Comments by "John Roberts" (@view1st) on "George Galloway" channel.

  1.  @wyodragon4325  That may be true, but don't forget that these countries can be as warlike and blood thirsty as anyone else.
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  2. Wasn't there a law change after Dr Kelly's death concerning autopsies/coroner's reports that now makes it that much easier for the state to pass off suspicious deaths as being due to natural causes?
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  3. In truth though Wikipedia has been taken over by the intelligence services of the USA so isn't likely to give much in the way of ìnformation that is not biased in some way towards the status quo.
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  4. Merely the continuation of 500 years of western European colonialism and imperialism beginning with the genocides of the Portuguese and Spanish in the 1500's.
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  5.  @elvishprincess321  Aren't Middle Easterners 'white' (i.e. Caucasian/Caucasoid)? They're certainly not Negroid or Mongoloid or Australoid (to use a somewhat quaint and outdated nomenclature). #Cheddarman
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  6.  @heldinahtmlhell Don't forget the before Homo Sapiens it was the Homo Neanderthalensis who inhabited Europe. And 'white' people only became white a few 10's of 1000's of years ago, before that they were darker skinned (cheddar.man).
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  7.  @retroactivehistory  Most of what counts as 'British culture' is an invention of the 18th and 19th centuries. That is, it's largely a cultural construct carefully crafted by the creators of the nation state (which prior to the 15th century didn't really exist in Europe, or anywhere for that matter, China being the possible exception).
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  8. They inspired respect in the West, not terror. It was only terror if your were rich or one of the elite; for those people communism was truly terrifying.
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  9. Nor for the 1917 Bolshevik revolution whose communist ideology absolutely terrified the monarchies and aristocracies of old Europe and the plutocracy of the United States and whose ghost still haunts the imaginations of the elite.
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  10. It's the USA and its corrupt, decaying system of military complex-driven corporatism and rentier-driven bankster capitalism that is to blame, in my opinion. Domination by the USA and the imposition of its dysfunctional neoliberalism on the world is what needs to end. Neoliberalism is dysfunctional and the longer it remains unchallenged the more problems there will be.
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  11. When, where... sources.
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  12. Actually, the City of London might actually support the de jure withdrawal of Britain from the European Union (whilst still remaining beholden to the EU where it counts, i.e. trade). As the most corrupt and biggest money-launderers and financial hucksters on the planet, with the greatest number of offshore tax havens for purposes of tax evasion and the funding of drugs and other illicit activities, the City would be quite happy to avoid having oversight imposed on it from Brussels. It wants lax - ideally, no - oversight or enquiry into its shady dealings and if it can get that from the European Union then fine, but otherwise it's quite happy to cut the EU loose, even at the expense of the long-term future of Great Britain as both a unified and an economically prosperous country.
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  13. It's not communism they're turning into but corporatism.
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  14. It was you Americans who supplied Germany. And not only during the run up to Germany's declarationof war on the USA, but even as late as 1942 and only after the Japanese had entered the war did it fully cease.
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  15. Nationalise the lot of them — gas, coal, nuclear, wind, hydro, oil. Take them in to public hands and let the state (which doesn't need to make a profit) use these utilities for the greater good, the general population. Doing so will lower costs. Same with the banks, nationalise them and put and end to this unconscionable usury. Stop the bail-outs (using our taxes) and the bail-ins (stealing our savings). Too big to fail — poppycock! They've already failed... twice already, each time worse than the last! The corporates are taking us for fools and it's time we made them pay.
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  16. Not "the West" but the United States; it's political and economic systems have become dysfunctional due to neoliberalism with those countries that are most under its influence being effected by its dysfunction. Britain is arguably the most imitative of the US neoliberal model in western Europe and is one of the worst effected.
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  17.  @captainwin6333  The #MIC /#MICIMATT. The ones who came to power after the Kennedy assassination, if not years before under the Dulles brothers at the very interrupting of the CIA. The rot may have started even earlier with Hoover and the FBI.
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  18. Unfortunately, the Chinese, Indians and Russians aren't up to the job. More's the pity.
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  19.  @mystictraveler8642  Because that's the only way you can bring fascist war criminals of a fascist corporate state to justice. You want to bring the genocide of the Jews to a halt? You liberate Auschwitz. You want to liberate Europe from the German jackboot, you steamroller the Nazis.
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  20. ​ @sabinereynaudsf  Why should China remain disunited?
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  21. What, specifically, do you take issue with?
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  22. This is what happens when the agenda for a vast swathe of humanity is being set for them by just one country's elite and all the news is being filtered through that one country's information system.
