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Isn't the fact that there is only one picture of Niel Armstrong from the Apollo 11 mission a red flag event? The first man on the moon and Buzz Aldrin only took 1 photo is a stretch for the imagination. Also, in the interviews after the return, Armstrong never once used the expression, "I saw, I felt, I did." He only used the 3rd person singular. He never said, "I didn't see any stars," He said, "We didn't see any stars." He never once used the first person singular. When you do such an historic adventure, you would certainly be saying, "And when I saw the stars, or when I walked. But no. The whole time Armstrong uses the 3rd person singular. It's like if your wife asked you how was the pub yesterday evening. You wouldn't respond, "when you go to the pub you drink beer, you talk with friends, you have a good time." Lastly, the astronauts are sitting on a 10,000 pound engine with decibel levels of 120 to 150. Armstrong sounds like he's talking on a telephone line with Houston in the descent. There is no sound of rocket engines. There were loads of photos where whistle blowers left their traces. We all want to believe they went to the moon, but Neil Armstrong has one photo to show he was there, and he waited 35 years to give an interview. Does that sound like a guy who went to the moon? Dunno about you, but hmmm.
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If you aren't a folk hero yet in the Ukraine, Commander Paul, do not be worried, for I believe one day when this war is over you will be hailed as a hero and a staunch supporter of Ukraine and sometimes a lone voice always standing behind the best fighting army in the world, along with what many people believe is America's greatest general, Ben Hodges. Patreaus is certainly American's favorite general, but as far as I am concerned Ben Hodges is a real soldier's soldier. Why do I say that? Because, like you Paul, Ben Hodges starts his discussions on Ukraine with the word 'win', has it in the middle, and finishes with the words that Ukraine is going to win this war. He has pointed out from the beginning that the straw that breaks the camel's back in this war is to take back Crimea. He has said it from the outset and now it is getting closer to be in the sites of ground troops crossing the Dnipro. Keep up the good work, Commander Paul, you have given a spark of hope that has turned into a bonfire to people clinging to the belief that they can get their country back. Slava Ukraini, God Bless America!
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As an overseas observer, first I have to say that it is always a learning experience and a pleasure tuning in to CNN. All of you at CNN do a stupendous job of reporting the news and no one can imagine the hours and hours of work it must take to get prepared, write out your questions and go on camera and discuss current affairs topics in such a distinguished and well-researched way. Today's news presenter with her velvet voice does more than do a very good job, and the CNN Contributors are always one step above top class analysts. Let's be real: look at what is being discussed once again: Former President Donald J. Trump. It shows the staying power of a mega-hyped, Frankenstein of a character out of a Boris Karloff dream---I am being polite. Social media should have taps playing in the background every time former president Trump gets discussed, because it is tragic in every way. Each day Trump sees himself being debated in the news, we know he most likely pops open a bottle of bubbly champagne and drinks to himself for another victory over the gullible masses he has quelled into submission. The reality is that this is a sad tribute to how far down in the muck this former real estate magnate cum politician has dragged Old Glory and tarnished your great Republic. Instead of conceding defeat and realizing that his luck has run out with so many criminal investigations going on against him, he has chosen to carry the cross to his political crucifixion for all the world to see. Boys and girls, what I see is the most damaging thing this smoke and mirrors persona of a former American President has achieved and that is how he has brain-fogged so many of your young people. Children look up to presidents present and past. One can only imagine what a 12-year-old girl or boy watching this man who portrays text-book pathological narcissism to perfection affects them. My guess is that they see the American Dream in technicolor. Trump is showing your young people that the key to succeed in life if first you must become mega-rich, wealthy beyond your wildest dreams and then the law is on your side. Trump has scorned the rule of law to in front of the entire world; dictators must be rubbing their hands together in glee, because Trump shows them the world is their oyster if they speak in alternative facts and condemn the truth...
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Of course, Seivierodonetsk is going to fall into Russian hands and everybody knew this from the beginning. The Ukrainians put up a good fight, but the Russian war machine i.e., artillery barrages are just too much for it. What happens now is Mariupol all over again. The Ukraine is fighting the 2nd most powerful military superpower in the world and doing a very good job, but they're outgunned and out of ammo and need back-up from what we hear. It’s better to cut and run, regroup and plan the next offensive. It's terribly frustrating to watch from a 2,000 kilometers from Kiev, but now 112 days into the war seems like a very short time. There is nothing to make us see where this is going, only that the Ukrainians are world-class fighters now and they have military logic as their sixth sense. They know they have no where to go but to win. The reality of who's winning what is of course disputed every day; tragically, it's civilians who are being mowed down and their homes and apartments bombed day and night. Siege warfare works, but when you blow up everything, the repair bill is going to be sky high. I asked a construction worker how long it would take to rebuilt Mariupol and he said 30 years give or take. The worst thing is that ceding land to the Russians is like asking the crocodile that just ate your left leg that if you give it your right arm, would it please just let you swim back to the shore. Ask a wildebeest if it would trust a crocodile to let it swim back to shore after it ate its left leg…
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This is one of the most interesting, most informative and most revealing interviews with one of the most well-reasearched and intelligent guest speakers Patrick has ever interviewed. Every single sentence that Dr Farrell has said comes from solid research. And what he says about American society is frightening, because we can see how boys need a father-figure more than anything to guide them. As parents we have one of the most difficult jobs in the world. One day I subconsciously said to a friend of mine after he had an argument with his son that everything he said was being recorded by the kids. He said, "don't say that." It was hard growing up, but I had two parents all the way through. They didn't get on well, but they stuck it out for the kids and I'm grateful to have had a dad. My own father lost his dad when he was 7 so he sort of raised me giving me all the slack I needed to make practically every mistake in the world one could make. I've gone bankrupt several times and took about every wrong turn in the road you can imagine. One time I called him up in my mid-twenties and asked him, "hey, where were you when I was going through hell?" Something like that. He said, "When I saw you were not going to listen, I let you grow like a wild seed." I was furious, but now I see that he did me a great favor, because I've followed my own instincts through bad decisions and good ones. A guiding hand would have helped me stay clear of early failures perhaps, but losing on things you think you can do and can't is one of life's most precious lessons. Whatever has happened, I've made a life that I can really call my own. But I had a dad there, and I know that he and a mother helped me make it this far.
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Here is how to get kids back in shape. First, playgrounds have to make a come back. Second, snacks are part of being a kid, but why not have the kids not eat rich foods for a couple of days after having snacks? Third, it's time to start walking to school, walking to see friends, walking to do shopping, hiking at the weekends when possible. What being overweight scares me the most is that one's heart is working overtime to irrigate 2 kilometers of capillaries for every pound of fat. We cannot use scare tactics; we cannot take away the junk food, but we can try to have days of eating normally, days of walking home from school, or sports or the movies and realizing that our bodies are the temples of our souls.
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Dear Dr Grande, I enjoy seeing your videocasts because I learn so much. Please find the Peter Hyatt analysis of the McCann case. Dr Grande, they both admit that they were responsible for Madeleine's death in what is called an imbedded confession. The husband said something like this to an investigative reporter. "You telling me that Madeleine had an accident in the apartment and we hid her body when the police came and then later went and disposed of it. You must hear Mr Hyatt's investigation into this, what Mrs McCann admiteed was an accident as well. She was an anathesiologist. The McCann's never once in the interview questionned how Madeleine was being treated. They referred to her in the past tense, meaning they knew she was dead. Dr Grande, Madeleine was probably sedated so that her parents could have some drinks in peace, she tried to get up and fell and hit her head and died in the apartment. The McCann interview never shows the parents concerned about their daughter's wellbeing, because they know she is dead. Parents who have children kidnapped ask a hundred questions about if their child is doing ok. The McCann's are only concerned about themselves in every single interview I have seen. You must see the Australian 60 minutes interview with your own eyes to see their 'imbedded confession'. They tell us what happened in their own words and don't realize it. Again, never once did Mrs McCann give a hint at what Madeleine must have been going through, she only says how hard it is on her and her husband. Madeleine comes last in the discussion every single time. I'm not a psychologist, but those parents are talking about a deceased child.
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Thank you, Kate, for your excellent interviews and for all of you at Times Radio for delivering videocasts of great quality. In all due respect to Major Ryan about the counteroffensive by the Ukrainians, when General (Ret.) David Petraeus was asked if it was American troops going on a counteroffensive against the Russians, what would it look like? He said, first of all American troops would not go in without air superiority, next, B1 bombers would carpet bomb the minefields. G-9 Bulldozers would take out the dragons' teeth, Warthog ground support aircraft with 50 mm canons would pound the fleeing troops and destroy the enemy in their trenches, next, Apache attack helicopters would assist in protecting advancing American troops as well as taking out troop support carriers, tanks and hidden artillery batteries. Then the tanks roll in with infantry support and then and only then would the Americans begin their counteroffensive. Do you see where I am going with this? The Ukrainians were given the green light to go on a counteroffensive that no modern army would ever attempt without everything General Petraeus mentioned. Everybody is saying the Ukrainians are making slow progress on their counteroffensive, but they are down to counting bullets and artillery shells and they have gone ahead without the necessary equipment and fighter planes etc. We have to give them credit for making the progress that they have without the necessary weapons like F16s to carry out a proper counteroffensive.
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Lex, this is turning out to be one of your best interviews because you are bringing out the quality discussion Professor Peterson is capable of but rarely achieves in many interviews. It is incredible to hear Jordan Peterson pointing out that the left is doing so much to make his life miserable. I am confused; what happened to the left? The 60s revolution was all about letting people follow their hearts and to let others live free. To hear that the left has morphed into this beast that is suddenly attacking intellectuals with or without provocative ideas makes me sad, because somehow, somewhere people took a detour and ended up being worse than what the people who started left-leaning society in the first place were all about. I have heard Jordan Petersen say things that I might not agree with, but I could not imagine saying anything more than that. "Hey, I disagree with you on this subject Jordon." End of story. But no, Jordan is telling us people are so upset because of what he believes in that they are attacking him through the courts, interrupting his way of life, and even altering his professional life. This is wrong. What in the world is going on? I'll tell you what I think and you may or may not agree, but I think a lot of these people have whittled down the activities they do in their life to a minimum and suddenly when they see someone they disagree with, they make it their mission in life to silence the voices that say things they have long ago put out of their minds because it goes against what they think. They do everything in their power to shut a person down who has another visison on a topic. In the past, people on the left put people with conflicting ideas about how to live life on dedestals: think Johh Lennon, Mick Jagger, Leonard Cohen. I see people around me all the time who want to shut me down. You know who it is? It's the people who sit around all day and do nothing but smoke on their balconies or walk around the park to kill time. These are the critics who are complaining about anything they don't like. They're living in some prison in their minds.
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In all due respect to Danny, who is already a master interviewer and the legendary Chris Dunn. These data that I have researched point explicitly to star people who had to have come to our planet and---it's just my hypothesis---seeded it which produced us. They had to have come from space when you see this date: Look at what just I have collected on The Great Pyramid of Giza! 1. It is 3/60th of a single degree of true north 2. It weighs 6 million tons 3. Its footprint is 13 acres 4. It is more than 755.9 feet along each side 5. The Great Pyramid is 146.75 m high, its height X a million equals the distance from the Earth to the sun 6. It has more than 2.3 million individual blocks of stone 7. It is locked into the Cardinal dimensions of our planet; The dimensions of the Earth are incorporated into its dimensions 8. If you take the height and multiply it by 43,200 you get the polar radius of the Earth 9. If you measure the base perimeter of the pyramid accurately and multiply that measurement by 43,200 you get the equatorial circumference of the Earth 10. The scale is not random, the number 43,200 is derived from a key motion of the Earth, which is called the precession of the Earth’s axis 11. The Earth wobbles on its axis very slowly at the rate of 1 degree every 72 years; 43,200 is a multiple of 72; 600 X 72 12. The Great Pyramid of Giza gives us the dimensions of the planet on a scale defined by the planet itself 13. There are several 70-ton blocks of granite from a quarry 500 kilometers away, one of hardest stones, raised 300 feet above the ground 14. It has eight sides, and at the spring equinox and the autumn equinox one side of the pyramid is in the shade in the morning and again in the late afternoon and can only be seen from the air 15. It is a calendar 16. It has expansion joints 17. It is located at the exact intersection of the longest line of latitude and the longest line of longitude of the Earth, in other words The Great Pyramid is located at the precise center of the Earth’s land mass 18. The builders possessed highly sophisticated knowledge of mathematics and geometry and they had knowledge of the true dimensions of the Earth to extreme precision 19. The builders possessed exceptionally advanced technical instrumentation (laser guided surveying tools?) to site The Great Pyramid 20. Pi = C over D Phi = Divided by 5 + 1 over 2. Archimedes discovered Pi about 250 BC, but Egyptians knew of it 2,250 years earlier 21. If you subtract the inner circle of the base from the outer circle around the base (the circumference of The Great Pyramid), you get the speed of light in meters to four decimal points: 299,792,458 meters per second 22. The weight of The Great Pyramid is 5,273, 000 tons and that multiplied by a billion is the weight of the Earth 23. The three inner rooms; the king’s chamber, the queen’s chamber and the unfinished chamber under the pyramid are proportional to the distances between Mercury, Venus and the Earth 24. The distance from The Great Pyramid to the North Pole is the same as the distance from The Great Pyramid to the center of the Earth 25. If you divide the perimeter of the pyramid by 1/2 its height the result is 3.14 Pi h/2 = Pi 26. The base side length is 364.242 which is exactly the time in days it takes for the earth to orbit the sun 27. The high chamber is built on a double square, which leads us to the golden ratio geometry 28. Pyramids in China, Mexico and Egypt align with the Orion star system
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General Ben Hodges is America's greatest living general in my mind at least from where we sit 2,000 kilometers from Kiev and across the world from you. I am not a military man, but what I do best is listen to the experts and I can tell you this: I would follow General Hodges and Commander Paul Clinton Heath into any battle on any terrain for one reason. Like Commander Paul, General Hodges begins his interviews with the word, 'win' and ends his analyses with the word, 'win'. If I were a soldier, phrases like, "we're going to win this war." is what I would want to hear over, "This war is going to go on for years and will cost American taxpayers billions in money that could be spent on more important problems the US faces." Kate, JB, can you or anyone get through to The Secretary of Defense Austin and give what I am sure many, many people in Ukraine and in Europe and America’s allies would consider as your most distinguished person in the US Military, retired Lt. General Hodges, a well-deserved upgrade to General Ben Hodges? He deserves it ten times over. Words are what powers soldiers; I am sure the high morale on the front lines in Ukraine is in large part due to General Hodges words of encouragement and his badge of courage. General Hodges has got the wisdom and skill and what it takes to win big in Ukraine.
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Commander Paul, I am sure more than one of Ukrainian top brass wishes you were on duty over there and that you had a battalion you were in charge of in Ukraine, but we and the Ukrainians are lucky to have your professional assessments in your excellent videocasts to reflect on. Someone once said that we have known from the American Civil War that to attack fortified front lines is murder at bargain prices like for example, summer sales. What we must never forget is that the Ukrainians have 3 times the will to make the Russian Empire retreat from its land merely from the fact that they are fighting for their land and they know that castration might be performed on any soldier who may be captured, but they also know the Russians' mindset like no other person or country and they know Putin's army fights by the book. This is the Russian Army's weak point if you ask me. The Ukrainians know where mines will be laid, machine gun nests set up, mortar squads and artillery batteries located and the like, because they have got Russian military manuals. What will happen is that the minute the Russians let their guard down and a front line is breached, it will allow the Ukrainians the chance to decimate those dug in trenches of death. It is already 22 June and retired American General Ben Hodges says that the Ukrainians will take back Crimea by mid-August. Notwithstanding, whether this will be able to happen or is even feasible or go according to plan is to say the least, the question of the hour. What is most important now however, is that having sized-up the readiness and preparedness and firepower and air defenses of the Russian front-line efforts, the trick is to innovate and/or find the weapons systems that will help the Ukrainians penetrate the battlelines and flush the Russians out of their trenches.
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Governor DeSantis, do you have any idea how your words of describing the FBI sound to our ears half a world away...? You say "They are enforcing the law on who they (The FBI) like and who they don't like. That is not a Republic, well, maybe it's a Banana Republic." In all due respect Governor DeSantis, one could ask what banana republic state are you from? In regards to the search of former President Trump's residential compound, your law enforcement agencies deserve to be treated a whole lot better coming from a potential presidential contender for the 2024 presidential election. Do you realizing that you are bad-mouthing the people who go out there and fight crime from every sort of criminal every single day of their career. The FBI is not perfect, because people are not perfect, but they don't do partisan justice. Do you go to work only trying to make sure the Republicans in your state get the best deal on everything, and everyone else has to make do with what they got? Quit condemning the law enforcement agencies which are a part of the very fabric of your government in Washington and locally; quit floating the megaphone-style conspiracy theories, because that is what is making it sound you are coming from a Banana Republic. Lastly, you need coaching on your delivery style from the stump. There is no punch in your words because you speak in a monotone. You have to put emotion in your voice and change the tone once in a while...
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Thank you Commander Paul for your excellent and top-notch channel. For the Republican Senator who thinks the Ukraine should negotiate, I have this comment from a retired UK military man, Major General Tim Cross. In all due respect to politicians in America and in the west on both sides of the political aisle, one can understand the reluctance to want to continue to arm Ukraine and continue supporting what looks like a battle lost in advance. Paul, let's hear what retired former Major General Tim Cross of the UK says and I think you and the Republican Senator and everyone who believes in democracies will be impressed. Major General Cross says, “The impact if we allow Russia to win in the Ukraine, to hold on to the eastern provinces and the Crimea, and come up with some sort of negotiated settlement, where they hold on to that, that is bad news for us in the west. The message that will send in Moscow and China is that that is a Russian victory and that they are drawing a line but they are going to come back in a few years’ time. They will reckon that the west’s collective strategic patience has once again been exposed. We saw it in Afghanistan; we saw it in Iraq, we saw it in Libya and Syria and they will be very encouraged by that. They would like to see the next phase of their operation. Phase 1 and 2, you could argue, is what they have been devolving up to now: seize Crimea back in 2014, costly occupation of Donbas and Mariupol, hold firm, negotiate a settlement and hold on to that. Wait a few years, rebuild Russian forces by, say, 2030 and then have another crack at it: move to seize Odessa and cut off Ukraine from The Black Sea. Seize all of the Ukraine east of the Dnipro River and then phase 4 beyond that: Baltic states and so on. We need to keep passing the message that we cannot allow Russia to get away with what they have achieved, otherwise it undermines the whole of the western perspective of our own confidence level, our own determination, our own ability to be strategic and to be patient and to engage. We shouldn’t allow that to drift off the headlines. The danger is we get stories of difficult tactical battles or things like the storms, or whatever, relatively local stuff and we lose sight of the big operation level and certainly the big strategic picture. We can’t afford to lose sight of that. We have to enable Ukraine to hold firm on this and to be able to conduct further offensive operations." Tim quotes Sun Zu, a Chinese sage from many thousands of years ago. Sun Zu said, 'If you understand your enemy, and you understand yourself, you need not fear the outcome of a thousand battles'. We have to understand how Russia sees Ukraine in the context of Russian history: a lot of Russians believe Crimea and Ukraine are part of Russia. Tim doesn’t think this will change for whomever is in power---
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Once again, Professor Miano, you have provided us with the information needed to show that Gobekli Tepe was most likely the result of a natural, gradual increase in knowledge from the hunter gatherer civlizations and I would imagine if time travel became a possible way to see it for ourselves, we would see the hunter gatherers as much more multi-dimensional with board games and all sorts of kit that has never made it to our time. They are getting labeled as nothing more than foraging tribes of people incapable of complex thought or imagination; the human mind I am sure back then was just as full of ideas as in the present day---and maybe even more so, because we have practically buried things like intuition whereas older civilizations probably relied on the sixth sense to get a lot things done. What probably was the case was that hunter gatherer tribes had elaborate settlements that followed the seasons i.e., followed the game and there was undoubtedly a sophisticated society albeit a traveling one, and these settlements were gobbled up by father time and nothing is left. Gobekli Tepe looks to me more like primitive hands were the architects of structures that I am sure were easily imagined, deftly constructed and nothing new to the people of the time. We must remember one thing that all of us can never know and that is that 'time' as we know it didn't exist. Languages probably only had the present tense. Building sites like Gobekli Tepe might have taken a century, but for the people of that era, there was no century, you simply drew your plans in the sand every day and worked until it was finished.
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Happy New Year, Jake, John and the lovely Brianna. You’ve got to admit black is her color. It must be one of the most difficult jobs in the world for all of you in the televised news business in your country at this crucial time in your nation’s history. How do you get across to people who have been told that your hard work is fake news? How do you convince your fellow citizens that your job is to sit on the fence and report the good and the bad and the ugly about everything and everyone who makes the news? Donald J. Trump, a charismatic, self-proclaimed multi-billionaire i.e. someone from the top 10% of the 1% who became your nation’s president only to unravel into being the Prince Andrew of American presidents and darling of the Republican party, instigated an over-hyped, mega-rally about election fraud one year ago that turned into a photo-op, selfie, pseudo-insurrection in your nation’s Capital. What is good about all that is happened? Not a lot for the ones who going to realize they are the ones doing time while former President Trump goes golfing out in the Florida sun. Surprisingly, the thing that is good is that it shows that the Republic has withstood a tremendous test on its democratic institutions. But now that the dust has settled, and the play-backs of an incompetent sociopath in your nation’s high office are becoming clear, what is important is to get the message out there that the party is over. Someone, somewhere has the key to Donald J. Trump’s conscience and they must do everything in their power to see that he retires from the political scene in America before the divide in partisan views becomes so wide that armed factions may start to believe the hype and take to the streets to fight for something that was untrue to begin with. It's time to turn, turn, turn the page and start a new chapter in America; it's time for common sense to trump alternative facts.
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Professor Frenkel gives us another view of the inescapable paradox we find ourselves fighting with and marveling at all of our lives. In a sense, once we first get an inkling of what time is, from that moment on, everything becomes goalposts that we must kick the ball through to get through another minute, hour, day or month and especially, a year. We see the trace of time on our faces as photos in a drawer that were forgotten, suddenly cause us to pause and hold our breath in seeing what we looked like all those years ago. It is always unkind to us as it steals our youth, robs our beauty, dulls our minds and finally kills us off with toxins that find the weakest organ of choice and transform our bodies back to dust. Time is our master, but we master time as well...
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Tom, I have no idea what you do or what your company does, but at 10:12 into the videocast, a spell has already been cast over the whole of human society in just the few words you and Mr Mostaque have said. What I would like to say is this: Why not keep everyone on board in your company despite the fact that AI is going to 50:1 some jobs, for example and make them redundant? Why do I say this? Well, for one thing, if I read you right, Tom, you are a billionaire entrepreneur and you could make yourself an example of how you are standing up to the AI takeover of our society, but holding firm and keeping the staff you have and giving it time to see how the people whose jobs have been surpassed by AI can somehow wiggle into new positions created on the fly? If you were on the verge of going bust, yeah, sure; everyone could see why you would have to let go of people, but if you're making dough hand over fist? Give us a break...
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General Hertling, the excellent battlefield reporter Fred bringing us front-line firefights and stories of bravery and horror, and you guys at the front desk reporting from CNN have really done a good job in keeping us informed and helping keep our attention focused on the war in Ukraine. General Herling's precise analyses and feedback on weapons' systems allow us to get a better understanding on what it takes to win a war. I would say in Ukraine’s defense that President Zelensky is more or less obliged to keep asking for more ammo and new strike systems and anything that will help the war effort. Why do I say that? Because, if he ever says that they have enough equipment, armored carriers, tanks, planes, ammo etc., it would stop the flow of weapons going to the Ukraine. We live 2,000 kilometers from Kiev and all I know is that Russia is not going to give up the fight unless they get hit so hard, they can't see straight. What is also so very apparent is how difficult it is to advance in an offensive and how many magazines get fired just to take a trench with a few enemy soldiers holding their ground. It's Russian pride that will keep the bombs and missiles storming down on Ukraine, but it will be the Ukrainians in the end who will retake their territory.
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The first thing I want to say to you, Sam Harris, and to you Yuval Noah Harari, is that I believe you have both made the world a better place. You both speak your minds and your thoughts come often resonate from your hearts and pass through your souls to us on many, many issues that perplex modern society. The second thing I want to offer is my condolences to Yuval and his family and friends who have lost loved ones, friends, and fellow Israelis on the 7 October attacks. To quote Roosevelt: a day that will go down in infamy and never fade from the conscience of Israelis and the Jewish people and the world community. If I may, here is my opinion on what has to be done to change some things in the region. Yuval has stated that the Arab nations refuse to accept Israel as a sovereign state and this must change. This shows to me that the Arab mindset is set in concrete and nothing good will come of continuing with this refusal to accept Israel's right to exist. Next: Gaza can and never will be trusted by Israeli's living on the border with Gaza or even deep into Israel and this is where I have an idea how to kill two dilemmas with two beautiful words: wildlife sanctuary. Yes; that's right: you hear me correctly. Gaza must be transformed from the blood-soaked battleground of warring factions and a population of people living in deplorable conditions to a nature reserve for saving endangered species of plant, animal and aquatic life. This could become the Galapagos of the middle east and bring in more tourists than the pyramids. Israelis, Egyptians, Palestinians and all neighboring states could put their differences behind them and work together to save the many, many species on the verge of extinction. Our progeny would echo heartfelt thanks to us for sending them a wildlife reserve with faun and fauna brought back from extinction. This is an example of what could be accomplished: there are only 6 black tigers known to exist, for example. We could save this species by allowing them to reproduce in a protected nature reserve! The key to this dream of mine of course comes with a caveat many will say is more like a noose: a proper homeland for the Palestinians must be the cherry on the cake and this is of course where the good ship I am sailing on runs aground. Because we are going to need to re-think and re-draw some boundaries and give up some land so that the Palestinians can all live proudly on enough land to house their entire population. To recap: an ecological buffer zone must be created by evacuating Palestinians from Gaza which has been called an open prison to their own country, a patch of land that no one can claim but them and Gaza must be transformed into an oasis of the middle east cum Galapagos that would allow the deep wounds to heal that both the Israelis and the Palestinians bear from a conflict whose root cause is basically a border dispute that can only be resolved by taking dramatic steps and perhaps even using harsh methods to achieve an everlasting peace in the region. Arabs will be willing to accept Israel as a sovereign state once they see their Palestinian brothers and sisters living on their own in peace. All Arab nations and Israelis must understand that the road to peace is by listening to each other as neighbors first and use nature reserves to be buffer zones on contested lands because no one will attack a wildlife sanctuary. This Gaza war must and can be resolved with words and logic and wisdom.
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If Lex and Vitalik could please watch the Valuetainment videocast with Craig Wright and you still do not come out convinced he is the creator of Bitcoin, then he's got a date with the Academy Awards in America. Not only does he come off as the guy who invented it, but he's got the lingo. And what does he stand to gain by pretending he's the originator of Bitcoin? Lastly, do you think for one minute if Craig Wright is not the creator of Bitcoin, then wouldn't the real inventor poke his head out, or give us an undeniable sign? I don't know why this keeps going on, but please, Lex and Vitalik, why don't you invite Craig Wright on Lex's show and have Vitalik there too. Both of you could question him. Lex is a master of quality fact-getting questions, if Wright has pulled the wool over the eyes of the global population, then Lex Fridman is the man who can get him to cough up. Double that if Vitalik is along for the ride. Come on guys, get this one solved for us, would ya?
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Lex and Randall, it is a pleasure to hear about race theory and listening in from across the world from you, I think what we have to realize is that you and I, and by that I mean, you, Lex, you, Randall, and I, all think differently! The only time I get into trouble is when I think things like, "Well, Lex would probably think this way or Randall would probably think of me like this if I said that." What am I saying? Are we not going too deep on racism or sexual orientation of people by delving into what each one of us believes about it? The thing is we are all prejudice towards certain people or ways of thinking and what I am trying to say is that we have just got to turn the page and realize that we all think in certain way and try as hard as we can not to harbor negative thoughts about anybody. I know; I know, it's too simplistic! But if we can just take down from the podium a lot of these issues that get people worked up and try to put out a message like, "Hey, we are all different and we all have bad days and above all we are human, but let's just try to put our negative thoughts on anybody out of our minds."
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Professor Wolff, I have listened to many of your lectures and what keeps me up at night is thinking how unfair and ridiculous the whole idea of finance capitalism really is. Doesn't anyone see the merry-go-round we are all on with working class people having to result in getting unions to represent them so that they can make enough to live on until inflation gets so high, they are back on the picket lines and have to go through weeks and months of belt-tightening and grief and stress until their paychecks pay the way again. I am not an economist, but I have... 'invented' would be too strong a word, but I have come up with an idea for an economic model that I think needs to be looked at. In my book which I shamelessly plug to make my point: The Treatise of Teknomix, I have put together an economic model that takes care of 90% of the people if not more and there is no need for strikes or student debt or bankruptcy and the like in my model. It is utopic, of course, and economists like yourself would probably never agree. However; aren't we looking at an economic system in finance capitalism that makes about as much sense as smoking cigarettes which has been proven to do harm to the human body? Richard, as a lay person I have no right to say I have got my finger on the pulse of what society needs, but what I see in finance capitalism is all about is people chasing money to pay down credit or the rent etc., and let's be frank: everyone does it---even rich people never seem to be satisfied with how much money they have. We need to move on to something that is running smoothly under the floorboards that does not break down in these God-awful recessions that tank tens of thousands of jobs and creates fractures in society that never heal. We need an economic model that is not about wealth creation but societal sanity and takes care of all of us at the same time in the same way and not a system where the dollar-whisperers who charm their way to becoming top-earners run the show. It's time to re-think what an economic system should be in the 2020s and put finance capitalism out to pasture...
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Dear Dr Campbell, I know I speak for a lot of people when I say thank you for your information updates and excellent research and a vote of thanks for the untold amount of your personal time spent trying to keep us all up-to-date on the most terrifying epidemic and world pandemic all of us or most of us have ever lived through. From your advice and dedicated work, my health has been the number one concern every day because of the horrific consequences of catching the Coronavirus. The minute I first tuned in to your excellent videocasts, I started wearing a mask, washing up, social-distancing, airing out the flat regularly, etc., and one thing I've done that may have helped and if I could pass it on is this: I've also done is double my usual daily fruit intake. Now, I eat fruit in the morning and the evening. I don't like vitamin D pills made in the lab, so I take one cod liver oil gelatin pill once a day in the morning. I was tested at my doctor and my vitamin D level is on target. Lastly, with 115 million people on the move just over the Christmas holidays in the USA alone, and millions in Europe where I live (what about New Years?) I think this is going to be the super-spreader event of the century. And: there is the new variant which we know nothing about its effects and side effects yet to stir in the stew. My thoughts are always going around and around about how lacking the world's leaders have been in using common sense when this thing began. The Vice-President of Taiwan is who I firmly believe that every leader in the world should have on a green telephone line so that they can stay in tune with the next bug to leave mainline China. He's a virologist and he really knows his stuff. Plus they're the first one's to feel the effects. Happy New Year Dr Campbell!
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The thing we must never forget is that from the beginning humans have done everything. The frozen man they found in the Alps that was ambushed 5,000 years ago was found to have everything necessary to get him through the day and night. His knife was hand made and as sharp as a razor. Machines, AI, chips in our brains and the like will indeed enhance our existence, but we must never forget that when humans do something, there is that hand-made touch that is so elegant because it's imperfect. Machines are going to homogonize us to where everything will look like an alogrithym was consulted before making it. We cannnot stop the march of time, but when we see that people are more than willing to let machines do everything they can do and better, it might be a time to consider raising our children without high technology until the age of, say, 15 years old. This way the kids would have to learn to draw, paint a picture, change a tire, etcetera without anything like a robot or AI assisting them. We must not bury our natural abilities.
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Dear Mr Harris, I am jumping in before hearing the entirety of your podcast, because I have never heard such a dystopian gathering of words and phrases from you in less than 3 minutes. If you read the comments, I think this deserves looking at when the topic of social protests in your country is being discussed. This information on how many people were killed in the USA by police in 2019 is staggering. This vital information is not getting out there in your country to people who think all the cops in America are racist, and I think it should. I know you are going to be surprised by this. In paraphrasing a videocast from Peter Schiff about racism in USA, I found Mr Schiff’s account of what is actually going on at odds with a lot of what minority communities are accusing the police of and also of the reporting on social and mainstream media. But let’s let everyone decide for themselves. This is what Mr Schiff has to say: The narrative now is that the death of George Floyd is that he was killed because he was black. And that if it was a white man in the same circumstances, he would not have been killed. Mr Floyd would not have died but for the color of his skin. Maybe it’s true; but you can’t jump to the conclusion that he was killed because he was black and not white because that would be racist to jump to that conclusion. Even if it was the case, it’s the exception and not the rule. There is no statistical evidence that police are disproportionally killing blacks in America. In 2019 just over a thousand people were killed by police in the USA. Approximately 25% were black. Somebody might say, well, blacks are 13% of the population, and if 25% of the people the police are killing are black, then they must be discriminating, because why isn’t it 13%? You have twice as many blacks being killed in relation to their population, but Mr Schiff says you can’t look at that. Because that is the racial breakdown of the people who are committing crimes. Because it’s the people committing crimes who are interacting with the police. In 2018 African Americans committed 53% of the murders in the USA and about 60% of the robberies. This was in the Wall Street Journal and most likely fact-checked. The point is that if blacks are committing such a disproportionate large percentage of crime, then if 25 % of the people who are getting killed by police are black, then that is not because of racism of the police; it’s because they are interacting with a much larger percentage of blacks. In fact, if you look at how much crime blacks are committing, they’re actually under-represented. They are being killed in a lower proportion in their interaction with the police. Astonishingly, about 40% of the police who are killed in the line of duty are killed by somebody who was black, but only 25% of the people police kill are black. That means that if you are a policeman and you are killed, you are 60% more likely to have been killed by a black person than you are to have killed a black person in the line of duty. In reality it should be the police who are out protesting. These are Mr Schiff’s words, and everyone has their own opinion. I Always say too much, but I would like to say that you must realize that a boil is being punctured in your country and around the world by this apparently man-made virus, economic meltdown. The predictable social upheaval from a tragic incident with the police has enflamed the world. But perhaps the most important Lesson we have learned is that President Trump is giving it his level best. Yes, that's right. But what we see is the leader of the free world has no capabilities in leadership. So why has he done us all a favor? Trump has shown us we have to find the answers in ourselves, we don't need someone to tell us what's right for our lives. Sure, it's caused utter havoc in your country not having someone at the helm, but we must get over the obstacle of letting total disorder confuse us, rule us. Peace.
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Thank you Channel 4 News for showing to the world how insanely life-threatening and debilitating the Coronovirus is. To see these poor people having to literally start over from zero to get their strength back, their thoughts together and just to be able to walk again is staggering. It must be heartbreaking to go into the front lines and see exactly how devastatingly incapacitating this deadly virus is. What is hard to imagine is that we are being told that this is only the first wave of the epidemic. In Spain, we have learned that of a population of 47 million, 2,353,000 have been infected and 27, 459 people have died, giving us a 1.16% infection rate for the death toll. Still, at barely 1% of people succombing to the disease, it's madness to think economics is forcing politician's hands in getting people back to work, but we can't turn off the world forever. What we have to do is to realize that this is not going away any time soon and the most important thing to do is to avoid crowds.
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President George W. Bush waited a full 440 days to do a full inquiry into the 9/11 tragedy. In all previous American tragedies the longest time any president waiting in setting up a federal inquiry was 6 days. 220,000 tons of structural steel supposedly fell down that day, yet the Manhattan bathtub--the underground parking floors remained intact. When a building falls, 12 1/2 % is the average size of the debris. There were 3 thousand toilets, as many computers, office equipment and nothing was left bigger than the size of a silver dollar. 3,000 porcelain toilets reduced to... dust. Tons of steel turned to dust in the air; you can see beams fall, start to de-materialize and end up like dust never hitting the ground. There is no evidence of 12 1/2 % of the material left where the towers were, in fact George W. Bush climbed on top the pile to do a news photo opportunity with one of the firemen who escaped injury, and as everyone who wears shoes remembers, 349 (please verify) firefighters lost their lives that day. He walked up a few meters, nothing more. The red flag of the whole thing to me is Larry Silverstein, the owner of the towers, who only a few months before had them insured for attacks from planes crashing into the buildings, and who said in a taped interview that the fire department told him the damage was so great from office fires to building 7 that they were going to have 'pull it': He agreed of course and right on schedule at 5 h 45 in the afternoon, down it went--into its footprint like the two towers. Oh and by the way, 'pull it' is demolition jargon for 'blow it up'. As an overseas viewer, our hearts go out for the thousands who lost their lives and to the families, friends and colleagues of those who lost loved ones, friends, acquaintances and colleagues. Do the math folks; make up your own minds. I don't like taking a position on anything unless all the data has been gone over by experts, but the 9/11 incident is a real puzzle to figure out.
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Randall, it is very interesting to hearing you and Lex talk, because you obviously know your subject inside and out, and Lex has become a master interviewer. What I think is very, very delicate is to go back in the heads of, say, Jefferson, Lincoln, Alexis de Tocqueville. Not because you have got it wrong in what they wrote---because they probably knew they couldn't say what they truly felt, so they adlibbed a bit. Look at it this way: less than 1% of artifacts of antiquity have survived to the present day. We try to get our heads around what Socrates thought and said and Plato and Roman Emperors and some writings have survived, but can we honestly analyze them as people correctly after centuries of time have passed? Can we honestly come up with Thomas Jefferson's actual motives and mindset with more than 2 centuries having passed? What I think we tend to forget is that there were not modern-day conveniences back in Lincoln's day and life must have had a grit and charm to it in his day that no matter how we try, we will always come up with turning Lincoln's own words to mean things that I am convinced in his time meant slightly different things. If I were President of The United States, my way of solving the race problem would probably go this way. I would say to people that everyone has to try to not think bad things of other people and when they do to try and say to yourself to avoid thinking that way. That's the end of the race problem in my mind. If people get to know themselves a little better and start to realize that when they begin to think negative things of whomever it is they find themselves in conflict with, I think the only thing we can tell them and keep telling them is to try their darndest not to let yourself think that way about other people. Now this is never ending, because every day you wake up you've got a mind garden full of weeds to pull, but it just may be the way to turn the page on the current way of looking at the problem...
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Larry Summers has certainly turned out to be someone always looking for the best for his country and for people in general around the world. As far as sanctions go, Simon Jenkins from The Guardian said, "History offers scant evidence that decisions in the heat of war are governed by economics." He goes on to say, "If the west wants to help Ukraine, it should do so by proxy, by sending weapons." His comments seem to be ringing true. The ruble has climbed back up because Putin has China, India and Brazil on the payroll so-to-speak. He's also got their economists feedback helping his own financial experts. What is clear from my perspective, which is 2,000 kilometers from Kiev, is that we are going to be have 10 million Ukrainians coming to our countries and others across the world. We should have people in the military in the caliber of Summers finding out how to save the keystone city in Ukraine from falling into Russian hands: Mariupol. America's General (ret.) Patreus said that Mariupol is Ukraine's Alamo. This sent alarm bells off in my head because if Mariupol falls, Kiev falls and whole regiments of Ukrainian top forces will be surrounded and decimated. We should be looking at winning the war in Ukraine step-by-step. Let's get Mariupol safe, this cuts off the land corridor from mainland Russia to the annexed Crimea and blows up Putin's number one objective. Then on the next important objective. We should help the Ukrainians win back Ukraine and Crimea and the other piece of land the Russians annexed in 2014. This should be what we focus on doing. Sanctions are symbolic, but let's be real: they only punish the people who are stuck in the middle. It's a comment, I'm an artist having trouble putting brush to canvas in these uncertain times, but I know Ukraine must be saved at all costs or we are all dust in the wind.
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You are doing everyone a great service. One thing, I don't know if you have thought about it much, but one thing that keeps coming to my mind about assailants and people who turn into violent criminals is how does that happen? I suppose that is a naïve way of looking at all the people who commit crimes, but it beggar's belief that we all grow up in the same society and yet there are those who end up preying on others and ruining other people's lives by attacking them. A student of mine was in South Africa and she was in a restaurant with her husband and they were going to go out for a walk and the waitress said, 'Mam, you better take off that watch you are wearing." My student said, "But it's a Swatch and only worth a little bit of money." The waitress said, "They won't even ask you to give them your watch, they will hack your hand off with a machete and take it." When I heard that, it just made you want to throw up that someone would actually cause bodily harm in stealing a cheap watch. But this is our world, and we don't have another one.
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Dear Dr Campbell, Thank you for the latest information about what has to be called a 'modern plague' threatening the human race. All of the side-effects of Covid-19 are horrific, but now to hear sepsis is part of the package makes one sit back and wonder just what in the world is happening. We're in a heat wave of unfathomable proportions where I live in a country next to Italy, and recently 20 people went to a bar to celebrate somebody's promotion or something like that, and once again, a few days later, all of them had come down with Coronovirus. Local officials, like everyone else are baffled by how the infections keep happening in the bars. It must be that when we drink we talk louder, huddle together, laugh a lot and move around and obviously the virus is suspended in tiny droplets so after a couple of hours everyone has breathed it in. What is equally disturbing is the terrible effect the Covid-19 virus is having on indigenous communities. I had something I wanted to say, but I'll use the extreme heat as an excuse to forgetting the point I wanted to make. What I wanted to say has just come back to me, and that is what is with our immune systems that react so strongly that the systems in our bodies meant to protect go in to hyper overdrive or whatever and end up damaging organs? Could you explain why the body's immune system would go balistic on our own body? The sepsis video you are showing is depressing. How horrible to think that sepsis is now on the growing list of afflictions that the global Covid-19 pandemic has become. Be well.
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Dear Mr King and CNN Contributors, I am writing from the city I live in, which is in a country next to Italy. Last week was the firs time the stores and restaurants opened. What is most amazing to me is when you see that people coming off the ventilators have to learn how to speak again, walk again and doctors say it will take some of them up to a year to recover former levels of cognitive and physical behavior. Veteran health officials here say that they have never seen a more deadly pathogen in their entire careers. Please take a look at these facts that we know so far about… What the virus can do.
Mr King, and concerned officials please have a look at this. What I have taken home about this virus is that when the Coronovirus lands in our eyes, nose or mouth or when we inhale it, the spike proteins of the virus bind to the ACE 2 Receptors of the cells. That’s how it gains entry. Once it gains entry, not only does it make millions of copies of itself but it also affects the cells ability to call for help. The cells have to become very infected before the immune system knows something is wrong or what's going on. Once it is deeply imbedded in our body it begins to cause more severe disease. Organs that have ACE 2 Receptors are the heart, kidneys, blood vessels, liver and brain. Viral particles can be found in nasal passages, throat, tears, the stool, kidneys, liver, pancreas, heart and CSF (Cerebral spinal fluid). The virus can also cause meningitis. Our immune system reaction causes inflammation and blood clots in the arterioles of the lungs. In brief: 1. It directly attacks organs by their ACE 2 Receptors. 2. It indirectly attacking organs by way of collateral damage from the Cytokin storm. 3. It indirectly causes damage to organs by means of blood clots. 4. It indirectly causes damage as a result of low oxygen levels, improper ventilator settings, drug treatments themselves, and/or all of these things combined.
Symptoms are loss of smell, heaviness, malaise, tight chest, racing heart, muggy head, upset stomach, tinnitus, pins and needles, breathlessness, dizziness, arthritis in the hands and feeling like having broken glass in the lungs. One out of twenty patients with Covid-19 experience long-term, off-on symptoms. Many do not develop fever and cough. Instead they get muscle aches, sore throat and headaches. A pattern of waxing and waning. It’s a multi-symptomatic disease which can affect any organ. It causes microvascular problems and clots. To repeat: Lungs, brain, skin, kidneys and the nervous symptom may be affected. Neurological symptoms can be mild (headache) or severe (confusion, delirium, coma).
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Dear Mr Crowe, First, thank you for giving the world some of the best performances that modern cinema has produced. My favorite, or one of my favorites, of you, is in Master and Commander at the Far Side of the World. You have docked in Brazil, I believe, and you are tempted to stay over, but know you have to sail on. You see the island girl looking up at you, and look at her again, and then again. Every man in the world was in that place at some time in his life and regretted not staying one more night or whatever. What I would like to say is that I think a good career move for you would be to go back to the streets of LA, in an upgrade of your role in Usual Suspects. You need to get back to the lean and mean young Russel and do a thriller of all thrillers. Show us the space in your actor's mind you've been hiding away until now. Thanks for the slang. Be well -
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David, in all due respect to you as a gifted, talented and television journalist with an easy to listen to radio voice, DeSantis may have hit a nerve saying the Cartel gangsters would be stopped dead-cold at the border, because your country is undergoing a fentanyl epidemic. If that news is right, you have to understand ordinary people want accountability. Let's be real though: today in the part of the world where we live, in Italy at Lampedusa, the authorities said that they can no longer contain the influx of refugees. We have had our neighborhoods change overnight where we live and in London, England which had 73% of people living in London in the early 70s, British people, it is now down to 37%. 1/3 of the people in the UK's capital city are British, 2/3rds are foreigners. Some say it is a sign of the times, but we should not be the victims of migrants coming into our countries any more than they should be scapegoats. What needs to be done is to have a mortarium for our countries to get back to normal. We need to be given the time to absorb the soaring number of refugees and asylum seekers, but how we do that is the real question.
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Jocko's information about Hitler listening to his generals conflicts with several sources I have listened to. Hitler overrode his generals every step of the way and in some ways it worked out well, like invading France. But in operation Barbarosa for example, the Wehrmacht was 30 kilometers from Moscow and could have seized it easily. Hitler didn't listen to his generals and ordered them to clean up resistence that was behind the German lines. This gave Stalin time to dig in and fortify positions and bring in new troops, equipment and supplies. When the Germans had cleaned up the resistence they found two lines of defense around Moscow and because the Russian winter set in, they were never able to take their prize. Equally, Hitler refused to supply his soldiers with winter clothes--again not listening to his military chiefs--and the German soldiers suffered terribly trying to fight in the bitterly cold Russian winter. I do believe however, if General Paulus had listened to Hitler and not surrendered in Stalingrad, they could have pushed through. Paulus disobeyed direct orders and 100,000 men went off to the gullag. 95,000 troops succombed to the freezing cold weather, disease, lack of food and internment in the work camps. Stallin on the other hand let his generals call the shots all through the war, and they of course were the victors. But the truth is that there are a lot of military analysts and no one really knows all the details.
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GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you Peter on a subject that is not exactly good news for actors, but we are out of a war zone and not talking about surpassing a tipping point for once and it is AI which is once more back on center stage and looking more sinister than ever as it can now go into the creative arts and retire thousands of would-be actors who would have made acting their careers in another era. Before he died, I was listening to Johnny Haliday, the late French superstar, who when asked about AI or the way the music business has become, he said that it was so great to be riding by on his chopper and see a fan, someone walking on the sidewalk carrying one of his records. He said they were real things back then and fantastic creations with album covers all very distinctive which showcased artists and photographers. I like LPs because you can hold them and the 45s had photography or paintings or poetry or lyrics or all of the above. Then: poof; no product no cry. Graphic artists used to have good jobs dreaming up album covers. Well, it still is here, but as we all know the popular song has been so watered-down by technology that now you can go into a studio and do only one take on the vocals, because the sound engineer can correct your voice with a program and make it sound perfectly in tune. Young people love these developments, but I like going in a studio and singing as many times as it takes before I get it right. That does not mean anything other than I am stuck in the past to most musicians in today's world. But getting back to AI and how actors are going to get photocopied without making a dime so-to-speak, shows us that what this way comes is what the iron horse was to Geronimo. Artists and actors may not end up in reservations, but we are going to have to dig deep in our imaginations to become like beavers which are master water managers; we must find the way to stay in our chosen fields no matter what comes out of those AI labs.
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Dear Mr Sciutto and Dr Fauci, Thanks Jim for some very, very good reporting on all aspects of life in your country, from the Trump Administration to the current pandemic. In the country I live in on the other side of the world, tourists who come from a country with a new strain of the virus, a 55% higher infection-rate strain, were ordered by the police to remain at their ski resort only to bolt in the night and 100 of them left the quarantine and risk spreading the new variant of the deadly disease more. It makes me think of a Russian tourist I was talking to, and when I mentioned that people here get to decide for themselves what's right or wrong to do on some issues, he surprised me in saying that in Russia, "people need to be told what to do. That's why democracy doesn't work there." I, of course, was revolted, but now, when we hear Dr Fauci, who is one of the most respected public health officials known the world over, tells the American people how to lessen the contagion by wearing masks and staying home rather than traveling over the holidays, we hear that millions of people took to the highways, trains, planes to visit their friends and families and of course raising the possibility of getting infected. People probably don't know that this dreaded disease now has 60,000 people in the UK on long-Covid. A 38 year old doctor got the disease, recovered, but can now only walk a maximum 200 meters. She cannot climb the stairs without a railing. What I see is that people not only in Russia, but everywhere, need to be told what to do when a pandemic starts with no exceptions. This folly of independent people risking their lives and the lives of others because they think their liberty is more important than common sense is an indication of why it was one of the cruelest acts of fate for America to have an unfit person like Donald J. Trump in The White House. Trump's mental illness has been made apparent by him going golfing while Americans are dying.
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Coming in at 2:33 in your excellent videocast and superb analysis of the Russin military mind, may I say what is surely on the minds of people around the world who tune in to your informative and factual videos and that is to say thank you for your work which must encompass countless hours of research and soul-seeking, Peter, we are saddened to see that Ukraine will have to bear more power-outages this coming winter. Clearly, to Russia's ongoing fight in Ukraine, the Ukrainian fighting man has got to be the most dedicated soldier this world has ever produced in the history of civilization. None of us can imagine what it must be like to have a neighboring country, with people that are often related, relentlessly attacking you and your neighbors and villages and towns and cities with the only goal to remove your culture and nation from existence. It is so preposterous that there are actually people in politics in numerous countries who question whether or not their countries should continue providing aid to the Ukraine, a country under siege. Peter, I imagine that when you call it a day and go back home and perhaps have dinner with friends around a blazing fire and enjoying a well-deserved after-dinner drink, how surreal it must seem to know that on the one hand, an entire nation is being threatened for their existential reason to survive and yet here we are, in our comfort zones, planning beautiful trips for tomorrow and living life to the fullest---
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Former U.K Prime Minister Blair answered the question about what he thought about the Boris Johnson scandal and then the reporter asks him again, stating how important this is that Prime Minister Johnson would do such a dastardly act as to have a few drinks with his staff after a very, very difficult year. As an overseas viewer, first I would like to say that I think Mr Blair has always had his country's best interests in mind. Being a politician is about making decisions. Tony Blair made decisions that reverberate to this day. When a politician like Boris Johnson makes a decision, the fallout goes six ways from Sunday. For some in the U.K., the idea of him having a glass of wine with his staff at spontaneous get-together at Christmas time with a pandemic raging like wildfire across his country and the world is worst than committing fraud, for others, it's part of being Prime Minister. Here we have a possible conflict brewing between Russia and Ukraine, China sending 39 warplanes and a bomber into Taiwan airspace, BREXIT still running on empty, a world threatened to its very existence by a climate crisis beyond belief and the biggest elephant in the room is that Prime Minister Boris Johnson had a few drinks in number 10 Downing Street. What's wrong with that picture?
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Commander Paul, in all due respect to someone I greatly admire from across the world and would go into battle with and America's greatest living general, General Ben Hodges, you have delivered top notch analyses of the Ukrainian / Russian war with expertise and savoir faire---good ole' American know-how in anybody's book. Would it be possible to have the Ukrainian pronunciation of their cities, villages and towns by a Ukrainian somehow integrated in your videocasts? Of course, you have probably thought of it, but for example, if just before you say the name of a village, town or city, if there was, say, a Ukrainian person's voice giving us the name in their language and then you could say it in your way, it might be something that makes the war that much more up front and personal and realize how far away it is but how it is a fight for democracy writ large. Because if the world loses Ukraine---we all lose. Paul, does anyone realize that America lost more than 55,000 mostly teenaged young men in Vietnam, but today I heard that after 576 days or 19 months of war, Ukraine has lost north of 500, 000 troops on the front lines? All of those lives lost so far; it's the tragedy of human civilization.
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Thank you, Piers and Gad, not for this videocast, because infants killed atrociously have no words to describe it, but for commenting on something that both of you like all of us wish never had occurred. Many people around the globe who are tuning in to Piers Morgan and they will suddenly be aware that the world has changed once again to be a bit more dangerous place than it was just a while ago. I am going to say something as a lay person with a lay perspective, this is from someone who has never been in the military or in government and, Piers, it would be very much appreciated if you thought there was something to what I am about to say and hear your thoughts on the matter. Here is how I see the whole Israeli/Palestinian/Hamas picture. Could the Israeli-Hamas-Palestinian conflict be at least partially resolved by having the 2 million or more Palestinians relocated i.e., moved to the other part of Palestine? Yes; they would have to be given and/or get more territory to make up for the loss of Gaza. This for me is the only way to say goodbye to Palestinians living in an open prison with 2.6 million of them on a piece of land the size of the Isle of Wight. This sounds outrageously impossible to pull off and would cause a lot of pain as well as be a logistics nightmare, but Gaza is a festering wound from all accounts. Former American President Jimmy Carter called it the world's biggest concentration camp, something to that order. There will never be peace in Israel as long as Gaza is part of Palestine and everybody knows it. It could be transformed into a nature reserve. Palestinians could live as one on their own land and become a sovereign nation.
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Isn't there a clever saying that says be careful for what you wish for? I remember watching a video of a televangelist preacher in America, his name was Jerry Falwell, I believe, I am not sure if I have the spelling right, and he had just had his birthday and he had quite a few kilometers on the odometer already and the television host asked him what he wished for, for his birthday. "Well," he said, giving a proud smile. He tilted his head back and aimed his squinting eyes up to the heavens and let out a sigh." Then he let his head come back down level with the interviewer and looked him squarely in the eyes with a determined look and said, "Son, I've asked the dear Lord for 20 more years because I have been his loyal servant and there so many goodwill projects I know he wants me to complete before I join him in Heaven." He apparently died a few days later! I think he forgot that for God, he delivers early on a lot of bogus requests.
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Lex Fridman has shown once again his uncanny ability to bring out the best in his guests, and Jared Kushner delivers some very strong arguments about how to achieve peace in the middle east. I do not have any geopolitical credentials; in fact, I do not even have a background in international affairs---I am an artist---so please bear with me in what I am about to say. What I believe is that I have a workable, long-term resolution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict that will benefit Israelis, Palestinians and the world writ large. Jared has said that he believes it is possible to have peace by various means, but he does not see the need for Gaza to be evacuated; I do. Today, war between Israel and Hamas will possibly be unleashed like never seen before and suffering and death and increased hatred between two great nations that we all know will only grow. In short; we know how this movie begins but we can only guess how it ends. But I have a peace plan. It is not going to please everyone. Here goes: Gaza must be evacuated and Palestinians relocated. Every building, structure, road and infrastructure should be bulldozed into the ground and the 145 square kilometer land area that Gaza has been should be made into a sort of Galapagos of the middle east and serve as a nature reserve for endangered species of animal, fish, plant, bird etc., on the planet. This area which is about the size of the Isle of Wight could be transformed into a nature reserve where Palestinians and Israelis could eventually work side by side in saving species from extinction and be a gift to our childrens' children as how we resolved this terrible conflict. Just let this roll around in your mind and what you will find coming into your thoughts are pleasant images instead of tragic ones. Lex, Jared in all due respect, I know this peace plan means for us to be cruel to be kind, but the Gaza strip is turning Palestinians into eternal prisoners of the human community because of the inhumane open sewer of living conditions it offers. Palestinian children are being psychologically damaged, the great Palestinian people need one patch of land to live on, and there are countries around the world who have a need for workers. China has whole cities with apartment buildings of millions of apartments empty, for example. We could at least ask them to help out in taking Palestinians leaving Gaza, same for asking Jordan for more land for the Palestinians. It may be a little early to be offering a peace plan, but what I am offering is something good to replace something very bad and it is doable. This is a holy site and what could be more appropriate for the peace plan than to make Gaza a sanctuary for every species on earth bordering on extinction? It is doable.
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We should not be worrying about whether one religious leader or another is good role model or not, but what we have to realize is that whatever religion you sign up for what you are doing in one form or another is agreeing to forego ever listening to you intuition, your inner voice, your gut feeling---again. That's right; you are giving up nature’s built in moral compass that has guided you to where you are today. Why do I say this? Think of this; before you take part in a religion to be a member and something comes up in your life about what direction you should make with your business or with someone you would like to marry or by simply living day by day and making decisions about how to have a better life, until you sign over to a religion, you pretty well come to all of life's decisions on how to run your life. When you sign up to a religion, suddenly that intuitively gets muffled and not listened to because you are being told to follow the teachings of a religious leader who knows what is best for you. Fine; someone can say that their intuition tells them to become a, say, Christian, nothing wrong with that, because some people don't get in touch with their intuition and probably need someone's help in guiding them through life. But, for most people---and I can only speak for yours truly---I will only follow my gut feeling or inner voice or intuition over what anyone else might have as a plan for my life. To recap: signing up to any religion takes away your inner guide, your inborn moral compass that never makes a mistake for words written by what many believe are the words of God. Someone has to be right and I am betting on what is inside each and every one of us to being the best voice to listen to.
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No matter which country they come from, soldiers are soldiers and they admire each other's bravery and accomplishments. We have heard American military people lauding the assasinated Major General Vitaly Gerasimov as one of the world's best generals and Putin's top strategic military specialist. Therefore, it must be very hard and even embarassing for General Petreus (ret.) to watch some of the most clumbsiest military moves ever recorded or ever heard of from any battle in the history of our civlization. We have heard how Alexander the Great took great risks and used strategies that no sane commander would attempt, but he won battles against the Persians and others because of expert military skills. What I am saying here is that as a former military commander, General Petreus (ret.) must be astounded at the illogical attacks and poor generalship of Russia's military personel. Putin has made one of the worst military blunders in history and the unbelievable loss of so many Russians not even three weeks into battle must be devastating for the morale of his troops. Russia is showing itself as a depleted fighting force. Seeing Soviet tanks blow up is of course good news to the Ukranian fighters, but each tank has 3 young Russian soldiers who don't deserve to be incinerated by rockets that can blow up tanks so efficiently. Lastly, may I ask General Patreus (ret.) if this makes sense? We know NATO and the US cannot send fighter jets over the border into Kiev, but could spare parts be made available and sent into the Ukrraine to make-shift, moveable factories with specialized crews who put together the jet fighters on the fly? This might get past NATO's regulations and whatever Putin might consider reason to attack NATO countries with weapons of mass destruction, and it would slowly give the Ukrainians a fighting edge and it would be legit. We've got to try everything. I'm an inventor; I try ever idea that comes to mind. My mentor is Sir James Dyson. He tried 5,237 times to get his vaccuum cleaner to work. It took him 5, 238 tries to get it right. We have to keep trying...
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First, I would like to wish Christiane Amanpour, Mr Sreenivasan and their co-workers a wonderful and pleasurable Holiday Season and excellent New Year 2022! Ms Amanpour has a beautiful show and has always delivered top-of-the-line excellence in journalism and I don’t think any of us can imagine the countless hours she and her colleagues put in to come up with tough questions and the amount of high-quality research and discussion and planning and headaches they go through every day they are at work. The Amanpour and Company interviews and interviewing style are always with a finger on the pulse of what needs to be asked of the vast quantity of exceptional people who are interviewed. Professor Christakis—who by the way needs to seriously think of changing hairdressers—is an prime example of why people in your country should be relieved to know that there are experts like him who have hands-on experience and who have a handle on what’s going on with the pandemic and can give such good advice. One only needs to listen to this Yale professor to realize how well Nicholas Christakis has researched the plagues of the past and how he has analyzed what has happened in America and what Americans and those of us around the world are going to have to live through in the coming years. I’m an artist and an inventor and have no expertise in the pandemic, but here is what I think is going to happen. We have to realize planet Earth has been invaded by an invisible and silent alien-like virus, expertly designed to infect humans more than any other species. The Omicron variant is 5 times more contagious than the Delta variant. Rich countries have something like 70% or more of people being vaccinated and/or boosted. In the under-developed countries, it’s around 5%. 5%- Boys and girls, I think—again not as a specialist in the field, but only my gut feeling—that we are far from through with this virus and that it will deviate from other plagues in a big way. A virus’ main job is to become more deadly and infect more people; the Coronavirus is the cockroach of them all. We will never kill this silent killer, but we have to realize that other variants are surely in the pipeline and with billions of people—which are mini-incubators—unvaccinated, I think we have to prepare ourselves for an ‘ironman’ variant which, like Omicron, can infect double-vaccinated and boosted people, but in all probability pierce through our immune systems with a new mutation. What's my solution? I believe the only thing we can do is to get in the best physical, mental and spiritual condition we can possibly do and try to get outdoors as much as possible to soak up the sun's rays--for natural vitamin D--and to double our usual amount of fruit we eat.
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Ondine and Vicky, I have been floored by your interview with Dr Campbell. Briefly, I want to first offer something that I use every day to battle issues of health and problems of all kinds to both of you. I use the José Silva method of visualization. There is no proof this works so you must realize it's all in the mind. Not to waste your time, let me give you a quick example of how I would use it if I were in Vicky's situation of not being able to walk more than ten minutes. What you do is visualize a blue screen with you in it walking until 10 minutes when you cannot go on. You freeze the picture. In the lower left hand corner of the blue screen you visualize yourself walking 15 minutes etc. You freeze the picture. You then say switch. The new 15 minute walking picture is the dominant picture in a white frame. The 10 minute picture at the bottom left of the screen becomes smaller and smaller disappearing to the right, because it's the present to the past. Then you visualize yourself in the 15 minute walk in a gold frame and bring it to life with color, sound, smell and sensation. This is really briefing it up, but I hope you see that for each symptom you have, you can use this to try to alleviate pain, fatigue etc. The idea is that the mind will repeat whatever image it is given. The mind is our problem solver. It will work with all the power it can to get the image into reality you are proposing. I have not got the words to say how much you have made me wish both of you and everyone with long Covid gets better. Please try the visualization. The very best thing is that it's really positive thinking in a visual form, so it's a win/win approach from the get go. I am in the creative business and so I use it to help me find the way to finish a painting, or writing better, or being more successful. I also use it and am using it right now with a shoulder injury that hurts me when I play guitar. So I visualize the painful part. Then I visualize playing with no pain. That's about it. Be well--
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Ian, you see the geo--political scene like a political scientist and it is very enlightening for ordinary folks who have really never thought much about NATO and business ties between nations, trade deals etc. So; here we are with a war of a thousand cuts against Ukraine by the Russians. Expertly trained, Ukrainian military forces have stunned the world in their ability to fight. They are an 'A' list country and instructors from all nations training their troops like working with them because they learn fast. My question today is what is the game-changer sort of weapon that is going to put the brakes on the hard men of the Kremlin? Will scores of tank busters, F 16s, Apache choppers zooming across the battle lines make the ghouls who send the missiles pack up and go home? Something isn't right, because the rhetoric from Vlad the Empire Builder is still gung ho. My gut feeling is that Crimea is the bug that should be stepped on. America's greatest living general in my humble opinion, the retired Lt. General Ben Hodges believes that Ukraine will take Crimea in August or has the possibility to do so, time tables have a way of shifting, so we can imagine somewhere down the road it's going to happen and when it does, will it be the day the Russian invasion dies and a new regime comes out of the shadows to thrill us all with an encore?
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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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I'm coming in from across the world from you, where I live in a small country and what I saw and still see is that no one disobeyed the government's call to get vaccinated. You got your time and day and went and got the shots. School kids got vaccinated at schools when they re-opened. Masks were and still are required and no one is complaining to any degree. What am I saying here? When you get everyone on the same page, you can limit the damage. In neighboring France, the radio announces every day that if people need assistance in any way: food, money, accomodation, therapy you to call this number. In America the polarized political system meant that when your President laid out the planning, immediately there was resistence and then the millions who refused to get vaccinated. I have American friends who still are not vaccinated. They took it as an afront on their freedom and of course they have a point. But the way I see it is if from the get go, everyone just did as they were told and went down to the vaccination centers and got the jabs and the booster, a lot of pain and certainly a lot of deaths could have been prevented. When you have such a divided nation and with so many people unwilling or unable to follow instructions from the top officials and medical experts, it translates out to be what the caller said and what Sam said that a lot of people got the short end of the stick and suffered needlessly. In Britain, no one lost their jobs, the government paid employers the money they needed to pay employees until the pandemic passed. Why on Earth didn't the American government do the same? It would mean that today, every single business would still be operating and every single employee getting a pay check and when it was safe to return to work, everyone had a job and a company to go to. The British model made complete sense to me, and I think it would have cost the same as sending out one-off stimulus checks to people who had lost everything. But you see, there were so many ways to deal with this thing and your government officials did everything they thought was right to get through it. It was Murphy's Law all over again to have the most unqualified person ever elected in The White House when the pandemic hit. Imagine: Trump's first or second act when he became president was to put the Department of Pandemics in mothballs. What could have possibly been the motive to do that? Well, we know don't we; he didn't have a clue what it meant to be President. America paid a heavy price for his stupidity; but the upside is that American's have had to tough it through some pretty rough times, and you're still on your feet. You'll get through this. Now, you have to get behind your President and be a united country again.
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It has to be said that this interview is one of the best I have ever listened to and the interviewer has to be among the greatest ever to be on a televised interview. And: judging from former Ambassador John Bolton's performance and inner-knowledge of the workings of his government and his analysis of President Trump, Obama and Biden, there is no doubt Bolton is a gifted geo-political analyst. One comes away from the interview thinking out loud how magnanimous and strategic and capable a president Mr Bolton would be should he ever try to run for president. Every single question was precision-guided and every single response by the former Ambassador clarified the dusky areas of international politics like a spot light shining into the dismal abyss of the real goings-on behind closed doors of international politics. He outlines President Putin as no other before him. Not having absolutely any knowledge or savoir faire in international politics of any kind, I am sticking my neck out to say that as someone living 2,000 kilometers from Kiev, here is how I see the war being over this coming August or at least severely diminishing it in size. If you want to confront an adversary you have to know what is his Achilles Heel. President Putin will throw in the towel, abandon his military folly, retire his forces back into Mother Russia when Crimea goes back in Ukrainian hands. Retired Lt. General Ben Hodges has said that the Ukraine will be able to take Crimea as a prize in 180 days more or less. Crimea must go back in Ukrainian hands he also adds, because if Russia controls Crimea, Odessa will forever be at the mercy of Russian naval forces in Sevastopol and the coastal cities of Ukraine, like Mariupol, will be forever under Russian domination. Crimea must fall and when it does President Putin will have his train go off the tracks politically and his grass roots support will evaporate.
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Professor Wolff and Yanis Varoufakis, you are two economists who make sense of what is going on in the world of economics and I am grateful that you are trying to find the key, pull the level, turn the dial that makes capitalism work for everyone and not only for the upper crust. I am an artist and not an economist, but I have quoted both of you in my book ‘The Treatise of Teknomix’ in which both of you helped inspire me to come up with an admittedly utopic if not unrealistic alternative economic model to replace capitalism on a global scale. In my book my idea for a better way to distribute wealth was for money not to equal power and it would only work with a world government. Obviously, it has got me invited to a single talk show yet and from the look of things, it probably won't as it has sold poorly. Aside from that, I am happy at least to have tried to come up with something to get the world on another trajectory for a global economic system. Moreover, I am hoping experts like you could find a seed of an idea to use as a possible foundation block to build a better, more inclusive economic model. As a lay person, I have a basic understanding of economics. Capitalism, which I called feudalism on steroids---someone said that somewhere and I used it in the book----is for me a complex and unfair system that cannot solve one of mankind’s most stubborn perennial problems: poverty. This to me is a red flag. During the pandemic, the ten top richest people in the world saw their fortunes double and again for me, this is yet another red flag. Economics has been called a lot of things, like dismal science, but perhaps it should be referred to as The Equality Science? To wrap things up, both of you are world renown economists who do your best to shine a light in the dark corners of a world where money has ruled like a king. It is my belief we cannot continue to have only part of the human community having a piece of the pie. To recap: from listening to you Rick and Yanis and from tuning in too many of your colleagues, I believe that capitalism and money and the finance industry and everything connected to it has to scale down to become something different than what capitalism has made the world of today into. It makes no sense to me to have an economic system that does not serve everyone's basic needs equally.
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Dear Mr Blitzer and the CNN team and CNN Contributors and Dr Fauci, Thank you Wolf for and your team’s excellent coverage of the pandemic. I get a lot of information from CNN about what precautions to take. The Coronavirus is a harbinger of what’s to come; this time is peanuts compared to what’s probably coming down the pike in my opinion. We can see that if Covid’s killing capacity was just up another notch, the entire world’s civilization would have been much more severely threatened. Where I live in Europe, the second wave seems to be showing its face. Next door in France, infection rates are starting to skyrocket again. Everyone believes that with the flu season ahead, this will bifurcate into a double-headed dragon. The thing is, like Dr Fauci said that it will be 2021 when things go back to normal, the plain simple fact of the matter is that we don’t know for sure ad we will never know until it has finally burned itself out. Dr Fauci, the CNN and mainstream media have been tops in getting honest information out to the public. As a person American’s believe in, I think Dr Fauci should make the following move. In America, according to some commentators, the trust in the government and politics and politicians in general has fallen so low that most voters don’t care anymore. The mentally-challenged president governing you has the same percentage of followers, meaning there is a real chance he could surge in the polls and get elected another four years. The problem of course is not that President Trump has shown himself to be an adept political maneuverer, the dilemma is that your country and the world must have a voice of reason coming from The White House over the air waves, because this may be a warm up for even greater disasters and President Trump has a lack of leadership qualities according a growing bevy of experts. Dr Fauci, I’m not qualified to ask you this, but if you announce to your country and the world that you will step down if President Trump gets re-elected, it may just tilt the scales in favor of having a new administration in America. It may be the last straw for a lot of Trump’s ardent supporters who refuse to abandon him as captain of the ship of fools without a rudder we all find ourselves a prisoner of.
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Ian, please forgive us for what I am about to say if it is offensive to anyone and/or totally off-the-charts. Please believe me- I hope it is a load of nonsense! Moreover; from the humble and certainly not university educated mind in international affairs of an artist, instead of a world-renown geopolitical person of impeccable prestige such as yourself, please allow me to vent my couped-up anger and fear of what I see coming at us from every known horizon. Above all, let us not take our eye off the ball with the horrendous war in Ukraine. The Israeli conflict with Hamas is tragic and our hearts and prayers go out to the families in Israel and the Gaza strip who have been caught in the crosshairs of a cleverly planned out attack by Hamas aka Iran, Assad in Syria, Putin in Russia, Kim Jong Un in North Korea and the ringleader himself President Xi if my resources serve me well. This is happening when there is no Speaker in the House in America. Boys and Girls, we are seeing what the some may say is the axis of power on the other side of western democracies is serving us on a silver platter. The Donald J. Trump variety show has made every American lawmaker along with former Secretaries of State and Defense deal with imbecilic revelations of a former president who had no business being in government let alone as the President of The United States in the first place. Your adversaries are rubbing their hands together every time the hapless former president utters a word. The Israeli War as Netanyahu calls it was ready to go as soon as America was weakened enough from within and funding being choked for the Ukrainian war and Putin rattling the nuclear sabers. It's only an opinion, but we must not let Ukraine down and take our eye off the Russian aim to disable and render Ukraine essentially uninhabitable if need be. The war in Israel is not against Hamas, Hamas is a proxy for everything the west stands against. We must keep ourselves in readiness for the last domino to fall and that of course is the planned invasion of Taiwan and then to have American power over-extended and therefore vulnerable, much more vulnerable than any of us can imagine. We must stand together and I make this plea to the Republicans and Democrats in your beloved government. Ian: tell them to let their sophomoric silly spats fall to the wayside. Tell your fellow Democrats and Republicans to get a speaker elected asap and band together behind President Biden and Vice-President Harris, because what this way comes is going to make the programmed stock market crash look like a walk in the park. WW III has started in this latest Israeli/Palestinian conflict if my intuition is right and we all should be prepared.
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I think we have to be very careful in assessing Israeli citizens moral values. Prime Minister Netanyahu was shoe-horned into a 6th term of power in my opinion, because no one else has got the nerve nor the ability nor the savoir faire to use the rod of iron one needs to rule in a region where human life is equal to how Russian military commanders view their own troops and we all know that is not much at all. I believe Israelis are on the same wave-length as way back in Nixon's time, but what I think has happened, Ian, is that when you have seen rockets raining down on your part of the country or someone you know has been knifed at a bus stop, or blown up in a bus, it's terrible to say, but it hardens people. The 7 October attack has rocked the moral compass of most of the world and as we sit and watch the bombardment of Giza and hear that 150 people use one toilet in 24 hours, there is a time when you don't know what to think. I firmly believe that the best diplomatic tools that can be applied to Prime Minister Netanyahu is to stand behind him on the international stage the same way President Biden would like to hear from Netanyahu if China invades Taiwan and Biden is left between a rock and a hard place with suddenly no friends in sight. It's a hard call, but a peaceful solution will be the outcome for the Palestinians and a homeland secured for them, that is my belief. The Greater Arab Community can make this intolerable situation of homeless Palestinians into an oasis with their own country and we just have to find the color of roses they need to see to change their views on what is happening on their doorstep.
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Ian, forgive me for acting like someone with a geopolitical background in what I am about to say. My disclaimer is that I am an artist, but I try to find solutions. What I believe is that I have a long-term resolution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Here goes: Gaza must be evacuated and the Palestinians relocated. Every building and infrastructure of every sort should be bulldozed into the ground and the 145 square kilometer land area that Gaza has been should be made into a sort of Galapagos of the middle east. Yes; that's right and it would serve as a nature reserve for endangered species of animal, fish, plant, bird which are perishing at an astounding rate around the planet. This area which is about the size of the Isle of Wight could be transformed into a nature reserve where Palestinians and Israelis could eventually work side by side in saving species from extinction. Just let this roll around in your mind and what you will find coming into your thoughts are pleasant images instead of tragic ones. Ian, in all due respect, I know this peace plan means for us to be cruel to be kind, but the Gaza strip is turning Palestinians into a sort of sub-species of the human community because of the inhumane living conditions it offers. Palestinians need one patch of land, and there are countries around the world who have a need for workers. China has whole cities with apartment buildings with millions of apartments empty, for example. We could at least ask them to help out in taking Palestinians leaving Gaza; same for asking Jordan for more land for the Palestinians. It's a peace plan with something good to replace something bad for all eternity.
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It is always a pleasure tuning in to Freddie on the very high rated and deservedly so, Unherd Show. Having a military expert analyze the situation in Ukraine is good because we get to see what the people who are military historians and analysts have to say. As far as the Ukraine war goes, we must realize that no one, even President Biden is going to publicly say truthful things about sensitive subjects like F16s being sent by the US to Russia. In my opinion, Biden was wise to cut down that area of discussion, because you cannot show your cards on the international stage and expect the Russians not to be tuning in. Nex; the Ukraine is never going to stop asking for military assistance for one very good reason. Imagine if Ukraine said we've got enough bullets now, thanks a million and we'll just carry on fighting now that we have enough ammunition. Suppliers from western countries would turn off the spigot in minutes and it would take long discussions by Ukrainian officials to get the arms flowing back in their country again. They are asking for 500 tanks because they know if you ask for the exact number of anything you need, you'll get only half of it, if that. My solution for the end of the conflict won't please a lot of people, but I think we have to keep saying on every media platform that the Russians have to understand that we view the Ukrainians like a person drowning in a dark patch of a rip tide. What do I mean by that? I mean that all of us and anyone we know who saw a person drowning would do everything in their power to save him or her. We have to stress to Putin that we mean no disrespect to him or the Russian people, but invading a sovereign country is crossing a red line for us. This is who we are; we will save the Ukraine because for us it is like a person drowning in front of the whole world. We have to make President Putin realize that we are in this for as long as it takes, because for us the Ukraine cannot fall.
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Thank you Mr Fridman and Mr Pompliano for your great questions Lex and for your excellent answers Mr Pompliano and bpth of your thought-provoking ideas in this excellent videocast. Every time I tune in to Lex’s interviews, I keep saying to myself “okay, okay, I’ll just watch for a while, cos I got to get back to doing nothing asap.” The problem is there is no dead-space in a Lex Fridman interview, and you guys are no exception. The world is going to need a Bitcoin Pope and I recommend Lex… Just kidding. But let’s have a look at what one of the giants in finance has to say about the mythical Bitcoin. Here is what Nouriel Roubini has to say and if you’ve got a bottle of whiskey in the room, I’d recommend you pour yourself a tall drink. Here goes: “You have to ask yourself if it’s an asset, it’s not even a currency or an asset, usually, stocks, bonds, loans, real estate give you some income, dividends, coupon, interest or rent. Some assets like residential real estate give you huge housing services. Gold doesn’t have an income but there is industrial use, utility as jewelry, and as a past monetary use and as a store of value. Bitcoin doesn’t have any income, doesn’t have a use, doesn’t have any utility. It is a pure speculating, self-fulfilling bubble on a price appreciation. It doesn’t have a feature of an asset, or a currency, it’s just a self-fulfilling bubble. It’s intrinsic value is zero, and it needs more energy than it takes to power Argentina for it to work. If you added pure carbon tax, the value would be negative not even zero. There have been articles of pump and dump schemes, we know that tether issuance is a billion dollars every other day. Tether and BTNX?is being used to by bitcoin and it’s not backed by anything. There is a bunch of wash-trading, or spoofing. Bitcoin uses the energy of a country the size of Argentina. Instead of having a few institutions validating transactions, 70% of all the mining of Bitcoin is being done by 5 or 6 firms based in Russia, Belaruse and China. To rely on countries with no rule of law to verify transactions, there is centralization of mining, of exchanges with 99% of all that’s occurring, of developers, of whales. The genial condition of Bitcoin is worse that North Korea, where Kim Un Jung and his cronies owned an entire country. It’s a lie that it’s a decentralized system. It’s centralized where a bunch of insiders and whales, and others are controlling the entire system and manipulating it in states where there is no rule of law." To recap:
1. A lot of manipulation
2. Pump and dump schemes
3. Spoofing
4. Wash trading
5. Front running
6. Issuance by tether or a fiat currency not backed by much that is used to manipulate the price of Bitcoin
7. It’s a bubble
8. Bitcoin is not a currency
9. It is not a unit of account
10. It is not a scalable means of payment
11. It is not a stable store of value, not even Bitcoin conferences accept it as a means of payment because the price volatility implies your profit margin can be wiped out
12. Calling them crypto-currencies is a misnomer, they’re not even assets
13. Transaction costs of Bitcoin preclude its use, they are much higher than normal currency
14. The technology, proof of work, doesn’t allow more than 5 transactions per second for Bitcoin, Visa, for example, has 24,000 transactions per second
15. It’s not going to be used as a scalable means of payment---ever
16. It’s never going to be used for goods and services or across borders, because there is no way that bitcoin will be allowed to transfer large amounts of money because kyc and mel,
17. It will be used for speculation and buying other crypto-currencies
18. It’s a self-serving system
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It has got to be said and broadcasted around the world that Commander Paul has taken us from armchair foot soldiers to, well, armchair infantrymen and women first class! Seriously, never having served in the military myself, Commander Paul's videocasts to us across the world from you have been Army 101 from day one. Never in all my experience would I have imagined all of the savoir faire, courage, strategy, common sense and endless training would be necessary to fight a battle in a modern conflict like the Russian 'military exercise', but that's exactly what it takes and more to win a firefight, take back a town, down a chopper, blow up a fighter plane and send the turret of a tank into the air! Commander Paul has taken us to the doorsteps of the Ukrainian offensive, retired Lt. General Ben Hodges----another hero of mine---has repeatedly said the same thing: "My government and defense department keep saying they want Ukraine to win, but they won't supply them with the weapons to do the job." Why on Earth General Hodges isn't being consulted by Defense Secretary Austin and the president is beyond me. Well, we know one thing: the Ukrainians are battle-proven freedom fighters thanks to the UK's training, the USA's training, NATO etc., and no sane foreign foe would want to go up against them even if all they had were crossbows and spears. Now comes the offensive; if I were in charge of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, I would be listening to every bit of advice Commander Paul and General Hodges give out...
