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With respect, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin explains things very clearly to Ms Bremmer's tough questions, but isn't it obvious that the only way Putin can stay in power for any length of time is to draw the US and NATO into the battle and make it a wider conflict? The humiliating defeat of Russian ground forces will not be acceptable back home if Putin retreats from Ukraine, nor just conquering the country because the horrendous loss of Russian forces will mean his days are numbered. The only way he can stay in power and live on to make a comeback is to make it a continental conflict and he's doing that now by using his bombing of civilian targets as bait to get NATO and/or America troops in Ukraine. It's an opinion.
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Dear Ms Brenner and Doctor Gottlieb, I have an idea about how to get kids back in school, and get people back to work, and get the American economy and the world economy on its feet, and especially to win the battle against Covid-19 and future pathogens or viruses that may be weaponized and used against your country or any country. Dr Gottlib, I believe that to win the Coronavirus pandemic in your country and around the world we need to fight the Coronavirus on its own territory: in the air we breathe in confined spaces. instead of passively letting it come into our bodies to attack our immune systems, we must take the battle to where it exists, and that is in the air all of us breathe. We can see someone can cough and for meters and meters they can send out infectious virus droplets. I think the Covid-19 is a wake-up call to humanity for use to realize that from now on, we must scrubb the air free of infectious viruses, pathogens and pollens and pollutants. I am an inventor. Here is my assessment of how to control the Covid-19 virus and all future infectious viruses that this way come. Up until now we have gone after the virus passively. We wear masks, gloves, face shields, eye protection, in other words we wait for it to get to us first. Next, we’re trying to come up with a vaccine which will hopefully protect us. What I believe we need to do now is to use reverse strategy and go after the Coronavirus proactively where it lives: in the air. We can do this with air scrubbers, air processors i.e. air cleaners adjusted to bake, freeze, filter and finally incapacitate the virus from existing in its molecular form. We must remove it out of the air we breathe. We could do this in every place where people congregate; every classroom could have an air scrubber with a virus indicator to show it was safe for a teacher to give a lesson. There would be a gauge on the apparatus to show the level of the virus in the air; we must realize that we cannot go on living like slaves to a Coronavirus by only trying to protect ourselves from it. It has shown over and over again that it can get through our defenses. I believe we have the savoir faire to knock out a device that can do all of the things I have said. The police use breathalyzers to analyses the alcohol content in someone’s breath, if we could get a Coronavirus analyzer that shows whether the Covid-19 virus is in a person’s system by breath analysis, it could save a lot of time---and save lives. It could be used at the door of a restaurant to test everyone’s breath coming into the restaurant. On each table in the restaurant, a portable air-scrubber could be placed to cleanse the air of the people talking at each table. People could wake up in the morning and test themselves with the virus-breathalyzer and if they were positive, they could take immediate action. I haven’t invented these apparatuses except in my mind, but the technology has been around for decades. I repeat: the Covid-19 pandemic is a wake-up call for us to treat the air we breathe like something that needs to be baked, frozen, filtered... whatever it takes to send it back in our homes and schools and offices and places of work virus free. This technology is a win/win strategy to keep us safe.
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All of Ukraine must come back into Ukrainian hands after this horrific invasion of a sovereign country. If Russia agrees to retreat and take its troops home, then it must also abandon Crimea and the land it annexed in 2014. This is the price Russia must pay. The Ukraine must not let Russia have their jewel Crimea after having destroyed so much of Ukraine and killed so many of its civilians and military personnel. What we can see from the destruction, even if Russia stopped bombing today, it will take at least 10 years or more to rebuild the country.
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Tuning in from a city a few hours by plane to Kiev, once again Margaret Bremmer does not disappoint in her interview of former Ambassador John Bolton. Margaret's gift is her quiver full of quality questions that zero in on what is simmering on every subject that is in the news. What I take home are quality answers that her guests---in this case---John Bolton, whom offers up fact-based well researched analyses coming from years of experience in his multi-faceted career throughout the interview. Bolton not only speaks government; he checks every box on being qualified and ahead of the curve and then some by knowing what it takes to not only be in government, but to make it run like clock. Bolton should be the next President of The United States. Why do I say this? Because Bolton is not someone who comes off as from one side of the political aisle or the other; he speaks like a president should: in plain English and offers solutions that will benefit all of his countrymen and women----whatever their party affiliation. On top of that, he elegantly de-thrones former President Donald Trump without throwing him under the bus by agreeing that anyone of character would stand aside and renounce running for president with all the open sewers Trump has uncovered in his wild west style ride through the prairies of the American political establishment. Trump has fallen out of grace with the status quo and he has become more than an embarrassment to his country and probably comes off as a pathological narcissist to the watching world. What is brewing on every burner on the stove for the beleaguered former president are indictments à la carte. Lastly, if there is anyone on the American political scene who can see through the smoke and mirrors of America's adversaries better than John Bolton, I would like to know. He would be an excellent president for all his countrymen and America's allies would breathe a sigh of relief knowing that the USA was back to being 110% and with someone at the helm they could count on in a world on the brink of instability and conflict
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Sean Penn flew into Ukraine on 23 February, 2022, exactly one day before the invasion. Let's be real: Sean, please come clean on how this happened?
