain, straightforward untruth. Type 2. "False suggestion". Saying something which would lead someone who is not "on the ball" to think something that is not true. Type 3. Suppressing the truth. Not talking about something important or censoring truthful reports about an event or a person.
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  22. The thing about officers in the British Army is that they all come from Wealthy families. I discovered this,when I was, for a couple, of years a soldier in the British Amry myself. The way it is done is very simple. A second lieutentant, is the lowest rank of officer and his pay is less than what he has to pay in "Mess Fees" , which are compulsory for him. This means, that If someone wants to be an officer in the British army, he has to have someone to subsidise him until he has a pay-grade high enough to allow him to pay his mess fees. The result is that a lot of British army officers are of very mediocre intelligence. I know. I have met some of them. I have served under them. In two years service, I met one really intelligent officer (I heard tell of two others) and one moderately intelligent one. The rest struck me as either moderately or very stupid.
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  23. It's not just the Ukraine, nor is it confined to the State Department, it is the Collective West.
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  24. 2:24 I saw a Hindustani Times report of the attack on the "Harry Potter Castle" in Odessa that said, in passing, that it was hit by the debris of a Russian missile that had been intercepted.
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  25. "Too defensive". In the UK, I don't know about the US, there is an oft-repeated quotation from Shakespeare, from the Play MacBeth; "Methinks she doth protest too much!". In the play, Lady MacBeth is accused of a murder and is protesting her innocence and this remark is made by an onlooker. ("Methinks" is an archaic way of saying "It seems to me." "Doth" Is an archaic conjugation of "does". If I am "teaching my Granny to suck eggs", I apologize, I do so because English is not your first language.)
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  26. 1:22 Interesting choice of words! "/when you have false confidence . . . . . .you think you can do things that in fact you can't" This is, I think the exact description of the effect that cocaine has on people. Now the Thames Conservancy (a charity looking after the river Thames in London) says that the fish and other wildlife that lives in the Thames, is suffering from cocaine poisoning. This must mean (I think) that the inhabitants of London are using a vast amount of cocaine. Since coke is very expensive, this must mean that the rich and powerful in London must really be over-powdering their noses! If this is true in London, it is probably true in other Western capitals. Could this be the reason for the scene you are describing? I think it could.
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  27. That could be an improvement! Could hardly be worse.
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  28. I think what you are talking about is the "Integrity Initiative" set up by the "Institute for Responsible Statecraft" which is an outgrowth of MI6 and other agencies of the 5-eyes. It has its assets in every newsroom in the Collective West, to tell the Chief Editor on a daily basis, what is fact and what is misinformation.
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  29. Or as we used to say in the British Army, "Nil illegitemos carborundum!"
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  30. 13:16 Your complaining about the US yelling about other peoples' morality, while behaving immorally, reminded me of a story I heard many years ago. It seems there were two diplomats in the UNGA, sitting next to each other and when they went back to their hotels for the night, they accidentally took each other's (identical looking) briefcases instead of their own. One of the diplomats had that day, given a very passionate speech. When the other diplomat opened the briefcase he had brought with him, he was amused to find the text of the speech that his fellow delegate had given that afternoon. What struck him particularly was one section of the speech which was underlined in red, was annotated in the margin: "Weak Point! SHOUT!"
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  31. 5:23 The point about airfields is that Western airfields are always super clean! Every morning the pilots who are not actually flying at that time walk up and down the runways looking for anything that the jet engines of their aircraft might pick up and suck into the engine. Even small pebbles have to be removed as they could damage the turbine blades. Russian airfields by contrast are not so clean. They do not need to be, because their jet fighters, have grills in front of the engines which catch such debris. US pilots who have visited Russian airfields, have been appalled at "How dirty" they are. As, until now the Ukrainians have been flying ex-Soviet jets, their airfields are, probably, also dirty.
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  32. This sounds like projection. I have heard of the same thing happening on the Ukrainian side. I am not saying that this is not true but the Ukrainska Pravda is not noted for its veracity.
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  33. Obviously the troops should go barefoot!
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  34. 8:38 In 1939, Britain declared war on NAZ* Germany, not because it was Extreme Right-Wing but because it was a rival to the British Empire. In fact it wanted parts of the British Empire. The hope in London and Washington at the time, was that the USSR and Germany would fight each other to exhaustion and the Western Allies would then come in and mop up both.
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  35. 6:40 You could say that the silence is shouting the name of the guilty party. If it were anyone else, it would be in the headlines for months.
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  36. 8:15 I don't know if you know the Shakespeare play "King Henry V"? Anyway, in one of the scenes HV is giving his troops a peptalk before trying to retake the French town of Agincourt and he says: (IIRC) "In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility, but when the blast of War blows in our ears, imitate the action of the Tiger, stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard-favored rage!" Seems like the same idea.