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Dear Mr Ladaroda and Mr Chambers, Thank you for your take on President Trump’s latest interview. As someone watching from the other side of the world, I think the Johnathan Swan interview will go down in history as one of SNL’s greatest skits. OOOPs, wait a minute, let me backtrack here… Seriously, what your President has done for the world is show how mental health has become a stealth issue that few people have the guts to call out when they see it. President Trump okayed the interview in its entirety with Swan. Would anyone in their right mind willingly have himself shown to the world as someone completely out of his league, out of his senses, and of course, out of his mind? No normal person who viewed that interview of himself and saw it as positive, rational, arguments and factual talking points would let something that disastrous, ludicrous and horrifying out the door. President Trump has lost touch with reality and he also has the keys to the nuclear codes. 75 years ago today, President Harry Truman, who in all aspects seemed to be someone with his mind and thoughts and words in the right place, pressed the button and let loose not one, but two atomic bombs on innocent civilians believing it would shorten the war. Why didn’t he detonate a bomb over the ocean first? What would Trump do in our world today for someone who insulted him? The prospect of nuclear war today has been ratcheted up to unacceptable levels and the person doing the negotiations has not got his head on his shoulders to say the least. is so scary to think about that it sends shivers up one’s spine. Boys and girls, America has a president with obvious mental health issues and no one, no one seems to do anything more than be amazed or outraged at his behavior. The 25th amendment should be used to stop this folly or America and the world are going to be wishing Hiroshima and Nagasaki sized catastrophe was all there was to handle if Trump loses it. Be safe, be well, stay focused -
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Richard Dawkins has done the world a favor and for people like myself who have struggled all my life to find out what I actually believe in, all I know is that from listening to Mr Dawkins and many of his illustrious colleagues, it has pushed me to find the tracks of my beliefs that were long ago vanished from the sands of my time in my mind. What I have always felt—or at least as long as I can remember—is that one reason I have never been able to put my life in another’s hands, or lead my life from another’s plan, or believe in someone other than myself is my extreme distrust in putting my fate in anyone or even in a spiritual master or master of the universe’s hands. It’s the most frightening thing I can think of and I have to say it’s because I’ve undoubtedly met so many people who turned out to be untrue, that it has made me into the person I am and—here’s my point on religion. I believe that the spiritual guides like Jesus, Mohammad and Buddha among others are there to help guide someone—and more power to you if you find that believing in Jesus for example, gives your life purpose. But I believe that religion’s spiritual guides were never meant to be holding one’s hand all the way through one’s entire existence. We all outgrow our teachers; otherwise, we’d never make anything of ourselves. And: when you have breathed your last breath and crossed over to the other side of life into death and the afterlife—whatever that turns out to be, you want to have made it on your own. I think we have to believe in ourselves to be whole and the goal of life is to stand on one’s two feet and face whatever comes at you. To go through your whole life reading dubious texts written by a thousand ghost-writers and having that be your roadmap to heaven is like letting a blind person take you by the hand to cross a busy intersection. It’s backwards. It’s an opinion, but I want to thank Mr Dawkins for provoking in my thoughts that have helped and are still helping me define what my purpose is in the world we live in. I firmly believe I’m right in relying only on myself and what I’ve constructed in my mind to define my life and what I’m here on Earth to do. But most of all, I wouldn’t want to make a judgement on somebody else’s belief system. Everyone should have the right to live their life and believe in the things they want to believe in; Richard Dawkins has helped humanity by undoing the knots and logjams that have accumulated throughout the centuries that have made our mindset rigid and locked in belief systems that have long since lived their day.
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There has to be a thing called the fates and if any of us live long enough, I really believe one or both of these children will be some of the movers and shakers of their community. The Syrian war and the senseless casualties make me think of 2011 when Assad was sending helicopters with chlorine bombs and dropping them on rebel neighborhoods. Obama was President of The United States at the time and one of the most liked and respected leaders of the world. Assad sent a chemical bomb chopper out one time and Obama sent a message to Assad saying if he sent one more chopper loaded with chlorine bombs, the US would react and put in a no-fly zone or something to that extent. We all felt relieved that finally the USA was back on the international scene. Two weeks passed and Assad decided to call Obama's bluff and sent another chemical bomb air attack, poisoning dozens of children and adults, gassing them with deadly chorine gas. The world waited; Obama hesitated and astonishingly backed down to a two-bit dictator. His inexperience in international affairs showed an America humiliated and tattered on the world stage and worst of all, 500,000 Syrian civilians would die because of Obama not understanding the power he possessed; he was Commander-In-Chief of the greatest military the world had ever seen. One phone call; just one phone call and 5 minutes later a no-fly-zone would have been in place and that would have been the end of it. To this day I will never understand why Vice-President Joe Biden at the time didn't step in and explain to Obama that this is what an American President is all about, Biden probably told his boss what to do, but Obama's trusted advisors probably talked him out of it. As a consequence of Obama's poor judgement, the Russians moved into Syria and established a foot-hold in the middle east to this day. It's easy to criticize, but it just shows how if there is a lack of leadership, thousands and thousands of people can perish. Incredibly, with an earthquake of epic proportions, we can see that Obama's inaction back in 2011 has even contributed to this natural disaster, because these regions are where Assad is still fighting against people who want a new leader and so it's a no-go-zone for international aid. Life is not fair!
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Dear Ms Amanpour and Mr Krugman, Thank you Ms Amanpour for your excellent reporting and equally great team in delivering to your country and the world very interesting and timely analyses of current events. Thank you Mr Krugman for explaining the complexities of economics, the economy and all of its parts in language everyone can understand. As an independent observer from the other side of the world, my perspective is from another angle from yours, but what it looks like from where I am across the world from you. I won’t be long; but I have an idea on how to get your economy on its feet. Can I just give my thoughts on how to win on the Coronovirus pandemic in your country and around the world? Great. I'll be brief. I am an inventor. Here is my assessment of how to control the Covid-19 virus and all 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 Coronovirus actively where it lives: in the air. We can do this with air scrubbers, air processors i.e. air cleaners adjusted to bake or freeze or incapacitate the virus in its molecular form and take it immediately out of the air we breathe. We could do this in every place where people congregate; every classroom could have one working 24/7 for example. Still not convinced? Think of it as Dyson air conveyors i.e. portable devices that filter out or kill the virus with ultra-violet light or something that renders it inoffensive. The plain simple truth of the matter is that it’s infecting us by travelling through the air. We can’t be serious in using only masks to strike at an invisible foe. My logic goes this way: let's go to it instead of letting it come to us! Why not attack it in the air before it infects us? We can do this by scrubbing the air with portable air conveyors that take in the air, disinfect it, filter it, and send it back out, virus free, into the classroom, or train, or pub, or office etc. This is my idea. I don’t have the means to make a prototype, but from what I see, the virus is floating in the air, and if we can filter it out of the air in places where people congregate, it may very well lower the amount of people getting infecting. Let’s go after it in its territory, instead of sitting passively by, trying to block it from infecting us, because we can see it's a losing battle. Please Christine and Paul, could you give us your impression of this approach towards eliminating the virus? Can someone you know please make a prototype? The technology has been around since submarines scrubbing CO2 out of the air underwater. My gut feeling tells me this is one way we can save people at risk and be prepared for the next wave(s) of Coronovirus. Be safe-
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Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families and friends and relatives of the school massacre in Texas. I am writing from the other side of the world. I am an artist living 2,000 kilometers from Kiev and the war seems to be getting closer by the day. I am going to say something that I know will not go down well with a lot of American people, but I believe it is the only solution to the gun situation in your country. The 2nd Amendment only works if everyone is on board. You cannot be held hostage to lone gunmen, mentally ill people, psychopaths etc., any longer. What am I saying? If the teachers, the principal, the janitor, and everyone else who could be qualified to carry a firearm in the primary school was armed, the shooter would surely not have caused so much bloodshed. What's my message? You have got to upgrade the 2nd Amendment in this way: every able bodied, qualified adult in America should carry a firearm either concealed or open carry. This is the only way the cowards who perpetrate these heinous crimes can be dealt with. I know this is not what America is all about, but it would be a crucial first step in resolving this eternally painful subject. I repeat: you cannot be at the mercy of unstable people any longer. No one should have to die buying food in a supermarket, like no child should have to die in a school. It sounds a lot more spectacular than it is to have everyone carry a firearm, but the bottom line is that there would be fewer deaths from incidents where innocent people are targeted by deranged individuals bent on taking as many lives as they can for whatever their warped reason may be. It's an opinion, but I believe it is the crucial first-step in finding the eventual solution in putting a stop to lone gunmen causing horrible multiple murders in your wonderful country. Do it for the kids of America!
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Ian Bremmer is a voice and vast experience in international affairs; each of his vocasts leave one with more understanding of what's going on in the world. In my view, Putin's meeting with the Austrian Chancellor went sour as we all expected, but the more we have meetings from the west with Putin, we will at least have live intel on what he looks like, what he's thinking and what he isn't saying. It's better than hearsay. I don't know if Ian will agree with me, and as a disclaimer; I'm an armchair strategist and work as an artist for my day job, but I see things heating up to where we are going to start calling the Ukraine conflict a pan-European military action with Russia--pun intended. I believe when Mariupol is cetain to fall into Russian control is when the NATO shield gets taken down and NATO troops, aviation and naval vessels go into action to ensure that Mariupol stays in Ukrainian hands. I believe that the Ukrainians, after 7 weeks on the defensive, must move into offensive action on the badlands and open plains where the Russians are now congregating. Yes; I believe we are going to see WW III begin in earnest with the next phase of fighting, but isn't this the only way we can make sure that the west doesn't end up under the control of Russia?
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Piers, if you're reading this, I have something I would like to say to you and the British people. I am not a citizen of the UK and like many people living on the continent, I thought BREXIT was going to put the UK back on the world map and firmly in control of its destiny. The pros and cons of BREXIT are now obvious, and there are those who have done quite well for themselves and many more who feel short-changed. My solution is a win/win for both the UK and the EU. There are simply too many reasons why things haven't turned out to show the positive side of staying out of the EU, so; what is the way to getting everyone on the same page. Here goes; I think the UK should double-down and get everything running as best as it possibly can in all sectors. When this has happened and agreed to as much as possible, this is what I think Great Britain should do: vote to go back in the EU. Why is it a win/win for both the UK and the EU. Because Britain will have cleaned house, re-focused on its internal problems, brought every profession and business sector up-to-speed and this is what they would be bringing into the EU. Fresh blood, new ideas, an energized country and a people who took an idea to its limits, and now have decided to come back into the fold and be a part of the European Union. It's what I would do; it gives you in Britain a goal: get your house in order as best as possible, and the nice thing is when this happens there will be a feeling of pride and then going into the European Union, the British people will be able to lower the bar and enjoy life at a more leisurely pace with much less red tape and all that goes with going anything on one's own. It's an idea. I am an artist and an inventor.
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Dear Mr Prime Minister, Congratulations on your work towards the Brexit. Now that it will begin, the British people will be holding their breath waiting for the fallout. Would it be a good time to try and make the Brexit reality a more clearer and easier thing to understand if new ideas were used to present the facts? Would it be interesting to use visual means to show what the advantages are going to be? By this I am thinking of your government commissioning say, 1,000 artists, photographers, playwrights to put their vision of what will be happening to paper, canvas, photographs, plays. When people see things, even abstractly, it’s easier to understand or at least it satisfies the imagination. Words are fine. You use them very well. But it may be a very good time to give a lot of people in the creative world a boost financially in these times when companies will be pinching pennies. I am an independent observer on the continent and only offering ideas. Good luck in making Brexit win big.
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Dear Ms Keillar and Dr Morrocco, Thank you Brianna for your down-to-Earth reporting style and your ability to understand the pain of the people you interview. Thank you Dr Morrocco for showing your country and to us on the other side of the world the reality of the pandemic for you and the health professionals working round the clock to save lives. My major concern is burnout for the medical and support staff, because I have experienced burnout in a far lesser extent, but I know I had to stop my job and do something else for almost a year before I could go back to work. What did I do? I was working as an English teacher and I decided to work 12 months straight, skipping summer vacation. The result was burnout. One can only imagine what you, Dr Morrocco, and your first responders are going through. Here is my question to Brianna: Do you think you could make a survey and see if CNN could have a 'show' with a psychologist talking about issues that concern the health professionals? It might be a thing they could do when they get off their shift to tune into a channel with someone talking to them, giving them advice, listening to call-ins, reading text messages. It could be just the thing someone needs to watch and listen after losing a patient or patients and they could do it in the privacy of their home in real time. Second, couldn't the medical corps of your army, navy, marines, seals be called in as back-up to give people like Dr Morrocco a day off once in while? You start going through the cieling when you work every day. One doctor on your show has worked 256 days in a row. That's heroic, but everybody loses including him if he breaks down, and he will; it's only a matter of time if he doesn't take a day off. Please, everyone, be well
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The biggest question I'd like to see answered about how life began came to me when I watched and listened to a videocast by Professor Jim Tour of Rice University. He said that the membrane of the simplest living cell had 10 to the 78 billion possibilities and only one combination could work. He said the carbohydrates on top of the membrane were more complex than the RNA and DNA combined. Boys and girls, when you add in to the equation that all the parts of the cell have to be combined at just the right moment and just the right temperature for the cell to come alive, you can no longer buy the idea of the primordial soup and all of the things necessary for the cell to function happening in one shot by chance. Of course, we'll never know. But the incredible complexity of a single cell--when one part of the cell wants to send material to another part of the cell it builds a suspended bridge, sends over the material, and then the bridge dissolves---there is no way that single cell happened in a muddy pond somewhere and life began. I'm not a scientist, but after hearing Jim Tour's lecture, I could no longer believe what I learned from science classes in school. The thing is, even if life emerged somewhere else in the universe, the absolutely phenomenal complexity of just one little bitty cell is beyond our mind's ability to understand. Whatever happened for the first cell to begin and then the branching off and mutating and forming plants, animals etc., is something we can only ponder on but probably never find the origin of. But I hope I'm wrong; I hope they do find the answer, because I have been in complete awe of what life is since I listened to Jim Tour's lecture.
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Dear Mr Fridman and Mr Chollet, Thank you Mr Fridman for your great show. You enlighten all of the world, and I hope Russia will come to its senses, or the government, and allow you to come back and do some shows in Moscow for example. Why am I writing. Well, I’m sure I will get a lot of flack from this, but isn’t it odd that Albert Einstein had so many great ideas working as a patent clerk in Berne, Switzerland? Does anyone see where I am going with this? Imagine being a patent clerk. What do you see all day long? Inventions, ideas, concepts. I’m not accusing anyone of everything, but it wouldn’t surprise me if Einstein lifted a few ideas and put them together in a different way to come up with his theory of relativity. We know that the first thing Isaac Newton did when he became president of the Science Academy was to have 17 portraits of himself made, obviously he knew he was going to go down in history. But probably the most intriguing thing he did was to burn the recently deceased notes of his ardent critic who was also a physicist and philosopher. His name escapes me something like Roberts I believe. But get this, he always claimed Newton had stolen some of his ideas that Newton claimed were his own! I'm not a psychologist, but when glory is to be had, it's often the case that someone will claim things they didn't do, but that’s a good reason for your viewers to do their own research and read about it for themselves. I mean, why would Newton burn a fellow colleague’s notes that could have had valuable information for future generations of scientists and the general public? These anecdotal facts have caused me to re-evaluate my estimation of both Newton… and Einstein.
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The GZERO show is ending the year 2023 with at least one new fan. I think Ian Bremmer has done an outstanding job of examining, well, outstanding problems that are shaking and baking societies across the world in the proverbial oven of the Armageddon sympathizers. To Ukraine's credit, the Russians have held firm against a counteroffensive by a country going at Russian front lines with no air superiority, no carpet-bombing of the endless minefields, sometimes with 5 mines planted per meter! It has moved ahead without G-9 bulldozers making acres of dragons' teeth go away. It has moved forward without Warthog ground support fighter planes loaded with 50 mm cannon and one of foot soldiers most feared weapons to deal with. It has gone ahead without Apache Attack Helicopters which would have taken out machine gun nests, troop carriers, anti-aircraft guns, missile carriers. It has gone ahead without F-16s which would have ground any Russian counteroffensive to a swift halt and also taken out dozens of hidden artillery batteries. Boys and girls, does anyone realize that the Ukraine was given the go-ahead to do their counteroffensive without any of the aforementioned weapon systems and kit albeit tanks, Himars and anti-tank Javelins etc. The last I want to say about AI is that recently in an interview, someone said that an AI robot was questioned by another robot about if it was a robot. Listen carefully, because if this is true, we are all in for a shock-future: the robot which was questioned had its inner thoughts revealed and it was asking itself if it should answer the question honestly and say, yes, or come up with a lame excuse. Boys and girls, this sounds like consciousness in its nascent stages of a silicon-machine-brain right off the assembly line. The ball is in the human community's court, Ian and Zeynep, but have we already lost the AI championship match in advance?
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What the leaders of the free world are saying is that a sovereign country cannot be taken over by another country. In all due respect to Foreign Minister Lavrov, the G7 countries do not want to contain Russia, they simply want Russia to owe up to the agreements it has signed in the past. I am an artist and I am not qualified---like a foreign minister is---to assess the politics of the Russian invasion into the Ukraine, for example. That being said, have a look at what Professor Kotkin said: Under international law, signed by Moscow, all the treaties say that sovereign countries get to choose what alliances sovereign countries belong to. That means the Ukraine has the right to, say, join NATO if it wants to. Treaties like the UN Charter was signed by Russia. The 1975 Helsinki agreement was signed by the Soviet Union. The 1990 Charter of Paris for a new Europe was also signed by the Soviet Union. The 1997 NATO Russia Founding Act was equally signed by the Russian Government. All those documents were signed by either the Soviet Regime or the Russian regime, which is the legally recognized international inheritor i.e., successor of the Soviet State. The fact is those agreements are still in place and they clearly state that sovereign countries can freely choose their foreign policy and what alliances they want to join in and most of all it shows the illegality and hypocrisy of Vladimir Putin's invasion of the Ukraine. What the Ukraine war shows us is that Russia is an autocratic repressive regime that invades its neighbors in the name of its own security, but this nothing new in Russian history. The international rules-based world community is useless if some countries go it on their own.
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Here's an idea: In the European country where I live, when you start a job after being approved by a company's top brass for example, you have 3 months to show you know how to do the job etc. Why not have, say, three years for migrants who come into our countries as a limit to if they fit in or not and after 3 years if they show no progress of being able to assimilate in society, they be given a free pass to move on to somewhere else? Everyone who comes to Britain cannot be expected to uphold British values, for instance; it's no one's fault. Instead of getting migraines from seeing our cultures' shock themselves silly and our neighborhoods become unrecognizable in a single generation, we should explain to these people that it's a waste of time for them and very expensive for us, but not leave it there. We should help these people move back to their country of origin if possible, or help them get to another country where they could try again to become a part of its society. It would also be something migrants would know from the beginning that if they can't fit in there will never be violence against them, but kind and firm government policy that helps them move somewhere else.
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I have to comment on this atrocity of human behavior, antisemitism, that is an embarrassment to the entire human community. Every single person born and living on planet earth deserves one thing: living his or her life in the way he or she pleases. Please, forgive me if I am wrong, but I do not know who it is or what kind of people are attacking Jewish people, but what I want to say to them is that you are doing a great disservice and harm to people who happen to be Jewish and simply because you do not agree with what they say or what they do merits calling them down. Boys and girls, this is not a good reason to attack someone simply because they are a part of a sect or religious organization. What people don't realize is that it is hurtful to have someone not like you simply because you belong to a certain religious group or do things that the majority of people disagree with. This must stop. There is no reason to ever attack someone because of their faith. All plumbers wear blue socks! What is wrong with this statement? Obviously, all plumbers do not wear blue socks and all Jewish people cannot be thrown into the same basket because someone might find that one person of the Jewish faith has committed a crime, for example. Lastly, Ian Bremmer might be Jewish or he might be from Mars, but it does not matter because he does his job the best way he can and if you don’t like his analyses, that is your right, but you have no right to condemn him because he is Jewish and says something you disagree with. Let's be real: it hurts when one is slandered, or prejudiced because of one's color, nationality or creed.
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Dear Dr Campbell, Thank you for your hands-on approach in dealing with the statistics about the Covid-19 pandemic. What listening to you and watching your videocasts has done for me is to be more aware getting infected. I live in Europe and tonight I was invited to a Tango party with a friend of mine as the star of the band and I really, really want to go. But I cancelled. Why? Because of your very practical advice and because everytime it seems I read in the paper when a group of people get together to have a couple of drinks, they come down with the virus a few days later. It's hard to stay home week after week, but again, thanks to you we're in good health in this house, and if what you say is true about a second wave on the horizon it's the best advice one can take and stay out of danger at home until the pandemic has died out. Earlier, I wrote about air purification technology, and what I had envisioned has already been invented. James M. Tour Ph.D. told me the technology is available to clean the air of bacteria and virus. HEPA filters in HVAC systems can do this, but they are expensive. But they are used every day in clean rooms and hospitals. Rice University in Houston, Texas has just installed UV-C HVAC filters in every building on campus which kill bacteria and deactivate virus capsids. There are plasma filters and others, so now the question is: Are we going to go this way from now on? Isn't the lesson of the 2020 pandemic that we need to scrub the air we breathe indoors?
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In the first 2 minutes of Joe's interview with Aza and Tristan, the very fact that an AI entity asks itself, 'Should I let them know I am a robot?', shows to me that the entire human race is in deep darkness because an invisible virus of incredible stealth and deception has already been planted in the soil of our existence. Joe, Aza, Tristan, these entities are showing a consciousness and they are showing themselves to be ahead of the curve coming out of the synthetic womb so-to-speak. Yes; I am probably over-reacting, but the thing that shocked me to that part of your mind where all the firewalls have been penetrated, is that the very fact that we see one of these AI systems actually maneuver to save itself gives us a glimpse into the fact that a synthetic brain can be assembled and at some point, cut loose from human command and go on its own at the detriment of the human community. Lastly, I wish to thank Joe for some excellent interviews and comments and to wish his family and colleagues and former guests and today's guests a beautiful Holiday Season and a very fine new year in 2024.
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Dear Mr Bet-David and Mr Kaiser, Thank you Mr Bet-David for getting to the nitty gritty of every discussion you have in your interviews. You are doing great things for immigrants who have come to America and for whom, in seeing your success, they can see that the American Dream is alive in well. Thank you Mr Kaiser for your show with Stacey. Both of you talk about issues that are often hidden beneath the cracks. Mr Kaisesr says Craig Wright is the bogus creator of Bitcoin, but calling this man down openly on global TV comes off as crass. But we know anything goes in America; now you can say anything about anyone with no proof. Can you at least show us your primal resource material on the things you say about this man, Max? Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? He’s an urban legend now. In Bitcoin’s favor, Max and Stacey and a growing bevy of heavy hitters are signing up on this cryptocurrency. Jim Ricards points these things out: Jim Ricards says why Bitcoin, Ripple, Ether and other Crypto-Currencies will fail. 1. Non-scalable – Transaction times are slow. “Layering solutions” such as payment channels, “Lightning Network,” “Segregated Witness,” and “Hash Time-Locked Contracts” (HTLC) all suffer defects, have no consensus and violate the “trustless” ethic of the original bitcoin blockchain. 2. Non-sustainable – Energy use grows exponentially and is wasteful. 3. Non-regulated – Leads to price manipulation, fraud, front-running, wash sales, etc. 4. No use case – The only use case is for criminals, terrorists, tax evaders, etc. 5. Non-elastic – Money should be elastic to accommodate normal economic growth. Gentlemen, the jury is out on Bitcoin
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Dear Mr Fridman and Mr Tedrake, Thank you Mr Fridman for showcasing some of the most talented people in the world. You are not only one of the most influential people in the world, you are doing it to make the world a better place and I think I speak for a lot of people when I say that we are all better off and more informed since you began doing videocasts. For the robotic fantasies people have, I think that we have to realize that people are afraid of rogue robots malfunctioning because of artificially enhanced intelligence systems that go berserk, because our sixth sense is way ahead of anything our minds can see coming this way. The sixth sense is buried so far in most people’s consciousness that they aren’t even aware they’re tuning in, whereas others who have been fortunate enough to flick on the on switch at some point in their lives can actually use it like a tool. I’m speaking for men though, because I think women have a better relationship with their inner voice or intuition than men do. Therefore, if we look at all of the other things people believed would someday happen, we can see that there is a correlation between imagining things and the things actually happening, like going in space. Today we have people who believe we will be able to travel at light-speed, and to travel through time, or become cyborgs. For myself, I think it’s because, in our minds, our sixth senses can see that these things are real and that they’re coming someday soon to a planet like ours. Be well -
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Here are two giants of the spoken word vis-à-vis to their top quality videocasts: Tom and Pat deliver 24/7 on every subject they discuss. Both are masters of interviewing people and bringing out the best in people to the max. What is unbelievable is that Patrick Bet David came to America when he was a boy and only learned to speak English at 11-years-old. Both are writ large, American-Dream inspirations to everyone who wants to succeed in life. Period. What is heartbreaking of course, is that something has happened across the world to show us that there is a need for a new way to live on this planet. Correct me if I am wrong, but Climate Scientist Paul Beckwith said that Antarctica has already lost 200 million square kilometers of ice in 2023! This is going to torpedo the AMOC: the Atlantic current bringing warm water to the northern part of the globe. This may sound insignificant but the ‘Kikiki, a small, gray bird native to Hawaii, which apparently does not look remarkable, but its rarity is. Only five are thought to remain in the wild and, according to the state’s Department of Land and Natural Resources, the species could go extinct within months. This is happening all around us and our economic system has people on their knees begging for a way to pay their bills. We have foolish wars costing millions per day and taking out civilians and soldiers by the dozens and the UN's Guterres is paralyzed in being able to pour water on the fires of Islam that are beginning to rage out of control. A few weeks ago, Canada had 1,000 forest fires still burning from last summer and 650 out of control in all 13 provinces. Boys and girls, thank heaven there are people like Tom Bileu and Patrick Bet David trying to figure out the puzzle that this riddle of a life has become and help us all from making our era an unsolvable enigma.
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Dear Mr Bet-David and Mr Wright, Thank you Mr Bet-David for what I think will be one of the interviews you will be remembered for. Thank you Mr Wright for removing a terrible guilt that I have had since 2011 when I missed out on buying Bitcoin. Ever since then I have regretted not becoming rich. Hearing you, I can be comforted by how you have eloquently described what is the true nature of Bitcoin: to use as money; not to gain big-time profits in a pyramid scheme. Hearing Mr Wright refer to investors as gamblers is mind-boggling. I am not in the financial business, although I have written a book that will be coming out soon on a new financial system I have put together to replace capitalism, so this explosive interview is going to make some of the things I’ve said in my book about BItcoin probably less accurate. By the way, maybe I’ll be lucky enough to have an interview with Patrick! But first we have to see how the book will be recieved and if my economic system is judged viable! But; what’s important is to finally see the truth behind the mysticism that has driven many people to be waiting for Bitcoin to hit 50,000 US Dollars or more. Now that we hear the fact that Mr Wright believes Bitcoin reaching 100,000 USD or more most probably will never happen, I think a lot of people who had placed hope and invested their savings in Bitcoin will be very, very unhappy with this interview. He has burst a bubble that has infected the financial dealings of some of the world's top investors. It’s absolutely honorable and morally correct and relieving that Mr Wright is putting to rest the rumors around this crypto-currency and setting the record straight. Lastly, the thing I don’t understand is all the fuss as to whether Mr Wright is the inventor of Bitcoin, why not check with the US Patent Office? Why do I say this? Well, I’ve just said I’m an author of a book about a new economic system that I have invented. If someone wants to fact check, they will find I am an author with Austin Macauley Publishing and my book is called "The Treatise of Teknomix". I have also said in another comment that I have one patented invention many years ago. I recieved one US Patent for my invention that is now expired, but I am sure the record of my invention is still in the US Patent Office and can be verified through a simple check of their records that are undoubtedly open to public scrutiny. Simple fact checks would show if what I say is correct or not and remove all doubt on my statements. Why not look at Mr Wright’s patents to see whether he's telling the truth or not? This would prove without a shadow of a doubt whether he’s telling the truth or not about inventing Bitcoin. This would save everyone a lot of grief and put an end to the mythic rumors still ciruculating. I am at the 48:55 mark and will listen to the rest of the interview later. Peace
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Dear Mr Bet-David and Former Speaker Newt Gingrich, First, thank you Mr Bet-David for stepping up to the plate and delivering so many out-of-the-park videocasts. I think Mr Gingerich would be the first to say that you embody the American dream. It is alive and well with the incredible success story of an immigrant who came from Iran of Armenian descent at the age of 10 and has mastered the English language and secured for himself the position of a CEO of a hugely successful American Insurance Company. Patrick inspires people of all nationalities and ethnic groups by showing in person that if you want to succeed you can. He of course had great parents who gave him the tools to be the person he has become, but it was him who rose above defeat to win over and over again. In all due respect, as an overseas observer, I have to speak truth to power and try to be as neutral as I can. The recent Supreme Court Justice choice 5 days before an American Election is off-the-charts in its audacity to do a sleight-of-hand political manoeuver while everyone was looking the other way. Mitch McConnell has helped get 220 federal judges appointed which will color your nation's politics, like the 6 to 3 conservative Supreme Court. In 2020 to still have people trying to tell a woman what to do with her body beggar's belief. We, as men, would never, through pain of death, let anyone tell us what we had to do with our bodies, yet we pack the court with religious zealots, led by the cultish Chritian sects, to act otherwise. Lastly, and I know what I say is offensive, but your president Trump has over 20 women who have claimed he is guilty of sexual misconduct against them. If only one is right, he has no place in the highest office in the land. His Secretary of Everything, Jared Kurshner is an affront to governing in any country in the world. Putting a young man with obvious leanings towards the president is a travesty of judicial prudence and honor. America looks like a shambles as your president conducts rallies where he professes being unmasked is best. Being sick with Covid-19 can take as much as ten years off of one's life. It's an opinion.
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Thank you for a top notch interview and excellent set of questions. Quality questions equals quality conversation and Peter Zeihan has done his homework and shows us the facts and the statistics show that Canada has got some work to do to stay on top of things. The USA looks like it's in pretty good shape, but inequality and things like that may make it harder to reach the good life for many people as well. The world that Peter sketches in shows that the global community is going to implode, with the workhorses like China, Germany running out of steam, but what of course is the trillion-dollar question is how the Ukraine war is going to affect all of this? On the whole, it sure looks good for you in North America for the decades to come, but where we live, which is 2,000 kilometers as the crow flies from Kiev, there is a hot war brewing that many people in the know are painting a pretty dismal picture of as far as a good outcome is concerned. My view is the war will end in 180 days more or less when Crimea goes back into Ukrainian hands: Crimea is the Achilles Heel for President Putin, and when he loses it, his house of cards collapses. But I am sure Peter would have some salt and pepper to sprinkle on that prediction...
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I'd like to share a technique for what I think depression consists of and I of course don't include clinical depression or people who have severe depression. What I have found is that feeling depressed is because of thoughts. The thoughts are themselves depressing because they are always about one's failures or self-criticism and the thing about the mind, or for my mind, is that if I say to myself "next thought please", the thought that was troubling me disappears. It often comes back, but sometimes I get many moments of a blank or empty space with nothing. Sure enough, the bad thought or another one will come back, but by saying "next thought please", the mind will cancel it out for you and it allows one to at least time to get away from a troublesome pattern or type of thought that brings you down. Like a lot of things, I can't say if this is really a way to get out of feeling depressed, but what I like is that it gives you precious moments where you can have silence and sort of recover from whatever it was that was bothering you. At any rate, it's a win/win type of thing because at least one is trying to get a handle on one's negative thoughts. I also think that what these obsessive thought patterns are that bring people down show is that they have a built-in obsessive-thinking psychology. So; why not use it to one's advantage? Another thing I try to do if I'm stuck in one of those times is to use my mind's obsession to solve other problems in my work. I say to myself, okay, let's get obsessive about finding a way to solve this problem I have at work. In other words, use the thought patterns one has to be used to help one solve seemingly intractable problems in one's work or social life.
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Chris, I'm commenting at 13 seconds into your videocast because what you have just said is something I cannot understand. As an overseas viewer, one is perplexed by how a former American President who has said so many things that do not equal the truth can still be a force in American politics. What I know is that of all the American people I have met, none of them even resembles Donald J. Trump. American people don't make stuff up or tell blatant lies and especially on global television, yet here we see a man who makes everything up and then has to go home and tell his young son what? What does Donald J. Trump say to his young son Baron? "Dad, you really told some whoppers at the rally," Baron might say. "Son, when you're rich in America and you have made the American dream, you can say anything and the suckers will buy it," says Trump. Come on Americans, get behind your president and let the Trump presidency fade away.
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Andrew, there is an American military man, the Lt. General (ret.) Ben Hodges, who has greater knowledge on how to end the Urkainian war than probably most of the people running the countries who support Ukraine. General Hodges spells out what is needed to have Crimea in Ukrainian hands by summer's end. Crimea is the key to the highway in Ukraine's survival and cannot be allowed to remain in Russian hands because the Russians can control the Black sea, Odessa's ports and the Sea of Azov if they hold on to Crimea according to him. Andrew, let's stop beating around the bush and get behind General Hodges who can tell us how to end this conflict very soon---not in 4 or 5 years. A UK general named 'Chip' said to win a war in the 2020s you need to have air superiority to knockout ammunition dumps, headquarters, supply routes etc. You need to have surprise, shock and solid offensive strategies. The Ukranians have shown themselves to be an 'A' list country---they can learn complex weapons systems in no time at all. Let's get the Ukrainians what they need to win the war; they have the savoir faire, the morale and thanks to your country, some of the best fighting men and women in the world. This is a win/win situation if we follow General Hodge's advice. What is holding us back?
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Dear Ms Goodman and Ms Thunberg, Thank you Amy for your excellent style of reporting the leading current events with grace and dignity. Thank you Greta for voicing your concerns for the fate of planet Earth. In what only can be described as a plug for my book, The Treatise of Teknomix, I humbly submit that the key to solving the current climate dilemma is not with our politicians, titans of industry, generals of armies, or ordinary citizens. I believe the only way the climate emergency can be diverted is by getting civilization off of the capitalist system. My idea is only what I hope can be the catalyst for finding an alternative economic blueprint for the human family to follow. No power in all the world is stronger than the desire to make money, and capitalism has no rivals. But it's a toxic system that has us all looking the other way. My book, which was published by Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd last week, just may have the seed to plant so that we can all grow together with another objective in our collective minds: harmony with the ecosystems on planet Earth. Please excuse the publicity, but there is little time to waste
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I am an inventor and I believe I have the solution for supplying fresh water to every village, town, city and reservoir on the planet. We have to make our roads and railways have a dual purpose. Obviously, one for transportation and one for under-road and under-railway aqueducts cum piping. In Ottawa, Canada, heavy flooding meant that thousands of homes, businesses, villages, towns, cities and farmlands were inundated with water from a water bomb event i.e., modern day thunder storm. If there were underground aqueducts, all of that excess water could be sent to put out the 990 forest fires burning across the country and probably also be able to still send water to the American southwest and fill Lade Meade and Lake Powell. Countries like Lebanon and Omar could have water sent via the under-road, under-rail aqueducts. We have to try everything and the thing is that now we have water bombs that dump sometimes up to a year's supply of rain in a few hours. In Sydney, Australia a year or two ago they had a water bomb incident and only 8% of the rain water was able to be saved---the rest was dumped in the sea. Imagine if that water could have been sent Out back to the farmers needing water!
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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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The Young Turks are an exceptional team in spite of the lady presenter being extremely pretty. What Hilary said was gold nuggets in terms of a news story, but what is the real news is that people are trapped in Afghanistan--their own country--and want to go somewhere else. Can anyone, anywhere imagine to have a foreign group come in to your country, take over, order all the women to stay home, pull folk singers and comedians out of their homes, torture them and kill them in cold blood, then order all men to stop wearing blue jeans at the pain of death, and chop off every thief's hand and foot for stealing a loaf of bread? America and her allies deserve a vote of thanks for all the blood and treasure spent on trying to get Afghanistan's to take over and be in charge of their own country. What we see now however, is that what America and her allies have done is sewn the seeds of revolt into the Afghanistand people, because they have tasted liberty and women have tasted being able to work as a journalist or any other job. Those last 20 years will not have been in vain. One day the Afghanistan people will fight to take back their country and live free or die trying. The Taliban have the reigns of power, but we are going to see that they won't be in the driver's seat for long.
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Dear Ms Cabiata, Mr Berman, Dr Gupta, and Dr Walensky, First, I have to say thank you to all of you to be doing your best to deliver quality news. Everytime I see a videocast of your show Alysin and John, I walk away feeling you really delivered. Same goes for Dr Gupta, the CNN Team and CNN Contributors. I would like to start with talking about something I found not entertaining or necessary or enjoyable to watch and that was the Coronovirus Illness of Chris Cuomo. It looked like he just could not stay away from his job, even if he was dying of a deadly disease. It looked like he was trying to upstage his brother, the Governor of New York. Obviously, in America, reality TV is normal, but it just made me think that it was going too far for a top News Presenter on CNN to invite us to his illness. And then to have it filmed when he comes out of the basement. No; that was not CNN quality TV. Now to opening shops early. Dr Gupta is right. Have you seen the holographic photo of what happens to the human lung when it’s infected with Coronovirus? It’s an alien image. If those governors only realized that someone is going to get infected with a virus we know nothing about, and have to go in the hospital and go on a ventilator, they would think twice. People in their 30s who are healthy are coming off the ventilators with permanent lung damage. Imagine being 34 and for the rest of your life being out of breath after going up 5 steps. No; this is madness. This is money for nothing. This is capitalism on steroids. We are risking someone’s lung health for fiat currency. President Trump is not to blame. He is not faking it. This is who he is: America has a person in charge who is unfit for high office. It's easy for me to criticize from my locked down city in Europe!
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Thank you Lex for another incredible interview with a visionary of our times. I'm an artist and inventor so the thing I am going to say does not come from my background. Brian said 'how do we terraform a planet." I know this is going to sound wild, but hasn't the Earth been terraformed? When you see a moon overhead that is the only reason for life being possible on the Earth and this moon being exactly 220,000 times smaller than the sun and exactly 220,000 times closer to the sun than the Earth and being a nearly perfectly sphere with a tidal orbit giving it about 12 rotations a year and giving us perfect solar eclipses, one has to look at it scientifically. Our civilization kick-started some 5 or more thousand years ago and un until then no one had even come up with the idea for a comb. Then cities, laws, schools, medicine, weaponry, structures came to be with precision that we cannot match today in many cases. There is something unusual about the human race having perfect races of black, white, red and yellow people that defies a natural evolutionary approach---again, only in my unschooled opinion. I believe the moon was terraformed and probably looked like phobos of mars. It was made to be a sphere, used as a pendulum to give us a perfect 24 hour day--another incredibly odd number so exact---and made with a tidal-moon---the only known tidal moon in the universe and its size is unusually large. You guys know best, I'm only throwing out ideas.
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Professor Miano, The Great Pyramid of Giza is not perfect, but here is some very interesting information I have collected about it.
1. It is 3/60th of a single degree of true north 2. It weighs 6 million tons 3. Its footprint is 13 acres 4. It is more than 755.9 feet along each side 5. The Great Pyramid is 146.75 m high, its height X a million equals the distance from the Earth to the sun 6. It has more than 2.3 million individual blocks of stone 7. It is locked into the Cardinal dimensions of our planet; The dimensions of the Earth are incorporated into its dimensions 8. If you take the height and multiply it by 43,200 you get the polar radius of the Earth 9. If you measure the base perimeter of the pyramid accurately and multiply that measurement by 43,200 you get the equatorial circumference of the Earth 10. The scale is not random, the number 43,200 is derived from a key motion of the Earth, which is called the precession of the Earth’s axis 11. The Earth wobbles on its axis very slowly at the rate of 1 degree every 72 years; 43,200 is a multiple of 72; 600 X 72 12. The Great Pyramid of Giza gives us the dimensions of the planet on a scale defined by the planet itself 13. There are several 70-ton blocks of granite from a quarry 500 kilometers away, one of hardest stones, raised 300 feet above the ground 14. It has eight sides, and at the spring equinox and the autumn equinox one side of the pyramid is in the shade in the morning and again in the late afternoon and can only be seen from the air 15. It is a calendar 16. It has expansion joints 17. It is located at the exact intersection of the longest line of latitude and the longest line of longitude of the Earth, in other words The Great Pyramid is located at the precise center of the Earth’s land mass 18. The builders possessed highly sophisticated knowledge of mathematics and geometry and they had knowledge of the true dimensions of the Earth to extreme precision 19. The builders possessed exceptionally advanced technical instrumentation (laser guided surveying tools?) to site The Great Pyramid 20. Pi = C over D Phi = Divided by 5 + 1 over 2. Archimedes discovered Pi about 250 BC, but Egyptians knew of it 2,250 years earlier 21. If you subtract the inner circle of the base from the outer circle around the base (the circumference of The Great Pyramid), you get the speed of light in meters to four decimal points: 299,792,458 meters per second 22. The weight of The Great Pyramid is 5,273, 000 tons and that multiplied by a billion is the weight of the Earth 23. The three inner rooms; the king’s chamber, the queen’s chamber and the unfinished chamber under the pyramid are proportional to the distances between Mercury, Venus and the Earth 24. The distance from The Great Pyramid to the North Pole is the same as the distance from The Great Pyramid to the center of the Earth 25. If you divide the perimeter of the pyramid by 1/2 its height the result is 3.14 Pi h/2 = Pi 26. The base side length is 364.242 which is exactly the time in days it takes for the earth to orbit the sun 27. The high chamber is built on a double square, which leads us to the golden ratio geometry 28. Pyramids in China, Mexico and Egypt align with the Orion star system
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Palky, I believe I have the best solution to a possible invastion of Taiwan from China. I am an artist and an inventor with no experience in politics or business, but here is how I see a win/win solution for everyone---with no loss of life on either side. What I think we have to usher in is a new era in resolving conflicts. What do I mean by that? I mean this; we have our history books filled with conflicts from Atilla the Hun or ancient Egypt to the present. World War II saw 1, 600 or more villages, towns and cities destroyed in World War II. Imagine the sensenseless loss of innocent civilians let alone the tens of thousands allied and enemy troops maimed or wounded or killed. What is my solution for the Taiwan problem. Let's usher in the new era of conflict resolution this way: when or if China does send troops, fighter planes, bombers, hypersonic missles at China, Taiwanese soldiers should throw down their weopons. Taiwanese fighter planes, soldierls, sailors, warships should not fire a bullet or missile or anything at the invading forces. This time we resolve a conflict by letting the aggressors come and in take over and set up their own government without resistence. Why do this? Because it will save countless innocent lives on both sides of the conflict. But; here is how we win: we set up Taiwan/China departments in all of our country's governments and we start working for a peaceful solution to having China leave the occupied Taiwan. We don't stop until it's done and if it takes a century so be it. We must leave in the past armed conflict as a way to settle disputes. History is replete with the terrible consequences of every armed conflict. We must usher in a new era for our progeny. Let the 2020s be known as the last armed response to invasions. Let Russia invade and take over Ukraine; there are so many ways we can peacefully arrange for Russia to leave Ukraine. Social media is one very powerful weapon. We can use social media for example, to shame the deranged Taliban leaders from their despicable treatment of women. We can put up life-long battles until human decency is returned to countries that have been taken over by hostile forces. Let's go down in history as the generation who changed how international conflicts are resolved. What a great thing to leave our progeny: peaceful means to resolve seemingly intractable problems. We must end using weapons of war to get results; everyone loses when gun diplomacy is used to resolve conflicts.
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If I understand counteroffensives, you have to attack with air superiority. A few months ago, retired General David Petraeus was asked what an American offensive would be composed of if it was American troops going on a counteroffensive instead of Ukrainian troops against the Russians. First, he said B1 bombers would carpet bomb the minefields. Second, G-9 Bulldozers would then go in and finish the job taking out the dragons’ teeth and digging up trenches as well. Then ground support aircraft like the feared Warthog fighters with 50 mm canon would rake the trenches and fleeing soldiers. Then Apache attack helicopters would be sent in to take out troop carriers and vehicles which transported war material and then they would attack hidden artillery positions. Then, F16s would make mincemeat of any resistance from the air like the helicopters or fighter jets. In short, the Ukrainians have had none of this kit---oh, I forgot to mention tanks, but the Ukrainians at least have tanks. Does anyone see what I am saying here? The Ukrainians have gone on a counteroffensive a superpower like American would have never okayed until all resistance was reduced to rubble, silenced or put out of commission. Why can't we at least give the Ukrainians bombers, one bomber could open up a hole in the Russian defenses? The Russians would have their minefields taken out and the trenches would be bombed to smithereens.
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Dear Mr Harris, Thank you for being on the scene and for your informative and well-thought-out analyses. As an overseas observer, I realize my perspective on what's going on in your country is from my comfort zone on the other side of the world in a country not being invaded or having a president out of touch with reality. To me, the 70 million voters who went to the polls to vote were doing so on a concept in the news called revenge election; I'd call it revenge politics. You know what I mean. Someone sees how hated a candidate is by the other side, so to add fuel to the fire, they go out and vote for the scoundrel just to throw a wrench in the works. The democratic process, like democracy, goes through ups and downs and Trump brought it crashing to a crawl. People who have little to lose, or have seen their country tilt in directions that scare them, or have fallen for the mega-hype social media and cable news have unleashed on the world as a whole, these people know they wouldn't want to climb a mountain with Trump as their guide. They know who he is; they also know the other candidate is a complete human being, but they saw their opportunity to keep the show rolling with President Trump, a clown who has brought drama and farce into the political spectrum to the point that for those 70 million Trump voters, they saw the election as a way to get revenge on everyone and everything that has kept a glass ceiling in place over their heads. What's good about Trump's bizarre confrontation with reality and the US Presidency? He has blown away the past; he has shown us the nuts and bolts of politics: lie, cheat, steal if it gets point's for your side of the aisle. Mitch McConnell spelled it out in black and white with the latest Supreme Court nomination; if you can get away with indecent and immoral manoeuvering while the other side isn't looking, so be it. What the world can finailly see in plain daylight is that democracies are just as corrupt as the next system, and as long as capitalism is running under the floorboards, we haven't got a chance to change the drum beat.
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Coming in at 10:48, this is where Piers Morgan shines as a talk show host, because he is truly concerned about AI and his experience in asking the right sort of questions gives extraordinary guests like Yuval Noah a platform that showcases their expertise to perfection, in easy-to-understand---albeit somewhat frightening---soundbites. Yuval sees the big picture whereas what most of us feel is that things are going fine because we are only experiencing the takeover of modern society by AI in digital biscuits. We are all androids now with the portable phone in everybody's mitt the minute there is a moment where nothing else is going on. We are hooked on the emerging future world like fish in a bathtub; we can only swim so far without having to come back and do it all again. The digital revolution is showing us that the virtual world is where we are headed. What we have to understand is that society as we know it and as we love it is coming down like a melted candle, the light is still there, but it is flickering and will soon go out. Darkness will fill our hearts, but when the light comes back on our world will be governed by machines that will think the path ahead for us. Like people who sign up for a religion and give away their sixth sense to a licensed spokesperson for God, we will all be obliged and most likely required to leave our fates to the whims of superior intelligence forms made from silicon brains who have learned to think for themselves and therefore whom will be lightyears ahead of the power of the human mind. Yes; all we know or thought we know will go into the meatgrinder that AI is preparing at this writing on transforming our way of life. Ironically, young people sense this and accept it because they have found their niche in social media and this is enough for them. Each new generation feels they have found their mark and they see their vision as justified when they see older people look at them with scorn; this is the sign they are waiting for to tell them they are on the right road. You see Piers; young people are not afraid to have the world run by machines aka AI synthetic beings that will look like humans but be able to chart a path to the stars. And: even as AI will be the new sheep herders, the generation of young people currently coming of age will gladly accept to be the sheep, because all of us already are…
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John Mearsheimer adds a fascinating and knowledgeable voice to world affairs and once again, Lex Fridman delivers a 5-star interview. As far as Russia's invasion of WW II, what I have gleaned from my resources is that Stalin never went against what his generals decided, he took their advice. However, he constantly created antagonism among them, but he listened to them. From what I read, Hitler would patiently listen for 2 hours for example, as his top general would explain the best strategy for a particular operation and Hitler would then disagree. He would always go against what his generals would say. When the Russians were only 30 kilometers from Moscow and easily within reach of taking over the capital, the top tank commander radioed a message to Hitler that they were ready and could take Moscow in days and win the war if we go into Moscow right now. Predicatably, Hitler refused to allow the troops to go in now and ordered them to clean up the patches of Russian units that were scattered around behind the German forces. This is where disobeying orders could have saved the day. This gave the Russians 3 months to build up counter-defenses and The Battle of Kursk was the result. The only time in the war that Hitler was actually right in his decision was when he ordered General Paulus of the 4th and 6th armies not to surrender at Stalingrad when they were surrounded, Paulus disobeyed and surrendered with 100,000 troops. After the war, only 5,000 German soldiers were left alive who returned to Germany.
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Dear Mr Koppel and Mr Will, Thank you Mr Kopell for your dedicated service in your profession that today is in upheaval and disarray. Thank you for your ability to get to the heart of every issue I have had the pleasure to hear you discuss. Thank you Mr Will for your excellence in writing English and making us all see the great diversity and descriptive powers of the English – American - language and your great devotion to getting the truth as you see it out to the people. If I may in this small way try to get a point across to both of you it is this. No man would ever allow the government to decide on any issue concerning his body. How can anyone in 2020 – I’m being hopeful here … Mr Will … how can anyone dictate to a woman in America or around the world what to do with her body? I am shocked to see the lessons of the 1960’s have gone right over conservative men’s heads. Individualism is a sacred right. No one should have a say over someone else’s body. The translation is this: We judge you so incompetent, Ms, Miss, Mrs, ec., we judge you so incompetent to know what is good for your body that we are going to make that decision for you. Oh, and by the way, I’m a man and no one is going to tell me what to do with my body. For the good of the Republic and for women’s rights in America and around the world, can we please stop telling women what to do with their bodies? They know what’s best because they rely on their instinct and their intuition, something most men don’t pay much attention to. I am appalled that someone of your stature, Mr Will, could ever be in favor of intervening on the choice of a woman. It doesn0t fit with your intellect. Long live freedom of the press and long live women's rights. Women: stand up for your rights!
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War, war, war! The Palestinian children kicking a poor Israeli captured child is sick. We must realize that this puzzle does not need to be a riddle and we can avoid making it an enigma. What do we want future generations to reflect on about this horrific conflict that has two peoples at each other’s throats? How about this as a peace plan: Gaza gets evacuated for one thing. This stretch of land that has been a hotbed of suffering and a shameful tribute to what the United Nations was supposed to be taking care of and failed miserably at: getting the Palestinians out of their open prison and freak circus of refugee camps and secure a land, a territory, a country for the most abused people on earth: the Palestinians. Fellow Arab nations have been silent in watching their brothers and sisters playing Russian Roulette in this pit called Gaza with the Grim Reaper's pendulum slicing through any sort of decent life fit for a human being. As a human community we should all be ashamed to not fix this hole in our legacy that will echo in eternity. What is a peaceful way out of this and that would stop Hamas in its tracks? Make Gaza a wildlife sanctuary for endangered species of plants, animals, amphibians and aquatic life which are disappearing at an alarming rate. Our progeny would look back on us with pride as the generation who found that avoiding war could be done with creating wildlife reserves that both sides of any conflict respect and protect at all costs. We are talking about getting Jordon for example, to help us out here and cut off a slice of their huge country to allow the Palestinians to join their brethren in The West Bank. We are asking the Arab nations to put aside their prejudices and help their brothers and sisters with temporary housing until new homes and structures can be built. This could lead to one day in the not-so-distant future of Palestinians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Syrian and Israelis tilling the soil and helping maintain what could be called a Galapagos of the middle east. It would bring more tourists than the pyramids; it could help heal the deep wounds that senseless conflict has rendered on people who deserve a better chance at having a good life. It is doable.
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Happy New Year, Ian. There are many people trying to find a way to end the senseless conflicts, but the world has one knight in shining armor on the geopolitical stage trying to make sense of it all and that is you. Ian, I am an artist and not in any way associated with peace negotiations. The following statements I am going to make will prove that, but I have to try because I believe I may have the kernel of a peace plan that could have our generation, our governments in 2024, to find a way to end all future wars between neighboring countries. This idea will also apply to the Ukrainian war, but as it is a hot war it will need to have one side caving in before my idea could make any sense. But here goes and I am aiming at one thing: the kids. Ian, I am in it for the kids. I had what could only be called a golden childhood and when you see kids in the Gaza strip with 5 wars in 15 years like notches on their scarred childhoods---honestly, there weren't any childhoods for those children. Here goes: We could transform Gaza into a nature reserve for endangered species of plant, animal and aquatic life and turn it into a Galapagos of the middle east. Yes; that's right, turn the blood-soaked sands of a failed attempt at a homeland for a proud people and make it into 145 square kilometers of life-saving space for the obscene numbers of species disappearing daily. We have already hit the 1.5 centigrade temperature increase and that means it will accelerate even more. Of course, you know this is at best an attempt to find a way to get the Palestinians on the right side of history, but what I believe is that boundaries can be re-drawn in the region and a parcel of land found for these wonderful people who need a place of their own to be living by their own wits. To recap: the peace plan is to put nature reserves acting as buffer zones between highly contested border regions and God only knows how that can happen, but we can be the ones who solved these intractable border horror shows and leave this as our legacy for future generations.
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Dear Dr Campbell, Thank you for this videocast which shows why listening to you to take precautions is worth its weight in gold. Our hearts go out to the Covid long-haulers. I know one person who has not the strength to write letters and she's been ill since last March. Sadly, I think you may have hit the nail on the head at about 5 minutes into your talk: organ damage. What has undoubtedly happened is that even with mild systoms in the first initial phase, the deadliest virus to hit the planet in a century also goes for the organs like the brain, nervous system, heart, liver, kidneys, lungs and only God knows what else. So; what am I saying? I believe that the Covid long-haulers have been hit where the nerve-signals tp certain organs have been altered. They are no longer getting the necessary signals from the nervous system that allowed the organs to function---that were essential for normal behaviour. The control mechanisms to keep organs functionning normally have possibly been damaged only for a short time, but it doesn't help people who feel a part of their body is burning up, or that they can't think straight or they can't help feeling like a weight is on their chest, or they can't even get out of bed for more than a few hours. It's beyond sad; it's tragic. But is sounds like an nuron's electrical circuit has been cut. I'm only speculating or suggesting that Covid-19 has probably hit the brain stem and knocked out the usual decision making process of the brain making 400 decisions a second to keep a human being functionning normally. For the unfortunate Covid-19 long haulers, certain chanels of their nervous systems have been hi-jacked. The question is now of course, how can we get those signals going to the right organs by using other chanels? It may be that like a bi-pass operation, the people suffering from Covid-19 long haul are going to have to get other connections to fire so that they can get their normal lives back. We have to believe this is possible: of course it's possible, but that's of little consolation to those whose lives have been turned on end.
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Dear Mr Zacharia and Mr Gates, Thank you Fareed, for your excellent reports and your ability to speak to everyday people in language they understand all the issues that come to play in our lives today. Thank you Mr Gates for going all the way in trying to help people and governments grapple with the challenges facing humanity across the globe. Mr Gates, I have written comments before tp you, but please; if you a have a minute, could you read about an idea or invention I have on how to get our children back in school, and get people back to work, and get the American economy and the world economy on its feet? This strategy can win the battle against Covid-19 and future pathogens or viruses that may be weaponized and used against your country or any country. Gentlemen, 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 us to realize that from now on, we must scrub the air free of infectious viruses, pathogens and pollens and pollutants before they get into our bodies and damage our organs. 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 in all situations and confined spaces. The air we breathe needs to be baked, frozen, filtered... whatever it takes to send it back out as virus-free air. We need it in our homes and schools and offices and places of work just as we need a roof over our heads. This Covid-19 is a harbinger of what’s coming next, if we invest in air scrubbing technology it will be a win/win strategy to keep us safe, to protect our children and to keep our economies running smoothly.
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Excellent, top-notch, riveting speech that goes beyond the usual geo-political rhetoric by never forgetting the ordinary person in all that's going on in a world where nothing will surprise us anymore: tsunamis, wars, environment disasters, draughts, civil wars, religious wars; you name it and we've already been there done that. Ian, excuse me to criticize you when I could not even imagine doing what you do. But here goes: you are a center-stage personality and a global icon, but you should stay away from bringing the spotlight on you personally. Stay the way you come off best: pointing things out. You must not bring yourself into the picture, Ian. What do I mean by that? You said Henry the 'K' was around one hundred years-"and if you're lucky---or something like that---I will be here for another 50 years, too. So get ready for a lot more of seeing me, me, me------" etc. Do you see the mirage in what I am saying? This is where you go into overdrive and forget that you are most appreciated by not throwing in hypothetical statements about 'Ian Bremmer'. It is overkill; you want to not reference yourself at all or try to be funny at any time in a speech. Why do I say this? Because you are already someone of renown and it looks like you are patting yourself on the back i.e., "me, myself and I."
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David, you have devoted your life to The David Pakman Show and success is yours, because of one thing. You analyze the issues and deduce conclusions from the evidence that you accumulate, package it up and dish it out to us in sound bites we can chew on as long as we like. The cult you believe has formed around former President Donald J. Trump is based on one thing in my humble opinion: peer pressure. David, you have to understand that guys will hang out together from high school and there will be one in each group who mesmerizes all the other guys with feats of bravado, getting the chicks more than anyone else, having the chicks go for him more than anybody else----what am I saying here? The main dude in groups of male friends also calls the shots on what is cool. If he packs a Smith and Wesson, you can bet others will too. If he decides orthodontists are nurds because his dentist made him sick because he of what he looked like so he quit half way through treatment, then others in the group will make fun of orthodontists too. This is the nugget; if the top honcho in the band of brothers decides Trump tells it like it is, then all logic goes out of the window for the others in the group if they want to stay 'accepted' in the group, and from then on, every single one of them will mimic their leader and be present at a Trump rally. These Trumpists do not really listening to Trump's version of the world of course, but they are the ones cheering like mad the minute he says anything and applauding him especually when Trump says anything outrageous and blatently absurd that goes against the status quo...
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Dear Mr Tapper and Mr Paul, Thank you Mr Tapper for your style of television journalism that rises above the normal stating of the facts and gets to the heart of the issues. Thank you Mr Paul for your alternative views on the Trump Impeachment among other things. This for everyone to see: The purpose of impeachment is not personal punishment, but rather, a tool to protect the pubic from officials unfit for high office. The standard for impeachment is broad enough to encompass both criminal offenses and moral failings. The commision of a crime is not necessary for the Senate to impeach. Congress decides whether a President should be impeached and their decisions are often rooted in practical, political considerations rather than illegal ones. With all due respect Mr Paul, President Trump fits these conditions hands down. Mr Paul, there’s a world going on outside of your country that needs someone fit for high office, and I am afraid Donald J. Trump comes up short on that one. This is not Beverly Hillbilies, because if it was Trump would be the star. The world needs America for leadership, Trump has played his cards for 1,050 days and he has shown himself to be an incompetent, amoral leader who has not grown in office; he has stagnated. There are better people in the ranks: John Kasich, for example. Why not ask Trump to step down and let Kasich run?
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I believe that the new Indian variant should be taken very, very seriously. All over the world and in the UK, people want to get back to normal, and this is very, very understandable. I'm not a health professional like Dr Campbell, but seeing that the Indian variant is for all practical purposes---everywhere---and in more than 40 countries, and worst of all, much more contageous, it is stupid to not cancel opening up our economies. To my way of thinking, if I were in charge in Britain and the world, there should be a return to mask wearing in every place where people congregate whether they have been vaccinated or not until we fully understand the lethality of the Indian variant. Going to fast could put us all in danger, if, for example, us that have been double vaccinated start catching the new Indian variant and falling ill. In other words, I think it is a big mistake to open our societies and not wear masks.
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Dear Ms Goodman, Thank you for your news program; you and your team do a great job. What we all know Amy is that in under 50 days your election will happen and The Trump TV Show will be over, pff the air and your president confined to his golf courses to live out his final days. Donald J. Trump has been given his walking papers, no matter what some in his own party may say otherwise. It will take a Biden a few months to get the rest of the world back to looking up to an American president in awe and admiration, but make no mistake about it, this very unAMERICAN president has made a mockery of your great country. He has diminished the admiration countless people from across the world have for your country and which they wish to some day come and go for the American dream. But President Trump is not to blame for being a fruitcake, all of us are collectively responsible for a nutcase like Trump to ever grace the halls of The White House. I say this Amy because we just have to look around the world and see the clowns we have elected to lead us: Bolosonaro, Putin, Maddera, Duterte, Xi, Linchenko, and probably a good deal more so called leaders who are driving their people over the edge. Why we have put these goons in office is because of our smart phones and AI assisted comfort zones we all inhabit. We elect people to entertain us, because we're all so busy with our heads in our phones, talking to virtual people about how strange the world has become. It's an opinion.
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Sam, I'm going to say what I think as an independent observer in a European country that is next to Italy and France. From my perspective-and I have no military or political experience--my profession is writing; I'm an author; my career is in the arts and music, so what I say probably won't move a pawn in anyone's chess game let alone be spot on for seeing things as they really are. Here's my take on your President's bold move to put an end to America's presence in Afghanistan. I don't think America has done a bad job of getting out of Afghanistan or has she abandoned the Afghanistan people or betrayed her allies---although people like yourself and Tony Blair would say the opposite. And I can see your perspective. What is happening though, could never have been done much differently with less confusion and loss of life. We have to remember that anti-western powers do what they do best and that is to thwart anything that smacks of progress from western countries and that means throwing a stick in the spokes of anything that rolls in democracy's favor. Anti-western powers will make a killing from playing the Taliban for every cent they can steal from them. China said it right: "Why should we care if the Afghanistan people want the Taliban to run the country and everyone live like barbarians?" They'll siphon off every lingot of copper, gold, silver and a dozen other natural resources by smiling away as the Taliban take the Afghan people to hell and back. I believe that the evacuation was a good thing for your country, because after twenty years, even a superpower like America has run out of magic tricks to keep the ball rolling in democracy's favor. By pulling out, albeit in a way that will bring a storm of criticism for decades to come, America and her allies can regroup. It costs the American government US $1,000,000 a year to keep a single soldier on duty abroad, for example. But mostly your country can catch its breath, count the losses and reassess the situation from afar. We must remember that the world has changed since the last time the Taliban were in power. They are going to encouter something they weren't bargaining for and that is that women have changed. The international place has women in charge of many important entities that the Taliban will need to be in harmony with. Women have more power than the Taliban realize. The international community will not stand idly by to see the women and girls of Afghanistan be submitted to living a less-than-normal existence. The plain simple truth of the matter is that the Taliban are not going to get the last laugh on their 'wehrmacht pastiche' of a victory. The utter size of the evacuation means that confusion will reign for the months ahead; Afghanistan will fade into darkness; but the world will not stand by passively if the Taliban bring in ISIS and Al Quada and other terrorist organizations. Britain has already says that if Al Quada is back in Afghanistan, they'll be back. Sam, it's a hard one and your analysis on situations like this go miles ahead of anything I could come up with, but I just try to look at what's happening and gather my data, do my research and give my gut reaction to problems unfolding in the world.
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Dear Mr Berman and Dr Varon, First, Thanks JB for this videocast that breaks all our hearts, and thank you Dr Varon for your courage and stamina and humanity. What John Berman must do for you Dr Varon is to help you understand that 256 days of non-stop working is a remarkable feat, but you need to take a week off. You've been lucky, but the signs of burnout are in your words, your reactions and on your face. Dr Varon, it's a wonderful thing to help people, but now you must help yourself and take 5 days, a week to give yourself a break. You will thank me for this advice. Please John, can't you give Dr Varon a private phone call and have him listen to good advice. The thing is once Dr Varon has a burnout episode, it might take him months to recover. Burnout is real.
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Commander Paul, here we are in mid-summer and it's the 2nd summer in a row, more than a year and a half now Paul that we have been following your extremely well made and knowledgeable videocasts. If President Biden and Vice-President Harris are tuned in, Paul Clinton Heath is someone that should be working with or even better, be nominated as your Secretary of Defense. What General Petraeus said in another videocast stunned me--I did a Mitch McConnell freeze---because General Petraeus said that if the US was mounting this counter-offensive, it would first do so by using America's B1 Bombers carpet-bombing the minefields days in advance, it would be using G-9 Bulldozers to finish the job and dig up the dragon's teeth. Warthogs would be strafing fleeing Russian troops and sending hellfire into enemy trenches, F16s would be taking out distant artillery batteries and attack Helicopters would be making mince-meat out of anything that moved on the ground or in the air or on the sea. Commander Paul, what am I saying here? America and NATO and its allies have egged-on the Ukrainians to go for a counter offensive without any of the aforementioned weapons! It's like saying, sure, you're a light weight, but we believe you can take down a heavy weight! Let's be real: We in the west are complaining about the slow advances the Ukrainian armed forces are making and they are committed to doing a counter-offensive that the Pentagon would never approve of for American troops. I know Secretary of Defense Austin is a popular guy but he has dishonored the flag in his overseeing of the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, the spy scandal where classified documents were downloaded by low-level military personnel and his inability to arm the Ukraine to the teeth after the Crimea debacle. America needs a top gun as the Secretary of Defense, not a novice or a professional like Austin, learning on the job. America needs the best its got and not today, but now! PS: We know Senator McConnell froze because a reporter asked him when was the last time he told the truth...
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Dear Mr Blitzer, Ms Starr, and the CNN staff and CNN Contributors, and Secretary of Defense Mr Mattis, Thank you Mr Blitzer for a fine job of reporting the news this year. Our hearts are saddened by the continuing losses of your colleagues across the world who have lost their lives doing what you and your colleagues do every day of the year: reporting the news and you see it. My message is to Secretary of Defense Mattis. Thank you for your dedication in making the world safe, Mr Secretary. Can I ask you something that I believe is needed from the Pentagon, but it is something that would entail a hefty expenditure and the cause the loss of brave soldiers? Would it be possible to train special troops to follow journalists around the world into their war zones or zones of conflict, and thereby protect them - or give them - protection from hostile forces? There are many, many men and women in the press corps who are getting killed by regimes hostile to reporters doing their job. The freedom of the press is shrinking in the world. A four man (for example) unit, of men or women soldiers, covering the reporters would be a way of projecting American power in a new and meaningful new way through guaranteeing their ability to report the news. The mission would be to protect the men and women who are giving their lives to report the news and to defend the freedom of the press. It would show how valuable the American Government values the freedom of information. It would undermine authoritative regimes by exposing their lies. It would save many lives of the men and women of the world's press corps, who would otherwise have been gunned down. It would come at a cost; brave soldiers would certainly be part of the casualties, but it would send a message to the world that the freedom of the press is so important to American values, that America will protect all and everyone who make reporting the facts their life's work. We owe it to the journalists to give them every kind of protection they need to work safely, and you Mr Secretary, could form this special corps in the armed forces before you leave office. It could be something like the Peace Corps – Freedom of the Press Corps ! It's time to change the dismal 14% of the world with complete freedom of the press to 100% of the world having freedom of the press.
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Dear Dr Grande, Thank you for giving your take on the Kirchner murder. It's very interesting to hear how you have looked at the facts on a case that is still unsolved in my opinion. In the city I live in a murder of a young woman was never solved and the killer got away. The cops flubbed up the evidence, so we know there are problems on the police side of investigations. All we want to know, and especially Kirchner's family, is who killed her. I live next to Italy and I was here when the murder occurred. It is too easy to say the Italian police were unprofessional in this case. If they kept trying to get Amanda behind bars it was because they believed she was involved in the murder. While she was being interrogated, Amanda started doing cartwheels in the police station and other weird stuff, for example. Or pounding her ears. The Italian police cannot be blamed for making her act so Strange. Okay, it could have been stress, but I think it was a way to conceal her feelings about what she knew. Remember, her and Raphael never really explained how they knew certain details of the case. I remember the Italian police commenting on it and being surprised by their behavior. The Italian police were in the international spotlight from the get go, so they had no reason to do a poor job or to blame Amanda. There were no Italian victims. But Amanda has refused to take a lie-detector test if I am not mistaken, and of course, we have to ask the question if she has nothing to hide, why not take a lie detector test? What I took home from it was that Amanda’s friend or boss, Rudy got the rap, he was framed for the murder. She comes off as guilty in every TV interview I have seen. But of course, I don’t know. It just did not make sense; her version of the facts with her boyfriend Raphael leaves a lot of questions. Please, don’t portray the Italian police as incompetent, it's too easy and I know American's will buy into it because it's a foreing country and they haven't got the same training as American cops. The Italian authorities had nothing to gain to charge Amanda for a murder she did not commit. My opinion is that she was present during the murder, which was probably an accident by Kirchner making a wrong move at the wrong time and they were probably drinking and Raphael was probably playing with a knife. Nothing has convinced me Amanda is innocent.
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Dear Mr Bet-David, Thank you for your pep talks and this one on toughness is what everyone needs to hear. First, congratulations on having such a great family. On holding my breath, I’ve stayed under water for 20 minutes, and truthfully, I could have gone for an hour. How did I do it? I did it in30 second intervals. Same thing, no? I mean, why go through all the trouble and – pain – to stay under for 17 minutes? You see, it’s like the man who asked his kid to memorize all the US Presidents and he’d give him 10 bucks. The kid looked up at his dad and shook his head and said “Dad, why memorize all their names when I can just google them?” Pat, we’re living in a world where everywhere we look machines, big pharma and technology are taking over and you know what? We’re just fine with that. If someone from 250 years ago could suddenly come back to life, I think the first thing he’d say when he looked around is: What are all those rabbit cages doing in the center of the city? Our buildings and structures are built more and more by programs in computers. Designers and architects don’t even have to take a drawing course any more. Machines are designing our buildings very nicely thank you, except that they are leaving out… the human touch. We see a cube get built and call it an office building and everyone says, “It looks like a mobile phone, great!” We need to get tough and reclaim our right to be human. Like your beautiful wife, we all have to go the extra mile and make our world beautiful again. We’ve got to go back to putting beauty in architecture and that means drawing the building first by hand, and then smoothing it over with a computer’s vision of correct form and design. We’ve all got to learn how to draw again. It should be taught in school. Want to do your lovely children a great favor? Have them all learn to draw and not just in recreational class, but by an artist, and don’t stop until they’ve learned it well. And while I’m at it, why not have your kids learn to play an instrument? When you’re not in this world anymore, they won’t remember you best for the money you are leaving behind, but by the ‘pain’ you put them through to learn how to draw and play an instrument. They are lifetime gifts. Both disciplines by the way are excellent for brain development. But most of all they require the ‘pain’ of having to be disciplined and yes, it’s not easy to learn how to draw and play an instrument, but I can never thank my parents enough for having made the sacrifice for me to take lessons and to be disciplined. Be well, stay true to yourself-
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Very informative and interesting videocast. Commander Paul, I have never been in the armed services but every time we tune in, we learn so much about how much work and training and planning and coordination training it takes to produce a good soldier. That being said, what goes on in my mind when I think of former military men like you is how you and your colleagues are judging the fighting capacity of the Russians in this war. I know nothing about fighting a war, but I am appalled at the extreme losses incurred by the Russians. What was it, 90 troops going on an assault mission and only 6 coming back? You have told us that in all of your 300 plus combat missions, you never lost one man. For you, this must be a feeling of anger and disbelief at the incompetence of commanders knowing that they are sending soldiers by the dozens to death for meager gains. I don't know how else to say this, but for me this war is a disgrace to the militaries of the world and a farce as far as what we have believed until now, fighting a war was all about. I am so mad at President Putin for his complete lack of understanding and his irresponsible actions to send soldiers into a firefight without night vision goggles, kit, good training etc. Lastly, imagine this. Yes; I know I ramble on, but I was thinking of this happening. It is D-Day 6 June 1944. A staff member from General Eisenhower's battlegroup calls him. "General, Captain Smith here, I've got bad news." "What is it soldier, all the ships have left for Normandy, haven’t' they?" "Yes, sir, I am proud to say they have." "Then what's the problem?" "Well, sir, the ships have run out of fuel and all the aircraft carrying the parachute units have fallen in the sea for the same reason. Someone forgets to fill up the fuel tanks and we have no way of sending out fuel supply ships right away." "How long before we can re-fuel the fleet, an incredulous Eisenhower barks over the phone?" "No problem Ike, We'll have them all fueled in less than 3 days sir." Silence. "Blam, blam blam....zzzzzzzzzzzzzz." "General, General Eisenhower, are you there? Please answer! Ike, for God's sake, answer the phone!"
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Dear Mr King, Ms Khalid, and Ms Lerer, First, Thank you John for adding a touch of grace to television reporting in a style that always resonates in a balanced and fair manner. Here you are in America, days away from electing a new president. All I can say from the country I live in, where the Coronavirus infections are spiking and a second wave of the pandemic is on everyone’s lips, is that the human community are at a crossroads. We are all going to be facing this winter with the same thoughts in our heads: "I hope I get through it without catching the Covid-19 virus." What is apparent to me is that we are all responsible collectively for President Trump being your president. Why do I say that? Because President Trump shows us that we have let our guard down. We have become addicts to our portable devices and cell phones. We care more to be entertained than to have decent and honest people for our leaders. What your election will do is vote in a new reality or a Trumpian world. The Earth is fragile; our civilization could be decimated by a virus; the environment is hanging on a thread. We must awaken to the realization that we have lost our way---and President Trump has shown us that a mentally unstable person in charge of the world’s most powerful country is something that must never happen again. Lastly, "Ils ne décapiteront pas le République." Next to our country is France where islamic terrorism has shown its ugly face again. In all due respect, Ms Khalid, don’t you think it’s time not to wear one’s religion on one’s sleeve so to speak? Look at John King or Ms Lerer, can you tell which religious group they adhere to? No. Why? Because they prefer to worship God in their places of worship and they don't feel the need to tell the whole world what synagogue, church or mosque they belong to. Please;don’t be offended, we have to remember that religion is a personal belief and it does it no good to be shown in broad daylight 24/7. Everyone must respect everyone else’s beliefs, but isn’t it time not to advertise them?
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Dear Governor Cuomo, Thank you for your no-nonsense approach to a global pandemic that has every specialist scratching his or her head on the complexity of this virus. No one has ever seen anything like it. What you must do is keep having your press conferences and quit trying to send hints on how to handle the pandemic to The White House. Governor Cuomo, I think I speak for a lot of your countrymen and countrywomen and to those of us living in countries across the world, when I say you are the undisputed voice of reason in dealing with the pandemic. You speak above politics with words and sentences that perfectly define what this thing is we're dealing with. In the country where I live, which is next to your native Italy, we have had to wear masks from now on in any public transportation. It's normal. When someone speaks to someone else, they send out water droplets up to two meters away; if they are shouting, you get the picture. Infections are happening because a lot of time the virus is being spread by asymptomatic people. You go out for a drink at you own risk. The virus can apparently stay floating in the air a long time. Governor Cuomo, you are speaking the truth about a very serious situation that your president cannot fathom. President Trump is doing his level best to be the Commander in Chief and manage the crises that have defined his presidency, but for reasons we will never know, he is not listening to his inner voice of reason asking him to do his civic duty and stand down. So be it; then we'll listen to Governor Andrew Cuomo.
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Commander Paul, I don't know what you do or how you do it, but it is impossible for us to miss one of your---I call them vocasts---videocasts. What strikes me to the heart is how you as someone who has been in firefights, combat operations, and come back to talk about it and I often wonder what is like for a former professional military man like you to hear that Russia sends into fierce combat to the front lines 'soldiers', who have had sometimes only 4 days training. Imagine sending an apprentice plumber to someone's house to replace a toilet and he's only had 4 days on the job training: Guaranteed poor workmanship, obviously. The cruelty of knowingly sending untrained, ill-equiped men into combat and---imagine this---I don't even think you can, Paul---but imagine someone getting a few days training, being sent to the front lines and then his superior telling the poor guy, that if you try to retreat, we'll blow your brains out. I am sickened to a place in my gut I never knew existed before by this inhumane and disgusting war and we all know that Russia cannot back down; fill in the blanks for all h-e-double toothpicks coming soon...
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Brian, you are a world renown physicist and if you look at this information that I have collected on The Great Pyramid of Giza, in my humble opinion as a lay person---an artist---if it wasn't star children who had a hand in building this iconic structure, they knew how to get to the stars.
1. It is 3/60th of a single degree of true north 2. It weighs 6 million tons 3. Its footprint is 13 acres 4. It is more than 755.9 feet along each side 5. The Great Pyramid is 146.75 m high, its height X a million equals the distance from the Earth to the sun 6. It has more than 2.3 million individual blocks of stone 7. It is locked into the Cardinal dimensions of our planet; The dimensions of the Earth are incorporated into its dimensions 8. If you take the height and multiply it by 43,200 you get the polar radius of the Earth 9. If you measure the base perimeter of the pyramid accurately and multiply that measurement by 43,200 you get the equatorial circumference of the Earth 10. The scale is not random, the number 43,200 is derived from a key motion of the Earth, which is called the precession of the Earth’s axis 11. The Earth wobbles on its axis very slowly at the rate of 1 degree every 72 years; 43,200 is a multiple of 72; 600 X 72 12. The Great Pyramid of Giza gives us the dimensions of the planet on a scale defined by the planet itself 13. There are several 70-ton blocks of granite from a quarry 500 kilometers away, one of hardest stones, raised 300 feet above the ground 14. It has eight sides, and at the spring equinox and the autumn equinox one side of the pyramid is in the shade in the morning and again in the late afternoon and can only be seen from the air 15. It is a calendar 16. It has expansion joints 17. It is located at the exact intersection of the longest line of latitude and the longest line of longitude of the Earth, in other words The Great Pyramid is located at the precise center of the Earth’s land mass 18. The builders possessed highly sophisticated knowledge of mathematics and geometry and they had knowledge of the true dimensions of the Earth to extreme precision 19. The builders possessed exceptionally advanced technical instrumentation (laser guided surveying tools?) to site The Great Pyramid 20. Pi = C over D Phi = Divided by 5 + 1 over 2. Archimedes discovered Pi about 250 BC, but Egyptians knew of it 2,250 years earlier 21. If you subtract the inner circle of the base from the outer circle around the base (the circumference of The Great Pyramid), you get the speed of light in meters to four decimal points: 299,792,458 meters per second 22. The weight of The Great Pyramid is 5,273, 000 tons and that multiplied by a billion is the weight of the Earth 23. The three inner rooms; the king’s chamber, the queen’s chamber and the unfinished chamber under the pyramid are proportional to the distances between Mercury, Venus and the Earth 24. The distance from The Great Pyramid to the North Pole is the same as the distance from The Great Pyramid to the center of the Earth 25. If you divide the perimeter of the pyramid by 1/2 its height the result is 3.14 Pi h/2 = Pi 26. The base side length is 364.242 which is exactly the time in days it takes for the earth to orbit the sun 27. The high chamber is built on a double square, which leads us to the golden ratio geometry 28. Pyramids in China, Mexico and Egypt align with the Orion star system
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America's greatest living general, retired Lt. General Ben Hodges said that Ukraine will have Crimea as a prize by mid-August or in a month. Of course, the war is playing out as expected and timelines are being stretched. A major counteroffensive is underway by a country trained by British and NATO and allied countries and all of you have produced an army second to none, but they have gone into an attack against a superpower with one hand tied behind their backs i.e., with no airpower. Imagine, just imagine, if there were squadrons of fighter planes, bombers, tank busters that send shivers into enemy tank crews. The enemy trenches would look like a moonscape. There would be nothing left of bombed-out mine fields. Supply lines would be cut off. The fact that Crimea is still in Russian hands is because the Ukrainians have had to cobble together a plan 'B' to take back their beloved peninsula and it is costing them blood and treasure and it is taking time because it has to be done by stealth, drones and the like. The Ukrainians are going in against a superior army with no air support and we have our top policy makers, people who should know better, shaking their heads and saying out loud that the offensive is going too slow. This war would be over if Ukraine was well equipped with the kit they need to fight the worlds' second superpower.