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Dear MSNBC presenter , Mr Woodward, and Mr Baker, Thank you madame for a very good interview and solid-rock questions on where things are going in the Trump Impeachment process. Rather than have my say on the matter, here is a resume of the facts by Mr Ben Rhodes that I think nails things down pretty good. “What we’re seeing is not just the corruption of the Ukranian government by President Trump pressuring the Ukranian government to dig up dirt on his opponents, we are seeing in these text messages the corruption of the national security and foreign policy making of the American government, The State Department. Normally what you’d have is a US White House setting priorities for US interests not the presidents personal political interests and then American diplomats implementing that policy. This is not how American foreign policy works, you are not supposed to have diplomats who work for the American people on taxpayer dimes essentially leveraging the foreign relations of The United States to get a country to help the president get re-elected. What you see is all the most important instruments we have to bear to pressure another country: White House visits, foreign assistance, hundreds of millions of dollars of valuable military assistance, diplomatic negotiations, all of that being leveraged to get a particular outcome that prioritizes President Trump’s personal political interests. There is no national interest advanced whatsoever in having this investigation of a totally false allegation against former Vice President Biden and his family pursued, but Donald Trump has so fundamentally corrupted US foreign policy, that you have career diplomats put in a position where they are basically acting in behalf of the president’s re-election campaign.*
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Dear Mr Goldberg, Ms Walter, Mr Domenich, Mr Simmons and Face the Nation host, Thank you all for your take on the Impeachment Hearings. Doesn’t the whole Impeachment argument all boil down to proving this? Is President Trump guilty of the following crimes; yes or no? Is he guilty of abusing the public trust by soliciting foreign interference in the 2020 presidential election? Is he guilty of abusing the public trust by engaging in bribery – repeatedly – through his quid pro quo exchanges with President Zelensky of Ukraine? And is he guilty of abusing the public trust by obstruction justice in the investigations of his conduct of adopting an unconstitutional view of executive power? Looking at these proceedings from across the world, I can say that Ms Walters proposal that the impeachment issue will be a nonstarter in the spring or summer of 2020 is wrong. Because it doesn’t matter if President Trump is impeached or not, what they have shown us is the most unqualified person in the history of your country to be at the helm. In editorial pages across the world, what has come out is that if there was any doubt President Trump was unfit for high office, it is now clear that he is totally unfit to be your president and certainly not fit to be the leader of the free world. It is apparent that the rule of law in America has been compromised by the corroded political reality of of the divided nation your country has become. I predict that Trump will be gone before 31 December of this year, because what is going to sink the Trump presidency are the relevations in his taxes.
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Dear Ms Brennan and Dr Gottlieb, I am coming in after only about 3 minutes because I have seen the trascripts of the WHO response to the Covid-19 epidemic and how lax they were in acknowledging the severity of the epidemic and how they did nothing to prevent air traffic from virus-hit areas in China to the outside world. I am talking about the end of February of this year. This astounding information was recieved from Dr Campbell's videocasts and it shows that the whole world and especially your country is being devasted by a pandemic that could have been seriously limited in scope had their been a knowledgable person in charge at the WHO. The current director is an academic and not a medical doctor and frankly, it shows. Be well-
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What a sad thing to think that after all the gains women have made in America over the last few decades to see that if the Roe v. Wade precedent is overturned, women in America will no longer have a right over the control of their own bodies. What on Earth is going on over there in the land of the free and the home of the brave? How absolutely outrageous the mere idea is of someone else controlling the right to choose for a woman? As a man, I find it apppalling to think that 3 of the recently elected justices to the United States actually lied to Congress in their confimation hearings so that they could get elected. The American Supreme Court now shows its true face: liars win lifetime seats on the Supreme Court of America.