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  37. I saw just now (Saturday morning ) in AFP, that the Russians have "Won a symbolic victory in Avdiivka". (!) "Ukrainian troops have withdrawn from the frontline city of Avdiivka to avoid being encircled, new military chief Oleksandr Syrsky said Saturday, handing Russia its biggest symbolic victory following Kyiv's failed summer counter-offensive." How quickly Avdiivka went from being "of great strategic importance" to being "Symbolic"!
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  38. The International Rules-Based Order 1) We make the rules and you obey them. 2) The Rules are secret, until you break them. 3) The Rules do not apply to us. 4) There is no way to appeal the Rules.
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  39. I think that originally "Speculation" was a form of divination, IOW fortune telling. It involved sitting in a dark room between two parallel mirrors, which gives the illusion of an infinite space with an endless row of candels and sitters going off into the far distance in both directions. This (sometimes) induced a dream- or trance-like state in which one could (you hope!) see into the future. Speculation from the Latin word for a mirror, Speculum. Probably, as a Romanian, you know all this anyway.
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  40. It could be true, on the other hand, many of the Ukrainian government stories are just that, stories.
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  41. 5:34 A good lecture on the Class structure of society, for the politically naiive. When I did my national service in the British army, it suddenly struck me, on maybe the third day, that the Army was a sort of caricature of a class society.
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  42. In the British army there is/was a song that went: "The CO kicks the Major. The Major has a go. He kicks the poor old Captain, who kicks the NCO And as the kicks grow harder, It's plain for all to see: They're doing it, me lads, To save Democracy!"
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  43. 4:03 "NATO is not a defensive alliance." Absolutely NOT! I challenge anyone who says it is, to give an example of NATO defending anything or anyone. Every NATO action has been an attack.
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  44. 11:18 Yes I think those plans were drawn up in advance, but I also think that whoever did the planning, really messed up! It seems that these plans were drawn up, not on the basis of real, solid information, but on the basis of propaganda memes and wishful thinking.
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  45. The US even requires Cuban medical doctors to go to school in the US and pass exams, before they can practice in the US, in spite of the fact that the Cuban training is superior to the US training.
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  46. It is commonly said by people who know both countries: that in China if you complain about government nothing happens but if you complain about policies they can and usually do change. In the USA, by contrast, you can change the government, but the policies stay the same.
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  47. I don't always completely agree with you, but this video is 100% correct. Very good analysis.
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  48. Talking about "Good Dude - Bad Dude" transformations: look into "OPERATION UNTHINKABLE" and how the Greek partizans, who were heroic allies of the British and Americans all through WW2, became Enemies as soon as the Germans were defeated and how the Brits and Americans teamed up with the N*ZIs to install a fascist regime in Greece. Look into the murky history of how the British MI6 cooperated with the French Communists, all through the German occupation of France until a few days before D-Day, when they betrayed them to the Gestapo. Those stories are only a small part of the betrayal of "allies" of the "Good Guys".
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  49. When the USSR collapsed there was a referendum held in Moldova that voted to stay in the RF. It was ignored.
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  50. The importance of this statement by Reznikov is, simply that it unequivocally contradicts, repeated statements out of the West, that "Russia is attacking Ukraine", without reason, without justification. Multiple statements that "The Russians have No Reason to attack Ukraine" and so on and so forth. The Media war is an important part of this war, particularly in the Collective West, and that is what gives this statement, by a Ukrainian Minister of government, its importance, which, Emil, I agree, comes as no surprise to me or you!
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  51. 12:17 Yesterday I saw a video made by a man who said he had invented the World's best mouse trap. He had covered the mouth of a plastic bucket with a transparent plastic film. He then cut a little hole in the middle of the film and put some grain in the bucket. He put two little ladders (Mouse-sized ladders) to help the mice climb up to the film surface, set up his camera and went away. After a while some mice came and investigated this thing. A couple of them climbed up the ladders and looked down at the bottom of the bucket and saw the grain. They found the hole and jumped down to get the grain. Other mice noticed and followed them. Then crowds of mice arrived and followed the first ones. Then more and more and more came and jumped into the bucket, until it was almost full! Watching them, I was struck by how like people they were.
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  52. You are right, absolutely, about the language.
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  53. Never mind chemical weapons! Who provided Iraq with BIOLOGICAL weapons?
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  54.  @Lipi19821  It is fascinating how much one learns from reading the comments!
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  55. "NATO has unlimited resources" That's not what they are telling Zelensky!
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  56. 6:00 We did not vote for Ursula, Mario, Josip, or Christina.
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  57. What makes you think that there is a word of truth in Ukrainska Pravda?
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  58. Not "may", will.
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  59. How about the ancestors of Ursula von der Leyen?
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  60. Are you taking bets on that?
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  61. 9:39 Perhaps, what is taking them so long, is deciding whether to try to pin it on someone or to simply keep quiet about it. A difficult choice!