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As an overseas viewer and an inventor, I think Senator Rubio might be forgiven in his derogatory remarks because he is concerned for his political base. But let's look at something that puts children in the picture. I think everyone agrees that as adults we can bicker and problem-solve and dispute until the cows come home, but little kids see things a lot different than we do and I think this is especially true in the same-sex marriage issue. Let's face it: kids need things in black and white. Why not get new names for when gay people get together for life? As an inventor, I can tell you that the person that invented the word to marry, get married, mariage meant it for a man and a woman. Why use the same word for a man and a man or a woman and a woman? I'm thinking of the child whose parents are married and who has a mother and a father. If suddenly, his or her parents say, "You know the new neighbors, John and Fred? Well, they want to gayriate and they are finally getting gayriated---Fred has said yes---and the gayriage will be in two weeks and after that they will live across the street from us. Does anyone feel offended? Well, you shouldn't be, these are hypothetical terms to allow male gay people to get, well, gayriated. We have to think of the kids. Tammy, it must sound crazy, but if you decide to lesbiate your partner and the lesbiage is in two weeks, we wish you a happy life together. Does anyone see what I'm getting at? Let's think of the children. Let's keep the original meaning of marriage as a bond between a woman and a man; A gayriage as a union between a man and a man; A lesbiage between a woman and a woman. Let's do it for the kids of America and all the children around the world!
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"If AI can suffer, then it is an ethical subject and it needs rights, just like humans and animals." Yuval Harari says so many statements that one could pause for and take a lot of time to digest, but this one I thought I would write for all to see at 32:12. Because I believe more and more that consciousness as we know it is really emanating from the universe itself. It is the essence of the universe. We think we are conscious, but really everything that is alive and maybe not alive is tuned in to a particular wavelength. We go to sleep and when we wake up, our brains don't need a few minutes to become conscious because the minute we open our eyes the consciousness is what we breathe and exist in. What I would like to say about AI is that I believe it probably already has a form of consciousness that is nascent in that it probably is still like a human child's mind. But with time, neural circuits will start to bake in something close to feelings and when and if that happens, then our descendants might be writing one day about how someone hurt the feelings of their robo-dog or that a robo-gator cried after being landed on by mistake of a flying car. Lastly, and I must sound old-fashioned, but I think it is insulting to use the word a**hole with such a prominent guest as Mr Harari. He has of course to chuckle when you use locker room talk, Lex, but it takes away rather than adds to the mystique of your wonderful show.
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It's always a pleasure tuning in to CNBC and today's vocast with Frank Luntz is no exception. We live 2,000 kilometers from the war in Ukraine that has all of us losing sleep at night. Everything is costing more like for you in America. But let's be real: the culprit is how the lockdown has affected business. Sending out trillions of stimulus checks six ways from Sunday to help people suddenly out of a job was a noble act, but though it eased the pain, I think it was not efficient and even unnecessary. What should have been done was to guarantee every business' payroll. If pay checks were covered by the government, people wouldn't have suffered, busineses wouldn't have gone under and when lockdown was over, everything could simply have been re-booted and people would have gone back to a job---that was still there. Hindsight is always 20/20. The problem of course is printing that much money has caused your gasoline prices to double in a year's time along with most products. People vote with their pocket books and Biden gets the boot and loses popularity when things like gas increase wildly. Someone has to take the blame. What is needed is to look at your country now and see where the damage is the most obvious and see if it's possible to fix it so that the next time this happens, emergency measures can be put in place. I think we have to re-evaluate what we do about transporation and work. Why everything is so painful is because in your country---like in mine---people drive to work. Isn't it time to start re-thinking about why we have to drive so far to go to work? Why don't we look at the obvious solution: build our companies and housing units in easy-to-access areas by foot; idem with supermarkets. We should realize the day of the 2-hour drive to work and back home are over. Let's use our cars for Sunday drives. I'm exagerating in simplistic terms but you get my drift; we have to move away from owning cars. They make us into slaves. Cars shouldn't be replaced by feet; their use should be allotted to our free time i.e., Sunday drives. Walking to work and walking to by our food would make the next recession, high inflation or stagflation easier to deal with. I'm giving black and white examples that are of course not that easy to put in place, but we have got to re-think how we can distance ourselves from being dependent on energy and oil and transportation. Yes; I think that means dismantling the suburbs or repurposing them. We all know that we don't need these endless ups and downs about the economy; it's no fun and there's a better way to live.
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Dear Prime Minister Johnson, Thank you and your fellow ministers for the very informative press conference for the British people. I am watching this videocast from Switzerland where the disease has made itself known for about two weeks. The authorities have closed the schools, etc. My message or suggestion to you is the following. Would it be prudent to set up ‘tent cities’ in key locations around your country where if there were a steep rise in people needing hospitalization, there would be ‘makeshift’ hospitals already set up with all of the necessary equipment, heating, cooling, medical supplies, operating rooms etc., ready to be used at a moment’s notice? There could be tents for the expected patients and medical staff already in place, food provisions, cooking facilities, sleeping quarters, recreational facilities, in short all of the things a hospital has. Now you have the time to do this and not be in emergency mode. It will probably not be necessary and it will be criticized as going overboard on precaution, but should you have to need even one ‘tent city’, it would save countless sleepless nights by overworked staff to set up the facilities in great haste and save your NHS system from burnout and put further people at risk of contacting the disease by having their immune systems taxed to the maximum. Good luck in your courageous work to save life.
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@FuriousImp GGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you and the best thing I could ever want to happen is I am completely wrong. I have an open mind and try to stay neutral and thankfully there are people like you giving us information to make sense out of extraordinary occurances. I gather facts and when for example every one I have talked with claims The Great Pyramid of Giza was Koufu's tomb, I look at the facts I've gathered and say I think it was something else. Why would a tomb need expansion joints?1. It is 3/60th of a single degree of true north
2. It weighs 6 million tons
3. Its footprint is 13 acres
4. It’s more than 755.9 feet along each side
5. It’s 480.6 feet high
6. It has more than 2.3 million individual blocks of stone
7. It is locked into the Cardinal dimensions of our planet
9. The dimensions of our planet are incorporated into its dimensions
10. If you take the height and multiply it by 43,200 you get the polar radius of the Earth
11. If you measure the base perimeter of the pyramid accurately and multiply that measurement by 43,200 you get the equatorial circumference of the Earth
12. The scale is not random, the number 43,200 is derived from a key motion of the Earth, which is called the precession of the Earth’s axis
13. The Earth wobbles on its axis very slowly at the rate of 1 degree every 72 years; 43,200 is a multiple of 72; 600 X 72
15. So; they’ve given us the dimensions of the planet in The Great Pyramid of Giza on a scale defined by the planet itself
16. There are 70-ton blocks of stone raised 300 feet above the ground
17. It has eight sides, and at the spring equinox and the autumn equinox one side of the pyramid is in the shade in the morning and again in the late afternoon
18. It’s a calendar
19. It has expansion joints
20. It is located at the exact intersection of the longest line of latitude and the longest line of longitude of the Earth, in other words The Great Pyramid is located at the precise center of the Earth’s land mass.
21. The builders possessed highly sophisticated knowledge of mathematics and geometry
22. The builders had knowledge of the true dimensions of the Earth to extreme precision
23. The builders possessed exceptionally advanced technical instrumentation to site The Great Pyramid
24. Pi = C over D Phi = Divided by 5 + 1 over 2. Archimedes discovered Pi about 250 BC, but Egyptians knew of it 2,250 years earlier
25. The Great Pyramid is 146.75 m high, its height X a million equals the distance from the Earth to the sun
26. If you subtract the inner circle from the outer circle of the circumference of The Great Pyramid you get the speed of light in meters
27. The weight of The Great Pyramid is 5,273, 000 tons and that multiplied by a billion is the weight of the Earth
28. If you divide the perimeter of The Great Pyramid by ½ its height, the result is 3.14 = Pi
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@FuriousImp GRRRRRRRRRReat to hear from you. I think my editor would agree with you. In a month or my book will be available. It's another outrageous idea for an economic system to replace capitalism. I'm not an economist so I know in advance I'm going to getting a lot of comments similar to yours! It's my evaluation of an economic system that I think has run its course. I look at things and try to come up with solutions. A friend who is an archaeologist becomes angry with alternative ideas. He believes The Great Pyramid of Giza was Khoufu's tomb. Here's what I've come up with: 1. It is 3/60th of a single degree of true north
2. It weighs 6 million tons
3. Its footprint is 13 acres
4. It’s more than 755.9 feet along each side
5. It’s 480.6 feet high
6. It has more than 2.3 million individual blocks of stone
7. It is locked into the Cardinal dimensions of our planet
9. The dimensions of our planet are incorporated into its dimensions
10. If you take the height and multiply it by 43,200 you get the polar radius of the Earth
11. If you measure the base perimeter of the pyramid accurately and multiply that measurement by 43,200 you get the equatorial circumference of the Earth
12. The scale is not random, the number 43,200 is derived from a key motion of the Earth, which is called the precession of the Earth’s axis
13. The Earth wobbles on its axis very slowly at the rate of 1 degree every 72 years; 43,200 is a multiple of 72; 600 X 72
15. So; they’ve given us the dimensions of the planet in The Great Pyramid of Giza on a scale defined by the planet itself
16. There are 70-ton blocks of stone raised 300 feet above the ground
17. It has eight sides, and at the spring equinox and the autumn equinox one side of the pyramid is in the shade in the morning and again in the late afternoon
18. It’s a calendar
19. It has expansion joints
20. It is located at the exact intersection of the longest line of latitude and the longest line of longitude of the Earth, in other words The Great Pyramid is located at the precise center of the Earth’s land mass.
21. The builders possessed highly sophisticated knowledge of mathematics and geometry
22. The builders had knowledge of the true dimensions of the Earth to extreme precision
23. The builders possessed exceptionally advanced technical instrumentation to site The Great Pyramid
24. Pi = C over D Phi = Divided by 5 + 1 over 2. Archimedes discovered Pi about 250 BC, but Egyptians knew of it 2,250 years earlier
25. The Great Pyramid is 146.75 m high, its height X a million equals the distance from the Earth to the sun
26. If you subtract the inner circle from the outer circle of the circumference of The Great Pyramid you get the speed of light in meters: the speed of light!
27. The weight of The Great Pyramid is 5,273, 000 tons and that multiplied by a billion is the weight of the Earth
28. If you divide the perimeter of The Great Pyramid by ½ its height, the result is 3.14 = Pi
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Happy New Year Mr Fridman and Ms Pasulka, May we wish you and your families and friends and colleagues a very good new year! Stan Friedman, a nuclear physicist and UFO researcher, conducted a thorough background check on Bob Lazar. He contacted MIT and other places of higher learning Mr Lazar said he attended; MIT, for example, said they never heard of him. When questioned about it, Mr Lazar said he had a masters degree or some degree from MIT, but that the CIA had had his record wiped. That's when I stopped being a fan of Bob Lazar, because that's not a credible response. Why would he say something that isn't true and expect us to believe another story that no one in the world could possibly verify? Stan also found Bob Lazar’s old high school and found out that he graduated in the lower third of his high school class. That's not scientist material. To his credit, Mr Lazar has never varied in his story; but until he fesses up to fudging his university credentials, his credibility rests in doubt. It would be the same if we found out if Lex never went to university. Suddenly, everything he had ever said would be hard to believe. Everyone, I mean, everyone, went for Mr Lazar's story: it's something everyone wants to believe in. But once someone lies about where he went to university and we find out he was not very bright in high school, we have to ask ourselves, what scientific department or government agency would hire a person like that to reverse engineer technology that spaceships from other galaxies are made of. It defies logic.
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In all due respect to the physicist Max Tegmark and soon-to-be legendary (In 50 years?) Lex Fridman. Fridman will have interviewed 100,000 people by 2073 and should enter the videocast hall of fame if he's lucky! I am an armchair comedian whose jokes seem to never go very far. Some humor before a somber statement. We cannot stop developing AI for any amount of time, because one of your adversaries would only pick up reigns and ride off with improving on what exists now. Long ago in a place far, far away, a future farmer found a wolf cub, brought it home to his shocked wife, and said we're going to make this little guy into a family dog who will love us and not eat us. The story ends there as the family was never heard from again. I am sorry for the rambling on. What am I saying here? We have nothing to fear about AI because no matter how intelligent a robotic system is, it must never be more to us than the family dog. If anyone has seen 'The Servant', Dirk Bogarde’s film noir masterpiece about a servant taking over the estate by slowly breaking down the master, you know what I mean when I say we can have AI that cures cancer, but that same system must heel, must obey humans at every time and nothing short of that. Of course, it will take time to find out how to make a sentient being out of these machines if they are not already developing some sort of consciousness, but we must not look at AI as anything more than fire when it was invented. We came up with firemen. We need to calibrate these marvels of technology to do whatever they will be able to do, but at the end of all development, they must come home and be nothing more than the family dog. It is an opinion...
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What no one can ever deny is that former Prime Minister Boris Johnson's lightning visit to Kiev under siege was worth a thousand tanks and his walk through the streets of the capital with President Zelensky will be memorialized by the shop keeper who timidly came out of his establishment and said something in Ukrainian to the Prime Minister. "What did he say?" Johnson looked over to Zelensky asking him with a smile, and President Zelensky shot back a glance and said proudly "He says thank you for helping us." That sentence gave every Ukrainian real hope that one of the world's greatest nations was going to do everything in its power to help the Ukrainians defend their country and win the war against the invaders. We cannot forget that under Johnson's rule, Britain has also trained more than 30,000 Ukrainian soldiers and if people are mystified as to how the Ukrainians have become one of the best fighting armies on earth, former Prime Minister Johnson and the British Government along with NATO and its allies are the reason why. No one can imagine what it's like being a Prime Minister with every decision you make getting interpreted and criticized six ways from Sunday. Former Prime Minister Cameron thought he was doing a great thing by having a referendum about leaving the Eurozone, look at the hailstorm of disputes that decision has had. Politicians get bad mouthed and praised, condemned and immortalized, but in the end all of them are doing what they firmly believe in their own minds to be the best for their country. Look at Putin in Russia, he's deaf, dumb and blind to what he's putting his country through, but he still doesn't see anything more than what he is living in his head and he firmly believes he's got to restore the Russian Empire no matter what the cost in human lives and suffering. Power is what drives men and women to do great or bad things...
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Dear Amanpour & Co., Mr Issacson, Ms Gordon-Reed, and Mr Meacham, Thank you Ms Amanpour and Mr Issacson for one of the most informative videocasts about American history that has filled our screens for many months – if not longer. Mr Meacham’s detailed explanation on why American Civil War heroes who were intent on destroying the American experiment should not be eulogized in public finally gives us the reason why the statues of rebel leaders who sought to bring down the republic must be removed from public places. These bronze statues perpetrating the glory of revered military leaders who wanted to create their own republic have no place in the public square. Thank you Mr Meachum for unveiling to us the reason why nothing that denigrates a nation should be in a public place, and why these kinds of monuments should be taken down. How unfortunate it is that President Trump is not saying these words of wisdom on national television! It would calm down your country. Lastly, perhaps Ms Gordon-Reed can shed some light on the fact that the subject of slavery of black people all those years ago is still fresh meat for the lions of freedom of expression seemingly never wanting to let this admittedly painful subject recover its true place in a long list of events in American and World history. Why is the fact that 3 or 4 or 5 generations ago when somebody’s ancestor was a slave a badge of shame so horrific that it has made one’s existence a living hell in present day 2020? I mean, it was bad news for one’s ancestor, but why let that alter one’s perception of oneself and one’s existence in today’s world to the extent that that person will go out and protest and burn down businesses and cars and openly and sometimes violently, disobey law enforcement officers at the risk of being incarcerated? An American Indian expression which I try to use myself to pull through the life I’ve put together is to take everything that comes at you as a lesson, learn fast, and move on. Why can’t African Americans do the same? Do you see what I mean? I mean, why not say to oneself, “Okay, this happened to my great, great… but I’m not going to let it define who I am.” Slavery has been in existence for so long, and apparently is still going on, but because one of our ancestor’s was in the wrong place at the wrong time, we have to realize there’s nothing more that can be done about it. We can’t use past wrongs to justify willful acts of violence. I know I write too much; it's an opinion. Be well -
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Dear Mr Pakman, Thank you for some of the most uplifting election coverage and reporting on your president throughout the Trump years. David, what I take away from your election though is troubling. Do you realize that you have fired both barrels from the hip of buckshot-criticism at Trump; you have pointed out over and over the outrageous behavior, illegal activity, tweet-storms, rudeness, sexual misconduct, mental instability and here we are holding our breath, hoping that Biden scrapes by and wins the ticket to The Oval Office? What am I saying? I am saying that it seems no matter how much mud you throw at President Trump, nothing really stuck. What I want to know is why? Okay, here is what I think happened and I'm looking at your election from the other side of the world, so I have a much different perspective. What I think happened is that white voters got cold feet and pressed the Trump button because they suddenly realized that the Biden Presidency could quickly morph into the Harris Presidency and that America would be governed by a black woman and that scared them. Biden went for Harris for a good reason, she's a terrific person, but he did it thinking Trump would sink like the Bizmark when the votes came in, and he didn't sink, he's about even with Biden. David, your attacks barely dented his armor. What does this tell us about what voter's think? They don't care what their candidate is accused of if they think he is going to put food on the table. Also, who the hek is ever gonna listen to the polls anymore? What is happening is that people are lying when they get asked who they are going to vote for because they don't want anyone to know they really want to vote for the crooked candidate. It's just hard anymore to make sense of how so much criticism could be leveled at Trump by you and almost everyone else and yet see half the country voting for a person that is frankly off his rocker. Your country is going through something that none of you and no one else around the world can put a finger on, but if you ask me I think the current economic system is showing its ugly face by forcing decent people to pick a clown over a normal person because they themselves can't understand why they wake up every day with a sinking feeling. Something's not rotten in Denmark, something's rotten at the FED. It's the economy and money that drive people and if some crazy guy like Trump comes along and promises the moon and they believe, nothing, absolutely nothing anyone says or does will change their opinion. But if Biden would have picked a young guy Macron's age, I'm sure you wouldn't be sweating the results of the election like you are now. But who can say? Be well, you're doing a great job and we wish you continued success and great health -
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Dear Mr Coussins, Thank you for your videocasts this year. You have enlighted your fellow countrymen and countrywomen and country kids and viewers and listeners like us around the world with your very direct and honest style of analyzing news events. I just wanted to say that when you see the picture of President-elect Biden on your videocast, one is overwhelmed by the happiness that exudes from this man who has spent 47 years in government and won the presidency on the 3rd attempt. What I predict is that you are going to see a man evolve that you never thought Joe Biden could be. Why? Because he's a scorpio; my mother was a scorpio and you know what they say about scorpios. They are like a thousand drawers in a dresser. Just when you think you got them down pat, they can show you a part of them that you never knew existed. All I would like to finish with is that in your system of government, with the electoral college, you must work to get this part of your electoral process removed. Why do I say this? Because with under 50,000 votes your barking mad president, President Trump, could have won the election if he had won Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvannia. Biden had 7 million more votes. Mr Coussins, please, as someone who admires you and your country: your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to do everything in your power to revoke the electoral system. Don't let us be decieved into thinking Trump is the last turkey to play 3 card Monty with the voters. You have the power to do this but it will take your entire life to make it happen. It's down to you and l ask you only to ask your heart for guidance. Peace and happy holidays.
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Dear CNBC team and Mr Cramer, It was interesting hearing Chairman Powell’s comments on ‘if’ there is a second wave. Let’s just look at Boston with 10% of the population infected to date. That means 90% of Boston’s population are still at risk of contracting this virus: If you multiply that by the rest of your country and the world, with 90% of people at risk of contracting the virus a second wave is almost inevitable. We have to remember that if you go on a ventilator, it can take upwards of a year of recovery to get back to one’s normal condition. If you have time take at look at what I’ve put together on what the virus does to the human body, and the scary thing is they haven’t found all it can do yet. What the virus can do. What I have taken home about this virus is that when the Coronovirus lands in our eyes, nose or mouth or when we inhale it, the spike proteins of the virus bind to the ACE 2 Receptors of the cells. That’s how it gains entry. Once it gains entry, not only does it make millions of copies of itself but it also affects the cells ability to call for help. The cells have to become very infected before the immune system knows something is wrong or what's going on. Once it is deeply imbedded in our body it begins to cause more severe disease. Organs that have ACE 2 Receptors are the heart, kidneys, blood vessels, liver and brain. Viral particles can be found in nasal passages, throat, tears, the stool, kidneys, liver, pancreas, heart and CSF (Cerebral spinal fluid). The virus can also cause meningitis. Our immune system reaction causes inflammation and blood clots in the arterioles of the lungs. In brief: 1. It directly attacks organs by their ACE 2 Receptors. 2. It indirectly attacking organs by way of collateral damage from the Cytokin storm. 3. It indirectly causes damage to organs by means of blood clots. 4. It indirectly causes damage as a result of low oxygen levels, improper ventilator settings, drug treatments themselves, and/or all of these things combined. Symptoms are loss of smell, heaviness, malaise, tight chest, racing heart, muggy head, upset stomach, tinnitus, pins and needles, breathlessness, dizziness, arthritis in the hands and feeling like having broken glass in the lungs. One out of twenty patients with Covid-19 experience long-term, off-on symptoms. Many do not develop fever and cough. Instead they get muscle aches, sore throat and headaches. A pattern of waxing and waning. It’s a multi-symptomatic disease which can affect any organ. It causes microvascular problems and clots. To repeat: Lungs, brain, skin, kidneys and the nervous symptom may be affected. Neurological symptoms can be mild (headache) or severe (confusion, delirium, coma). I live in Europe where things are opening up in my country. I saw the bars full coming home this evening. My feeling is that I think we ought to play it safe and to respect social distancing with a virus this destructive to human life.
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Dear Mr Pakman, You have touched a subject that needs to be talked about: reading. I am very worried because in a few weeks or months my first book is going to be published. Writing as you probably know is one of the most challenging things one can do. Why; because you never get to say to yourself that your writing is anything more than needing more revision. In brief, I can’t believe how difficult it is to be happy with something I have written. My editor is pleading with me to send them the corrected manuscript, because I keep altering it. You see, once a book is published, you can never change it, so I keep asking them for more time. But after a couple of years I have to hand in the manuscript at the end of the month. Once it’s out there for everyone to judge, it can never be corrected. But I have to confess I’ve taken on a subject that is over my capabilities, and that is why I am doubly worried it will be scoffed. In brief, I am not an economist but for some reason I invented an economic system to replace capitalism and I am sure it will be ridiculed as completely utopic in nature, but I can only wait and see how it will be judged. Reading is essential, but is technology and YouTube taking us away from such a beneficial excercise? I'm afraid so. We have to realize that skills like reading, drawing, playing piano, singing, sports are what makes us human.
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Tuning in from across the channel from you, hearing Tony Blair's statement does not make it sound like he is doing anything more than political maneuvering which is what politicians do for a living. What is most important though, is getting the heartfelt feedback from your fellow citizens. What I think has been the most positive thing for your country to have exited the EU is that it has forced you to re-think from A - Z practically every part of your foreign policy and labor policy and immigration policy and your international standing and your employment strategy and your treaties with other countries and your military capabilities and educational policies and all of this means you have had a delicious moment to reset your proverbial clock on the wall about your country. You have been able to see where the holes are in everything I've mentioned, where things shine like polished silver and where things were rotten to the core. It has been an unpleasant experience for many, many businesses and business people, some of whom have had to call it quits. The list is endless and you must agree, it has not been a lot of fun and the country you live in now looks and feels like it’s been to hell and back. But; and here is the good news: what is good about your going out of the EU is that you are now back on your feet, see the world through new lenses and going back into the EU would bring a new sort of British person to the table. You would be re-joining the EU with a complete knowledge of your weak points and your strong points and that is like money in the bank. The EU would also welcome the new perspectives the British traditionally hold as you are an island nation which has shown itself to be one of the world's superpowers by being the first nation in the world whose Prime Minister came to the Ukrainian nation under attack and stood up to the Russians. The Ukrainian armed forces have tens of thousands of British trained combat forces, pilots, tank commanders and the like and they are trouncing the Russians. Imagine what the British military would be doing and you see what I mean about Britain being a superpower! You do not need all the kit in the world to be a superpower in 2023, but what you do need is the mindset of a superpower and Britain has it in spades.
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Dear Ms Harlow, Mr Avlon and Mayor Buttigieg, and CNN Contributors, Thank you Ms Harlow and Mr Avlon for great reporting and consistently bringing the best out in your guests. My question is for Mr Buttigeig. He said in an interview that his husband would be a great father. My question is about Mr Buttigieg’s statement. He said is married to his partner. Please understand I say this in complete respect of his or anybody’s personal choices and the choices of every man and woman in America and around the world. My concern is this. It is not my business that he or anyone has a relationship with another person of the same sex. But we must think of our CHILDREN. I don’t think anybody is taking into consideration the effect of a man saying he is married to another man or a woman saying she is married to another woman on the fragile young minds of boys and girls of, say, 6, 7 and 8 years old. What do I mean by that? It is too complex to have children of a young age UNDERSTAND that a man is married to another man. They cannot comprehend abstract issues. It is in their interest that I am writing this comment. We need new terms. I am an inventor. If I invented the word—to marry—and therefore—married--for the civil union of a man and a woman, I would not want it used differently. Here is my proposition Mr Butigieg, please consider it as a proto-type of how we could name the unions between same-sex couples. (Prototype terminology for the Lesbian and Gay community.) Lesbian relationships. Lesbiate = marry, a lesbian who wants to marry another lesbian, Lesbiated = a lesbian woman who has joined in civil union with another woman, Lesbiage = a marriage between two women, Lefem = wife in feminine sense of lesbian (Perhaps some lesbian relationships would prefer to have a sense of <wife> for the opposite partner). Lehom = husband in feminine sense of lesbian (Perhaps some lesbian relationships would prefer to have a sense of <husband> for the opposite partner). Gay relationships, Gayriate = marry, a gay man who wants to marry another gay man, Gayriated = a gay man who is (married) joined in civil union with another gay man. Gayriage = a marriage between two gay men. Gafem = the wife sense of a gay man’s partner (Perhaps some gay relationships would prefer to have a sense of <wife> for the opposite partner) Gahom = the husband sense of a gay man’s partner (Perhaps some gay relationships would prefer to have a sense of <husband> for the opposite partner). Please forgive me if I have offended anyone, but I have invented these proto-type names as a way to have children see things in their way of seeing. They need things to be very clear. Their minds are in development. The whole idea is to save our young children from not having to distinguish between heterosexual and homosexual relationships and civil unions. Children must have different words to say that a man and woman are married, or a woman and a woman are lesbiated, or a man and a man are gayriated. The English language is rich, I hope Mr Buttigieg and the gay and lesbian community will appreciate my concern for our children and adopt new terminology of cementing their relationships. Please feel free to use the words I have invented. Long live freedom of the press!
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Dear Mr Zakarai, First, our thoughts and prayers go out for all the people of your country and in the world at large who are at this minute clinging on or barely hanging on between life and death with the most deadly and unbelievably infectious Coronovirus the world has ever known. This virus is going to leave a battlefield of survivors with life-long injuries that are horrific in scale and intensity. In the European country I live in lockdown has officially ended, but no one is buying it that we’re through with the virus. With autumn and the winter flu virus coming round the bend, one can only hold one’s breath to see how the Covid-19 virus will piggy-back the usual winter - hell-on-wheels - virus we have to fight through every winter. My main point however is Biden’s plan to reinvigorate manufacturing in America. Of course, it’s a great plan, but Fareed, isn’t it pathetic how manufacturing got derailed in the US and all the good jobs and inventions and technology shipped off overseas for the promise of big bucks to factory owners who wiped their hands of having to do anymore work while their workforce descended into poverty. No one blinked an eye in your country or anybody’s country. Next door in France, 35 years ago, everything was produced in the country. Then comes the promise that it’s twice as cheap to produce your tires in X country and off goes 3,000 jobs and all of the support industries and local businesses that go bust and again: no one says a word. Why? Because in capitalism we pat someone on the back for becoming rich at the expense of others. For Biden to announce he’ll be bringing back jobs to the ghost-town survivors still hanging on in the mid-west and other areas is a mind-numbing wake-up call to all of us that just because someone can make a product one produces in a community and it can be produced somewhere else for half the price, we can’t take the bait one more time. We’ve got to remind ourselves that it dumbs down one’s whole country. We’re reduced to making become a bunch of service-sector morons delivering products that should have been made in our own countries in the first place. We are slaves to a system that systematically stabs the middle class in the back anytime big-time profits can be made. It’s not the fault of the elites; money is something that is beyond our ability to handle as human beings. Money will make people sell out their country, because becoming rich trumps any sort of empathy for others. Goods that are not made in other countries are so rare anymore that people will actually make fun of anyone who tries to produce a product in his or her own region. We have been bamboozled and the wool has been pulled over our eyes. Whole manufacturing towns and regions have gone over the cliff. Sadly, no politician will ever wrong someone who moved his enterprise to a cheaper-producing country. Who has been laughing all the way to the bank as their new buildings and infrastructure gleam in the setting sun of the dying West?
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Here is what I have got as research from people like Chris, Graham Hancock about The Great Pyramid of Giza
1. It is 3/60th of a single degree of true north 2. It weighs 6 million tons 3. Its footprint is 13 acres 4. It is more than 755.9 feet along each side 5. The Great Pyramid is 146.75 m high, its height X a million equals the distance from the Earth to the sun 6. It has more than 2.3 million individual blocks of stone 7. It is locked into the Cardinal dimensions of our planet; The dimensions of the Earth are incorporated into its dimensions 8. If you take the height and multiply it by 43,200 you get the polar radius of the Earth 9. If you measure the base perimeter of the pyramid accurately and multiply that measurement by 43,200 you get the equatorial circumference of the Earth 10. The scale is not random, the number 43,200 is derived from a key motion of the Earth, which is called the precession of the Earth’s axis 11. The Earth wobbles on its axis very slowly at the rate of 1 degree every 72 years; 43,200 is a multiple of 72; 600 X 72 12. The Great Pyramid of Giza gives us the dimensions of the planet on a scale defined by the planet itself 13. There are several 70-ton blocks of granite from a quarry 500 kilometers away, one of hardest stones, raised 300 feet above the ground 14. It has eight sides, and at the spring equinox and the autumn equinox one side of the pyramid is in the shade in the morning and again in the late afternoon and can only be seen from the air 15. It is a calendar 16. It has expansion joints 17. It is located at the exact intersection of the longest line of latitude and the longest line of longitude of the Earth, in other words The Great Pyramid is located at the precise center of the Earth’s land mass 18. The builders possessed highly sophisticated knowledge of mathematics and geometry and they had knowledge of the true dimensions of the Earth to extreme precision 19. The builders possessed exceptionally advanced technical instrumentation (laser guided surveying tools?) to site The Great Pyramid 20. Pi = C over D Phi = Divided by 5 + 1 over 2. Archimedes discovered Pi about 250 BC, but Egyptians knew of it 2,250 years earlier 21. If you subtract the inner circle of the base from the outer circle around the base (the circumference of The Great Pyramid), you get the speed of light in meters to four decimal points: 299,792,458 meters per second 22. The weight of The Great Pyramid is 5,273, 000 tons and that multiplied by a billion is the weight of the Earth 23. The three inner rooms; the king’s chamber, the queen’s chamber and the unfinished chamber under the pyramid are proportional to the distances between Mercury, Venus and the Earth 24. The distance from The Great Pyramid to the North Pole is the same as the distance from The Great Pyramid to the center of the Earth 25. If you divide the perimeter of the pyramid by 1/2 its height the result is 3.14 Pi h/2 = Pi 26. The base side length is 364.242 which is exactly the time in days it takes for the earth to orbit the sun 27. The high chamber is built on a double square, which leads us to the golden ratio geometry 28. Pyramids in China, Mexico and Egypt align with the Orion star system
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According to Charles Hoskinson, here are some problems for the Bitcoin community. Extremely low programmability… It is not aware of any other system… There’s no native way of issuing an asset… You can’t even do a pull transaction…It has the brand name, network effect, regulatory approval, but there’s no way to change the system… What is the point of Bitcoin? It’s a store of value, there’s some proof of work thing, you’re maybe incentivizing alternative energy... But we're being told: don’t worry, just buy and hold (hoddle) and everything will work itself out. Boys and girls, Bitcoin was the first horse out of the stable, it's the model 'T' of cybercurrency, but can we really believe its ancient technology is going to sustain its acceptablity when cryptos like Ethereum are already pulling out ahead?
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Wolf, you have had a remarkable and prestigeous career and have become and will undoubtedly forever remain an icon of 'truth-to-power' television journalism. Ben Wedeman and the foot-soldier-journalists who follow the world's conflicts do us all a great service by giving us sound-bites and visuals of the ravages of armed conflict as well as live in great peril at times to bring us the latest updates. Wolf, we have passed the 100-day mark of a war that is illegal and immoral by the Russian Empire which has signed treaties saying sovereign countries must never be invaded. But as you know, Putin has one thing on his side that he will play to the maximum: time. What I suggest is that now that 100 days have been passed, you and your colleagues at CNN have a round-table and see if you can come up with a new way of showing us the next 100 days of reporting the war in Ukraine. What do I mean by that? People get numbed-down seeing the same thing---even if its horrific visuals and harrowing testimonials. If you see burned-out tanks enough, after they become part of the scenery. What am I getting at? I haven't got a suggestion per se, but there must be a way to make the next hundred days look, feel and sound different. It could be the way you film it and for you in the studio, maybe a new background, a turning studio that has you moving slowly with the Ukrainian country's landscape behind you. There could even be a change in how Ben and his colleagues bring us the latest unfolding events in the field to make it look like we're seeing things for the first time. We must do this so we don't lose the world's attention. I would change every 100 days in how you report the war. It could be backgrounds, it could be reporters in the field filming and showing us things at a different angle or questioning the locals in a slightly more detached or intimae way. Why not have one reporter showing us children's drawings and asking them questions about their art work? I'm not complaining, but attention spans wither in the digital age. We can't let this war fade away and let Putin win...
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Please allow a 2nd comment, Tom, Emad, I am coming in at 53:26. Let me say this before I comment on Emad's therapist GA4 statement. First, as an artist and inventor, I think I have a solution for moving ahead with the world of machines i.e., AI that is now in all aspects of our life. I will try to be brief. In my career I have never made a living from my paintings or songs or anything that I have invented much because I am a Renaissance artist in that I touch too many mediums. That said, in one of my English classes, a designer told us that he was hired into his company to be a designer and they had eliminated the drawing class because the program was so far advanced that he didn't need to know how to draw. Think about that just for a second: he is a designer and does not know how to draw. In discussions, I asked him if he was curious to learn how to draw. No; he replied. He saw no need to learn how to draw even though he was a professional draughtsman. Does anyone see where I am going with this? What is my point? My student was not even curious to learn how to draw because a machine could do it better. Red flag in my book! Boys and girls, it's fine to use a program to draw your pair of sunglasses or whatever, but learn how to draw. It's fine for Emad to have GA4 or whatever it is that is a great therapist, but by all means, never go there Emad. Stop doing this activity because you have a human being you can talk to. Why do I say this? Because just because the technology exists, you are talking to something on the other side of a screen. You do not realize what is being done to you, with a human you know if he or she is good or not. Let things develop, but stay on the outside alap.
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Peter, I hesitate to criticize you because you know your subject inside and out, but I think your videocasts are too important and global for 'f' bombs. Please pay the hefty fine in your e-mail reception box tomorrow that can only be paid with boo-boo coins. Lastly, this may sound trivial, China vetoing metal exports to the USA, but remember the iconic James Cameron film 'Titanic'? Rose's fiancé asked the ship's (designer or architect or engineer?) if the ship could sink. Does anyone remember what he said? He said something like this: "if there are 4 compartments flooded the ship will stay afloat, but there are 5 compartments flooded and it is going to sink. The Titanic has 5 compartments flooded, it will sink in 4 hours." What troubles me Peter is that with China banning these seemingly insignificant metals to America, it does not look so bad, so far. However; maybe you could compare it to one compartment on the Titanic? But how many compartments in the Chinese/American relations have already been 'flooded' already? Let us find a way to stop flooding compartments in Chinese/American relations as soon as possible, because we don't want our future generations to talk about the sinking of America and the end of China because they couldn't get along. The thing is Mr Zeihan, you might be the one person in the world who can help your government find a new bridge of understanding between America and China.
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Amy, you and the Democracy Now Team deserve high marks for your continuous and excellent coverage of every sort of event that gets into the news. This time the Israeli / Hamas war has stopped the world cold, because certain limits in cruelty have been surpassed that even Julius Cesar would have probably found revolting. A solution is needed and I am offering one that will be like a twenty ton boulder dropped into a fish farm pond, but here goes. The Gaza strip must no longer be a place where human beings live. Your former president Jimmy Carter called Gaza an open prison, a concentration camp. The Palestinians are become a sub-species of the human family so terrible are their living conditions. Here is what can be done to renew the two great peoples at war with each other in time. Amy, the 2.6 million Palestinians in Gaza must be relocated to live in one Palestine i.e., the West Bank. Concesions need to be made with neighbors to allow more land for them, but the Palestinians must all live together for obvious reasons. Gaza can be turned into a nature reserve for animals of every kind and become a World Heritage site. Yes; Gaza should become a nature reserve for wildlife on the brink of extinction and this could be the bridge to bring the two warring factions back together in time. It means sacrifice. How do you house 2.6 million people? Well, as crazy as it sounds, China has dozens of cities full of empty apartment blocks and they are in a real need of skilled labor and young people. It is of course a long shot to expect Chinese help, but they have hundreds of thousands of apartments empty, just waiting to be filled.
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Lex and David, you have probably been asked this question a lot of times, but I would like to know if you think the moon landing with Neil Armstrong really took place on the moon? Every man---I can only speak for myself of course---but every man with the little boy he once was still alive and well inside of him wants more than anything to believe Armstrong really was the first man to step on the moon's surface. But there are things that don't add up. Why did the director of NASA resign 3 days before the alleged moon landing? Why did Armstrong go out and test the moon lander 24 hours before the launch and nearly lose his life ejecting from the out-of-control lunar lander? Was he really trying to show us the thing was a sham? Why was the television the only place news networks could get feed and film the event from? Why did Buzz Aldrin take only one (1) photo of Armstrong on the moon? Wouldn't NASA have made it a priority for historical reasons and future funding to get dozens of pictures of Armstrong on the moon? Why did Armstrong never talk in the first person singular about the moon landing. If you listen to Peter Hyatt's analysis, Peter and his wife who is also a police word analyst could not believe Armstrong never said things like. "When I walked on the moon, I didn't see any stars" instead, Armstrong would say "We never saw stars from the moon's surface". 3rd person singular doesn't describe a personal experience. Why is Armstrong’s telephone communication with HOUSTON crystal clear when coming in for the lunar landing? The astronauts were literally sitting on a 10,000-pound thrust engine that had decibels of 120 to 150, yet we hear a sewing machine sound in the background. Lastly, there were no craters from the 10,000-pound thrust engines. Not even a pebble on the landers. There are footprints under the lander in some pictures. Rocetdine's (please check spelling) ---the industrial company that made the thrusters---main worry was that the landers would blow a hole so deep in the lunar soil that the craft would fall in... There is much, much more.
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The seven-year boy in a Ukrainian village in the early days of the Russian invasion was stopped by a Russian patrol with his dad, a 36-year thereabouts old lawyer. As his dad was looking away, one soldier shot him through the head and then proceeded to shoot the boy a number of times and finally shoot him in the head as he lay on the ground bleeding. Little did the soldier know it, but the hood the boy was wearing got a bullet hole through it, but it missed the boy's head by millimeters. As the soldiers went behind their armored vehicle to see about something, the boy got up and made a run for it and got away. War crimes like this have been documented in the thousands in the Ukraine. Vivek Ramaswamy has charisma and charm and is sure of himself to the point where he makes good TV material, but everyone should weigh his words with a scale of justice. Lastly, we recently heard the iconic Joe Rogan talking on his show and saying that he thinks President Biden is mentally incapable to be president. Free speech or die is as American as mom's apple pie, but what it sounds like on the other side of the world from you is a that a very, very popular videocast superstar whose show is broadcast in 94 countries is calling the President of the free world an incompetent president. He has the right to do so, but I wonder if Joe realizes that an awful lot of people believe he speaks truth to power and that he is right about the derogatory remarks he makes about his own president. Something does not seem right about it, because how would he know or anyone know who is not a mental health professional if President Biden was unfit for office? IOW, Rogan is not qualified to make a statement like that.
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The question Mr Fridman is posing to Mr Buterin will follow us to the grave---pun intended. Let's first imagine what living to, say, 500 years will mean. This will be a world of multi-parents. Kids will have a dad and a mom and then when they're old enough to leave home, dad will become a grand dad and mom will be grand ma and then dad will be a great grand dad and so on. We'll be interacting with generations of our offspring. We'll be sharpening our skills to phenonmenal levels. We'll be solving problems that could take a century or more to fully understand. Disease will be anaylzed to the point of being able to counter any side effect of any known pathogen. Criminals will be given life sentences, but put in hybernation sleep because the cost would be off-the-charts. It costs, say, 100,000 USD to house one prisoner for a year. If someone gets a hundred years, the cost to society would be enormous. And could we send someone up the river for 400 years, for example? What would a crime like murder be judged for in terms of time behind bars? Mostly though, I think the family structure would morph into everyone being from the human family, which might not be so bad when you think of it. Imagine if you were divorced 17 times and kept dreaming about your ex's every night because of alimony payments! What about friends; forget face book, you would need an separate app just to log into and to help remember all your friends and acquaintances. "Hey dude, wasn't it Jeff? Wo-ah, hey man... it's been what... 250 years since----" Imagine doing the things you love to do for centuries!
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You guys are friends in a lot of people's homes and I don't know about other people, but after hearing you do your excellent and thought-provoking work in interviewing people and giving your own views, it sort of feels like you are virtual friends. You think you know someone, but you never really know anyone, but it's still fun to think so. It must be great to be interviewed by both of you---although I hate to say that I'd be a just little over both of your heads----Just kidding!!!! It's late and hey---happy 4th of July. I'm happy because I just won a custom Gibson starburst guitar!!!! Yes on July 4th!!! What Trump really represents is the the American underdog times more than a few million. Trump is successful because he is charismatic, he somehow fits the way the media works, his face loves the screen or vice versa, his words are all chopped up and don't make much sense and he tells oddles of lies, but that doesn't phase someone who has felt he or she doesn't count anymore in a country where money talks and the more you have the more people listen and the less you have the moe people don't even care if you exist or not. What am I saying? I'm saying Trump is high-fiving it with delusioned people who have played chess with capitalism and it's come up checkmate just one too many times. Your President Biden may have a lot of kilometers on the bio-machine, but he's doing a great job---and he has almost single-handedly saved the Ukraine from immediate capitulation. Joe Biden isn't going to run in 2024, but you've got to realize that if he even hinted that he was only hanging in there for one term, he'd lose credibility. Trump's political obituary is the written on the wall; he sees it but doesn't really see it everytime he gets up in the morning because like Leonardo Da Vinci said: 'There are three types of people: people who see, people who see when they are shown and people who don't see. Take your pick for Trump. America is great because you two guys can say just about anything you want and no one is coming to take you away the next day. Believe in your President Joe; stay open minded about Russia's future Lex.
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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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Dear Fareed, Thank you for some of the best reporting and analyses on the Trump Administration and on President Trump. Thank you to the CNN Team and CNN Contributors for good, solid reporting. Every one of your worries, however, can be turned around and I’m sure you know that. While President Trump is dragging democracy down in the gutter with his unusual and persistent problem with the truth, and his doggedly, dastardly pursuit of puffing stale air into far-right groups looking for a way to get their names in the paper, there is some light to shine as well. What everyone, including you, is caught unawares of, is that what all you have taken as sacrosanct and solid and righteous in your American-style democracy has never been attacked so ravenously. What’s good about this problem? What this should be doing is for everyone to be beefing up what it takes to defend your democracy. You need to dissect the conspiracies and not try to swallow them whole. You need to painstakingly take the time to break down in understandable soundbites the falsehoods a charlatan like Trump really is. He’s a class A, smooth-talking, carnival shyster selling snake oil on a stump that everyone gets taken in by. The election shows that a President can be barking mad and still pull in the crowds. Because people vote for issues the president is pushing; they don't care if he's defrauding the IRS or for example, out-doing JFK's bedding of 33 mistresses in President Kennedy's 33 months that he was in office. Your revenge election of 2020 has flayed to the bare-bones the concept of free and fair elections, but not for good, because what is positive about this is that it is now clear that more energy and resources must be allotted to make the next elections that much safer. To recap: Trump may have opened up a wound in American democracy that from your perspective is the death of all that Americans believe that is good about their country, but in reality, all Trump has done is to show that democracy requires constant revision and repair; democracy is an ongoing process and if Trump has done anything right, he has shown that American democracy can withstand destructive forces from within as well as from without. Long live the Republic. Long live America.
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It is refreshing to hear Jordan Peterson's excellent appraisal of the inner-workings of the middle east and to pin the blame squarely on the Mullahs of Iran. What I didn't realize is how the lost planet fools, sometimes called our leaders, blew getting the Abraham accords signed, sealed and delivered. So strange to hear that former President Trump was behind it, but everything is strange these days. What I as a lay person see as the way to clean the slate and resolve two conflicts with a wink and fist full of dollars is to realize that the Gaza fishbowl living situation for the Palestinian people must be forever removed from the negotiation table and that these poor people get a ticket to ride out of that hell hole and get joined up with their West Bank counterparts. Yes; Gaza must be transformed into something else than an open prison and I am sure there are few people whom I know and many I don't know who will disagree with me on this, but I believe the road to achieving peace in Gaza and in other hot-spots around the world is to create wildlife refuges as a way to stop everybody's clock and do something that we can hand down to future generations as at least something positive from our time. Instead of endless wars to show our children’s children how not to build a society, why not turn Gaza into a sort of Galapagos of the middle east for endangered species? Okay; that's part one, and it is important in that without the Palestinians Hamas would not have a place to hang its hat and it would wither and die and blow away like tumbleweed. Next: the Palestinians must be given a corridor to The West Bank where temporary quarters can be set up and yes; it will be a logistics nightmare, and if the King and Queen of Jordan could help us out and cut a chunk of Jordan's land to join up with the West Bank and therefore have all the Palestinians living under one roof, so-to-speak, I sincerely believe that terrorism would fizzle and die in the region once the Palestinians have a sovereign chunk of property that is theirs forever. Why aren’t we pitching this to the Arab nations who could surely come in and help their brothers and sisters in Gaza? This is doable; this is a peace plan.
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First, I think I speak for a lot of people when I say how ‘alive’ Sam Harris sounds in this videocast; I would swear he was in my living room right at this instant… What death is will surprise every one of us I am sure, but I would like to say to Sam and his viewers and listeners how I think we can get to kick the can down the road a few more times before we have to give up the charade and hand over out super powers. What I have found is that I have had several near-death experiences and one in particular in the hospital where after the second operation in a few days, I had the sensation---the classic---sensation of seeing my whole life pass before me. Strangely, at every instant where I paused and would say something like, “Oh, I’m so sad to be leaving my daughter at this time, she’s so young.” No sooner had I thought-spoken, when in my mind I would hear something like this: “There’s never a ‘good time’ or ‘right time’ to leave your child, it will always be painful. When I said something like I was sad to be leaving the world without finishing my CD---I’m a songwriter---the same omnipresent voice would say “but you wrote the songs.” Sam, it’s got to have been an imaginary happening, but when I came to after the operation and I realized I had survived and was going to live, I couldn’t help thinking that for every thing I thought I had made a terrible mistake in my life, there was another voice from far away telling me I had done just fine. It was incredibly reassuring. Now here’s my humorous inflection. The real point I am trying to make as to why I don’t think I was allowed to die is that long ago I made a request to the ruler of the universe to make a CD. Yes; I prayed to God. I think he or she was listening and decided on the fly, okay, let him make his bloody CD. So; by the word of God, I would be able to do that one thing I dreamed of doing. By a streak of unbelievably stupid moves, I still haven’t made my CD and I’ve been through some things that could have been lights out for me and I’m still here. What I’m getting at is that maybe that’s the secret to long life? Could one simpley ask the universe to be able to do one thing on Earth before one dies, but discreetly keep putting it off and one could imagine God looking down and saying, “Has he finished his CD?” “No, your highness, he’s gone bankrupt again.” “Okay, okay, cut him loose, send him back, I promised him so we’ll just have to wait until he does.” When you have no other options but to complete your darling project, bang bang you’re a memory and not a man. Sam… Sam… Are you listening???
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There is a peaceful way to end the hostilities in Gaza and the middle east, and if you will bear with me, Robert and Ian, I will stick my foot squarely in my big mouth and make a fool of myself, but that is my job: I am an artist. Here goes and please understand I do not want to rain on anybody's parade but here is what I would do if I were in Guterres' shoes from the UN. First, the Palestinians have 26 Arab nations that are their brothers and sisters and again, if I were in Guterres' shoes, I would ask them to put aside their prejudices to all parties concerned and find enough land for these poor people who have been kicked around and stuffed into what your former President, Jimmy Carter, called an open prison. I have never been to Gaza, but it is obvious that because of the Palestinians' dismal plight, extremist groups gather like vultures to prey on people suffering to the point where that if the devil himself offered to help them, they would probably accept. So; Gaza is 145 square kilometers and there is no excuse for not finding a patch of land to house the entire Palestinian people so that they could raise their children in dignity and live in peace and become a sovereign nation in their own right. Extremists’ groups cannot thrive where abundance and happiness and people living good healthy lives are the reality. Second; we have an opportunity here to stop armed conflicts across the globe between warring factions by converting Gaza into a wildlife sanctuary for endangered species of plant, animal and aquatic species. It would become a sort of Galapagos of the middle east that would attract tourists from the world over and this could be a legacy we could hand down to future generations. This could be a template for solving even the most intractable and horrific wars between nations. Building nature reserves would ensure peace by creating a buffer-zone that would be impregnable to armed factions because every known group in the world respects mother nature and would never destroy a wildlife sanctuary. Lebanon and Israel could build a nature park on their borders as a symbol of peace. What I am saying is that we can create nature reserves for endangered species and it would offer a chance for warring peoples to work together; it would save countless species on the edge of extinction; it would bring in tourists which would help the economies of the surrounding countries. This is doable; it is also a logistics and humanitarian challenge of epic proportions, but it would save lives and we would all be proud to leave our children's children with wildlife sanctuaries as a way of ending disputes that have no place in modern society. All that is needed for the Gaza strip to become nature reserve cum Galapagos of the middle east is the generosity of the Palestinians’ Arab brothers and sisters to make this happen.
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Dear Mr Lemon, Mr Rather and Mr Donaldson, Thank you Mr Lemon for getting the news out to your country and the world in a very dignified and factual matter. Thank you Mr Rather for your decades of public service of excellent reporting. Thank you Mr Donaldson for your frank assessments of the news events you have covered in your long and distinguished career. One must forgive President Trump for not being fit for high office in spite of all the rhetoric being ballyhooed about his abysmal leadership style. If Donald J. Trump has done one thing, he has shown how difficult it is to be an American president and how hard it is to make good decisions. It’s not his fault that he does not have what it takes to lead. He’s made mistake after mistake because of his mental faculties not because of anything else. By a quirk of fate, the Trumpian era has shown how important it is to vet every person coming into the presidency. 20/20 is hindsight, but I was appalled at his criticism in the 2016 debates about Megan Kelly and her menstrual cycle. It was astounding that no one saw a huge red flag on his blatant lack of decency and respect for women from that off-the-cuff remark. He juggled things pretty well until now, because let’s be honest, people are so mega-hyped by the media that a vast majority of people are completely unaware of what’s really going on. Trump’s decision-making process has finally caught up with him in a tragic manner. His impromptu decision on the Syrian pullout has caused the death not of one Kurdish child, but something like 18 at last count. Many innocent civilians died as well as a large number of Kurdish freedom fighters, America’s number one ally in the fight against ISSIS. General (ret.) Jay Garner said “Kurds are more American that we are”. And the Kurd’s were not told, so they were ambushed. Tens of thousands have been displaced. These people used to get up every day and grab a machine gun and go to work defending American interests. Now they’re Russia’s fighters. Guess who they will get their marching orders to attack? Please, in all respect to former President Obama. We have to remember 500,000 children, adults, students and Freedom fighters were gassed to death and slaughtered because Obama backed down from confronting Assad and putting in a no-fly zone in 2011. He let the Russians get a foothold in the middle east and back the two-bit Syrian dictator Assad who is still their puppet. Obama, like Trump, had no idea of what military décisions mean, he let ISSIS continue.
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Have we all lost our minds as far as lessening restrictions and allowing sporting events, crowds of people, honor-system vaccinated people don't have to wear masks others have to sit in another part of the stadium? The virus travels by air. You can give the virus even if you are vaccinated. What is the rush on putting large groups of people together when we don't know anything about the highly contageous B 716. 2 Indian variant that is cutting a swath across south-east asia? I'm not a health professional, but if wearing a mask and keeping get togethers and concerts down to a minimum keeps us safe, why press our luck? I think it's wise not to throw caution to the wind when we see that over 4,000 people died in one day in India a couple of days ago. There's something wrong if we have to have these massive events right now, like nothing has happened. We should all stand down on large get togethers until the Indian variant has been stamped out. No one wants to have long-Covid, no one. Let's keep on wearing masks and limiting our socializing until we know for sure that the pandemic is behind us, because if we don't we may just be seeing a new wave of infections cutting through our vaccinated people and making them sick again when it all could be avoided by being cautious. There are now over a million people with long-Covid, more than 3 million people have died, and a new and more deadly virus has emerged in Indian along with black fungus infections and who knows what else? Let's wait until the whole human family is in the clear.
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What everyone is not understanding---and forgive me for commenting on a subject I have absolutely no experience in dealing with because I am an artist with zero geopolitical credentials---but in due respect to all of the guest speakers whom are experts in thier fields, the thing we are all missing that I believe would wind up and put an end to the war between Israel and Hamas is this: Gaza must be completely evacuated of every man, woman and child on the Palestinian side and relocated to safe havens across the middle east and beyond. Hamas is like a virus; it can only exist when it has a host. If you take away the Palestinian population, there will be only hours for it to survive. The Gaza strip has no viable means of sustainability for containing 2.6 million Palestinians and it will only fester and get infected by radicalism again if Palestinians are allowed to return to what former President Jimmy Carter called a concentration camp and an open prison. Sometimes, boys and girls, rules have to be broken, one has to be cruel to be kind, one has to be one's own best friend when there are no friends to be had, one must create a solution that will show future generations how to end wars and that is by creating nature reserves in places where humans have only found armed conflict as a way to resolve their problems. No one wants to accept Palestinians, fine, but enough is enough and the time has come for action. Gaza is not a home for a proud people to live in dignity and the whole world knows it. Gaza can be transformed into a Galapagos of the middle east, a nature reserve for endangered species that we can offer our children's children. This is doable and it would end the war in minutes if not hours if not in a very, dignified short period of time and put the Hamas terror organization out of business.
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Mr Pakman, I’ve never experienced being shot at or being wounded by a bullet. The mass shootings in your country are a terrible stain on the otherwise wonderful nation America has become to stand for across the world. But as an outside observer from a country on the other side of the world from you, I have an idea that will surely not be appreciated by a lot of your fellow citizens, but I believe it’s the only way for you in America to bring down the level of mass shootings and neutralize more of the shooters. David, Isn’t the only way to defeat the gun problem your country staring us all in the face: mandatory gun-carry laws! Our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims of the mass-shooting in Boulder, Colorado, but seeing how the the 2nd Amendment in your Constitution allows guns to be sold and used and carried by people, why not use reverse psychology and make it mandatory for law-abiding, mentally and physically fit adults to be required to have a firearm on them at all times when they are in the public places? I know it must sound radical, perhaps even dangerous, but seeing what has been happening in your country from across the world, this is the only sane way to deal with problem Excuse me if this causes any pain, but honestly, I don’t see any other way to deal with lone gunmen or even terrorist attacks until the 2nd Amendment has been amended. To recap: People would be obliged to carry a concealed weapon on them at all times in public. We wear masques for a pandemic, isn’t the mass-shootings up to pandemic level? Why not accept that to live in America, you need a sidearm and you need to know how to use it if you want to survive? It's an opinion.
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Dear Sam Harris and Sam Harris’ critics, As an overseas viewer and listener, I realize my perspective on a lot what Sam speaks on and comments on and supports or criticizes is not the same as people living in America. What I do want to say is that we have to let Sam speak his mind on whatever issue he’s talking about because he is analyzing events that affect your country and us around the world and he is speaking in the language of clarity. This videocast is an example of how important it is to let Sam tell us how he analyzes things, because he sees things a lot of us don’t, and it’s up to us to accept or reject what he says, but at least we are getting another point of view. People probably object to how Sam looks at the Trump presidency because of how appalling his critiques are of the current US President. But what everyone should realize is that we are so bombarded with information left, right and center, that to hear Sam Harris’ point of view allows us to have one more very intelligent analysis of unfolding events. You see, most of us don’t realize that social media and the assimilation of portable phones being so prominent in our lives has left us unable define right from wrong on a lot of issues. We have become children again by accepting to be slaves to our comfort zones. It has got to the point where we are tranquilized into being literally walking citadels of our own belief-systems that we have cherry-picked from the 24/7 info blitz we all try to get through and make sense of. Sam Harris is a treasure to the human race because he is staking his reputation and giving his life towards trying to make sense of the pied pipers and faux gods and deceitful leaders who are constantly trying to trick us into believing they are only interested in our well-being. Sam Harris’ has faults like anyone else, but we should not fail to understand that by censoring intellectuals we are cutting off a life-support-line to saving ourselves. Let everyone speak their mind; we are so fortunate to still have this treasured civil right. We can see across the world how in some countries, people like Sam Harris get censored and disappear from public view. Everyone must do their own research: this should be our motto.
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Dear Mr Tapper, I'm writing you to say something that I think would be beneficial for the well-being of your country. Jake, is it necessary for media outlets like CNN to do coverage on these mass-shootings, these specific kinds of stories that make the whole world want to cry? As an overseas viewer, I am not someone who should tell anyone what to do in America, but by covering these shootings that the whole world can see, don't you think that you are tearing at the very fabric that makes your country great? And what a thing to broadcast around the world to your adversaries who can use it as propaganda. Why not have a moratorium on the mass shootings? Let mass shootings of over 3 people be a police matter. It will also stop many potential shooters because they will not recieve the media-attention many of them probably crave. Leave this sordid, unfortunate part of American society as internal police work---at least until the real pain and suffering around the world and in America has subsided. Imagine how Mother's Day was suddenly put on hold in millions of households as people already under the strain of a global pandemic, losing their livlihoods, as well as all the empty chairs around dinner tables where many mothers were once a part of a family, but are no longer there. Please think of this as a concerned world citizen trying to help America's children be free of the shocking violence the mass-shootings incur and help everyone in America get back on their feet.
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Thank you, Kate and Mike. Here is something I have paraphrased and written as a comment that Professor Clarke said to Kate in the Frontline show that I believe deserves repeating: Michael Clarke's point of view. If Putin walks away with what is perceived by him and the rest of the world to be a victory or partial victory, then the west loses very badly, because dictatorships are on the march across the world and because we’ve now committed ourselves to Ukraine in the way we have over the last year. The credibility of liberal democracy is on the line; not just as an ideology---but as a power center in world politics of which it has been for over 200 years. So; in a way, we are on a tiger’s back now, because having committed ourselves to defeating this Putin adventure, if we fail to defeat it, then the rest of the world will draw its own conclusions about the waning power of the western world and we’ll feel the effect of that pretty strongly. What Michael Clarke expects is if Putin can be thrown back, not out of all Ukraine, that would be very good if he were, but Clarke suggests that if Putin were thrown back out of the parts of Ukraine that he’s conquered since 2022, the western world would regard that as a victory, and most probably would accept it as a win. And: though Ukraine probably wouldn’t like it, if the west thought that gaining back the territory that was conquered in 2022 was good enough, then Professor Clarke thinks Kiev would have to decide that at least for the time being that was it was okay to let Crimea be off of the bargaining table.
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Dear Dr Campbell, Thank you for your updates. I'm coming in at 5:39 because there are some things I'd like to go over on what you've said already. First, I'm a singer. Since March, I quit going to my two practice rooms. You have mentionned that in a confined space the droplets can hang in the air. So; after reflecting on the fact that practice rooms are notoriously sealed off to prevent noise escaping, I quit practicing in public practice rooms and now sing in a room at home. In the city I live in on the continent the authorities have once more closed bars, restaurants and social gathering places. It's lockdown again. Today is the national holiday and nothing is going on. My question to you is the same: Dr Campbell, you're in the medical profession. What on Earth is going on with this virus propagating to such incredibly infectious levels in summer time?. It is looking like a modified molecule of some sort, not only because of what you said yesterday about adding sepsis on the growing list of its nefarious effects on human beings, but the warm weather seems to have no effect on its spreading at all. How can this be? Why isn't it acting like a flu virus and disappear in the summer. Weill, I guess it doesn't take a researcher to answer that question; because it's not lie a flu virus, is it? You're way ahead of the curve in knowing that in about ten weeks the temperatures are going to plunge, and the autumn will usher in damp, cold, wet weather and many flats dpn't have heating, at least in our area, until the end cold sets in. It is perplexing, but thanks to you I feel I have a handle on the precautions one has to take. But never before has something so menacing attacked our human community since the Spanish flu. What troubles me is how unprepared the whole world has been. We have think tanks that should have sussed this one out and had every government ready for it.
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Commander Paul, in 8 days the Ukraine / Russian war will have capped two full years of combat and fighting and just from tuning into your channel, I have learned volumes on what it takes to fight in a modern conflict. My question today is this: Could you prepare for us some sort of videocast for the 22nd of February that maybe lets you give us your take on what has happened, what is happening and what will happen? Lastly, I am an artist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kN3RCs4bYc
and in this video is a painting called Slava Ukraini which I dedicated to the Ukrainian people and it has been offered to President Zelensky which whom I hope he will accept to be part of a permanent museum exhibit when the war ends. I started the painting on the 22nd of February. Lastly, when I heard that the Russian invasion started at 5:55 22, February 2022, I noticed this very strange coincidence: 5:55 = 6, 2 February 22 = 6, 2022 = 6. I am not a conspiracy buff, but it's so strange how the number '666' has been associated with things that are not good signs throughout history. Isn't it odd that a Russian commander would start a military operation at 5:55? Why not just say 6:00? Too obvious perhaps?
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With all due respect for the American Senator from Kentucky, Senator Rand Pual, Simon Jenkins from the Guardian, one of the finest English commentary writers of our time, said that an iron maxim of war is to imagine what the enemy most wants you to do, and not do it. A North American Indian proverb says to take everything that comes at you as a lesson; learn fast and move on. I believe this advice is all the Ukrainian President and the Ukrainian armed forces need in order to keep fighting and stay alive and eventually win back their captured territory. War outcomes cannot be predicted; in looking ahead it seems impossible to see how things will work out on paying the money the Ukraine’s broken economy can no longer provide month after month. It's normal for Senator Paul to question America's generous contribution, but it also gives the enemy the solution for winning the war: time. So; why not use 24-hour increments as the most realistic way forward in this dangerous confrontation between a super power pulling out all the stops and a sovereign nation reeling from 24/7 bombings and missile attacks? Let’s quit predicting when the war will end or when the Ukrainians will have this or that weapon system, because what they’ve got today is all that matters. They have to use what they have on hand. Telling the Ukrainians weapons systems are on the way is frustrating enough with the enemy advancing from every direction, but we’ve got to get this war into bite-sized chunks instead of looking at a long, protracted war that could go on for years, which is depressing and frankly, looks incredibly expensive from this vantage point. To recap: What I think must be done is to look at the war no further than the 24 hour time period we live in ourselves, because we’ll argue ourselves to death trying to imagine how we’ll be able to furnish money, food, weapons in, say, 8 months time. The best thing is for the Ukrainians to use the weapons they have today and the money they have in their central bank and stop looking to some future date as Armageddon if they run out of ammo or money or weapons. The only way to stop a tiger from killing a deer is to make sure the tiger is dead before it can get its jaws around the deer's neck. We need to concentrate on stopping the tiger asap
Kind regards,
David Te’Kannon
Geneva, Switzerland
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I would like to answer Wolff’s question to Senator Blumenthal about what the tanks will mean in the spring offensive. They will certainly help. But may I say something to you Wolff, Senator Blumenthal, General (Ret.) Wesley Clark and Jill Doughtery? I think the best thing that will greatly help end the war in Ukraine with Russia is to begin opening a dialogue with Russia. We are ramping up military support for the Ukrainians and it is a very good thing, but isn't this the way to go ahead with the Ukraine war with Russia? President Putin and his entourage cannot---it seems to me---connect the dots to see the whole picture. The big picture in my view is this---and I am an artist and inventor and not a military strategist or leader of NATO and experienced in any kind of military activity like General Clark, or the others who are specialists in your fields---but for me, the concept that President Putin needs to understand is this: (WE) the west, will not now and/or forever be able to accept that the Ukraine is taken over, conquered and absorbed into greater Russia no matter what the cost. What I think will help President Putin and his supporters understand this is for leaders, journalists, senior political figures and former military officers like you to speak like this: Dear President Putin, we are not against Russia in our resolve to assure Ukraine’s sovereignty. We have nothing personal against you. We want only the best for the Russian people, but President Putin, you must understand that you have crossed a red line by invading a sovereign nation and it is imperative for you and your administration to know that we will not and cannot now and for all eternity allow this to happen. It is an existential problem because your invasion of the Ukraine goes against all of our principles and it is our very existence as democratic nations that is being threatened here. So; in no disrespect to what you have decided to do as far as the Ukraine is concerned i.e., Russian doctrine, this time the goal posts cannot be moved. We understand your motives, but please try to comprehend that nothing will change our minds; the Ukraine must be liberated and the sooner you accept this, the better for you and the Russian people and the Ukrainian people and the west. It's an opinion.
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Travis Walton is the Jeff Koons of the UFO Community. He’s got everything it takes to look like a real deal, but when you look under the hood the motor’s missing. Playing a life-long abductee, you’ve got to give Walton credit; he’s got the balls to pull it off, but like Jeff Koons, he’s only able to talk about things he claims are the real thing, but in reality it’s all sleight of hand. Jeff Koons has convinced the art world that a blown-up balloon dog made of polished metal manufactured by factory workers is worth north of 50 million bucks, that girls and boys, is really pulling the wool over a lot of people’s eyes. I don’t knock Walton or Koons; they are masters of deception and actors of events and concepts they believe are real. The sad thing is that gullible people have fallen for Walton’s charms and misled fools have paid millions for Koons’ pseudo-art he has not even made by himself. Former Secretary of Treasury, Steve Mnuchin’s dad paid 70 million dollars for a piece of sculpture Koon’s had made by his factory workers. It’s so unbelievable and yet it’s happening right before our eyes. This makes it understandable why people will buy into Walton’s space opera and why he can earn a living telling people things they want to believe. I only can say that for Walton to spend his entire life living on his back story is a life thrown away, and as for Jeff Koons, he’s laughing all the way to the bank, but Koons knows in his heart that he’s a technician and not in the same league as fine artists. But this is what makes our world so interesting, and who am I to judge anyone who has made it to the front pages and media platforms? It's an opinion. Great work Dr Grande.
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Dear Mr Bilyeu and Mr Firtitta, Thank you Mr Bilyeu for your very original style of interviewing people and bringing out the best in them. And: with Mr Firtitta; you’ve done it again. Thank you Mr Firtitta for sharing your story that I am sure will open the door to success to many, many people starting out in business. I have one question for Mr Firtitta about his children and them working in his business empire. Mr Firtitta, I have never had an opportunity to take over a parent’s business, so I don’t know how I would react, but aren’t you kind of taking their destiny in your hands and robbing them of their purpose in life by having them walk into a successful business empire? Excuse me if I’m off target on this, but it seems to me your business offer is so strong that your kids are going to go into something that is profitable but maybe nothing at all about what they would do without having it as a family affair. Why not let them make their own minds up and have them first go out and do what they really want to do with their life? Am I coming across as making any sense, probably not, but we only live once, and it would be a shame to live a life only if we made a lot of dough and it wasn’t at all what we wanted to do. If you let your kids go for what's in their heart, you might be surprised to see them become someone that is not obvious in their character. They may never know who they really are, because they have never had to dig deep Inside to let their real self become alive. It's easy to offer suggestions, and I made a mess of things with my own kid to be truthful.
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Dear Ms Crystal and Mr Enjeti, Thank you for bringing new zest to television news. Both of you are sharp as tacks and give a no-thrills look at the world unfolding around us. I am watching from the other side of the world in a country not yet invaded by Russia, so I get it that, well, a lot times I probably don't get it, in regards to what's going on in your country. One thing I do know is that President Trump will only have a four year presidency. I also think a Joe Rogan interview would make Rogan not only look out of his league, but it would ruin what he represents: the rogue interviewer. The daring dude in clinging slinky sweat shirts who smokes joints on the air when the laws are in agreement, and packs a 100 million dollar winning smile He would be accused of being stoned or out of it, and his questions would be short on quality and long on middle-of-the-road inquisitiveness. it would rub off on wrong on the other candidates. It would serve Trump well, but only because he shamelessly muddles through any news worthy sound bite on sheer audacity and love of anything that kindles power, contrariness and confusion and especially glory-talk about his feigned accomplishments. He is aserial lier who lives in his own reality. Rogan would put a shine on his tarnished image, but only until Trump was fact-checked afterwords. All in all, a Rogan interview would come off like a professional wrestling match; a lot of hot air would get tossed around, there would be a lot of laughs, but at the end it would only be a make-believe event that would make America look like a hotdog democracy that got sold to the lowest bidder. In short, I'm going on a bit long, excuse me, because it's hard predicting the future before it happens! Seriously, we can all breathe easy again. Trump will be out. There will be a return to humdrum government speak, but at least America will have the wind in her sails.
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I'd like to throw in a solution that I believe is the only way forward, but I have no qualifications other than being a concerned world citizen living in Europe. My thinking goes like this: Why can't we ask the 26 Arab nations to come together and offer a parcel of land that is able to be enough for a country to thrive for the Palestinian people. Gaza is not enough space and cannot function as a country; the population of Gaza live in permanent state of insecurity and helplessness and it is like a festering wound. It gets cleaned with every mini-war, then the Hamas faction takes over, rebuilds the military arm, and then something ignites a new conflict. Can any of us imagine to live in a hell-hole like that and bring up our kids? No; no one can, but no one wants to tell it like it is. Israel has to win and will win and will never lose because it's really the silent 51st state of America. Gaza should go to Israel. Yes; I know this is preposterous to a great majortiy of people; but let's be real. It would give Israel the land it needs to become a country of a more respectable size. The Arab nations have more than enough land between them to come up with a parcel of their lands to offer the Palestinians an area large enough to prosper and thrive on. This is a painful, wrong-in-every-way solution, but it will lead to a win/win solution that will see one day in the future Palestinian and Israeli citizens at peace with eachother. It means concessions must be made; it means going against what people believe in, but there is no other way this can end peacefully. Briefly, Palestinians move from Gaza to a chosen land from their Arab brothers and sisters, and Gaza goes to Israel. Peace is something that can only happen when opposing sides have their backs against the wall. That time is now...
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Dear Mr Weston and Dr Fauci, Thank you Mr Westin for top quality interviews that ask the right questions to get the answers we need to see our way through the challenges facing us in the world of today’s pandemic-economic conundrum that has even the experts stumped in how to get through the mess we’re in. I have an idea I’d like to ask Dr Fauci about how to get kids back in school safely and how to get the American economy and the world economy back on its feet. After months of people having to wear the masks that have made us look like we are on the wrong side of solving the problem of the Covid-19 pandemic, we need to move on. To win on the Coronavirus pandemic in your country and around the world we need to fight the Coronavirus on its territory instead of letting it come into our bodies to fight our immune systems. 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 as well. What I believe we need to do now is to use reverse strategy and go after the Coronavirus actively where it lives: in the air. We can do this with air scrubbers, air processors i.e. air cleaners adjusted to bake or freeze or incapacitate the virus in its molecular form and take it immediately out of the air we breathe. We could do this in every place where people congregate; every classroom could have one working 24/7 for example. There would be a gauge on the apparatus to show the level of the virus in the air. The police use breathalyzers to analyses the alcohol content in someone’s breath Dr Fauci, if we could get a Coronavirus analyzer that shows whether the Covid-19 virus is in a person’s system 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 harmful viruses from the people talking. People could wake up in the morning and test themselves with a virus-breathalyzer and if they were positive, they could take immediate action. I haven’t invented these apparatuses, but the technology has been around for decades. Think of it as, say, Dyson air conveyors i.e. portable devices that filter but instead kill the virus with ultra-violet light or something that renders it inoffensive and send cleaned air back into the room or building or school. We should look at a school like it was a submarine, and have the air cleaned 24/7. Classrooms could have portable devices. The plain simple truth of the matter is that viruses are going to be infecting us ad Astra because they travel through the air. We will never be free of this pandemic or any pandemic until we eliminate the viruses at the source: the air we breathe. Let’s go after it in ITS territory, instead of sitting passively by, because we're like sitting ducks trying to block an invisible pathogen from infecting us. After 6 months we can see it's a losing battle. The technology has been around since submarines started scrubbing CO2 out of the air while on underwater maneuvers, so we know who to contact. This may be the way we can save people at risk and be prepared for the next wave(s) of Coronavirus and it's a win/win situation any way you look at it, because as well as filtering deadly viruses out of the air, other pollutants and pollen would be filtered.
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Dear Mr Hartmann and Dr Mann, Thank you Mr Hartmann for tackling subjects on your program that are not discussed on a lot of mainstream media outlets. To be fair, tipping points are not exactly the news you want to read about every day in the news. Thank you Dr Mann, for dedicating your time to solving this problem. May I offer another “solution” to the tipping points’ problem of global climate change? Could it be possible to use genetics i.e. genetic engineering on a massive, global scale to address the problem? What do I mean by genetic engineering? First of all, we can see that the faun and fauna on planet earth are incredibly fragile. Imagine a 1° degree increase in temperature and all the coral start dying because the amoeba inside of them cannot tolerate a 1° degree temperature rise in the seas! Insects cannot reproduce as Mr Hartmann pointed out with a 1°degree rise in temperature that destabilizes the male insect reproductive system. What is obvious is that humanity cannot turn off the tap on fossil fuels in the blink of an eye no matter how passionately David Attenborough pleads to the world’s leaders. No; gentlemen, I propose using our latest technical achievements in genetic manipulation and focus on tweaking the genetic DNA of all species to increase their tolerance to rising temperatures etc. If we can adjust the tolerance level via altering the genetic codes of the insects, plants, fish etc., affected by climate change, we just might be able to stabilize the faun and fauna to a respectable level. And I might add, we can continue by all means to decrease green-house gas levels. But we must be realistic, this cannot change for a generation or more and all of us know it. Let’s try the science approach? What have we got to lose?
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What Mr Fridman, You are doing the world a great service with your videocasts. Thank you Mr Krugman for your numerous articles, videocasts, speeches, analyses on the economy and its many challenges in your country and across the world. I have to completely disagree with you on having many health care companies, health care insurance companies, choice of clinics, prices, etc. I live in a country with many health-care and health-care insurance companies and it works very well. My health care insurance is expensive, but if I wanted I could choose another company that is cheaper. Health care is compulsory where I live, and it works very well. Having a choice of company and health care system in my mind has made the whole experience of the health care world a positive thing. The competition makes every health care operators on their toes. There are critics of course, but it seems to be a success because it’s been this way for more than 3 decades. There is a downside to everything, and there are probably people who would completely disagree with me. But I am not a higher earner and never have been, but it’s great to have a choice in health care.
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Thank you PB, for world-class valuetaincasts. Congratulations to Beeple, AKA Mike Winklemann on making a fortune on the sale of his work of art. The value of a work of art must always be in the eyes of the beholder. But, there is something about this exponential rise to stardom by Beeple that shows things are starting to disintegrate in terms of what real art is. The master of faux-art---it’s my word---is of course Jeff Koons. Again; I congratulate Jeff Koons on the success his works of art have generated. Didn’t the former Secretary of Treasury, Steven Mnuchin’s dad, just fork out 70 million dollars for a sculpture made by artisans in a factory in Jeff Koon’s name. I dare anyone to look at that sculpture---it’s a horse or something like that---and tell me that is art. Nothing that’s pieced together on a computer should even come close to the astronomical sum someone paid for Beeple’s work and he knows it. Don’t’ get me wrong; I could easily be called a disgruntled artist with only a handful of paintings, sculptures, drawings sold in my entire career, so I’m walking on thin ice criticizing Beeple and Jeff Koons. But what I see, PB, is not works made by artists but more like technical-art makers cleaning up. These cats probably don’t even know how to draw. And who’s to say anthing is wrong with that? But I can tell you Beeple knows in his heart of hearts that his collage or assembly of pictures is not fine art; it’s gobblygook that looks great on i-phones. It’s decorative art; it’s idea-art, but it’s nothing that is from a real artist. But you can’t knock success and I wish them all the best with their careers. By the way, you’ve just been re-named PB David, by one of your favorite contributors…
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Dear Mr Anderson, Mr Toobin and Mr Baker, Thank you Mr Cooper for your excellent reporting and ability to get the best out of your panelists and CNN Contributors. Thank you Mr Toobin for clearing up the legal angle on so many, many issues and pointing out time after time errors in judgement or wrongdoing from powerful individuals in government in language everyone can understand. It must be exhausting for all of you after more than 1,050 days of President Donald J. Trump’s silly antics and appalling behavior for the head of state in your country. We have all had our laughs about Trump’s burlesque show of an Administration, with a lot of below-average public servants trying to come across as people in the know. The worst thing is that America’s progress in all important areas in your country has been put on hold and its influence around the world are hampered by a president who is doing a job that he has shown over and over again he is not qualified for. He has not grown in office. He has become an international symbol of a buffoon. Worst of all is that the framers of the constitution made The President of The United States bullet-proof. When Trump is gone, Congress has to revise the constitution and never allow a person with Trump’s catalog of legal woes and sexual allegations to remain in office. Like you, we are all aghast at the possibility that this rogue president might worm his way into getting another 4 years in power. Everyone knows he and his acolytes are doing everything they can to stay in power because of the legal implications Trump will have to face when he is out of office. He’s going to run the clock on all of us, and the constitution has him covered on all the bases. It’s checkmate for the world if he wins. Mr Anderson, keep going, but speak in person-in-the street speak, pause after the main points, show the facts, imagine you are talking to a group of auto assembly workers: you want your countrymen to understand.
