Comments by "Kim O\x27Brien" (@kimobrien.) on "Democracy Now!" channel.

  1.  @granolafunk6192  Sure Congress voting to shove the rail contract Greedy Boss Buffet wanted has nothing to do with his two party campaign contributions. It safer to ship oil in pipes as long as they are properly maintained. Rail Boss greed caused the accident in Quebec where a whole town was burned down.
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  2.  @georgestransky9652  This is nothing more than another "Get Trump" Frame Job.
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  3.  @valverdeguido  President Trump in not the President of the World. Nor are the US Marines the policeman of the world. You do not dial 1 800 MIKE PENCE to be appointed President.
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  4.  @bobbykiefer4306  Except the Arab Muslim's expelled all the Jews.
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  5.  @ilexevergreen5405  Like all the donors to the two parties.
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  6.  @LC_1018  Warren Buffet the Greedy Boss of the BNSF and two party Donner is no doubt also avoiding taxes.
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  7.  @parker469a  In my short life time of 66 years I would give exactly zero Presidents the benefit of any doubt what so ever. They're nothing more than the chief representatives of a small group of ruling profit hungry capitalists who seek world domination through military force.
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  8.  @codo2960  Hamas occupied GAZA and was the de facto state. It was receiving UN and EU refugee aid and instead of building it chose to destroy buying missiles and arms to wage terror attacks because its goal is the anylation of the Jews. Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was in Germany and one of Hitlers allies helping to raise a Muslim militia.
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  9. Here is how well the US workers have been doing according to the US BLS a part of the US Federal Reserve Bank. http://www.thestand.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/ss-productivity-earnings.jpg
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  10.  @mr-peabody  Actually politicians of BOTH parties should zero concern for their constitutes. None of them had the guts to come out and speak with them inluding Trump himself whio promised to be with them.
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  11.  @sonofyah-qx8fm  The only way forward is for the leaders in Carcass to move forward with nationalization of all Yankee and collaborators property now! Down to the nails in their boots! This is the route Fidel Castro took and the only way to socialism.
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  12.  @valeriognudi7325  The US government is unhappy because its big companies who pay to elect the two parties can not come into Cuba and do as they please like when Batista was in power. The US government has been punishing the Cuban people for exercising their sovereignty over their own country with a multinational trading blockade.
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  13.  @phillipgabriel8026  Very unlikely either will ever be convicted if anything.
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  14.  @austinoasis  Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad.
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  15. "Captured by the FBI" Yes "Black Activist" Yes "Political Prisoner" Yes "Revolutionary communist:" No.
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  16. Stalin someone must have accidentally tipped over the trash bin of history. You and your revisionist history, revisionist theory and current alliance with the bourgeois liberals has nothing to do with the world revolution.
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  17.  @michaelmullins3396  Its not going to happen overnight. The US government is much weaker than in 1959 but to think that they can be defeated to save a Social Democratic government in Venezuela is just Utopian. Only a revolution like in 1959 Cuba can win.
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  18.  @guilhermeperazzini  Why don't all you Venezuelan capitalists just move to the US? You know how much Trump wants you here so you can vote for him.
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  19.  @Madasin_Paine  If every politicians tax return is made public that creates a ready made enemies list of employers and business associates that can be pressured for unpopular opinions. They avoid taxes by NOT taking income but taking on debt secured with property. Federal tax is on income from work, profession or capital gains. You male a capital gain when you sell property. If you put it up to secure a debt thats NOT income by law. You pay the interest on the debt NOT a tax. You can actually deduct interst you pay on debt from your taxable income.
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  20.  @asmashareef9680  Venezuela can win but only if the follow the Cuban road of uniting the workers and farmers to take power and overthrow capitalist relations. Anything else is pure utopianism. You can not have a country that is 1/2 capitalist and 1/2 socialists.