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  62. Stoltenberg also said: "A defeat for Ukraine would be a defeat for NATO." NATO declared war on Russia? Russia declared war on NATO? Not that I have heard. "Barbaric attacks" What would you call shelling the civilians in the Donbas for eight years? What would you call the SBU "Hunting Russians (Aka Russian-speaking Ukrainian civilians) down like pigs." (To quote The Daily Mail.)
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  63. "Even the UK" You joke surely! Britain has been inflating rapidly, all my life.
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  64. I have heard, that when an F-16 is idling at the end of the runway, waiting for the order to take off, it is using 600 pounds of fuel an hour, just to keep the engines warm.
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  65. Well said!
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  66. 1:57 I don't know if you know, but I have heard that the CIA was deeply involved with the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. I had a school friend who worked there as a secretary and she said to me: "If you visit me at work and you see, on the stairs, someone who looks sane you can be sure they are a patient."
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  67. The two evil geniuses that drew up that treaty were two American lawyers, the brothers Dulles, John Foster Dulles and his brother Allen, (though Wikipedia does not mention their role, it does say that John FD was there.)
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  68. Thinking further about you and the other alternative sources of information; I think it may well be that you are literally saving the World from disaster by informing us about reality. You are a real "spoke in the wheel" of the evil plans of the people in charge of world events!
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  69. 11:09 According to a Moldovan I know, at the dissolution of the USSR there was a referendum in Moldova in which a majority opted to remain part of the USSR. The result of the referendum was ignored and they got independence. According to a correspondent in the internet All the states of the union (USSR) voted the same way, i.e. to remain together and all the others were ignored just as the Moldovans were. Incidentally, Moldova was part of Romania for a relatively few decades before it was seized by Stalin.
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  70. 13:17 To say "There can be no NA*is in Ukraine because their President is a Jew" sound to me exactly like Racism! Isn't it?
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  71. Hello Emil. I would like to discuss an idea that I have had. There is in Washington a set-up, which as far as I know has as yet no proper name. I will call it :The "Vicious Circle". It is a circulatory structure, hence the name, and it consists of various interconnected groups, These are: the amrs-making industries, the lobbyist industry, the members of Congress (The "congress-critters") & the United States Government (USG). In action, the Congress-critters vote to tell the USG to order some weapons from the arms manufactureres. The USG then orders the arms from the arms manufacturers and send them money. The arms manufacturers then send some money to their employees, some to their shareholders and some to the lobbyists and use some for advertising themselves. (Many of the congress-critters and members of the USG are their shareholders. Many Ex-congress critters and ex military and ex-government people, are sinecured employees of the arms industry, the so called "Revolving Door".) The lobbyists use some of the moneyfrom the USG to pay their employees and their shareholders and some to persuade congress critters to vote the "Right" way to keep the money flowing to the arms manufacturers. This whole "Merry-go-round" is financed by the Taxpayers, who have almost no influence on it at all. This Vicious Circle is very powerful and completely ruthless and therefore very hard to break up - under normal circumstances. However, we are approaching a very abnormal set of circumstances, or so it seems to me. What I am refering to, is that it looks as though, in the near future, the US (N@0) is going to be defeated by the Russians. This means that the Russians are going to have a once-in-a-century opportunity to be able to impose conditions on the US and its sattelites, vassals, proxies and puppets. I suggest that if the Russians were to insist that all the arms manufacturers in the World had to be nationalized entities, and that no private individual or corporation would be allowed to have any share in an arms manufacturing industy or firm, then it would cut the financial lifeline of thw Warmongers in Washington, London, Berlin and Brussels (Or anywhere else.) and thus would destroy the Vicious Circle. This would I believe, be an enormous step towards bringing real peace to the World. What do you think?
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  72. The word is "traitor".
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  73. 6:32 If you wade through the British MSM you should invert everything you read and you will be fairly near the truth. As far as the Ukrainian media is concerned, I leave reading and interpreting that to you. As far as I can see, it is fiction from start to finish. With the US media it is mostly projection.
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  74. Even if there were a mechanism by which Russia could be "kicked out" of the UNSG, it would not pass the Chinese veto. As somebody said the other day: "Russia and China do not stand shoulder-to-shoulder, no, they stand back-to-back". Russia China and Iran know that if if they allowed the USA to defeat any one of them, one of the survivors would be the next to be attacked. I disagree with you that the Russians would not fight a convential war, as they are much better at it than NATO. The War in Ukraine has gobbled up so much of NATO's arms and ammunition that NATO's members' militaries are complaining that they are being disarmed. The Russians are using far more ammunition than the Ukrainians, but they show no sign of running short.
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  75. I wonder whether while Navalny was in the West recuperating from his poisoning, he was vaccinated with Pfizer or Astra-Zenecker vaccine, against Cov-19?
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  76. Prediction? It Is now 1624 31/10/22.
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  77. The most important factor in any dog-fight, is the skill of the respective pilots.
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  78. How do you like the idea of an additional quotient, a Stupidity Quotient or SQ for short? This would of course be independent of the IQ, because everybody has both! Some have a higher IQ and some lower while the same is true of the SQ.