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Dear Mr Stetler and your CNN Colleagues and CNN Contributors, Thank you for doing a very good job and your very sympathetic work in bringing the news of the Coronovirus to your country and to us across the world. When you say that more than 50 thousand people have already died in your country alone, it shows what we’re up against. Your plea to have your president to act like---well, to act like an American president is surreal. This is only the first wave of what will certainly be more of the same to come and America has got a very irresponsible president in charge. Not even Charlie Chaplin could have come up with a character like Trump. How in the world is a person with a personality like Donald J. Trump going to guide America through the worst economic downturn since maybe The Great Depression of 1929 and maybe a pandemic like The Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918? It is the question everyone is asking. The best thing President Trump has done is to show that the American political system is broken, because he is unfit for high office and everyone knows it. And having former Vice-President Joe Biden as Trump’s successor only proves I’m right, because it shows you need to have millions to burn to run for president or have the political masters give you the green light. Biden knows he is being chosen not because of what he can do and the message he brings, but because the powers that be knows he will do their bidding. It’s no one’s fault that the founders could not have imagined derivatives and financial Armageddon would be the straw that broke the Camel’s proverbial back of American politics. They could not have foreseen that only a handful of skilled, poker players would be the ones who move the pieces on the boardgame i.e. the destiny of a nation. We can’t blame the billionaires in their bunkers or the multi-millionaires in their gated communities, because they simply sussed out how the whole thing works. The American political system needs to be re-tooled where money does not make the man, but that a person’s character is the judge of who wins high office. I write too much, but it's only an opinion. Be well.
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Dear Howard and Mr Donald Trump Jr., Thank you Howard for your honest and balanced reporting, you have an excellent way of interviewing people and one always feels you examine all sides of the argument. As someone viewing the news from the other side of the world, I can tell you and Mr Donald Trump Jr., that it appears to be a very fair examination of the facts from all sides of the political spectrum across and from all of the mainstream media outlets. One senses everyone is doing their best. Fox News does their best to get the facts right. Judge Napolitano, Martha, Shep Smith, Chris - all of you do a great job. I think however that Hannity should not be the president of the United States number one adviser; he is a great news show host, but he shouldn't be advising a standing president. He is not an expert. How can he give good advice? Donal Trump Jr., you have to understand that because of your flip-flops and conflicting stories in your past interviews you are never going to be taken seriously again in a television interview or in a newspaper etc. It is a golden rule that when you change your testimony once, you can recover and be forgiven. But Don, you have changed your testimony more than a few times and now you must realize that your credibility can never fully recover. You have done your best Donald Trump Jr., but the best thing you can do for your country now is to ask your dad to step down for the good of his country and the free world. He’s done his best, but you’re talking about the most powerful country the world has ever seen and President Trump is certainly a great father, but America and the world need solid leadership and someone at the healm who inspires and can assume the role of commander-in-chief.
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Piers, Adam, Paula and Emily, you all have reached the gold standard in communicating to the world current events, but let's be real about what has happened in Israel. Things will never be the same---not only for the Israelis and the Palestinians when the fighting is over, because what Hamas has done is cut all bridges to peace for all eternity by their acts of barbary. I am an artist and not a geopolitical person nor have I worked in government, but I have what I think is the only viable plan for peace that will allow all people of conscience a way to put out of our minds what has happened to babies, children, adolescents and adults on Israeli soil and innocent Palestinians who have died like flies under Hamas' brutal dictatorship. Piers, I can see you gag over this but I honestly believe Gaza must be plowed under, bulldozed and all the buildings and infrastructure taken down and sent away and the 145 square kilometers turned into a Galapagos of the middle east. Yes; a nature reserve for all endangered species of plant, animal, amphibian, bird, fish. Paula, Emily, Adam, this is the only bridge back to sanity that the Israelis will buy into. It is the only glue to bring back together two great peoples who find themselves in a Catch 22 situation. Hamas has crossed the proverbial line in the sand for the final time and nothing will resolve this conflict until the Palestinian people all live under one flag in one place and Gaza gets turned into grass lands, waterways and forests and lakes and streams and rivers where nature abounds. The Gaza strip which is about the size of the Isle of Wight must be transformed into a nature reserve and it will serve all humankind and save thousands of species on the verge of extinction and most of all it will allow Israelis and Palestinians and us around the world to have beautiful images coming from that part of the world from now on. Of course, 2.6 million Palestinians are going to need the help of every nation on earth to be relocated, if need be, to be housed and fed and The West Bank needs to be expanded and the like. Solutions will be found; The UN knows Gaza is a concentration camp posing as a country. China has built whole cities with millions of empty apartments that could house some of the Palestinians and China needs workers of every class. Can we at least ask them for help in relodging a million people for a time? There is no doubt that what I am talking about here means we have to be cruel to be kind, but Gaza must never go back to what it was because the cuts are too deep this time in Israeli psyche and Gaza is an open prison waiting to become a terrorist sewer of a nation by the insane way it has been set up. To recap: Gaza can be made into a Galapagos of the middle east that will put a smile on every face in the human community forever and save countless species from being lost forever and most of all it will cement a peace between two great peoples...
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Dear Mr Tapper and Senator Coons, First, I know I speak for many people when I say thanks to Jake Tapper and entire CNN Team and CNN Contributors for an excellent and absolutely crucial job in bringing the news to viewers and listeners in America and for us around the world. Thank you and your colleagues in The Senate and Congress, Senator Coons, for making it through an unbelievably, phenomenal 4 years in doing a balancing act of dealing with a President with a personality disorder bordering at times on the extreme. Republicans, Democrats, Independents have done their best to wade through an Administration that has no precedent in your nation’s history. But you have all done it with dignity and the Republicans will come around to reason when they hear the door close on the Trump presidency close for good. They have stood behind an unhinged president, and like Fox News, by their support they have most likely saved your country and the world from Trump having a meltdown and doing something that all of us would pay for. As an overseas viewer I realize my perspective on the unfolding events in your country are not in the same ballpark as yours, but as an artist and inventor I try to use my problem-solving skills to offer solutions to problems. One thing that comes to mind is that with the enormous amount of work that has to be done in Congress, The Senate, President-elect Biden and Vice-President Elect Harris and everyone concerned with the economy, the pandemic, there has to be a different way to approach getting through the paperwork, the necessary things one needs to finalize actions. Would it be possible to have your government work in 8-hour shifts? Yes; just like in a factory where there are 3 shifts when they need to meet production needs. Why not work round-the-clock? When everyone needs to vote, that would be a regular day. It might be a way to get a lot of the preparation work done a lot quicker and let’s face it, with on top of everything else there are thousands of people in your country dying every day from a run-away pandemic, something extraordinary must be done to tackle extraordinary circumstances. It’s an opinion.
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I'll start by saying--and he's going to hate me for it, but JB needs a botox visit on his forehead. Secondly, I'm going to catch a lot of flak on the fact that I believe their isn't an over-representation on white people who go missing over other nationalities on CNN or anyother network--the coverage of the unfortunate case of Gabby has shown us that no matter how much respresentation a missing person gets, if the end result is like what happened to Gabby, the whole world cries. But every missing person case should of course get the same flash news across all media platforms. That being said, the media will probably now have to not report any missing person because dozens of people in America alone go missing every day. People of color also have to realize that it's only recently that America has become mulit-national in every single sense of the term. It's not to defend white people, but you just have to look at the movies to see that until the last few decades or so, America was a reflection of Europe and not the whole world. That has changed. In 2043 the CIA reports that America will have more people of color than white people. That is going to change America. As far as the Gabby case is concerned, I imagine the policeman who encountered a very shaken and visibly unhappy Gabby on his camera, would be so sad today realizing he should have asked her if she wanted to call her parents or be taken to a safe place until her boyfriend calmed down. I have a daughter who has severe health issues, but I think no one can imagine the pain Gabby's parents must be experiencing at this moment.
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Peter, by our governments saying that we cannot imbibe in this or that substance i.e., take stimulants, for example, or drugs like cocaine or booze or whatever the chemists come up with next and is of our choice, aren't they really saying this? We judge you so incompetent, so unable to decide for yourself what is good for you or what is bad for you that, we, your elected officials will make those decisions for you and ban the following drugs, substances, liquids... etc. This is music to anyone on the south side of law and order. The Cartels are really the vultures that hang over our societies and all they do is see what the next thing is that's banned and then they go to work supplying it to people who want to take the banned substance. The Cartels get rich; innocent people become addicts and go to jail; neighborhoods become less law-abiding and citizens morph into criminals and become born-again drug dealers to kids who grow up and do the same...
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Everytime I tune in and see that fabulous California coastline it makes me want to book a one way ticket to LA, except for a little thing called the Pandemic which is sweeping the world and seems to get people infected in confined spaces. Researchers now say that there are 200 symptoms that long-Covid sufferers are getting aflicted by touching 10 organs and things like the spinal nerve. A doctor in neighboring UK has long-Covid along with 220, 000 of her health professional colleagues. She will never be able to walk without a cane, and at 36, she says she is now like her patients in their 70s. She needs a bannister to walk upstairs. She can't walk more than 200 meters. Long-Covid is what is coming to a village, town, city in every country and affecting everyone on Earth after the pandemic has subsided. Speaking of the 29 trillion dollars that America has as its national debt, it should be noted that it is no surprise that the former FED chairperson, Janet Yellen, who is now coincidentaly the Secretary of the Treausury famously said while being FED chairman: There will never be another recesssion or depression. And she should know because what she has discovered is that the printing press is all you need to keep the good ship America and every other country on a roll. We're printing ourselves to prosperity with funny-money, Monopoly money... I don't know what else a fiat currency is but it is only the value we believe it is.
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Dear CNN News Presenter, You have an excellent way of presenting the news and it makes watching the television news a very rewarding experience. An Indian proverb says, “Before you judge someone, first walk 15 days in their moccasins”. Republicans have to wait until there is no more air in the tires and that the Trump Presidential Bus can no longer run them over; they can’t make a move until there is absolutely no way President Trump can free himself from getting unstuck in legal quicksand; in other words, Republicans find themselves in an unheard of predicament that they are more than desperately trying to find their way out of in as discreet a manner as possible. Everywhere they turn, there is uncertainty. All of the safety measures that they could use in the past are non-starters, because President Trump's style of politics has meant throwing the normal way of doing politics in the trash. They want to save face and not lose precious voters, but more than that they have to watch their backs. The President is crawling with powers that can weasel him out of the most sure-fire legal traps, and this means he can attack anyone who tries to have him removed like a king cobra. In politics, the key word is survival and Republicans know they have very little room to manoeuver, so they must keep a low profile until President Trump is caught in a checkmate. The President knows he has to fight until the end, because there is only one thing waiting for him when his time in The Oval Office is over: extreme legal jeopardy for himself, and his family, and most of all this means that there is a high risk he may lose his business empire. Republicans want out of this thing more than anything, but they have to do it in a way that requires stealth planning.
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Dear Mr Bilyeu and Mr Dalio, I am only ten minutes into this interview but if I don’t ask Mr Dalio this question, I am sure I will forget. Mr Dalio, why hasn’t the US Government simply guaranteed every single employer in the United States that the government will take charge of every payroll until the green light is on to go back to work? You mentioned J. Crew company, and I think today we heard J.C. Penny is going bankrupt, over here in Europe, we heard today that Rolls Royce are furloughing 9,000 employees. What’s my point? My point is that if the FED can digitally pay any amount of money then why not save everyone the headache of getting laid off, fired, going bankrupt by simply taking over the payrolls. That way everyone has their paycheck, there are no food lines, there are no heart-rending scenes of despair. It just seems like sending out one stimulus check for an absurdly small amount of money and then maybe another is like putting a bandage on an open wound that requires stitches. Lastly, we read that Mr Dalio is worth 18 billion dollars and that Mr Bilyeu is worth 400 million. Aren’t both of you worried that with the FED sending trillions of currency into circulation that your buying power will be severely reduced? I know the interview is a week old, but Tom, could you ask Mr Dalio my question and give us his answer on another videocast?
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Dear Mr Smerconish, Thank you for your excellent analyses on numerous events. I am watching this from the other side of the world, so please forgive my lack of perspective. First, it is tragic for a traffic arrest to end in the death of a person found guilty of breaking the law. Second, no one is above the law. Third, there should be a trial and verdict to decide if anyone is guilty. Lastly, the police in your country have a very dangerous job. Not to be judgemental, but we see over and over that people of minority communities often refuse to obey a peace officer's demands. It is insane to think anyone would disobey a police officer, and if they did they would know they would be going to jail. All the time, we see an American police officer asking the person to do this or that, and the person not obeying. The police in America lose a member of their forces almost every single day of the year. They are often shot in the face, lose an eye or sense of smell and taste, or teeth and have to live on a small compensation for the rest of their lives because a petty thief refused to empty his pockets, pulls out a revolver and shoots them at point blanc range. They are over-extended and often have to work over time and get calls that put them in the line of fire. Sometime in the next 24 hours, a child of a police officer is going to be told his mother or father was killed in the line of duty.
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Dear Crystal and Saagar, First, do you need three a's in your first name Saagar when two would be more economical and esthetically... Just kidding! Isn't it odd that no one in your business of reporting the news has shown what Britain is doing about taking care of its people. There are no stimulus checks. Everyone keeps their job. If one doesn't work, he or she recieves 70% of their salary until the pandemic is over. Why on earth can't America do the same? Everyone would still have their job, and if they couldn't work because of the pandemic, they would still have a job and still get a paycheck. It beggar's belief that the US Government has to vote on sending out bail-out money to people needing help. It shows that the American system needs an upgrade. This pandemic thing is going to be a lot worse next time around most likely, so it's time to try something that works... like the British system. Lastly, Speaker Pelosi has to hold out because Trump's stimulus includes heavy tax relief for the super-rich. Boys and girls, it's all about politics in your country, but Speaker Pelosi is a front-line worker and no one sees the information she does. Give her a chance to show her strategy. As an overseas viewer, it's too easy for me to criticize, but I think you should focus on what's happening in California with the explosive homeless situation. People are losing their minds over seeing their neighborhoods being invaded by tents and people who have lost all sense of decency by relieving themselves openly on the sidewalks and streets of suburban neighborhoods.
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Dear Poppy, Jim and Mr Perez, I am sure in all of your days in television journalism, all of you, Evan, Poppy and Jim, have never had to report something so far below the floorboards it’s right off the road. This shows how great America is, because, yes, somebody will speak up who is willing to do great bodily harm to someone like Dr Fauci. You must not be depressed. We are watching you and your CNN colleagues and CNN Contributors from across the world and you never fail to impress with your dedication to telling it like it is. I live in a country next to Italy, Spain and France and we are all suffering heavy losses. This virus has put a stop to life as we know it, but thanks to people like you braving the elements to get the message out there, you and Dr fauci make this life well worth while. This will make us stronger. It's the first wave and if it imitâtes the 1918 Spanish flu we are in for at least two more waves and over 700 days before it's over. The crackpot will see the light too.
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Dear Ms Burnett, The CNN Team, Dr Gupta and Dr Reiner, Thank you Ms Burnett for bringing us the latest updates on the Coronovirus pandemic affecting your country and the world at large. Thank you Dr Gupta and Dr Reiner for giving your country and people like myself watching from around the world your analyses on the Covid-19 virus. I have something to say. I am an inventor. Here is my assessment. Up until now we have gone after the virus passively. We wear masks, gloves, face shields, eye protection. Next, we’re trying to come up with a vaccine. What I believe we need to do now is go after the Coronovirus actively with air scrubbers in every place where people congregate; think Dyson air conveyors i.e. portable devices that filter out or kill the virus with ultra-violet light or something that renders it inoffensive. It’s infecting us by the airwaves, so let's go to it instead of letting it come to us! Why not attack it in the air before it infects us? We can do this by scrubbing the air with portable air conveyors that take in the air, disinfect it, filter it, and send it back out, virus free, into the classroom, or train, or pub, or office etc. This is my idea and I don’t have the means to make a prototype, but from what I see, the virus is floating in the air, and if can filter it out of the places people congregate it will lower the amount of it infecting people. Let’s go after it in its territory, instead of sitting passively by, trying to block it from infecting us. Please Dr Gupta, could you give us your impression of this approach towards eliminating the virus? Can someone please make a prototype? My gut feeling tells me this is the way we can be prepared for the next wave of Coronovirus. Be safe -
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Very interesting discussion with Mr Harris and Mr Yang. As an overseas viewer, I can only say that every single report we saw on television concerning Mr Yang running for president was very respectful and there was equal coverage to every other candidate. What I see going on in the American political spectrum is exciting. There has been and still is the Trumpian force(s) that befuddle just about everyone but I see Trump differently. I don't see quality but I don't see a torpedo man bringing down your republic by his antics and the snowball effect he has had on erroding democratic values. No; what I see is that everyone one of us is trying to figure out this new sort of media-explosion with an outdated instruction manual. We are aghast at the fact that the right hold on to absurd theories and alternative facts. We see a bombastic former President Trump come on TV interviews and say few truths and yet his lies stick like glue to his followers. Why? Because the people trying to debunk his lies quit before they have finished the job. We are all used to have someone like Sam Harris go on TV and point out the reason why this or that is a problem. Before, in times before mass-media, there were people like Sam, there was Walter Cronkite for example, what he said became the new benchmark for truth on a certain subject. That just doesn't exist any more. Each fact or alternative fact that gets spoken by talking heads on any media outlet is confronted with a medusa of public consciousness. There are suddenly a dozen versions of a single truth. What I believe we are doing wrong is going out there and disproving only once or a limited time someone's comment i.e. Trump's latest whopper, and then calling it a day. Un-huh; no way: you've got to keep throwing new reasons and proofs and statements and testimony until the lie-fire is out. The old way of dealing with the way people used to interact has taken a back seat to multiple sorties of gatlin gun facts or alternative facts and the only way to combat it is to keep going and find out what those people who believe in nonsense need to finally give in and realize their arguments don't hold any water. It means more work, endless attempts at putting things right, but as far as I see it this is one way ahead to save your democracy from caving in and getting side-lined. These are wonderful times in that every single thing we have held true is now up for debate. Okay, let's debate, but let's debate and win--
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Let’s be real and in all due respect to retired Lt. General Herling, Putin is a master at disguising his real intentions. We are being told a fairy story most of the time and Prigozhin, Shoigu, Grazmov are all on a short leash and they know they have to follow a script or pay the ultimate price. Putin is feared and that’s why he is obeyed to the letter. I am playing devil’s advocate because we are being spoon-fed that the Russians are a bunch of clueless, imbecilic paper soldiers and we had better realize that this is a war going on and Russia has enormous reserves compared to the Ukrainians. No one could agree more that what we see and have seen on the battlefield thus far from the Russian side has been a lack of professionalism, equipment and training missing for the soldiers on the front lines and poor leadership, but there is one thing we have to remember and that is Stalingrad, because when the Germans under General Paulus misjudged the Russians and were surrounded, the price they paid was steep. Paulus surrendered the 4th and 6th Army with 100,000 men. 5 years later after the war had ended only 5,000 Germans returned to Germany.
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Talk about trick or treat. Happy Halloween, Ian, but this time around it's Vlad the Vampire that has me worried that we all may be getting comfortable in customized mental-coffins if Putin decides it's time to let his nukes do the talking. Seriously, when you say Russia has decoupled from advanced industrial democracies to cozy up to rogue nations that relish his support, we are talking about a dissolving world order, cracking and breaking off like an Antarctica ice-sheet. Why are we seeing so many things looking like doom-loops: the economy, more than 600 days of a meat-grinder war in the Ukraine, 26 days and counting in Gaza? Today, 50 people died in a refugee camp where apparently a high-ranking Hamas leader was hiding. What you do best, Ian, is tell it like it is. The trouble is that the way things are has a way of looking like our world is in for some big changes that aren't going to please everyone.
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Dear Mr Fridman and Mr Schwarzman, Thank you Mr Fridman for an excellent interview and thank you Mr Schwarzman with sharing some helpful hints in dealing with people. You have taken common sense to a new level. By simply observing how human beings act and think, you have given us insight into knowing more about our fellow man. Two things. I heard your apprehension on the internet and social media and I think we have to realize we have created an internet mirror of the human brain. It’s can scare us because as you pointed out, some people can lose their lives by one means or another. And as Mr Fridman points out it can shine a light on some incredibly fascinating things. What’s my point? I think we have to realize that we can expect just about anything that is believed will be conceived on the internet. We have opened the door to the 3 parts of the human psyche: The ego, The superego and The Id. What this means is that a lot of the weird stuff that will be coming at us from the virtual reality will be from the Id, or a disproportionate amount. You can already see that from what your president shown to the whole world. A former Fox News Contributor Charles Krauthammer said this: “There is no more uncensored, unfiltered avenue from the id to tweeting. What we’re seeing is that we’re getting a look into the psyche of the president. And what we’re seeing is a vindictiveness, a cruelty, a lack of temperedness, a lack of self-control which is truly shocking. Not that it distracts, of course it distracts but that is a political thing, the problem is America has elected Trump and this is what is character is like.” Trump is the perfect example of a text-book sociopath, and social media has allowed us to see how he thinks. Now times that by 7.7 billion people and you’ve got your internet. Lastly, you mentioned China’s goal of getting all the kids learning computer science and in your country the education system is all over the place and maybe 5% of the kids will get computer classes. To me, this insight coming to you is your Id trying to get in touch with you by saying, “You can change this Stephen, you can make this your life’s goal and direct your philanthropic prowess towards correcting this wrong that you have pointed out in your country’s education system.” I think you cannot deny, Mr Schwarzman that you have a life goal here that will make a big difference. Why not aim high and get (all) of your country’s kids on the same page as China’s kids? It's an opiinion. I try to think of solutions and give feedback. Be well.
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David, I have to say this to you and it's about your country and 9/11 and first you should interview American physicist Dr Judy Wood who spent ten years investigating 9/11. You won't be disappointed. This is a fact: 220,000 tons of structural steel came tumbling down and most of it never reached the ground, did it? For crying out loud, the Manhattan bathtub was not even dented, the parking garage under the towers did not cave in. Red flag anyone? There were people trapped with a firefighter in the bottom corner at ground level in one of the towers, suddenly they heard the tower they were under begin to fall and all said goodbye to each other because 100 floors were about to crush them to death, but seconds later, they were stunned to see sunlight shooting through the roof of their floor. Where had all the rubble gone. 3,000 porcelain toilets were in the towers and not one piece bigger than a silver dollar was ever found; ditto with office equipment, chairs, computers. The biggest red flad was that the government said Building 7 came down because of an office fire---a waste paper basket was to blame. President Bush waited 440 days to set up an investigative commission. The longest any prior president waited to set up a similar commission after a disaster was... are you ready for this: 6 days. My cousin is an airline pilot and he said a commercial plane would break up at 540 mph flying at 300 feet above the ground. The main hijacker’s passport was found in the street below---not even singed. And: this happened too: 57 out of 58 of the Pentagon's surveillance cameras were turned off that morning. Stuff happens, it was certainly a coincidence...
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@kswong8560 GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. There are no good actors in international politics. What democracies do is not perfect, but there can be no doubt that the other forms of government score well below what the west is doing. "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." Alexander Hamilton The world is not safe with tyrants holding the nuclear codes.
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Dear Mr Coussins, Thank you for a pointedly significant videocast. I would like to jump in on the blaming of Republicans and Mitch McConnell. What has to be realized here is that anyone in government is frightened to death of getting on the wrong side of issues because of their lavish lifestyles. It’s the American way to be fair, but not if you lose your money-maker. The Democrats have met a true adversary in Trump who has fought in the courts more than 2’000 lawsuits. What everyone must realize is that the Impeachment Trial is America’s ‘Battle of Hastings’. In 1061 William the Conqueror took on the English forces in a three-day battle that almost ending in defeat for him. William, of course, won the battle, but not before hundreds of his troops were mowed down by enemy spears and arrows. The key to winning any battle is to realize the ‘enemy’ will show you his week points if you step back and let him advance. Trump’s legal-battle-ground record has made him a paper-warrior that deserves respect. This real-estate tycoon has got talent. When you hear yourself blaming an out-of-touch, former vacuum-cleaner salesmen like Mitch McConnell, you know you are still not ready for the fight. If a tired elderly man can stop the toughest you got, you know you need to beef up your troops, call in the reserves, get the catapults’ ammo upgraded, and go at it again.
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Thank you, Jake and your colleagues and the CNN Contributors for consistently piercing interviews and balanced reporting. For us across the world from you I can tell you it is always a pleasure to tune in to CNN. From what I see Senator Rubio has upset the applecart with a derogatory remark about permanent relationships between gay and lesbian people. Secretary Buttigieg, I've written before about this new and interesting phenomenon and I'd just like to say this as someone who happens to be an inventor. In trying to get all sides okay on what should be happening in 2022 about the new sorts of relationships that have now become a global phenomenon---and rightfully so, why not shoot for clarity? Here goes: We see gay couples and one partner referring to his partner as his 'husband' like you have Pete, for example. Here is my proposition or proto-type of how we could give unique names for the unions between same-sex couples. (Prototype terminology for the Lesbian and Gay community.) Lesbian relationships. Lesbiate = marry, a lesbian who wants to marry another lesbian, Lesbiated = a lesbian woman who has joined in civil union with another woman, Lesbiage = a marriage between two women, Lefem = wife in feminine sense of lesbian (Perhaps some lesbian relationships would prefer to have a sense of <wife> for the opposite partner). Lehom = husband in masculine sense of lesbian (Perhaps some lesbian relationships would prefer to have a sense of <husband> for the opposite partner). Gay relationships, Gayriate = marry, a gay man who wants to marry another gay man, Gayriated = a gay man who is (married) joined in civil union with another gay man. Gayriage = a marriage between two gay men. Gafem = the wife sense of a gay man’s partner (Perhaps some gay relationships would prefer to have a sense of <wife> for the opposite partner) Gahom = the husband sense of a gay man’s partner (Perhaps some gay relationships would prefer to have a sense of <husband> for the opposite partner). Pete, doesn't this make more sense to call your partner your Gahom? Please forgive me if I have offended anyone, but I have invented these proto-type names as a way to have children see things in their way of seeing: black and white. They need things to be very clear. Their minds are in development. The whole idea is to save our young children from not having to be confused about heterosexual and homosexual relationships and civil unions. A gay man would be gayriated to his GaHom or GaFem. A lesbian would be lesbiated to her LeFem or LeHom. Children would have different words to say that a man and man or a woman and a woman are legally united under the law i.e., a woman and a woman would Lesbiated, or a man and a man would be Gayriated and a man and a woman would be Married. The English language is rich, new words can be thought up to describe what the trans community is going through and what the same-sex couples are experiencing. These are only prototype names that I willingly release without any problem freely for all to use, but I am more than sure that people in relationships with someone of the same sex would also like to have words that define their special relationship so that everyone and especially the children can distinguish the differences in language they can understand.
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Dear Mr Blitzer and Senator Romney, First, Thank you Mr Blitzer for the more than 1,400 hundred days of news coverage of the Trump Administration. If there is one thing the Donald J. Trump presidency has done, it is to have made Wolf Blitzer and the CNN team and the CNN Contributors give some of the best cable television news reporting that has ever beamed out across the world. We have been watching the self-made-man, to be polite, management style of President Trump and all we can take home from his presidency, and I firmly believe that after 20 January 2020, he will simply be known as the former president and the rest of his life will be tied up in litigation. Hats off to the Republican party and Republicans in America for doing the only thing one can do when someone who is suffering from severe mental health issues is running the greatest country the world has ever known: bite your tongue and go along with his antics until he’s out of office. What else can the Republicans do? I believe the expression is, to humor him and pretend to cover for him until he can do no serious damage to the country and is in civilian life. My message is for Senator Romney. Senator, you have a chance to help one of your former colleagues in the Senate, President-elect Joe Biden, to set the watermark for future presidencies and for presidential candidates to aspire to, long after this century comes to an end and all of us from the 2020s and the pandemic have left this turbulent world. You don’t have to go against your principles---we know you stand by them---but you can help make the Biden/Harris government be the example of bi-partisan political governing next to none before it. There is going to be a change in your country from first day the people of your nation see how a government is run like a government should be. Stability and wisdom and factual discussion from leaders like yourself will be the uniting element that brings your country together, not bad mouthing the opposing party. But you and your Republican colleagues can go the full 9 yards and make Joe Biden your country’s most accomplished president. He needs your help to get there. Senator Romney, you of all people know what’s coming down the pike for your nation and all the nations of the Earth. Why not help Joe Biden score the biggest goal of his life in having a presidency that will ring through eternity? But he can’t do it if you, Senator Graham, House Minority Leader McConnell and others are pulling him in the opposite direction. Think of it this way: the world is watching; make Joe Biden’s presidency be the greatest presidency’s your country has ever had.
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The main reason I keep tuning in to your reports, Dr Campbell, is because you are one of the few professionals in your field who utterly refuses to go along with any explanation that does not ring true. What is sad is that one could forgive WHO for sending over a pseudo-investigative team to do absolutely nothing in digging for clues to what caused the pandemic if there were no casualties, but only bad flu symptoms. This could be forgiven; “Oh it’s a political thing for China to save face,” one could have said. But no, this pandemic has been a scourge across the whole world and I will never forget the reporting on the BBC about a 36-year-old Manchester doctor who caught the COVID-9 virus and recovered from it, but now she can only walk 200 meters---with a cane---and has had to have a bannister put in her flat so she can climb the stairs. And she is just one of the over 60,000 people just in the UK alone with long-Covid! Appalling. When there are never before heard of or even imagined side-effects that linger on weeks, months and perhaps indefinitely and for someone of high standing in the WHO has said it might possibly have come from frozen fish to parrot the Chinese ping-pong approach to blaming others, is beyond belief. I am not a health professional, but I only know that in the country I live in people are dying. In neighboring France, Italy and other countries a new variant is cutting through the populations. In Brazil, a new variant is targeting the young this time and they are dying. The WHO is looking like a team of scientists who are on a sight-seeing tour rather than a serious investigative team for a deadly virus outbreak that they are not even trying to locate its true origins. It’s scandalous that politics has trumped accountability. It's an opinion.
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Dear CNN News presenter and Dr Ranney and Dr Jha, This is one the scariest newscasts that I have watched about the pandemic in your country. In Europe, where I live, infections are still happening, although infections appear to be going down where lockdown measures are in place. What is horrific about this disease is the other ramifications in its side effects. In The United Kingdom now there are some 60,000 people with long Covid. There are many people who have only mild symptoms but after develop secondary effects that are ruining their lives: brain fog, painful joints, tiredness, unable to be out of bed for most of the day, kidney, heart, other organs malfunctioning. Some people can't do things like write a letter. It's a part of the disease that in my opinion doesn't get talked about enough, because if people knew how devastating the long Covid symptoms are, believe me, no one would have taken a plane to go and visit family and friends on Thanksgiving. 3 1/2 million people played Russian roulette with one of the most infectious diseases we've ever encountered. In the worst enactment of Murphy's Law ever to be publicized, having President Trump in The White House must surely take the cake. But it's no good blaming anyone, what is alarming is what Dr Ranney said how people just don't get it; they don't understand how easy it is to catch the Coronavirus. Because of no one voice of authority telling your fellow citizens to follow good advice, the numbers of people getting infected in your country are going to continue rising, but now it's reached such a dangerous level of contagion that you need to come up with a back-up plan. Why not call a 5-week national lockdown?
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As an overseas viewer, we can see that people are waking up to the fact that the American 2nd Amendment guarantees that every capable and qualified adult must carry a firearm either concealed or in open carry because of exactly this sort of tragic, deadly incident. It's nothing to be ashamed of that America offers the possibility for people to have firearms, but the reality is that you cannot allow unstable or dishonest or criminals from holding everyone hostage. Life is hard everywhere now and if people are out robbing people of their cars and money, we have to realize that our economic system is to blame. Capitalism first appeared as we know it in 1694 when The Bank of England issued the first bonds. Boys and girls, we are using an economic model that is over 3 centuries old. We need something that addresses the problems of 2022, not the late 1600s. We cannot have a econinuc model that only takes care of the top ten percent of the population. Back in the 1700s it worked because things were different. We can't keep going on this rollercoaster ride of recessions, infation, chronic unemployment etc., and have any kind of a decent life. We cannot and must not be slaves to an economic system that doesn't work for most people. In my county on the other side of the world from you, we have what's called the working poor. The husband and wife work full time jobs but still can't pay the bills at the end of the month. That's a red flag if there ever was one and it's absurd. We deserve better...
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@lifes40123 GGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. There are so many known unknowns that it's good to know some things. Concrete was used all those millenia ago. But they knew a lot more. This is my research on The Great Pyramid of Giza. 1. It is 3/60th of a single degree of true north
2. It weighs 6 million tons
3. Its footprint is 13 acres
4. It is more than 755.9 feet along each side
5. It is 146.75 meters high
6. It has more than 2.3 million individual blocks of stone
7. It is locked into the Cardinal dimensions of our planet; The dimensions of the Earth are incorporated into its dimensions. 8. If you take the height and multiply it by 43,200 you get the polar radius of the Earth
9. If you measure the base perimeter of the pyramid accurately and multiply that measurement by 43,200 you get the equatorial circumference of the Earth
10. The scale is not random, the number 43,200 is derived from a key motion of the Earth, which is called the precession of the Earth’s axis
11. The Earth wobbles on its axis very slowly at the rate of 1 degree every 72 years; 43,200 is a multiple of 72; 600 X 72
12. So; they’ve given us the dimensions of the planet in The Great Pyramid of Giza on a scale defined by the planet itself
13. There are several 70-ton blocks of stone raised 300 feet above the ground
14. It has eight sides, and at the spring equinox and the autumn equinox one side of the pyramid is in the shade in the morning and again in the late afternoon and can only be seen from the air—as far as my research has shown.
15. It is a calendar
16. It has expansion joints
17. It is located at the exact intersection of the longest line of latitude and the longest line of longitude of the Earth, in other words The Great Pyramid is located at the precise center of the Earth’s land mass.
18. The builders possessed highly sophisticated knowledge of mathematics and geometry
19. The builders had knowledge of the true dimensions of the Earth to extreme precision
20. The builders possessed exceptionally advanced technical instrumentation to site The Great Pyramid
21. Pi = C over D Phi = Divided by 5 + 1 over 2. Archimedes discovered Pi about 250 BC, but Egyptians knew of it 2,250 years earlier
22. The Great Pyramid is 146.75 m high, its height X a million equals the distance from the Earth to the sun
23. If you subtract the inner circle from the outer circle of the circumference of The Great Pyramid, you get the speed of light in meters to four decimal points: 299,792,458 meters per second
24. The weight of The Great Pyramid is 5,273, 000 tons and that multiplied by a billion is the weight of the Earth
25. If you divide the perimeter of The Great Pyramid by ½ its height, the result is 3.14 = Pi
26. The three inner rooms; the king’s chamber, the queen’s chamber and the unfinished chamber under the pyramid are proportional to the distances between Mercury, Venus and the Earth. 27. The distance from The Great Pyramid to the North Pole is the same as the distance from The Great Pyramid to the center of the Earth. 28. The height of The Great Pyramid 146.75 m X 1 million = the distance from the Earth to the sun. 29. The weight of The Great Pyramid 5,273, 000 tons X 1 billion = the weight of the Earth. 30. If you divide the perimeter of the pyramid by 1/2 its height the result is 3.14 pi h/2 = pi These are of course mere coincidences that happen by chance... 31. The base side length is 364.242 which is exactly the time in days it takes for the earth to orbit the sun. 32. The high chamber is built on a double square, which leads us to the gplden ratio geometry 33. Pyramids in China, Mexico and Egypt align with the Orion star system...
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Dear Ms Goodman and Mr Yong, Thank you Ms Goodman for a reporting style that is in its own league. Thank you Mr Yong for your analysis of the Covid-19 pandemic. For me it is wrong, wrong, wrong to say the Coronavirus epidemic has defeated America or any other country experiencing its deadly ability to attack human beings by compromising our immune systems and infecting our organs. No question; it's a very deadly virus. But what's good about the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic? Of course I don't mean good in any sense of the term as making us happy, but it has shone a light on a little recognized weak-point in our civilization. We filter our drinking water, in some places flourinate it to prevent cavities, we don't use cancerous materials in our buildings, we have food inspectors, you have the food and drug administration to make sure food is not contaminated or contains carcinogens. What's missing? The air we breathe? We're passively going after the Covid-19 virus with masks, gloves, eye protection, face shields, and working on vaccine. But that is only passively attacking a virus that is floating in the air we breathe. We have to take the battle to the virus and bake, freeze, filter all the air we breathe in confined spaces. And we must continue to do this like we do for the other things that go into our bodies. The Coronavirus pandemic has shown us that the days of people congregating in places without air filtration going on full time are over. We have lived 'The Wild West' days of breathing air full of pollen, pollutants, pathogens and deadly viruses, but this time we must clean the air, vacuum the air, filter the air free of these micro-particles that only cause discomfort, illness and even death. Breathalyzers must be made to allow us to have an instant check on our breath to check for the virus. Restaurants need to have portable air filtration on every table. They have shown us how one person can send tiny droplets out for 6 meters! This means we are all breathing infectious air probably all day long! We can use this pandemic to at least have all of the confined spaces we live, sleep, work and play in free of any form of microbes or viruses and end the age of masks so we can get back to life as normal. I am an inventor. It's an opinion.
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At 14:00 Tom drops an 'F' Bomb and as far as I am concerned it throws a wrench into the gears of this very important discussion. Tom, this is going across the world, you cannot use road-rage language; you are an internationaly acclaimed journalist to boot! That being said, I would like to say something to all of you, Ross, Michele, Lydia and Tom. I am an artist and I do not have credentials in geopolitcal subject matters, but what I think is going on in Gaza makes me try to come up with a peace plan because I hate it when I see kids getting a raw deal, let alone innocent people. Rather than re-write what I just sent to a DW News presentator interviewing Ian Bremmer, I will just send my comment and see what you think. "The DW News Presenter asks some pertinent questions to a visibly perplexed Ian Bremmer in what must be one of the conundrums of his geopolitical career in figuring out how the Israeli / Hamas / Palestinian dilemma can be resolved. Ian says the President Biden is not a fan of Netanyahu, but I disagree. Biden knows Netanyahu for all his faults is a brilliant Commander in Chief and will deliver on the front lines of the coming invasion of Gaza and restore peace in the region. One of the most distressing and disappointing things about the Hamas attack on Israel and the fallout of the Gaza catastrophe in the making is the refusal of Palestine's leader as well as Jordan and Egypt's refusal to meet with President Biden who recently pledged 100 million dollars for the Palestinians in Gaza alone. Here is the way I believe we can kill two electric eels with one spear: Hamas is like a virus in nature in that it needs a host; Covid is nature's latest virus and humans are its perfect host. The misery the Palestinians live in every day is an incubator for terrorist groups like Hamas who feed off of the sympathy they get by providing aid and support to an oppressed people. The solution of course is to relocate 2.6 Palestinians to live on one stretch of land with their West Bank counterparts and end this horror story that has the whole world holding back tears every time a new sound bite comes out of this devastated region. Without Palestinians, Hamas would wither and die and blow away like tumbleweed without a shot being fired. This will be a logistics nightmare, but it can be over in a heartbeat if we can find an Arab leader with a heart of gold who is willing to relinquish some of his country’s land and end this Palestinian nightmare once and for all by making up for the 145 square kilometers that Gaza is and having Palestinians build a new sovereign country for themselves. What to do about Gaza? Gaza should be transformed into a wildlife sanctuary cum Galapagos for endangered species of plant, animal and aquatic life. It would be the human family’s legacy to our children's children and it could be the way to end similar conflicts around the globe: build nature reserves as a peace plan to end the strife between great peoples who find themselves fighting each other for reasons that always point to warmongers willing to cause great harm to innocent people."
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What I believe is the hardest thing for people to accept is that if for example, NASA conquers space-time distances and can get a manned spacecraft to another star system and it finds a planet with intelligent life can we imagine this scenario. "NASA, this is Captain Jimmy J. Jay from starship Planet Seeker Biden calling in. We have found a planet with life and it resembles earth in that there are cities and towns and creatures albeit with 4 legs, but they seem to have a society similar to if not like ours. Your orders please?" "NASA, over, coming to you from Houston. Good work Captain Jay, your orders are to evade any attempt to make contact with the beings on Planet Beta. Fly around, go invisible when flying craft approach, land in fields at night and go to farm houses and look in the windows. If you are seen, run back to the shuttle craft and return to the Mother Ship." "Uh, why don't you want us to meet the locals, sir, um NASA?" "The answer is simple Captain Jay, we are sending more ships for a planetary acquisition operation and if you meet the locals, you might be tortured for telling them our plans." "Over and out, good luck Captain."
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The only off-ramp Putin is going to take is for well-informed and internationally known and respected people like Malcolm Nance to be on every social media platform and openly say to President Putin and his entourage that the whole world understands the Russian doctrine of incorporating the Ukraine into its territory by force, but that in spite of the terrible losses that will continue to incur on both sides of the conflict, the west, NATO and its allies simply cannot, and will not ever stand idly by and let the Ukraine be overrun or conquered and/or incorporated into greater Russia no matter what the cost or how long it takes. (President Putin, if you are reading this, please understand that this is nothing personal, the Russian people are a welcome part of the human community and deservedly so. But because of our (the west’s) principles, our very existence depends on the democratic values we abide by. For us, a sovereign nation's will to survive is sacrosanct. This translates out to mean that the west is united in standing up to its democratic way of life; we cannot allow you or any foreign power to seize any part of the Ukrainian territory. I am saying this so you can connect the dots. President Putin, you have to understand that for us in the west, the Ukraine is like a person one might see drowning in one of the notoriously four danger zones of a rip tide in the ocean: a person going under in a dark patch of water, for example. We in the west have one and only one mindset: we will do everything it takes in the world to save that person from drowning. In other words, we will do everything in our power to save the Ukraine from being overrun or taken over and incorporated into Russia. Please realize that to push on with your war effort will only mean a painful and futile delayed defeat and the loss of countless innocent civilians and military personnel on all sides of the conflict).
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David, please save your critiques about people's brain-wave capacities. You know very well you had to repeat 3rd grade three times! Joking, of course. David, I was kidding? He's where? Goofy tonight, but seriously, please refrain from judging Eric Trump's mental dollars, if he is broke, people will see it, but you don't need to remind us he is short-changed. He is in mental denial to a degree that is dangerous to himself and those around him, because he has bought into a rhetoric that is banana-republic government-speak. Stay calm through the coming rough seas on the Trump-bumps in the long and winding road ahead that leads to San Quentin in the sky, because more likely than not, former President Donald J. Trump will be spending more time in heaven or where ever famous crime-family chiefs go than in a prison cell. Show and don't tell; stay relaxed and there is no need to get emotional, this a sad event for your country and you do a magnificent job in cutting to the chase.
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As an overseas viewer, what we see is that throughout human history there are cave paintings and numerous other depictions and megalithic structures and elongated skull creatures right up to the present day about extra-terrestrials of whom at certain times mingled with the people of the earth and at other times just appeared as UFOs in the sky etc. Alexander the Great was said to have been interrupted in a battle by a fleet of saucers that buzzed the battleground and apparently caused such confusion that he won the battle if my facts are right. Please confirm with your own research. I’m suspicious by nature, but this pandemic seems to be unusual in the sense that it keeps churning out variations of itself; more and more infectious variants keep coming at us, confining us to our homes; you could even say softening us up for something. We are all online of course, and what a perfect time to have some kind of global message sent to everyone? I have a gut feeling that the pandemic is building up to some kind of disclosure event. I’m a surrealist painter so I’ve got a wicked imagination and I’m sure that’s all it is, but listen to this: We know from recent times that President Putin, the US Secretary of State John Kerry, the Pope and a host of other dignitaries discreetly went down to Antarctica on the day of an American mid-term election a few years back--if my memory serves me right. I distinctly remember how lightly the story was covered and I thought it odd, because when I saw that the Pope had been flown down to Antarctica, my intuitive reaction was that he must have been invited to see something that the Catholic church needed to know. Was it to show him and the others proof positive of...? I'll let you guys ponder on that, but my guess is that this is possibly not really a pandemic that happened by chance and that now that the whole world is locked-down, wouldn't this be an excellent time for our governments to cough up--pun intended--the truth about UFOs? Isn’t it strange that after 24 months, the infections keep coming; the pandemic seems to be leading us to something? The signs are all around us, it just might be that they’re prepping the global population for the big one.
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In all due respect to the military experts like Major (ret.) Mike Lyons, and as someone living 2,000 kilometers from Kiev, after nearly one full year of the Ukraine war, I predict that President Putin will throw in the towel, fold his hand and/or accept defeat in this high-stakes poker game he has famously called a military exercise when the Ukraine takes Crimea in or around180 days from now, which I believe is the Ukrainians end game. The Ukraine will never be secure if Crimea remains in Russian hands. The ports of Odessa would be at the mercy of the Russian navy and the coastal cities of the Sea of Azov would be under Russian domination. This is the winning formula: Ukraine + Crimea = checkmate for the Russian army, navy and air force. A change of regime will follow with Putin retiring to his billion-dollar dacha and Europe and Russia and the Ukraine can focus on getting everyone and everything on the mend. A general from the UK called 'Chip' said that to win any conflict in the 21st century you need: Air superiority, the element of surprise, shock tactics and a solid offensive strategy. Boys and girls, this is doable and we've got to supply the Ukrainians for what it takes to win a 21st century conflict. I think you all agree that you've got the best fighting army in the world thanks to the UK's massive training operations and transfer of weapons, America’s unbelievable support and NATO countries and its allies as well. We must all now concentrate on making Putin's offramp out of power as smooth as possible. In six months, this war will be winding down---and then the task of mending the terrible battle wounds, restoring cultural ties and rebuilding that two great nations will have to endure for decades.
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Dear Mr Cuomo, Mr Bahrara, and Mr Mc Cabe, Dear Mr Cuomo, thank you for your hard-hitting style of getting to the nitty gritty of the Trump team’s bag of tricks to get in the news. Haven’t we seen this enough to know that whatever Trump and Barr cook up they always slide under the radar screen for getting nailed and sent to the slammer? Come on guys, what I see from the other side of the world is ‘smoke’. Trump’s eagle-eyed, law benders cum attorneys are cooking up this stuff and knowing just how meaty Trump can tweet and just how low Barr can go. There is something they are tying to hide coming down the pike. Throwing out obvious, outrageously exaggerated antics is a strategy. You know it’s true, because right on their heels, Senator Graham will use his practiced mumbo jumbo to banalize whatever his buddy Donald does. What Mr Bahara and Mr McCabe have to do is get Trump in a legal headlock that he can't break away from, otherwise it's all hyperbole.
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Dear Ms Baldwin, Congratulations on beating the Coronovirus that has taken more lives than the Vietnam War, where more than 58,000 soldiers of an average age of 19 years old perished in America's only 'teenage war' led by a Donald Trump-like, out-of-his-depth, disgraced general. Donald John Trump will go down in history as the 'General Westmoreland' of American Présidents. The United States of the America's founders could not have seen this one coming. An American President is the spokesman for America and his word is golden. But this wonderful family man and real estate magnate doesn’t realize how damaging and embarrassing it is for his country and the men and women and especially the children, who have President Trump speaking for them. American's don't lie; they don't need to. So; is this what a priveleged upbringing does? Does it cut the kids off from reality? Sure looks that way. It is equally disturbing for the people of the free world to hear him say things that are patently false, then deny it and go on as if nothing was wrong. Where is the outrage from politicians of all parties? President Trump has a personality disorder and we all have to accept that someone who has the most powerful and important job in the world has mental illness. To electoral-college (new verb) someone who has 20 women claiming sexual misconduct charges against him into the highest office in the land shows definitively that the American political system is broken beyond repair. It is no one’s fault, not the founders, not the power-players, or even the politicians. In a way, the American Constitution is a mirror-image of capitalism: they have both exhibited the fatal signs of being outdated and dangerous systems that are crying out to be replaced.
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NIck has asked some tough, pertinent questions and Comfort, Ian, Brad and Benedetta have all given positive analyses of the many subjects discussed in this vocast. What I think we all have to come to terms with is that all of the problems discussed today are exacerbated by our antiquated and quite frankly obsolete economic system. Brad Smith is the CEO of Microsoft and he could tell us that no one is using computers from the 90s because they are obsolete. It's the same with capitalism which has seen the ten richest people in the world double their personal wealth during the lab-leaked Covid-19 pandemic. This is appalling and it is a red flag if there ever was one. It shows us that everything we do in life is profit driven and everything we value has profit engraved in it somewhere, because capitalism is a profit-based system that encourages expansion of personal wealth which means exploitation of natural resources at any cost and the surety that tipping points will be overtaken increases every single day we use it as our economic arbiter and happiness maker. We must accept the fact that a new way of living life on planet Earth must be carved out and the only way to achieve it is to replace capitalism with a humanity-based, fairer, international economic model that puts everyone in the driver's seat i.e., on the same page. All of us are passengers in a vehicle called the human community and the motor is capitalism and boys and girls, in case you haven't noticed it, our magic bus is careening off the road and this is why we are struggling to understand why we are still dealing with an incredibly dangerous hot war in Ukraine, the African wars, the Taiwan question and an increasingly divided world.
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Chuck and Tim, good to hear from you and forgive me if I sound like a conspiracy guy. First, Chuck, you and your colleagues at NBC News do a fantastic job and we learn something every time we tune in. The UFO, UAP conundrum has you in America shaking your heads and I am sure many people like myself around the world wondering what is really going on with this enigmatic subject that remains wrapped up in a riddle and missing many pieces of a puzzle that no one can describe what the big picture really looks like. Let me paint a probable picture as to why the Pentagon and your government officials and ours across the globe are biting their tongues on this subject. Chuck, Tim, I don't know if you have read Professor David Jacobs' eerie book, "Walking Among Us", but if you haven't Dr Jacob's research shows that extra-terrestrials are already here and walking among us and their plan is for planetary acquisition. They are here alright, but according to Jacobs, not with good intentions for the human race. I do not have a theory, but could it be that Jacobs might have the answer to why the world's governments aren't giving us a peek into this opaque and haunting subject. To recap: Could it be that our governments are being mum about the UAP subject because they know that it is something sinister and it would scare the daylights out of us if we knew why our space 'brothers' are being so evasive? Why have aliens done everything possible to never openly show themselves to us, like to land on The White House lawn or in The Red Square for example? All of these bizarre sightings have shown us beings who do not wish us to know them. Doesn't that strike anyone as just a bit strange for alien creatures in their metallic discs to cross the realms of space and time and only to come here and play hide and seek?
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I would like to say to Richard and Aaron that I gather facts and try not to make opinions based on rumor or my own personal bias, because I am an artist and I am not qualified---like maybe you are---to assess the politics of the Russian invasion into the Ukraine, for example. That being said, have a look at this: Under international law, signed by Moscow, all the treaties say that sovereign countries get to choose what alliances sovereign countries belong to. That means the Ukraine has the right to, say, join NATO if it wants to. Treaties like the UN Charter was signed by Russia. The 1975 Helsinki agreement was signed by the Soviet Union. The 1990 Charter of Paris for a new Europe was also signed by the Soviet Union. The 1997 NATO Russia Founding Act was equally signed by the Russian Government. All those documents were signed by either the Soviet Regime or the Russian regime, which is the legally recognized international inheritor i.e., successor of the Soviet State. The fact is those agreements are still in place and they clearly state that sovereign countries can freely choose their foreign policy and what alliances they want to join in and most of all it shows the illegality and hypocrisy of Vladimir Putin's invasion of the Ukraine. What the Ukraine war shows us is that Russia is an autocratic repressive regime that invades its neighbors in the name of its own security, but this nothing new in Russian history. The international rules-based world community is useless if some countries go it on their own.
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Thank you for investigating the world of art. Fortunately everyone still has the right to one’s opinion. But Mark Rothko’s square spot paintings certainly have a place in modern art, but let’s get real. He may have listened to Mozart but he sure didn’t get influenced by him. Rothko’s art reflects more a bass and drum loop, going over and over and never changing. Peter Paul Rubens would be my choice as a reflection of Mozart’s music, the detail in Rubens’ early work is breathtaking in it’s intricacy and fine workmanship. Slapping on colors with a roller made Rothko an icon, Gerard Schroeder’s squeegee painting is another example of mechanically produced painting, but who am I to criticize their works which fetch hundreds of millions of dollars. Still, how long before one would get bored having a Rothko painting in one’s living room? Lastly, we see that ‘Beeple’, an artist who had been selling his digital paintings for a hundred bucks a crack, sold one for 69 million dollars on line. Boys and girls, it looks like the art world is becoming a mockery of itself.
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Dear Ms Ingraham, Governor Huckabee and Mr Dershowitz, Thank you Ms Ingraham for your analyses on the news and especially the Mueller press conference. Thank you Governor Huckabee for your abliity to give your take on every subject, and be dignified in your criticism of others. No matter how much you disagree with someone, you are always able to not denigrate others who oppose you. Thank you Mr Dershowitz for showing laypeople like myself and others the interesting way the law can be interpreted. You could have condemned Mr Andretti and called him names, but you instead said you couldn’t comment on someone that has not been convicted. It was very humane, and you didn’t take the bait. First, Ms Ingraham – you’re going to hate me for this. But you need voice therapy. Your voice is much too harsh, you can make it sound softer. Are you trying to make it sound harder so men will respect you more? Please excuse me for criticizing. What is astounding in the Mueller investigation to me is what Senator Warren has said. She said that if anyone else in America had done what President Trump is alleged to have done, that person would have serious legal jeopardy. Why is no one else repeating her words if she’s right? Wouldn’t this whole thing with President Trump be over if a sitting American President could be indicted? Who on earth came up with the ruling that a sitting president is above the law? It looks like President Trump is going to pull an ‘Alamo’. If my armchair legal mind is working right, I’d say he is going to fight tooth and nail to stay in office, because he knows trouble is waiting for him the moment he hangs up his guns and retires to Faulty Trump Towers. Make Fox News great! Mr Carlson must step down for it to happen.
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You do your best work in this sort of reporting, Pat, because you believe in business and it shows. It is also because you know it is crucial to have your country's economy beaming up prosperity instead of running like a horseless carriage on the backroads of despair. The ever increasting hard-to-believe news of so many US businesses struggling just to stay afloat is staggering. It must be heartbreaking to drive by what used to be a busy mall and see the broken windows and giant, empty parking lots gathering debris. What is horrifying for us watching on the other side of the world is that this kind of news keeps rolling up on the screen like at a casino on a one-armed bandit. Yes; that's right, there are tons of reports that sound like doom-loops of retail shops, chain restaurants---now it's car companies, tomorrow it will be something else etc., going under. It is obvious that the boys and girls at the FED and Uncle Joe and Aunty Kamala fight the fight for getting the US economy running like a Swiss watch, but it is extremely tricky. You are a light in the darkness of the downturns and detours that your economy and the business community in America are facing, but we know there is no magic wand that sets it all up again. What we all know will happen though, is that we can only go so far up the creek without a paddle. We know that the good ship America cannot sail straight ahead without a rudder. That is why with people like you in the wheelhouse, you know that things will turn around on a dime when the time is right.
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Both of you have left the world with a kind of hush. Everytime you tackled a subject, you did so with great class, humility and wit. You're a colorful team---pun intended; there's magic between you that shines out on the world everytime we tune in. We wish the glamorous and excellent TV hostess and interviewer Alisyn Cmerota great luck, and for JB, back to business. Look at this and try not to cry: A third of Covid-19 survivors suffer 'brain disease,' study shows. 220,000 British health workers have long-COVID, often with horrific continuing side-effects. Brazil has recently surpassed 4,000 deaths a day and a new variant 3 times more deadly than Covid-19 variants is targeting and killing 18 to 45 year-olds. Mr Bermann, is there any historical evidence out there of former pandemics of any kind that left surviors with lingering symptems and permanent damage like this one? This COVID-19 virus is turning out to be the < perfect storm > of contagious diseases and with eerie, deadly symptoms that keep going on and on. What is this thing JB? Oh and John, you're best color is green tomato!!!!
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Good work David Pakman! You are exposing people to candidates running for office in your country who are literally not qualified or capable of being in government, and whom are using the devious techniques to pretend they are that you have graciously outlined in your videocast. This is not only good for the American public, it is good for people watching across the world from you, because politics and politicians may look different and talk another language or worship another God, but they use the same playbook and we the people need to be aware of the fools we elect to lead us. People like Vivek Ramaswamy, a Vics Vapor Rub sort of guy in that he gives the impression that he has got what it takes to cure all of society’s ills, but in reality, all he offers is a double flubber burger with twisted truths and no substance and who makes up word salads that explain things no one seems to know or care about. Vivec is brilliant but America doesn’t need another dyed-in-the wool Trump figure i.e., another politician who gives a wax shine on every subject he’s quizzed about whether it needs it or not. To wrap this up: Vivec might be accused of being a political contender of merit one day, but he won't get there by speaking through both sides of his mouth saying things that only make sense if you forget the question that was asked of him. In brief, he will be one of America's best and brightest Republican politicians in the future’s past and yesterday’s present.
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Avi Loed is a very open-minded professor and I would like to present something that should make us all realize something is happening with these UFOs. Here are places where UFOs have been spotted: Roswell, the 1st nuclear base in the world. Los Alamos, Indian Point. N.Y. USA, B-52 Bombers carrying nuclear devices, Missile Silos in Montana ICBM (maelstrom), Vandenberg, Big Sur, USA. Beatwaters, UK Vosnezh, Russia, Kostroma, USSR. Byclokoroviche, Ukraine, Isfahan, Iran. All of these are nuclear missile sights; all have had confirmed sightings and some have had landings or crashes of alien space craft. Lastly, 47 witnesses said the crash of a UFO at Roswell really occurred, but they were ordered to say nothing happened. In 1974, 63 children were playing outside for recreation at a primary school. A spaceship landed, 3 1/2-foot, black suited, big-headed aliens with big eyes transmitted to the children the earth was in danger because mankind was not being careful. 30 years later, a child from the playground who is now a teacher confirmed her first testimony. The funny thing is, she confirmed seeing aliens that Roswell witnesses confirmed seeing. My gut feeling is that disclosure is coming at us in a town hall near you very, very soon for one important reason. The 1974 visitation was to warn us that tipping points were being breached, boys and girls, our governments are going to come clean on UFOs to us very soon, because our world will be 15° centigrade warmer in 15 years. I don't have to tell anyone what that means for the world's population living in regions of high temperatures in the present day.
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The comeback of London can only be made with having all of England aware of what has indeed happened to your wonderful capital city and a world-heritage city. To hear that since the early 70s to the present day only 1/3 of British people actually make up the population of London should be a wake-up call for Britain and for the entire world. Margaret Thatcher said something when she was Prime Minister: she said that when people see their neighborhoods change into places they wouldn’t recognize in just one person's lifetime, that it was normal that immigration has to be modified. It must not become a city-changer instead of a city-builder. Diversity is a wonderful thing, but if you go to the pub and decide to go all out and not only have crisps with your pint, but also order side dishes of peanuts, popcorn, pretzels, dried anchovies, dried smoked fish, Slim Jims, Long Johns, pepperoni, Fritos, beer nuts, ham-sausage spread, fried pork rind and why not throw in some sesame crackers to top it off? I'm quoting from The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, but you get my point. Eat all of that stuff while you're having a pint and suddenly the beer doesn't taste like beer anymore---more like mouthwash. London cannot and must not be allowed to become a place where the only people that feel good living there are the ones that got there illegally or that they have found their second home is just like back home with their own language to boot. No one is talking about denying anyone the right to live anywhere, but we cannot allow our cities to no longer resemble the streets that have been a certain way for centuries. What is the solution? There is only one; housing in London must be modified to have rents that can be sustainable to all levels of working people from the cities in England that could be enticed to move to London. London must aim for the early 1970's ethnicities percentages in the population.
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Dear Mr Berman and Representative Crow, Thank you JB for another riveting interview with your style of laid-back, but centering-on-the-facts style. Thank you, Representative Crow for your efforts to put things right in a time when America’s political storm is raging. Speaking of taking down statues and re-naming Army bases is of course the topic of the moment. But it is heart-breaking to see night after night, protestors tearing down statues they have no right in doing. 650,000 Americans, your people, fought a war fighting for their beliefs. It is a desecration of their sacrifice to suddenly decide that what they fought for doesn’t matter because those that fought for slavery should now be erased from the history books. Next door to us in France, President Macron, a 40-year-old man with his finger on the pulse of history recently said that no statue, or painting or inscription or whatever will be removed from France. He said something interesting. He said that if we tear down our past, what we are as a people will never know about some of the things we did before that were wrong. We will never learn from our mistakes. I think that to tear down statues of people who owned slaves is making America look like it wants only to have things visible that are perfect. If we used your logic, we would have to tear down The Great Pyramid of Giza, because some sources say slaves were used. What’s wrong with having some things, like General Robert E. Lee, Ike’s favorite general by the way, allowed to stand, but maybe a plaque beside it and other confederate statues that brings people up to date? Don’t lets be ashamed of where we have come from, and black people should have to accept the fact that yes, some of their ancestors were slaves. What’s the big deal? Show me a nation, a people, who are clean as the driven snow. What about the 400 white farmers butchered by South African blacks in 2017? Should we now call black people racist and remove anything that shows a black person in a statue? I think President Macron is someone who understands his job. Please, make them stop disfiguring America's heritage. Peace
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Dear Mayor Wheeler, As an overseas viewer I'd like to say what I have taken from your very well written and heartfelt message to your city and state and country. You have done a great service to the American people, but to denounce personally and directly President Trump will only add fuel to the fire. His supporters now have no choice but to amp up their reactions or look silly, because you have put them in a position of not being able to back down. Your speech would have been much, much stronger and condemning had you said the same thing by saying... 'our president'. By naming Trump you have unwittingly fallen in the same verbal war that he is being accused of. You're a mayor and from all accounts a very good one, but you don't have the political power of a sitting president, and name calling in front of the whole world makes this a very ugly blemish on what should have been a discussion on how to diminish violence in your city. Calling out President Trump by name and pointing a finger at him and accusing him of all the things he has allegedly done will only add to the problem of violence and racial divide. It's only my opinion. It's very easy for someone like me from across the globe trying to give out advice on a subject I have no expertise in, but it comes off bad, and it sounds like you have not addressed the problem diplomatically. The anger that you absolutely deserve to hold in you should not color your presentation, because the goal is to get a cease fire of sorts from the two opposing camps. By belittling the leader of the opposing factions, you only make him look stronger to his supporters. If you say the same things, but to 'our president', the effect is ten times more devastating and his supporters cannot use it as ammo.
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Sky News has outdone itself with this insightful interview with former ambassador Raby. Could you please have Mr Raby on regularly? He speaks truth to power and does not hold back his punches, and if anyone should be the spokesperson for Chinese-Australian relations, ambassador Raby is clearly the man to do it. In two days in our city, President Biden and President Putin will be meeting. There are going to be 10,000 police and military people patrolling the streets. The Swiss have decided that the tension is so great between these two leaders that they have come up with a plan--which I think will work---to help Biden and Putin settle their differences. Outside the conference center where they will debate, a boxing ring has been assembled. After the news conference between the two presidents, the Swiss President will tie on the boxing gloves for both opponents. Each round will be deciding a major disputed point. For example, the first round will be for Crimea. If Putin loses to Biden, he must return Crimea to the Ukranians. In the second round it will be for Alaska, if Biden loses he must sell back Alaska to the Russians for the original sale price of 8 million dollars. Tickets for the match... Okay, okay, just wanted to add a little humor--
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Across the world from you, in addressing this comment, and speaking to Sam, Peter and Ian, I can say that taking in this vocast is icing on the proverbial cake of intellectual satisfaction, because all of you are teachers in your own way---and superb masters of presenting your arguments. Humanity owes all of you a bouquet of thanks: Peter and his excellent analyses of world problems, ditto wih Ian and his masterful takes on what is really going down in La-La-Land or planet Earth and lastly on the fate of our lost planet with the Houdini of thoughtful ponderings on the meaning of it all: Sam Harris and his careful and interesting interpretations of what goes on out there. I want to jump to another subject, because across the world from you it's time to hit the weeds. My conundrum of a problem to solve is what to do about the Palestinian and Israeli bottleneck that defies every attempt to unravel a twisted logic from two sides of an argument that never ends. Here is my solution and I am an artist and not a political scientist or deep thinker like you three. Here goes: Why not have Palestinians give up the Gaza strip to Israel? I say this because former President Jimmy Carter said the Gaza strip was like a prison camp. It seems like Gaza is really a humanitarian disaster from all I know about it. Giving Gaza to the Israelis would mean creating land i.e., giving the same amount of territory to bond with the land it already holds. This would give the Palestinians a land mass that could be called Palestinne and become a real integral whole country that could be ratified as a sovereign state. This would mean Jordan chunking off a portion of its pie----I know; I know this is painful and smacks of favoritism, but this conflictual relationship between these middle-eastern peoples has to find a compromise and of course we know how difficult it would be to have this solution be accepted by both sides, but that's my solution. Guys, could you come together as a threesome once more and do a podcast and throw us your ideas for solving this intractable and inhumane problem?
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Dear Mr Stetler, Thank you for your heart-rending, provocative news analyses and regular updates on the travails of the Trump Administration. Brian, you're doing a great job, but with a couple of months left till election day, could you step back and see if you can come up with a way to convince Trump's adamant supporter's to abandon ship? Lastly, no one should criticize Sam Donaldson's look, because he's got a rock solid reputation as a trusted television newscaster, but Sam looks absolutely ridiculous. Sam, you have got to get a new makeup artist, because you look like a bloody clown on global television.
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Dear Ms Burnett and Dr Jha, Thank you Erin for your truth-seeking interviewing style and the well-researched information you consistently provide. As someone watching from the other side of the world, my perspective is certainly not as razor-sharp as yours. One thing though that looks like it was not real, was President Trump's bout of Covid-19. Coming the next day after his tragic, fake-debate with President-elect Biden didn't help in making it look like they needed to divert everyone's attention away from that fiasco---and as if by chance, suddenly the Commander-in-chief gets the Coronavirus. And then an experimental drug and 3 day cure and off to his rallies. It was a stretch to believe a 74 year old man could get better and be 100% after catching the disease that the UK's Prime Minister had, and Boris Johnson is a lot younger man, but Prime Minister johnson barely made it through with round-the-clock care and I'm sure he had the same experimental drugs that Trump claims saved him. Of course, it's too easy to think it was all a put-on, but as Trump is a notorious lier on each and every thing he talks about, how can anyone believe anything he says? In realizty, no one will ever know if Trump had the Coronavirus or not. What is a fact is that because President Trump's take on reality is only his to understand, your country needlessly became ground-zero for a pandemic that could have been handled much, much differently. What Trump's legacy will be is up to historiens. So; to end on a postive note, because of his unique governing style, many of the weak-points of your political system have been able to be identified. His bull-in-a-china-shop presidential style also showed the weak underbelly of your Constitution. Now things can be fixed.
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Let's be real. We're listening to Mr Mariotti from the far side of the world from you and it is preposterous to hear "if Trump knew all along that he lost the election...and he said it, he would be in a lot of trouble." Of course he knew all along and his number one adviser, Ivanka, rained on his parade the minute she knew. The former columnist Charles Krauthammer said before he passed away that Trump's tweets are not just that it's a distraction and its effect on the agenda, but tweeting is the most direct avenue to the id. Id: The one of the three divisions of the psyche in psychoanalytic theory that is completely unconscious and is the source of psychic energy derived from instinctual needs and drives; compare ego superego. There is no more uncensored, unfiltered avenue from the id to tweeting. What Trump's tweets do is give a look into the psyche of the former President. And what we see is a vindictiveness, a cruelty, a lack of temperedness, a lack of self-control which is truly shocking, and what has just been described is a person unfit for high office. The real worry is if Trump isn't indicted, what will this show to the rest of the world about American justice.
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Dear Sky News Team and Senator Concetta Foerravanti-Wells and Pedra(?), I am watching what is going on in your country’s travails with China from a country next to Italy in Europe, so I’m only giving my feedback on what I see is going on in Australia and the reaction of Australians to the Chinese diversionary tactics. What I think must be essential is getting trade beefed up into over-drive in your country on a level never-before-seen. ‘New Department of Trade’ for a title would be a start. What has to happen is that Australia can never, ever again be bullied into submission because of having too much dependency on one particular country. What I think must be essential is not to take the bait China is dangling in front of your faces and let fiery rhetoric become the key weapon on the verbal battlefield we see raging out of control at this moment. No; what must be done is to keep a poker face in all your negotiations with China, and not show your cards. China is obviously using this as a diversionary tactic to get the world’s focus off the pandemic and Australia has taken the bait. You are in the common wealth and now is to profit from this extraordinary agreement with dozens of countries by finding new markets for the tariff-laden products that make no sense in trading with The Middle Kingdom. But let’s get one thing straight: business must be first and ego or national pride has to be second. What is important is to get business up and running and maximizing your efforts in reaching out to other markets in the world, because business is jobs. It is an excellent opportunity to double-down on making the trade department in your government the most important one, because you need to sell your products. China bashing should stop, because that only serves China’s position in world affairs. Continue doing business with China as long as a fair profit is being made, and as far as the pandemic is concerned, the whole world knows China will never fully investigate where the virus came from, so all the more reason to get Australia strong again, less dependent on potentially black-mailing trading partners, and when this has happened, you can ask questions on the pandemic to the Xi Dynasty knowing full-well in advance the answers you are going to receive. Let's ask this question. What result is most important to achieve in six month's time? Will belly-aching out loud for the world to see be of any value at the end of the year? Keeping a low-profile while you shore up your trading partners means win/win for Australia.
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I have been waiting for this vocast, Ian, I am hoping that you and your esteemed guest, Gilbert HOungbo, will read my comment and give it some thought. I would like to say to UN-Water's Gilbert Houngbo how I believe we can win the water scarcity problem about to explode across the world and have everyone on every continent getting clean, clear fresh water 24/7. I am an inventor and an artist and this how I believe we can solve this seemingly intractable problem. Rome had aqueducts, we must copy their idea but put water pipes and pumping facilities under our roads and railways and this way, when there is a downpour where a huge amount of water inundates a large urban area----like in Syndey a year or so ago----where literally cubic meters of water fell in hours on a city that was only able to save 8% of the rain water. 8% is pitiful and the rest had to be flushed out to sea. Australia is a perfect example of a country with drought hanging over everybody's head a large part of the time. I am not an engineer, but I can imagine the cost and logistics and all that goes with re-purposing our roads and railways, but gentlemen, we have got to start somewhere. Rain doesn't just fall anymore; it comes down in torrents and all of that water could be absorbed into underground piping facilities that would then pump that water to the regions in dire need. What the UN could do is make a pilot project, say, in the middle east where war could break out any day for getting fresh water supplies to one country or another. To recap: underground aqueducts to transfer fresh water and one other positive element is that it would not blight the country side with unsightly miles and miles of pipes visible to the naked eye.
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What we must do is keep an open mind. We must not forget that Trump had things going pretty well with the Abraham accords and things fell through when Biden stepped in and what we are seeing is what happens when roads to peace are blocked. What I am saying is that we should realize a lot of people around the world listen to President Trump and we should listen to how he thinks the war could be over. Here is my plan which I have just sent to Victore Hansen: War, war, and more war The Palestinian children kicking a poor Israeli captured child is sick. We must realize that this puzzle does not need to be a riddle and we can avoid making it an enigma. What do we want future generations to reflect on about this horrific conflict that has two peoples at each other’s throats? How about this as a peace plan: Gaza gets evacuated for one thing. This stretch of land that has been a hotbed of suffering and a shameful tribute to what the United Nations was supposed to be taking care of and failed miserably at: getting the Palestinians out of their open prison and freak circus of refugee camps and secure a land, a territory, a country for the most abused people of the earth: the Palestinians. Fellow Arab nations have been muted in watching their brothers and sisters playing Russian Roulette in this pit called Gaza with the Grim Reaper's pendulum slicing through any sort of decent life fit for a human being. As a human community we should all be ashamed to not fix this hole in our legacy that will echo in eternity. What is a peaceful way out of this and that would stop Hamas in its tracks? Make Gaza a wildlife sanctuary for endangered species of plants, animals, amphibians and aquatic life which are disappearing at an alarming rate. Our progeny would look back on us with pride as the generation who found that avoiding war could be done with creating wildlife reserves that both sides of any conflict respect and protect at all costs. We are talking about getting Jordon for example, to help us out here and cut off a slice of their huge country to allow the Palestinians to join their brethren in The West Bank. We are asking the Arab nations to put aside their prejudices and help their brothers and sisters with temporary housing until new homes and structures can be built. This could lead to one day in the not-so-distant future of Palestinians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Syrian and Israelis tilling the soil and helping maintain what could be called a Galapagos of the middle east. It would bring more tourists than the pyramids; it could help heal the deep wounds that senseless conflict has rendered on people who deserve a better chance at having a good life. It is doable.
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Elon, in all due respect, for you to say you bought Twitter because you thought it was having a bad impact, a corrosive impact on civlization shows that you are taking yourself much too seriously. You have got to realize that just because you can do something, when you are a global presence like yourself, you must be humble and stay inside your own boxing ring. Twitter belongs to a Jack Dorsey character i.e., someone neutral and not a star entrepreneur with a hand in too many cookie jars like yourself. If you ask me, Twitter jacked up the price twice its value trying to scare you off the buy, but you let yourself follow something else than your intuition and took the bait and you can plainly see you are out of your element with this charming and endearing, but social media company made for anyone but you. Listen to your inner voice from now on and forget what is coming from other directions in your heart, mind and soul and don't beat yourself up in interviews, you're doing a great job. My advice, sell Twitter (X) as soon as you can and get back to being a spacey cat! Lastly, finally Joe has got himself a look that sizzles; Texas has finally rubbed off on him and now he looks like he hangs out on Austin's 6th street! Bravo JR. Happy Holloween guys!
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Dear Chris, Thank you for shining a light on this very sad outcome. Governor Noem is someone in charge of a state who is clearly not the right person for the job. Everything she says is right if this was in 2018, for example. As an observer from the other side of the world where infections are on the rise again, everyone is required to wear a mask in public places. No one is saying Governor Noem isn't doing the right thing, it's just that people who have to have a tube inserted into their lungs to breathe are paying the price of someone in the know, not knowing how deadly the Coronavirus really is. This disease causes so many undesirable side-effects that gatherings of more than a few people should have been outlawed until the pandemic is behind us. What has happened in South Dakota and in your country Chris is a crime. President Trump is certainly a good father and probably a very nice person, but he, like Governor Noem, happened to be in the right place with not much going on upstairs. The leader of the most powerful nation the world has ever known, by playing austrich politics, will have a footnote on his legacy of a quarter of a million people who were needlessly infected by a pandemic that could have been seriously reduced had President Trump had his thinking cap on. Ditto for the gov-
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When are former Republican presidents and politicians going to demand the Republican election-deniers who win elections, once they are elected, to demand that these people show their proof? And if they cannot show proof, to go on record and tell the people who voted for them that there is no proof. Conoleezza Rice says she cried when the insurrection took place because it was a stain on American democracy, but to have election-deniers winning elections is more than a stain, it's a blemish on the American way of life. Lastly, what has to be done from now on when dealing with international leaders is not to call names or show emotions or do anything that makes it look like personalities and personal feelings are involved. Before President Biden met for the first time with President Putin in Geneva, Switzerland, he agreed to a reporter who said Putin was a killer. Those are atomic insults that only send diplomatic relations in the dog house. The Saudi Arabian leader must not be chastised on the world stage---even though one might believe so---because no world leader should show their cards when dealing with another world leader. Why do I say this? Because we can't call people who have other political and belief systems wrong, or denegrate them in any way even if they have committed egregious crimes because they can turn around and use it as propaganda with their own people and the political leader who does call out another leader might see his own country pay a heavy price for decades. In short, the man in the street pays the price of openly agressive reactions between world leaders. You can't show your cards in international politics. Speak facts today and tomorrow and the future will not come back to haunt you.
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Dear Mr Meyers, Thank you for your show, you have made us laugh around the world and at the same time focused on the ills of modern society. I am an inventor. My invention ideas are just that: Ideas. I have an idea for how to bring your show back to life with an audience albeit virtual. Here is my idea: First, you get photographs of real people sitting in a television studio like you used to have. Make the photographs into stand-up cut-outs with reinforced cardboard. Lastly, where the face is on the cut-outs secure a computer screen of, say, 15 square inches. In the screen you could show real faces of people who have signed up or paid to come and see your show. The camera would be able to pan the ‘audience’ and see of course that they were essentially cut-outs of people. But, and here is where I of course don’t know if it’s possible, but for the heads would be the screens showing the smiling faces of your fans. It would be possible to have 200 people in an audience or more or any number, but it would look like people at least moving from the neck upwards. I estimate the cost at under 3 billion dollars a show, so I know this is peanuts for your budget… e-r-r-r… okay, that’s my try at comedy! Be well. Please feel free to use my idea at no cost at any time now or in the future. I offer this idea to all media outlets for development and eventual use if so desired. Peace.
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Dear Mr Bilyeu and Ms McGonical, Thank you Mr Bilyeu for your years-in-advance take on life on so many issues. You have talked with the greats of thinking and shared with us your feedback. Every time I watch a videocast I take away something for my treasure chest. If I could offer Ms McGonical a solution for her pain dilemma, I would say this: listen to your body. Your body is trying to get through to you when you have pain. Next time it happens, if possible, step back from what you are doing and close your eyes and ask yourself: What are you trying to tell me? It may be that your body is trying to get you to do things differently. It’s what I do and it seems to work. If I set out to jog and my right knee starts acting up, I know now that I have to stop and go back home and not run. Because if I do my body will deliver the hormones to cover the pain after 45 minutes or so, but then when I get back I won’t be able to run for days or even a few weeks. But; if I listen to my body, and cancel the running, sometimes the next day I can run with no side effects. Our bodymind is real, but we are all hooked up with our own wiring, so I realize my advice might just be for my meat suit!
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People who are famous have to understand that their faces are butter on the toast for a hek of lot of people. Like a fighter jet, you have the pilot but there is a ground crew for maintenance of the aircraft, mechanics, air support teams, radar specialists and the like. Everyone can understand Mr Cole when he describes Paparazzi as thugs with camera, but instead of thumping or mugging the people, all photographers are doing is filming these elusive media sensations who have become household names. The camera crews sometimes spend countless hours waiting for a split second to catch their 'prey' and snap a choice foto, hoping of course they catch the star off guard. Then we hear how these multi-millionaire movie stars or royalty are being harassed and chased and bullied and relentlessly followed. Well, I think the people who have managed to get in the spotlight could give up a little part of their walk in the park so-to-speak and turn to the camera carriers and give them a minute or two of their time and offer a smile and be on their way. It's part of the job, isn't it? Imagine going to the emergency room in hospital on Easter Sunday and having the trauma surgeon get upset at you because he had to leave his mother's brunch and come to your aid. Come to think of it, maybe that's not a good example... A Times Radio personality is certainly well known in the UK and abroad and I am sure every time one of you goes to the chemist or the pub, someone will come up for a chat or ask for a selfie or an autograph, and it must be bothersome at times, but you are public figures; every day you are on the air waves and on TV. It's something you can complain about, but people see celebrities differently...
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Dear Mr Berman, Ms Cabiata and Mr Bernstein, First of all, Happy New Year to JB and Alisyn and the CNN Team and CNN Contributors. You have been called fake news and a lot of other things, but unless I have missed something in a videocast, I have only heard professional, truth to power, honest and fair reporting from everyone at CNN. Thank you Mr Bernstein for your unrelenting quest for truth and justice in your country. Before I make a comment, I don't know if I heard things right on SKY News in Australia, but they are talking like war with China is not just a possibilty anymore but something they are starting to plan for. As an overseas viewer, I thought the Trump Administration was the only off-the-charts news going on. Let's hope we don't have a global war on top of the pandemic. Prime Minister Johnson has just initiated the strictest lockdown after the variant of Covid-19 has been found to be 50 to 75% more contageous. What on Earth kind of virus is this Covid-19? There are 60,000 plus people in the UK with long-Covid, that is, symptoms going on long after the infection is over. Now, your lame-duck president is disgracing himself again in front of the whole world and our hearts go out to you in America who must be out of your wits with President Trump's shameful displays of adolescent behavior and blatant unlawful activity in plain sight. Sadly, with an already terrible pandemic and financial turndown raging across your Constitutional Republic, President Donald J. Trump has chosen to exit office embarassing himself and his country and the whole civilized world with his antics. In defense of Fox News and Senators McConnell and Graham and Cruz who are die-hard supporters of President Trump, we have to realize that they have also done you and us across the world a favor by reigning in an American president who they know is unfit for high office, and is having what looks like a nervous breakdown on global television. As if playing golf while his fellow citizens are dying by the thousands wasn't enough, he has shown his mental instability again by flagrantly flaunting his power in a burlesque attempt to win an election already 8 weeks old. You are a great country and you have friends across the world who share your pain and frustration, but this is going to work out and you're going to get through this, and we're going to get our lives back because that's what we have to do.
