Comments by "Kim O\x27Brien" (@kimobrien.) on "The Guardian" channel.

When the companies own the government what do you expect?
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Probably a degree in idiotics. First you need coal to make steel. No modern world without steel. Second burning Natural gas or oil creates less not zero CO2. Third when using natural gas, oil or coal to make electricity capturing the CO2 is easier than when oil or natural gas is burned in a home or large buildings for heating, electricity or absorption type cooling.
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@resistenceisfutile When I was young we protested America's criminal war in Vietnam and our protests help force an end as the soldiers did not want to keep fighting and two Presidents were forced from office. Lyndon Johnson announced he would not run for Persident again and Nixon resigned amid the massive watergate FBI secret police scandal.
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The coal companies and wall street decided a long time ago to locate other industries unnecessary to the coal industry elsewhere to keep the miners wages down. If you could work elsewhere than the companies would have to run better paying, cleaner and safer operations. Safety costs money but the company can always hire another miner.
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What the should have is a Rockefeller Tax in West Virginia as in taxing the old Democratic US Senator Jay Rockefeller.
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"Renewable energy" still requires the use of non renewable methods to capture and distribute. That wind generator uses iron, copper and aluminum. You need lots of electricity to make aluminum and copper out of ore. If I can take the CO2 generated by coal, gas or oil, feed it to a green plant GMO, than we can take advantage of the carbon cycle and make it just as reliable as other sunlight based renewables. Thorium molten salt nuclear reactors are the most promising new energy source technology. A number of countries and companies are working on the technology. Does that satisfy you Mr J***A**? The original post said nothing about renewability. All quote "renewable sources" (wind, solar and hydro) are based on sunlight either directly or indirectly.
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There is no real difference between the two parties anymore. Both parties promise. Both parties break their promises.
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We don't need successful dogs from the dog eat dog world of capitalism. If all you doing is stepping on others on your way to the top you serve no social purpose. The key to socialism is workers control of industry and abolishing private property not new regulations,.regulatory agencies and smarter regulators. Regulations are put in place to protect the profits of incumbents first and control any out of control greed.
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After a socialist revolution your money will be as good as a Confederate dollar after the civil war.
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They like to talk about how "Clinton would proved training." Ya training for jobs that don't exist. I already been through that scam.
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The workers are withdrawing from the Democratic Party of promises. This is a good sign it doesn't mean they are becoming Republicans. You can see that in the way the West VIrginia's school strike was fought out. The would not return to work with just a promise from a Republican governor. They demanded a bill be drawn up and passed first. They organized beyond just teachers and they did this all in a right to work state. While some maned the picket lines others went to occupy the capitol building. There slogan was "55 Strong" for all 55 counties. When they left after winning they chanted "Who makes History? We make history."
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What does her color have to do with this?
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What was Clinton going to do set up training schools for McDonalds and Walmart jobs? Companies open and close for profits. Just because the Companies want you to think Trump is the reason they reopened doesn't mean you should vote for a Democratic like Jay Rockefeller.
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The best anti poverty program is a militant fighting union movement.
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Family farmers and ranchers vote Republican because they want to leave the farm to their children not having to sell half in order to pay the estate tax. Their struggle to keep their farms and ranches is a progressive one. The only former union man (SAG President) to be elected President was Ronald Reagan since his union busting of the PATCO union this is why the officials can't convince an ever shrinking membership to vote for any Republican. They and many of the leaders of the 1960's and 1970's social movements are Democrats by default. They refuse to do much of anything except be part of the Democratic Party vote catching machinery or talk about nominating Democrats to the Supreme court. As workers we don't have the same options our leaders do. They may be able to keep sitting in a Washington office talking to Senators and Congressmen but we have real economic problems and you can expect us to begin a fight back with or without them.
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Aaron Williams you are really out of touch. Lots of people have to work at minimum wage or slightly more because they can't find someone to buy their skills. If you actually have to work and not sit home with mom and dad or have to get a job post college degree. Eventually you will learn that in one way or another simply because you can not escape the truth no matter how you think you can deny it.
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You think you need a lot of education to work at Walmart, Amazon and McDonalds. That's where the jobs are today. Fifteen Dollars an hour and a union.
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I'm happy to hear you have jobs and wish you and your families well.
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Clinton would just continue the Obama do nothing program where promise are made but never kept. When I was young and you went down to the Employment Security office they actually had jobs they could send you to and when I say jobs I mean more than one. Now when you down they tell you about computers. "You need to apply online." So you fill out black hole applications and never even get a chance to make your case for why you would be a good worker if they couldn't hire you today. I worked at Sparrows Point, MD that was the highest real wages I ever made along with 15,000 other Steel Workers. Today they have a few night watchmen. The US makes more steel today than ever before of course it's all made in smaller unionless plants paying poverty wages.
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Amazon Prime employee thousands of minimum wage sorting workers by using contractors. A strike at the home sorting facility in Louisville, Ky is what will bring higher wages to the Billionaire Jeff Bezos workers.