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  23. What are you trying to say? ❓ 🤷‍♂️ ❓
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  24. It might be a way of dealing with the laboratory-engineered Corona virus and the 'vaccines' created by the USA and let loose on the world (i.e. preventative measures against bio-terrorism/bio-warfare). Then again, it could just be China's way of imposing social control and testing its efficacy (perhaps as part of some greater plan already agreed on between the world's elites or in anticipation of a period of global change/unrest/war).
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  25. The Labour Party, together with the political system, has been Americanised and Britain has been Finlandised.
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  26. The USA didn't need to invade Britain to get its gold. It was sold by a traitor.
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  27. Britain had several industries that were state controlled up until the 1980's, as well as wholly state-funded schools (not public-private partnerships) and public housing and transport. The neo-fascists (aka neo-conservatives) of Margaret Thatcher changed all that.
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  28. Our fathers and grandfathers fought for banks, corporations and empire.
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  29. A country that supports genocide in Palestine and imposes austerity on its own people, can't defend itself against the USA moving in on what remains of its empire (Diego Garcia), mass immigration, while supporting to the tune of billions war in Ukraine... what else can you call it?
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  30. There is no left. The USA's 80 year war against communism, socialism and left wing nationalism has made the West like Hitler's Germany or Tojo's Japan (or Stalin's Russia). The left has been completely destroyed and I don't think Putin's Russia or Xi's China want to see its return and certainly not in a radical or communist form. Indeed, they would probably carry on where the Americans left off if their was to be a Communist revival. What we have now is the 'left' of the right (in the USA that means hard right wing Democrats versus extreme right wing Republicans (proto‐fascist 19th/20th century liberals versus full on 20th/21st century fascists/corporatists).
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  31. Agree 💯‰. Unfortunately, I fear it may already be too late.
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  32. What are Executive Orders, when were they first used, and do they have a basis in the US constitution?
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  33. 1945. Definitively, after the neolib coup in the 1970's culminating in the elections of Margaret Thatcher and later Tony Blair, both agents of influence..
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  34. Pay for the BBC through general taxes. It doesn't have to be privatised nor kept under the existing system of paying for it through an unpopular licence fee.
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  35. Do you not know that there other ethnicities besides the Uyghur residing in China? The fact that you talk about the alleged mistreatment of the Uyghur to the exclusion of other ethnic groups merely shows that you are in likelihood an Anglo-American troll. What next... organ harvesting? Technology stealing? Border skirmishes with India? Tibet? These are the tropes of the CIA and they are so 1950's. Propaganda has become so much more sophisticated since then. Try something new... it just might work.
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  36. Starmer is probably an MI6-CIA intelligence asset and certainly has their backing.
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  37. George is just teasing. If he ever started revealing anything genuinely compromising or anything that could constitute a breach of the official secrets act or pose a danger to the armed forces and its like then he would be. Embarrassing a western government is not the same as compromising the security of its rulers or their grip on power.
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  38. Why should the USA put Israel on a leash or rein them in when it's the United States itself that wants to destabilise the region? Israel acts for the most part as a proxy, not independently. The same goes for Saudi Arabia. The USA could stop it all tomorrow with a single phonecall, but it doesn't want to. War is profitable and the USA is all about profit.
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  39. The military-industrial-corporate complex, along with the billionaires who make up Davos, plan decades ahead too.
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  40. As an organised, unified polity only about 1,900 to 2000 years (semi-organised for longer, maybe plus 300-500 years) with civil wars, invasions and civil breakdown cutting it down to about half. Culture-wise, certain aspects of what may be called quintessentially Chinese culture can be put to about 3000-3500 years, but 5000 years is pushing it a bit though. This is not to knock Chinese culture or the Chinese but there is no reason to exaggerate China's political and cultural historical longevity.
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  41. It was neither a riot nor an insurrection. It was merely an impromptu unguided tour. And what's odd is that security was strangely lacking on that day. I'm not condoning what these Trump supporters did but to make it out to be an insurrection – an attempt to overthrow the government of the USA – is exaggerating to put it mildly.
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  42. Jordan is like ancient Judea under under Herod, a total puppet state.
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  43. Disagree. His election means nothing. It's the equivalent of a member of the National Front being elected: it sometimes happens and the media make a minor furore about it, but ultimately it is of no consequence. A protest vote in a constituency with a high non-indigenous majority that identifies with Islam is not going to change things.
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  44. The ding‐dong over the Olympics is pure theatre meant to distract the masses and make up for more concrete actions. After all, what actions of substance can the USA make in regards to its biggest supplier of cheap goods and the biggest market for its exports? Face it, China has America by the balls and if the the USA is to disconnect itself from China it must do so in a very careful and very well planned manner, something that isn't going to happen quickly, if at all. Apropos, Australia is stupid in gratuitously antagonising China with its recent trade policies.
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