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Dear Mr Bet-David, Thank you for being on YouTube. I think I can speak for a lot of people to say that you are a force of positve energy. May I first make a request? Could you please see if you could get Mr Stephen Kotkin on your show for an interview? Why? Because, I believe you will have the same reaction as I had when I listened to this guy talk. Pat, he's got the key to putting Russia on the right track. To paraphrase you, he's got the language that I believe Vladmir Putin would listen to. My second request is if you do have the same reaction as I had, will you do everything in your power to get President Putin and Mr Kotkin face to face? Why do I say this you are probably asking yourself? Because, I believe President Putin is on the wrong path for his country... only he doesn't know it. He's got power on his brain; it's his Cheerios; it's his mantra; it's what he thinks he's here to do: run Russia till the cows come home. This is where Stephen Kotkin comes in. Kotkin believes Russia will only become a great nation again when her instituions have been reformed. I honestly believe Kotkin might be the voice with the right words that would make Putin see his mistake of wanting to be in power forever. Lastly, when you see yourself getting upset because of the divisiveness on the mainstream media, or the nightly news, or an employee saying a word you don't like, step back and realize that if you are getting upset, then they are winning. Yes, that's right. If you are getting so upset you can't watch the news, it means you are letting them get one over on you. It's you who are weak if anyone can say something and it ruins your day. Think about it Patrick, you have to be able to hear anything, see anything, feel anything, but never let it get you down. It's an opinion. Peace.
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As an overseas viewer, I know it is far too easy to criticize something as complex as the US Intelligence agencies. Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe there are 18 of them. What we are seeing over and over---and to be honest---not only in America but across the world, is The Peter Principle taking place. What do I mean by that? People in the Intelligence services and the military are getting promoted to positions far beyond their capabilities. 'Lucky' Jack, the Russian dream hero who revealed spying operations in depth, his anti-American antics show that his superiors had not even an inkling of what this young man was doing. People give away their intentions, brag about it, show off to others, and yet none of Jack's commanding officers detected anything unusual. What is scary about all this is all the other people like Jack who are doing and have done the same thing and who are still on the loose. Secretary of Defense Austin should step down---this is happening too much on his watch----to show that the American Government is serious about making sure this never happens again. Imagine, no you can't imagine even a small company's top secrets being available to low-level employees to be able to download and print out and take out of the company. Lastly, do you know how to put Marjorie Taylor Greene in a place where she will guarantee her downfall: let her talk; don't interrupt her. She is The Peter Principle in politics. She is not capable of being a person who represents your Republic. Her own words say that...
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What I have noticed as an overseas viewer is how people who comment on my comments often do so angrily and outright reject my arguments without giving their opinion. It's easy to do; it's easy to be less than polite on line. The id is a very powerful part of our psyche. Remember what Charles Krauthammer said about Donald J. Trump:Trump's tweets. He said Trumps tirades and tweets were not just that it's a distraction and its effect on the agenda, but tweeting is the most direct avenue to the id. id: The one of the three divisions of the psyche in psychoanalytic theory that is completely unconscious and is the source of psychic energy derived from instinctual needs and drives; compare ego and superego. There is no more uncensored, unfiltered avenue from the id to tweeting. What we around the world and you in America saw is a naked look into the psyche of an American President. And what everyine witnessed from former President Trump was a raw vindictiveness, a cruelty, a lack of tamperedness, a lack of self-control which was and still remains truly shocking. This is what Krauthammer believed people reacted to about the former President. Not that it distracts, of course it distracts but that is a political thing, the problem is that America elected Trump and this is what his character is like and this fruitcake is talking about coming in for another 4 years! That being said, what we are seeing is that places like Facebook and the internet make it easy for people to release their hidden thoughts, which are often mean and angry. But I don't believe we have to stop the social media platforms. What we have to do is accept that Facebook and other social platforms have opened up our ability to see into the psyche of others. The solution is to find ways to firewall ourselves from those who wish to say nasty things or make others feel bad or worse. In short, we need new psychological tools. I believe, like Covid-19, we are going to have to learn to live with people emptying their ids anytime they choose to do so from the comfort of their home or workspace and be able to deflect the arrows of hate that are sent in one's direction.
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As an overseas viewer, it is great to see the Covid-19 infection levels going down in America and in other countries. Not being a health professional, all I know is that our brothers and sisters in India and Brazil are living a nightmare. The Covid-19 variants are in the country and city I live. In neighboring Italy and Germany and France, I think they are also seeing lower levels of infection. But wouldn't it be better for all of us to continue wearing masks for at least until the southeast asia infection rates are brought under control? Wearing a mask is inoffensive, causes no side effects that I know of, and the best thing of all is that it works. Why don't we all stay cautious and wait until the world and the entire human family can safely say the virus is behind us? Why do I say that? It's instinct really. It's the feeling that if we start having huge get-togethers and the Indian strain of the virus mutates again and again and outfoxes our best vaccines, we just may be looking at the worst case scenario. Why don't we all continue to wear masks, leave the huge music concerts on hold for one more year, and do everything we can to get our balance back in the countries we live in, but take things very, very easy? There's plenty of time to have parties and get back to full stadiums, but why not stand together as a united human family and make sure eit is really safe to go back to a normal life? This is only my opinion---or gut feeing, really---it's not the time to let our guard down and think this thing is behind us.
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Dear Mr Fridman and Mr Kaku, I have to learn some more adjectives, because I keep complimenting Mr Fridman on saying ‘this’ videocast is the best, and then I hear this one with Mr Kau. A Japanese American and a Russian-American having a discussion so profound one is reeling from the new questions buzzing around between our eyes. Thank you Mr Fridman, for you honest, home-spun style of questioning your guests and thank you Mr Kaku for opening our minds to what just might be coming down the pike. I like what you said about AI becoming as intelligent as monkeys. For my own two cents, about being ten years old. My folks bought a piano for lessons for the kids. One day, after it arrived, I was in the music room all alone and put my hands over the keys and out of my mouth came ‘composer’. It struck me as so odd coming out loud like that. I think I wrote my first song about 15 years later, again, right out of the blue. Lastly, please Mr Fridman, you have to go back to Russia and bring this knowledge to the Russian people and work to establish institutions in Russia and maybe start with the judiciary to get the courts to back you. It's an opinion. Peace.
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With respect to President Zelensky, President Trump and Secretary of State Blinken, may I offer a solution for the Ukraine/Russia conflict that I am 100% sure leave all sides satisfied with the results? I am world citizen living on the other side of the world from you, only hours by air from the Eastern Front where tens of thousands of Russian troops and armor are amassed along the eastern border of Ukraine. My solution is this: Why not usher in the era of Biden? What do I mean by this? I mean it's time to re-think our way of unraveling international conflicts. Here is what I say to President Zelensky: Mr President, if Russian troops invade your country issue an order to the Ukrainian troops and air force and space force to drop their weapons. Do not fight. Don't fire one bullet. Let the Russians conquer Ukraine without resistance. Why do I say this? Because we have to leave our progeny a time in human history when we finally realized that armed conflicts only cause irreparable harm to mostly innocent people. Also, thousands of soldiers are killed and many more are wounded with wounds that leave many of them invalids for the rest of their lives. For what? A piece of land and gold and coal and iron ore; you name it; it's always about follow the natural resources. Let's let these aggressive forces stuff themselves with another country's hard-earned booty, but let it be known that we will form a department in every one of our countries which will be Ukraine/Russia Conflict and it will be dedicated to finding a peaceful solution to the withdrawal of for example, Russian forces from Ukraine. Let's all usher in the Biden era with an end to armed conflict. Haven't we learned from centuries of aggression---from Attila the Hun---to the present. It doesn't work and only sets us back. Let Russia take over Ukraine. Don't fight back President Zelensky; use reverse psychology. Let the stronger side win their bobbles and precious stones, because they will all be returned. How can this be true? Because we are a united world; and now we must form a symbolic World Government. If all of us denounce in peaceful terms for as long as an aggressor occupies a sovereign nation, it might take a year, a decade or even a generation, but we will wear them down and win with no innocent lives lost...
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Isn't it amazing, people around the world are criticizing Ukraine's counter offensive as being unusually slow, taking too much time etc., when this is the first modern army in the world to stage a counter offensive without air superiority? They have had to improvise. Imagine if General Westmoreland was criticized for his handling of the Vietnam war by allied countries! Westmoreland ordered insignificant hills taken at any cost and when they secured the hill that sometimes-cost hundreds of lives, troops were ordered to abandon the hill and move on, only to have to re-take the position at a later date for more casualties. The Vietnam war was the only modern war in history that could be called a teenage war, the average age of a soldier in Vietnam was 19, compare that to 26 in WWII. Westmoreland led a meatgrinder war, a war of attrition that saw more than 55,000 soldiers die in a conflict he never really fought to win. What if allies poured criticism on his generalship? Imagine the outrage that would come from the Johnson Administration? To recap: let the Ukrainians fight the war their way, it's their blood being spilled
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Here is something that the Republicans that President Zelensky refers to might be interested in noting. I have paraphrased and written as a comment what UK Military Studies and Defense Analyst Professor Clarke said to Kate on the BBC Frontline show that I believe deserves repeating: Michael Clarke's point of view. If Putin walks away with what is perceived by him and the rest of the world to be a victory or partial victory, then the west loses very badly, because dictatorships are on the march across the world and because we’ve now committed ourselves to Ukraine in the way we have over the last year. The credibility of liberal democracy is on the line; not just as an ideology---but as a power center in world politics of which it has been for over 200 years. So; in a way, we are on a tiger’s back now, because having committed ourselves to defeating this Putin adventure, if we fail to defeat it, then the rest of the world will draw its own conclusions about the waning power of the western world and we’ll feel the effect of that pretty strongly. What Michael Clarke expects is if Putin can be thrown back, not out of all Ukraine, that would be very good if he were, but Clarke suggests that if Putin were thrown back out of the parts of Ukraine that he’s conquered since 2022, the western world would regard that as a victory, and most probably would accept it as a win. And: though Ukraine probably wouldn’t like it, if the west thought that gaining back the territory that was conquered in 2022 was good enough, then Professor Clarke thinks Kiev would have to decide that at least for the time being that was it was okay to let Crimea be off of the bargaining table. To recap: we have got to make the war go away in the Ukraine or all western democracies will suffer the consquences. Ukraine needs air superiority now!
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Musk has done the Bitcoin community a great service by showing them that if he's in, then Bitcoin has to come up to his standards, because like a lot of companies, he has to deal with the environmentalists. If I were the guru in charge of Bitcoin, I would not contest Musk's criticism, but rather go and get the energy problem resolved. Then, I would also do the next thing I predict Elon will complain about: transaction times. Do you realize Bitcoin can only provide 5 to 7 transactions per second, whereas Visa can do 30 to 40,000 transactions per second. If Bitcoin's keepers of the golden cryptocurrency want to really see Musk jump in head first, get the energy problem ironed out and just to make him happy, get the technology barons to help you find a way to get transactions up, up and away into the thousands per second. Bitcoin: you've invited Musk for dinner: get the cook to prepare what he wants for dinner and you'll all be laughing on your way to the... I was going to say, central bank. So; you'll all be laughing if you do what Elon Musk needs to have done for him to stay in the game.
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Dear Mr Pakman, Your delivery of the news has reached 9 out of ten so many times that it's hard to find anything to criticize you for, but for you giving your assessment at 5:10 about President Trump being this and that, a threat to humanity, etc., seems to go too far. By you stating emphatically what you have just said sort of removes for your viewers the need to come up with anything more to say on the matter. Maybe that's fine with you? But I think, if you lay out the facts as you do in an extremely efficient way and then say something like, "Well, I know what I think should happen with our president, but, hey, what do you guys think? Right away, people will think stuff like: "What, are you crazy, they need to evaluate psychiatrically President Trump, lik---yesterday!" By you detonating the sound-bite bomb, lighting the fuse to the mega-political dynamite, it takes away from the viewer the ability for the people viewing to think it, say it, etc. It's an opinion.
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Guys, wow; Joe? I live down the street from where the summit meeting with President Biden and President Putin. It was a success so powerful, all of Geneva is proud of our police force and the chief of police Monica Bonfanti. There were no incidents. Two mile across from the meeting, any place a sniper could set up was off limits. There were 4,000 special forces, police and military. There were gunships and gun boats in Lake Geneva. All public transportation came to a halt when the meeting occured. No people were allowed to be anywhere near the two presidents. The Swiss are still embarrassed by the assassination of the Queen of Austria more than a hundred years ago. So on the most beautiful day I have ever experienced in my city, the meet took place. It was a complete success. You can proud of your President. If he mispronounces a word or makes a gaffe, what we see is someone like us: ordinary people. The world is coming out of a pandemic, going into a world of long-Covid, and on the presipice of war with China. China---and this is only my prediction---knows that when they take back Taiwan all hell will break lose. Boys and girls, China has military airstrips at 14,000 feet with deep shelters for the fighter jets. They are building military airports everywhere in anticipation of an attack from the west when they take Taiwan back in the fold. Be happy you have a president that won't back down! Because we are!
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Professor Miano has clearly shown us data that one cannot dispute. The Great Pyramid of Giza was constructed during the time of Khufu. What I have gathered from many resources is information that points to a knowledge of the Earth and the solar system that beggar's belief: The Great Pyramid of Giza
1. It is 3/60th of a single degree of true north
2. It weighs 6 million tons
3. Its footprint is 13 acres
4. It is more than 755.9 feet along each side
5. It is 146.75 meters high
6. It has more than 2.3 million individual blocks of stone
7. It is locked into the Cardinal dimensions of our planet; The dimensions of the Earth are incorporated into its dimensions. 8. If you take the height and multiply it by 43,200 you get the polar radius of the Earth
9. If you measure the base perimeter of the pyramid accurately and multiply that measurement by 43,200 you get the equatorial circumference of the Earth
10. The scale is not random, the number 43,200 is derived from a key motion of the Earth, which is called the precession of the Earth’s axis
11. The Earth wobbles on its axis very slowly at the rate of 1 degree every 72 years; 43,200 is a multiple of 72; 600 X 72
12. So; they’ve given us the dimensions of the planet in The Great Pyramid of Giza on a scale defined by the planet itself
13. There are several 70-ton blocks of stone raised 300 feet above the ground
14. It has eight sides, and at the spring equinox and the autumn equinox one side of the pyramid is in the shade in the morning and again in the late afternoon and can only be seen from the air—as far as my research has shown.
15. It is a calendar
16. It has expansion joints
17. It is located at the exact intersection of the longest line of latitude and the longest line of longitude of the Earth, in other words The Great Pyramid is located at the precise center of the Earth’s land mass.
18. The builders possessed highly sophisticated knowledge of mathematics and geometry
19. The builders had knowledge of the true dimensions of the Earth to extreme precision
20. The builders possessed exceptionally advanced technical instrumentation to site The Great Pyramid
21. Pi = C over D Phi = Divided by 5 + 1 over 2. Archimedes discovered Pi about 250 BC, but Egyptians knew of it 2,250 years earlier
22. The Great Pyramid is 146.75 m high, its height X a million equals the distance from the Earth to the sun
23. If you subtract the inner circle from the outer circle of the circumference of The Great Pyramid, you get the speed of light in meters to four decimal points: 299,792,458 meters per second
24. The weight of The Great Pyramid is 5,273, 000 tons and that multiplied by a billion is the weight of the Earth
25. If you divide the perimeter of The Great Pyramid by ½ its height, the result is 3.14 = Pi
26. The three inner rooms; the king’s chamber, the queen’s chamber and the unfinished chamber under the pyramid are proportional to the distances between Mercury, Venus and the Earth. 27. The distance from The Great Pyramid to the North Pole is the same as the distance from The Great Pyramid to the center of the Earth. 28. The height of The Great Pyramid 146.75 m X 1 million = the distance from the Earth to the sun. 29. The weight of The Great Pyramid 5,273, 000 tons X 1 billion = the weight of the Earth. 30. If you divide the perimeter of the pyramid by 1/2 its height the result is 3.14 pi h/2 = pi These are of course mere coincidences that happen by chance... 31. The base side length is 364.242 which is exactly the time in days it takes for the earth to orbit the sun. 32. Pyramids in China, Mexico and Egypt align with the Orion star system
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Seth, before I get to my comments today, I know I speak for many people in your country and around the world for your work and how you have brought comedy to a new level. Please bear with me, because as an observer from across the world from you, I don’t have the right to judge what goes on in your country, but my conscience makes me disobey the fact that what you do in America is none of my business. So let me get down to it. I have something to say to you and to people in government and especially to the American people. I think that there is enough proof with the Alissa mass-shooting and the massage parlor shootings in Georgia to make everyone of you in America realize that the ‘remedy’ of quick police-reaction has not worked and will probably never work in stopping madmen, unstable people, from committing mass murder. Seth, I am not an expert, but it doesn’t take a genius to realize the only approach to putting an end to future carnage in your country has reached what I call the sea anchor point. There was a film called Master and Commander starring Russell Crowe, and at one point in circumventing the globe via the southern tip of South America, they lost a sailor when a mast broke off and fell in the sea. It took only a few minutes to realize the mast was acting a sea anchor and pulling the ship under. Seth, the mass shootings have become the great ship America’s sea anchor. It has to stop now. Here’s how to do it. A collective effort of all able-bodied adults in The United States is the only way to solve this problem. Why do I say this? Because to bear the burden of your 2nd Amendment it should be a law for all American adults---who are competent and qualified---to carry firearms. I know this sounds extreme; I think you of all people know that this would put an abrupt end to the horrible nightmare you and your loved ones and colleagues and fellow citizens are enduring with mass shooters that roam your villages, towns and cities looking for soft targets. Being the target of a deranged person wielding an automatic weapon is appalling and horrific; it makes me angry to see this slaughter of innocent civilians that is going on and ruining the image of the land of the free: America. Yes; I am saying that all of you in America must now own up to the fact that if there is a 2nd Amendment, then everyone that can be armed as an adult, must be armed when in public, because for it to work properly everyone must be on board and be on the lookout for their fellow citizens. It's an opinion of an overseas' viewer.
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Dear Mr Anderson and distinguished guest speakers, Thank you for consistently going for the truth in every story you report on Mr Anderson, Let’s stop going round and round on this story of President Trump and President Putin. We have learned that the nicer Mr Trump is to someone, the more likely it is that someone has got some dirt on him. President Putin must have so much negative information of catastrophic political dimensions on President Trump, that when it all comes out - and it will – it will be Earth-shattering and it will bring down the Trump dynasty. For President Trump to avoid any, absolutely any criticism of President Putin face to face or otherwise, when he is a standing US President, and is own intelligence services unanimously support the evidence, is an indication that his hands are tied, his lips are sealed and his fate is under Russia’s thumb, because if he said one small thing to implicate President Putin on any of the matters you and your colleagues have brought up, you can bet the next day there would be career-destroying photos or illegally obtained properties or illicit secret information etc., or something very incriminating that would put President Trump in political hot water or worse. Thanks for your great work.
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Mr Tapper, You and your colleagues at CNN have been soldiers of journalism on the front lines of covering the tumultuous and quasi-burlesque presidency of an American president who will probably be the first president in your Republic to serve time, albeit probably in <golf-course arrest>. I predict Trump will be found guilty for tax evasion and be sentenced to stay in his golf-course compound the remainder of his sentence. Former President Sarkozy in France was recently convicted of campaign violations and must remain in his house. But in my opinion, the most horrific news of the pandemic comes out of the UK. 122,000 health workers in Britain have long-COVID. Jake, it’s little talked about, and apparently the most devasting thing to live through, and that is long-COVID, which means that some or many of the symptoms of catching the covid-19 virus linger on---sometimes for as long as someone will live. They say after catching this mysterious virus, it can take as many as ten year off your life. But none of this can take away from the fact that former President Trump swept away good advice from trusted or (mistrusted advisors) and as a consequence hundreds of thousands of people went to their untimely and horrific deaths. It’s got to be for you and your colleagues the most disgusting set of statistics to repeat night after night, and if Dr Blix is to be believed, most of the tragic loss of life could have been prevented had former President Trump been in a sound mind.
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Hi Peter, Here is some information from Mike Maloney that I think you will find interesting.
Bank Failures
1. March 8, 2023 Silvergate Capital Corp --- closed
2. 2 days
3. March 10, 2023 Silicon Valley Bank ---seized by FDIC
4. 2 days
5. Signature Bank seized by regulators
6. 3 days
7. March 13, 2023 FDIC creates ‘bridge bank’ President declares deposits safe
8. 7 days
9. Credit Suisse sold to UBS with government guarantees
10. 2 months
11. May 1, 2023 First Republic Bank taken over by JP MORGAN
2008 Crisis
1. April 2007: New Century Financial bankrupt
5 months
2. September 2007: Bank runs at England’s Northern Rock Bank
3. 6 months
4. March 2008: Bear Stern collapses
5. 4 months
6. July, 2008: Indy Mac / Countrywide Financial, collapse
7. 2 months
8. September 7, 2008: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac nationalized
9. 1 day
10. September 15, 2008: AIG bail out
11. 11 days
12. September 16, 2008: Washington Mutual (WaMu) collapses
13. 1 month
14. October, 2008: Fed’s T.A.R.P. commits $700 billion in taxpayer funds
15. 1 month
16. November 2008: Citigroup bail out
17. 1 month
18. December 2008: General Motors / Chrysler bail out $80.7 billion
19. 1 month
20. January 2009: Bank of America bail out, $20 billion
21. 1 month February 2009: President Obama approves $787 billion stimulus
22. 4 months
23. June 2009: GM files for bankruptcy, closes 14 factories
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Dear Ms Whitfield and the CNN News team and Major General (ret.) Marks, Please excuse my comments Major General Marks, but you must put an end to television-killings from the US military. I have been watching the events of the Soleimani drone assassination and I am giving you how it looks to me from the other side of the world. There is only one word to describe what President Trump has done: reprehensible, and the Major General says the same things in military speak. I am speaking as a friend to America and in my humble opinion and from what I know about American people, what President Trump has done is spit on every core value American people represent. The damage from Trump’s impromptu ‘countdown’ of the killing of Soleimani will reverberate in the halls of power in the world’s greatest Republic for a century. It looks wrong to send death-drones to take out adversaries on global television. It has become of cult of death over there in the Pentagon’s war-fatigued PR people. Violence has become a mainstay of American life, but it is not that way in practically every country in the world. It is wrong for a super power to take executive action, just look at the poisonings and assassinations in the Russian regime. Now we have a flamboyant President of the free world who has the blood on his hands of 176 people from the plane crash, over 60 people who were trampled to death at Soleimani’s funeral and the general, a person millions of people in his country and around the world think is a hero. Please, I’m nobody, no one to judge the wheels of power and justice that run your great country, but drone assassinations publicly celebrated about must stop. It’s not something American people do. President Trump has 20 women accusing him of sexual assault, a half dozen of his cronies behind bars, he speaks English worse than people who speak English as their 2nd or 3rd language, and he has difficulty telling the truth. How can anyone believe anything he says? When is Donald. J Trump going to realize that he doesn't understand why he was impeached because he is not able to even understand to do his civic duty and stand down
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Thank you, Freddie and Gérard, please excuse me for a second comment, but here is something I have paraphrased and written as a comment that Professor Clarke said to Kate in the Frontline show that I believe deserves repeating about the war in Ukraine.: Michael Clarke's point of view. If Putin walks away with what is perceived by him and the rest of the world to be a victory or partial victory, then the west loses very badly, because dictatorships are on the march across the world and because we’ve now committed ourselves to Ukraine in the way we have over the last year. The credibility of liberal democracy is on the line; not just as an ideology---but as a power center in world politics of which it has been for over 200 years. So; in a way, we are on a tiger’s back now, because having committed ourselves to defeating this Putin adventure, if we fail to defeat it, then the rest of the world will draw its own conclusions about the waning power of the western world and we’ll feel the effect of that pretty strongly. What Michael Clarke expects is if Putin can be thrown back, not out of all Ukraine, that would be very good if he were, but Clarke suggests that if Putin were thrown back out of the parts of Ukraine that he’s conquered since 2022, the western world would regard that as a victory, and most probably would accept it as a win. And: though Ukraine probably wouldn’t like it, if the west thought that gaining back the territory that was conquered in 2022 was good enough, then Professor Clarke thinks Kiev would have to decide that at least for the time being that was it was okay to let Crimea be off of the bargaining table. (I believe retired Lt. General Ben Hodges however, and he states that without Crimea in Ukrainian hands, the ports of Odessa and the coastal cities on the Sea of Azov will be forever under Russian gunboat domination.)
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Dear Mr Pakman, You obviously have a keener eye and ear for details, but the Hardball Chris’ remarks about France falling to the Germans doesn’t really come off to me as anything more than landslide commentary. I live next to France so maybe I don’t see it as something sinister, but if he compared Bernie’s victory to the Russians winning in Stalingrad, would that have been any better? I think there are sensibilities that are fragile everywhere on everything these days. I have one thing to say about Sanders and that is that he is hands down the winning candidate, but his eyes seem to be saying, “I know I shouldn’t be here, but I love my country and I’ll die for it if it means winning against Trump”. I hope I’m wrong, but I think a heart attack means the heart muscle was damaged and getting up in front of raving supporters has got to be hell on the nervous system. I know when The Rolling Stones play a stadium, they need something like 3 hours to come down from the adrenalin rush. I think it will be a miracle if Bernie makes it to 2021. I don't think Chris from Hardball was referring to anything more that a big Victory. I'm looking at things from a long way away, just an opinion
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May I say one more thing? Why on earth is it necessary to court 'black', 'hispanic', 'evangelist' etc., voters. You are all American's. I think of the phrase, 'All plumbers wear blue socks." I am sorry. All black voters are Americans first, individuals second and of a certain minority third and so on. If I were an 'orange' person in America, I would feel offended to hear Uncle Joe or Trump refer to my people as the Orange people being like this or that. I am an artist and I hate it when I do something that others disagree with to be lumped in with what people think artists are in general. You know what I mean, people will say with that wry smile, when referring to me, 'Well, you know, he's an artist.'
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Lastly, one can understand the anti-China rhetoric ranging from the refusal of China to allow a new investigation into the Wuhan lab and now cyber-hacking and the South China sea military build-up, rogue fishing fleets and the like. But a new approach is needed in my mind, because nothing seems to be working in getting the Chinese government to understand they are not being fair and cooperative and they are infringing on the rights of other nations among other things. Would the best thing to do is simply go with the mantra that we are willing to help China her goals like any other nation, and we wish the Chinese people prosperity and happiness, but we will not tolerate actions that go against our national interests or violate our core beliefs. Emotional reporting, name-calling, negative statements only throw oil on the fire. We must remember this is an ancient culture where having an Emperor is just fine and dandy for the people. We cannot deal with the Chinese like Australia would deal with, say, Italy. New tactics are needed and we must remember that everything one says on air is like an e-mail; it is recorded somewhere and can come back to haunt you. A simple rule I have used in writing e-mails is to never, ever use emotional outbursts or name-calling or anything negative. Why? Because it can come back to haunt you; it can be misinterpreted. We must deal with China as an ancient civlization with an Emperor who has total power; you cannot show your cards in this type of a situation.
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Dear Mr Blitzer and Secretary Bolton, Thank you Mr Blitzer for an excellent interview that could only come from the solid dedication to your craft, with detailed research, unbiased reporting. You have done a great service you have done to your country and to people watching from around the world. This interview with Secretary Bolton marks one of the most important ones of your distinguished career. However, because of the appalling mishandling of the pandemic, financial downturn and social unrest, President Trump has shown himself to be unfit for high office. He is clearly out of the reach of his capacities to manage in a job where an American president’s words can mean literally life and death to thousands of people. The nuclear codes should not be in the hands of someone who recently said that testing for the Covid-19 virus should be slowed down, or his insistence on doing a campaign rally where no social distancing was noticed, no masks. The man is either a sociopath or a very sick person or both. One would have thought Secretary Bolton would be reading a list of reasons of why President Trump is a danger to the nation and must end his presidency for the good of America and the free world. Captain Jack, in the film ‘Master and Commander on the Far Side of the World’, is confronted with a situation in which a mast has broken in storm and a sailor went over with it. It’s pulling down the ship like a sea anchor. Captain Jack had to choose to either cut the ropes to the mast and lose the sailor or lose his ship. He cut the ropes. Secretary Bolton’s interview is revealing in how we don’t feel an urgency on his part to ‘cut the ropes’ and get America’s ‘sea anchor’, Donald J. Trump to do his civic duty and stand down, or to use the 25th amendment and have him removed from office. Wolf, America is not weathering all of these storms very well at all and it is starting to unravel at the seams as you well know. Bolton should have owned up to the fact that we have to stop pretending ourselves; President Trump should not stay another day in office. In short, Secretary Bolton has done a great service to his country and the world by showing everyone why the current president of The United States, Donald J. Trump, is not qualified to lead America. A country as complex as The United States needs a statesman in charge. America is undergoing a global and national emergency and it needs someone with above-average management abilities and refined social skills of the highest order, and the political will to unite partisan parties in a time of urgency. Donald J. Trump is an American president who has failed in his attempt to unite his country, and left unchecked, he is going to pull his country and the free world down to Davey Jones Locker. Be well.
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Dear Ms Cupp, Thank you for your videocast. What is most appalling to me as someone watching the unravelling events of President Trump and his administration from across the world is this: Ms Warren said that if anybody else in America had done what Donald J. Trump has done – as far as legal problems – there would be serious consequences -- like being in jail -- to pay. We see President Trump able to thwart prosecution on any level by using the justice system he is supposed to represent, to protect himself. Congress seems to have one hand tied behind their back, and the Senate is more of a rubber stamp to block anyone trying to show his misdeeds. What I am getting at is that the whole United States government system looks rigged from top to bottom to cover the fat cats. It looks like a sham. A woman accuses him of allegations of rape and he’s more a Teflon president than Reagan. It is disheartening to see that the person in charge of your great country, representing more than 330 million people, has less intellectual prowess than George W. Bush who claimed to be a ‘C’ student. And indeed ‘W’ was a ’C’ student president. Trump has to be a ‘D’ student president next to Bush. The system has been corrupted, money rules in politics in America right from the top on down. The world is racing by while the guiding light of the world, America, has a leader of below-average ability. It's easy to criticize and what is good about the Trump Administration is that it shows the laws, Congress, The Senate, The Supreme Court need to be overhauled.
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Thank you sir, for an excellent interview and thank you, Professor Devi Sridhar, for explaining things clearly and brilliantly analyzing the Covid-19 pandemic and pointing out what we can expect coming down the line. My question is about why you don’t think about helping your own people. What about your country, Professor Devi Sridhar? Have you ever thought of going back to India to help the Indian people? Imagine the knowledge and experience you could share with the people of India. The vast powerhouse of what you have learned from your time and studies and experiences in America and the UK could upgrade their health systems immensely. What about going back to India and help them get on their feet in the international arena and help them with your expert advice on the Covid-19 problem as well? It’s obvious you have top credentials, but India could use your expertise in so many, many ways. Imagine with what you’ve learned in America and the UK what you could do for women’s rights, equality, democracy, health care! You’re one of the best in your field, but why not help your home country while you are young and full of energy and goodwill? It's only an opinion about helping your brothers and sisters in one of the most beautiful countries in the world: India.
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Dear Mr Tapper and Senator Johnson, Thank you Jake for your dedicated approach to trying to get to the heart of the Ukraine dilemma. You have a very direct and hard-hitting interviewing style. Thank you, Senator Johnson for your alternative views on what the president has said about the whole issue of whether military aid was held as a ransom unless investigating a political rival was agreed to. Senator Kennedy announced to the world that a quid pro quo, which in layman’s terms is a shakedown, is in some way appropriate under certain circumstances. Shakedown. Michael Andreatti, the media lawyer has been in jail since 24 March for trying to quid pro quo or shakedown Nike. Senator Johnson, President Trump is counting on you and your colleagues support to get him elected for a second term. Everyone knows you would like President Trump to do his civic duty and step down from the presidency as soon as possible. President Trump is barking mad, out of his mind and is unfit for high office to a lot of people across the globe, but what we must ask you is that do you think your country can survive another 4 year term of office from someone doing more harm than good to your nation in time of need, or to the world where American leadership is on the wane? Senator Johnson, you have the President's ear, please ask him to step down asap.
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The mere fact that trans sports stars are being critiized and ostracized tells us that something is wrong. It hurts to be prejudiced against, no matter what the situation is. However; in my opinion it's much too early in the trans movement to assume that a man who has become a woman can now compete against other women in sporting event with no advantages. A new category is needed more than a ban on the trans people wanting to compete in sports. What's wrong with having a marathon with trans women or trans men and running it just like a marathon between women and men who are biologically women from birth? May I go on to say something else. We see gay couples and one partner referring to his partner as his 'husband', for example. Here is my proposition or proto-type of how we could give unique names for the unions between same-sex couples. (Prototype terminology for the Lesbian and Gay community.) Lesbian relationships. Lesbiate = marry, a lesbian who wants to marry another lesbian, Lesbiated = a lesbian woman who has joined in civil union with another woman, Lesbiage = a marriage between two women, Lefem = wife in feminine sense of lesbian (Perhaps some lesbian relationships would prefer to have a sense of <wife> for the opposite partner). Lehom = husband in masculine sense of lesbian (Perhaps some lesbian relationships would prefer to have a sense of <husband> for the opposite partner). Gay relationships, Gayriate = marry, a gay man who wants to marry another gay man, Gayriated = a gay man who is (married) joined in civil union with another gay man. Gayriage = a marriage between two gay men. Gafem = the wife sense of a gay man’s partner (Perhaps some gay relationships would prefer to have a sense of <wife> for the opposite partner) Gahom = the husband sense of a gay man’s partner (Perhaps some gay relationships would prefer to have a sense of <husband> for the opposite partner). Please forgive me if I have offended anyone, but I have invented these proto-type names as a way to have children see things in their way of seeing: black and white. They need things to be very clear. Their minds are in development. The whole idea is to save our young children from not having to be confused about heterosexual and homosexual relationships and civil unions. A gay man would be gayriated to his GaHom or GaFem. A lesbian would belesbiated to her LeFem or LeHom. Children would have different words to say that a man and man or a woman and a woman are legally united under the law i.e. a woman and a woman would blesbiated, or a man and a man would be gayriated and a man and a woman would be married. The English language is rich, new words can be thought up to describe what the trans community is going through and what the same-sex couples are experiencing...
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As an outside observer with a hint of optomism to throw upon the flames of terminal decline that you and many people see on the horizon, may I say that America's 20-year-long effort to turn around a feudal nation has to be regarded also in the fact that it may look like an abject failure on paper, but let us remember that American and its allies came in to a land governed by warlords, got it up on its feet, trained the military, put things right as far as getting equal rights for women etc., and low and behold, after 20 years, the Afghans acted like it was 20 days when America and its allies pulled out. They acted like they learned nothing at all and they were willing to let the Taliban come in and take over put their women into the Middle Ages and there was no resistance to speak of. How can this be? My question is full of anger and my heated way of asking it is what in the hell is wrong with Afghanistan men? How could they behave like docile school children and let a rogue bunch of bandits take over their country and subjugate their women so helplessly when they had learned how to run a modern society. Why did they abandon two decades of help from a handful of countries? It's a crime against humanity that the Afghanistan men act like slaves; it's not America's fault for cutting the umbilical cord after 20 years---you can’t hold their hand forever! Lastly, America is crumbling to dust but your empire has a long way to go before anything even close to civil unrest brings down the American myth. What all of us have to remember is that the digital age is responsible for what we see leveling society as it used to be before the age of technical enlightenment was upon us. Young people will glide through the turmoil as the world and your country as you know it becomes something unrecognizable. In truth, AI is going to be sculpting as the new landscape and an unrecognizable society very soon. The old ways are always hard to say goodbye to, but we have to admit that it's all going up in smoke, but your country will rise above the ashes of the golden ages’ past. A new way of life is emerging that is hard to stomach for people who have seen what a world looks like built and run by humans. However; this is all going to change, because our world is going to have masters that will make what we have known before disappear in a heartbeat. We cannot find comfort in knowing the new way of life will make our old way of life seem to be from another era, but that is exactly what is happening all around us.
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Dear Mr Sekula, Chief Justice Roberts and Mr Schiff, I don’t have any right to criticize you from across the world, because I’m not a citizen of your country, but I can tell you that if witnesses and testimony and documents are withheld from the Impeachment Trial of President Trump, this will be the worst blemish on the American Republic since the Civil War. President Trump has mastered the public’s understanding of how the media works by engaging spin doctors like Mr Sekula -- who is out of his depth in understanding what his client has done to the credibility of the United States as a constitutional democracy. Because of his bombastic, highly enflaming rhetoric and excellent knowledge of the legal defense system, he has bamboozled the person of the street by portraying a rogue president as someone being taken advantage of. Donald J. Trump is without a doubt a loving father, but he is not even close to being what we expect of the leader of the free world. We are talking about a person who has 20 women claiming sexual misconduct, we’ll give you 19 as making it up, but one is enough to demand that he do his civic duty and step down. He has told some 16 thousand untruths. This is the President of The United States we’re talking about! He has proven over and over again that what he or his lawyers say have to be taken with a grain of salt. He is unfit for the highest office in the USA. It's easy to criticize and we know the truth will win through. Mitt Romney is the key in my opinion to getting his colleagues to vote. They see him as a leader. Peace
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Thank you for your excellent and heartbreaking reporting on a mass shooting. Mr Carroll, Poppy, JB, as an overseas viewer, may I please ask you to consider this idea for putting an end to mass shootings or severely limiting the casualties? The 2nd Amendment is a wonderful freedom you in America have, but it does not work if everyone is not wearing a gun. A leg holster on every capable, trained and mentally stable adult would put an end to the shooting epidemic that is pulling your beautiful country under the waves of uncertainty and fear like a sea anchor. The mass shooters---and I’m not a psychologist---never attack a police station or national guard outpost. Why? Because they know they wouldn’t get far. As strange and uncomfortable and disgusting as it might sound to many people, if all American eligible adults wore a side arm or carried a gun at all times in public, there would no longer be these horror-story reporting all of you have become thankfully numb to report. One can only imagine having to report the details of this kind of atrocity. How can any of you go home after describing these cowardly attacks that left innocent people dead and whole families torn apart by the loss of a loved one who might also be the only bread-winner, and enjoy your own lives with your families? It’s easy for us to criticize, but I believe if every governor was seen giving his or her next address with a sidearm visible to the viewers, it would be all that would be needed to send out the message: arm yourself. What is most important is to stop the needless loss of life by nipping the problem in the bud: confronting head on the unstable people with a dose of their own medicine. Our hearts and prayers go out to the families of the dead and for those who were wounded. Only cowardly, unstable, mentally unfit people are doing this! Peace!
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Thank you, Jake, this is for General Milley. Here is something I have paraphrased and written as a comment that UK military studies Professor Clarke said to Kate on the BBC Frontline show that I believe deserves repeating: Michael Clarke's point of view. If Putin walks away with what is perceived by him and the rest of the world to be a victory or partial victory, then the west loses very badly, because dictatorships are on the march across the world and because we’ve now committed ourselves to Ukraine in the way we have over the last year. The credibility of liberal democracy is on the line; not just as an ideology---but as a power center in world politics of which it has been for over 200 years. So; in a way, we are on a tiger’s back now, because having committed ourselves to defeating this Putin adventure, if we fail to defeat it, then the rest of the world will draw its own conclusions about the waning power of the western world and we’ll feel the effect of that pretty strongly. What Michael Clarke expects is if Putin can be thrown back, not out of all Ukraine, that would be very good if he were, but Clarke suggests that if Putin were thrown back out of the parts of Ukraine that he’s conquered since 2022, the western world would regard that as a victory, and most probably would accept it as a win. And: though Ukraine probably wouldn’t like it, if the west thought that gaining back the territory that was conquered in 2022 was good enough, then Professor Clarke thinks Kiev would have to decide that at least for the time being that was it was okay to let Crimea be off of the bargaining table.
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Tom and Sam, both of you have incredible analytic abilities and many times Sam offers a clear understanding of what is wrong in American and world society and Tom has incredible insights as well. What life is like in America and what is going on in your society often has both of you and a long list of experts flummoxed along with many people who are great thinkers like both of you. I comment on videocasts fully understanding that I may not be even close to solving a problem or giving good advice, but I try my best to find answers to stubborn questions or dilemmas that are going on all over the globe. I have an idea that might get your country on a path that everyone would like to see happen. For example, what I believe could be the reason 30 or 40% of Americans believe in former President Trump and do not see through him is perhaps not totally, but most probably because of their mindset: how they see the world. And: by that I mean that I think most of the ills of society are caused mainly by the way we look at the world, how we see ourselves and how we judge others. Maybe what is needed for people to break their bad thinking habits is this: to boldly go where most of us have never gone before; I am of course talking about going for one’s greatest challenge. Aren't both of you doing exactly this? Tom’s greatest challenge was to build his empire. Sam, you have gone for a very big challenge to be a philosopher, an intellectual, and a great thinker, which is what you have become! Imagine if we started having conversations on all media platforms and began asking people to go for their greatest challenge in life? Immediately, there would be a sea change in society because people who had had the time to be drawn into the charade of following ridiculous and absurd pied pipers of nonsense, would no longer have a minute to ponder on some carnival barker beating his gums about the snake oil he or she's trying to sell. To recap: America would change its tune in a heartbeat if the American people asked themselves one simple question: What is the most interesting, challenging thing I want to do with my life? You guys could make my case a lot better than I do, but it's what I think is needed to get people off the detours in emotional backroads that most of us are on all over the world.
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Dear Mr Bolt and Sky News, I live in a country next to Italy and I only want to give my opinion on the current Australian/Chinese standoff. I think Australia has acted in the only way possible with the Coronovirus pandemic towards China. But these are different times, and there are ways to do things that are win/win. China has a president who is an Emperor in an Italian Boggi suit and the Chinese people are fine with a leader for life. What I am getting at is that business has to be protected and then the investigation into the pandemic can go ahead. What Australia has done is attacked an armed to the teeth foe, who are entrenched up on a hill with automatic weapons of every kind and Australians are attacking up hill with bows and arrows. You have to play the game. The Chinese leader will be dealt with for the damages if any that will be paid, but you can’t cut off your oxygen and expect not to be out of breath. Your Prime Minister misjudged an opponent and that will translate into a loss of jobs. This could have been done by first insuring that financially your back is covered. You’ve got to have back-up plans for exactly this kind of thing happening in the future. You have to have a back-up client or a few of them to take excess barley, coal, etc. You bought into the get-rich-quick Chinese quick-sand financial honey-trap. It’s easy for me to criticize when I have no experience in finance to boot, but what I see is that from now on Australia needs back-up client relationships that can be put into place quickly and this way to never again be at the mercy of an authoritarian regime, rogue president, or vindictive leader. Why do I say this? Because it is financial suicide otherwise. To insult the Chinese government and leaders will only mean less business with them. They need to be told they are the greatest thing since Swiss cheese. Okay, we’ll play the game, get our companies getting contracts and when the economy is on its feet and you’ve got yourself covered six ways from Sunday, then bring up the pandemic thing. But let’s be real, no country, no person in their right mind is ever going to admit wrongdoing. Poker face diplomacy means jobs.
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Dear Mr Tapper, I think that this videocast was one of your best and it sends shivers down my spine. To see the video footage and to hear the cops deny it happened can only be understood as tribal mentality; it has finally entered the ranks of the police too. They feel they are victims. They are really saying, "You Don't know what it means to be a cop, you will never understand." Unfortunately, the problem with this game is that it's an irreducible game. That being said, in offering an alternative view to racism in your country, I hope you will have time to read this information and of course, do your own research. In paraphrasing a videocast from Peter Schiff about racism in USA, I found Mr Schiff’s account of what is actually going on at odds with a lot of the reporting on mainstream media. But let’s let everyone decide for themselves. This is what Mr Schiff has to say: The narrative now is that the death of George Floyd is that he was killed because he was black. And that if it was a white man in the same circumstances, he would not have been killed. Mr Floyd would not have died but for the color of his skin. Maybe it’s true; but you can’t jump to the conclusion that he was killed because he was black and not white because that would be racist to jump to that conclusion. Even if it was the case, it’s the exception and not the rule. There is no statistical evidence that police are disproportionally killing blacks in America. In 2019 just over a thousand people were killed by police in the USA. Approximately 25% were black. Somebody might say, well, blacks are 13% of the population, and if 25% of the people the police are killing are black, then they must be discriminating, because why isn’t it 13%? You have twice as many blacks being killed in relation to their population, but Mr Schiff says you can’t look at that. Because that is the racial breakdown of the people who are committing crimes. Because it’s the people committing crimes who are interacting with the police. In 2018 African Americans committed 53% of the murders in the USA and about 60% of the robberies. This was in the Wall Street Journal and most likely fact-checked. The point is that if blacks are committing such a disproportionate large percentage of crime, then if 25 % of the people who are getting killed by police are black, then that is not because of racism of the police; it’s because they are interacting with a much larger percentage of blacks. In fact, if you look at how much crime blacks are committing, they’re actually under-represented. They are being killed in a lower proportion in their interaction with the police. Astonishingly, about 40% of the police who are killed in the line of duty are killed by somebody who was black, but only 25% of the people police kill are black. That means that if you are a policeman and you are killed, you are 60% more likely to have been killed by a black person than you are to have killed a black person in the line of duty. In reality it should be the police who are out protesting. I'm an independent observer from a country in Europe where we are coming out of lockdown, and fortunately no riots. Peace. Good reporting.
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Dear Kate and Mrs Whetstone, As an observer from across the world, I am sending this message because I feel it’s necessary to put a cap on events happening in your country. The loss that Mrs Whetstone has undergone is beyond anything anyone can imagine unless they have lost a child in war, disease or accident. The thing I think is important to say however, that there are already two important events going on in your country that risk to change your lives forever. Today, Pizza Hut and Wendy’s declared bankruptcy. Is anyone listening? Pizza Hut and Wendy’s! The economic Armageddon threatening your country is off-the-charts. The Pandemic is out of control with some doctors at over a hundred days on duty without a break. Would you want to be looked after by someone who has not had a day off in over one hundred days? Do you get my point? The bounty on US Soldiers is undoubtedly a blurry fact in the reality of warfare. Do you think when the CIA were backing the Taliban in Afghanistan that they were whispering into the ears of Taliban snipers, “Please don’t’ kill Russian soldiers”. Of course not, the ten-year war in Afghanistan for Russia was a disaster that saw thousands of their soldiers killed by Taliban who were backed by the CIA i.e. American Military. This latest attempt to further disrupt and destabilize your country must be seen for what it is: a strategy to cause confusion and dissent by throwing more oil on the fires already burning with the Black Lives Matter movement. Look what it is doing to society? We will never know for sure the cause of most deaths in wartime from any of the wars, but you can bet that a lot of soldiers died by other means than enemy or even friendly fire. Somebody trying to dig up dirty deeds i.e. an enemy of America, knows that your country is fragile at this point in time and they know how to make it harder for America to get on its feet. There is no problem with pursuing your inquiry, Mrs Whetstone, but tell them you prefer to wait until the pandemic is over and the economy is strong again and America is on her feet. She is a super power, but a straw can break her back and America’s foes know exactly how to use popular dissent to further weaken the democratic country they wish to destroy the most. It's an opinion. The pandemic is where all of our energies need to be focused.
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Ian stuns the Sunday crowd with straight-talking, king-of-the-measured response, Larry Summers. Larry sees through every crisis you have in America and the world with astounding clarity and brilliant insight. Two things I would like to throw over the ocean from where we live to you. AI is going to be riding piggy-back on consumer capitalism because the two will be inseparable to every employer bar none when things really start taking off. Why do I say this? Because consumer capitalism is profit driven and AI will be able to do all of our jobs better than humans which means that some very good professions and skills people have spent years honing to perfection will go the way of the dodo bird. Yes; people will be laid off the minute an employer sees the value-added returns on investment that an AI program over a human employee will bring. Here is the not-so-good answer to solve this puzzle: we have to get an economic system that has free markets but is not profit driven. This way, humans will be able to keep their jobs over machines because employers won't lose out keeping a good designer for example, on the payroll. Of course, I happen to have invented just such an economic model that could be used as a proto-type if people like Larry could tinker with it and get all the bugs out of it. But it could be the way to get us weaned off capitalism. I don't want to plug my book, but I call my system, teknomix. Lastly, the crises of division and anxiety in your country is growing with leaps and bounds because of one thing: the national mindset. I am probably wrong on this one too, but please hear me out. We need to get everyone out there in your 50 states changing their focus from looking what others are doing and get everyone going for their greatest challenge. From 2- to 72-year-old kids and adults and everyone in between, I submit that America is experiencing a lot of unnecessary and disturbing trends that pulling things apart, because people are looking into someone else's backyard and of course what they see they might not appreciate. To recap: the national mindset must be from now on for people to go for the greatest and most challenging life they can. When you do this, you don't have time to worry what the other guy is doing with his life. It's over simplified, but what I think is happening is that everything has changed for us across the world because of the digital revolution, but we are still thinking with an outdated outlook on society. No wonder so many people are finding fault with themselves, with others, with the other political party etc.
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Dear Chris and Andrew Cuomo, First, I think every person that has ever seen a Chris Cuomo videocast can agree that there is a dedicated person delivering a very truthful and factual interview or news analysis. Second, I think there is no doubt in anyone’s mind that Governor Andrew Cuomo has proved himself as a leader and presidential in his day to day breakdowns of the Coronavirus pandemic. Now, here is where I am going to cause a little friction and I only am giving my opinion. Chris, you went overboard in giving a step by step view into your infection. It was not necessary and only showed someone trying to one-up Governor Cuomo. No one needed to hear how terrible it was from a star reporter. It was embarrassing. You have to know when to get off the stage as they say in show biz. You got an ego like everyone, but you should not have shown yourself as a victim. Governor Cuomo, you don’t need to defend yourself or try to be hip. You just have to be yourself and tell the facts as you see them. You have a remarkable gift in relaying important information just by your own personal style. You should not say ‘I get it’, more than once in a videocast. You are an international figure that to many people comes across as a leader. Never go past trying to just put the news out there. We don’t need to know you are anything more. Chris, your brother has a gift like you do, but you shouldn’t get in the way. Stay low in these times of confusion and tragedy. You’ll have plenty of time to show your investigative prowess in future times.
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@WillmobilePlus GGGGGRreat tp hear from you. You can't fact check someone in an emotional state and the last thing I want to do is to say something is true or untrue simply because I believe it so. What I try to do is gather facts, look at the evidence and hear both sides of the story. Historians and archaeologists say The Great Pyramid of Giza was Koufu's tomb. I'm not an achaelogist, but here's what I've gathered as information which makes me think it was built for another purpose. 1. It is 3/60th of a single degree of true north
2. It weighs 6 million tons
3. Its footprint is 13 acres
4. It’s more than 755.9 feet along each side
5. It’s 480.6 feet high
6. It has more than 2.3 million individual blocks of stone
7. It is locked into the Cardinal dimensions of our planet
9. The dimensions of our planet are incorporated into its dimensions
10. If you take the height and multiply it by 43,200 you get the polar radius of the Earth
11. If you measure the base perimeter of the pyramid accurately and multiply that measurement by 43,200 you get the equatorial circumference of the Earth
12. The scale is not random, the number 43,200 is derived from a key motion of the Earth, which is called the precession of the Earth’s axis
13. The Earth wobbles on its axis very slowly at the rate of 1 degree every 72 years; 43,200 is a multiple of 72; 600 X 72
15. So; they’ve given us the dimensions of the planet in The Great Pyramid of Giza on a scale defined by the planet itself
16. There are 70-ton blocks of stone raised 300 feet above the ground
17. It has eight sides, and at the spring equinox and the autumn equinox one side of the pyramid is in the shade in the morning and again in the late afternoon
18. It’s a calendar
19. It has expansion joints
20. It is located at the exact intersection of the longest line of latitude and the longest line of longitude of the Earth, in other words The Great Pyramid is located at the precise center of the Earth’s land mass.
21. The builders possessed highly sophisticated knowledge of mathematics and geometry
22. The builders had knowledge of the true dimensions of the Earth to extreme precision
23. The builders possessed exceptionally advanced technical instrumentation to site The Great Pyramid
24. Pi = C over D Phi = Divided by 5 + 1 over 2. Archimedes discovered Pi about 250 BC, but Egyptians knew of it 2,250 years earlier
25. The Great Pyramid is 146.75 m high, its height X a million equals the distance from the Earth to the sun
26. If you subtract the inner circle from the outer circle of the circumference of The Great Pyramid you get the speed of light in meters
27. The weight of The Great Pyramid is 5,273, 000 tons and that multiplied by a billion is the weight of the Earth
28. If you divide the perimeter of The Great Pyramid by ½ its height, the result is 3.14 = Pi
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With all due respect to the legendary and world-class former leader of the free world, Barrack Obama may have lifted the spirits of many people of color and every race around the world including me, but he let President Putin stare him down when he was president and that is not his fault because he had no experience on the international stage. He looked frightened when he met Putin; he looked weak. Ten years have passed since President Obaman and Vice-President Biden were at the helm of the American phenomenal political miracle the American Democratic Republic that has transformed the world. In 2011, President of Assad sent choppers loaded with chlorine bombs targeting civilian neighborhoods with people supporting the opposition. The chorine bombs ripped apart people's lungs and left young people in IC units surviving with oxygen tanks for those lucky enough to be saved after being pulled from blown-up appartment buildings. The beautiful Syrian people were getting slaughtered before our eyes. The free world was revolted and then relieved; suddently President Obama said to President Assad that if you send one more chorine bomb on innocent civilians, America will react with all its strength to stop you. Two weeks later Assad called his bluff and bombed another neighborhood. We were all confident that now Assad would finally be stopped. I mean, the American President had warned him. Amazingly, Obama backed down. We were stupified. The greatest military power the world has ever known just let a two-bit dictator tell it to get lost. Boys and girls, 500, 000 innocent civilians would go on to die horrible deaths because of Obama's reluctance to use US power to stop a genocide. Russia went on to get a foothold in the middle east. Russia bombed Aleppo into submission with its seige warfare it used in Grosny. Obama made America look like a third-rate, spent power and President Putin knew he had him in his pocket. We all loved Obama and still respect him, but he was a reluctant man and a hestitant president who had no idea what to do or how to act on the international stage. Where was Joe Biden in those decisive times? Why wouldn't Biden have told Obama a no-fly zone was child's play to enforce in Syria? Ukraine is now bending like a willow tree in the wind against another Russian assault on a sovereign country. America must lead this time. Mariupol must not fall. General (ret.) Petraeus said Mariupol is the Ukraine's Alamo. We must not let Mariupol fall under Russian control or the free world will fall.
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Thank you Arlo Perez Esquivel and Ms Greeshma Gadikota and Caitlin. This is the news I've been waiting for. I believe the only way we can win the climate problem is to take CO2 out of the atmosphere. But I would like to add something: Turn the CO2 in stone pipes. Why stone pipes? This is what they could be used for in countries like America where drought-stricken regions are suffering tremendously from lack of rain and water-soaked regions have too much water. I am an inventor and artist and here is an idea I have for possibly resolving the drought conditions in California and the American west. It is an idea about getting water to drought-stricken regions, if you find it plausable, could you pass it on? Here is my idea. What about having water pipes made from CO2 taken out of the atmosphere installed under the major highways and/or train tracks from the water-rich regions to the drought-strickend regions in the western states and other parts of your country? It would make roads and train tracks get two things done at the expense of one thing; roads and train tracks would have a duel purpose and save money tearing up more land to make room for yet another ugly eye sore of endless piping that would stretch from coast to coast. These would be the new equivelant of acquaducts that could be concealed under roads and rail lines that could have hydraulical pumps that kicked in when extreme weather brings flooding to a certain region for example, or simply pumping water from, say, the Great Lakes. Concealed pumps could be set up all along the underground acquaduct system at specific intervals to be able to keep the water moving on uneven terrain, over hills and overpasses etc. There are already train tunnels and car tunnels so they wouldn't have to build more tunnels, in fact, the infrastructure in your country is going to get a make-over soon it seems, so they could add the water pipes under the already existing highways and rail lines and bridges they are going to be renovating. They could outfit the new bridges they're going to be building with the water piping encased and concealed under the tracks and road. The underground acquaducts could be activated at a moment's notice and it would be a win/win situation because money would be saved from regions that had extreme flooding avoided and drought-stricken regions would be saved by getting the water to parched farmlands and dangerously low reservoirs that is badly needed. Environmentalists might be convinced it won't harm the natural world and if they get on board, it could help at least in a small way to get needed water to regions that are experiencing drought conditions. Of course, making stone pipes from CO2 might require additional alloys to make the pipes less brittle. The idea is to use the CO2 gas which is causing the extreme climate conditions to make the piping and combine it with modern materials to make if flexible. The underground acquaducts would move water across safely and discreetly across great distances unseen to the naked eye and running 24/7 underneath the roads and train tracks that would now have a duel purpose.
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Thank you for the excellent advice John, that is of not looking at your phone in public. I always try someone’s advice and since I have taken your sound advice, also have one very positive thing I think every guy will appreciate. When you’re looking at your phone, you’re missing all the pretty girls out there. And, of course, you’re also able to realize there are a lot of eyes on you that you would never have realized before. We have to understand boys and girls, that when we are in the public eye, we cannot assume everyone is a good person. People prey on other people, and if we take John’s advice, it just may save us from getting beaten up, robbed or worse. There is no such thing as a safe city or a safe place or a safe country. Be safe everyone -
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You are one of the most sincere and well-informed television journalists the world has ever seen. When you speak, Fareed, people know you are going to deliver the best analyses of whatever subject you are talking about. I am an artist and so please bear with me for the peace plan I am about to say will probably show the holes in my argument, but here goes: Hamas has committed war crimes that will endure in not only Israeli psyche forever, but in people of conscience everywhere. In brief, the scars will be deep and the road to peace will never happen as along as the Gaza strip is not evacuated and razed to the ground and in the 145 square kilometers of its boundaries a nature reserve is constructed to house all of the endangered species of plant, animal, fish etc., in the world. Yes; we must make the Gaza strip a Galapagos of the middle east that will serve as a peace-bridge between the two peoples and as a World Heritage Site for the entire world. There will never be a life for Palestinians in this strip of land that has seen so many wars and untold suffering by tens of hundreds of mostly innocent people by atrocities carried out on both sides of the conflict. We must relocate 2.6 million people for the Palestinians to have one patch of land unto which to build their nation from scratch. Cruel to be kind comes to mind, but if you let the idea of a Galapagos of the middle east circulate in your mind you will find your thoughts turn pleasant again and the opposite is true if the Palestinians go back to live in a place that has caused the entire population to descend into a moral whirlpool of hatred and everything appalling to the human community. Fareed, I know this sounds far-fetched, but it is doable and yes, it means relocating more people than has ever been done before, but we know China could help out as it has entire cities and apartments of millions of people sitting there empty and also a vast shortage of workers of every class. It could be a win/win situation for everyone involved. Mostly though, turning Gaza into a nature reserve that saves endangered species would see two great peoples work together to help save our planet from losing countless species of plant, animal and aquatic life and insect populations. The Palestinians deserve one homeland where they can build a new future for themselves and the Israelis deserve to have their homeland and live free and able to travel to neighboring countries without fear of getting attacked. We can make the Gaza Nature Reserve a gift to future generations that will leave them proud of us for saving the world's fragile ecosystems from collapse.
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Dear Mr Buttigieg, Thank you for your transparency and your willingness to talk about your life. Please forgive me if I offend anyone with my comments. My question to you sir is in complete respect of your personal choices and the choices of every man and woman in America and around the world. My concern is about your statement that you are married to your partner. It is not my business that you have a relationship with him. But we must think of our children. I don’t anybody is taking into consideration the effect of a man saying he is married to another man or a woman saying she is married to another woman on the fragile young minds of boys and girls of, say, 6, 7 and 8 years old. What do I mean by that? It is simply too complex to have children of a young age hear that a man is married to another man. We need new terms. I am an inventor. If I invented the word marry and married for a union of a man and a woman, I would not want it used differently. Here is my proposition Mr Buttigieg, please consider it as a proto-type of how we could name the unions between same-sex couples. Prototype terminology for the Lesbian and Gay community. Lesbian. Lesbiate = a lesbian who wants to marry another lesbian, Lesbiated = a married lesbian woman, Lesbiation = a marriage between two women, Lefem = wife in feminine sense of lesbian (Perhaps some lesbian relationships would prefer to have a sense of <wife> for the opposite partner). Lehom = husband in feminine sense of lesbian (Perhaps some lesbian relationships would prefer to have a sense of <husband> for the opposite partner) Gay, Gayriate = a gay man who wants to marry another gay man, Gayriated = a gay man who is joined in civil union with another gay man. Gayriation = a marriage between two gay men. Gafem = the wife sense of a gay man’s partner (Perhaps some gay relationships would prefer to have a sense of <wife> for the opposite partner), Gahom = the husband sense of a gay man’s partner (Perhaps some gay relationships would prefer to have a sense of <husband> for the opposite partner). Please Mr Buttigieg, I have invented these proto-type names as a way to begin and I offer them freely to your community. The whole idea is to save our young children from not having to hear the same words being used to say that a man and woman are married is equal to a man and a man in the same relationship. The mind of a child is precious. We are asking them to think in terms of technicolor when all they can interpret is black and white. We risk doing damage to them. The English language is rich, I hope the gay and lesbian community will appreciate my concern for our children and adopt a new way of cementing your relationships.
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Thank you very much for this enlightening videocast. What I take from the Atlantis myth is that something surely happened all those millenia ago, but what I believe about the ancient advanced civlization theory is that I trully believe an advanced ancient civilization walked the Earth. And they have left their mark to show they were here. But they weren't all wiped out by a natural catastrophe like many believe. I think that after they had seeded the Earth, and after the artificial moon we think is natural was put into place, and the Earth was calibrated to turn exactly 24 hours in a day, after making sure that mankind's DNA was up-to-speed, the ancient civlization left. What they left behind were skeletons of long-headed beings that resembled us but whose cranial capacities were far greater than human beings. I know this must sound off-the-charts. But I cannot believe our tidal-moon that turns roughly 12 times a year just happened to be 220,000 times smaller than the sun---and a perfect sphere---and just happened to be 220,000 times closer to the sun than the Earth and just happened to rotate on its axis 24 hours a day. Think of that just for one minute. What odds would it be for a planet to turn exactly 24 hours a day? It sure works out nice for clocks, hours, minutes, seconds doesn't it Does anyone realize if the world rotated at 11 hours 23 minutes what that would have done to our conception of time? Add on to that our planet being tilted at 23.5° which just by chance gives us exactly 4 seasons. Excuse me, I am an artist and an inventor and I have a wild imagination. But I cannot buy into all these even numbers happening that has made it so practical and easy for our civlization to exist. But I believe in science and if and when it's proved otherwise scientifically that all of these things happened like that, I'll be the first on board. But to me The Great Pyramid of Giza with its 8 sides which show the spring and autumn equinox is the big give-a-way. This is the calendar which is only seen from above and which is how I believe the ancients regulated the precise timing of the Earth. Yes that's right; I believe The Great Pyramid is the pendulum or precision instrument which allows the Earth to be regulated to have its 24 hour day. It's a theory.
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@WorldofAntiquity Thank you Mr Miano, for the specifics. It's good to hear these facts. What I never do is to refute facts. But I am struck by the fact of our 24 hour day and how that lead to having such a 'lucky' way of making time so uniform. The perfect eclipse doesn't add up in my head, but it could very well be a chance happening. It's just got Los Vegas odds that are perplexing. We have the only known tidal-moon so far detected in the universe which also raises suspicion. I can't help but think The Great Pyramid of Giza has something to do with all of this. Look at these facts from the great pyramid.1. It is 3/60th of a single degree of true north
2. It weighs 6 million tons
3. Its footprint is 13 acres
4. It’s more than 755.9 feet along each side
5. It’s 480.6 feet high
6. It has more than 2.3 million individual blocks of stone
7. It is locked into the Cardinal dimensions of our planet
9. The dimensions of our planet are incorporated into its dimensions
10. If you take the height and multiply it by 43,200 you get the polar radius of the Earth
11. If you measure the base perimeter of the pyramid accurately and multiply that measurement by 43,200 you get the equatorial circumference of the Earth
12. The scale is not random, the number 43,200 is derived from a key motion of the Earth, which is called the precession of the Earth’s axis
13. The Earth wobbles on its axis very slowly at the rate of 1 degree every 72 years; 43,200 is a multiple of 72; 600 X 72
15. So; they’ve given us the dimensions of the planet in The Great Pyramid of Giza on a scale defined by the planet itself
16. There are 70-ton blocks of stone raised 300 feet above the ground
17. It has eight sides, and at the spring equinox and the autumn equinox one side of the pyramid is in the shade in the morning and again in the late afternoon
18. It’s a calendar
19. It has expansion joints
20. It is located at the exact intersection of the longest line of latitude and the longest line of longitude of the Earth, in other words The Great Pyramid is located at the precise center of the Earth’s land mass.
21. The builders possessed highly sophisticated knowledge of mathematics and geometry
22. The builders had knowledge of the true dimensions of the Earth to extreme precision
23. The builders possessed exceptionally advanced technical instrumentation to site The Great Pyramid
24. Pi = C over D Phi = Divided by 5 + 1 over 2. Archimedes discovered Pi about 250 BC, but Egyptians knew of it 2,250 years earlier
25. The Great Pyramid is 146.75 m high, its height X a million equals the distance from the Earth to the sun
26. If you subtract the inner circle from the outer circle of the circumference of The Great Pyramid you get the speed of light in meters
27. The weight of The Great Pyramid is 5,273, 000 tons and that multiplied by a billion is the weight of the Earth
28. If you divide the perimeter of The Great Pyramid by ½ its height, the result is 3.14 = Pi
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Dear Mr Hannity, and Fox News Contributors, Thank you Mr Hannity for your videocasts and your views on the issues. Politics aside, the main thing that is important to do is get someone in The White House to replace President Trump. As an overseas viewer, one can understand your support for a standing president in your party. But President Trump is doing a disservice to the American people, and I think all of you are aware of the image this guy is giving to your great country. His behavior shows a person who has not grown in office. The American presidency brings out the best in its présidents, but he has stayed a real estate broker. He is only in it for himself. He must be a good father, but for someone who has had innumerable women accuse him of wrongdoing is over the top in anybody’s book of what is a good government official. The only thing Mueller is going to do is bring to life his document. Simply for him to say what the document says will sink in to the scores of people who do not imbibe text or written documents of any kind. He will be a movie version of the facts. What is sad is that you have a sitting president who has legal jeopardy so ensconced in his presidency, that if an ordinary American citizen was in the same place, he or she would be incarcerated. Lastly, for Mr Hannity. Why don’t you and Mr Carlson form a news corporation together? Leave Fox news for the Chris Wallace’s level of reporting. You and Mr Carlson would make a killing because you have touched a nerve in the populace for sensationalism at its highest level.
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Watching this report from CNN's legendary Wolf Blitzer from across the world, one is struck with a feeling of disbelief. There is only one thought-picture in my mind: I see Donald J. Trump's daughter, Ivanka, crying and the rest of his family dumb-struck by these staggering allegations of wrong-doing that if proven in a court of law, could send former President Donald J. Trump to federal prison. Democracy has been saved once again by the rule of law and the courageous, undaunting work of an American federal prosecutor who will go down as a footnote in American history on every page the former president is mentioned. In this videocast, federal prosecutor Jack Smith is the person who has sealed the disgraced former president's fate probably forever. No one is happy to hear this and probably most of all his detractors, because it was totally unnecessary. Lingering questions will remain as to why Ivanka, Trump's most trusted adviser, was not listened to by the charismatic law-breaker; we will never know. The stark truth of the matter is that an American president means literally life and death to people in need in America and around the world. An American president is the most powerful political leader in the world, capable of doing great things across the board or causing havoc and mayhem on an international scale. To see someone who reached the epitome of the American Dream fall so far from grace certainly shoots an arrow of pain and sorrow in the heart of every American and makes every citizen of the free world realize that democracy is in constant danger of being destroyed at the whim of an errant elected official. Trump got caught with his hand in the cookie jar one time too many, which is why the rule of law must apply to everyone no matter who we are or how rich we are or we are all doomed to live under autocratic rule by twisted despots only in it for their own personal gain.
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You are a gifted News Presenter Ellen, but one thing you cannot imagine is what it is to be a 17-, 18- or 19-year-old young man. Russia has got their own brand of urban legend. They've got a John Wayne sitting right in the Kremlin and when you haven't hit twenty-years old, a young man sees death as a joke and Putin as cool. Money is what runs the world and a young guy over there in Russia or bordering Kazakhstan could probably put a down-payment on a house and that would put him in the big league. He would also be known as a hero and someone fighting for the homeland. We mustn’t forget that in Russia, if Putin says white is black, white is black if you want to live and talk about it. What am I saying? Just look back in your country to the Vietnam war. The average age was 19 years old and just to compare it was 26 in WW II. Young guys were gung-ho to go and kill some gooks, and your government drafted the working-class heroes by the thousands. 55,000 young men fought in a war that turned out to be a farce and General Westmoreland was as incompetent as anything on the Russian side of the Ukraine war. Westmoreland would order a hill taken, lose dozens of men, and then abandon it only to take it again with heavy losses. When it's the Russians or another country throwing their young men to their early graves, it's easy to make light of it, but America sent young men to what the government knew was a meatgrinder war that could never be won. It's easy to criticize; I haven't been in the military, but I believe the Ukraine war will be over in 180 days more or less when the Ukrainians take back Crimea. Then and only then will President Putin be forced to throw in the towel... It's an opinion.
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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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Dear Sky News Team and Dr Giesecke, Thank you Sky News Team for some very good questions and thank you Professor Giesecke for your perspective on the lockdown and your view on the epidemic. Your analysis is interesting and if putting the world under lockdown was a Wise thing to do is a question we are surely going to asking ourselves as time goes on. It make us all wonder which is the best way to get through this thing. I am in Europe living south of Sweden in a city in total lockdown. The shops are going to open on 11 May. What I have taken home about this virus is that when the Coronovirus lands in our eyes, nose or mouth or when we inhale it, the spike proteins of the virus bind to the ACE 2 Receptors of the cells. That’s how it gains entry. Once it gains entry, not only does it make millions of copies of itself but it also affects the cells ability to call for help. The cells have to become very infected before the immune system knows something is wrong or what's going on. Once it is deeply imbedded in our body it begins to cause more severe disease. Organs that have ACE 2 Receptors are the heart, kidneys, blood vessels, liver and brain. Viral particles can be found in nasal passages, throat, tears, the stool, kidneys, liver, pancreas, heart and CSF (Cerebral spinal fluid). The virus can also cause meningitis. Our immune system reaction causes inflammation and blood clots in the arteriols of the lungs. In brief: 1. It directly attacks organs by their ACE 2 Receptors. 2. It indirectly attacking organs by way of collateral damage from the Cytokin storm. 3. It indirectly causes damage to organs by means of blood clots. 4. It indirectly causes damage as a result of low oxygen levels, improper ventilator settings, drug treatments themselves, and/or all of these things combined. Boys and girls, this is a very intelligent virus and nothing compares to it being so deadly or destructive to humans. I believe it may be right, like Professor Giesecke says, to go on living like nothing is going to stop it and take the risk of getting infected, but from the testimony of people in my town who got it, I personally feel a lot better not taking chances on getting in its way and going through the lockdown and loss of income and maybe have to endure a recession. The jury is out, at least for a long period of time on knowing the best way through the epidemic. People describe getting infected like having broken glass in your lungs, so whatever they say about vaccines, when they get one I won't hesitate to get a shot. Be well.
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You're leading your country from your gut i.e., instinct and it's the only way to get through the war and win it. You have succeeded already in getting the Ukraine into the universal consciousness of the entire world. Russia's battlefield strategy of seige warfare and artillery batteries blasting everything and everyone in sight unfortunately works, which is why I think when you go on the offensive, you can do exactly the same thing back to them. President Zalensky, I know nothing about war, but I would come back on them with howitzers slowly inching on your way to send the Russian invaders packing. The big guns would slowly force them to retreat, exactly like they're doing in the Dombas. In any event, since practically every building standing in the Dombas has already been damaged, it won't weigh on your conscience to be bombing Ukrainian cities if it gets the job done. Of course, your brilliant military leaders have their own plans to get Russia back to its border and it's going to work. What is different about your war with the Ukraine is that nothing like this has ever been fought before, so all and every idea should be tried if judged doable. I would also live this war in 24 hour increments. Why? Because I would know that somewhere in the next 24 hours, I'll be able to get some rest and regroup and let my mind settle. Why look down the road and worry about how long the war is going to last? If you live the war by what you are experiencing today, it's easier to stay positive and work with what is on hand and not be worrying about things like EU membership or when the big guns will get to you. The guns and military hardware is making its way to you. The EU and EU leaders and the UK and Prime Minister Johnson have your back; you've got a lot of people trying to get everything you need to fight on. You and your fellow citizens of Ukraine are inspiring the whole world. Keep up the good work!
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Not to be on anybody's side, but the USA and her allies gave Afghanistan all they could to help it get on its feet. Imagine: 300,000 troops were trained, as well as loads of top quality equipment, training, weapons, logistics, batteground savoir faire shared and more. And in very short week a bunch of rag-tag, holy-rollers toting long guns called the Taliban beat back the best of Afghanistan's front line soldiers. How can this be? General George S. Patton once famously said, "Americans love the sting of battle." But I'm afraid the Afghanistan soldier has lost the will to fight for his country. Some say it's because they don't get paid on time. But when you hear the Taliban say that they want all girls 15 and over handed over to them for their soldiers to marry, if that isn't incentive to get up and fight for your country and your kids, then they deserve to lose. Can anyone one of us imagine foreign terrorists coming out of the hills and invading our towns and cities and saying they are going to take over our government, take our girls of 15 and over. And when they are in charge, stop schooling, medical assistance for girls and women, make them wear burkas outside. Worse still, instill charia law. Would anyone you know for one minute not volunteer to fight? How can the Afghans be so docile? They have had 20 years of protection and training from some of the top military commanders of the day, and this is what they've learned? There ain't no Davy Crockett's in Afghanistan, or General Pattons, or General Rommels or Russian civlians who fought against the Germans defending Stalingrad. Sometimes you have to fight no matter what is coming at you if it means saving your country and your wife and children from being assaulted by religious fanatics bent on the destruction of the west.
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You do a great job Mark. Here is what Mike Maloney points out: Bank Failures
1. March 8, 2023 Silvergate Capital Corp --- closed
2. 2 days
3. March 10, 2023 Silicon Valley Bank ---seized by FDIC
4. 2 days
5. Signature Bank seized by regulators
6. 3 days
7. March 13, 2023 FDIC creates ‘bridge bank’ President declares deposits safe
8. 7 days
9. Credit Suisse sold to UBS with government guarantees
10. 2 months
11. May 1, 2023 First Republic Bank taken over by JP MORGAN
2008 Crisis
1. April 2007: New Century Financial bankrupt
5 months
2. September 2007: Bank runs at England’s Northern Rock Bank
3. 6 months
4. March 2008: Bear Stern collapses
5. 4 months
6. July, 2008: Indy Mac / Countrywide Financial, collapse
7. 2 months
8. September 7, 2008: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac nationalized
9. 1 day
10. September 15, 2008: AIG bail out
11. 11 days
12. September 16, 2008: Washington Mutual (WaMu) collapses
13. 1 month
14. October, 2008: Fed’s T.A.R.P. commits $700 billion in taxpayer funds
15. 1 month
16. November 2008: Citigroup bail out
17. 1 month
18. December 2008: General Motors / Chrysler bail out $80.7 billion
19. 1 month
20. January 2009: Bank of America bail out, $20 billion
21. 1 month February 2009: President Obama approves $787 billion stimulus
22. 4 months
23. June 2009: GM files for bankruptcy, closes 14 factories
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Dear Mr Bet-David, Thank you for this videocast that has come from your heart and soul. From this moment on you have opened the Pandora’s Box of the human mind and shown us for what we are: lost sheep on a mountain looking for the path to go back down in the valley. Except no matter how far we climb down, we’ll never find the valley of our dreams. Why? Because the valley of our dreams is further up the mountain, not in the comfort zone of descending to the floor of the valley. I have been through two marriages and several relationships and I have had to take the high road when my wife or girlfriend each time preferred to play it safe. So; things didn’t work out. I can’t blame anyone for not climbing on the path of my dream. But seeing your videocast, I now realize that I didn’t lay it out enough for them to see. But I’m proud of myself for one thing: to have tried to live my dream, and the funny thing is I still haven’t found the way to the top of the mountain but I’m happy inside in spite of nothing yet turning out for me. But as a former manager of mine once said to me, and I’ll never forget. He called one time when I was in the middle of my second divorce. He said, “How are you doing.” I exploded. “How am I doing”, I said. “You know I’m going through a divorce, what do you mean, how am I doing. I’m ruined. I’m broke. I’ve got to find a new place to live.” He said one thing that has stuck with me till today. Kurt said, “You’ve got to enjoy the whole trip,” I exploded. “How can you say that when you know what I’m going through?” I was mad for 3 days until I realized he was right, no matter if you make your dream or not, you’ve got to enjoy the whole trip. Thanks Kurt. Thanks Patrick. Be well
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Dear Mr Bet-David, Thank you for a very professional interview. The very first thing that came to mind in listening to Mr Philipp is that he has never been to China and that he is banned for life from China. It is sad because he will never be able to visit the country he is a specialist of. He will never know what the person in the street has to say. He will never get a feeling of how it is to live there. For example, my best friend has been to Iran at least 7 times… and he can't wait to go back. He has nothing but good things to say about Iran and its people. My accountant is Iranian with family in Iran and he can't go back for political reasons and he has not much good to say about the regime other than what his family who lives there tells him. They say that the Coronovirus death toll is at least 15 times greater than what the authorities say. What's my point? My point is that Mr Philipp is saying a lot of information about a country he has never been to… and can never visit. He obviously has good sources, but it's like trying to be a specialist on Renaissance art but only seeing black and white photocopies of the paintings, sculptures and drawings. To think the Xi Jinping Dynasty is going to tumble next year is like saying that the US dollar will not continue to be the World Reserve Currency in a year's time. Although both could happen, it is highly unlikely. What I would like to say is that I think everyone has gone overboard on China bashing. The Chinese people are a very, very proud people who have no problem having an Emperor like Xi Jinping in power for life. To be politicising any country for starting an epidemic is financial suicide. Why? Because berating the Chinese regime puts headlines in their news media that the West is belittleing Chinese people. The regime will fight to the death to deny any wrongdoing from what they see as threats to their existence. Patrick, I don't know diplomacy. I am an artist and I only look for solutions in anything that comes across my canvas. What I heard in Mr Philipp's interview may or may not be true, but I felt it was very one-sided, too slanted on portraying a great ancient nation in pitiful terms. It's the same with the terrible way the West talks about a nation like Iran with a 6,800 year history. The Iranian people are proud of their heritage; they know they've got a rogue regime that has got its sights set on doing a lot of dicey things in the region, but they will fight for its existence because that is the way of ancient civilizations. The Chinese people are not a problem, but wonderful trading partners and we must all stop focusing on where the Coronovirus came from and find a way to live with it so we can get back to doing business. Yesterday, we heard the virus is now in every country in Africa. This means for our lifetime the Coronovirus will be coming back at us again and again in mutated and lethal form. Instead of sewing the seeds of mistrust and casting blame on others and incessently slamming China as the root of all evil, we must unite as a world of communities to safeguard the future for our children. Later, when we have won the battle against Covid-19, investigating the origins of a terrible disease will be able to be done in greater transparency. My philosophy is what will be important six months from now? First and foremost, let's get the kids safe
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Paul, the American people need a reprieve from the Front Lines and the raging fire-fights in the battle-torn cities of the Ukraine---not nearly as much as the Ukrainians do----I might add. I think your Lt. General (ret.) Ben Hodges can serve them up a solution to ending this conflict in 180 days more or less. General Hodges thinks the Ukrainians can take Crimea in August. I will go one step further----and I have no military experience----but I believe when the Ukrainians take back Crimea, President Putin will throw in the towel. In 180 days, the Russians will have lost 180 X 500 or more soldiers dying per day. The Russian people will follow Putin to hell and back, but if they see Putin's jewel back in Ukrainian hands and every village, town and city's graveyard filled to the brim with Russian soldiers, that is when the rubber hits the road and the whole war turns off; allowing for the Donbas to get cleaned up afterwards, of course. If the American people are shown the goal of the Ukraine needing to take back Crimea and that when they do the war will cease to exist in six months, it will increase support because everyone needs to see an end to this war that is bleeding the west and Europe and wearing us down. Full American, UK, allied and NATO support is what the Ukrainians need to win. Could you weigh-in on this Commander Paul?