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  21. Democratic liberals are now the ones making moves against free speech. As an example the movement against the 1st amendment to supposedly keep big money out of politics by removing the ability of organizations from entering the political debate. This is to be done through a Constitutional Amendment. A recent decision by the democratic members of the federal election commission which will require the Socialist Workers Party to turn over names of contributors and make them public. This will create a ready made enemies list for employers and anyone else who finds what's printed in the parties associated newspaper the militant or the associated publisher pathfinder press objectionable. The recent efforts in Berkeley by antifa being organized with clubs and shields marked "No Hate" chasing and attacking unarmed people who wanted nothing more than to discuss politics. These efforts under the guise of preventing free speech for fascists will be turned back on the working class in an effort to keep us out of politics. In Connecticut a small rally of Clergy demanded that a list of fascists hate groups be made into a terrorist list and then outlawed. Of course anyone who disagrees with whoever is outside of the two official parties could then be targeted. We've seen this before when the Smith "gag" Act was passed in the late 1930's to stop German Fascists in America and was then used in the early 1940's by the Democratic Party administration of FDR to send 18 members of the Socialist Workers Party and Teamster's union to federal prison. This action was actually endorsed by the Communist Party USA at the time. They would see themselves fall victim in the 1950's doing much longer prison sentences with the same law being used until it was finally ended in the late 1950's.
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  22.  @collegefootballpicks2972  National "Frame Job" Security.
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  23.  @primosolis2998  National "I smell a frame job.": Security.
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  24.  @gloriamartinez4371  You seem to ignore that any country not doing what is wanted by "The Leader of the Free World" is subjected to international sanctions. How long do you think New Jersey or Texas would last if it was placed on a no trade list?
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  25.  @otteottema6839  The Poet is a liar he has NOT spent his whole life under occupation. He spent time at Harvard University.
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  26.  @tanjudereli3357  I didn't make the US the policeman of the world your Democratic Party colleague President Truman did that. See after WW2 aggressive war was outlawed so the US war department became the Defense Department and the Korean was not really a war according to Truman but a "Police Action". That how the US government became derided as the worlds policeman. US Propaganda used against itself. Truman violated the US Constitution by never declaring war which only Congress can do. That's why he called it a police action.
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  27. @Edilio A Thosands of Cubans came into the streets to celebrate May Day and a majority turned out for the elections.
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  28. Should change the name of the show to Democratic Party Now!!! How Amy Goodman came to love capitalist politicians and intellectuals.
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  29.  @mikkayosef8008  The US is ruled by a tiny class of capitalist investors and bankers not a bunch of "droopy grandpas". Plenty of US working class elderly are homeless. Life expectancy in the US has gone down.
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  30.  @mikegery2990  He lied about spending his whole life under occupation.
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  31. US politicians for years pointed fingers at each other over the 'loss of China' as if the had a right to own and control China.
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  32. One nation under god with freedom and justice for some.
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  33.  @guilhermeperazzini  We get to say what we want here because people like me fought for the right to do that. I can do nothing to help you leave there. I'm not a lawyer. But if you can get here than you can be part of the fight for immigration amnesty and a rebuilding of the union movement. I'm not signing on to any anti Cuban revolution stuff. It's clear that the US Cuban relationship is one where the US green lighted the Batista coup and has sought to destroy the revolution from the very beginning with or without communism. If you think Mike Pence with his CIA and US Marines are going to solve Venezuelan's problems that you must be wearing historical blinders or have a case of amnesia. The only thing the CIA and US Marines bring to foreign countries is death, destruction and a dictatorship meeting the needs of US Imperialism.
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  34.  @junglechick13  That won't solve anything because its is asking the corrupt two party politicians to do what they can't even begin to do within the current setup. The problem for the working class is having our own political party not trying to reform the two corrupt parties of capitalism. You can't elect a wage increase or do anything constructive without organizing independently from the capitalist classes institutions. A new and fighting labor movement is needed along with a party that represents our interests like the Socialist Workers Party TheMilitant.com
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  35.  @junglechick13  Get yourself a subscription to TheMilitant.com as a first step and check out the books and Pamphlets at PathfinderPress.com Start first with building a movement and worry about getting votes later. Votes will follow a successful movement. Eugene Debs got a million votes while he was behind prison walls.
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  36.  @emilio2647  The Cuban economy collapsing? A joke based in propaganda only. They've kept going despite Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union going capitalist after a deep shock therapy in the Soviet Union and the US Increasing its international sanctions on Cuba. Socialism was eaten out from the inside in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe using only the old methods of ever increasing incentives and trying to implement an ideological purity instead of relying on the creativity and power of the working people themselves. Dupont is an example of capitalist greed knowing no boundaries selling Teflon all over the world. Now that almost every human being on earth has the chemicals that make it in their blood and DuPont's cover up has been exposed they paid a big fine of 16 million dollars. LOL They probably make that in about an hours time. Do you like having Teflon in your blood? The number who will die and suffer birth defects is almost unfathomable. They kept selling and polluting because of the big profits. They knew at least as far back as the 1960's it was a danger. Its like agent orange in Vietnam. Profits and a victory for capitalism came first. Human health last. After all it wasn't sprayed on the lawns of the rich. Their children weren't sent to die in Vietnam to prop up an American capitalist dictatorship.