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  79.  @Puffball-ll1ly  Yes probably. That would account for how successful British industry is!
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  80. 1:41 There is the story of a geralist medical doctor who found himself at a conference of cosmetic surgeons. After the formal meeting there was a cocktail party for the participants. Our doctor found himself next to a stranger and asked what his field was. "I am a nose-man." was the reply "Interesting!" said the generalist "Which nostril?"
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  81. 5:30 I agree with you, about attacking Belarus, provided you believe what Ukraine says. The Ukrainians had the best-trained and the only battle-hardened NATO type armed forces. last February and they cannot defeat a small part of the Russian armed forces. The rest of NATO is running low on weapons, providing Ukraine with replacement weapons and ammo. Which NATO country is going to take on the Russians and who is going to supply them with the weapons they will need? Not the US! That's for certain! "Too risky" Starting a nuclear war, taking into account the Russian's "Dead Hand" system is also certain death. So there is no point in discussing how a nuclear war would unfold. I think that, probably, in the end, we are looking at a security treaty which will give everybody security. I know that the US will struggle desperately against it, but I do not see that they have a viable alternative. If they cannot keep up with the Russians' production of armaments, what chance have they against China + Russia + Iran? Because if they push it, that is what they will face.
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  82. S-300 is an anti-aircraft & anti-missile system, not usually used to attack ground targets.
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  83. The point about that was, that RUSSIA WAS NOT A PARTY TO THE MINSK AGREEMENTS! Therefore, there was NO way that Russia COULD "Implement the Minsk accords". (Cunning! Eh?)
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  84. I have never had an interview quite like yours but, when I was very much younger, every time I went through a border I was questioned about what I was doing and where I was going etc. Then one day, I was looking at my passport and I noticed that the corner of one page was "dog-eared". I wondered how that had happened, as I was very careful of my passport and I turned it back and smoothed it out with a finger nail. Since then, I have been through many borders but have never been questioned about anything.
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  85. 9:22 The group that may not be named because to do so would be Rac**t!
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  86. In my opinion, Kuleba is right to ask the question, if he is talking about the Collective West fighting the Russians. It is now becoming very clear that the Collective West is really struggling to find the arms and troops to fight the Russians. Not to put too fine a point on it, they are losing the fight in Ukraine. If they are contemplating a more general fight against Russia, there seems little reason to think they would do better and even if by some strange chance they did, the Chinese would not see Russia lose. If they cannot defeat Russia, what chance would they have against Russia and China together? This question does not even address the problem of "what would the CW fight the Russians with?" Would the Oil rich countries supply them with the oil they would need? How long would it take the Russians and Chinese to destroy the CW's arms/oil dumps, or their electricity systems? Really it's a no brainer. If they fight a conventional war with the Eurasian "Axis of Evil" they will lose. If they fight a nuclear war everybody will lose.
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  87. 9:50 "When the sands are all dry He's as gay as a lark And will talk in contemptuous tones of the shark. When the waters rise high And the sharks are around His voice has a timid and tremulous sound." Lewis Carrol, "Alice in Wonderland"
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  88. 1:40 Bundeswer is the German armed forces, Bundestag is the German parliament.
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  89. In UK English there are really two verbs "to hang". There is the verb "To hang". Which basically means to suspend and there is the verb "to hang" which means to execute someone by putting a rope found their neck and then suddenly removimg the supoort from under their feet. The verbs have two past participles which are slightly different "hung" which is the pp of "hang" to suspend, and "hanged" which is the pp of "to hang" the method of execution. The English themselves, often confuse the two.
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  90. If you were a policeman investigating a crime and you had one suspect who had said, at least three times, that he would commit this crime, he had motive to commit this crime, he was seen, around the time that the crime was committed, at the scene of the crime, he rejoiced publically that the crime had been committed, he benefitted financially from this crime in at least two ways, he and his friends were guarding the scene of the crime at the time the crime was committed, he had the means to commit the crime and nobody else had a motive to commit it, WHO would you suspect? I think at least you would make an arrest, "pending further investigation"!
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  91. 5:15 Talking about the Skripals: That story, as told by the British government and its lacky media is so full of self contradictions that it is impossible to take it seriously. Theresa May, the British PM, sdaid that it was "Highly likely that it was the Russians who poisoned the Skripals. I would disagree. I think it is "virtually certain" that the whole affaire was a "Put-up job". &BTW whatever became of the Skripals?
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  92. It occurs to me that perhaps it is not that the engine is weak, nor that the airframe of the F-16 is heavy, but that the air intake is too close to the ground and is , so to say, sucking the plane down onto the runway?
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  93. 8:10 I forgot to put in which part of the video this remark applies to.
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  94.  @mariussima8500  So, It was Mike Jones? Thanks for the correction.
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  95. 15:14 The "Tone" of the Media, is set by an offshoot of the 5-eyes, called "The Integrity Initiative" (Google it) that has an asset in every major Western "News" organization, who tells the chief editors, on a daily basis, what is "News" and what Is misinformation.