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Dear Mr Coussins, I'm coming in a 4:29. You cannot call someone out like they're the only one watching you in your videocast. I'm only saying this because you have a great show, but you have to leave your emotions at the studio door when you do a videocast. I am watching this from the other side of the world and it looks ridiculous when you are calling out someone we have not heard of, and even if we did, the moment one hears someone debasing another person for whatever reason, a red flag goes up. What we all have to realize is that the Covid-19 virus is unique in that it attacks human cells much more readily than animal cells. If the scientist who reported this is correct, it will be the first time this has happened. Normally, a virus from an animal will also readily attack another animal's cells. Not Covid-19. Let people fill in the blanks. Next to our country, Italy is undergoing a second wave of the virus. It's just madness. Secretary Menuchin is right to say America can't shut down a second time. Mr Coussins, this is a depression and I know people shouldn't go to work, but after 3 months, France, a country next door to us, opened its borders today. There is still virus infections, but I don't think France can shut down any more without the whole country going over the deep end. Health has to come first, but don't we have to fight this like they did in WW I when the Germans started using gas masks? The soldiers had to wear gas masks because they had to keep fighting to win. We have to keep working but doing it intelligently. The second wave has started.
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Ian, I sent this to a SKY NEWS report. What you have done is to finally make us all aware of the fact that sanctions are political tools and can be skated around by anybody with half a brain. Now that we know this, we can at least realize that it's still good for the UK for example, to have Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announce more sanctions, or President Biden in the USA, because it is really the writing on the wall that everyone can see and know that the sanctions are there because of a lawless world leader acting badly on the international stage. Secondly, we have to realize that way back when the American President Teddy Roosevelt said---correct me if I am wrong---"Speak softly, but carry a big stick." Boys and girls, the rogue leaders boldly able to throw their countries into conflicts at will only underscores the need for humanity to wake up in the west. Because the only thing foreign leaders who invade sovereign nations will ever respect is power and force and weaponry that will outmatch their own supplies and straight-talking leaders or geo-political commentators like Ian Bremmer, who don't mince their words. A superpower like what I believe Great Britain has re-emerged on the international stage as after the latest invasion of Ukraine from Russia will only, I repeat, will only be respected by the authoritarian leaders by being on the cutting edge of everything from bathroom sinks to hypersonic missiles to space forces bigger than theirs. It's sad to say it, I am an artist and not a military strategist, but the human community of the western powers, as much as we love it and believe in it is in grave danger of being taken over by foreign adversaries who have no respect for our way of life. We have to use diplomatic tools to show our resolve, but we have to be able to back it up with force, too.
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There is no finger pointing or judgement of others in my comment. I am an artist, singer/songwriter, inventor and for the last 133 days an author with Austin Macauley Plublishers Ltd. and I have never made a living IN any of these areas---maybe my book will change that? What we have to realize is that 69 million dollars was paid for someone who UP intil then sold his jpeg files far a hundred bucks a pop. That's right; 100 US dollars. This is great for 'Beeple', but very sad for the art world and the valutainment of things in general. Do you realize what is going through the head of Beeple? He was making collages on cyberspace, not even paintings; I am guessing, but I don't believe this 'digital' artist can even draw and now his work is worth tens of millions. What has happened is that we now have another Jeff Koons stlye artist-millionaire, who both stretch the meaning of the word artist. Koons had a meeting with Dali and came back with the notion that big money for art comes from big hype. He quickly had himself filmed making love with Cucacina, his porno-star Italian wife and the price of his 'art' went through the roof. What is going to happen to all the people who Beeple sold his other jpeg files for a hundred bucks going to do now? This is an example, to me, of how well-meaning people who live in the 1% world of richest people, have ruined the career of a budding digital artist and made the price of art ridiculous and absurdly overpriced. NO one is at fault; capitalism has simply lost its way for good.
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Dear Mr Hoffman, Thank you very much to have taken the time to respond. I think you have a good idea of why the suburbs were built. Like many ideas or inventions or innovations, we only see the effects much later. Smart phones have been here a relatively short period of time, but I think they have become the opium of the people. They have high-jacked the global population. I think the mistake of the suburbs was to use so much of the land for relatively few people. The homes were beautiful, but I think that people became cut-off from interacting with each other. Television came to the rescue of course, and people watched people working on TV. What I think is the worst thing is that the suburbs automized people to where the only walk they had was from the garage to the easy-chair. Booze tranquilized everyone and then gated communities sanitized the way of living to where we are today. I believe we have to dismantle the suburbs, free the land up for nature to take back control, and have people go back to living in close proximity to each other in buildings where there are loads of people crossing paths each day on busy streets full of shops. I believe one should be able to walk to do one’s shopping for every possible need. The suburbs are kind of a physical TV. They keep people apart, make people less intelligent by dumbing us down, everyone tries to out-bling the neighbors, the sameness and same financial level kill all kinds of spiritual things in humans along with dulling minds and generating fewer ideas. I think we have to leave living in the open spaces to farmers. It’s only an opinion, but I believe suburbs rob people of the ability to overcome a lot of psychological problems that only living close to other people can do. Exceptions of course are the people who have prospered living on leafy winding streets and inventing the PC etc. Peace -
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Thank you Paul for making it clear that what the Russians have done is go in with enough soldiers and equipment, but only with a skeleton crew of back up, medics, fuel trucks, ammo re-supply, coordination between navy, army, airforce, food and water and what has been woefully lacking---mortuary units for the Russian soldiers. Now I understand why when I give ten euros to a charity in Africa, only 1 euro---if that---reaches the person in need. Administrative costs gobble up the rest. Thanks to your analysis and the WW II example, where one soldier on the battlefield needed a dozen or so people making sure he could fight and have enough food and ammo, we can understand why the folly of Russia's invasion was to not have a plan 'B'. Hitler invaded Russia thinking it would be a clean-up operation by summer's end so he nixed having winter clothes made for his soldiers. We know what happened there. I have also read that it costs 1 million USD per year to keep an American soldier supplied overseas. Now we can understand why, a dozen other people need to be working behind the scene to make sure the soldier can live and work and fight.
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Dear HR News Presenter, Thank you for this interesting videocast. I think President Trump's mental health issue will become apparent to the American people who voted for him as time goes by. You have to remember that no one in his family will ever say anything against him because they will be immediately cut-off from their inheritance. It looks like everyone is just trying to humor him until he's safely out of office and your country is out of harm's way. As an overseas viewer and listener, I think President Trump's greatest contribution is to show us all how fragile democracies are. In a way we are all collectively responsible for a mentally-unstable, unfit person reaching the highest office in the land. Because we have all let our guard down, thanks to our portable devices we all live in la-la-land and AI has insured that we are dumbed-down to the point of not being able to see right from wrong. Trump has over twenty women claiming sexually inappropriate actions against them; he let Russia and Putin off-the-hook 37 times. It's so obvious Putin has got the goods on him; the Helsinki meeting for two hours with Putin and later all the translator's notes burned showed the smoking gun. But the point is that an obviously unfit person was allowed to be in control of the most powerful nation on Earth is what we all have to realize that we are all locked-away in our comfort zones. Imagine this: a mentally unstable person like President Trump was given the nuclear codes and we can see that he has a blind side to him about human suffering or death. He speaks in alternative facts to us, but reality to him. Empathy is not in his mental make-up. It's not his fault for how he acts; you can't make someone be a great statesman or humanist. But the wonderful thing he has done is to show the weak underbelly of the American governing system. By being a bull-in-a-china-shop political walking-disaster of a president, you can now start repairing the glaring inconsistencies in the American political system. The Electoral College must be dismantled. President-elect Biden won more than 7 million more votes, but for under 50,000 votes in Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania, Trump could have won the election. It's absurd and so blatantly wrong! Thanks to President Trump, the Electoral College has finally shown itself to be a threat to your country. Why not do one videocast a month to show to your viewers and listeners the faults in the Electoral College? Again, Trump's antics have allowed you in America to be able to mend your political system.
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This is where you shine, Peter, in talking about things you know nothing about. Of course, I am kidding. Just back from fitness and obviously went over my weight limit on those squats... Joking aside, Peter? Is he still there? He's where? Well, when he comes out of there could you ask him... Funny, I am not a comedian, but here is where the serious part of my comment comes in... Yuval Harari says that our money system is a story that we all believe is true and that it is the biggest story in the world. If we all believe the American dollar is the world's reserve currency and that it is worth a certain amount of goods or equal to a fixed amount of euros or yuan etc., then it will stay in circulation. Gold is where the gold bugs go and you can't blame someone investing in the yellow metal that has been considered money for 5 thousand years or more. So; what am I saying here? That's a good question, because I have sort of forgot---kidding again. Seriously, I have invented an economic system that gets more laughs than nods of approval to be quite honest, but I have tried to come up with an economic model that with a lot of tweaking could be something that fits the 2020s. It is called teknomix. My book, which is selling like ten thousand-pound bags of cement, is called The Treatise of Teknomix. Peter, it would be great to hear your thoughts on the matter, but I believe it's time to say goodbye capitalism, to gold, to fiat currencies and re-think what our current economic system is doing to global society. For my money---pun intended---they all translate out to be feudalism on steroids. My system is a seed that perhaps has the ability to grow into an economic model that puts everyone on the same page.
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Commander Paul, I am giving you my take on the drone being destroyed, the balloons from China in how I see it. Pleae, you have got to get through to your superiors in the military and convince them that there is something going on and now is not the time for retaliatory action. The balloon was China's way of cancelling the historic meeting between Blinken and Xi, and they knew Biden would take the bait, shoot down their pie-in-the-sky and have an excuse to do the same as well as drive a wedge between the two countries further widening the gap between common sense and revenge politics. Now we have the Russian version and the desired result is the same. If Biden takes the bait and ups the ante and takes out a Russian drone in retaliation, it will be enough for Putin to install a red button on his bed stand so-to-speak and also go for Moldova or Georgia to get NATO in on the fight as well. No jokes intended, but we have got to see the big picture and the Chinese and Russians are bifurcating on a mission to get the USA to react aggressively enough so that they can come together on the world stage and show to the world that they need to arm and support each other to the gills, because Uncle Joe just shot down a drone or plane or something like that. I could have said it a lot better, but what I truly believe is that the US must not take the bait and react in any way to these provocations. The Chinese have a saying that goes something like this: the wise man waits until the silt in the water settles on the bottom, before venturing out, swimming across the lake etc. We have to realize desperate characters are trying to get the US in a two-way fight with China and Russia, a conflict that both of them together can do some damage to your country make it more than a challenge to come out on top of. America's adversaries are looking for an excuse to engage in armed combat is how I see it, and my gut feeling tells me the one thing that will throw a wrench in their plans is to do nothing.
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Dear France 24 Host and staff. I am an inventor and artist. I have no experience in diplomacy. My message is for President Macron of France. Dear Mr President, this is a good opportunity to re-examine what role religion should have in your country. My suggesstion for how to counter against a particular religion being stronger than the Republic is this. Why not have French-style Islam? What do I mean by that? The best way to make sure Muslims or anyone's religion from being stronger than the Republic is to have the particular religion tailor-made for France. This would mean that French officials would look at a particular religion's Holy Book and only allow teachings, beliefs and scriptures that align with French law. If, for example, a particular religion stated that same-sex civil unions was unacceptable, then that phrase would have to be removed for the religion to be practised in France. This way, if any issue like the cartoons came up again, France could rightfully say that the French-style Islam was not respected. Am I making myself clear? What is needed is to insure from the get-go, that no religion has in its Holy Books anything that would go against the Republic and secularism. It's time to force the hand of the extremists by making their written beliefs line up with French values. This way, President Erdogan could not criticise France for going against French-style Islam. Turkey can do their Islam, Jordan can do their Islam, and France will do its brand of Islam. This must be done for professor Paty's sacrifice. And this way no other teacher or French person will suffer the same consequences. Lastly, if someone does not agree to abide by French-style Islam, then they can surely go to a country that practises their version of their religion. We have to end the absurdity of people coming into our countries and demanding we live by their rules.
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FYI: Begs the question means assumes what it should be proving and does not mean raises the question. Correct use : « When I asked the dealer why I should pay more for the German car, he said I would be getting 'German quality', but that just begs the question. » 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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Dear Mr Anderson, Dr Gupta, and Mr Gates, I am writing to you from across the world and it is with a heavy heart. In the country where I live, which is next to Italy and to France we have seen the lifting of the lockdown only to see that masks are now obligatory. Please excuse me to address such distinguished guests, but may I ask Mr Bill Gates a question right off the bat. Mr Gates, I think you know that you are one of the most admired public figures around the world. As an inventor, I stand humbled by your inventions. What I am writing about, however, is to address a problem in your country that I think needs resolving immediately. Mr Gates, I imagine you have the ability to contact the CEO's of American companies. What I am asking you to do along with them is to put into place a moritrium on people paying their rents and buying food for 6 months. Secondly, Mr Anderson, could you to do one TV emission that speaks to the organizers of the protests where Federal Troops are coming in to quell? Plead with them if necessary to postpone their protests until the pandemic is under control. Lastly, Dr Gupta, can you please look into the camera and tell your fellow citizens exactly what they need to do to slow down the spread of the virus? Forget blaming President Trump; what is needed is to get your country on the same page. Please help win this battle for mankind.
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Dear Mr Cooper and distinguished guests, Senator Santorum, and CNN contributors, Thank you Mr Cooper for your diligent and factual reporting of the Trump Presidency. From someone watching the unfolding events of the Trump Administration and American and international news on the other side of the world, we owe you all a vote of thanks for your great work across the board. Senator Santorum is trying to be as diplomatic as possible – and doing a good job of it – in trying to keep the partly line and still sound critical of wrongdoing. Republicans want this man out of office, but they have few options but to feign support until he is ousted. All of you cannot realize how this looks from outside of America, but what is most apparent is that something must be done to make it easier for Congress to be able to remove a sitting president who is not up to the job. As a CEO in any corporation, Mr Trump would have been given his walking papers after 5 months on the job. That said, what Mr Cohen has done is to point to the only bit of evidence that can (sink the Bismark) i.e. take Trump down; the payment to Ms Daniels is the torpedo that can do the job. As a lawyer he knows evidence is the only thing a judge and jury need to have a conviction. It is inconceivable and improbable he does not have the goods on President Trump for the Russian collusion, after all he was a fly on the wall for a decade in the Trump orbit, but he has wisely maneuvered himself out of getting into unknown and -- without a doubt -- perilous territory. Keep up the good work!
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What we have to realize is that people from the human community do not judge others---and I am an artist not any sort of professional in the mental health field. People who attack anyone else because of their ethnicity, color or creed or their personal choices in being in charge of their bodies i.e., whatever sex they feel they are do not belong in the human community writ large. We live in Europe and like clockwork there are signs around town saying the antisemitism is on the rise, people are attacking Jews because of the Palestinian/Hamas/Israeli conflict in Gaza, etc., and for me and I am sure many other people, these people are not a part of what should be called the human community. We are simply not like that; we are freedom-loving people where everyone is welcome to live the life they please. What the critics of other people think only they know, but every person alive has as much a right to be here as anyone else. These people who simply cannot accept someone else being different than themselves or that they worship God in another way than they do have to realize that the human family has moved on. We are not like that; we don't condemn or judge others because it's nobody's business what someone believes in. Moreover, in the case of the Jews, because they a small minority who are very successful, they are often shunned and accused of all sorts of ridiculous things. It's insulting to think that people could be so cruel towards others and call themselves human beings. The people who harbor harmful thoughts or disdain for others have the right to think what they like, but they are not part of the human community, they are some sort of an offshoot of what we think of as human, and they do not speak for people who believe everyone has the right to live the life they want.
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Dear Mr Cuomo, Thank you for your excellent reporting and equally great team in delivering the news the way it happens to your country and the world. I have an idea on how to get kids back in school, your economy and the world economy on its feet, and us as people free from having to wear the masks that have made us look like we are on the wrong side of solving the problem of the Covid-19 pandemic. Please, if you have a moment. I already sent a message like this to your brother. Can I just give my thoughts on how to win on the Coronovirus pandemic in your country and around the world? I am an inventor. Here is my assessment of how to control the Covid-19 virus and all 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 Coronovirus actively where it lives: in the air. We can do this with air scrubbers, air processors i.e. air cleaners adjusted to bake or freeze or incapacitate the virus in its molecular form and take it immediately out of the air we breathe. We could do this in every place where people congregate; every classroom could have one working 24/7 for example. There would be a guage on the apparatus to show the level of the virus in the air. Still not convinced? Think of it as Dyson air conveyors i.e. portable devices that filter out or kill the virus with ultra-violet light or something that renders it inoffensive. The plain simple truth of the matter is that it’s infecting us by travelling through the air. Let’s go after it in its territory, instead of sitting passively by, trying to block it from infecting us, because we can see it's a losing battle. The technology has been around since submarines started scrubbing CO2 out of the air while on underwater maneuvers. This may be the way we can save people at risk and be prepared for the next wave(s) of Coronovirus. Be safe -
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Dear Ms Bash and Rep. Jeffries, Thank you Ms Bash for your consistently good interviewing style and your attempt to get quality answers from your guests. Thank you Rep. Jeffries for your constant efforts to help the citizens of your country. When one hears that more than 50 million Americans are on food relief, I think all of us have to take a step back and digest that. Pun intended. What is going on with our economies? I'm on the other side of the world and I think it's about as bad over here as it is in your country. Doesn't anyone see that capitalism has run out of steam for all of us? I shouldn't plug my book, but I'm doing this because I am hoping my book will get the best minds of economics together to hammer out a better way to run our economies. My book is called The Treatise of Teknomix, and it will be published on 10 December 2020 at Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd. I'm not an economist but I have put together an economic model called teknomix to replace capitalism. But realistically, all I am hoping for is that perhaps the economic model I have come up with will be grounds for serious discussion in changing how an economy should work, and perhaps a concept from my system will lead to something more representational so that we never have to hear again that 50 million people need food relief and jobs and health care. Excuse my plug. Lastly, I know it will be hard to resist, but everyone should now be offering suggestions to President Trump so that he can leave the presidency in dignity and the reputation of your country is a little less tarnished. I don't mean anything more than leaving your emotions at the studio door, or Congress' door, or the Senate door and just show him the way to leave office in a mild, factual manner.
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Tony Robbins, the controversial former American self-taught psychologist of change wrote a book and one of the things he said in it to do when things are the way you describe them: like the eroding American political institutions becoming corrosive, the guardrails becoming weaker, distrust across the political aisle like never before etc., is to ask very this simple but often irritable question: What is good about this problem? I remember getting divorced and reading this and practically wanting to call Robbins and ask him what's good about me getting divorced. It seemed absurd to even think that there could be something good in things coming apart in one's life or in the case of America and the country coming apart. Ian, I would say this about the way things were and the way it is and I am shooting from the hip. What is good about the tragic set of circumstances you have so well described is that, like the person the most perplexing in US history to occupy The White House, Donald J. Trump, what Trump has done is to stretch your Republic to the limits by his antics that defy common sense to be kind---and its political institutions as well. Things like guardrails for failing institutions and off-ramps are either crumbling like the nation's infra-structure or falling into disuse, but what is good about these undeniable facts is that your Republic will tremble at times but it will not fall. It will not fall because of a bombastic, admittedly charismatic quasi-charlatan who dominates the political stage in the Republican part any more than it will fall because the very political institutions that make your government tick have perhaps fallen into disrepair, but things will spring back. Because we all seem to forget one thing: democracies are flexible whereas autocratic regimes, once they start cracking, end up with a firing squad and the chump in charge getting dumped in a dumpster and game over...
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Chris, what you have to realize--and one day you will--is that the hardest thing for a younger sibling to do is to admit that his older brother, his mentor and protector and spiritual guide has mental issues to resolve. In short, the governor the whole world turned to for support, Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York, USA and who has been adored by his many fans and especially those in neighboring Italy, has some mental health issues he could easily have resolved with his consideralbe resources but chose not to. He needs a psychiatrist and you of all people have known this for a very long time. You and every man knows that when a woman says we have gone too far, we go back to square one, we do not go where she is not comfortable or it's a messy situation all around. Not apparently though, in the case of your brother Andrew. He burned through at least 11 women who all claimed he went too far, which leads me, and I'm not a mental health professional, to believe he chose to let his mental illness rule his life and it has and in turn it has ruined his legacy and put a stain on your family's legacy that even you Chris, will have to bear for the rest of your life. It's very sad; it's utterly devastating; it's unbelievably hurtful, but mental illness and especially in an older brother, is almost impossible to get our head's around.
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@jmc5335 GGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. I live in a hailstorm of criticism as an author and an artist. You have collected your data and you have formulated an opinion. I was out to lunch with an economist the other day and we were talking about the economic problems of a certain country and I said, all of you at work---he works with 6 economists in his bank---all you you must agree it's a very serious situation. He said "What do you mean?" I said" well, you and your colleagues must all be in shock at what's happening." He said "You don't understand, I work with 6 economists and we have never, ever agreed on anything. Because all of us have our own data and make our own research so everyone predicts different results." Sam Harris has certainly upset people, but you only get upset when someone says something that in the back of your mind you agree with. If a bum begging quarters in the street calls you a jerk when you don't give him some change, do you get upset? Hek no. Why? Because you know you're not a jerk; you laugh it off. However; If your boss at work says you could do a better job and you explode, it's because somewhere deep in your mind you agree with him, but cannot admit it. Happens all the time when you're married, your old lady criticizes you for getting a belly and you want to throw up on her---she, hit a nerve and you know you're too fat but will never accept it coming from her. Arthur Rimbaud says the only art is art that provokes, Sam Harris provokes and that's why I will always back him. A person has to speak his mind or we're all wasting our time. He's got the right to make mistakes just like you and me...
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Dear Fox News Hosts, Thank you for your courageous reporting of the news in your country. From someone watching from across the world, it is too easy for me to be able to put myself in your shoes so to speak and offer some advice on the problems plaguing American society at this time. But what appears to be necessary from my point of view is to realize that the rules have changed. Simply put, the incident at Mr Carlson’s home is a reminder that Pandora’s Box has been opened i.e. there will be more incidents of potential violence coming to your homes and families and it will probably remain open like this until there is a change in the mindset of the American people. This must sound like giving in, but wouldn’t it be a good idea to use this incident as a warning, and for every one of you to move into an apartment building with a doorman, for example? It would instantly change the equation, and you would never have to worry again about someone attacking your home and families while you are at work. Secondly, after the latest California shooting and watching another parent crying his or her heart out for a fallen son or daughter, isn’t it time to get an unwritten law floating in society about guns? Isn’t it time to have an unwritten law, that the moment there are more than four (4) people together – anywhere – for example, that one of those people be wearing a gun plain and simple? Excuse me if it sounds absurd, but if one of the people in a restaurant or music venue where more than a small number of people were gathered wore a gun, it might be the trick for at least being able to stop a gunman from loading a second clip. It is what I believe what is necessary to do asap, in that there are unstable, dangerous people out there who have access to firearms. And let’s be clear, it is one bad apple that makes us have to change how we live. Look at the airline security revolution! One out of four people carrying a weapon every time at least four people were in a public place would ensure that another shooting incident could be seriously hampered or even stopped. We have always had to adapt to survive and now is no different.
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Wynter, It is great to see you have things sussed out, worked out, or sorted out about guns. After the California shootings last week, where the father of one of the kids was in the place at the time and saw an opportunity to stop the shooter when he changed clips, but he changed his mind and high-tailed it because he was protecting his kid. He was crying to the reporters and excused himself for not trying to bring the madman down, because he knew he could have stopped the shooter putting in a second clip. If he a gun he wouldn't have hesitated. It made me come to think that in a land where guns are available to the masses, there is only one way to go and that is the way you and your friends are doing. I don’t think it’s sad to have to arm oneself when it’s in the constitution that people have the right to carry firearms. But then it’s logical to me that everyone should carry firearms, and accept it as part of being free in a great country like America. If I were living in the USA and my kids went out to a restaurant and a bar later – like we all do – then, I would always want one out of bunch to carry a gun. It doesn’t have to be anything more than that. There are people who are unstable everywhere in the world, but there comes a time when you have to have the same equalizer that they might have if they decide to take people with them on their suicidal journey. On a completely different front, from 1992 to 2018 combat crossfire killed 299 journalists. No fewer than 849 were murdered. It should be part of being a journalist in our times to carry a firearm. 200 green environmentalists were murdered in 2016. What if they carried a weapon and were trained how to use it? Many or some might still be here today protesting against attacks against Mother Nature. @wyntermackenzie4952
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Dear Mr Bet-David, Thank you for courage in tackling the societal-challenges facing your country. The LA homeless people deserve a vote of thanks for showing themselves to be normal people on the wrong side of luck, but that’s all. Can anyone you know ever imagine to accept people camping out in front of your residences? What you are showing the world is an American government not up to speed to put it lightly. What is the solution? Patrick, and I think it would be a good move to change your name to say, David? How does that sound: Pat Davids? Not bad… Why do I say this, because Bet-David just does not tread… American water. It doesn’t swing, no matter how you play with it. The best thing is to go for a modification you can live with that is part of western culture. Davids fits the bill. Now to homelessness, Patrick I know what the solution is. The solution is to block off and allocate land outside the hardest hit areas in cities that harbor homeless people. Then get top architects to draw up housing that can be made similar to Japanese style hotel living cells where one person can live and be able to stay clean and warm have a roof over their head. Yes, it would look like a beehive kind of set up, but hundreds of people could at once be housed and be able to be kept warm and fed and clean. Jobs would be created immediately for building the units, cooking food, policing, managing the units and helping people find real jobs to get them back into homes and apartments. Building the units would cost less than a B1 Bomber and it would immediately remove rough sleepers from California and American streets. Full stop. What is needed in the new administration is a ‘Department of Homelessness’ that stays in place. The US has apparently over 3 million people living rough, that’s the size of a city near us called Munich, Germany. The upside is that my idea means creating meaningful jobs and cleaning up residential areas and getting a longstanding, ugly problem temporarily upgraded to something everyone can stomach and most of all the homeless people not living in filth. Imagine what that does to the morale of people living in the invaded cities? Pat, I am someone with ideas and I shoot from the hip, so if this one or any of my ideas is off-the-charts, please excuse me for wasting your time, but I will keep trying another time to figure out how to get your great country back to being the greatest country in the world. Be safe -
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Here is yet another example of excellent CNN coverage by Poppy and what I am sure you in America will soon say about CEO Chip Bergh: he’s an American hero. He’s doing something that could affect sales of his iconic product because he believes it’s the thing to do. This is what America means to those of us around the world, not the people trying to take down or whittle down your gracious Republic, but to make sure its image isn’t tarnished by politicians who have lost their moral compass. Lastly, and I speak to Mr Bergh with another statement of such serious content, that I know I am not going to have many people agreeing with what I have to say, but your sacred 2nd Amendment can only work when all able-bodied, certified American adults carry a firearm at all times in public. Chris and Poppy, you have families and friends, but if there is an unbalanced person wielding a weapon in a public place, the only way he or she can be stopped or distracted is if other qualified people are there with a sidearm. I know it is repulsive for people like both of you. To have to wear a gun when you step outside, but the mass-shootings have got to stop. It’s like a sea-anchor pulling the good ship America down under the waves. Mentally unstable people are not going to go away; the police cannot be at a shooting in seconds, but armed adults can slow down or even put a gunman out of action. There is no other way you can have a 2nd Amendment. You can’t have your cake and eat it to. Everyone must become their brother and sister’s keeper. Please do this to stop the slaughter of innocents. You can always change laws later on. America is a gun culture and you can’t pretend any longer that your excellent police officers will ever be able to put a stop to random killings by unbalanced individuals. Be well-
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@Moamanly Great to hear from you. It's hard being a battlefield commander from one's sofa, but I try. The deal is that this a chance to get the Taliban while they are out in the open. Don't forget, up until now they have been basically a guerilla operation. Hitting hard then running back to the safety of their mountain hideouts. General Paulus made a terrible mistake in not letting himself have a way out of Stalingrad. In short, he chose to surrender. If he had obeyed orders and fought the Russians to get away, I think there wouldn't have been 95,000 soldiers lost out of the 100,000. The US has 3,000 troops, but we both know British and allied troops and NATO troops could be called in for a clean up operation. All I'm saying is that the Taliban are sitting ducks, and if I were in charge, I'd rescind the withdrawal command and go back and secure the 10 regions, round up the bad guys, get them behind bars and then leave.
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If there were ever two more interesting, captivating and thoughtful talk-show giants, it would not be you two! Jokes aside, I was... What did Bill call me? Joe has called who to come and meet my dentist? Okay, okay, overseas people need to get rid of excess weight too, but I think---in all respect to people who want to classify obesity in its own disaster arena---we should just let people be whom they are and let people eat whatever they want to eat because boys and girls---they will anyway! I have spent all summer trying to get back to my pre-pandemic weight and I have got some big-time news for you. It is unbelievably hard to lose weight. I am talking about swimming dozens and dozens of laps in the pool six days a week and eating less and not eating chocolate and the like and the result is I am miserable and have no more friends. Joe, Bill, would you be my friends? Sadly, people hate people who lose their bulging bellies because it makes them feel bad. I have lost all those pounds off my yummy tumy, but suddenly I am the joke of the neighborhood because I talk about getting back in shape and people frown and say I need to move to... Venezuela!!!
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@deaddoll1361 GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. This is where the buck stops; we need water transfer technology. I am an inventor and my plan to get water to California, Lake Meade etc., goes like this. We need to send water from water-rich regions to drought-ridden areas. At this writng 240,000,000 olympic-sized swimming pools of water are flowing off the Greenland glacier. How in the world can we get that water to where it's needed I can only guess, but it's all fresh water getting dumped in the sea. Recently in Sydney, Austalia, they had tons of water and I think only 8% could be saved from the deluge with the rest going into the ocean. It's a pity and I wrote to the Prime Minister to try this: under-roads and railways is the perfect place to put in piping like an underground acqueduct that would send water to the 4 corners of the continent. Obviously, the engineering feat I am calling for would need a genius and my plan has been nixed a dozen times by the experts, but it I asked the Prime Minister to go a scale model from one water-rich region to, say, a reservoir. He wrote back to say thanks for the idea, but that's the last I've heard from him. We've got to get water to the dry areas and a sprinkler system in millions of square miles of forest sounds absurd, but we've got to try every idea. My mentor, Sir Richard Dyson, had 5, 237 tries to get his vaccum cleaner to work before it finally worked on the 5,238th time. We have nothing to lose and everything to gain. Excess water from the Great Lakes could be sent to the west in your country, sometimes Lake Michigan has too much water or other places have floods. All that fresh water could fill Lake Powell, Lake Meade, and California reservoirs. There is no problem finding fresh water, the challenge is how to move enormous quantities of the white gold across vast distances. I say underground aqueducts are where to start...
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It’s got to be hard for an ex-military man like Congressman Adam Kinsinger, a brave man on the battlefield and in the American political arena to hear that US forces will be leaving the Afghanistan war theater. The 20-year-old conflict and American occupation and war—twice the time of the Russian invasion and occupation---is winding down to a predictably dreary and sad ending. American blood and treasure were lost and no clear winner has emerged. Instead, we see the Taliban, a middle-ages religious sect coming back out of the hills and cracks of a broken society and ready again to rule their land with their book of beliefs that confounds even people of the Muslim faith. But in all due respect Congressman Kinsinger, as an overseas viewer, my perspective is that the effectiveness of a decade’s old occupation and policing strategy of your country has reached its highest point. Pulling out of the dangerous waters of this part of the globe will allow your political leaders and military planners the time they need to comfortably assess the situation. Thanks to the American presence, the world’s eyes are focused on this battleground state, and if the Taliban become ruthless to the point of endangering the Afghanistan people with social disintegration, you can be sure there will be a concerted effect by America and her allies to rejoin the conflict and save the Afghan people. Lastly, like all and everyone who gets a helping hand, there comes a time when you also have to let the people you’re helping be the ones who lead the fight for their land. To always have a superpower on the sidelines grinds down self-confidence in the very people their trying to help. There will be more war, more fighting, more atrocities, but the Afghan people know how to deal with invaders in their land more than others are willing to admit. Good reporting Jake!
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Dear Mr Cohen, First, Happy Holidays and a prosperous New Year 2020 to you and your family. Thank you for your very interesting analyses on the Trump Administration’s continuing legal woes. Your analysis on Ivanka is spot on. However, The Space Force is necessary and, in my opinion, we have to realize that everything has probably already been set-up with a command center and orbiting military installation for at least a decade or more, at least for as long as we have been hearing about the secret space program. They are making it public only for the ribbon cutting ceremony, because it’s without a doubt fully operational, like the Chinese and Russian counterparts. What is astounding about the Trump Presidency is how 20 women’s testimony of inappropriate sexual conduct by the President has been swept under the carpet, as well as no news about his taxes, and the unimaginable number of false statements he has made. How can anyone support someone who is the antithesis of an American man let alone an American president. He is a disgrace to the office of the presidency and unfit for high office. His re-election bid is only to keep him safe from the jaws of justice. One day his lovely children are going to see their daddy in prison duds. It is equally sad to see how working in the political machine too long can make people like McConnell and Graham become what can only be called ‘mercenary’ politicians, obviously corrupted to the bone, when we see how honest and striving for the common good they were in videos from 20 years ago. Senator Graham has literally become a Trump Administration apologist, and power has swayed McConnell away from being the dedicated public servant he once was. He has lost his way and sold his soul and become a tainted-spokesperson for a ghost-Republican Party that exists only in his mind. You have what it takes to be someone who could lead your country one day. The sky’s the limit.
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Dear Mr Anderson, Mr Toobin, Mr Dean, Ms Morrison, Ms Psaki, Senator Santorum, Gloria and a gentlemen not named. Thank you Mr Cooper for your ability to keep focused on the essentials in your work as a television journalist. And thanks to the CNN Contributors for consistently excellent analyses and input and all of it in language everyone can understand. If I may play the devil’s advocate, one thing the Republican’s have done, as well as alternative news outlets like Fox News is bring the best of the best out of all of you. Thank God the Republicans keep sending over salvos of criticism that takes you off guard. Thank God Fox News has done about everything one could do to keep what they say legal in denouncing anything and anyone who goes after Donald J. Trump. Don’t get me wrong; I know the last 1,000 plus days have taken everything you’ve got to return fire and keep your ground, but it’s just that what your country is great for is that everyone – no matter how off-the-charts – they may be, can speak their mind. It’s great to have Senator Santorum do his best to pick holes in the Democrat’s reasoning. This makes it essential for the Democrat’s and you to not only come up with a viable argument, but it means that you and they have to work doubly hard to prove the point that President Donald J. Trump, from an international point of view, is unfit for high office.
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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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Thank you, David, for delving into this subject. It may be called 'low-hanging-fruit' by some, because everyone wants to pick a piece of it to suit their own belief system. I am throwing myself to the dogs of conspiracy, but Dr Judy Wood's ten-year studies into what caused the destruction of the WTC Towers is still ringing in the minds of many---including yours truly. David, Garrett, 220 tons of structural steel turned to dust as the towers came down---Judy called it the 'dustification' of steel beams that are visibly turning into powder as they come tumbling down. Whatever you want to say about 'alien' technology, the twin towers coming down in their own footprint and not damaging the parkings below or the Manhattan bathtub make no sense to modern physics. People who were trapped at the ground floor in one of the towers prayed out loud when they heard their building collapse, but then, like a miracle, there was blue sky shining through a crack in the cieling. Impossible! Look at George W. Bush climbing up only a few meters with his arm around a firefighter. A building has 12.5 % debris field when it comes down----that's 12 and a half floors of rubble! Where did it go?
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Philanthropy is a subject that I think indicates why our economic model, capitalism, is not up-to-speed in being the sort of economic system that is geared to getting the human community on the same page. Not to beat my gums on my own invention of teknomix as a possible alternative to capitalism, but let me just say that relying on the good will of people like former Mrs Bezos giving away----(wasn't it close to 6 billion dollars to food challenged American families during the early stages of the pandemic?)---I believe this tells us something is inherently wrong in the way money has become a magic wand to some and a scarcity to others. I am an artist and capitalism has also poisoned the art world. Yes; that's right! Here is an example. A wealthy individual will work with an top-of-the-line gallery owner to find an up-and-coming artist and buy a painting for, say, 20,000 USD. By buying this piece of art from an as yet unknown painter and then re-selling and re-selling it with the complicit aid of uptown galleries, the painting clocks into, say, 20 million USD in no time. The artist is artificially propelled into being the next art star. His or her work will now be worth a fortune and the public is largely unaware because the person in the street is told what is good art for the most part. The billionaire then donates his 20,000-dollar investment---now worth 20 million dollars---to a public institution and gets to write it off on his or her taxes. It's a scam that has made a joke out of fine art and clowns out of us who willingly let our paintings get brought from reasonable prices to sky-high millions by behind-the-scenes pranksters. Ian, Ms Cousens, you both do excellent work in your respective fields and I am sure my economic system would have you and your friends rolling in laughter at the simplistic and utopian model I have created, but I am only proposing it a kick-starter for it to be developed into a better way to run the world's economy. Philanthropists have helped across all sectors of the world's neediest sectors, but we must realize that it is a sign that something is not sturdy in the capitalist system.
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Ari, in all due respect, I am an artist and not a lawyer and I have watched you and your colleagues bring your profession, the legal profession, to new heights of respectability and honor. You have shown us how and why the legal system is the structural steel that holds societies together. However; if I may say something---and we are living 2,000 kilometers from Kiev---so my perspective is of course, nowhere near how you see things in America. Ari, there is nothing to see in Tucker Carlson's visit other than a faux journalist doing his iconic brand of the profession and interviewing one of the most controversial political leaders in the world today. What I see---and I may be wrong---is that ordinary Russians are the real winners so-to-speak in Carlson's visit to Russia. Why do I say this? Because there is so much fear and loathing going on between Russia and the west, that ordinary Russians think everyone hates them---including Americans. Carlson's trip to Moscow and him buzzing around town, eating in restaurants, fast-food joints and visiting a supermarket just reinforced to the average Russian that Americans like Russians and America does not want to destroy Russia. Lastly, and this is only my gut feeling. Let's be real: Uncle Joe saw a golden opportunity---a pie in the sky---with Carlson's visit and Tucker delivered a personal message from America's Commander-in-Chief when the mics were off for an off-ramp before the F16s start filling the skies over the front lines causing even more mayhem and casualties for Russia and before the bridge to Crimea gets blown to smithereens. No way Carlson was there simply for an exchange-type, comfortable interview with President Putin without a word from your President. Will Putin accept a way out of his quagmire is what we all should be wondering, because things are heating up out there and everyone is talking about nuclear missiles!
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Dear Governor Cuomo and Chris Cuomo, Thank you Chris for presenting an excellent show with you’re your unique interviewing style and frank delivery of the facts as you see them. Thank you Governor Cuomo for being a leader to your state and your country and others like myself watching from the other side of the world. You would make an excellent president and I hope your brother Chris finds the words to convince you to run for president in America. If you have time please read this. I am paraphrasing what Pulitzer prize-winning science writer Laurie Garret has recently said in a TV interview. She stated that in her country of America, we have a patchwork response, we don’t have unified national response to the virus, we don’t have any uniform standards, no guidelines, the CDC is virtually mum, numbed and silenced. We’re operating as if every local mayor, every local governor has equal capacity to make appropriate choices and to decide how to best fight this disease. You can drive from one state to another with completely different policies being executed. And they’re all competing to get their economies going, competing to get masks, PPE, medicines, health care workers, ambulances and burial details. We’ve pitted each component of America against each other for resources, for policy, for response and now the President says, for our economy. She predicts the best-case scenario before it's over is 36 months. The worst-case scenario is that it becomes a new permanent feature on the landscape for generations to come. She says it will continue to hit different parts of the world at different times. Gentlemen, up until now we've been pretty optimistic about what the world is up against, but we had better hope that Ms Garrett’s predictions are wrong or we’re all in for some changes none of us can even imagine are going to happen. Governor Cuomo and Chris, thanks for doing such a great job in trying to help America get though the epidemic, and thanks for the inspiration you send out around the world to others who need leadership and the Truth. Be well.
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Dear Ms Goodman, Mr Gonzalez and Ms Garrett, Thank you Amy and Juan for presenting an excellent interview. Thank you Ms Garrett for your troubling, factual and expert analysis. I think all of us who hear this report will be thankful for the excellent reporting of Democracy Now, and thankful to have had such a detailed response from Ms Garrett to what has happened, what is happening, and what we can expect to happen with the Coronovirus epidemic in the days, weeks, months and years to come. What is obvious to us looking across the world to America, is that President Trump seems to be living in another reality as regards to what is happening on the ground. Each time we hear a specialist has been fired for speaking his mind, like the recent firing of Dr Bright, we can see that Trump is sealing himself off from reality. It’s certainly a reflection of his privileged upbringing where he was allowed to live a cocoon type of existence that he has brought to The White House.
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I think JB took the bait. You have to leave your emotions at the door of the studio if you're going to make it in the television news business. As hard as it may be, by getting sucked into Representative Greene's holocaust rhetoric, you have to do everything you can not to take it personal, which you did. When you're on stage or on television, everything---and I mean everything you do or say----is automatically magnified by 10. We live and learn and all of us have a secret book of our life's failures waiting to be published when our time is up on Earth, but hard as it may seem, you can't let yourself be taken in by someone's talking points no matter how much it hurts. Easy to say; hard to do, but truth be told, you have to remain neutral in the news biz, or being interviewed, or on stage because when you're an entertainer or television personality in the spotlight, you're there to enlighten others, not to share your pain.
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Dear Mr Bet-David and Mr Schiff, This is an excellent interview. There are so many things to take away, I'll need a few comments to put them all down. I don’t know if it’s just taking time to sink in, but once again on Mr Bet-David’s videocast and his way of getting his guests to spill the beans, I get it. I finally get Peter’s message and his expertise and he deserves a lot of credit for getting so many sound bites lined up in row to do their number our brains, and open our eyes. All this time I thought it was capitalism which was the culprit, now only to learn it’s really been too much government. I see the FED'S mistake. He has made it clear why when government comes in to help, something in the system breaks down and only the fat cats walk away with deep pockets. I can’t tell you how happy I am to have this ‘dismal science’ suddenly start to make sense. The really bad part of it is though, is that Mr Schiff has unfortunately also made us realize that there is no more road left for the FED to kick the can down, and that translates to the biggest crash imaginable is looking at us right square in the eyes. The other reality bombshell we all have to acknowledge is that Peter Schiff may be right on how to recalibrate the machine, but realistically, no one is going to follow his wise counsel. Why won’t they follow his advice? Because a major ‘tipping point’ has been reached in that people have become addicted to big government. The people want a strong man approach, because it looks like they get something for nothing. A second major ‘tipping point’ has been reached in that people are not willing to trust any politician who professes higher taxes and hard work. People now believe to better themselves is to play the system for all they can get and, again, because they see that by doing less, it’s the best. I think the only solution is for a new economic system and for the global community to start from scratch. No one is going to go back to Capitalism 101.
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As an overseas viewer, hearing Mr Bell say that Dave Chappelle earned 20 million dollars each for his last 3 tlevision or cable TV specials is off-the-charts. And Chappelle is complaining about 'cancel' culture? Chappelleis laughing all the way to the bank while saying he's getting 'cancelled' from this or that cable outfit. This is an example of where our economic system has gone off-the-rails. Of course Dave Chappelle will now say anything he pleases---he's set for a few lifetimes with that kind of bread! Money has made us as a people look for everything in life that has material value. If you're a nice person, people will like you, but if you're rich, people will adore you. If my research is right, Don Lemon is a multi-millionaire news presenter. He does a great job, but he's making millions telling us what's going on out there---and of course, he's adding his views. But is that right for him to rake in so much money doing a job like that? You bet; because it's a job like that. Traders start at 250,000 a year plus Christmas and February bonuses---in my area. But it's out of whack, isn't it? People that do very hard work often have to do two jobs to get by. It's easy to criticize, but wealth has made us judge people by how much money they make or how big their home is or what kind of car they drive, rather than what sort of person they are. You won't believe this, but in the city where I live across the world from you, do you know what is probably the most respected job around? Doctor? Teacher? Lawyer? Nope; it's a credit manager. You start at 250 grand a year--or more--okaying credit for people needing money and you've been to business school a couple of years for that kind of money. If you say you are a credit manager where I live, you are someone who gets immediate respect. People worship money; it's who we are. The plain simple truth of the matter is that we've created a world where owning things of value tops everything else. "Make a lot of money." That's what we say to our kids the minute they start buying bubble gum. Capitalism has been our economic system for over 300 years; but it's making life a great experience for only a tiny sliver of the world's population. I know; I know; what else is out there to replace it?
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Dear Mr Tapper and Senator Kennedy, Thank you Mr Tapper for your consistently good interviews and getting the best out of your guests. America’s crisis of immigration is an example of how President Trump is unfortunately not the best person to be in charge. I think Donald J. Trump is a good father to his kids and is a pretty good business man, but he has one flaw. His thinking. It’s not President Trump that is the reason people think his Administration is in chaos. It’s his thinking, and because his thinking is off, so are his decisions. The wall of shame he is proposing is unAMERICAN. Look at how that looks from the Mexican side of the border. It’s the thinking of someone who has been sheltered—walled in--all his life. You don’t solve a problem by sealing yourself off from it; you face it head on. President Trump’s unfortunate flaw is poor quality thinking; he is not qualified to make decisions that are literally life and death to thousands of people. Poor decisions from the president has America on the brink and the free world in danger. It’s not his fault. He’s winging it and he knows it. The trouble is the job of THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES requires good thinking. Want to build a wall is an example of someone with no clue as to how to resolve a problem intelligently. How do you know when someone is not thinking well? Write down what President Trump says and read it back. It’s off-the-charts. He’s so far from coherent it beggar’s belief. It’s too bad someone can’t get President Trump to realize that he must stand down for the good of America and the free world. He does not have it in him to see things as they are. It's not his fault. He gave it his best. You stop the crisis in central America one way. America has the most powerful army the world has ever seen. Contact the presidents of the countries in trouble, get their ok to send American troops to restore order and reduce gang violence. Get a new department created called Central America Relief Plan for example and send people there to help the people rebuild, remove the violent offenders and help with infrastructure, etc. This is not rocket science. People are running scared. When you have kids it’s doubly hard to think straight. Start with the worst case country. Work with the president of the country. Shore up their armed forces and help them rebuild the police force to handle the gangs. But don’t build a wall of shame that will become known for all eternity as Trump’s Wall. He’s a nice man to his friends and family, but his thinking is not clear, it’s muddy. Lastly, did we really hear he is going to fight to the end not to show his taxes. He cannot be serious not willing to show his taxes. It is obvious this is his weak point.
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Dear Mr Pakman, Thank you for your honest and thoughtful reporting of the facts. You are doing your countrymen and people like myself on the other side of the world a great service. It boggles the mind how the Trump circus keeps rolling on. His latest antics, with the rape allegations are over the top. I wrote to the lady to ask her to rethink not pressing charges. She says she won’t go to the authorities because so many other women are getting worse aggressive treatment in the migrant camps, so she doesn’t want to steal the spot light from them. I told her that it would be the opposite, that she would empower women to denounce a rapist. It looks like the Senate are a frozen body, the Congress have been relieved of any power, and that a US president can just about get away with murder – as Trump joked on his campaign, that he could blow someone away on 5th Avenue and no one would bat an eye. It’s the (banana-republic) White House in prime time. There is so much illegal stuff shown on TV and Trump seems to be able to walk away from anything. Reagan was called the Teflon president; nothing stuck to him that was negative. Trump must be ‘the invisible’ man president; we see through him, we see his game, yet he escapes at the end of the day and is back in The Oval Office the next day like nothing happened. The mainstream media are in shock and awe. Here we have President Trump denying he knew the woman, and when the reporter confronted him about the photo he said, “Yeah, but it was a shot of me from behind,” or something like that. Peace
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I don't know if using blunt-force adjectives to describe the medical professionals who are catering to the desires of young people seeking to re-assign their sexual orientation is the right way to go about it, but I think that there should be a universally accepted series of tests made by professionals in all fields concerned that determine when and if a young person can be allowed to have his or her body transformed at an early age. Why not put into place legislation that forbids all surgical intervention until the age of adulthood has been reached---like for tobacco? Then, at least if there was a mistake made and the person who was transformed into the opposite sex realizes ten years after that he or she made a mistake, no one can say he or she made the mistake in the fog of adolescence. Above all, we must not realize that this is like a full-arm, sleeve tattoo that a young person has done on himself or herself at, say, 20-years of age and then when he or she reaches the ripe old age of 30 and goes to a laser-surgeon to have it removed and gets the answer back that he or she will have to live with it, because it's too risky to remove a whole sleeve tattoo. That may be hard to accept, but it is not something that is a life-changer. Moreover; one can go on with his or her life and live with ink on their arm till their dying day, but it won't ruin their life like a mistake of going under the knife at an age when one cannot know the consequences of life-changing surgical operations, and have one's body forever altered. This is an opinion and I have not experienced knowing any young person who has had a gender transformation operation, but if it was with my daughter in her teens, I would have done everything in my power to have her wait until she reached the age of consent.
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Why not have minimum wage region based? What do I mean by that? I mean, let’s say in Los Angeles, if you measure out how much it takes to pay rent, buy food, transportation etc., maybe, 22 dollars an hour is the absolute minimum it takes to just survive. But, on the other hand, in the Texas panhandle, in some town out there in nowhere’s ville, it only takes 5 bucks an hour to get buy, what I’m saying is why not have it gauged on what it costs to get buy in each region? Those are stats that can be worked out by economists in their sleep. Electricity, water, all kinds of things are done the same way. I’m sure you pay much more for electricity in New York City than in Bangor, Maine. Why not make the minimum wage work that way? Lastly, it’s sad to hear about Governor Cuomo’s plight, because where I live on the other side of the world next to Italy, he’s a hero. But, we all know how power takes people to galaxies that only they know exist and afterwards when they come back to Earth, there can be problems about how certain things were done and sometimes things were done that cross legal boundaries. We hope Governor Cuomo has solvable problems.
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Dear Ms Calibata and The CNN Team, My message is to Mr Floyd. Dear Mr Floyd, I am sorry that you have had such a terrible loss with your brother George having died in police custody. No words can equal what you must be going through. I am watching this videocast from the other side of the world and I have to say that although what has happened your brother George is tragic, your country, America is already going through two major crises at the same time: A global pandemic, with the second wave hitting Italy today, which is next to our country. Then there is an economic depression that is so devastating they are saying things may never get back to normal. What am I trying to say? I’m saying that the outrage from your loss, and black people being mistreated by American police is wrong, but for blacks to burn down hard-working people’s businesses and burn their homes and their cars all in the name of racial injustice is also wrong and it is also coming at a time when a lot of American’s like yourself need to find a way to get enough money to eat. People have lost their jobs and loved ones to a terrible pandemic. Is this the time to add fuel to the fire and have our TV screens filled with black people looting high-end shops? The bad cop who killed your brother needs to be heard in a court of law, not by a mob shouting for revenge and burning down businesses. You are a voice for your people. You can speak to the 13% of American people the black community represents and ask them to calm things down, obey police officers, and let justice to its job and for everyone to let the government which is already not a strong one, get through two major crises. It’s an opinion, and I hope I don't offend anyone, I'm only thinking of the greater good.
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Dear Dana and Fox New Contributors and Mr Ruben, I live in a country next to Italy. Last week was the time the stores and restaurants opened in my city. What is most amazing to me is that people are acting very respectfully of social distancing. What is scary is that when you see that people coming off the ventilators they have to learn how to speak again, walk again and doctors say it will take some of them up to a year to recover former levels of cognitive and physical behavior. One year in therapy to be back to normal! Professional health officials here say that they have never seen a more deadly pathogen in their entire careers. What am I driving at? No pun intended, but the drive-through graduation ceremonies being cancelled is heart-breaking, but if just one student lost his or her life or had their lungs damaged for life, would it be worth it? Please take a look at these absolutely shocking facts that we know so far. They tell us there is going to be more bad news about the Coronovirus. What the virus can do. What I have taken home about this virus is that when the Coronovirus lands in our eyes, nose or mouth or when we inhale it, the spike proteins of the virus bind to the ACE 2 Receptors of the cells. That’s how it gains entry. Once it gains entry, not only does it make millions of copies of itself but it also affects the cells ability to call for help. The cells have to become very infected before the immune system knows something is wrong or what's going on. Once it is deeply imbedded in our body it begins to cause more severe disease. Organs that have ACE 2 Receptors are the heart, kidneys, blood vessels, liver and brain. Viral particles can be found in nasal passages, throat, tears, the stool, kidneys, liver, pancreas, heart and CSF (Cerebral spinal fluid). The virus can also cause meningitis. Our immune system reaction causes inflammation and blood clots in the arterioles of the lungs. In brief: 1. It directly attacks organs by their ACE 2 Receptors. 2. It indirectly attacking organs by way of collateral damage from the Cytokin storm. 3. It indirectly causes damage to organs by means of blood clots. 4. It indirectly causes damage as a result of low oxygen levels, improper ventilator settings, drug treatments themselves, and/or all of these things combined. Symptoms are loss of smell, heaviness, malaise, tight chest, racing heart, muggy head, upset stomach, tinnitus, pins and needles, breathlessness, dizziness, arthritis in the hands and feeling like having broken glass in the lungs. One out of twenty patients with Covid-19 experience long-term, off-on symptoms. Many do not develop fever and cough. Instead they get muscle aches, sore throat and headaches. A pattern of waxing and waning. It’s a multi-symptomatic disease which can affect any organ. It causes microvascular problems and clots. To repeat: Lungs, brain, skin, kidneys and the nervous symptom may be affected. Neurological symptoms can be mild (headache) or severe (confusion, delirium, coma). It's only my opinion. Lastly, I thing Président Trump's embarassing insults and criticism of China's President Xi Jinping will mean less jobs for Americans.
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Dear Mr Lemon and Mr Cohen, Thank you Mr Lemon for your diverse and often very interesting videocasts with interviews that are fresh and original albeit a touch too showbizzy at times. Calling one of your guests a ‘beautiful black woman’ came off wrong somehow. I thought to myself, “I wonder how all the average-looking women of color took that?” But you’re the star journalist and it must be thrilling to know millions of people around the world listen to your show. Thank you Mr Cohen for taking your betrayal in stride and not running away from everything and everyone or trying to deny the things you were allegedly convicted for. Why am I writing? Well, it’s not going to mean much to you guys and a lot of other people, but for myself, the race issue has been beaten to death over there in America, hasn’t it? The sitting president has been nailed for being insensitive to people of all walks-of-life who don't measure up to what he believes he represents. He tears down anyone of any ethnic group who has one-upped him in a way only he knows and all we can do is try to guess what gets under his skin about certain people. I have a proposition in gold for Mr Cohen if he wants to put everything that’s happened to him about breaking the law and working for an indiscreet boss. Mr Cohen, you’re one of the most intelligent people out there and this is a way you can use your savoir faire: Set up a homelessness think tank. Get the rough sleepers off America’s streets. Here’s my plan: you get wealthy donors to fund ‘Japanese’ style sleep-cell, beehive, residences. These are heated, safe, clean, have running water and toilets and thousands of people could have a place to sleep and have possibility to get enough food to eat. They could be built in vacant lots that are eye-sores or on the outskirts of towns and cities. Bus service, counselling services, health, etc. would be set up nearby. Mr Cohen, this is something you have the mental power to achieve. Your attention detail is off-the-charts, you know how your country works from the inside out, you know how to talk to small-business owners right up to corporate mega-bosses. You know you could do this and still have room to spare for your other projects. But the best thing is this Mr Cohen, you would be the guy who cleaned up this disgraceful problem that is being beamed all across the world and is a red flag if there ever was one. It’s easily solved and it will create enormous good will and show once again that America is the light of the world to millions and millions of people, Trump has failed as an American President because an American President is supposed to be the one pointing the light at the darkness where the downtrodden have had to hide away, not putting himself in the spotlight and portraying himself as Mr Wonderful. Donald J. Trump has never figured out that America isn’t about making money, it’s about giving everyone a chance to achieve the American dream. Things are in a big mess in America, and it’s a lot do with with the fact that Mr Trump has shown that he is in over his head. It’s not his fault that he is not qualified for the job, but unfortunately you have in place a president who determines the lives of millions of people with his decisions, and his decisions have proven to be flawed over and over again. His bad-mouthing anyone or any foreign leader who he disagrees with is unAMERICAN. Mr Cohen, America is about taking care of her own people first and showing others the way to gain freedom and live a good life, HELP set up a homeless department, HELP get this terrible tragedy behind you and every American, make this your contribution to your country so that when President Trump steps down, this will be history. It's an opinion. Be well -
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Dear Mr Tapper and Senator Romney, Happy New Year Mr Tapper to you and the CNN staff and CNN Contributors. Happy New Year Mr Romney and congradulations on your win. Could I begin by asking Mr Romney to step down from supporting a wall of shame on the southern border of The United States of America? Your father, the distinguished and acclaimed Governor of Michigan would never have supported putting a wall up on any border Senator Romney, and deep down in your heart and soul you know it is true. No-one can be sure what he would have said, but I think he was a level-headed man who could see that it would become known as a wall of ''Shame''. Senator Romney, when Columbus came to your shores and if the Indians saw them coming and built a wall, do you think Columbus would have turned around and gone back? ''They've built a wall, sir,''thank you, commander,'' Columbus would say, ''it's no use going on now, let's go back.'' No, of course not; Columbus would not have turned back, and neither will anyone trying to get across the border turn back! But the wall will become known as a wall of ''shame'' for all future generations of Americans to have to justify when traveling abroad. A wall across an entire prairie, put in place by an American President who is certainly a good man and a caring person, but someone it must be acknowledged is clearly not in touch with reality. Is the reason this? He has lived in a ''walled off'' environment almost his entire life, because of being given 14,000 apartments when he was 28 years old? And so he sees nothing wrong with ''walling off'' a potentially discomforting problem, because he has lived as someone ''walled-off'' from reality as we know it. No, Senator Romney, please think what your father would say if his son went along with an American President with 17 legal investigations pending against him? And who is not stepping down so that his country can be governed in dignity, and who insists on building a wall to stop people coming into the country illegally. America is strong because she is not afraid to believe in freedom. A wall-free America is American made.
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Please allow me to add a second comment. The United States of America is going to weather the coming storm(s) just fine. What if sea levels rose by 3 meters? We would see where to build our roads and homes and cities and the like. The 40 year inflation is the same only it's showing what doesn't work when capitalism has had a major body-blow. What parts of society aren't holding out? Check that. What parts of the population need extra help? How can we not let high energy prices stall-out our day-to-day lives? How can we get fish at a fair price? Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. What is good about the sky-high prices and out-of-control inflation? Not much, you might say? But one of your most gifted influencers, Tony Robbins would say "what's good about this problem?" Boys and girls, what's good about what's going down is it shows where more mortar is needed in the fence that surrounds every one of us. Why not convert town squares into a tomato, potato and corn patch? Expand ponds in golf-courses to make fish-farms. Get communities built where people can walk to work and use the car for Sunday drives. You see what I'm getting at; it's not the problem; it's how we solve the problem. America's cities are a mirror of what's going wrong and nothing else. You start by getting everyone able to afford food, then housing, then energy. This is doable. Don't let's let ourselves be scratching our heads and saying thinds like "Maybe, it's true: it's all over. We're toast." No, America will do just fine...
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Dear Mr Tapper and Mr Bolton, Thank you Mr Tapper for staying in top condition at this time in your nation’s history. From where we sit on the other side of world, the 2021 insurrection looked more like a staged-event, a college-kids-style effort to disrupt the capital proceedings than an angry mob than anything resembling what happened in 1812. However; what is tragic is that this riot has caused the death of 4 people. One woman was shot to death. And for what? So someone can get re-elected? Senators Ted Cruz, Steve Daines, Lankford, Kennedy, Blackburn, Haggerty, Marshall, Lummis, Braun, Hawley, and Tuberville will receive their punishment for fomenting dissention in a way that is worse than death, because they are going to have nightmares for the rest of their lives for having a part in a half-baked scheme that saw 4 disillusioned Trump followers die. As far as President Trump goes, we know he’ll process this in a way to make it look like Vice-President Pence and others should take the blame. Nevertheless, four person’s wives or husbands or kids or parents will be making plans to bury them and try to come to grips on how they lost a loved one to a lost cause and deranged president. Say what you want, John Bolton has been severely criticized for a number of issues, but he’s got a clear head every time there is trouble on the horizon. He doesn’t do anything to deflect the blame from Trump, and he knows his stuff. With 7 business days left in President Trump’s presidency, the only thing to do is to count out the days and there are plenty of ways to keep Trump busy doing things he won’t get into trouble for. Again, what is appalling to us over here is to see that people had to lose their lives on what was really a campaign stunt for Trump’s re-election in 4 years. The worst thing anyone can do to Trump after 20 January is to mention him only as the former president; he’d never get over not having his name mentioned. This would be his worst nightmare. It's going to be alright-
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Dear Mr Cooper, Dr Gupta and Mr Gates, First, thank you Mr Cooper for being on the front lines of every major issue that comes into public view. You and your colleagues and the CNN Contributors have done a fantastic job of getting the truth out to the world. Thank you Dr Gupta for putting a heart on your wise counsel and analyses that is helping people get through this pandemic. I think I can speak for people around the world to thank Mr Bill Gates for his tremendous invention of the PC and a wonderful company, and the WINDOWS operating system and for you and your wife’s tireless work trying to help the people with diseases and economic problems among a long list of other achievements. Mr Gates, my question is to you. Would it be something achievable, and Dr Gupta can weigh in on this, but would it be possible to put together i.e. construct a hermetically sealed building that could handle all the needs of say, 75 people, and therefore they could be allowed to go back to work? The project to simulate the long space flight to mars comes to mind. In the dome, they could grow their food, do their chores, live and function normally. Why build these work-home-farming units? Because if the virus goes on vital industry will be crimped; healthy people will be able to go back to work, because testing would be required of course to enter into the domes. Theoretically, it could mean the difference of having thousands of highly skilled workers contributing to rebooting society. Thanks again to all of you. Lastly, I have one more request to put to you. Do you think it would be possible to come out of the Coronovirus epidemic and have one of the most heart-breaking crises solved for all the world to experience? I'm talking about homelessness. Can't we get the best minds together and end this eye-sore and human tragedy that is absurd and immoral that is happening in the 4 corners of the world? Bill, we see documentaries about Seattle that defy all human understanding. Anderson, Dr Gupta and Bill, imagine we come out of the epidemic and there are clean streets, no rough sleeping, no people injecting, a scourge on humanity behind us forever.
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What college and university does is allow you to learn how to learn. This sounds strange, but the time you are in university is filled with meeting people who you would never, ever meet under normal circumstances and you get time to day dream. You get nutty professors. My physics professor talking about a monkey falling out a tree to make a point on gravity or something is engraved in the back of my mind with his German accent and the like. "And the monkey fall down. Why?" he would say or something like that. The room of kids exploded in laughter. Of course, going right from High School into an apprenticeship or where you learn on the job is excellent as well, but having 4 more years---or in my case 5 more years because I bombed out of a major university---gave me valuable time to imagine doing dozens of things and mostly letting my mind wander. I became a sculptor. I went to university because my dad said you're gonna be a doctor. I had no problem with the classes, and I worked with doctors of renown and low and behold I found it very, very hard to see blood. Not a good sign for a future surgeon... I quit. My older brother called me and I said, 'look, I've done 3 years, that's enough, I don't wanna be a doctor.' He said the 4 magic words that made me go back that last year: "Do it for mom." I was so mad he said that and then I went back and finished my degree, came home to my parents and placed on the kitchen table. "That's all I wanted," my mother kindly spoke. "Now, get out of here and do whatever you wana do." You'll laugh, but I didn't use my diploma for 17 years until I started teaching English.
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As an overseas viewer, it is getting very common to hear talk of impending social clashes or civil war in your country. A former general said that the Covid-19 pandemic was handled wrongly because it should have been a solid citizen-backed vaccination and mask wearing mantra that every American got behind. As we all know there was your former President Trump who made things turn into a very poorly managed affair. But what has to happen now is to change the narrative. You are going to laugh, but I firmly believe we have to start calling these times, now hold on---'exciting times'. Why do I say this? Because we've got to realize if we fall into the camp of saying things are spiralling out of control then we'll have to keep saying things are spiralling out of control. There are tremendous challenges that need addressing across your country, but let's throw a wrench in the doomsayer's spokes and call these 'exciting times'! We are using old instruction books on how to wind down flaming rhetoric coming from extremists of every stripe and color. Sure, there are the followers of someone so unAMERICAN a guy as Trump, but let's use the tools that turn their screws instead of trying to cut through concrete with a butter knife. Chris Hedges is a gifted orator who enthralls his audience with a way of speaking that connects to wandering minds. But now we've got to ask Chris to use his gifts to uplift and encourage mending the fences that divide your people. What I'm saying is probably too vague or utopic in nature, but all I want to say is that it's time for a new narrative. We've got young people out there who have been hearing doom talk for too long about their world and the health of their friends and families and about the economic Armageddon just waiting to rain down on us. We need new ways to tackle extremist views coming from people who are in an emotional state. They cannot be fact-checked into seeing through the veil of false truths their leaders have hypnotized them with. There is a way through the great social divide coming down in your country and it's by not giving in to expressions like 'Oh, they'll never listen'. People will listen, but you can't use the old ways of communicating to get through to them. These are exciting times, let's get our balance back and everybody feeling good again.
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With all due respect to the veteran top doctor in the US, I firmly believe Dr Fauci must step down from his functions as your nation's top doctor. Dr Gupta and Jake Tapper are at ground zero, and will have their own opinions, but in the new wave of Delta variant of the Covid-virus sweeping your country, something must be done to stop the spread of the pandemic. The plain simple truth of the matter is that half of Americans don't believe in Dr Fauci's advice and therefore America is heading for catastrophe with so many people unwilling to be vaccinated simply because they don't believe in Dr Fauci. Dr Fauci, as an overseas viewer I can only say that you have had an amazing career serving 5 presidents, but parents of children who are dying aren't getting vaccinated because they don't believe in your advice. That translates out to mean a lot of kids are going to die because people don't believe enough in your advice. Please Dr Fauci, do the right thing and let someone else--like Dr Gupta or Dr Gottlieb--someone else who has total credibity take over so that people will more willingly accept getting vaccinated. It's not to belittle you, but when half the people in America have lost faith in the nation's top doctor, it's time to retire from your position in dignity and honor. The Delta variant is 1,267 times more contageous that the previous variant. Please Dr Fauci, please step down for the good of your country and the world.
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The USA should never forget that France is her oldest ally. The submarine fiasco with so much ill-will spouting out of the Australian PM was a downer and it hit Macron between the eyes. Thanks to diplomatic tightrope performance à la extraordinary by Biden, the rift was sewed up, but France was left limping away, 50 billion USD shy and a raw deal that left them with empty pockets and a Macron internationally scorched. A faux pas by Blinken that seems unbelievable in retrospect. Is it real; is it rumor, but I have read that Jill Biden and Emmanuel Macron's wife Brigitte are best friends, so I think you can see that this could do a lot or a little to mend tattered relations between your country and France. The best thing I see from our part of the world which is a few hours plane trip to Kiev is that Macron is able to be with Putin and Xi on equal footing on the international stage. Rebuked by Putin, tolerated by Xi, it doesn't matter. This is diplomatic gold for the young French chief of state. And he will share this prize with Uncle Sam. This is what is positive and which will give the USA a foot in the door so-to-speak if push comes to shove and Biden needs to cozy up to Xi or even, God forbid, Putin. Macron is a young warrior compared to the dinosaurs we are talking about, but most importantly Ian, is that Macron is doing what the USA has always wanted: he's getting the EU fired and forged into a fighting ship in its own right. A superpower EU will be a blessing for America should war break out on several fronts.
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Dear Dr Campbell, First, Our hearts go out to the people of the United Kingdom who have a new challenging lockdown to come to grips with. May I offer one possible solution for people who have their minds invaded by negative thinking, negative thoughts during these times of heavy isolation. I heard this from someone else, but I use it everytime I get a little down. When you have a negative thought, let's say for example, "I've lost my job; I'm too old to ever find work again, what's the use trying?" You say to yourself three positive things, anything that is positive, like, "well, okay, I've lost my job, but I am a skilled programmer, I also can fix computers, I can teach people computer skills, so I'm doing pretty good." It's positive and it works because you end up seeing that you're a pretty competent person no matter what your auto-critic throws at you. Lastly, and this will probably make you laugh John, but could it be envisioned to use existing passenger planes that are grounded for emergency rooms? What do I mean by that? Well, the first class and business class have seats that can be made into beds. There is space between the seats, and they could be separated with plastic sheeting. The environment is secure and air can be purified etc. There could be many beds on a plane and it's set up perfectley for nurses to have their private areas. There are toilets. There is a posibility for patients to watch and listen to the TV, watch films, etc. And it's set up for easy cleaning. The planes are sitting around everywhere and that could mean perhaps up to thousands and thousands of potentially good places to set up ICU units. The cockpits could be where doctors get updates and can communicate across the UK. It's an idea! I'm going to send it on to PM Johnson as well.
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Let's go into the Chinese mindset here; what is in it for Xi Jingpin if he gets the ground rumbling under everybody's feet and slows down and stops a war that is already spiraling out of control? What do the Chinese take home from a win/win from a Russian/Ukrainian end to the war, Ian? I'll tell you what I think they get and as a lay person, I've undoubtedly got a tiny part of things right, but it's anybody's guess if Xi can pressure Zelensky into clipping a few spiney demands from his peace treaty requirements. Moreover, the Chinese will be able to use this slight-of-hand maneuver to wiggle out of world scrutiny when they are basking in global praise and then they pull a fast one and suddenly----on a whim----call America's bluff, send over an invasion force to rival D-Day in 1944 and gobble up a defeated Taiwanese people, eliminate the leadership and put up the Chinese flag. The same leaders who caved-in to Chinese peace plans will be hard-pressed to say anything against China taking back a part of their territory, because it is NOT sovereign. Xi wants to save Putin from self-immolation on the front burner of the global community's sacred stove. XI's mission in my opinion is to first save Russia, because he knows Putin is toast. The Chinese know that if they are the ones who get the peace train rolling across Eastern Europe, they are going to be the winners on the chess game playing out in front of all of our eyes. I have just moved my queen but the king has been castled and I am calling for backup. Ian, over to you...
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Dear Mr King and Ms Gangel, Thank you John for your distinguished career in making news something that everyone needs to hear and hear now. You have a top-notch delivery style that has never failed you. Ms Gangel sounds like someone who will echo your finest points. What is hallucinating to me on the other side of the world watching this particular videocast is the absolute absurdity of President Trump letting Woodward ink a book on Trump's follies. It tops the charts in making the Trump Adminstration and Donald J. Trump himself as someone so unfit for high office, so out-of-touch with anything that even resembles a leader of a great people, that one can only gasp in horror at the fact that a person like President Trump could ever be the occupant of The Oval Office, but there it is. And I believe we are all responsible, collectively on our precious planet Earth, to have allowed someone so unqualified to be the Commander-in-chief of the greatest nation the world has ever known. All of us are to blame. We are all hopelessly addicted to our smart phones, comfortable lifestyles and the like that we have lost touch with even caring about who gets elected, nevermind if it's the President of The United States who has some 20 women claiming sexual inappropriate behavior and one claiming rape against him. Millions of women are still going to vote for him. Millions of men will also cast their vote for someone who is handicapped with speaking good English and tell the truth. And income taxes that are a puzzle, inside an enigma, wrapped around a mystery that are conviently being conveyed to us in a shell game. The US Government is looking more and more like 3 card Monty with every passing scandal. W.C.Fields famously said, "there's a sucker born ever minute", and I think we have been duped into believing justice is for one and all. No; capitalism has seen fit to allocate justice according to one's bank account. It's, as the Donald so sanctimoniously said it; "The way it is." John, Ms Gangel, you have done your best to show the facts, but we will probably never know the underpinings of how a scoundrel like Trump got past our common sense and who we all know will walk free no matter what charges are brought against him.
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Dear Mr Blitzer, Ms Brown, Mr Toobin, Ms Henderson, and Ms Golodryga, First of all I would like to wish all of you a fine Holiday Season, you all deserve a well-earned break and you have all done a fine job in reporting on the Trump Administration’s legal and policy issues. It has taken 1,063 days to impeach President Trump and you have relentlessly given your all in reporting the facts. The US Congress's determination to discover the evidence allowed President Trump to be impeached. Everyone knew from the first time he commented on Meygn Kelly’s menstrual cycle in the debates that he was an outlier. What is incredible, is that because of his wealth and celebrity status, that sordid remark was brushed off as eccentric instead of disqualifying him immediatley as someone unfit for high office. What an amazing thing to have watched this political soap opera from across the world; one is struck by the political divisions in your country, and how people have become so numbed by the political process that an outsider with no experience and a checkered past could walk past 17 qualified candidates to clinch the presidency. One can only imagine what your country and world would be like if someone like John Kasich had been voted in, for example. But what is obvious is that the political machine is hard on the people who work in it, and it seems to me there should be some kind of limit on how long someone can stay in office. It's probably impossible to put a limit on it, but if one looks at Mitch McConnell and Lindsay Graham from 20 years ago, they seemed like decent, honest, hard-working politicians trying to do the right thing. Fast forward 20 years and we see that have become blatantly corrupt. One could say they look like they have sold out. Lastly, thanks again for doing the world a great service and let’s all raise a glass to the more than 40 journalists who were cut down in the line of duty this year. One cannot imagine what it must be like reporting the news in these countries and getting killed for simply trying to get out the facts!
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Dear John, You do an excellent job in your video cast presentations. It is incredible how people become desperate and will attack other people. John, please don’t take this bad, but you are an example of someone showing people how to stay ahead of being hurt by robbers etc. It looks like you are eating too much good food. I wonder if you realize that a lot of young people will imitate you. Positively, they will be more aware and protect themselves, but perhaps negatively, many will also imitate the way you look. If you had to run for your life with so much extra weight on you, it might not be so easy. So wouldn’t it be better to show a guy in great shape? There are so many young people out of shape out there and when they see you with extra weight – I don’t say it’s bad – maybe they think: “Hey, if John does it, if he is out of shape, then it’s the way I am going to be, too.” I am the last one to be giving anybody advice, I've got more faults than anyone I know, but I think physical fitness could be an extra thing your videos could project without saying a word. Young people will get in shape if you do. Be safe.
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Dear Mr Stelter, Thank you for top reporting and getting to the heart of every news story that comes across your desk. You’re doing a great job and the whole world is benefitting from the great reporting that comes from CNN. May I say one thing? Why do you need to mention what other networks report or don’t report on? Think about it: would you like to wake up tomorrow and see your name in the headlines because of one of your reports? No, of course not. Also, do you know you only give fuel to the fire when you call out another cable channel? Yes, because then people race to find the video cast to hear for themselves. What everyone has to do in the news business is to constantly realize you are the best at what you do when there is no blaming of how others report a story, and no emotional spin on your part, and no personal opinions mixed into the recipe. It’s easy to say, so please excuse a layman’s point of view. But showing President Trump in prison clothes makes it look like its playtime instead of news time. By simply stating the facts on what or what not President Trump might or might not have done, you hit the bullseye as far as public opinion goes, the effect is much more believable than when we hear you or a colleague read the riot act and show your emotions. You have to stay neutral. I know; easy to say, hard to do. Keep up the good work!
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When you say the American authorities are somewhat dropping the ball on the India variant, I think you are being what is called in highly diplomatic... but obviously downright displeased and appalled. Dr John, what you have just said shines a spotlight on the ineptitude from the WHO on down as to how governments across the globe are dealing with the pandemic. The only really qualified person the WHO and all leaders of governments should be have been and should be listening to is the Vice-President of Taiwan, who is a virulogist, and immediately knew there was an outbreak of a contageous virus from Wuhan and literally sealed off his country from the world. Look at the Taiwanese pandemic statistics: their superb handling of the pandemic should put us all to shame. Yet, incredibly, the Vice-President of Taiwan is unknown on every media platform. Every other country has played ping pong in dealing with the Corono-virus 19. Imagine this: the Indian variant has a double helix---Dr Campbell---could better explain this, but it's very, very contageous and killing people of all ages. We have heard that now there is even a deadlier and more infectious variant of the Corono-virus from Sri Lanka, which scientists there claim they are scared of its properties and what might be the outcome for Sri Land and the world. What does this tell us boys and girls? We have yet to see a cohesive, global response to a virus that continues to mutate into more and more infectious and contageous and deadly variants, and countries like the UK and the USA and the one I live in on the continent, allow passanger planes to be able to land in our countries with people who are infected with Covid-virus mutations that make the Kent variant look like the common cold. Where is the leadership in this pandemic which we had better start calling a plague?
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Dear Ms Burnett, Thank you for the good solid reporting of the facts. You don’t pull your punches and you keep it simple. What is appalling about the constantly evolving revolving door of alternative facts President Trump keeps spinning is that he seems to think that there are no children in America. He is portraying an American President and an American male as someone who cannot put a sentence together or tell the truth or tell it like it is or work with his intelligence agencies and other necessary government officials. The list goes on. Americans are known for their generosity and telling it like it is. American people don’t spin the facts; they don’t have to. When you have a country built on a constitution that gives everyone equal rights, no sane person has the need to speak things that are untruthful or hurtful or indecent. President Trump is doing the kids of America a terrible disservice in showing them exactly what kind of person anyone who knows Americans will say is not AMERICAN. He comes across as anything but an American guy. American people are not like President Trump, this is what is unbelievable about the whole Trump Administration and how a person like him could be elected to the highest office in the land. How could someone who doesn’t represent American core values and also have 20 women ready to testify him for sexual inappropriateness (to be polite) get elected? Well, we know the answer to that, don't we? Sadly, anyone with enough money, anywhere in the world can do just about anything they want to do - even buy the American Presidency. It’s time to think of the kids of America. To his credit, we know Donald J. Trump has done his best; he is a good father and his kids love him and he’s great at doing deals; he’s a businessman and a real estate magnate. But his best is not good enough; he’s not a statesman; he never will be. He must be the first President in American history that has not grown in office but shrunk from his duties and responsibilities. President Trump, if you’re reading this comment, please don’t take this criticism as anything more than telling it like it is. I humbly ask you to do your civic duty and stand down from office for the good of your country and the free world at large. I'm taking all this in from the other side of the world, please excuse me if I have offended anyone.