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It's encouraging to see infection rates going down in your country. Dr Gottlieb has been a voice of reason and expertise for us on the far side of the world from you as well, but aren't we going too fast in wanting to get back to 'normal'. Over a million people are suffering what has been called long-Covid, and if my research is correct, there are already 50 known side-effects, symptoms like brain-fog, that many people will have to deal with the rest of their lives. The Indian variant, which attacks and kills all ages of people, is now in the USA and where I live in Europe and 40 or more countries. Its infection rate is doubling by the day in the UK. Why not put a hold on big get-togethers like concerts, stadium events etc? What's wrong with waiting to see what the southern-asia variants are going to do? Just yesterday, official figures put 3,000 people to have died in India, but no one believes the governments stats. Boys and girls, I'm not a health professional like the esteemed Dr Gottlieb, but shouldn't the message be for us to wait this year out with as few indoor meetings and events as possible---at least until we see the whole world on the mend?
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Dr Gottlieb's analyses make us see that long--Covid is something no one wants any part of. If people are hesistant about taking the vaccine they should realize that over a million people suffer from long-Covid, over 220, 000 health professionals suffer from long-Covid in the UK. What we are looking at in long-Covid is the world situation after the pandemic has been minimized. In other words, we will be struggling how to take care of hundreds of thousands of people who may never be able to work again or function normally. Boys and girls, where ever this virus came from doesn't really matter anymore, because what it has inflicted on the human family will be felt for decades to come. You don't want long-Covid. Ever.
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@Grimenoughtomaketherobotcry GGGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. There is no one alive who does not get their timing right 100% of the time. Interviewing someone on camera has to be one of the most difficult jobs in the world to do perfectly.
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Isn't it a pity we cannot talk about anything involving a racial issue without it mushrooming into shame and disgrace for all and any who comment on things like race or slavery or inequality and the like? Governor DeSantis is your next president to some Republican followers and he should be able to speak his mind and everyone should be able to criticize what he says, but he's only saying things that have been considered taboo for far too long. Former Governor Christie is a weather vane politician who openly switched allegiance from being a harsh critic of Trump to an avid supporter on international TV. We saw this happen half a world away! He came from being against former President Trump to meekly saying the opposite and backing Trump in his run for The White House. It's easy to criticize people who are in the public eye, but would former Governor Christie be a president Americans and her allies could be confident in to keep his word?
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@whitelilycalla GGGGGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. I live 2,000 from Kiev and the war seems to be getting closer every day. What I know is that Kiev must not fall. Never underestimate an adversary comes to mind, but I believe the Ukrainians will triumph. The Russian forces have no stomach for fighting compared to the Ukrainians who are fighting for their lives.
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With respect to the world-renown voice-of-the-people, Senator Bernie Sanders, isn't the real problem in the middle-east the Gaza strip itself. It's not a homeland. It's not a country. It's not big enough for a people to grow and prosper. Next door in Israel, no one, no one there wants Palestinians to suffer. Israeli's have been given a poker hand that is unplayable. The Palestinians have been given a homeland in Gaza that is frankly inhumane and unliveable. Isn't it time for us, I speak as a concerned world citizen, to think the impossible, try to do the improbable and see if the 26 Arab nations can come to the rescue and give a piece of land where the Palestinians can create their country and live in decency and peace and happiness? What I see is that we are trying to make gold out of lead. The Gaza strip should go to the Israelis---as painful a solution that is----because even Israel is groping with growing pains in the tiny little piece of land that they have been given. I know this solution is not what the big players in the political arena will even consider as an option, but I put this question to Senator Sanders, that if one looks at what can be done to have peace in the middle east, isn't the ball in the Gaza court? The Palestinians must have a new place to call home. It's doable.