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  96. "If in any processthere are a number of contradictions, one of these must be the principle contradiction playing the leading and decisive role, while the rest occupy a secondary and subordinate position. Therefore, in studying any complex process, in which there are two or more contradictions, we must devote every effort to finding its principal contradiction. Once this principle contradiction is grasped, all problems can be readily solved." "On Contradiction" August 1937 p.224, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung.
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  97. Easier said than done. They can buy enormous amounts of publicity and finance endless smear tactics. They have the MSM on their side.
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  98.  @dw4956  ?
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  99. 1:58 Exactly! These organs are not there to inform us, they are there to influence our thinking in the "Right direction"!
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  100. Yeah! We have Freedom of speech! Freedom to say anything they like! Big Pharma is a particular hate of mine. On another channel I wrote this. I thin it might interest you. The need to nationalise the Pharmaceutical industry It seems to me, that there is an obvious and extremely serious objection, to privately owned pharmaceutical industries. Namely that there is a fundamental, built-in Conflict of Interest. To put it as simply as possible; to a privately -owned pharmaceutical firm, a cured customer is a lost customer. The ideal customer, is one who buys a drug that is still "in-patent", which is moderately expensive and needs to be taken indefinitely to "stabilise" the disease. A drug which does not cure the disease, but enables the patient to be well enough to earn a living. The treatment for stomach ulcers before Dr Barry Marshall's discovery of Helicobacter pylorii and the fact that the disease could be cured in a couple of weeks, was a text book example of just such a drug. The pharmaceutical industry fought hard to keep knowledge of this discovery from the public and succeeded in suppressing it for ten years! The obvious cure for this problem is to nationalise the Pharmaceutical industry in its entirety. (Better still, would be to internationalize it but that is a step for another time.) The point is, that a government has quite different priorities from those of a private firm. Whereas the job of a private company is to make money for its shareholders The job of a publicly owned pharmaceutical firm is to produce the best range of medicines that it can, as cheaply as possible. To research cures for diseases that are troubling the public and to make sure that their products are safe or at least, that its side effects are known. As far as a government is concerned, the ideal drug is one that will quickly cure a disease, that costs very little and causes the least possible trouble to the patient. Having a nationalized pharmaceutical industry would avoid wasteful duplicated research, price gouging and neglect of "rare diseases" because there is no money to be made from treating them. Above all, such an industry has no motivation to suppress a cure, because it is making money from treating a disease. Another advantage of a nationalized pharmaceutical industry is that it would not have to worry about the cost of trials of experimental drugs in the same way as a private firm. If a new or repurposed drug was very cheap, but showed promise, the fact that it would not make money for the firm would not be an obstacle to setting up a test of it. Some people will object that "nationalizrd firms are always inefficient" and that such an industry "would be bogged down in burocrasy." Personally I think that removing the the "Conflict of Interest" would make running those supposed risks worth running.
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  101. 13:01 It always used to work. These days however, it is less likely to work because the fearsome, all-conquering, NATO Tiger is beginning to look a bit, ah, tired? Papery? Tattered? I notice that ta lot of small, 3rd world countries are much more likely to say "No." to US requests than previously.
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  102. 5:25 Yes, I know. It IS fibreglass, there are magnetic mines which are set off by the ship's disturbance of the magnetic field when it passes over the mine and also mines which are magnetic and are attracted to ships. So a "mine-sweeper" or "mine-hunter" needs to make as little magnetic disturbance as possible. This means it cannot be made of steel. So what better than to make it out of fibreglass reinforced with plastic resin? You could, I suppose, make it out of copper or stainless steel (Some types are non-magnetic) but both would be heavier and dearer.
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  103. 5:52 "Misinformation" ubiquitous in the media. There have been whole books consisting of extracts from newspapers and journals that are laughable in their divorce from reality. None of them have ever been punished unless they broke some law, such as a libel law or some decency law. The government worry, is not about misinformation at all! It is entirely concerned with ordinary people learning things that that they do not want them to learn. In other words it is worried about INFORMATION that they want to suppress. It is an entirely undemocratic worry! If you like, it is an "Authoritarian worry".
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  104. 8:41 The word you were looking for, I think, was "dogmatic".
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  105. 3:47 In general I agree with your attitude on government interfering with my risk-taking, e.g.whether I get vac*inated against a certain disease or not. However, there is an aspect of the seatbelt controversy that you may not have considered, A long time ago, when seatbelts had been introduced for motorists, but were not yet compulsory, my mother was very keen on them and so, I and my family wore them. I had a crash, when I took a corner too fast and landed up with my car straddling a roadside hedge. (In a village in Yorkshire, UK) We sat there for a few minutes, to check that we were all unhurt and a policeman came over to the car. I wound down the window and he asked if we were OK. When I told him we were, he exclaimed: "Oh, thank God for that !" He then said: "Sometimes I go to investigate crashes and they have their heads stuck through the windscreens and as though that were not bad enough, when you try to get them out, you can't! Because, they have somehow managed to get the windscreenwiper stuck though their neck! It really turns me up and I can't sleep for days after!" So, you see, it does not affect only you, if you choose not to wear a seatbelt when driving in a car. BTW, I have been in several crashes, including one where I was teaching someone else to drive and he turned the car over, but I have never been even slightly injured in any of them.