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@luisaymerich9675 South Vietnam was never separate country it was an invention of the Imperialist created at the 1954 Geneva conference which had no right to decide anything about Vietnam. Its was a conference to take what had been won on the battlefield away from the legitimate revolutionary forces and hand it back to the Imperialists. Ukraine has been recognized at the UN as a country within the Soviet Union before the founding of the Soviet Union and at the founding of the UN in 1945. It has a separate language and literature. It was one of fifteen republics within the Soviet Union set up as a voluntary federation.
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@Porkeater2610957 If he was Cuban he would have been a successful Huber Matos returning the country to its "rightful place" as a colony of the United States.
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Three Democrats with three solutions. 1. Vote Democrat. ReElect Me. Why? 2. We will give you training for new clean energy jobs. Is the government going to come in and built the new factories or is this just another empty promise? Like her ones during her husbands regime? They did cut welfare costs for poor children though and added the Effective Death Penalty act. Universal Healthcare? The right wing was to strong for the Clintons. Or were the Clintons to weak? 3. Companies like Google and Amazon should move in because it would be cheaper. Well how much cheaper can you get than minimum wage for Amazon Prime workers over in Louisville, KY? That's just a another race to the bottom. Conclusion: A new Militant Union movement is needed as the best anti poverty program. Democrats and Republicans are just two different factions of the a ingle Boss Party.
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So far I can't find my pension. Militant fighting union movement means an all workers movement like the CIO. Coal will be needed for a long time to come because you can't make steel with natural gas.or oil. The companies made those promises for pensions they should pay.
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The capitalists moved out of the older industrial cities not because they are losing money but because they figure that they can make bigger profits elsewhere. If the unions keep organizing across state and international borders the companies are going to be less inclined to move. The unions need to be seriously organizing instead of giving back.
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@Людмила-м3т3р Solidarity with Ukraine and the Russian people who are being punished by the NATO Imperialist alliance of capitalist thieves and scoundrels. This is not a war for nation independence but a war for the new capitalist profiteers in Russia and against Ukraine. Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism. No to Imperialist war. No tp the NATO Imperialist hypocrites.
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The best anti poverty program is a trade union. 55 strong!!!
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"They elected a billionaire coal baron as governor." That same governor signed a bill giving all state workers a raise after a solid strike by teachers and school workers. Also they should institute a Rockefeller Tax on peeple like former US Democratic Party Senator Billionaire from West Virginia Jay Rockefeller.
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At least people would be employed creating and passing out the food. It could become a way of life and part of the trade union movement.
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You have to have some power to demand change.being unemployed, homeless and hungry leaves you virtually powerless. You need organization and the best type of organization for demanding that change is a union and a political party controlled by the unions not a party that represents the 'community'. You don't want the bosses in the union and you don't want to have the bosses in a party controlled by the unions.
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In a Socialist planned economy we wouldn't have all these problems because organization would replace private capital moving to where the profits are. Education wouldn't end at age 18 but be part of people's life time. Increase in productivity wouldn't be a curse upon the working class but something we would celebrate. Half of our engineers and scientists work providing the military with new weapons. What if we sent building materials thousands of engineers, skilled workers, doctors, medical workers and teachers to patrs of the world where people still can't read and have to live in huts burning firewood?
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Ya Clinton wanted to train people to do 'other things' like what? How to use a pallet jack at Walmart or clean out the fryer over at McDonalds?
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The best planning agency for the working class is a union and a new political party.
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Go away we don't need people from the Spanish inquisition of the Fascist Generalissimo Franco. Go get some more wine and drink yourself into a stupor. That way you always do the best negotiating.
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You need coal to make steel from Iron ore. Plus Obama had 8 years. In his first two he had a majority Democratic Congress. They could have passed single payer healthcare then but just like Clinton he had his excuses. The best anti poverty program is a militant Trade Union movement like the 55 strong West Virginia school workers.
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@luisaymerich9675 We the working people of the world must fight against Imperialist investors foreign wars they do nothing for us just make others rich while our children die defending a profits system of a few oligarchs. My eyes were opened by the injustice I saw in America. The killing of four anti war protesters at Kent state University in 1970. It sparked a national student strike across the nation. We talked to everyone but especially the GI's who were asked to die for the corrupt capitalist system. They began to agree with us and were tried of fighting a rich mans war. GI's thew the medals they earned at the US capitol in a protest. They began marching with us the protesters. Democratic Persident Johnson said he would not run and Republican Nixon was forced to resign amid a secret police watergate scandal. .
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@luisaymerich9675 Ukraine was recognized as one of the fifteen Republics within the original Soviet Union and at the funding of the UN in 1945 where it has always had a seat. The olny way to force an end to the war is with an international protest campaign against the invasion since this can build the antiwar forces against the Imperialist and capitalist exploiters of all nations and prevent a futher widening of the war.. As communists we are internationalist who favor the closest cooperation of all the workers and farmers in the world of all nations and that can only work by recognizing the legitimate national aspirations of workers and farmers. By recognizing the right to create an independent nation we undercut the bourgeois nationalist in the oppressed nations by doing so.