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Here is a definition of inflation according to Professor Richard D. Wolff: ”There is no relation between the amount of money in circulation and prices. There’s no necessity that prices go up. The simplest example: let’s imagine that the money supply has increased; the Federal Reserve increases the money supply. Let’s assume it goes into the hands of the bank, or it is distributed across society. Okay; now there is a lot more money in the economy. Who knows this? Business. They know that the public has more money to spend because they know what the Fed is doing, whether it’s increasing the money supply or not. At this point the employer makes a decision i.e. the manufacturer, the company that sells any service. The know people have more money to spend, so here’s what they decide. Either the way you deal with that is to raise your price. Why? Because people have more money to spend, so they can reasonably expect to get the higher price. Or, and this is the key issue, you can decide that the way you want to respond to the extra money in the economy is by ordering more goods to sell for that extra money. The second one tends to gives people jobs making the extra goods. The first one, jacking up the price, that’s not getting anyone a new job. That’s just getting the seller more, because there’s more money in the economy. Therefore, employees don’t set prices, employers do. They’re the ones who decide what price gets put on goods consumers purchase. The decision of employers that is the cause of every inflation. Employers set the price and they are doing this to make more profits. This is how a capitalist economy works. The employees have nothing to say. This is not about government printing money or any of the things you hear. The key issue here is what you’re not supposed to hear. Profit driven price increases assures that the capitalist system works for the employers.”
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With hair transplants now virtually flawless with technology that makes it hard to distinguish real hair from transplanted hair, and with all due respect to this talented and very good news presenter on Face the Nation, why not get yourself looking like you're on global TV? We're not in the 50's any more. You are being seen around the world! The technology is here, why not use it to look your best?
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Tuning in from another universe or literally across the world from you, at 2:22 former Congressman and hopefully one day president of the USA, Adam Kinzinger, says that Donald J. Trump is a threat to democracy and to the American Republic. If you let that bounce around in your head for a couple of minutes, what comes out in bold and brilliant neon letters on the billboard in one's mind is the word 'danger'. Trump's greatest contribution to the human race is to show us how fragile democracies really are and how a two-bit carnival barker can rise to prominence by espousing nothing close to the truth every time he's on the stump and get taken for the real deal because he's got charisma. Trump has got a brand-new bag alright, and it's called playing to tribal ignorance with a message that has been honed to perfection by sheer deception and lies and molded into sound bites of Jello that the crowds lap up. Donald J. Trump has America in his back pocket; it is the riddle of how a pathological narcissist’s mind can breakdown a constitutional Republic and the world’s superpower with patent nonsense. Adam, if I were you, I would head out on the campaign trail with Cheney or anyone and even if you are not a candidate, be the warm-up guy introducing prospective candidates. You don't have to do anything but be yourself and say what you do so well: speak the truth. I guarantee you a lot of your fellow citizens will take notice. It's our world for as long as we believe it can be one world.
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This is my second comment. What is striking to us overseas watching another excellent vidcast from Face the Nation is how Mohamed El-Erian seems to have a handle on what needs to be done to get your economy back on track. Chairman Jerome Powell of the Fed has just been re-instated to another so many years, but it's unbelievable to hear from Mohamed that he has got so many things wrong. Calling inflation transitory according to Mr El-Erian was not a good move; how can this be? How can Powell and the Fed Team be getting things so wrong. The last thing I want to say is the definition of Professor Wolff is at odds with what everyone else is saying; who is right?
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Dr Scott Gottlieb is risking himself financially as well as his career and credibility and board-of-governor's postion at Pfyzer by speaking truth to power. We should all realize that this is perhaps the true American hero emerging from the Covid-19 global pandemic. Dr Gottleib risks scorn and estrangement from his colleagues and superiors for speaking his brand of truth. It's so rare to see someone risk everything to get the truth out to his fellow citizens and those of us around the world. Bravo Dr Gottlieb, you are a voice of reason in this crisis.
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Dear Mr Schieffer and Senator Lee, Thank you Mr Schieffer for your very sincere interviews and your ability to shine the light of the truth on every issue you deal with. For Senator Lee to even offer a suggestion that President Trump shouldn’t be impeached is the watershed moment in this whole affair. Now the rabbit is out of the hole. Doesn’t Senator Lee and his colleagues see that America’s enemies are rubbing their hands together in glee, while they take advantage of an inefficient and unqualified person running the good ole USA. Trump is a wonderful father to his kids, but your country is going down the drain. Forget for one time what side of the aisle he is on. The Republican’s fear of losing face shows how utterly absurd and dangerously close to the precipice the American political system has become. In any country of the world where decency still reigns, a corrupt and ailing president like Trump would be pursued in the court of law by both parties until he was an ordinary citizen and behind bars. He should be Michael Andreatti’s cellmate if justice is to be done. It is not the fault of Senator Lee, but if he could see this whole charade from the other side of the world where I do, he would huddle together with his fellow Republicans and realize they have got to get a new quarterback. President Trump is a good example for us all to see how we are willing to let wealth and power seduce us into allowing an elite corps of impudent snobs with Trump at the helm lead the most powerful country the world has ever known into the ground. Instead of both parties uniting together to save the Republic, we see the party of Lincoln backing a one-armed bandit; a carnival barker who would sell his mother into slavery. He is a wrongdoer and would sell out his country (think Helsinki) at the expense of the salt of the earth--the working people--who have voted him into power. The Republican party are still saying: “This is a good president.” The system has corroded our sense of dignity; we’re all dragged into the muck. It’s no one’s fault. It’s us against them and to hek with the best man wins; if it ain’t our guy then it’s not the right guy.