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  106. 8:00 This is precisely why the healthcare industry and the pharmaceutical industry should be nationalised. If you are a doctor in a national health service and nearly everyone is healthy it just means that you have an easy life. If you are a nationalised pharmaceutical firm you can produce as many cheap drugs as are needed and test them properly, even if they are dirt cheap. If your reaech find a cure for cancer, there is no incentive to suppress it because you will sell less "Chemothrapy" and so on.
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  107. 5:00 China recently announced its FIRST DEATH FROM COVID19 - IN MONTHS. Evidently, lockdowns are an infernal nuisance but they save lives.
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  108. 13:20 Timoshenko is the name you were looking for, I think.
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  109. If you remember, back in last winter, some Ukrainian minister and maybe Zelensk (I am not sure about him) boasted that this summer, they would go swimming in Crimea. Perhaps this visit was by them?
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  110. Father: "Eat your porridge!" Johnny: "I'm not hungry" Father: There are thousands of children starving in Africa, who would be very grateful for your porridge!" Johnny: "Name one!"
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  111. Yesterday I watched a video that was a lie from start to finish. It stated that Russia and China had attacked a US military base in Israel and went on to show scenes, that I should think, were shot in Gaza. I would bet that no accusation of misinformation or Fake News, will be levelled against the perpetrators of this video, which was absolutely both!
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  112. 7:07 If the British "Defence" budget last year, was £50 Billion. where was most of it spent? How big is the British Army? How did it do in Afghanistan? Wasn't it part of N@0? Didn't N@0 fight the Russians in Ukraine? How well did that go? And now he wants the CW to fight, not Just the Russians, not just the Russians and the Chinese, Not just the Russian, the Chinese and the Iranians, but he want the CW to fight the North Koreans as well! Yes, I should Koko!! Last time the British fought the North Koreans, alongside the US forces and the Turks, they found them hard to beat. In fact they were fought to a standstill. And in those days (1951-53) Britain was a lot stronger, all round, than it is today and so was the US.
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  113. William Wallace was a great man! (In all senses of the word.)
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  114. Since the politicians in charge are clearly a disaster, their attempt to assassinate their opponent, is a measure of how insecure they feel. They don't want a new administration rummaging around in the cupboard where they store all the skeletons!
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  115. A week or so go, the Russian Foreign Ministry called in the British and French Ambassadors and told them that if they found that British or French long-range missiles were being used inside the Russian Federation, (Pre SMO Russia) they, the Russians, would regard it as an invitation to strike British or French military targets anywhere in the World.
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  116. 14:05 You mention Johnson, Truss and Sunak, but you have forgotten the "Cherry on the Top", the "Crowning Jewel", the "Acme" the "Ne Plus Ultra" - Theresa May!
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  117. Your opening quote is frpm "The New VVoice of Ukraine" This almost guarantees that it is a lie.
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  118. The military budget has been around $700 billion for years, so, as you say, there should be by now an enormous pile of arms. The US has sent, say, $50 billion and is running short?! How can that be? I think the answer is either there is an extremely inefficient MIC or there is a massive amount of corruption. It's gotta be one or the other. Or could be both, i suppose.
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  119. The reason why the Russians get so much more "bang for their buck" is this: The Russian MIC is largely state owned, its remit is to make robust, effective, long-lasting , tough weapons which are easy to use and service in the field, as cheaply as possible. The USA's MIC by contrast, is (nearly?) all privately owned and its remit is to sell to Congress and the USG, weapons which will look wonderful and make a lot of money for the board and the shareholders, many of them congress-critters. Whether they work and are effective or whether they can be easily serviced, are other, not very important, questions. "Long-lasting" is a distinctly bad idea. A "fire and forget" weapon is a much better prospect. The long-range (100km) gun, that cannot be fired as its shells are too expensive (!) and the marvelous fighter, the F-22, that cannot be flown because it costs $68,000 an hour to fly are cases in point. There are many other examples.
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  120. The poison was a plant poison called ricin, it is extracted from the castor oil plant, Ricinus Communis
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  121. Do you think that De-Dollarization is a Russsian ploy? It seems to me, that while the Russians are not, in the least, averse to helping it along, when they can, most of the "real push" is being provided by the US itself! Stealing Venezuela's gold and giving it to Juan Guaido, slapping sanctions on almost everyone, even their allies, building up enormous, unrepayable debts, failing to defeat the Russians in Ukraine and finally threatening to steal the Russian Central Bank's reserves! What more disincentives can they think of to make countries wary of relying on dollars?