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This is much like how the fight against America's attacks on Cuba and Imperialist war in Vietnam began. A few brave souls turned into first tens then hundred than thousands and finally we had over 100,000 in the streets of Washington, DC in peaceful legal protests. We started small and we were constantly harassed by the FBI and police. We had to constantly fight for our right to speak. We talked to the soldiers on the military base and set up antiwar coffee shops to meet with the Troops being sent to Vietnam.
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Instead of throwing away waste water in a river going to the ocean that has to meet the clean water act standards to begin with just send it back out into the fresh water system. As for energy how about building molten salt thorium reactors. Plenty of ocean water for cooling nukes especially when you can build safe plants that do not go china syndrome. If we do have to many workers that we can reduce the work week. No need to require 70 hour weeks like AT&T does.
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Why would anyone believe that corrupt politicians of either party care. The best anti poverty program is a trade union.
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Look I'm the communist on this thread and I worked at Sparrows Point with its coke ovens. I know what's like to get out of your car and smell sulfur on your way to the clockhouse. The last turn never bothered to turn off the lights in the Hot Mill. Now the place where thousands made steel for cars and refrigerators is empty except for night watchmen. We've been treated like Indians across the board. Promised the world while wall street robbed us blind.
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Because coal is mostly used in industrial processes like making electricity and steel we can capture the CO2 released much easier than capturing the CO2 from natural gas or oil burned in homes for heat and cooking. Once captured the problem has been what to do with it. Some have advocated pumping it back down into the empty natural gas wells while others think it can be mixed with water to feed algae which could be used in some other way. The big elephant in the room is that this like other recycling is not profit friendly.
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We should reconsider nuclear energy. We have better monitoring technology that we didn't have at 3 mile island. A single design of a medium size plant could be replicated as a factory item assembled on site with multiple plants for more energy. During the recent Hueston hurricane the nuclear plant never went offline. Another design that was halted by Nixon because nuclear was safe is the molten salt design. This design is walkaway safe unlike the solid fuel nuclear plants. It still needs development which a number of countries and companies are doing.
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You sound like a Feudalist that wants to return back to the days when people used firewood because you can go out in the woods and collect firewood. We are not anti-technology. We're anti-capitalists. The old are dependent because they can't work the way the young can. The companies want strong backs and weak minds. Private property, mineral rights and the sheriffs keep you from digging coal where ever you want but do you want your grandma going out with pickaxe digging coal? Or do want your grandma to be exempt? The companies control the government with campaign donations and ivy league education not the other way around. We need to replace that government not reform it. There was a big push for nuclear power in the 1950's because otherwise the government would need an excuse for building reactors for the plutonium needed in nuclear weapons. Reforms and regulations like EPA and MSHA are window dressing. Which are meant to control but can not stop capitalist greed. Right now their talking about need to regulate windmills. See if the windmills go up and they are hit with an ice storm when the ice melts it could damage the mill in a number of ways putting it off line. To fix the problem requires additional investment cost into every windmill with no corresponding return on investment. So the argument now is what to do. Add a regulation requiring ice safety or take the chance that an ice storm will knock out a large number of windmills and power across the northern midwest? For us the problem is not should we build it this way or that way but that the wealthy get to make the decision about something that could threaten the lives of millions of people yet all the numbers and facts are hidden due to private property and business secret laws.
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So as a Dummycrat you think that is somehow funny?
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What kind of job was Clinton going to train everyone in? If you absolutely have to vote then Vote Socialist Workers Party. Otherwise the best anti poverty program ever devised is a union. Clinton knows jobs and that is exactly what you will get from them no job.
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Listen to all the warmongers like Rachel Maddow over at MSNBC and the liberals who are on some kind of new cold war posture against Russia. Do you think that is a good reason to Vote Democrat? I have no confidence in Trump but a reduction of tensions and a possible peace treaty is much better than a continued cold war with the DPRK. Obama could have gotten the same deal that Trump has accepted: no more practice invasions, nuclear bombing practice drills and we stop our testing. How is that bad? Obama got a peace prize and outside of exchanging diplomats with Cuba what did he do?
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You liberals are no better. You'd rather keep up the threats of war in Korea. Obama could of had the same deal Trump got. Johnson (D) was the one who escalated Vietnam (Hay Hay LBJ How many kids did you kill today!)
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@jankucera8180 Imperialism the highest stage of capitalism. VI Lenin. Their is no progressive capitalism or Imperialism. Solidarity with Ukraine No to Sanctions by the NATO Imperialism alliance. The hypocrisy of the NATO Imperialist is on full display who just finished a twenty year war of destruction on Afghanistan. No to the NEW CZAR Putin of Russia.
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