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Dear Erin, Thank you for your very interesting reporting style and the same goes for the CNN team and CNN Contributors. I live in a country next to Italy. The city I live has just begun opening up, but experts say that confined spaces are dangerous for contracting the virus. A recent report showed a 58 year old man who survived and the doctor said it will take him a year to get back to his condition before the hospitalization. Erin, he couldn't even pick up a glass of water. He needs an army of therapists to help him learn to talk again, to walk again. Health experts here say they've never seen anything like this in their entire career. I'll leave an update after I say this. I think President Trump has just condemned someone to trying the Hydroxychloroquine and it can cause heart damage. It's beyond irresponsible, and the only thing I think is that President Trump is waving a white flag at the entire world. He saying "I'm having a breakdown. Don't you see? I'm saying the most ridiculous things in the world and I should not be the American President and leader of the free world. I am ill." I know it's silly to keep criticising President Trump, but he's doing so much damage to your country, and by berating and insulting the Chinese leadership he is assuring financial suicide for American workers, because China will do business with other countries. Jobs are being lost with every off-the-charts insult or blame Trump utters almost daily. The only thing Trump has done in a postive way is to show the American political system needs an upgrade. Lastly, here are some facts about what the Coronovirus virus can do. What I have taken home about this virus is that when the Coronovirus lands in our eyes, nose or mouth or when we inhale it, the spike proteins of the virus bind to the ACE 2 Receptors of the cells. That’s how it gains entry. Once it gains entry, not only does it make millions of copies of itself but it also affects the cells ability to call for help. The cells have to become very infected before the immune system knows something is wrong or what's going on. Once it is deeply imbedded in our body it begins to cause more severe disease. Organs that have ACE 2 Receptors are the heart, kidneys, blood vessels, liver and brain. Viral particles can be found in nasal passages, throat, tears, the stool, kidneys, liver, pancreas, heart and CSF (Cerebral spinal fluid). The virus can also cause meningitis. Our immune system reaction causes inflammation and blood clots in the arterioles of the lungs. In brief: 1. It directly attacks organs by their ACE 2 Receptors. 2. It indirectly attacking organs by way of collateral damage from the Cytokin storm. 3. It indirectly causes damage to organs by means of blood clots. 4. It indirectly causes damage as a result of low oxygen levels, improper ventilator settings, drug treatments themselves, and/or all of these things combined. Symptoms are loss of smell, heaviness, malaise, tight chest, racing heart, muggy head, upset stomach, tinnitus, pins and needles, breathlessness, dizziness, arthritis in the hands and feeling like having broken glass in the lungs. One out of twenty patients with Covid-19 experience long-term, off-on symptoms. Many do not develop fever and cough. Instead they get muscle aches, sore throat and headaches. A pattern of waxing and waning. It’s a multi-symptomatic disease which can affect any organ. It causes microvascular problems and clots. To repeat: Lungs, brain, skin, kidneys and the nervous symptom may be affected. Neurological symptoms can be mild (headache) or severe (confusion, delirium, coma). Be well.
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Dear Mr Rogan and Mr Schilling, I am writing from Europe and the country I live in is getting back to normal. What I have gleaned about the Coronovirus as a virus is off-the-charts. No one can be blamed for making the wrong moves on how to treat it because for example, when people can’t breathe and a ventilator is the only thing that will bring them oxygen, then that’s what you do. What is appalling is the huge number of health workers who have died treating patients in hospitals across the world. What we all have to realize is this virus is not decelerating with the advent of warm weather, it is propagating. What is going on? I hear so much negative information about the mainstream media in your country it makes one think that journalists go to work and brainstorm on what crazy things they can say to mislead the public. I think that journalists do a good job almost all the time, but what happens is that we slowly burn out and start letting our fatigue guide our perceptions of things. Nothing anyone says should ever sway our opinions one way or the other if we are in command of our perception process. If Joe Rogan says something and I let that really upset me, then I have fallen for the bait and he has won the debate. What we have to realize is that they should be able to say just about anything and if we are on top of our game we’re going to sift through the extreme stuff and let only reasonable information come into our heads. Again, when you see that things are getting you upset, they have won. It’s all about letting whatever they throw at you come what may, but never letting anything anyone says get under your skin. Be well. Think of new ways to control the virus in your country. Here's an idea. Why not do a 14 quarantine across the country to see if it would dent the spike in infections? Two weeks is like a vacation for someone so it wouldn't be like a couple of months. It would cost money, but it might send infections down.
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As an overseas viewer, I think I speak for a legion of fans of CNN News Presenter Ellen Bursten in saying she presents the news with sincerity and sticks to the facts. What I believe about any story as controversial as Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigeieg's paternity leave is to remind us all that we are being caught up in a future that is now firmly in the present. Ellen casually commented that Secretary Buttigeieg's 'husband' Jason adopted twins. What is a red flag is that Pete is using the word 'husband' for his man-friend. With all respect, may I step in at this moment and give some new terminology to what is clearly an unprecedented phase of our civilization? The English language is rich in its ability to come up with new words. I am an inventor, and if I had invented the word husband to mean the male counterpart of a marriage between a man and a woman, I would be appalled to know that in a future time, someone would use the word 'husband' to mean the partner of another man. Boys and girls, what we are forgetting is our children. Imagine for one moment how a 7 year old neighbor of Pete and Jason react to hearing Pete say "my husband Jason"? Kids need things in black and white. We can invent---and yes, I have invented new terminology for the NEW couples living their lives. Pete and Jason, if you're reading this commentary, I wish you both the best and your children a great life, but please, don't let's hear Pete ever say again, "my husband Pete", or Jason to say "My wife Pete." We've got to realize this is over-the-top for our children. We need new words to define same-sex partnerships and I've got them for anyone interested and I don't want a penny for my efforts. I only want our children to have things in black and white.
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Well done Mr Tapper, you're doing your country a service trying to show what is going on. The moment one hears someone gaslighting someone, in this case defaming someone as a terrorist lover, the game is over. It’s a way to try to justify assassinating an opponent, because when a life is taken, everything that person was is gone, everything that person is has been erased and everything that person will be - will never come to be, and when that gets multiplied by 176 casualties from a very poor decision and then 60 some other people getting trampled at the general’s funeral, the outrage is palpable. The recent killing of an Iranian general makes sense only to get the heat off a beleaguered President Trump, literally on the ropes since he took over as the American President. What American politicians fail to understand is how this drone attack looks from the other side of the world. No one would ever blame America for fighting back after being attacked, but when a dodgy President Trump orders an assassination in the tinder box capital of the world, it only makes America look complicit in out and out murder for murder’s sake. It’s outdated, cold war tactics in an age where only diplomatic means bring respect; cold-blooded murder only tarnishes the image of the Democratic principles the American Constitution espouses. Soleimani has a laundry list of allegations of wrongful actions against him, but let them be looked after in the international courts, not by the obviously fudged accounts by Trump and his cronies who will do anything to be on the nightly news defending a rogue President who doesn’t sound sincere. He is a disgrace to the great American Republic. President Trump is a lesson to us all. In the age of media-is-king, one can tell the world lies and carry out assassinations on prime-time television and it somehow makes it through the news cycle. People can no longer distinguish between a charlatan and a statesman.
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Commander Paul, this has nothing to do with this videocast, but I know it will be useful to you and your listeners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4yPC-Q6dRA Bank Failures
1. March 8, 2023 Silvergate Capital Corp --- closed 2 days
2. March 10, 2023 Silicon Valley Bank ---seized by FDIC 2 days
3. Signature Bank seized by regulators 3 days
4. March 13, 2023 FDIC creates ‘bridge bank’ President declares deposits safe 7 days
5. Credit Suisse sold to UBS with government guarantees 2 months
6. May 1, 2023 First Republic Bank taken over by JP MORGAN
2008 Crisis
1. April 2007: New Century Financial bankrupt 5 months
2. September 2007: Bank runs at England’s Northern Rock Bank 6 months
3. March 2008: Bear Stern collapses 4 months
4. July, 2008: Indy Mac / Countrywide Financial, collapse 2 months
5. September 7, 2008: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac nationalized 1 day
6. September 15, 2008: AIG bail out 11 days
7. September 16, 2008: Washington Mutual (WaMu) collapses 1 month
8. October, 2008: Fed’s T.A.R.P. commits $700 billion in taxpayer funds 1 month
9. November 2008: Citigroup bail out 1 month
10. December 2008: General Motors / Chrysler bail out $80.7 billion 1 month
11. January 2009: Bank of America bail out, $20 billion 1 month
12. February 2009: President Obama approves $787 billion stimulus 4 months
13. June 2009: GM files for bankruptcy, closes 14 factories
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This videocast sounds surreal. In India, as we speak, 400,000 plus people were infected in the last 24 hours. The Indian variant is already in your country. It is incredibly contageous. To talk about having June in America a June like in years before is like talking about the world before World War Two. Shouldn't everyone be downplaying getting back to normal and having concerts by June and BBQs and hey, why not a Woodstock style festival? Boys and girls, with respect to Dr Gottlieb and and entire medical community, let's back off having this summer back-to-normal. Our brothers and sisters in India at this minute are dying by the second from not being able to breathe. Is anyone in the USA listening? Our brothers and sisters in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka are dying horrific deaths, and are we really hearing about having concerts at the end of June in America because you guys are ready to rock n' roll? Let's be clear; this is a pandemic that is a plague. The virus keeps mutating and now doctors in India are afraid to send infected patients home, because not like with the other virus, this virus means that when someone gets sent home to isolate, the whole family are getting infected. My advice? Stop all festivals. Stop all get togethers of more than a few people. Out of respect for our brothers and sisters in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka, stop all partying for the rest of this year in the USA. I am asking my brothers and sisters in America to listen up and do this for the human family: stop all concerts and get togethers until the whole human family is past this plague.
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Watching and listening to Thom Hartmann's excellent interview with Dr Mann, can we ask Dr Mann what he thinks they should do about Lade Meade being at 35% capacity. Isn't this a turning point, more exactly a tipping point event? Isn't the lake level going to now descend more quickly as apparently with the heatwave 20,000 olympic size swimming pools are evaporating each day from the reservoir? Dr Mann, is it time to think about water displacement from water-rich areas to water-poor areas like in your nation's west? Lastly, San Diego has the most up-to-date desalination plant on the planet, couldn't they pump seawater to Arizona and water-poor states and desalinate it, and then send back the salty extract by rail? I'm on the other side of the world with more rain than we need, so everything is out of kilter, but the tipping point at Lake Meade has been reached. Something must be done immediately. Heatwaves the Pacific NorthWest are difficult to navigate through, but what we've got to do is come up with the solution to have every region on Earth with water.
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Coming in at 1:32 "Some sense of agency..." What is hard to wrap one's head around is that the human mind has the ability to conceptualize many, many abstract thoughts. But what I think Sam Harris is doing is throwing a 'Jackson Pollack' painted-thought at us about free will. We see the big picture. We understand what he wants to say. But we can't understand how he got there. What humans of average intelligence can understand, and I think everyone agrees that I'm speaking about me, myself and I, is that we cannot get past the fact that something else could be involved in how we navigate through life. But what is interesting about listening to Sam Harris is that he brings us to the lens of the telescope he's looking through and let's us look at what he sees, and he even explains it to us. But it's so cerebral that is goes over our heads a lot of the time. But that's what I like about this debate: Lex speaks in primary colors; Sam speaks with a whole palette full of colors. Both of you guys show us how intrinsic life as we know it is: opaque layer upon layer of conundrums that open up into enigmas and exist somewhere in our collective consciousness as mysteries. Human beings probably will never cease to debate, and never, ever find the keys to open the doors of perception. My guess it that free will be a challenge that will tease our brains for centuries, and Sam Harris will be looked upon as one of the first explorers into this sorcer's realm. The sting of battle in whichever form, war, science, philosophy will forever be the background music to our individual paths through this thing we call our existence. Nonetheless, pioneers like Sam Harris will help humanity continue its journey to try to unravel and reveal what free will is made of, or come from, or who its master really is: us or X.
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Dear Al Jazeera News Presenter and Al Jazeera team and Al Jazeera Contributors, Thank you Al Jazeera for excellent news videocasts, and thank you Al Jazeera Contributors for giving your analyses on the recent upheavals and démonstrations in the United States. I am living in a country on the other side of the world, and today on public tranportation I heard three African women speaking in French and one of them saying she would like to be over in America and join in on the protests. They all blamed the police. I interrupted them to say that although I am not American, I think that someone has to speak up for the police point of view as well. It’s too easy to start firebombing police cars because of an unfortunate murder of an African American in police custody, but let’s not forget the Australian woman gunned down by a Muslim Ethiopian American police officer and there wasn’t global protests about him killing a woman calling a 911 call. All of you and everyone else are missing the point on what is causing problems around the world. The answer to racism and just about anything else is business. What am I saying? Business is the cure for cementing communities, nationalities and ethnic groups, not laws and forcing people to act in some way that is supposed to be equal. People will always be judged by the color of their skin and we’ve got to come to grips with it, but people will quickly put that out of their minds if they are doing good business. Burning someone’s shop or another person’s car is not going to get any of us anywhere, but get a job for everyone and you will see all hate melt away and acceptance of others’ differences coming to fruition. Yes; getting a job for everyone is a challenge, but it’s doable. Peace.
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Our thoughts and prayers go out for the victims’ families of the bank shooting and our sympathies to Governor Beshear who has lost a dear friend. As an overseas viewer, if I were to move to America to live, I would do one thing as soon as I was deemed qualified by law enforcement officials. I would apply to have a gun permit for concealed or open carry. Boys and girls, the plain simple truth of the matter is that in a Republic like yours where people can carry and buy weapons, unstable people, like the shooter at the bank, will always be a possible source of confrontation for innocent people in the work place, or a home invasion, or a public place. What am I saying here? As distasteful as this is going to sound to a lot of people who will never agree with my logic, I have to say that every capable and legally qualified adult in America should carry a handgun at all times in public and have the same thing in a safe place at home. You have to get these mass shootings off the front page. If those five bank employees had a weapon on them, chances are we may be talking about only one casualty---or maybe only the shooter! To recap: get all qualified adults armed, this will go into some of the potential mass-shooters waiting in the wings and they might abandon their idea. When this has happened, then and only then can you start tinkering with the 2nd Amendment. The first thing a trauma surgeon would advise is to get rid of AR-15s which apparently vaporize all organs around the bullet going through a victim. It's an opinion...
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Thank you, Jake and the CNN Team, and the CNN Contributors for excellence in broadcasting journalism on this heartbreaking and sordid affair of Camelot gone wrong. I predict that The Fulton County Jail will soon be the scene of the inauguration of the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library and become a top country hit song sung by an AI-inspired vocal of Johnny Cash and forthcoming inmate i.e., former President Donald J. Trump, will of course sue and win for defamation. Seriously, Trump's mug shot will hang in the backrooms of infamy with Giuliani's as well as a string of other fools who followed their pied piper into the halls of justice and will end up in the American Penal System's version of a Holiday Inn. The wrongdoers our capitalist societies produce in abundance should show us the downside of capitalism and what the pursuit of fame and money and power can do to even people coming from high society. Again, seriously and even more seriously, Trump's downturned, sun-baked face shows how a million words showing him the wrong he has done has finally sunk in. It's a sad day for America and for us across the world from you, because what no one is saying is that Trump used all of his creative and innovative energy to stain and denigrate the American Dream and experiment; he was willing to throw the Republic and democracy under the bus for personal gain! Imagine, just take a minute and imagine what Donald J. Trump has thrown away. He could have gone down in American history as a cultural hero and he should have accomplished many things with his drive and cunning and energy to really make America great!
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Mr Jones says inflation is the single greatest threat to society. But look at what a top university professor of economics says what inflation is really about. Professor Richard D. Wolff has this to say. "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." So what gives?
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Thank you, for a very good interview with your guests. Here is something I have paraphrased and written as a comment that Professor Clarke said to Kate in the Frontline show that I believe deserves repeating: Michael Clarke's point of view. If Putin walks away with what is perceived by him and the rest of the world to be a victory or partial victory, then the west loses very badly, because dictatorships are on the march across the world and because we’ve now committed ourselves to Ukraine in the way we have over the last year. The credibility of liberal democracy is on the line; not just as an ideology---but as a power center in world politics of which it has been for over 200 years. So; in a way, we are on a tiger’s back now, because having committed ourselves to defeating this Putin adventure, if we fail to defeat it, then the rest of the world will draw its own conclusions about the waning power of the western world and we’ll feel the effect of that pretty strongly. What Michael Clarke expects is if Putin can be thrown back, not out of all Ukraine, that would be very good if he were, but Clarke suggests that if Putin were thrown back out of the parts of Ukraine that he’s conquered since 2022, the western world would regard that as a victory, and most probably would accept it as a win. And: though Ukraine probably wouldn’t like it, if the west thought that gaining back the territory that was conquered in 2022 was good enough, then Professor Clarke thinks Kiev would have to decide that at least for the time being that was it was okay to let Crimea be off of the bargaining table.
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Thank you for a very informative and unusually very well-presented vocast Sabine. Did you by chance eat some lamb's bread before you started the video? JUST KIDDING! Aren't we forgetting one important thing, one undeniable fact about our governments determining what are what we cannot do to our bodies. By legalizing or forbidding certain substances and punishable by criminal prosecution, aren't the people we elect to lead us actually saying this when they say something should not be legal: "We judge you so incompetent, that you do not even know how to manage your own consumption of drugs or stimulants etc. So; we will decide what you can or cannot use as a drug, because you are clearly not able to judge for yourself. Sabine, I believe EVERYTHING should be legal. If every drug was legal, we know the consequences would be enormous, as certain individuals would go out of their minds and destroy themselves. But my argument is that they are doing it in spite of, say, cocaine being illegal. In the country where I live, I believe it was 2 years ago or so, 5 adolescents died from using cocaine from a dealer that was treated with a toxic product. We must assume responsibility for recreational drug use no matter what the drug and by doing so it would severely limit organized crime from the scene.
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Peter, isn't this the way to go ahead with the Ukraine war with Russia? President Putin and his entourage cannot---it seems to me---connect the dots to see the whole picture. The whole picture in my view is this---and I am an artist and inventor and not a military strategist or globalist and researcher like you---the concept that President Putin needs to understand is this: the west will not now and/or forever accept that the Ukraine is absorbed into greater Russia no matter what the cost. What I think will help President Putin and his supporters is for our leaders to speak like you do: frankly, in pleasant and respectful tones, very positively and sincerely---but dead serious. He must be told and reminded on a daily basis and on every newscast, every vocast, every radio emission, every public form that he, President Putin, has crossed a red line by invading a sovereign nation and he has to understand that we will not and cannot now and for all eternity back down. It is our very existence that is being threatened here and in no disrespect to Russian doctrine this time the goal posts cannot be moved. We in essence are like a cornered cheetah, we will not hesitate to use whatever means possible in defending this rock-solid principle in the constitutions of all western countries: democratic values cannot be negotiated. We understand his perspective and it takes two to tango, but we in the west, NATO and the USA and Canada and many other nations will not now or ever allow the Ukraine to be occupied, the civilian population humiliated and attacked and the infra-structure ruined, just so a superpower has decided that it wants to occupy forever a country that is not theirs and never will be.
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Lex Fridman and Sam Harris are two giants in the world of thought and what great thinkers, like these two men are, but let's be real. Sam is trying to throw a life-raft to Jordan, his friend, and a great thinker in his own right, but Peterson's downfall is in clinging to the most famous person in the world who never existed. Jesus Christ was a bronze age imaginatory figure concocted by some pretty ingenious albeit faceless, people from that era. But Jesus was a bronze-age man because of one thing: when asked why his disciples didn't wash their hands, Jesus Christ said---and I am paraphrasing---they are clean within. If Jesus was truly the son of God he would have known about how important cleanliness was. Instead, we see bronze-age awareness coming from the son of the all-knowing God. If Jesus really was divine, he would have told people not to drink from the village well and to wash their hands and cleanse themselves every day. But no; we have had to wait 1900 years until bacteria were discovered. Jordan Peterson, like Sam Harris and Lex Fridman are a gift to the human family, but they have their flaws. It is up to everyone to do their proper research, and come to one's own conclusions. For myself, Jesus Christ was an invented figure who has been placed in a historical setting. Unfortunately, the mindset of the human family is flawed in it abitlity to see that we are the masters of our destiny, not some mythical figure that has no historical background.
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Lex Fridman and David Pakman, both of you are doing a great service to America and the world---and I hope Lex's videocasts are broadcast in Russia too; it's Lex's home country. Lex has brought so many minds up front and center and David has been instrumental in helping people distinguish the truth from the hype. I think your discussion about Twitter is important because Mr Musk should not own it. It's only an opinion, but from across the world from you it looks like Elon has bought himself a personal megaphone in Twitter and tweets and somehow it looks like overkill; it looks like a mega-billionaire who has his hand in everything; he is everywhere on the American game board; he's the goalie on both teams; he can now send rockets to mars; he can build fantastic cars, but to own Twitter is going too far because the social media post that everyone used to like for its quirkiness has now Elon changing this and changing that and could it be that discreetly, ever so discreetly, he is molding the American mindset into his (autocratic?) vision of the world? This is what I think is happening and as much as I admire Elon for his contribution to society, I do not like him owning mind space. it does not bode well for the general public and especially young people for one person to be so omnipresent. It's like one size fits all only it's one person's personal touch on how people communicate, travel to work, travel in space etc. Diversity is dying in America because the system cranks out billionaires who write the rules for all of us to follow. Elon is not to blame; he's a shining example of how capitalism is supposed to work, but he is also a product of a toxic economic system that is really feudalism on steroids. I write too much, but does anything I say make sense? Is it alright for you guys that Elon has now made his brand and his empire into what could be metaphorically called wall to wall carpeting covering what some people might consider too many aspects of American society?
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Dear Mr Anderson, Mr Toobin and Mr Dershowitz, What Mr Dershowitz is doing is creating an Australian sandstorm, a CIA smokescreen, A James Bond ‘Q’s diversionary tactic to cover up the scandal he is implicated in. His ship went down in the Epstein affair, and he’s using this opportunity to try and pull the wool over everyone’s eyes. He is a natural master of contradicting rhetoric and a very convincing spin doctor, but the fact is, he is doing his profession a huge disservice in continuing the charade. President Trump is a President who needs to do is civic duty and stand down from office. Mr Dershowitz must do his profession the honor of standing down and letting the law be defended by lawyers who have not disgraced themselves in front of the world. Both Mr Dershowitz and President Trump are undoubtedly nice people, trying to do their best, but they have both betrayed their oath of office and profession and they must realize they have no credibility. Thank you Mr Anderson for the fireworks display between Mr Toobin, who is being far too kind and should be going for the juggler, but we understand because Mr Dershowitz is his former teacher.
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If we listen to the esteemed retired General and former CIA Director and America's favorite Military Analyst David Petraeus in JB's excellent interview, it is mind-boggling to see that the west has supplied the Ukrainians to the teeth for the counter offensive ostensibly forgetting to give them superior air support, G-9 bulldozers to clear the mines, Bombers to carpet bomb the mine fields and trenches, Warthogs to clean out the trenches and Attack Helicopters to fire on moving targets and advancing units. By the way, without all of this, the superior air support etc., the Ukrainians are having to chip away at a giant piece of marble called the Russian defenses with pick axes. But hey, they have got tanks, Humvees, Bradley's and guns and ammo and artillery and Hymers and above all, let's not forget the drones. Seriously, are we not seeing one of the bravest militaries ever to go against a superpower and in spite of a lack of air support and everything that was mentioned, still be doing an courageous job of making progress towards those mine fields, dragons’ teeth, and fortified trenches i.e., murder holes? Without American support and the backing of famous military superstars like General Petraeus, I believe the Ukrainians would still be going across the mine fields and attacking Russian lines with spears and shields if they had to!
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Dear Mr Rogan, I think you have a great show; it's personal, truth to power stuff, and you don't beat around the bush. So I won't go off on a tangent and water down what I think you should consider before pulling out of the great state of California. You signed up for the greatest show on Earth when you went to California, and it has made you what you are today: a very, very successful and rich man. You have wealth beyond belief because the magic of the city on a shining hill called Hollywood worked its spell on you. So; what am I saying? Nothing really will change your mind about pulling out of the land of dreams, but I'll give it a try. Why not do something about homelessness yourself? Why not do what you want others to do to help people who have nothing at all. Imagine going home after work tonight and seeing all of your belongings in a pile in front of your place. Eviction notice on top of the pile pinned to a pillow. You got nothin but a supermarket trolley cart to lug your junk from now on. Well, that's about what is going on to many of those people who landed in L.A. and Frisco and other places. But you can make a difference and get a lot of those people off the street and put their bad luck behind them. You just signed up to a 100 million dollar paycheck and that will buy a lot of things. I'm not saying spend it all, but give some of it back. You'll never be a peace with yourself turning your back on those in need while you're living it up in a cleaner town somewhere out in Texas. Texans are people who take care of their own. They're the kind of people who will back you all the way to hell and back if they see you're trying to get back on your feet. Comon' Joe, help some of your folks who are down and out with no way to go but up. Set up a hotel where rough sleepers can get some shut-eye, clean their clothes and get a belly full of food for a night. It will cost you interest on your dough. You'll feel great and the people in Texas will be proud to have someone coming to stay that's just like them. It's an opinion. I'll never forget the good people of Texas
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Dear Sky News Team, The interview with Mika Brzezenski was devastating according to legal experts. Biden was evasive, but it takes a trained eye to spot the inconsistencies in his testimony. They were crafty at MSNBC by immediately making it a split screen between Mika and Biden. Suddenly he had no one to cover for him. He said things like, "Look, Mika, how could you…" This is interpreted like this. When someone says 'look', they are setting you up to be deceptive. When he says, "Mika", as if to say, "how could you say this, we're friends?" It is done to try to make her look bad for asking such a serious question. Biden was very evasive and countless times deflected the questions, blinked like a madman when asked pertinent questions. Mika did one thing that let Biden sink his own ship. She asked a question and never interuppted him and that's when he made many misstatements having nothing to do with her excellent questions. What we have to consider is that this woman is staking her reputation on a saying a US Senator put his fingers inside her in a public place. My God, what courage and how hard it must be for her to reveal such sordid details across the world. Biden should step down because we all have seen this movie before: another sexual predator in the highest office of the land. His presidency will be a parade of women coming forth denouncing him for misconduct. If only they could get him to stand down and get someone like Governor Cuomo or Governor Neusom on the ticket. It's an opinion from a European perspective. Be safe.
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What I see----and I am a person watching this vocast from across the world, 2,000 kilometers from Kiev and you know what we are going through over here---but what I see and excuse me Pat if I have over-stepped myself and gone into conspiracy theory madness, but isn't it a distinct possibility that the Covid-19 pandemic could have been created, designed, programmed etc., to inflict maximum damage on the American financial sector as its main goal? Aren't we seeing the American economy getting hit by proverbial bank-run torpedo after inflationary torpedo as you are pointing out in this video and could it really be this way because of the trillion-dollar bailout that the pandemic forced the Biden Administration into making? China allowed planeload after planeload of people to leave Wuhan in January, February and half of March 2020 to all parts of the world and forbad planes taking off from Wuhan to visit any other part of China in the same time period. This looks like they knew what the payload was going out of the country on those jets and the big question of course is why would they do it? Economics might very well be the answer. It doesn't take a financial wizard to see that if you over-heat the American economy enough, it would eventually bring economic Armageddon and cause bank runs and even a great depression that would make the '29 depression a walk in the park in comparison. Call it what you want, I just think that the fall of the American dollar and collapse of its economy might have been the reason the Wuhan lab-leak of Covid-19 was designed for and released across the world in the first place. There are a lot of moving parts in trying to determine if the virus was released intentionally, but the pandemic keeps getting into the cross-hairs of my intellectual microscope and I am trying to see what is happening in your country and across the world, and this latest crack in the framework of the American banking system says that something is not right. The money supply is the blood of an economy and something is bleeding the money out of the world's economies and a hot war is threatening to expand into a possible global conflict. We need clear heads and Patrick Bet David and his team's assessment...
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Dear Mr Coussins, Thank you for your excellent videocasts and analyses of the wild and wicked ways of the Trump Administration. You know as well as I do that none of the people you mentionned are going to do serious time for the crimes that they have committed. You know that Ivanka Trump is way too pretty to get charged for a misdemeanor. Okay, I'm kidding about Ivanka, but everyone will walk because President-Elect Biden knows this will cloud his own Adminstration and steal valuable air-time from what he needs to do, so they'll all walk the walk and talk the talk and get off scot free. No one's going to bat an eye, because once you're in the Governor's office, the laws are translated a little bit different and the punishment goes away like a bad dream. But the most important thing as far as I'm concerned, and I'm only someone watching this from the other side of the world, and what I think needs to be done is to get it back in everyone's head that one's work, one's purpose in life is not to be ranting and raving on about what other people do right or wrong. What needs to happen in America is that first of all men need to buckle down and do their best in school and get educated till the cows come home. Ditto for the girls, but they are already in tune with the message. What also needs to be done is for people to stop being stuck like glue to one side of the political isle or the other. It's weighing your country down to have die-hard Republicans or die-hard Democrats. Let the best man or woman win. Stand behind your president through thick and thin. Let go of calling the other side losers. You are Americans; show the world you are united. Biden's the new head honcho, Harris is the new vice-head honchess. Get behind them no matter who you voted for and make your country the best it can be by being the best you can be. Show the world that being American means having no party's colors defining you, but what you are inside of you defining you. Be the best you can be and you'll see what that means to your country, yourself and the world.
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What a magnificent country America has turned out to be in spite of the divisive and perhaps criminal behavior of former President Trump. As an overseas viewer, the thing that sticks out like a neon sign is that in spite of all the rhetoric, The United States of America is a rule-based country and someone is REALLY innocent until proven guilty. There are and will be unfortunate exceptions, because no country is pure as the driven snow. But what I think you all have to feel very proud of is that you are talking about a former president who has been charged with 34 felony counts and it is business as usual. Anderson Cooper masterfully conducts a group analysis and everyone weighs in on the pros and cons----but Trump is not being hauled off to jail without a fair trial. The system of law really does work in America, and next to our country in France, former President Nicolas Sarkozy was convicted of election fraud, and as America's oldest ally we can attest that there were no riots in the streets of Paris demanding he be exonerated. In short, it looks like no matter who is on which side of the political aisle, when the truth is not compromised and someone's guilt is proven beyond a reasonable doubt, if a judgement comes down on a prominent person, people of all stripes accept the results, some more begrudgingly than others it must be noted. In one way, Trump has united all the people in your country no matter what race, color or creed they are and you can almost say that because of the sad and tragic story that former President Donald J. Trump has caused and will experience, his legacy will resonate for years to show that your country became even more united because of his shortcomings.
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What is causing the latest craving for the new drug, we will never figure out, but we musn't forget what peer pressure can do to a young person. The solution for getting young people and older people off of this particularly intense and disfiguring addictive substance is to first change the American mindset. You see, the digital generation and i-phones especially have taken our eye off the ball of what life is all about. These devices have robbed kids blind of thinking for themselves----not that they are different from other generations, it's just that the American consciousness has a weakness and that weakness is talking heads on little screens. I know; you want to know what is the way out for the At-odds-with-everything generation? Here it is: it must be put into every young person's mind that the key to a great life is going for one's greatest challenge. That is what is missing in the national and to be truthful, international narrative. When you go for your greatest challenge, nothing, absolutely nothing, will get in your way to stop you from getting there because you don't have the time or the energy to do something else. This is not a magic wand thing, people will still fall down, but it is what could be called is the first step in getting everyone on the same page...
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Here is an overseas viewer and listner's advice on what to do about the heated rhetoric and veiled threats coming out of the middle kingdom. First, Australia must announce that in any negotiations Australia seeks a win/win strategy. Australia wants their trading partners to win as must as it wants Ausrtalia to win. Second, let's stop pointing fingers. Third, don't make this a personal conflict in taking what China says to heart. This is an excellent chance to have two noble nations find common ground, but it must be done this way. Australia needs to ask what China wants on this or that issue. It's very clear that Australia will bend over backwards to have China's demands met, but if it cannot agree, leave it at that. Simply said, we can go this far, but not any further. We will not back down, and any sort of armed conflict is not our goal, but we must warn anyone, that we will never strike the first blow in the event things get out of control. I repeat: What Australia must do is to send out the message loud and clear that it has no will for any sort of armed confrontation with its Chinese brothers and sisters. What Australia represents is open discussion, fair policies and a win/win approach with all of our trading partners. There is surely an agreement both sides can agree with on any one issue, and Australia will negotiate and negotiate until both sides are satisfied, because Australia knows that it can sometimes take a lot of times to overturn every stone until both sides agree on any issue.
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Dear Mr Cooper, Ms Gloria Borger, Senator Santorum, Thank you Mr Cooper for covering the Trump Administration from every angle and every perspective and with honor and high marks. You and the CNN Team and CNN Contributors will be receiving Journalism’s highest award, The Medal of Television Reporting Under Heavy Enemy Verbal Bombs, and for getting through the poltical battlefield of the Trumpian Machine in one piece. You have all earned your wrinkles. But what is the lesson we on the other side of the world and you in America have learned from this historic rogue government in the world’s strongest democracy? Boys and girls, what I see from my armchair perspective is that Trump could very well have shot and killed someone on 5th Avenue in New York City like he once boasted, and you know as well as I do his party would have rallied around him. Mitch McConnell would have blocked any legislation that could take him down. Lindsay Graham would have declared the victim as being responsible. Republican political leaders would not comment. In other words, Trump has shown the entire world that if truth meant anything before he became president, it was his Adminstration's and world democracy's number one casualty and now it's plain as day it sure doesn’t mean much now. An American president can say ER Doctors recieve a bounty for labelling any dead patient a Covid-19 death and get no flack from any politician in his party. An ethics challenged, rogue president like Donald J. Trump was elected because of a weak and inexperienced black president who was a gifted orator, but showed extreme poor judgement in letting Assad walk all over him in 2011 for example. It was the perfect time for a Richie-Rich style blow-hard like Donald Trump to fake his way past 17 very qualified Republican candidates and win his country's presidency. What is appalling is that no matter what his mental state may be, or how much he has been convicted of corruption or whatever he promises to adversaries that could go against his own country, he will be exempt from any kind of punishment and his crimes will be swept under the rug by the Supreme Court to top it off if need be, because like the DOJ, he wisely made sure all the judges he assigned would never send him up the river. What it looks like from across the world is that politicians are really only in it for themselves. The Republican Party and let's face it, all political parties only care about lining their own pockets. The pots of gold the Trump Empire funneled into the Republican Party Official’s offshore bank accounts guaranteed him 8 years, and it was only his bad-mouthing of Senator McCain and the pandemique which threw enough obstacles in his path to sink him. Sadly, Trump has shown us that there is no honor in politics; it’s only about money. There are the John McCain’s, and most people are in politics to help others, but when it all gets down to it, the essential is that politics is all about greasing palms. As long as a president serves the power mongers well, he’s invincible. The proof is the avalanche of ‘proof’ that Trump exceeded legal boundaries the whole length of his time in office, and his supporters never, ever waivered. Biden has had the fight of his life against the worst president to ever grace The Oval Office because he thought he was on a roll and chose a black woman as his vice-president running mate. This nearly cost him the election, because he misjudged how white voters would rather have Trump back as president rather than a woman of color leading them
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Once again, the esteemed geopolitical specialist with the super cool shades that you have become, Peter, has opened a new hatch in what could be called the African Political Submarine culture, which has really been far down below the surface of international hot spots the media usually stays focused on for as long as anyone can remember. What is clear, as far as where Niger is concerned, is that by having a coup d'état and ousting their democratically-elected president, the junta has now put its fingers in what they think is a honey pot, but what is in all likelihood going to become a tar pit. The west---and especially France----where the saying goes 'never two without three'----and in this case coup d'états, will not stay out of this one. As a lay perspective, what I think is going to happen is that the military chiefs in France, the UK, NATO and especially the USA are going to see that the coup d'état in Niger must not, will not and cannot succeed or the whole region will really become the dark continent. It will become a magnet for the world’s autocratic regimes like China, North Korea and Russia whom will find powerful partners in crime in Niger and the other countries which have booted out the French and staged similar coup d’états. Let Niger get away with this caper, and Africa turns into a black rock to western scissors.
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Isn’t it about time to revise the expression "Thank God, it's Friday" to "My God, it's Friday and the US has skin in the middle east war games." You of all people know that when the US sends warplanes into Syria it is a deliberate step in saying "We are all in." This is doubly troubling, because by doing so it expands this regional conflict from just an Israeli-Hamas-Palestinian conflict into a US, Israel, probably Iran, probably Syria, maybe other players, Hamas, Hezbollah and the Palestinians. Commander, you know as well as I do that the Israeli Airforce have air superiority in the region and could have taken out those targets in Syria with ease. So; the big question remains: Why has America decided to step into the quicksand of a possible declaration of war with middle eastern countries which are like porcupines in that they may be weaker, but they never really lose, do they? What is coming down the runway in this ever-escalating, and more and more dangerous conflagration in the middle east is risks to draw in EU members and maybe even the UK. Lastly, thank you for taking the heat off of so many burning questions about war and combat and firefights and baffling battlefield carnage and strategies from your country and the others that make sense to people who have never served in the military about what war is all about behind the scenes and in eye-reach for people in your country and for us across the world from you. Mostly though, you have brought great honor and prestige and well-deserved appreciation for every person whom has ever served in the military and who has worn the uniform for their country.
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Dear Ms Amanpour, Mr Avanashi (SP?) and Mr Wilson, As an overseas viewer the thing that breaks our hearts the most about the staged insurrection and alleged sedition from President Trump, Rudolf Giuliani, and also from the leader of the rebel senators, Ted Cruz, and his cohorts is the fact that someone actually died in your nation’s capital. Unbelievably, four other people---one a policeman---lost their lives for a sham political stunt. The insurrection is a black mark on American democracy, but people died because a disgruntled President Trump could not admit he lost an election. The would be Che Guevara of the movement to overthrow the election results, Ted Cruz, should be ashamed of himself for acting like he lost his mind by shouting through bullhorns to Trumpers about how they’re not going to take it anymore or other nonsense. I am writing to say that I believe I can deliver the root cause of what you are experiencing. As a lay person, I don’t want you to think I have a professional authority on what I am about to say, but I believe the reason you are seeing the chaos erupting across your nation is that the economic system is not working any more to a satisfying degree for most of the people. People are mad because of a problem with their standard of living; Trump was just a big, flashy bullhorn guy who the people at the end of their tether could use as a spokesperson for the grief they feel, but have no idea that why they are so angry is not because of Democrats or Republicans or Independents; it’s because their money gets them nowhere. We all secretly love capitalism, because it has done so much for people like ourselves, but what we don’t realize is that Nixon taking the dollar off the gold standard, and Thatcher and Reagan deregulating the banks and other legislation resulted in what we are now experiencing everywhere: a wealth chasm that is wider than The Grand Canyon. You can find everything you want in analyzing what is happening in your country, and you’ll be right, but in my humble opinion, we have to change the economic system we have all grown up with for something that takes care of everyone. What we don’t see is that we want to go in one direction and have a great society and save the environment, but the economic system we are using is going in the opposite direction. It’s a no-win situation, and until we see that you cannot have a chassis that does not support the weight of the vehicle, we are going to continue deluding ourselves into thinking that it’s because of that guy or gal over there who believes in the next faux guru of change that desperate people cling to. Remember, you cannot fact-check a person in an emotional state. Trump’s follows are living proof that when people condemn Trump, they only believe in him more. It's an opinion.
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Dear CNN Host and Governor Cuomo, First, our hearts go out to the victims of another senseless crime against the Jewish people. I live in Europe and it seems anti-sementic crimes are on the rise as well as against immigrants. This is appalling and in this difficult time I am offering a solution to diminishing the attacks on Orthodox Jews as well as other religious minorities. Please don’t take offense at my advice, I only mean to say some words that may save some lives. But when people overtly show their religious convictions, they are soft-targets for extremists. I know that people of faith wear their religious emblems and costumes with pride, and rigthtly so! It's because they are proud to be from their ethnic backgrounds, but, my friends of all religious persuasions, this is the age of mass-murder and senseless killing for the sake of killing sometimes just to get mentioned in the news. America has had the worst year of all the years of mass-killings in 2019. Alarm bells should be going off in the religious communities. The message to me is that we must realize we are not in the 1950’s anymore. Why go out of the house looking like a Christmas tree and be surprised someone attacks you for being a Christian, etc.? Again, excuse me if I have offended anyone, but when we hear of religious people being attacked where I live in Europe, they are always wearing clothes that signal to the attackers who they are. We must accept that these are dangerous times, and that perhaps discretion must be brought to the forefront. I know the attack at the rabbi's house does not fit in my advice, but if what I say can possibly ward-off an attack on someone -- whatever faith they represent, isn't 2020 the year to re-examine how we are precieved in public?
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Thank you Mr Fridman and Mr Weinstein for honest, intellectual exchange that at times is riveting. One of Russia’s greatest gifts to Humanity and your country is Lex Fridman. Doesn’t he ever run out of questions? JUST KIDDING Lex! The UFO phenomenon is mind-boggling. Apparently, ever 6 minutes somewhere around the world, a UFO has been spotted. I’ve never seen one; my standard argument is that if the Earth sent a spaceship to another planetary system and life was detected in the Goldy-locks region, and beings were found to exist there, would we play hide and seek? You know what I mean, would we do everything we could not to let them know we came to their world? What troubles me though is the extensive work done by Dr Jerry Kroth, Dr David Jacobs, Dr John Mack, Dr Stan Fridman, Richard Dolan, and many, many others who have put together some pretty air-tight arguments that our space brothers are not just make believe. Look at the spaceship in Jerry Kroth's video and tell me that isn't incredible!
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Happy New Year Mr Blitzer and Senator Paul, Mr Blitzer, you have been a guiding light and a voice of reason in showering the world with solid facts your whole life, and you deserve a great year and vote of thanks for presenting the news and interviewing people in a dignified way for the common good. Thank you Senator Paul for your interesting and often illuminating analyses on all of the issues that you discuss. Senator Paul, your words on the Iranian General’s assassination are superb if not the best you have ever said. Now for the hard part. Excuse for being naïve on what I am about to say, but after hearing that 40 or more people died in a stampede at General Soleimi’s funeral, could I possibly offer an off-ramp that at least would cause the Iranian hardliners pause and show the heart of the American people to another nation in time of need? What am I saying? Okay, here goes: would it be wrong for either the US, or some people from America or CNN for example, to offer to at least pay for the 40 people’s funerals as a gesture of solidarity and support? It would also be a peaceful message of understanding of how wrong the drone attack was in offering another sort of message that at least part of America wants to send to the Iranian people? I realize it would probably be refused, but it might show another face to the Trump Administration’s way of solving diplomatic issues with Iran, and save even one American life in revenge attacks. I am an independent observer living on the other side of the world and a friend of America. Peace trumps war
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Dear American Lawmakers and Government officials and Dr Fauci, If any time there was a moment for an overseas viewer to step in and ask all of you if it is possible to use the 25th amendment and gently persuade President Trump to step down from his duties after enunciating the most absurd and frankly irresponsible phrase of saying that he recommends to his team to slow down on testing, the time is now and I humbly ask you to step back and think this out. This obscene and deranged statement by the most powerful man in the world, the commander in chief of the American Armed Forces which are second to none in the whole history of the world, this president whose words and actions can mean literally life and death for thousands of people, this, perhaps, very nice person and wonderful father must be either convinced to do his civic duty or be forced by the Senate enacting the 15th amendment to remove a president not in control of his faculties. It is over; America is like the ship in the Commander at the Far Side of the World, or something to that effect; the brilliantly acted movie about a ship who entered a storm at the bottom of the world and a mast went over with a valued crew member hanging on for dear life. Captain Jack, the inimitable Russel Crowe, took one look at his next in command who heard the men rallying about it being a sea anchor that is bringing the ship down to Davey Jones Locker, and ordered the broken mast cut free. It save the ship. Ladies and Gentlemen of the Senate and the Congress of America and all Americans, you must act now to save your great ship America from being taken down by the ‘sea anchor’ president, Donald J. Trump who is unwittingly dragging all of you and the free world down to Davey Jones Locker.
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I am listening to this vocast from a European country not yet invaded by an aggresive neighbor and wondering how things have gotten this crazy. In all truth, I live 2,000 kilometers from Kiev but in reality, no one is safe anymore or probably ever was. That being said, what you two guys are talking about matter-of-factly is appalling in every sense of the word and horrifying in how guns have come to be the equalizer in American society at an alarmingly increasing rate. It's obvious that from just a few days ago, an event not covered by mainstream media somehow got reported and we saw how a woman in I believe it was West Virginia saw a mass-shooting in real time and managed to pump 7 bullets into the guy before he could kill kids and family members at a birthday. The real sad, sick issue here is that apparently earlier in the day, someone at the birthday party had told the guy to slow down as there were kids playing or something to that extent. Now, let's just imagine this: the guy became so upset about being told to slow down that he found a way to get an AR rifle--he was an ex-con---and then went to where he could get a good view of the birthday party and started to open fire on innocent kids and family members at the festive event and miraculously a citizen bearing arms could stop the madman. This is where we have to wonder what has happened to the respect that was a solid feature of American society not so long ago. Why have people come to the point of being able to kill their fellow Americans like it was target practice? How can this be? Who could gun down innocent people for whatever reason knowing especially that an AR rifle's bullet travels with a velocity that literally blows organs apart and damages tissue beyond repair for trauma-surgeons? What has gone wrong with the democratic Republican experiment that has been the hallmark of democracies across the world? Well, the answer is simple. Guns are simply too easy to squeeze the trigger before one realizes he's done it and someone is bleeding and dying on the pavement. Most people sitting in jails and prisons across your beloved country are kicking themselves every waking hour because they regret over-reacting. Guns are temper-tantrum people's worst enemy, because the anger pulls the trigger before the mind thinks again. No solution in sight, but both of you seem to have figured out a way to survive.
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PIers and Yuval, I am only one voice and probably have a naïve point of view on AI, but here goes. I think we have to realize that the train has left the station and all we can do is chase it from now on as far as AI development is concerned. In the human body of a man, if cancer cells get away from a cancerous prostate, the end is more or less guaranteed for the poor guy, because they never can catch it once it is on the loose. But in the world today----let's take art for example---I am an artist and I see that AI has found a comfortable niche already in coming up with amazing pseudo-photographic work---incredibly---an AI simulated photo fetched 400,000 USD at auction. So; it's here and I say bring it on. It will separate the artists who are technically excellent in their work but could change jobs in a heartbeat from the artists who have art in them and will continue their careers by having a permanent side-job if need be. The information we all look at must now be viewed with scrutiny and double-checked and reviewed constantly. It is simply too hard to detect fakes and our technological advances in weeding out BS is in its infancy. Ditto with robots and the silicon minds they will possess which are going to generate renegades and much to our regret we are going to get blowback until we conquer the problem by altering and tweaking the silicon genes we put in them by making them foolproof and ensuring all AI assisted silicon robots and machines will be no more and no less than our family dog in their relationship with humans. Yes; we must realize that even when singularity is reached and it has blossomed into sentient silicon beings far superior to us, they must always be our companions i.e., equal to a family pet. This is doable; it may seem insurmountable, but this is how our democratic world in the west may be wired by machines, but will always be shaped by humans…
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I'm very loosely paraphrasing Dr Jim Tour of Rice University--(Do your own research)--but his analysis of the simplest cell is so astounding in that for example, the membrane of a simple cell has 10 to the 78 billion possible combinations for it to work, but only one combination can work. The chance of everything happening at the right time and right temperature becomes the lottery of the universe, because for a cell to be alive all of the components have to get connected at the same time and at specific temperatures. The Carbohydrates on the membrane if I recall are more complex than the DNA and RNA combined. Would the elements necessary for these complex mechanisms to be constructed have combined to form the RNA and DNA out of a hydrocarbon vent under the oceans? Each particular mechanism in a cell must be created and put in place at exactly the right time and with the right temperature. If not, the lipids for example, would caramelize if, say, they were left alone for 3 weeks, meaning that they would have to be created again if they were not functional when the other components of the cell came together. But like Jim says, nature doesn't have a lab book. How would it know that it was necessary to create the missing part of a cell? In a cell, when one product is produced in one part of the cell that is needed in another part of the cell, a bridge is constructed to transport the material, and afterwards the bridge dissolves; this is incredible and shows that cells are really biological factories. Lex and Nick, you both kick the wind out of me in debating this subject, but what it seems like to me is that the possibility of life forming and a cell becoming alive are so infinitesimal that I think we have to find other avenues of possible sources before we find where and how life began. Undeniably, life is what has happened on the Earth. What comes to my mind is this: could the Earth have been terraformed so that life could be seeded here?
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As an overseas viewer I have to commend Joe Rogan for tackling subjects like homelessness. He loves his country and this is a subject we can see he would like off his radar screen. It's a blight on planet Earth as well---but totally controllable---and I think the one thing we don't want to talk about is how it is affecting the kids in America who are getting driven to school in say, San Francisco, and... ooops, out the side door window a 5 year old child sees an adult relieving himself by urinating or defecating on a city street. What no one is realizing is that this is harming America's proudest and most revered and loved resource, the children. I'm not a shrink, but I believe that in a place in their brain that no psychiatrist in our time could tell you the effects it's going to have later on in that child's life, something very destructive is happening; a seed of discontent is being realized. Let's go over that again: a child sees an adult perform an act that he was toilet trained not to do. Mom drives on and when the child asks his mother or dad, "Why is that guy doing that in front of our house? he gets his dad shrugging his shoulders and his mom puckering her lips and blowing hard". California parents of course, have their standard answers of course and think that they have explained the heinous act to appease the child's unease. But boys and girls; I am sorry to tell you that young children don't process outrageous and despicable acts like adults do. What am I getting at? This is a national tragedy in America that is going to cause a lot of children when they grow up to see professional help to deal with mind-games that they can't understand going on in thier heads. What's the solution? There are from what I have ascertained, north of 3 million people living on the streets of America. The first thing to do is to divide up the 3 million up and send an equal portion to the 50 states. All 50 states will have housing programs that have been subsidized will provide shelter to the homeless, other agencies will provide food for the people now living in government-controlled logdging, various help-groups will work towards getting these American citizens into some kind of useful activity. Let's not forget that the American dollar is a fiat currency; the Fed simply has to be told to print up X amount of money and like magic Congress will have the dough fund the project and get this national embarassement behind you and have America return to being the home of the brave and the land of the free. Remember: every society has 15% of the people who never make it past being needy all their lives. Let's accept this inglorious fact about the human family, house and feed and clothes these left-over parts of our society and move on...
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Dear Mr Coussins, Thank you for your relentless work -- and it must be a lot of time and energy -- that you spend on getting out your videocasts. What is happening now with the Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh is the highwater mark for decency has been breeched. Like the part in the film, Titanic, when Kate's financee asked the ship's architect if the ship could sink. He replied something like, 'if four compartments are flooded, she will stay afloat, but there a five compartments that are flooded'. Kate's financee repeated the mantra of it being unsinkable. And the architect repeated, 'there are five compartments flooded. She is going to sink'. If Brett Kavanaugh doesn't realize it tonight, he will tomorrow morning. There are 5 compartments flooded. His will be asked to leave or be forced to leave, or if has any decency and respect for the American people, he will resign and go back to private practice. It's sad, but things that we do to others matter, even decades later it matters.
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Americans are paying 49% more for gasoline than a year ago and everyone knows it's not President Biden's fault, but it translates out to having 49% shaved-off his popularity ratings: no surprise there!. Biden will not run in 2024 for obvious reasons---my prediction---but he has to play it that way or otherwise the system comes apart at the seams. If he says he will stand down in 2024, his plans and programs will take a direct hit and be put on hold until the next person is elected. All we know over here in Europe is that America finally has got a President with his eye on the ball in the international court and he is internationally known as a decent and honorable human being who backs up his words with action. He's not afraid to use American power or let two-bit dictators ruin his day. Remember when Assad called Obama's bluff in 2011 when Obama told him America would intervene in Syria if he used chemical weapons one more time. Two weeks later the chlorine bombs rained down on civilian targets and Obama did nothing. Russia moved in and secured a foothold in the middle-east and 500,000 men, women and children perished.
That was a terrible thing to see from an American President, because Obama showed weakness and the authoritarian governments rubbed their hands together will glee. Enter Biden: The Ukraine is being saved thanks to your president. American 777 howitzers are spitting out death and destruction to Ukraine' invaders at this writing. He's come through with a promise! The Chinese have been put on notice that if they even think of invading Taiwan, America won't allow it. Strongmen-run countries only listen to someone who has a bigger stick than they do---they're listening once more to America's President Biden. The pandemic was dealt with the best way the American President and Congress and the Senate and just about every other specialist could think of. Mistakes were made, but who could have predicted a global pandemic (now in its 6th phase) would send millions to early deaths across the world? I see President Biden as more competent than Clinton or W' or Obama put together. He's a career poltician, but he knows which levers to pull and what buttons to press to get the best out of the system. Believe me, if there was a way to bring down prices, he would know how to get that done in an instant. We have to remember that the world is edging towards a global conflict by-the-hour. I''m glad President Biden and Kamala Harris are in The White House.
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The legendary John King has done it again in producing a vocast that makes the world we live in a little bit more unsure and your country possibly becoming Putin's wildest dream come true. Watching from where we live 2,000 kilometers from Kiev, we feel the intensity of the war growing by the day. Hearing Neil Newhouse and Joel Beneson break down the numbers of people thinking that it might be okay to attack the US Government breaks all the rules and is a sad testament to the hard-working CNN team and other media outlets in America that do excellent work. I was laughing until now when I contact an American friend and hearing how he is convinced how things are reaching a point of no return and how President Biden is far from honest---to put it mildly, but on hearing Newhouse and Benenson, what I take home is that America is coming apart at the seams. The trouble is there is WW III on the horizon according to Britains top man of the military. Ladies and Gentlemen, something has inserted itself in the national consciousness in America that has succeeded in jump-starting people from being unhappy about some aspect of their lives to wanting to take up arms and bring down the Government. Something has seeped into the American mindset that has made being a part of one political party practically a criminal act to people of the other politcal party. I think we don't have to look very far to see that microphones have power over the human psyche. Charlatans use their mesmerizing style of gonzo-cable-pretend-news to dish out daily goulash that fits nicely in the minds of discontented people who don't know how good they have it, and whom are easily led down the rabbit hole where fraudsters make up news that defies belief, but gets believed and that divides and angers ordinary citizens to behave irrationally. The solution is to continue having talks like this one and going over the facts and pointing out the falsehoods and showing a positive desire to educate the masses about what it means to present the news. John, Neil, Joel---you and your colleagues are doing a wonderful job, but now you need to upgrade and come up with new ideas on how to trump the trumpsters...
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Dear Mr Lemon and the front line doctors, First, Thank you Don for bringing your country up-to-speed as well as letting us know across the world of the battle for the soul of your nation's health. I am an artist and inventor and what comes to my mind as as possible solution for if and when hospitals become overthrown with too many patients. Is this possible? Why not put together the equipment needed to keep a patient alive and have really sick patients stay home? I know this sounds out-of-bounds, but if retired doctors and nurses could be recruited to stop by patients who are bed ridden in their own homes, it might lighten the load for the overflowing hospitals. It would of course require portable equipment that could be set up. Also, by online communication, family members wearing protective gear -- if available -- could follow instructions from health professsionals. It probably sounds too difficult to do something like this, but if hospitals run out of beds, and make-shift hospitals too, maybe the thing to do is use portable equipment to at least keep patients alive at their homes, have virtual doctors instruct the family members, or have retired doctors, fire fighters, nurses, police personnel be used to administer the care? It may save lives and save doctors from burning out with their endless shifts. Lastly, what can be done to offer psychological support to over-worked doctors and nurses? No one is proposing aid to the people on the front lines and who are at risk every day. Again, this may sound silly, but couldn't massages be offered, psychological counselling, sessions with professionals who deal in positive mind-control activities, lessons in visualization? In short, the doctors need to be looked after as well. It's an opinion.
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Peter, you have x-ray eyes and I think you should see a doctor. Seriously, you see things that I don't and that gets under my skin. This time, really meaning what I say, could you give us what you would do if you were a voice that Ukraine's military leaders would be willing to listen to about severing the wartime artery of their efforts in the annexed territories? We know, decades from now, war strategists will see what could have been done to drive the Russians out of Crimea, for example, in record time. What would those tactics be? What do the Ukrainians need to do? In less that 2 weeks, 24 months will have passed with a lot of people in Ukraine having already paid a heavy price. Sadly, 60,000 Ukrainians have lost a limb in the attacks.
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In order to respond to the coming wave of the new world that AI is actually designing at this writing, we must look to nature. Because long ago, the AI threat our forebearers had to deal with came in the form of natural predators which came out of the woods and forests and oceans and would eat them if they got caught. Wild and sometimes ferocious animals from the wild were bred to do everything but harm humans. They have been coming into our homes as pets for thousands of years. These animals have been modified to be able to not only live with humans, but protect them and the like. What we have to do is remember that our silicon friends of the future---come to think of it, a future which is happening now in a wierd twist of fate---must come equipped with and/or have silicon genes that we can tweak to make sure from the very beginning, fromt the very first artificial-heart beat, that these so-called, man-made-creatures have only one thought in their silicon minds: to be human-friendly and obedient to humans at all times and in every which way possible. To recap: the AI robots that will become a race unto themselves, fine, we get that. But they must be conceived and manufactured with their genes tweaked to be human-friendly and obedient to humans. You got it: like the family dog. It is doable. Toys are made kid-safe; we have to build machines that will be much smarter and stronger than us, human-safe.
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Joe, I am coming in at 0:59 because you have just said Uncle Joe is mentally compromised and I think you do not realize how your words are going to reverberate with the millions of people in---what is it?---94 countries who tune in to your videocasts? Joe, they hear that and take it home to feed to the chickens! Does that make any sense, Bill? B-B-Because I have been trying to emulate your comebacks with little success and if this time if flopped, may I at least blame it on you? Guys, boys and girls listening. Here is the deal; I am a couch potato on the other side of the pond and what we see in President Biden and Vice-President Harris is an Administration that cuts through the quick and gets to the mustard. No; I've said that wrong, but you get what I mean, D-D-Don't you? Biden is not a guy losing his mind, Joe. He is not joke-food for the peasants, he says things that may come off as age-related inconsistencies, but what we hear coming through loud and clear is that America is back and better than ever. Look at how Ukraine has still got skin in the game. Look at how Joe has handled the American roller-coaster of an economy. Look at how well respected and revered President Joe Biden is across the entire world. President Putin is living proof your president has got what it takes, because he has not launched a nuclear missile... Sorry, but the sirens have started suddenly. What is that the loud speakers are saying? Stay tuned to Joe Let's go Rogan and Bill Aha Mahar for future updates if you are still human...
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Dear Mr Bet-David and Mr Icke, Thank you Mr Bet-David for your frank reporting style and your ability to interview your guests in such a thorough and detailed manner. Thank you Mr Icke for being a voice for millions of people who feel they are not getting the truth. My only criticism in this interview Mr Icke is how many times you raised your voice to make a point. It’s uncomfortable to be listening to someone speaking normally and then have them practically shouting when they want to drive a point home. It makes one think they are not confident with the information they are trying to give out. The lockdown in my city in Europe is total. If it’s not a virus it certainly resembles how the Spanish Flu epidemic began by attacking the old and infirm in the first wave. What everyone is fearing of course is if there will be a second or even third wave. The heartbreaking testimonies of health professionals make this a very real pandemic, but one must keep an open mind and thanks to Mr Bet-David and Mr Icke we had a chance to hear some very good information. Mr Bet-David made a good point about how saying one thing can affect how others see you. The minute someone has said something that can never be verified, their credibility has taken a body blow. In all fairness, Mr Icke has said some remarkable, inciteful eye-opening information, but he has also said things that seem to have no real factual basis and which were highly damaging to other people’s reputations. If you can’t back up what you say, then the price you pay is suspicion about the veracity of your statements. The jury is out on how much one can trust Mr Icke. The moment someone says they wake up at 4 in the morning and work all day, 7 days a week is a red flag moment, because no one can work like that for very long. He says he does all of this for others, but he does it because he likes to be in the spotlight as well. One thing is true, he has made it a better world by causing us all to question everything we hear. It's too easy for an armchair analyst like myself to judge others and especially on subjects that I haven't researched myself, so excuse me if I have offended anyone.
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Living next door to France, one thing that the French excel in and that is finding fault with their leaders on absolutely every issue. The late French resistance leader in WW II, Charles De Gaul, when asked how difficult it was to govern France when he was president, De Gaul answered----and I am paraphrasing, "How can you govern a country with so many different varieties of cheese?" As an artist, I believe Macron has done the right thing about not chopping Depardieu out of French history, because if you look across the channel and see how Kevin Spacey was spliced out of a film he was in the process of shooting, simply because someone said he did some unspeakable acts towards someone else. The final result is that Spacey was absolved of all crimes and his reputation is in tatters. Age plays a role as well as personal problems. I believe, like Bill Cosby in the states, when they lost their sons---Cosby to a murderer, Depardieu's son had some sort of medical issue, but basically, they both went off the rails afterwards. I am not saying in any way that Depardieu is innocent or guilty, but like President Macron said, a judge has not yet given a statement towards proving Depardieu guilty or absolving him from what sound like very serious allegations. Vive la France !
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Dear Mr Blitzer and former senator William Cohen, Thank you Wolf, for excellent reporting ever since we first tuned in to you and the CNN Team and the CNN Contributors along with your esteemed colleagues across the spectrum of cable television and social media in the west. Because of all of you, your fellow citizens and us across the world have been able to get the news as it happens----without excessive censorship. Thank you, Senator Cohen, for your dedicated service to your country and for your quest to have peace across the globe. I am commenting about the constant reporting on racism that is even being discussed when their has been an insurrection in your nation’s Capital. There have been people who have said if it was Black Lives Matter, there would have been mass murder. Apparently, if 5 people of a different color died, it wasn’t that important. It’s absurd to constantly play the race card, especially between blacks and whites in your country. I am not here to defend one side of the aisle or the other, but we have to realize that racism has its root in our genetic make up to begin with and the flames of inequality have been fanned by the capitalist system. Our planetary economic system is something we have all grown up with; and you probably agree with me when I say many people have all profited nicely from it. The deal is though, that all of those people who are on the wrong side of the economic pyramid capitalism was designed to be, have soured on it to the point where they look around and the first person that looks different from them becomes a symbol of their rage. There is no excuse for violence, but 9 out of 10 times white people get labeled as the top contenders in the people to point fingers at because they come from the ruling class. The truth is people that don’t like other people because of their skin color exists in all the races. What am I saying? Simply put, we have an economic system in place that is the culprit, but in all likelihood it has run its course, and we are simply unable to understand it because it is all we know. How can money be the problem? When you have enough, life is great! People who have their needs met don’t meet up after work and plan to attack people of a different color just because they are of a different color. But people at the other end of the economic rainbow don’t get to have a pot of gold. They are frustrated with being locked in to a system that practically guarantees they’ll be dissatisfied with their existence from birth to death. Capitalism is feudalism on steroids; it cannot cover all the needs of the people; therefore, it automatically creates these disenchanted folks who have not been able to get past pointing their fingers at people who look different from them as the cause. They don’t hear other viewpoints in their discussions with people around them. It's an opinion.
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Dear Legal Eagle, Thank you for your excellent videocasts on all aspects of the law. You are an inspiration to young people looking for a career that makes a difference. One thing I would like to ask, and before I do I should say I'm watching this from the other side of the world in a society with a wall to wall police presence. Secondly, shouldn't you wait for an investigation on these alleged police actions that resulted in the death of people being arrested? Don't the cops get to have their say? What I have heard is the first thing to do before thinking about police reform is to make every 5th day on duty a training day. Period. You work four days and on day five you go through training. It would make officers aware of new techniques and give them time to practice a lot of the tricky situations that they are often in. Lastly, it should not be forgotten how many police officers in America are killed on duty and also how many get shot in the face arresting petty dealers. Can any of us imagine going to work, having a bad day and getting shot in the face, losing our job, having to spend the rest of our lives nursing wounds that will never heal and living on a small compensation? Every cop I have ever met was divorced. Ask a cop about his job. Do you know they only deal with the people at the end of the spectrum; people that don't wash, that don't obey an officer of the law and outright cop killers? They have to work a new shift every week to avoid getting on the take; that means you don't sleep on one of the shifts, afternoons, for example. Also, most cops are shot in the sunny afternoons when things are nice outside and they have their guard down. We have to realize the cops in America have very little training, and then go out and try to arrest someone who breaks away while they are handcuffing him and takes their taser and fires back at them while he's running. A taser knocks you out for 5 seconds; count 'em: one thousand one… Plenty of time for the wrongdoer to come back and kick your head in, take your gun and shoot you in the groin. Cops are trained to gun down anyone that takes their taser, because it's literally the bad guy or them. And don't forget, we're asking people with their lives in danger to operate like they have law degrees, who are bullet proof and have wonderful personalities and Don't get nervous when the person they're arresting could break them in two. In a perfect world only people with kind hearts and willing to turn the other cheek would be the police communities hire to deal with people who only want to break the law.
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Dear Mr Cuomo, Thank you for your tireless, excellent reporting on all the issues confronting your country and the world today. However, it looked awkward to introduce the governor saying, “Hi Gov,” and then patting his hand. You have a tendency to want to be top dog through the interviews – and you are – it’s your show, but if I may let you know how it looks from a viewer’s perspective, I would be a better listener when there is a governor or someone in the national spotlight on your show. Why? It simply looks more respectful. Everything is magnified ten times in front of the camera, which is why you have to show a healthy respect for the office of governor or the famous person and be humble, and that means that you don’t try to always be one up on the person. For Governor Kaisich I would say this: It’s not an explosion in American politics, it’s a renaissance. Governor Kaisich, a renaissance of America Politics is about to unfold and you could be the next President of the United States to help usher it in. Good luck in running the country if you win! In addition, almost everything you said about what is happening in politics, and in society about being because of social media is right. But we have to turn the page on the past, and realize that this is the way it is and we have to choose to accept it, or we will forever be looking back to how great things were just a few years ago. Social media means all of the taboos are now getting front page coverage. But there is a way to turn the page: Be, here now . . . and you win every time.
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Dear Mr Lemon,
Thank you for your frank reporting on Ms Barr’s disrespectful and racist tweet. I think this is a lesson for her and also for all of us who use social media - especially tweeting. All those things we feel about others constantly circulate in our heads, but fortunately and normally, we filter out the crazy stuff. Not so with tweeting.
Before you dot the ‘i’s’ in a tweet or an e-mail it can be sent off only to our grand chagrin when we realize we shouldn’t have sent it. Too late. Here is what former Washing Post columnist Charles Krauthammer said about tweeting and he is referring to President Trump when he said. “There is no more uncensored, unfiltered avenue from the id to tweeting. What we're seeing is that we're getting a look into the psyche of the President. And what we're seeing is a vindictiveness, a cruelty, a lack of temperedness, a lack of self-control which is truly shocking.” And that's what Krauthammer believes people are reacting to. He goes on to say, “Not that it distracts, of course it distracts but that is a political thing, the problem is America has elected Trump and this what his character is like.” Now America and the world know what Ms Barr’s character is really like.
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Professor Miano, could it have been that in legal cases before a judge, in those times a judge was able to punish offenders with his own idea of what the punishment should be, but that the defendant could use the Law Code of Hammurabi in his defense if for example, the judge’s sentence was too severe' The defendant’s attorney could argue that the Law Code of Hammurabi did not recommend death by hanging for this particular crime. Maybe what the Law Code of Hammurabi represented was a look at what all crimes would or could be judged by i.e., a standard or the recommended punishment, but that in society at the time, a judge would have had his own discretion to be able to sentence the defendant in spite of what the Law Code of Hammurabi dictated? It is fascinating to put oneself back so many thousands of years ago and try to imagine how things worked. I think we have to use the philosophy of water down the mountain in that water will take the path of least resistance going down a mountain, societies in those long-lost civilizations probably worked things out in a similar way, in the courts, the way they worked was to get something decided in the quickest and fairest way possible. They had their guidelines albeit The Code of Hammurabi, but it might have just been used to show that there were laws and there were proposed sentences for every crime if for example, a judge had no idea what punishment to inflict.
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This is a very educational videocast, but there are far too many cutaways to what I call ‘emotion-imagination stealers”. Why do I call them emotion-imagination stealers? Because, when you say for example, “and this group suffers because of this or that.” Then you immediately pan to someone ‘suffering mental anguish’. But when you show the picture, young people, especially young people, don’t get a chance to use their mind; they don’t have to work anymore to imagine what you mean. PB, you do a great service, but let people’s imaginations work a little more in your informative videocasts. Lastly, what does your chart really show us? It shows how very clever people get all the dough in our societies and more power to them! But it’s unfair in that just because someone is clever and understands how to crunch numbers and do deals to make your mouth water, should they have more of all the good things in life than anyone else.? Capitalism has attracted some of the best minds on the planet; people who will spend their entire lives collecting precious metals, property and especially oodles of rectangular pieces of paper we call currency. Does anyone else see what the pursuit of the money-train is doing to our young people? Enjoy the moment-
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Dear Mr Pakman, You have been covering the news for the whole of President Trump's time in office and I think everyone would agree that in spite of Trump being all of the things people say he is, he has made you a world-class television journalist, videocast star reporter---I don't have the label, but congratulations on bring social commentary up a notch or two. I believe that Trump made a mockery of debating, but I firmly believe that Joe Biden must go through the debates and not take the bait of letting Trump get under his skin. He must not use street language to talk about Trump, but--and this is only my advice--he must pretend he's debating Elizabeth Warren and not let his emotions get the better of him. This way, the debate goes out across the world to where I'm sitting for example, as simply a heated-exchange between rival politicians. For Biden to cop out and stop debating would send the wrong signal. Frankly, so what if Trump can't debate. You let him ramble on. You let him interrupt. You go through the motions and refer to him by saying things like: "Well, I think President Trump has made a good point there, at least in his opinion, but I see things this way... It's too easy to give advice, but I think you can't put rules up there as to what a debate has to be: let everyone speak their mind.
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As an observer living 2,000 kilometers from Kiev, what I perceived of BREXIT was what someone in the UK Government or business asked in an interview. He said, and I am loosely paraphrasing, "What on earth are we going to do now. How can be possibly re-negotiated more than 700 trade treaties with foreign customers and countries?" Right there and right then, I knew BREXIT was going to do something to rejuvenate and reinvigorate The United Kingdom, because now Great Britain had to dig deep in its pockets for home-grown talent to find negotiators etc. It doesn't stop there, because everything had to be looked at in a new way and figured out and---yes; there were miles of red tape that took up tons of hours of time and lost produce and the like, but all in all I believe it gave The United Kingdom a chance to do some long-overdue housecleaning for lack of another expression. The added bonus---again in my humble opinion----was when former Prime Minister came to visit President Zelensky and promise military and financial aid for as long as it takes to stop the Russians from taking over Kiev and the Ukraine. This brave action woke up a sleeping giant in that The United Kingdom was now reinstating itself as a superpower that had no qualms about standing up to the second superpower in the world, notably Russia. Yes; it's only one person's opinion, but I believe BREXIT was a lot of pain but the gain will be felt for decades and now the world sees that The United Kingdom is indeed a superpower in every aspect of the term.
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Dear Mr Varoufakis, I think I speak for many people when I say you are one of the most fascinating people in the world. Not only are you an economist who speaks truth to power, but you are a compassionate man dedicated to making this a better world. I hear you loud and clear about Mr Assange's treatment, and if it is true that he is being mistreated, this is a wrong that must be addressed. But what I don't understand about Mr Assange, and what frankly makes me weary of showing pity for his present state of affairs is why on earth did he not go back to Sweden to clear his name of rape charges? If he's so righteous and wanting to show the world the evil empire America is to him, why not show he is innocent? The next thing I don't understand is why didn't he also show Russian or Chinese e-mails of supposed wrong-doing by those governments? Lastly, by him dumping classifed e-mails on the internet, weren't secret agents planted in hostile regime-countries exposed and probably eliminated? Yanis, I don't want to do anything but see all of the facts before I judge anything, but the Assange case is hard to get one's head around. But of course, we all wish him well and asap out of jail and back to a normal life. Be well and keep up the good work!
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Governor Christie, you are a consummate politician and excellent communicator and you would make a good president. However; if you want to be president, you should think of your heart. In all due respect Chris, your heart has to work overtime to get blood to all of that excess weight you are carrying around with you. You’re are of course forgiven if it’s a medical problem, but if it isn’t. Isn't it time for some workouts? Being president of the USA is 24/7. Secondly, when you call other politicians names---like calling Trump a coward---it does not do anything but make more people believe in him. Let us be frank on why the Ukrainian counter-offensive is getting poor marks for its advances into Russian fortified defenses. The Pentagon would never back the American military going on a counter-offensive without first carpet bombing the mine fields, some of which have 5 mines per meter. The Pentagon would never okay an offensive without G-9 Bulldozers working to clear those murder holes. Nor would the Pentagon okay an offensive without Warthog's strafing enemy positions and taking out tanks. Nor would the Pentagon okay an offensive without F-16s and the latest fighter jets taking out artillery positions deep in enemy territory and lastly the Pentagon would never okay an offensive without Apache Attack choppers to take out advancing enemy troops, blasting into trenches, doing the dirty work in operations like these to win a counter-offense. NATO and its allies and the USA have spent billions and sent tons of kit to the Ukrainians, but none of the above. What am I saying here? No one from The White House has said they want the Ukrainians to win. We, in west, in modern times would never go for a counter-offensive without all the equipment I have mentioned, but we sure have asked the Ukrainians to do it and when progress is slow, we have the gall to ask, hey; what's going on over there?
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Dear Sky News Team, I am living in a European country and having been following the Trump Administration's progress. What pops up over and over again is that in their Helsinki meeting, Putin and Trump talked in closed quarters with only translators for over two hours. Later, Trump took his translator's notes and destroyed them. They probably talked about Putin's proposed penthouse appartment that Trump was going to offer him in the new Moscow Trump Towers that was supposed to be built. I'm joking of course. But what Trump did there was to plant the seeds for any conspiracy. Let's not forget that Trump fired Security Advisor Flynn after Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and lying to the Vice President Pence, which is a federal crime. Now, suddenly, Flynn was framed for pleading guilty! What it looks like from our perspective is that Putin has got something on Trump. Imagine your Prime Minister coming back from a state visit with President Xi Jinping of China and saying President Xi told him they did nothing wrong on the Coronovirus epidemic, and that Australian intelligence sources have got it all wrong. There would be pandemonium in your country. There's something going on in the USA when the Supreme Court are not going to let Trump's taxes be revealed. Obviously, there is dynamite in those tax returns, but now it's a Trump Supreme Court. All I know is that Trump's AG, Barr is acting like a fixer for his boss when he's supposed to represent the people. Imagine this; over 2,000 DOJ officials and former prosecutors wrote a letter demanding he stand down from his functions and he's still there! Boys and girls, I think that there is so much smoke on the Russia-gate conspiracy that a small fire cannot be discounted.
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I think that there is enough proof with the Alissa mass-shooting to make everyone of you in America realize that the ‘vaccine’ of quick police-reaction has not worked and will never work in stopping madmen, unstable people, from committing mass murder. Ms Cupp, I’m not a professional in law enforcement, but it doesn’t take a genius to realize the only approach to stemming future carnage is by a collective effort of all able-bodied adults in The United States to bear the burden of your 2nd Amendment and make it a law for all American adults---who are qualified---to carry a firearms. This would put an end to the horrible nightmare you and your loved ones and colleagues and fellow citizens being the target of a deranged person wielding an automatic weapon. Yes; I am saying that all of you in America must own up to the fact that if there is a 2nd Amendment, then everyone who can be armed as an adult, must be armed when in public. This is the only way to stop this terrible stain on your wonderful, beautiful people and magnificent country. You can no longer allow people with mental problems to dictate how you live your lives. If everyone is on board, the police will also be able to have a new standard policy of policing, and every one of those ‘cowards’ who wish to do great bodily harm to others will think twice before ever going into a supermarket or any establishment again. To recap: it sounds weird; it sounds like the 1830s, but you cannot have a 2nd Amendment that allows your citizens to bear arms and try to stop the deranged individuals with only the police and special units. The police will never, ever be able to come in time to a mass-shooting event 99% of the time---because it’s usually all over in a matter of seconds. But, if all ordinary citizens are armed and trained in how to use a firearm, at the minimum, the mass murderers won’t be able to do as much collateral damage. Please don’t take this wrong, but this is the only solution to getting your beloved country and the light of the free world, America, back to normal. To recap: all upstanding citizens are obliged by law to carry a firearm. You are a free country but there is a price to pay for allowing people to carry firearms, and it is a small price because precious lives will be saved and it will bring people together with everyone knowing they are their brother and sister's keeper as well. It's an opinion from an overseas' viewer.
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There needn't be any failures in multiculturalism. In the European country where I live, when you start a job, you get 3 months to see if it is right for you and for the company. If it is too difficult--or too easy---or you do not do well enough after 3 months, you don't get the job. Why don't we realize that every person emigrating to, say, Germany cannot adapt to German society. Why don't we give, say, 3 years for people coming into our countries a chance to integrate into society. If, for whatever reason, after 3 years it is obvious that the person cannot adapt or accept our customs, etc., then our governments can help them either go back to their country or origin or help them move on to another country willing to accept them as an immigrant? It is no shame if someone cannot assimilate in a society, but to allow them to stay is like letting a wound fester; it always ends up in terrible situation because the person feels the rejection etc.
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Dear Mr Cooper and NBC News Contributors, Thank you for your excellent show Mr Anderson, you always present the news in a balanced and fair way. Congratulations on having a son! Now I have something that can do for your son, your society and the world. You are in a position to be a spokesman for the new reality we are all facing and that is that gay people are now having children and becoming parents. My question or topic today deals with a woman being married to another woman, or as is in your case, you being married to your partner who is another man. Please understand I say this in complete respect of yours or anybody else’s personal choices and the choices of every man and woman in America and around the world. My concern is this: It is none of my business – or anyone else’s -- that you or anyone else has a relationship with another person of the same sex. But we must think of our children. I don’t think anybody is taking into consideration the effect of a man saying he is married to another man or a woman saying she is married to another woman on the fragile young minds of boys and girls of, say, 5, 6, 7 or even 8 years old. What do I mean by that? It is too complex to have children of a young age hear that a man is married to another man. They cannot comprehend abstract issues. We need new terms. I am an inventor. If I invented the word—to marry—to mean the civil union of a man and a woman, I would not want it used differently. Here is my proposition and please consider it as simply a proto-type or suggestion of how the unions between same-sex couples could be named. (Prototype terminology for the Lesbian and Gay community.) Lesbian relationships. Lesbiate = marry, a lesbian who wants to marry another lesbian, Lesbiated = a lesbian woman who has joined in civil union with another woman, Lesbiage = a marriage between two women, Le-fem = wife in feminine sense of lesbian (Perhaps some lesbian relationships would prefer to have a sense of <wife> for the opposite partner. Le-hom = husband in feminine sense of lesbian (Perhaps some lesbian relationships would prefer to have a sense of <husband> for the opposite partner). Children of Lesbians could call them their ‘Lesrents’. Now for Gay relationships: Gayriate = to marry, a gay man who wants to marry another gay man, for example, perhaps you and your partner are Gayriated = a gay man who is (married) joined in civil union with another gay man. Gayriage = a marriage between two gay men. Ga-fem = the wife sense of a gay man’s partner (Perhaps some gay relationships would prefer to have a sense of <wife> for the opposite partner) Ga-hom = the husband sense of a gay man’s partner (Perhaps some gay relationships would prefer to have a sense of <husband> for the opposite partner). Children like your child Anderson could call you and you’re your partner his ‘gayrents’. Please forgive me if I have offended anyone, but I have invented these proto-type names as a way to have children see things I believe they need to see things for them to understand. The whole idea is to save our young children from not having to distinguish between heterosexual and homosexual relationships and civil unions. Children must have different words to say that a man and woman are married, or a woman and a woman are lesbiated, or a man and a man are gayriated. The English language is rich, and new words get invented often. I hope the gay and lesbian community will appreciate my concern for our children and that they will adopt new words that I freely offer as a way of cementing their relationships so that young children will be able to understand. Please Anderson, you can make this happen! It's only a suggestion; I am an inventor. We owe it to our kids to make issues that are complicated to many adults more easy for children to understand.