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  122. Lula da Silva was "Corrupt" in that he was making the very rich poorer and the very poor richer. That is why he was ousted by a "Color Revolution. For once I do not agree with your assessment of the situation.
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  123.  @ThomasHudson-yy7nj  Thanks.
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  124. And probably about the future escalation. The only reason it may not happen, is that sending troops with no ammunition, does not sound like an idea that even the numbskulls in charge of the west would contemplate.
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  125. 5:26 They are all three!
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  126. Emil, have you read about @Carthaginian refugees in Peru?
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  127. 6:57 Maybe Annalena was afraid to ask? And nobody in her family wanted to alk about it. Could be.
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  128.  Plain Truth  Thanks for the support.
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  129.  @May-cz2uo  Thanks for your support.
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  130. One can see what real "Character Assassination looks like, if one examines the campaign against Jeremy Corbyn after he won the Labour leadership position in the UK, by a landslide victory and revived the spirits of a very dejected party. He made the grave mistake of trying to appease his critics and was, consequently, destroyed. He was replaced by a bog-standard. rightwing social democrat and the LP sank back into its previous apathy.
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  131. How long was Moldova part of Romania and how long was it part of Russia?
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  132. If you are weak when you are bullied, it may be wise to keep quiet and absorb the hurt, until you are strong enough to deal with the bully properly. This is what both China and Russia have done.
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  133. 10:43 Maybe it was a "Virtual" missile. I.e. an illusion created in Polish airspace by electronic means and when it was switched off, Voila! It disappeared.
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  134. 9:08 "Buddy-buddies? Yeah! Take a look at "Operation Unthinkable"! Some Buddy that Churchill! What do you think the Manhattan Project was all about? Eh?
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  135. About "hung". It is confusing. There are two past participles for the verb "to hang": "hanged" and "hung". "Hanged" is what happens to e.g. criminals and washing, and "hung" is what happens to meat and pictures. Usually. One exception is in the school playground, taunting response to the declaration "I don't care!" "Don't care was made to care, Don't care was hung, Don't care was put in a pot, And boiled 'til he was done!"
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  136. 0:44 Only 12? I thought it was many more!
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  137. " how is that working out?" Working out quite well! But not for the Ukrainians or their Western backers.
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  138. 10:24 In the present political climate, almost everything that comes out of the mouths of politicians of the Collective West, can be better understood, or relied on, if it is treated as being the exact opposite of what it appears to say. I could give examples without number but I don't think I really need to!
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  139.  @PEST-rn7ip  No. What he has is a sky-high SQ.
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  140. When I visited Transdnistyia, I found it a very pleasant place,with very friendly and helpful people.
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  141. In Britain it is alleged, that there are sometimes "secret masonic signals" are exchanged betweent the Judge and either defending or prosecuting lawyers and policemen..
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  142. Talking against war? You must be one of Putin's puppets!
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  143. It seems to me, that the US has "The Keys to Europe". It has, after all, Military Bases all over. If Putin (Or anyone else, for that matter!) could offer a big enough bribe, or threat, they would hand it over in a heartbeat.
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  144. Al Capone is running out of money. It seems to me quite possible that he will withdraw his troops from many, perhaps even all his overseas bases because of the difficulty in paying them. I hope that when the Russians defeat N@0, they will insist on this condition: that all firms that manufacture arms should be state-owned. This would short-circuit the Congress - USG - Lobbyist - Congress - Vicious - circle which since, at least, the end of WW2, has been driving the World towards war. If there was no way for Congress-critters to profit from wars and rumours of wars, there would be no pressure on the USG, to find excuses for going to war and the voters might have some influence on foreign policy, which they lack at present.
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  145. The address of the video, of pure FAKE NEWS is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu5up2F4H-M&t=17s It is pure fake war porn, a lie from start to finish. It has been up at least 24 hrs which shows that spreading false information is quite ok with the authorities, while we all know that spreading truth (The wrong truth) can get you de-platformed.
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  146. You are so right! Since the beginning of the Cold War, the USA and the collective West, have known that there was no Soviet/Russian plan to conquer the rest of the World, not even a part of Western Europe. The "Russian Invasion Sccare", was always a means to direct money towards the US's MIC. It still is. The "Chinese scare" is a rather newer fraud, but it is just as fraudulent. The real fear of the Warmongers of Washington, is that China will grow stronger economically and militarily, than is the CW. Why is that scary? It is Scary because of "Projection". The USA bullies other weaker nations, because it can without dire consequences to itself and it is advantageous for the US to do so. They think therefore, that if any country becomes more powerful than they are, that country will treat them similarly. Personally, I am convinced that neither Russia nor China will behave in that way. It looks as though we are going to find out fairly soon!