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I am stunned to hear Margaret Bremmer and Dr Scott Gotlieb still talking about the pandemic in April of 2022. I thought I'd tune in and hear about a wind-down of the pandemic, but no, you're still talking about wearing masks over there. What is going on? What we are living through across the world from you isn't about the pandemic. We're 2,000 kilometers from Kiev and as the refugees flow into our towns and cities, there is scant talk of Covid. But judging from what you are experiencing, it is stubbornly hanging on in America. Should we be concerned that Shanghi is in lockdown for the new variant in China? They wouldn't lock down a city if it was only omicron, would they? All we know is that we've got WW III on our doorsteps and we're still not over this pandemic and people are still getting infected. But what the experts are saying is that because of the NATO shield, Putin is using civilian targets with impunity. There sounds like a motion to go in there and help save the Ukraine and that is when all-out war could breakout over here. The thing some military experts are saying is that if we don't confront Putin on the battlefield, we'll be paying a high price for our inaction later. Still, the thought of confrontation with Russia is a case for concern.
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Can anyone ever imagine we would be seeing Margaret Bremmer interviewing the Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.S. Oksana Markarova about the most brutal and cruel conflict in Europe in the 21st century? There are reports of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians who are captured by the Russians and are having their fingers cut off so that they can't fire a weapon! This is an invasion by a neighboring country (Russia) which is committing war crimes at every stage of their 'military exercise' in Europe in 2022?! Everyone talks of the atrocities of the past western governments have done and no one can deny it, but one thing we can all be happy for and that is that the American Republic for all its faults is making it possible along with her allies to help a besieged nation fight for their survival through the Pentagon and an American President who will go down in history for backing his words with actions. Slava Ukraini! If there ever was a people who reflect American and western values and belief in democracy it is the great people of Ukraine.
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When we hear former AG Bill Barr say he believes former President Donald J. Trump lied to the Justice Department, the roof of our house just blew away. This was supposed to end like a SNL sketch with Bill Barr and Trump sharing a few laughs and drinking martini after a final round of golf between the two former buddies and at the most Trump getting a slap on the wrist for his shenanigans. What no one wants to see is a former American President going to prison, but every interview we see seems to have all the ducks lined up in the DOJ's favor and the only golf game Trump is going to be playing is putting with an imaginary putter and imaginary golf ball into a cup in his 8 X 12 prison cell or whatever size it us until at the least a manned spaceship lands on mars.
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@poseursm0shpunksslam852 GGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. Everyone has their own set of facts. You're right to question everything and everyone who gives their views. I try to listen to as many different news sources as possible. It's hard to stay neutral, but that's my aim.
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@crakermac3818 GGGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. Explain yourself, one has no idea what you're trying to say.
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@crakermac3818 GGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you Mac! Everyone does their own research, collects their data. Britain has 324, 954 new cases of Covid! Someone will proably say it's too high or too low. Criticizing in broad strokes is too easy, tell us your facts too.
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The balloon fiasco came the day before your Secretary of State was to make a historic 'first' and meet the Chinese President for a meeting. It looked odd from my unschooled point of view and I saw it as a diplomatic move to make the meeting not happen if the Secretary took the bait: he did and the meeting was unfortunately cancelled. This gave the Chinese an 'excuse' to widen the rift between the two superpowers even more. What is going to happen soon is the Wuhan lab-leak theory is going to go ballistic and that means China will be cornered into having to make reparations for the Wuhan virus' deadly wave across the planet. Except they won't because President Xi will be obliged to spin the facts using plausible deniability as his excuse, because there are no facts at all; every witness and every scrap of evidence has undoubtedly been washed into oblivion. But here is where the rubber meets the road and why I think we should all prepare ourselves for China's only logistical move that makes any sense and that is by arming and teaming up with the Russians. We must prepare an offramp for all sides to not escalate tensions.
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