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  37. The problem here is the refusal of the Venezuelan United Socialist Party leaders to move down a real socialist road like Fidel Castro did in Cuba. Instead of constant dialogue with the capitalist opposition and all the talk about all Venezuela's being brothers they need to organize and lead a revolutionary movement that can put Venezuela's working class into power. This is now the second coup attempt the first being when Chavez was President. The idea that the workers in the US can halt the US governments actions on foreign policy is pure utopianism. They can win but only if the follow the Cuba revolutions road. To continue the current policy is doomed to failure. A country can not be 1/2 socialist and 1/2 capitalist. What good is a pink tide if it doesn't lead to real socialism. This dangerous foolishness leads to opening the door to a US invasion and war.
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  38.  @shadowzach00  No the American Imperialist never consulted the American Irish when dealing with the British Imperialists or any ozther sub national group when making foreign policy. They will change course when they realize there hostile policy is a complete failure and will then try and kill the revolution with kindness.
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  39.  @baronesselsavonfreytag-lor1134  You only pay taxes on income and capital gains. You avoid taxes as a boss by stock buy backs that drive up stock prices and you take out loans from banks using stock as collateral that way you never pay a tax because there are no taxes on debt. You only pay taxes on a capital gain by selling them. You cost is the price of money instead of taxes. You can also buy tax free bonds and put them up for collateral. They mature to pay the debt.
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  40.  @Razehell42  The 1st and 14th amendment protect the right to strike.
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  41. If systemic racism and re segregation is the problem why is the working class at fault? After all the middle class and ruling class make all the decisions? Seems to me that all the anti Trump forces want a coup d'etat without even a candidate that they can agree on. Every real revolutionary Marxist including Marx, Lenin, and Fidel Castro have always argued against coup d'etat because it produce no real change but just a change in administration.
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  42. Stalin there is no doubt that you studied in the school of the great idiot, original photo shopper, biggest slanderer and corrupt bureaucrat. After the ordering the signing of the pact dividing Poland with Hitler you put out the word to support NAZI Germany over the West. Once Hitler broke the pact policy flipped to support for the West. The CPUSA now became the best strikebreakers and your stooge Earl Browder held a national meeting where after a singing of the National Anthem a unanimous vote was taken dissolving the Communist Party into the Communist Political association. At the end of WW2 The Daily Worker announced an end to the Class struggle and permanent victory of the Soviet Union.
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  43. Let's get the oil rig business straight. With capitalism one person robs ten to build an oil rig not the other way around with socialism 11 people work in the oil business. America is a Republic because the founders didn't want a kingdom with a parliament like the English had. So it is both a republic and a democracy. Not just a Republic without democracy like a military dictatorship.
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  44.  @davemalone4421  A lot of people would like to know what role FBI confidential informers played. The FBI is well know for Engineering Frame Jobs and other secret police political disruption tactics.
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  45. We see how happy you are when the Teamster's roll up in some big paper recycling trucks to those big wall street firms with a Smith and Wesson on their hip and a union button on the lapel and read an announcement that the revolutionary government has ordered the confiscation of all stocks, treasury bonds, mortgage contracts and commercial paper for immediate recycling and if that isn't enough the IBEW will provide electronic technicians and electricians to take down any computer hard drives that need hard drive wiping of electronic property records. Once that happens it will break the back of any capitalist resistance and you thought foods stamps were expensive?
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  46.  @mysterial_1  He is a liar he hes not spent his whole life under occupation. He spent time at Harvard University.
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  47.  David Quintero  The problem is that Maduro refuse to lead a revolution like Fidel Castro and nationalism the Yankees and their supporters down to the nails in their boots.
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  48.  @pattyrobin58  Wrong it is dependent upon Canadian tar sands oil other wise their would be no need for a pipeline down to the Texas and Oklahoma refineries from Canada. Oil comes in different types of crude heavy and light. A mixture is best for refining which is why oil gets transported around the world. Plus most of the oil companies belong to American big business and the profits go into their pockets. Even BP is owned by US investors.
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  49.  @gloriamartinez4371  Ask them what?
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  50. Russia and the Nordic countries are all capitalist countries with stock markets and their capitalists all invest in foreign countries where they export more capital than they import making them Imperialist nations.
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