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  147. This is a comment I have made elsewhere, but I'll risk showing it again. I agree with what you are saying in this video entirely. It seems to me, that there is an obvious and extremely serious objection, to privately owned pharmaceutical industries. Namely that there is a fundamental, built-in Conflict of Interest. To put it as simply as possible; to a privately -owned pharmaceutical firm, a cured customer is a lost customer. The ideal customer, is one who buys a drug that is still "in-patent", which is moderately expensive and needs to be taken indefinitely to "stabilise" the disease. A drug which does not cure the disease, but enables the patient to be well enough to earn a living. The treatment for stomach ulcers, before Dr Barry Marshall's discovery of Helicobacter pylorii and the fact that the disease could be cured in a couple of weeks with barium and antibiotics, was a text book example of just such a drug. The pharmaceutical industry fought hard to keep knowledge of this discovery from the public and succeeded in suppressing it for ten years! The obvious cure for this problem is to nationalise the Pharmaceutical industry in its entirety. (Better still, would be to internationalize it but that is a step for another time.) The point is, that a government has quite different priorities from those of a private firm. Whereas the job of a private company is to make money for its shareholders, the job of a publicly owned pharmaceutical firm is to produce the best range of medicines that it can, as cheaply as possible. To research cures for diseases that are troubling the public and to make sure that their products are safe or at least, that its side effects are known. As far as a government is concerned, the ideal drug is one that will quickly cure a disease, that costs very little and causes the least possible trouble to the patient. Having a nationalized pharmaceutical industry would avoid wasteful duplicated research, price gouging and neglect of "rare diseases" because there is no money to be made from treating them. Above all, such an industry has no motivation to suppress a cure, because it is making money from treating a disease. Another advantage of a nationalized pharmaceutical industry is that it would not have to worry about the cost of trials of experimental drugs in the same way as a private firm. If a new or repurposed drug was very cheap, but showed promise, the fact that it would not make money for the firm would not be an obstacle to setting up a test of it. Some people will object that "nationalizrd firms are always inefficient" and that such an industry "would be bogged down in burocrasy." Personally I think that removing the the "Conflict of Interest" would make running those supposed risks, worth running.
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  148. 6:46 You are being "a bit economical with the truth". Moldova was part of the Russian Empire for a long time (150 years?) before it was part of Romania for 22(?) years.
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  149. 13:14 "Panicked" is the word you were looking for
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  150. Dear Emil, have you looked into the Skripal Saga? If not, and you can make any sort of sense out of it, please make a program explaining what happened. Nobody else has come close to doing that, so far.
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  151. Of course, if you and the "suspect", the victim and the suspect were all one family, you might try to blame it on some innocent bystander, who was collateral damaged in the crime, and tell all the onlookers: "Nothing to see here!! Move along please!"
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  152. If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
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  153. Ain't got nutin' to do with values! This has to do with Orban not hating Vladimir Putin half enough. "Values" is an excuse. True the EU just loves the LBGT (etc) community and would, if they dared, campaign for Pedophile Rights, but even so, what really bothers them is that Hungary is not an enthusiastic supporter of Zelensky and his Azov friends.
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  154. 0:34 "If it ain't broke don't fix it."
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  155. About the Germans using poison gas first in WW1: The man who taught me chemistry, said that the German use of Chlorine was triggered by the British use of Ammonium Perchlorate as a high explosive. One of the breakdown products of Ammonium Perchlorate, when it explodes, is Chlorine. When the Germans smelt Chlorine, they thought that the British were using Chlorine as a poison gas against them and retaliated by using various poison gasses against the Western Allies. It was a bad mistake because the prevailing wind in France is from the West so they suffered from it more than the Western allies did. (And they suffered more than horribly enough!)
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  156. I thick you have got this story slightly wrong. The S-300 is an older system, the Russians probably thought : "lets use these up on the UAF, they are relatively easy targets, anyway we have S-500s coming soon so we need the space. The S-400s will do for now."
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  157. "All power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
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  158. Are you telling me that there is a chink in the West's armour?
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  159. Interesting and important program. What I wonder is how far back does this group's control of the West go? Prof Hudson, in his book, "Forgive Them Their Debts" points out that the Babylonian, Sumerian and Egyptian civilizations lasted for thousands of years. The Roman Empire lasted a much shorter time and all the European Empires since, have collapsed after a few hundred years at the most. The reason the older civilizations lasted so long, he says, is because every now and again, the King or Emperor would declare a Jubilee, which meant that all debts were cancelled. This meant that even people who were slaves through indebtedness, were freed and that very rich, who were owed a lot of money, were suddenly much less rich and hence, less powerful. The Romans broke with this tradition and it has never been revived since. Each Empire since, has collapsed in indebtedness and corruption. It looks to me as though the Collective West is going the same way. The group I am thinking about, seem to really really hate the Babylonian Empire, even after all this time! I wonder why? Did they also take over the running of the Roman Empire before it collapsed? Have they been controlling every Western Empire since? It looks to me as though they took control of the British Empire after the collapse of the British Revolution of 1644. Somethime around 1700.
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  160. 7:26 Not only those thinkers inform the Chinese reaction to anything the US says or does, there are also Sūnzǐ and Mao.
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