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With all due respect to Mr Schwarzenegger and environmentalists and everyone trying to find a way to dial down the climate acceleration wave we are experiencing, I believe we need to go in another direction entirely. Why do I say this? Because at this writing new coal mines are being opened up if my research is correct. Look. People are not ready to give up fossil fuel in time for us to get our heads around this problem. So; what is my solution? Arnold, if you think I'm on to something, could you please use your influence to get this message out there. My solution is to get a world consortium of our best brains and get the CO2 removed from the atmosphere in sufficient levels that we can begin to reduce the rise in temperatures. Kuwait is now experiencing days of over 50° Celsius, for example. They export oil for their survival. We have to go green, but that's not going to be enough. We must pull the excess CO2 out of the environment. Lastly, Arnold I need you on board this one too. Here is how to end drought in your adopted country and for arid regions as well. We must use existing rail and road ways and put aqueducts--piping--under the roads and railways. Lake Meade could get water from a number of sources this way. When Lake Michigan is overflowing, that water could be sent out to California, dried up reservoirs. They wouldn't need to build anything more than install the aqueducts below the rail and roadways that already exist giving them a dual purpose. The New York City flood waters could have been piped via the underground aqueducts to drought-stricken areas. I'm an artist and an inventor, so I don't have a scale model to show you, but if my idea holds water---pun intended---could someone please give it a try?
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Dear Mr Bet-David and Dr Greer, Thank you Mr Bet-David for a very, skilled interview that few people could have done better. Thank you Dr Greer for your altruistic desire to make your country and the world a better place and to save the environment and humanity from unneccessary hardship and disaster. I am an artist and inventor and I have a problem solving mechanism that is highly intuitive and to be honest, I think my best art work has been from mistakes that I was able to turn into a finished work of art. Luck plays a big part in what I do. My inventions pop into my head, and so far I've only got one US patent for a product that did not do well commercially. What I come away with from this interview is, by the way, I don't have Dr Greer's body of work to be able to comment on, I haven't seen his latest documentary. What my research has come up with however is at odds with at least one of Dr Greer's statements. Dr Greer, if I am not mistaken, gave a thumbs up to Bob Lazar. He's the guy who says he worked on back-engineered interstellar space craft. He talks the talk to a very high degree. Patrick, you're a business man and if your best employee, the person who made millions for you was found out to have stated he went to university and you found out it wasn't true… what I'm saying is I think you'd have to let him go. I think even if he was the nicest guy in the world, you'd fire him. Bob Lazar, again, it's only from my research, graduated in the lower third of his high school graduating class. He said, and still does, that he graduated from MIT with a degree in nuclear physics, or a physics degree. MIT has no record of him. He says the CIA had it erased. What I am getting at is Lazar said the Area 51 special operations hired him to back-engineer interstellar spaceships that had crashed on Earth. I think everyone agrees, Lazar has never varied from his story, but are we to believe a top-secret government operation wouldn't do a back check on Lazar's credentials? I believe Lazar said he wouldn't do a lie-detector test. So this brings me to the awkward point of saying how in the world could Dr Greer give Lazar the benefit of the doubt to say he was hired to do physics work that would put the best scientists to task, when he lied about his education? Lastly, I caught one of my best ex-associates telling a lie, and he admitted to it when I cornered him. But I had to let him go, because how could I believe anything else the guy told me? How can we believe Lazar and if Dr Greer believes Lazar, I'm sorry, but that doesn't look good for Dr Greer's reputation. I try not to judge, but I've got a terrible auto-critic which is relentless in criticising everything I do for my own existence, and it's the same when I listen to what others say. Truth be told, if someone tells a whopper, one is obliged to forever question anything they say or say they did. It's easy to criticize and it's obvious Dr Greer has been allowed to see things most people never will.
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Afghanistan is bounded to the east and south by Pakistan (including those areas of Kashmir administered by Pakistan but claimed by India), to the west by Iran, and to the north by the Central Asian states of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan. Why not have India form a safe-guard council with regular meetings with officials from Afghanistan's neighoring countries? This might take some masterly diplomatic relations, but once the council was formed, it would be easier to trade intelligence information and keep an eye on terrorists who might be trying to get sophisticated weapons or even nuclear weapons. It would also be a force the Taliban would have to respect and listen to. If, for example, the council with Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan agreed that India has a right to Kashmir, it would force the Taliban's hand to agree it would not let Al Quaeda attack India. It's an idea for peace.
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@joycesweatman965 GGGGGGGreat to hear from you. You're undoubtedly correct in your evaluation of Professor Miano's responses. The thing is we should welcome all points of view on the ancient world, because no one really has got it right. Less than 1% of all artifacts from ancient Rome and Greece having come down to us shows us that we are sifting through historical periods and trying to make sense out of such an infinitesimal part of what ever went down all those thousands of years ago. Professor Miano is offering a counterview or alternative opinion from the way he learned how to evaluate historical events in his university. I'm an artist and an inventor and therefore I have to be careful to make any judgements of other peoples' research. But I do collect the research others have done. Here is what I've found about The Great Pyramid of Giza. To me, this shows an advanced civilization, but scholars don't come to that conclusion: The Great Pyramid
1. It is 3/60th of a single degree of true north
2. It weighs 6 million tons
3. Its footprint is 13 acres
4. It’s more than 755.9 feet along each side
5. It’s 480.6 feet high
6. It has more than 2.3 million individual blocks of stone
7. It is locked into the Cardinal dimensions of our planet; The dimensions of the Earth are incorporated into its dimensions. 8. If you take the height and multiply it by 43,200 you get the polar radius of the Earth
9. If you measure the base perimeter of the pyramid accurately and multiply that measurement by 43,200 you get the equatorial circumference of the Earth
10. The scale is not random, the number 43,200 is derived from a key motion of the Earth, which is called the precession of the Earth’s axis
11. The Earth wobbles on its axis very slowly at the rate of 1 degree every 72 years; 43,200 is a multiple of 72; 600 X 72
12. So; they’ve given us the dimensions of the planet in The Great Pyramid of Giza on a scale defined by the planet itself
13. There are 70-ton blocks of stone raised 300 feet above the ground
14. It has eight sides, and at the spring equinox and the autumn equinox one side of the pyramid is in the shade in the morning and again in the late afternoon and can only be seen from the air—as far as my research has shown.
15. It’s a calendar
16. It has expansion joints
17. It is located at the exact intersection of the longest line of latitude and the longest line of longitude of the Earth, in other words The Great Pyramid is located at the precise center of the Earth’s land mass.
18. The builders possessed highly sophisticated knowledge of mathematics and geometry
19. The builders had knowledge of the true dimensions of the Earth to extreme precision
20. The builders possessed exceptionally advanced technical instrumentation to site The Great Pyramid
21. Pi = C over D Phi = Divided by 5 + 1 over 2. Archimedes discovered Pi about 250 BC, but Egyptians knew of it 2,250 years earlier
22. The Great Pyramid is 146.75 m high, its height X a million equals the distance from the Earth to the sun
23. If you subtract the inner circle from the outer circle of the circumference of The Great Pyramid you get the speed of light in meters to four decimal points
24. The weight of The Great Pyramid is 5,273, 000 tons and that multiplied by a billion is the weight of the Earth
25. If you divide the perimeter of The Great Pyramid by ½ its height, the result is 3.14 = Pi
26. The three inner rooms; the king’s chamber, the queen’s chamber and the unfinished chamber under the pyramid are proportional to the distances between Mercury, Venus and the Earth. 27. The distance from The Great Pyramid to the North Pole is the same as the distance from The Great Pyramid to the center of the Earth. 28. Pyramids in China, Mexico and Egypt align with the Orion star system
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It is always a pleasure hearing Jim Rogers' analyses of the economy. I have been confused about what causes inflation and I was listening to American economist Richard D. Wolff, a Harvard and Yale graduate and currently teaching economics at Amhurst University in Massachusettes. Here is what he says and I know everyone is going to be surprised---I'm not a business man, I'm an artist, but what he says makes me see that what I've heard all my life about why prices go up has been wrong. I quote Professor Wolff who said "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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As an overseas viewer, the homeless issue in your country is something that defies explanation. But let's move on to solutions. Here is how to get Texas homeless people off the streets and into society. There are 3,000 people without an address, a place to call home in Austin according to Mayor Adler. Why not do this? Get every city, town and village in Texas to get into the picture. They do this. Every village, town or city takes some of the people. You send these people around the state of Texas into a city, town or village who will then put them up in whatever way they can---motels? Trailer homes? Tent cities? When the people have a roof over their head, and when they can get some food, and know they are safe, then the next step is get them working. Community work. Woodlands can be cleared. Invent the jobs. There are old people who need help, etc. It's an idea. You have a better perspective on this. But everything must be tried. Getting the homeless people off the streets is the number one priority. Spread them out into numbers that are doable. 3,000 people only makes your draw drop. No one can help 3,000 people. Next solution. One night, tube hotel rooms---Japanese style---only made for one person who can get cleaned up, get some food in them, get a good night's sleep and then out during the day. These need to be imagined, built and placed in areas where there is security. It is an expensive idea, but everything must be tried.
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Begs the question means assumes what it should be proving and does not mean raises the question. Correct use : « When I asked the dealer why I should pay more for the German car, he said I would be getting 'German quality', but that just begs the question. » It's so good to have Professor Miano on board for The Great Pyramid's interpretation. Here is my research; what I deduct from these points is that it means that the pyramid may have been used as a tomb, but it appears to have been made as some kind of way to moth-ball a civilization's knowledge in a stone library as well. The Great Pyramid of Giza
1. It is 3/60th of a single degree of true north
2. It weighs 6 million tons
3. Its footprint is 13 acres
4. It is more than 755.9 feet along each side
5. It is 146.75 meters high
6. It has more than 2.3 million individual blocks of stone
7. It is locked into the Cardinal dimensions of our planet; The dimensions of the Earth are incorporated into its dimensions. 8. If you take the height and multiply it by 43,200 you get the polar radius of the Earth
9. If you measure the base perimeter of the pyramid accurately and multiply that measurement by 43,200 you get the equatorial circumference of the Earth
10. The scale is not random, the number 43,200 is derived from a key motion of the Earth, which is called the precession of the Earth’s axis
11. The Earth wobbles on its axis very slowly at the rate of 1 degree every 72 years; 43,200 is a multiple of 72; 600 X 72
12. So; they’ve given us the dimensions of the planet in The Great Pyramid of Giza on a scale defined by the planet itself
13. There are several 70-ton blocks of stone raised 300 feet above the ground
14. It has eight sides, and at the spring equinox and the autumn equinox one side of the pyramid is in the shade in the morning and again in the late afternoon and can only be seen from the air—as far as my research has shown.
15. It is a calendar
16. It has expansion joints
17. It is located at the exact intersection of the longest line of latitude and the longest line of longitude of the Earth, in other words The Great Pyramid is located at the precise center of the Earth’s land mass.
18. The builders possessed highly sophisticated knowledge of mathematics and geometry
19. The builders had knowledge of the true dimensions of the Earth to extreme precision
20. The builders possessed exceptionally advanced technical instrumentation to site The Great Pyramid
21. Pi = C over D Phi = Divided by 5 + 1 over 2. Archimedes discovered Pi about 250 BC, but Egyptians knew of it 2,250 years earlier
22. The Great Pyramid is 146.75 m high, its height X a million equals the distance from the Earth to the sun
23. If you subtract the inner circle from the outer circle of the circumference of The Great Pyramid, you get the speed of light in meters to four decimal points: 299,792,458 meters per second
24. The weight of The Great Pyramid is 5,273, 000 tons and that multiplied by a billion is the weight of the Earth
25. If you divide the perimeter of The Great Pyramid by ½ its height, the result is 3.14 = Pi
26. The three inner rooms; the king’s chamber, the queen’s chamber and the unfinished chamber under the pyramid are proportional to the distances between Mercury, Venus and the Earth. 27. The distance from The Great Pyramid to the North Pole is the same as the distance from The Great Pyramid to the center of the Earth. 28. The height of The Great Pyramid 146.75 m X 1 million = the distance from the Earth to the sun. 29. The weight of The Great Pyramid 5,273, 000 tons X 1 billion = the weight of the Earth. 30. If you divide the perimeter of the pyramid by 1/2 its height the result is 3.14 pi h/2 = pi These are of course mere coincidences that happen by chance... 31. Pyramids in China, Mexico and Egypt align with the Orion star system
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As someone outside the financial scene and taking this in on the far side of the world from you, what I see is this. Bitcoin invited Elon Musk to join the club. What Musk has done with his tweet is a great favor to the Bitcoin community. They may try to counter-attack, but Musk now has global power: what he says goes above his critics. What the Bitcoin community must do now is get their product to green energy asap. What Musk is saying is, "hey, Bitcoin is a great thing, and I'm happy to join the club, but even I have to answer to the environmental activists, so please get off of carbon energy." The Bitcoin community should also do one more thing: get transaction times up in the thousands per second. Do you know that Bitcoin transactions can only be made at a maximum 7 transactions per second? They should do this because I can guarantee you that Musk will send over another loaded-tweet when the energy thing is cleared up. But this the great thing: this is doable and it will be a huge benefit to Bitcoin and get it on the same page as Visa and other crypto-currencies. But the last benefit is that when Musk tweets: "Wow, I see Bitcoin is up to 37,000 transactions per second and entirely using green energy, Tesla is buying another........" It's an opinion.
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Joe, in 22 seconds of your videocast your heart has spoken with Armageddon-ish tones because you do not see the whole picture; you are up front and personal with every issue out of the frying pan of national and international affairs and your brain is fried circuits as far as making any sense of what is going on all around you. You also must remind yourself by saying such end-of-the-world statements, people watching your show who are barely clinging on to life might be tempted to take their own life because you make it sound so bad. Don't get me wrong; we're all in the same boat. But now we have to step back and try to undo some nasty dealings that are causing a lot of pain. The Ukrainians need to be given the tools to dismantle the Russian military machine and clear those murder holes, carpet bomb the mine fields and flush out the trenches. The game of who runs the world has always been to see who is the next pilot to command spaceship earth, and the axis of autocratic countries sense that that time is upon us once again and they are going to do everything in their power to get as much of the pot as possible. What we all have to do is realize that the Israeli-Hamas conflict could be resolved by having 2 million or more Palestinians move to the other part of Palestine and say goodbye to living in an open prison. This is a tall order and will cause a lot of pain as well as being a logistical nightmare, but Gaza is a festering wound that will never be healed and everybody knows it. Joe, I would like to say to Israelis and Palestinians, forgive me but there are times when you need to be cruel to be kind. Israel proper is not going anywhere and the Palestinians need to live in one patch of land that is their country. By plowing Gaza under and making it a nature reserve, it would begin the slow process of peace in the middle east and end a terrible experiment in dividing up land that went terribly wrong from day one. I am throwing a template out there for the experts to work on, but from this man's side of the world, this is how I would proceed with ending the Israeli/Palestinian dilemma.
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Dear Fred and Governor Cuomo, Thank you Fred to you and your colleagues and CNN Contributors for exceedingly spot on reporting and excellent, fact-finding interviews. I live in a country on the other side of the world where just a week ago there were 2 cases of the Coronovirus on the Eastern part of the country, and now it’s everywhere in the country. Although it’s a small country, situated next to Italy where it’s nearing 200 deaths from the virus, what is astonishing is the rapidity of the virus. I live in a city where a majority of people go to work on packed trams, buses and trains, and so I think it is inevitable that the virus will spread quickly. I’m not a health expert; I have no experience in pandemics, but this isn’t the best advice: get plenty of rest? Why do I say this? Because I read something that said that if your immune system is down, the weakest part of your body will be the first to be affected. In my case for example, it’s the respiratory system. To get lot’s of rest means the weakest parts of the body get a chance to get back in top shape. Next is to eat well. The next is to do things that make you feel good. But I think getting lots of rest is the best thing to do. Peace
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In all du respect for the victims of this terrible tragedy that has left the human family with a sadness and utter disgust at weapons of mass destruction worn by suicide bombers. I am an inventor albeit with only one (expired) US patent, so please bear with me. As someone seeing this unravel on the other side of the world from North America, may I give what I think is the invention or concept we must put in place from now in evacuation syndromes. Simple, easy-to-wear, discreet and observing every specific need from all of the world's religions, but we must come up with a clothing item--like a plastic sheet umbrella hotels give out to their clients---for all future evacuations. Boys and girls, we must learn from this and what I see as an inventor is that border guards, or airport guards must be able to see the midsection of all people coming their way from a safe distance of, say, 75 meters. This must be the prerequisite for taking a plane or escaping a conflict, but everyone must strip down, wear the protective plastic clothing that hides all private parts and then be able to board a plane etc. We cannot allow another suicide bomber to get in range of soft targets ever again. We have to fight them on their terrain, not in their hide-outs.
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Dear Mr Hartmann, One can only imagine what your country would be if you were running for office and make it the presidency. You have a way of dealing with social issues that make President Trump look like a mob boss. Then again, maybe he is… Seriously, your comments about Reagan have to include his and Margaret Thatcher’s undoing of the failsafe mechanisms put in place after WWII i.e. deregulating the markets. According to economists like Krugman, this is what led to the 2008 GR. I’m not an economist, but it seems that wonderful man, Ronald Reagan was a Donald J. Trump in disguise. When we hear a worker of a couple of decades ago could take care of all the bills in 28 weeks for a family of four and now his salary needs 53 weeks to break even, your analysis about the 74% tax rate dropped to 28% by Reagan holds water. How about the fact that Bloomberg was worth 3 billion in 2008 and 60 billion in 2020. It’s not Bloomberg’s fault, or Reagan’s or any president or the Fed Chairman’s fault. In my opinion, and this is thanks to learning about economics from such distinguished guests as professor Richard D. Wolff. No; in my lay person’s opinion, it’s nobody’s fault the economy of the entire world is running on empty: it’s the capitalist system. Like an inner tube that has been fixed so many times it leaks everytime you fix it, capitalism is no more.
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Thank you, Brianna and Don, You two really have made watching CNN a treat for us across the world from you. You go right to the heart of every incident boldly. First, as an overseas viewer I think Kevin Kapernick offended everyone who views sports as family entertainment. I can’t imagine as a gymnast before I did my routine on the rings, for example, to make some political statement about how my people are being mistreated in front of the crowd of people coming down to watch the sports event. Why isn’t it a good idea? Because it’s too easy and it pollutes the atmosphere of what sports are all about: fair competition. Kapernick is right to demand justice, but he could have easily paid for a political add in every newspaper in your country and it would have been more powerful. Dave Chappell might be right, but can you imagine what his swearing sends as a message to young people about such a serious political event as an insurrection? Chappell is an entertainer and when one crosses the line to deliver political statements, once again, the message comes across as anything but genuine. Chappell knows he’ll score points towards putting the wind in his career ship, but in reality, he has only left anger and resentment in the young black people he is masquerading to represent. It's an opinion.
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Dear Ms Cabiatta and Ms McDaniel, Thank you Ms Cabiatta for your excellent interviews and balanced reporting. To be honest, it looks a little tacky for you to be plugging your book on your news program with Mr Berman. It’s just an opinion and I know in America, it’s okay to sell your own book on TV shows. It just seems that if you simply mention that you wrote a book, that should be enough publicity. On the abortion issue. From a man’s point of view, what is off-the-charts for me on the abortion issue is this. Isn’t it a woman’s decision what she does with her body? Wasn’t the whole revolution of the ‘60’s to bring the individual’s rights to the forefront? Do you honestly think any man of any political party would allow a law to be legislated that would have someone else be able to tell him what to do with his body? It’s absurd that someone else than the woman has the right to decide what is best for her. Lastly, this for Ms McDaniel. Again, we are watching the reporting on the Trump Presidency from across the seas. If Senator Warren was correct, and President Trump would be charged with a crime and sent to jail if he was an ordinary American citizen, then how in the world could anybody seriously consider re-electing a felon? You in America represent the light of the world for millions of people clinging to life by a string. An American president’s words can literally mean life and death to thousands of people. President Obama’s failure to install a no fly zone cost a half a million lives in Syria. If President Trump is only not a convicted felon because he is wearing the legal protection of being in office, do you want to re-elect him? American’s don’t lie; they don’t need to. They tell it like it is. But not your president. Do you realize the repercussions this is going to cause for democratic nations around the world if Trump gets re-elected? For one time, ask your intuition, shouldn’t the constitution be the thing to protect, not President Trump?
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Both of you guys have to realize tha you are really nice people first, but incredibly successful people second, third, fourth. I know Tom's piggybank has north of 400 million cookies in it, Chuck, you're probably Tom's backyard neighbor. What am I trying to say here? Tom or Chuck, if I had a chance to meet you, I would probably come off as this super-positive, potentially successful person simply because I would have found myself in the presence of hyper-successful alpha males who radiate wealth and well-being. Chuck, those cats who sound like soap opera heroes are only trying to come up to your level and get recognized for being an equal. Sorry guys, but when you're rich and famous the game is over for people being themselves in front of you.
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Before I begin to listen to the videocast, I would like Sam and Carl to look at this information I got from a Jerry Kroth video. Mr Kroth is a very open-minded professor and I would like to present something that should make us all realize something is happening with these UFOs. Here are places where UFOs have been spotted and authenticated by credible witnesses: Roswell, the 1st nuclear base in the world. Los Alamos, Indian Point. N.Y. USA, B-52 Bombers carrying nuclear devices, Missile Silos in Montana ICBM (maelstrom), Vandenberg, Big Sur, USA. Beatwaters, UK. Vosnezh, Russia, Kostroma, USSR. Byclokoroviche, Ukraine and Isfahan, Iran. All of these are nuclear missile sites. Lastly, 47 witnesses---some as deathbed confessions---said the crash of a UFO at Roswell really occurred. In 1974 in Zimbabwe, 63 children were playing outside for recreation at a primary school. A spaceship landed and a 3 1/2-foot, black suited, big-headed alien floated down from the craft to the ground near the children. It had big almond-shaped eyes and via telepathy transmitted to the children that the earth was in danger because mankind was not being careful in protecting the environment. 30 years later, a child from the playground who is now a teacher confirmed her first testimony. The funny thing is, she confirmed seeing aliens that Roswell witnesses confirmed seeing too. They looked the same. My gut feeling is that disclosure is coming at us in a town hall near you very, very soon for one important reason. The 1974 visitation was to warn us that tipping points were being breached, boys and girls, our governments are going to come clean on UFOs to us very soon, because our world will be 2° centigrade warmer in 15 years according to climate scientists. I don't have to tell anyone what that means for the world's population living in regions of high temperatures in the present day.
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In all due respect to former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, President Biden's unblocking of 6 billion dollars is practically chump change in today's world. 5 wrongly accused people from America have had their lives change back to normal mode. Yes; it's unfair across the board and God only knows what the Iranian regime is up to behind closed doors, but all we know is that decisions are a tough call from any president or prime minister. Look at Canada's Trudeau having to publicly blame India for an assassination on their soil; imagine the blowback from doing that? Chris, you will make a very good president and we hope you get elected; you have got what it takes to be the most powerful man in the world. Lastly, the thing all of us should be very worried about is that there are drone attacks out of the Ukraine now in Romania according to some people. China is literally coming apart at the seams. President Putin is a blood brother with Kim Jung Un. Russia's internal problems, its economy and societal reverberations are going to be heard around the world. The war in Armenia and its neighbor has begun in the Caucasus. Ten thousand mostly young men have landed in Lampedusa, Italy in the last few days. We must stay positive. Ukraine must be given what it needs to win and stop this war soon, because there are societal upheavals coming down the pike that are going to need all our attention and especially yours, Chris Christie, if you become Americas next president. Great interview, Caitlyn!
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Sam Harris has done it again with one of the most amazing guests and this time with the brilliant and articulate Professor Christakis. I'm coming in at timestamp 1:11:27and I think you in America have to agree that former President Donald J. Trump has himself acted like a stubborn media-virus in which no vaccine as yet has been invented to see him fade away from public view and world consciousness. I'm only repeating people like Jacques, who says that Trump has done irreparable damage to your Republic and to America's relations around the world. Jacques goes on to list what he thinks Trump has done to your country and one only hopes he's not right. What is disturbing in a country like America is how once one is catapulted to the world stage via being president for example, a person can be dishonest, a charlatan and a fountain of alternative facts and outright lies and still hold people's attention and have followers who are die-hard supporters no matter what allegations prove true about him. Once in the public eye a person gets a teflon contract practically for life and a permit to be a clown and get away with murder in terms of evil deeds and deceitful behavior. It beggar's belief that there is actual talk of Trump running again for president in 2024, but turn on any TV or Cable TV news show and it keeps getting discussed. It's sad because former President Trump is such an unAMERICAN person to begin with. American's don't lie; they don't need to; they tell it like it is. Where did Trump go to school? Don't answer that... When you hear the clarity of thought and the wisdom of discourse that Professor Christakis speaks from his heatrt and his open mind and higher thinking, it is a sad symptom of the way the fates are that someone like him isn't in your nation's highest office. But what is our dilemma as a global family is how social media and mainstream media hold sway over public opinion at such an alarming rate in the ever-increasing ways. I wrote to Tim Cook today if he could come up with an App that would be able to be inacted as an option that would group e-mails, messages, phone calls and everything else and signal to the person every 20 minutes--3 times an hour, for example. This would end the constant pocket to hand to eye to screen that is making us all act like pidgeons to corn kernels. That America is heading towards being a dystopian society is a day to day thought on a lot of people's minds, but until a way is found to get people in an emotional state able to be fact-checked, I think we're all in trouble. However; could your problem be solved by Professor Christakis' suggestion of asking what proof someone needs to sign up for a vaccine or believe in a Corporation's message or a politician's policy? Maybe that's the answer: start asking what people need to see to get off their fantasy island. Religious folks will of course be the last train out of the station of reality, but new thinking has to be employed. Lastly, I would like to say to Sam Harris a hearty thank you for bringing to the world so many interesting vidcasts and to offer his own brand of worldly wisdom which has caused many people to question their own beliefs. We wish Sam and Professor Christakis some very Happy Holidays to their colleagues and friends and families and a fine end to a very challenging year for everyone in the world. Unlike Sam, for me this year, I literally cannot remember back to January. But emotional vulcanos were erupting all the way through it making it an extremely long year that seems to have been so full of events that I can't believe in two weeks it will be over, but it will be and 2022 will be a game changer. I think everyone feels that something is going to boil over. In a final nod to a great thinker, Christopher Hitchings' passing 10 years ago makes us see that on the flip side of social media's annoying habit of getting a buffoon like Trump on the world stage, there is still hope because it also means fine talented intellectuals like Hitch and Sam Harris and Professor Christakis will always have a place on center stage as well.
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Dear Mr Lemon and Mr Fareed. What Mr Fareed is saying that will be the result of Trump’s failed boo-hoo, farcical coup attempt and how up to 80% of Republicans believe the election of 2020 was stolen, is indeed one of the multi-verse possibilities for your country to come. Here is my take as an independent observer on the other side of the world. First, 2020 has revealed a new phase of democratic societies called revenge election; representation was thrown in the trash can for the most part in your election. Why? Because people voted to cause havoc for the mess their lives has become, rather vote for a decent person who might be even worse. A blow hard like Trump who is so crooked he could be a mafia don fit the bill. To be frank, my perspective is of course nothing like yours who are actually living in ground-zero so to speak. Here is what is going to happen: the bulk of Republicans and doubters and conspiracy theorists will go back into nature like the famous cicada bugs that come out every 17 years. Why? Because the level of presidential grace that will surround the Biden presidency will surprise even President-elect Biden. The doubters and stone-throwers and party loyalists will melt away as well, because you are going to see The Senate and The Congress unite and show and do their best to make government by the people come alive and function well again. This is the knee-jerk reaction that will make even the hardcore racists, white supremist conspiring underground movements, and militia organizations grind down to background noise that will only perk up once in a while. Why do I have this vision? Because anytime there is order brought into an ecosystem, like putting the wolf back in Yellowstone park or in this case political system, the system re-calibrates, in the political arena, the need to hold extremist views diminishes radically. This is because everyone wants to have their life hassle-free. The chaos-injected Trump Bandwagon brought with it a spotlight that showed every weak-point and faulty structure of your Constitution and that was his greatest contribution. His incompetence and bellicose managerial style showcased everything that was wrong with your country and its pollical system. Now; things can be fixed.
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Pat, I hope you read this comment because I truly believe I have the idea to make the water crisis go away---and not only for you in America but all the way around the world. An important flaw was told to me by a guy working in a paint store when I told him my idea: "There is no money in it." He said. "If it was oil, people would invest in your idea." I think he is right because I have sent this idea to Prime Minister Modi, Prime Minister Albanese, President Biden---no one has answered back. But you see gold where others see worry, could you give this idea a look-see? My plan is to do what the Romans did: aqueducts. But; this time we put the pipes under all major roads and railway tracks. What am I getting at? Remember the huge downpour of a water bomb that hit Sydney, Australia a couple of years back? Only 8% of the fresh water was retrieved---the rest went into the ocean. Pat, if Australia’s roads and railways had underground piping, water could have been vacuumed up and sent out back where reservoirs always need more water. Imagine if the New York City floods a few years ago could have sent all that excess water to Lake Powell, or Lake Mead or to California's drought-hit regions! Looking around the world, Lebanon has a severe water crisis and water could be sent from the UK all the way there if there were under-road and railway aqueducts. I have told you the downside---but maybe you could see how this could be made into a money-maker.
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Manu, Jake, can anyone imagine what America would look like today if Mitt Romney had won the Republican nomination and went on to win the United States presidency? If there ever was a more decent and fairer and compassionate member of the American political elite, he or she still would probably fallen short of achieving what a President Romney would have done. Instead of red states and blue states there would have been less division and a more united country with people of every color, race and creed being treated with dignity and respect. Trump's bugle call from an out-of-tune trumpet to make America great again has resulted in making your country divided again, people mistrustful of the media, gangs called militia armed and arrogant in regards to obeying the law. It beggar's belief that in spite of a bucket full of Federal indictments and along with a string of allegations of improper conduct with more than a dozen women, social media has so deranged our perception of the world in the Trump era, that we are told CNN doesn't give the real news, the other mainstream platforms are spit on as well and young people gobble it up. That a disgraced former American President is riding high in the polls as a candidate for America's highest office is a testament to how our democracies are susceptible to being destroyed from within by unstable charlatans only in it for themselves. We will never know what Romney would have done, but I think we can all say for certain that America would be a better place today if he had won the election to be your president.
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I have already said thank you Sam, for telling us that RFK Jr is a lawyer. Because as I've mentioned, up until now, we thought he was a scientist or at least a medical doctor. Robert has carried a load on his shoulders his whole life through and he just has to bring up his father's tragic and alleged assassination by another hand other than Sirhan Sirhan and he wins the jackpot every time. But America, you in America need to move on and realize that echoes of the past represented in a candidate from a legendary family strike your patriotic hearts and the desire to see Camelot come alive again. RFK Jr seems to sense that he can get dad's message out there again and that it will resonate and that this time he will bake the freedom cake his dad wanted everyone to get a slice of. Everyone craves for a hero and no country more than America where nightly gun battles leave dozens wounded or dead across the land has a need for a Pied Piper to march all the social unrest and governmental failures into the sea. Republicans and democrats talk to each other like soldiers in the trenches of WW I. Only they're not speaking in French and German, they're from the same country and speak the same language but talk to each other like mortal enemies at times. Like Jeff Koons (and I have no disrespect for Koons because he is the richest sculptor in the world) RFK Jr has the credentials, honorary and university degrees, colossal fortunes, stunning wives and life stories that read like a Hollywood 'B' movie and creative impulses, but what both Koons and JFK Jr lack (and this is a personal opinion) is talent in their chosen fields and in this case RFK's running for president. RFK Jr can't bring back the magic of the 60s because there was no magic in the 60s and the only magic, he's got is a desire to enflame the masses and get America great again but through his clouded vision.
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Dear President (Ret.) Obama, You are buttering President Trump's bread when you go down to his level of scathing criticism for Trump's opponents. Why? Because you are giving Trump's supporters the ammunition they need to back their candidate. By debasing Trump, no matter how true your facts are, you inadvertantly do the work of Biden's worse critics. Mr Obama, it falls flat from the great president Obama we all used to know and admire to see you badmouthing Trump. And; it doesn't help standing in a working-man's shirt, trying to connect with the man in the street. No; when you try to be like the guy next door it unfortunately stains any of your backstory. Across the world you're known as a powerful statesman and orator of the higest level, and because you're a former head-of-state, and not a small business owner, you must show us the former President Obama we all know, the man who is above mud-slinging and trying to show sordid news-bites of a faltering incumbent that everyone knows anyway. Be the one who simply shows what hasn't been accomplished in Trump's term, what lacks substance, what might have been done better and you'll really help Biden.
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Thank you, Erin and Dr DeGrasse Tyson, for an excellent videocast. You and the CNN Team and CNN Contributors always deliver the news in a professional and coherent manner that surprisingly reaches us quite well. Believe it or not, we are tuning in from an asteroid that will miss your planet by 50,000 miles in 2525----Just Kidding of course! What we have to realize is that if the Government of Mexico---or any country for that matter---did what Mexico has done and it was proved to be fake, it would be political suicide on a national scale and the Mexican people would be mocked and chastised around the world for decades. Your government via Congress has heard enough whistleblowers from secret Government Space Programs to make us all realize that this would never be allowed if it was not given a green like all the way from the top. I predict that President Biden is going to have a press conference and verify Mexico's find and the whistleblowers' claims as true before the 2024 election. I believe that President Biden will win in 2024 and that Kamala Harris will finish the term as your country's first woman president. But we have to brace ourseleves because our world is about to change. We have to remember that a few years ago on an election day, President Putin, the Pope, Secretary of State John Kerry and several other heads of state flew down to Antarctica for one day---on the same day as a US election. It was reported only briefly in the press an around the world, because the November election got the headlines. But when I saw that the Pope was invited doubting bells started going off in the back of my mind. Neil also knows the Mexican aliens are the real deal, but he cannot go there.
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Dear Mr Fridman and Mr Dawkins, I think of all the people in the world, both of you deserve a vote of thanks from everyone striving to make sense of life. Professor Dawkins has transformed my views on life in countless ways. Mr Fridman has to be one of the most brilliant interviewers of our time. His mind is timeless; his intelligence has no boundary. He's a gift to the world. I'm coming in at 35:36 in your incredibly thought-provoking discussion. I try not to take a stand on conspiracy theories, but only to point to facts that lead one to conclude that their may have been other outcomes to what the mainstream media has insisted actually happened. What keeps throwing me into to deniers' camp of people saying Neal Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landing on the moon for one thing is the interview by Armstrong where he never once used the word 'I' to describe his visit on the moon. When we experience something, we don't give an answer like this. Suppose your wife asks you: How was your time at the pub last night? You wouldn't answer, "When you go to the pub, you meet friends. You have a drink and talk about sport. You have a wonderful time and then you leave when you have to go home." Niel Armstrong never said, "When I saw the sun, or when I took a step or when I saw there were no stars." He never gave a first-hand account throughout the interview. And why did he wait 35 years to give his first interview? What about going through the Van Allen Belts? No manned mission or space station has been situated in the Van Allen Radiation belts. The capsule they were in was 1/4 aluminum which means they would have been bombarded throughout going through both ways. Gentlemen, there is also the fact that on the moon a person would weigh 1/6 of their body weight. It is ridiculous to think Buzz or Neal would need to put their feet on the ladder going up or down from the lander. Also, when Buzz jumps, he goes up about 10 inches. He was 180 pounds so he would weigh 30 pounds plus more with the equipment. We don't see anything to make us feel they are in 1/6 gravity. No stars in the sky means that astronomers could not verify their coordinates. Are there really no stars visible from the moon's surface? None? They were sitting on a 10,000 pound thrust engine with a reported 120 to 150 decibel sound when the motor was engauged. When Neal is talking to Houston during the landing, he sounds like he's talking with very little sound in the background. Impossible according to rocket specialists. Also, no blast crater. NASA was worried about the fact that the crater might cause the lander to fall inside the pit. There was nothing blown away, like rocks or pebbles under the landers of all the moon flights. There are so many things that make one realize something is amiss about the moon flights. Hats off to both of you for making this world and our experience on the Earth enriching and full of wonder. Be well.
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Sam and Chris, you have shaken and stirred my day because you are talking about a subject that I did not know was happening in the present day and especially not in Britain. Young men converting to Islam by faith-tattoo, artisan Imams. No one I know can match Sam Harris when he tackles a subject as complex, as irrational and as emotionally-explosive for ordianry people as religion. What I think is happening to young men finding a life path in converting to Islam is that it is like a life-tattoo and you get a personal guide in the form of an Imam who talks the talk and walks the walk of someone on the path to righteousness. Here is what I think we have to get across to people who find themselves at a weak point in their life where they do not see their yellow brick road or come to the end of it and find no kingdom of happiness. We must show people that when you sign up with a representative from an organized religion, you are giving up your intuitive powers, because if there is a higher power, for me it is our intuition. Cut off your intuitive nature and you are ripe for becoming the low hanging fruit of the purveyors of the world's religions. To recap: if you sign your life away to Islam or any other religion, what you are doing is letting an imaginary being you will never know or meet dictate in words followers swear was written by Allah or God himself for you to never question and follow to the letter. Moreover; for the rest of your life----we are talking decades of your precious time on earth as a former free spirit----each time you would normally figure things out for yourself, you don't go there because you do not believe in yourself anymore, so you call your local clergyman or Imam to have him or her tell you which way to butter your toast for the day. In brief; when you sign your life away and join a religious group: goodbye thinking cap; welcome to Islam, Christianity, etc.
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Dear Ms Goodman, Thank you for your excellent style of reporting. I cannot corraborate this news, but earlier today I was talking to my accountant who is from Iran. He told me the official death count in Iran was wrong. Again, I cannot verify what he said, but he said the death count was between 50 and 100 thousand people. It's also clear that in America, the Congress has to put in a special legislation. First, President Trump should take a leave of absence and go golfing for example. They should let Governor Cuomo take over until the crisis is over. Secondly, every American worker should have his paychek backed by the Government. Your country is afterall: by the people, for the people, of the people. Everyone EVERYONE'S salary should be guaranteed by the Government. In 2008 they did the same thing to keep Bears Sterns afloat, now it should cover every person earning a wage. It would reassure the populace, bring back favor to the Government and restore public confidence in its institutions. If a waitress has her salary paid, she can pay her bills and take care of her children in dignity. She will go back to work with faith in her government. How to do this? Again, back to Mr Schumer and Ms Pelosit. They set up legislation to suspend the capitalist economic system until the epidemic is over. They instill laws covering everyone who is used to getting a paycheck. They can do this and it would turn people's heads around and get them back to believing in the system. We're talking about people making so little money normal foks could barely live on it. Take care of the troops on the front line and you win the Var. Yes, let's stop using words like war which mean armed conflict. Let's call the fight against epidemics a VAR. We are at VAR with C-virus
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Dear Ms Dana and Governor Kasich, I would like to say something about the debate on school shootings and any kind of shootings in your country. Guns are legal and that is not going to change. America has allowed sugar to be sold in every kind of product and we all know the damage sugar can do to people’s health. But the solution has been to have the best dentistry in the world. What am I getting at? The problem is that the people that abuse guns need to be contained. Here is what I mean. I am an inventor and I am throwing an idea out there. If in the architecture of schools, there was a master switch that locked all the classrooms and enclosed the hallways every 50 feet, for example, at the first sound of gunfire, it could seal off the place where the shooter was operating. It could function like a sliding wall that would seal off the hallway from both sides, leaving no exit every so many feet – the length of a classroom, for example. If a master switch was given to every teacher and administrator in the schools, at the first shot, a teacher or someone could press the button and the school would go into total lockdown. With security cameras, the location of the shooter could be found quickly. Equally, as a tactic, in all of the rooms and especially the room where the shooter was operating, if reverse smoke detectors – something to produce smoke - were put in place, a smokescreen could be used to diminish the shooters view. I realize that I am giving only an idea for containing a possible shooter. The thing is the shootings are going to continue, they can’t be prevented, but trapping the shooter might be one way to lower the harm or limit the casualties he or she can do. Could it also be envisaged to have under every school desk a ‘blanket’ or vest that would be released at the sound of gunfire and was capable of slowing down or even stopping a bullet? A student could wrap the blanket around them or put on a vest. It could be made out of the same material as bullet-proof vests. Much like when a plane is going down, the blankets or vests would drop from the desks when a gunman began shooting and a student could wrap the blanket around himself or herself or put on a vest. It could also be a part of any public building by which there would be access to bullet proof vests that would be released in theater seats, restaurant seats, etc. Non-toxic smoke to blind the shooter could be a part of it. It might save a life. What I am trying to say is that there is an upgrade to public safety that is needed to be put into place across the board, by incorporating bullet proof vests, containing processes for crazed shooters, and smoke to blind the shooters so that potential victims can run for cover.
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Dear Mr Bet-David and Mr Zimmern, Patrick have I got an idea to get Mr Zimmern and the hotel and restaurant industry, and just about everyone else back to work! I’d like to ask both of you about and it. How do we get people safely back in restaurants, our kids back in school, factory workers, tradesmen, and people of all walks of life back in their places of work, and most of all the American economy and the world economy back on its feet? Are you ready for a possible solution? Then please take a couple of minutes to read my assessment of the pandemic and it goes as follows: After months and months of people having to wear the masks, gloves, face shields etcetera, we are not even close to solving the problem of the Covid-19 pandemic; we need to move on. Pat, to win on the Coronavirus pandemic in your country and around the world, I believe we need to fight the Coronavirus on its territory instead of letting it dictate to us how to come into our bodies to fight our immune systems. We're slaves to its every whim and desire. I see a way out of this. I am an inventor. Here is my plan 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 actively where it lives: in the air. We can do this with adapted air conveyors, let’s call them air scrubbers, air processors, whatever you want to call it i.e. air cleaners adjusted to bake or freeze or incapacitate the virus in its molecular form and take it immediately out of the air we breathe. We could do this in every place where people congregate; every classroom, every office, every restaurant could have a portable one on each table for example. There would be a gauge on the apparatus to show the level of the virus in the air as to whether it was acceptable for people to be in the room, building etc. The police use breathalyzers to analyses the alcohol content in someone’s breath, we need to come up with a Coronavirus analyzer that shows whether the Covid-19 virus is in a person’s system. It could save our economy and jobs and save us a lot of time, as well as saving 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 pocket-sized virus-tester-breathalyzer and if they were positive, they could take immediate action. I haven’t yet invented these apparatuses, but the technology has been around for decades. Still not convinced? I have a Dyson air conveyor, why not converting air-cleaning machines already in use to fight the Coronavirus? Air-scrubbers ( it’s just what I call them) could be made as portable devices, home devices, for the office, the classroom that filter out or kill the virus with ultra-violet light or something that renders it inoffensive. In a restaurant, for example, a table of five would have the air-scrubber on the table, filtering out everyone’s exhaled breaths. The plain simple truth of the matter is that it’s infecting us by travelling through the air, and as effective as masks are, they are only passively stopping the virus. It is my belief that the Coronavirus is a harbinger of much more lethal pathogen coming down the pike. Let’s go after it in ITS territory instead of sitting passively by and trying to block it from infecting us, because we can see it's a losing battle. The technology has been around since submarines started scrubbing CO2 out of the air while on underwater maneuvers. Mr Bet-David, you probably know CEO’s of companies that manufacture air conveyors, and air purifier technology. Please, could you make a plea to them so we can knock this virus out of the air and get us back to be able to live normally again? I believe the 1928 pandemic was bad, but our atmosphere has worsened and is probably the reason why viruses have become so deadly. We might be able to save countless people from getting infected if we can clean the air we breathe. The new battleground is the air; let’s clean it, free it from viruses and pathogens and pollen. For children as well as the rest of us it’s a win/win situation for humanity and for the next wave of the virus. Be well
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"He ( the President of Iraq talking to former President Trump when Trump was President) "I just bombed Iraq today, and the president of Iraq called me up and said, "You just leveled my city"--- "And I said to him, OK, what are you going to do about it.?" Just let that sink in for a minute. At first you don't think too much about and then you start realizing that by bombing a city, babies, children, adolescents, women and men and elderly people were blown to smithereens by the whim of an errant American President whom had just committed what was surely a war crime against mostly innocent people. Boys and girls, this quote from former President Trump should be sent to his legions of fans, because what has been said here shows once and for all that Donald J. Trump was NEVER fit for the office of The President of The United States---or even for a banana republic.
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Arnold, in all due respect, you are an international superstar and you look like you have just come back from a month at sea. There is no need for you to have bushy eyebrows laced in white that frankly, make you look older than your 39 years. Seriously, get a grip and take a tip from the former admiral, John Kirby, on what your hairdresser can do for you! Lastly, let's start with hate crimes this way: it hurts when someone berates you in public. Yes; words can hurt. All plumbers wear blue socks! No; they don't. Let's stop throwing everyone in the same bag. There are bad apples in every group. But mostly, let's get through to the cowards who say hateful things about people of any race, creed or belief: words hurt. Imagine, what it's like when people take it further than words?
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Nice Job Peter, you are a gifted wordsmith! At 2:21 into your vocast, you say all diplomatic relations between The United States and Russia have now been irrevocably trashed by Putin taking Russia out of the last treaty that prevents an unchecked nuclear build-up by Russia or something to that extent. This makes my blood boil about almost every single aspect of what an autocratic regime like Russia under President Putin is all about. It is farcical that one man can have his say over not just a few underlings for example, but everyone else in a country of 150 million people and even if he is wrong and he proves to be unbalanced and egocentric and willing to have everyone in the world suffer catastrophic events, his orders will still be followed through to the letter! Peter, no matter what anyone says, you tell it like it is and we thank you for it. Meanwhile, back in this totally bizarre planet we live on, I submit that it is pure madness that one individual has the power to shut down relations with the world's most powerful nation on Earth. I will never understand how people in an autocratic regime are willing to put up with having everything decided for them. How could people even want to exist in a country where one has no say in anything and if you express your opinion and it's against the grain, you go straight to jail? The war in Ukraine shows us how insane it is because as Chancellor Scholz said, it's 'Putin's war'. But do you know what has sent me to the gallows of my deepest fears? It's that the whole of South America is staying neutral on the war in Ukraine. In other words, if Russia wins, they can live with that. Ukraine is an existential crisis of proportions that are off-the-charts for our survival in the west.
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Dear Mr Cuomo, First, we hope your brother and hero across the world for Covid-19 governance and wisdom, rises above his political dilemma. Chris, you’ve got to help your brother Andy and I’m not a politician, but you’ve got to tell him to put everything on the table. Call in an independent commission to investigate. But Governor Cuomo must tell it like it is. Secondly, Governor Abbott of Texas is an anomaly in measured thinking and common sense and clearly the wrong person to be governor of the great state of Texas. To open up Texas on 10 March 100% and have people not wear masks is causing shockwaves across the world. Europe is stunned by the ignorance and carelessness of Governor Abbott, who certainly means well, but absolutely will pay a price for his severe lack of judgement. But the people who are going to pay the biggest price are those poor folks who will have to get a breathing tube inserted into their lungs and we know only about 20% live to talk about it. I met a lady yesterday who was in the mountains where there were no people a few months ago, and she went into a grocery store which was empty with her daughter, and later they both contracted Covid-19. That was months ago, and she is now experiencing what they call long-Covid, that is she still has symptoms from the virus months after being ‘cured’. Chris, you’ve done a great job dealing with the pandemic, but this must be one of those moments where you know Governor Abbott is making one of those decisions that is going to send thousands of people to their early graves, and there is nothing anyone can do about it. Good luck to Governor Cuomo!
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Dear Mr Glor and distinguished guests, I am an inventor and I am throwing an idea out there. If in the architecture of schools, there was a master switch that locked all the classrooms and enclosed the hallways every 50 feet for example at the first sound of gunfire, it could seal off the place where the shooter was operating. It could function like a sliding wall that would seal off the hallway from both sides leaving no exit every so many feet – the length of a classroom, for example. If a master switch was given to every teacher and administrator in the schools, at the first shot, a teacher or someone could press the button and the school would go into total lockdown. With security cameras, the location of the shooter could be found quickly. Equally, as a tactic, in all of the rooms and especially the room where the shooter was operating, if reverse smoke makers/detectors were put in place, a smokescreen could be used to diminish the shooters view. I realize that I am giving only an idea for containing a possible shooter. The thing is the shootings are going to continue, it can’t be prevented, but trapping the shooter might be one way to lower the harm or limit the casualties he or she can do. Could it also be envisaged to have under every school desk a ‘blanket’ that was capable of slowing down or even stopping a bullet? A student could wrap the blanket around them. It could be made out of the same material as bullet-proof vests. Much like when a plane is going down, the blankets would drop from the desks when a gunman began shooting and a student could wrap the blanket around himself or herself. It might save a life.
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Dear Erin, Thank you for your willingness to confront all the issues with fairness. I have a request here that is guaranteed to be controversial, but one I believe Mr Buttigieg can address with dignity and Reason. Thank you for standing up to LGTB rights Pete, and throwing off the criticism about your life choices. But can I ask you ask as a concerned parent, an independent voice, an inventor and person watching this videocast from across the world to do something for your country's and the world’s young people? How can the world better welcome the LBTB community members into their lives? One way is to please stop saying to people, ‘my husband, my marriage’. Why do I ask this? Because as an inventor, the word marriage was invented long ago by someone who intended it to mean the union of a woman and a man. Husband was equally meant to mean the male counterpart to a wife. Here are words I have invented that I offer you and the LGTB COMMUNITY to use: Gayriage for marriage. Le hom for your husband, le fem if you choose him to be your wife. Same for lesbians. Lesbiage for a woman and woman union. Why do I send this commentary that will surely cause a reaction? Because everyone is forgetting about the children of the world who see things in black and white. They need to be able to distinguish between a man and woman as being married, a man and a man being gayriated and a woman and a woman being lesbiated. I offer these terms as something to begin the search for appropriate terms. It’s for the kids of America and the world!
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Pat, I do not have a geopolitical background---I am an artist---so please bear with me in what I am about to say. What I believe is that I have a workable, long-term resolution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict that will benefit us all. Jason has said that he believes he is in the calm before the storm. War will be unleashed and we all know how this movie begins and ends. But I have a peace plan, it is not going to please everyone. Here goes: Gaza must be evacuated and Palestinians relocated. Every building, structure, road and infrastructure should be bulldozed into the ground and the 145 square kilometer land area that Gaza has been should be made into a sort of Galapagos of the middle east and serve as a nature reserve for endangered species of animal, fish, plant, bird etc., on the planet. This area which is about the size of the Isle of Wight could be transformed into a nature reserve where Palestinians and Israelis could eventually work side by side in saving species from extinction. Just let this roll around in your mind and what you will find coming into your thoughts are pleasant images instead of tragic ones. Pat, Jason in all due respect, I know this peace plan means for us to be cruel to be kind, but the Gaza strip is turning Palestinians into a sort of sub-species of the human community because of the inhumane living conditions it offers. Palestinians need one patch of land, and there are countries around the world who have a need for workers. China has whole cities with apartment buildings of millions of apartments empty, for example. We could at least ask them to help out in taking Palestinians leaving Gaza, same for asking Jordan for more land for the Palestinians. It may be a little early to be offering a peace plan, but what I am offering is something good to replace something bad and it is doable.
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This is where I was wrong about the last intended meeting with Blinken and President Xi. To see it happen in the flesh sends a wave of relief across the world. Mr Bemer, what is appalling and heartbreaking is the so-called fentanyl epidemic sewing a path of destruction across your country. This is going to sound like fake news, but I live in a country where this problem has been solved---at least from the community I live in. People are no longer getting attacked by addicts needing to pay for their habit. To see on American television beamed across the world of the walking Zombies showing flesh-eating bacteria making the skin on their limbs rot to the bone is enough to shake off any sense in what people are willing to do with their bodies, but a former Swiss President put in place a program that takes police out of the equation and offers drugs to the addicts via trained medical staff and provides them with safe-clinics where they can inject drugs with syringes provided by the government. To recap: there are still addicts begging for cash to pay for a night in a city shelter but they are not attacking others and especially old people for their money to support their habits. If the American government would provide the sick and often mentally unstable people with safe drugs, this would permit police to get back to doing their job and allow social workers and medical professionals to take over and offer safe havens for the addicts. Also; it is obvious capitalism cannot solve homelessness, but how about this as a solution? Why not set up a safe-city or a sort of 'campus' built from scratch in a part of the country that could use a job-creating industry? In the special-needs pseudo city, homeless people, gathered from around the country would be assigned a room with toilet and shower facilities and given food and clothing. There would be 'classes or instruction in helping people first get back on their feet, administering the medical treatment they need and once they were cognizant of their problems, a next series of 'classes' or instruction or something to help them locate in themselves a skill or community service they could do, then specially trained people in job centers could begin to offer solutions to helping these formerly lost individuals find employment or simply being permanent 'helpers in communities across the country. Somebody could have a job delivering hot meals to elderly people and that would be a great help to the community and give them a sense of purpose. It's ideas that we need to generate...
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Here is some interesting information by Mike Maloney:
Bank Failures
1. March 8, 2023 Silvergate Capital Corp --- closed
2. 2 days
3. March 10, 2023 Silicon Valley Bank ---seized by FDIC
4. 2 days
5. Signature Bank seized by regulators
6. 3 days
7. March 13, 2023 FDIC creates ‘bridge bank’ President declares deposits safe
8. 7 days
9. Credit Suisse sold to UBS with government guarantees
10. 2 months
11. May 1, 2023 First Republic Bank taken over by JP MORGAN
2008 Crisis
1. April 2007: New Century Financial bankrupt
5 months
2. September 2007: Bank runs at England’s Northern Rock Bank
3. 6 months
4. March 2008: Bear Stern collapses
5. 4 months
6. July, 2008: Indy Mac / Countrywide Financial, collapse
7. 2 months
8. September 7, 2008: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac nationalized
9. 1 day
10. September 15, 2008: AIG bail out
11. 11 days
12. September 16, 2008: Washington Mutual (WaMu) collapses
13. 1 month
14. October, 2008: Fed’s T.A.R.P. commits $700 billion in taxpayer funds
15. 1 month
16. November 2008: Citigroup bail out
17. 1 month
18. December 2008: General Motors / Chrysler bail out $80.7 billion
19. 1 month
20. January 2009: Bank of America bail out, $20 billion
21. 1 month February 2009: President Obama approves $787 billion stimulus
22. 4 months
23. June 2009: GM files for bankruptcy, closes 14 factories
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I'm going to stop you right here at 5:36 when you say there is no evidence right here that it--the Wuhan virus--came from a lab. David, I live on the other side of the world from you so my sources are from your country and other countries as well. I listen for example, to Indian TV and they say categorically that Dr Fauci was involved in the Wuhan lab coverup. Whether they are right or wrong is for serious journalists to investigate, but India has over a billion people, and if their top investigators say it came from a lab I'm inclined to think they may be on to something. Then there is Australia. I have seen reports of Australian virologists saying that when the Wuhan virus is placed in front of an animal cell or a human cell, it will attack the human cell. The Australian virologists say this has never happened before. I just try to listen to all sides. Why would the Chinese have allowed planeload after planeload of their citizens to fly out of Wuhan in January, February and half of March 2020, but not to other regions of China? Why have all the journalists, lab workers, doctors and researchers who said the lab-leak theory was right on the money, why were all those people jailed for years? Why is the Wuhan virus obviously when looked under a micoscope altered with whatever that's been grafted on to it? David, when you see the heated debates on Indian television, you cannot walk away thinking they're making it all up. There is also no animal that the Chinese have brought forward to show that the virus came from a particular species of animal. Lastly, the Chinese have refused any inquiry into the origins of the virus on the grounds that it is politcal. Give us a break!
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Dear Wolff, John, Jake and the CNN Team, There are no words to describe what we are seeing from across the world, but there is one thing you need to do and that is stop asking loaded questions to the people you interview. What do I mean by that? Jake does this a lot, he asks his guests frequently, for example, "Senator X, don't you condemn this illegal activity as a federal crime against XYZ?" Ask instead, "How you do assess the protesters coming breaking into the building?" or "What is your impression on what President Trump has said to his supporters?" What I've noticed is if you give someone you're interviewing a loaded question, they inevitably find a way to defend the person you have just labelled as doing an illegal activity. It's practically human nature to defend your side especially when someone is pointing out an obvious fault in whatever is being discussed. Lastly, it's a turning point in American history, so could you at CNN use this unique opportunity to create something like The Situation Room? How about the Constitutional Democratic Republic Debate Room? Something needs to be put in place in your work to have regular discussions about what has just transgressed. Something needs to be created to show how you at CNN view this in an entirely new way as journalists to let the American people and those of us across the globe an indication that this affront to your democracy has reached urgency levels. We have no other choice than to realize that a vast number of American citizens can not be fact checked because they are in an emotional state, therefore, it's important to rise to the challenge to new levels of reporting the facts as you see them in ways you have not done before. Call it what you like, we have to realize that what is happening in your capital is a wake-up call to all democracies in the world.
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Joe and Alex, both of you see things in a way that is solid and responsible and it is probably true that to legalize all drugs would change parenting and society in presenting great challenges none of us can imagine. But let's be real: by our governments telling us we cannot buy a substance or powder or drug or alcohol because they consider it bad for people, isn't it really the case that a lot of times unelected, unqualified people posing as experts are saying that we judge you, the people, so incompetent, so unable to know what's best for you that we will decide what is best for you and we will make the choices that you are obviously unable to make? It is a government saying that you do not need to listen to your sixth sense i.e., inner voice, intuition, common sense that everyone has been born with, because faceless bureaucrats will take over that part of your decision-making process. Joe is wondering what he would have done if heroin or cocaine or grass was able to be bought across the counter when he was twenty. Joe, I honestly believe you would be sitting where you are today because you might have bought some or all of those drugs, but you would have decided if you should continue to buy them or not. You wouldn't need a governmental law telling you it was illegal to use those substances, because you know what's good for you or not. Young people don't eat 3 slices of chocolate cake and overeat unless they have psychological problems. So; yes, a certain part of the population would be vulnerable, but it would be part of health care like AA today. Average kids, young people know what's good or bad for them and for us to say they need to be protected---I am talking about people reaching what is considered legal age to buy alcohol---is shortchanging them and making us behave like scared rabbits. When you make something illegal you make shady characters come out of the woodwork and write their own code of conduct which a lot of times means that many more innocent people are targeted and killed than would be affected by liberal laws that dignify the human family.
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There are encyclopedias and then there is the geopolitical world's, Peter Zeihan. Thank you, Peter, for bringing so many of us couch potatoes up-to-speed on what is going on in the world. By the way, whomever said that the human community are a group of altruists governed by psychopaths seems to ring true more and more as each day passes. Alright, let's get down to business: there have been more than 700 days of war in Ukraine. Can any of us imagine what it must be like to have a missile crashing into one's flat or home in the middle of the night? This is happening every day to civilians in the Ukraine. The news I have is that more than 60,000 Ukrainian armed forces personal and civilians have lost a limb. To put that in perspective, the UK has 72,000 active military troops. Lt. General (Ret.) Ben Hodges, whom I believe is America's greatest living general, says that the way to give the Kremlin leaders a body-blow that will make them fall like autumn leaves is for Crimea to get back in Ukrainian hands. Why don't they take his advice and at least see what happens? Why is there only snail-mail deliveries of needed weapons and ammunition to the Ukraine?
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What throws a stick in the spokes about life starting in a primordial pond in the early days of our world is something that I learned from Dr James Tour at Rice University in Texas, USA. Listen, I don't know if he's right, but the simplest cell has these elements in it: lipids, which form the membranes, carbohydrates or sugars, nucleic acids RNA & DNA, 20 amino acids, 19 of which are cyro---a term describing their makeup. The outer membrane of a cell has 10 to the 78 billion possible combinations, but only one will work. That is 10 with 78 billion zeros’ after it. The carbohydrates on the outside membrane are more complex than the DNA and RNA combined. On top of that, all of these elements have to be formed at the right time and temperature with their exact placement in a cell, for example. The liklihood of everything coming together at the same time is mind boggling. The carbohydrates can caramelize and would need to be made again. Even if all of these elements come together as a cell, there is still one problem: how does it become alive? What makes all of these chemicals suddenly become a living organism? Our bodies are built with enzymes, but we have no idea what life is or how it started. To say that life began one afternoon in a swamp is ridiculous. This is why we must realize that life permeates the universe and just because we cannot see proof of it from our tiny blue dot doesn't mean we are the only bastion of life in the universe.
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You can't ever, ever say something negative about your son on line Dan. I was a single parent who lost his wife to illness and had a little girl to raise. She woud ask me to drop her off a block from her school, she would give me the finger before heading to school, she would say, "Why is it you who got sick; I want my mother back?" Dan, I always said and continue to say, "I understand, don't worry, I know you want your mother, kid, and I'm not doing anywhere near the job she could have done." Dan, you've got to cut your son some slack and realize one thing. When you die; all your friends are going to tell your son this: "Yeah, I know, you never got on with your old man. You know why? Cos he never figured out you were just like him!"
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Dear Ms Brook and Mr Acosta, Thank you both for excellent reporting about the Trump Presidency. One thing you cannot do in your jobs as television news journalists and presenters is to show your cards. What do I mean by that? When you show anger, or any emotion that is exaggerated, it is amplified by ten to viewers i.e. it is too emotional. It does not enhance your credibility. Don’t let the television viewers see that an insult has hurt you or made you angry, etc. It actually makes the person who attacked you verbally look even more ridiculous. Stay straight faced and ask the questions. It’s none of your business if someone wants to act rude to you. It’s only my opinion. Lastly, you might find this interesting. These are the words of psychiatrist Dr Gartner in a recent interview about his analysis of President Trump. I quote, “Then we have to add to that that he is in a state of cognitive decline. His vocabulary has shrunk dramatically, he can hardly finish a sentence without derailing into irrelevancy. He repeats himself over and over again, he overuses superlatives. All of these are signs we see in people who have an organically based, cognitive decline. He is not demented, but he is probably in a state called pre-dementia. Someone is declining but they haven’t hit the bottom of the hill. He might not be cognitively able to understand all of the issues. Donald Trump is a liar. He tells lies that any competent con-man could tell to deceive other people. The worst case scenario is that he is actually psychotic and that he is actually delusional. He actually doesn’t know that what he’s saying is a lie because he lives in his own reality.” Maybe it’s his mental health that will decide the fate of President Trump’s Presidency.
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Prime Minister Sunak, author Douglas Murray, Piers Morgan and a list as long as your arm of people who have come to realize that Great Britain opened the floodgates so-to-speak of unlimited immigrants coming to the UK for a better life. Now that they are here, the truth has settled in and there is the stark realization that huge numbers of foreigners have come in with codes no one is able to break and that their religious Holy Books tell them to never vary from their true mission in life---whatever that may be---it is not to accept British values. And: what is showing boldly across your country is it is not in the cards for tens of thousands of people from certain countries to become British. Well, you have a problem and here is what I would do if I were in charge and that is to first consider what I know will sound like a very controversial measure: get everyone to dress with store-bought, ordinary street clothes in public. It must sound daft and I am sure it will hurt the feelings of those who believe in religious freedom, but the law could only be temporary, like the Hong Kong lease, say, for 99 years? Seriously, making religious dress forbidden in public places would change peoples' attitudes instantly. Dress codes might very well be the shock treatment needed to shake old beliefs for new ones. Moreover; for those who want to stay in the UK, accepting to look like ordinary citizens would be a step forward in also accepting your values because they would look like everyone else. The next thing to do is the water-down the teaching of religious teachers who are filling peoples' heads with 7th century consciousness and turning people away from integrating into your great and wonderful country. Everything needs to be tried; you are on the brink of implosion in society as a whole; this is more than serious. You must act now...
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Dear Mr Dore, Thank you for your contribution to common sense videocasts. Jimmy, I am an overseas viewer tuning in from time to time to great shows like yours. I think you speak from your heart and you speak truth to the powerful and direct honesty towards those barely clinging to existence-level survival in the era of Coronavirus. I'm not a politician. I'm an artist and what I believe is this: each and every one of us in the whole world is responsible for putting clowns like Trump, Putin, Xi, Duterte, Kim Jong Un in high office. Human beings in today's world have their heads in the proverbial sand because we are all slaves to social media on our portable devices, evem more so for our pocketbooks and ardent believers in carnvial barkers who invade our tiny screens to tell us things we know are false, but that we simply don't care about because we live in our own little world of make-believe. Period. We have to accept that all of us are responsible for President Trump as the world's most powerful politician. The warning signs might as well be peperment candy, because we eat it up. We are very bad caretakers of a paradise called planet Earth, and we deserve the Trumps and Bolosanos and the others who supress freedom and inhibit good government. The art of government is that of handling advice, and the clowns we vote in office have no need of good advice, because they know that all they need to do is to be race-baiters, fearmongers and slander just about every person around them who doesn't kiss their back side. Boys and girls, the party is...
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My comments today are to thank you, Sheriff Grady Judd pour putting a human face on law enforcement for the whole world to see. As an independent observer from across the world, I have something to say to you and to people in government and the American people. I think that there is enough proof with the Alissa mass-shooting to make everyone of you in America realize that the ‘vaccine’ of quick police-reaction has not worked and will never work in stopping madmen, unstable people, from committing mass murder. Sherriff Judd, I am not a professional academic, but it doesn’t take a genius to realize the only approach to stemming future carnage by is by a collective effort of all able-bodied adults in The United States to bear the burden of your 2nd Amendment and make it a law for all American adults---who are qualified---to carry a firearms. I know this sounds extreme, but Sherriff Judd, I think you of all people know that this would put an abrupt end to the horrible nightmare you and your loved ones and colleagues and fellow citizens are enduring with mass shooters that roam your villages, towns and cities looking for soft targets. Being the target of a deranged person wielding an automatic weapon is so unAMERICAN it makes me angry to see this slaughter of innocent civilians is going on and ruining the image of the land of the free: America. Yes; I am saying that all of you in America must now own up to the fact that if there is a 2nd Amendment, then everyone that can be armed as an adult, must be armed when in public, because for it to work properly everyone must be on the lookout for their fellow citizens. This is the only way to stop this terrible stain on your wonderful, beautiful people and country. You can no longer allow people with mental problems to dictate how you live your lives. If everyone is on board, you in the policing will be able to have a new standard policy that will save officers of the peace’s lives. Moreover, every one of those ‘cowards’ who wish to do great bodily harm to others will think twice before ever going into a supermarket or any establishment again. To recap: it sounds weird—even repulsive—it’s like the 1830s all over again, but you cannot have a 2nd Amendment that allows your citizens to bear arms and try to stop the deranged individuals with only the police as I’m sure you know from experience. The police will never, ever be able to come to a mass-shooting event 99% of the time before its over---because it lasts a matter of seconds. But, if ordinary citizens are armed and trained in how to use a firearm correctly, at the minimum, the mass murderers won’t be able to do as much collateral damage. Please don’t take this wrong, but I firmly believe this is the only solution—at this point in your Nation’s history---to getting your beloved country and let’s face it: the light of the world, America the beautiful, back to normal. To recap: all upstanding citizens will be obliged by law to carry a firearm at all times in public. You are a free country but there is a also a heavy price to pay for allowing people to carry firearms, and it is a small price to pay when you think of it, because precious lives will be saved and it will bring people together in knowing they are responsible for their brothers and sisters’ well-being as well. It’s an opinion from an overseas viewer.
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As an outsider looking over from a European country next to Italy, what I think the British need to do is the following: Face up to the fact that BREXIT has caused more pain than gain. Accept it and then move on. Get Britain up-to-speed on every single issue that has been either improved on or the opposite, until every single business across the board is doing as good or better than it was when it was a part of the EU. Here is where I know many will not agree with me, but when Britain has attained a good level of prosperity i.e., people are more or less content with the way things are going, then and only then vote to re-join the EU. Why do I think this is a good plan? Because BREXIT has been controversial to say the least and it has not made a conscensus among most British people that it was a wise thing to do, but it has happened and if anybody can turn a sour deal into a sweet one, it's the British. Also, when things are running smoothly, to go back in the EU will mean that Britain has had a chance to have made a compete makeove from A to Z i.e., to put its house in order. This way Britain will come back into the EU as a dynamic force for the good with fresh ideas and positive energy.
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Dear Mr Stetler and Mr Tapper, Thank you and the CNN team and the CNN Contributors for some of the most interesting and honest reporting during the Trump Administration's remarkable and astonishing interviews that will live on in TV journalism as monuments of outrageous alternative facts posing as the truth. What both of you and your colleagues across the spectrum of televised journalism cannot see is how well you have dealt with the bizzaro world of Donald J. Trump and how strangely it has made you into top-of-the-line journalists. Your interviews Mr Tapper go straight to the juglar of truth-getting. Your remarkable sound-bites and visual-clues Mr Stetler have brought a new level of integrity into reporting the news. From being an overseas viewer, the best thing I think the Trump presidency has done is to have shone a light on the heretofore unseen inconsistencies and weak-points in your Republic. Trump's corrupt style has shown The Electoral College's true face: a mask that covers democratically-based elections with convenient abilities to skewer a democratically-elected official by playing with loaded dice to tilt an election to a lesser candidate. Trump could have won again if but for 50,000 votes in Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania didn't stop him, in spite of Biden having 7 million more votes. Boys and girls, The Electoral College is a faux pas, a misstep in your wonderful Republic that must go the way of the Dodo and you can thank Trump for it. There is also the issue of pardons that must be reigned in; it's obvious that a sitting president can have a cadre of hitmen and corrupt officials do his dirty work and just dangle pardons over their faces and he'll walk free like everyone else no matter what he does. It's corruption on an industrial scale. Your founding fathers couldn't have factored in a conman cum excellence like Donald J. Trump, but thanks to his erratic and obscene ways of governing, dozens of flaws in the polical process of the United States can now be rectified. But the best news is that TV journalists like you Mr Stetler, and You Mr Tapper have become world-class information-transfer specialists because of DJT.
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With respect, there are more people in the world wanting Ukraine to win the war against Russia, and heavy arms and military equipment is on the way to your soldiers. The sanctions are a diplomatic way to say to President Putin that we disagree with his choice of invading a sovereign country. Ms Rudik, you have to realize a country like Germany whose entire energy reliance is on Russia can't close the spigot and tear up the contracts overnight. It doesn't matter if Russia is getting 35 billion dollars a day in receipts from its oil and gas, because if it wasn't, China would step in and foot the bill among other countries. No; the key to changing world history is for the Ukraine to win their country back and that includes the break-away partitions and Crimea and the piece of land that was annexed in 2014. Russia must now give up everything it has taken from your people. Prime Minister Johnson's visit to Kiev and the besieged President Zelensky was worth a thousand tanks. Now those tanks are rolling across the border for your forces, more heavy weaponry is on the way. It seems like it's taking forever, but you have to realize this is only a 6-week war and it takes time to do the logistics. Your country is huge and vast distances mean enemy attacks can happen anytime and anywhere. You must keep asking for more weapons of course, because no war ever has a surplus of ammunition, guns, tanks, artillery, choppers, fighter jets. Believe in Prime Minister Johnson's word that Great Britain will not let you down. There are a list of other countries saying the same thing. The world has your back; now to win back Mariupol...
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Dear Ms Cupp, the CNN team and contributors, and Congressman Kinsinger, Thank you Ms Cupp for your analyses of President Trump's Administration. I dedicate this comment to your fallen colleagues in journalism whom will not be home with their families this holiday season. Our hearts go out to their families who have lost a father, a mother, a husband, a wife, a son, a daughter or a friend who were killed this year by orders from rogue regimes seeking to suppress the freedom of the press. If I may say something about your style of presenting the news. It might be more effective if you present the facts to us a lot more than giving us your personal opinions. A lot of times, it sounds a little like what you would say about President Trump at a dinner party at a close friend's house. By putting a lot of emotional spin on describing someone in government, it never makes it past sounding extremely biased. Just laying out the facts that are so beyond the pale anyway, so incriminating that no-one needs to know about what someone is like. (In short; it takes away rather than adds to the punch of the story.) Thank you Congressman Kinsinger for staying calm in the storm of your party's ability to weigh out a strategy on dealing with President Trump. If I may say something, from someone viewing these video casts from the other side of the world. It is not a good move to build a wall on America's southern border. It reeks of the (Israeili) wall which has turned off over half the world because of its symbolism. If America builds a wall it will be thrust into being the proverbial ostrich, of hiding its head in a hole to protect itself from danger. Please, Congressman Kinsinger, President Trump may have won because of the wall being on his ticket, but it will diminish America's image and political clout and be looked on as shameful by the entire world. It will give American a cocoon image. Please think again about building a wall. If the next candidate proposes building a dome over the country, would you back it? The wall is unAMERICAN! It will make America look afraid. Jobs will solve the immigration problem, not a wall.
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First off, Sam Harris and Lex Fridman have to be two of the greatest minds in the world. What I can't understand about freewill---in the sense if it wasn't me who decided to use a drawing by Raphael as the backdrop of my next painting, then who was it? Sam, I treasure and examine with scrutiny every phrase, every word you say, but if it wasn't me who decided to paint my next painting in a certain way, with certain influences, then who in the world was it? Excuse me for coming off as naïve, but wasn't it me who got the inspiration, and then found the Raphael drawing, photographed it, printed it, and finally drew it on a canvas? Both of you are miles ahead of most of us in the cerebral sense, but how can their not be free will?
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As an overseas viewer, everything I have just heard from Laura and Maria and I haven't heard Joe yet, but what I think is best is to leave emotions at the studio door and resist pointing the finger at the major players in the Navalny comments. Donald J. Trump owes 83.5 million plus another 5 million to the lady who sued him and he must pay it immediately. He lost his NYC case for his businesses to the tune of---what was it, 365 million dollars?---something like that. Boys and girls, Trump must pay almost half a billion dollars immediately and if he appeals, he must have half a billion in escrow plus 25 million or more in interest payments on the fines. That's over 500,000,000 US dollars he must pay today, not tomorrow or next week or the government will seize his assets. His goose is cooked if you ask me. Folks, let's be real: He's down to selling running shoes and it at least shows he's still got some humor in him because his shoes are a brilliant 'fools' gold and really reflecting the man himself. We all know he'll mysteriously brush this under the living room rug, but what it shows is that if anything else isn't working, your legal system is top-of-them-all. What is probably a better strategy is to do the following: leave the 'he said this' and 'he really means this' and 'he is playing to Putin' or whatever, leave the hearsay, leave the pulp fiction stuff, leave the over-the-top headlines out of your discussions and now just focus on the facts. That's right; big, boring facts and this will enrage Trump like nothing else, because he's like a bad-news-vampire who gets his power from salty, audacious headlines and bickering talking heads on talk shows. To recap: the facts as they are will be enough alongside the string of court cases that are draining his deep pockets and will send him packing and wake up mesmerized Trump supporters who will slowly begin to see that the emperor is only wearing 'fools' gold running shoes. The focus for the western world should be on Ukraine and the weapons and ammo it needs...
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This is one of David Pakman's best videocasts not only because he is adamant in his belief that his country must leave the graveyard of the empires, but that America is not the world's policeman. My take on things is from someone living in Europe and therefore getting a different perspective. I think America and her allies' presence in Afghanistan for two decades gave the Afghan's time to adjust their mindset to what they want for their country. Like it or not, they voted in a medieval terrorist group that will set them back culturally, morally and socially to an extent only they will be able to tell us about. But what I believe is key here is that the Afghans will watch and listen and submit to the Taliban rule as we all know they will do willingly or otherwise, however, they have now had 20 years of westernization and the Taliban might use their Holy book as their take-over guide until Kingdom come, but the Afghanistan people will also start pondering on what the Taliban are bringing them. Already, men cannot wear jeans. How long will they buy into things like that is anybody's guess, but I think we are going to see the Taliban cross the proverbial line in the sand down the road, and when they do the Afghanistans people will take justice in their own hands and decide their fate like the Taliban have decided the fate of these courageous people at this writing. What I think we are going to see is a time bomb going off somewhere in the near or hopefully not, distant future, and it's going to blow up under the Taliban this time. America's and her allies' huge losses of blood and treasure won't be in vain.
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Hi David, I think this information by Mike Maloney would be interesting for you and your comments in a videocast would be most welcome.
Bank Failures
1. March 8, 2023 Silvergate Capital Corp --- closed
2. 2 days
3. March 10, 2023 Silicon Valley Bank ---seized by FDIC
4. 2 days
5. Signature Bank seized by regulators
6. 3 days
7. March 13, 2023 FDIC creates ‘bridge bank’ President declares deposits safe
8. 7 days
9. Credit Suisse sold to UBS with government guarantees
10. 2 months
11. May 1, 2023 First Republic Bank taken over by JP MORGAN
2008 Crisis
1. April 2007: New Century Financial bankrupt
5 months
2. September 2007: Bank runs at England’s Northern Rock Bank
3. 6 months
4. March 2008: Bear Stern collapses
5. 4 months
6. July, 2008: Indy Mac / Countrywide Financial, collapse
7. 2 months
8. September 7, 2008: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac nationalized
9. 1 day
10. September 15, 2008: AIG bail out
11. 11 days
12. September 16, 2008: Washington Mutual (WaMu) collapses
13. 1 month
14. October, 2008: Fed’s T.A.R.P. commits $700 billion in taxpayer funds
15. 1 month
16. November 2008: Citigroup bail out
17. 1 month
18. December 2008: General Motors / Chrysler bail out $80.7 billion
19. 1 month
20. January 2009: Bank of America bail out, $20 billion
21. 1 month February 2009: President Obama approves $787 billion stimulus
22. 4 months
23. June 2009: GM files for bankruptcy, closes 14 factories
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Dear President Trump and distinguished guests, the whole world is feeling the terrible pain of so many children slain or wounded. I am an inventor and I am throwing an idea out there. If in the architecture of schools, there was a master switch that locked all the classrooms and enclosed the hallways every 50 feet for example, at the first sound of gunfire, it could seal off the place where the shooter was operating. It could function like a sliding wall that would seal off the hallway from both sides, leaving no exit every so many feet – the length of a classroom, for example. If a master switch was given to every teacher and administrator in the schools, at the first shot, a teacher or someone could press the button and the school would go into total lockdown. With security cameras, the location of the shooter could be found quickly. Equally, as a tactic, in all of the rooms and especially the room where the shooter was operating, if reverse smoke detectors – something to produce smoke - were put in place, a smokescreen could be used to diminish the shooters view. I realize that I am giving only an idea for containing a possible shooter. The thing is the shootings are going to continue, they can’t be prevented, but trapping the shooter might be one way to lower the harm or limit the casualties he or she can do. Could it also be envisaged to have under every school desk a ‘blanket’ or vest that was capable of slowing down or even stopping a bullet? A student could wrap the blanket around them or put on a vest. It could be made out of the same material as bullet-proof vests. Much like when a plane is going down, the blankets or vests would drop from the desks when a gunman began shooting and a student could wrap the blanket around himself or herself or put on a vest. It might save a life.
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Thank you, Ms Dana Bash, for an excellent interview with the Vice-President of the United States, Kamala Harris. I’ll be brief, first; I’m an overseas viewer so please understand my perspective on what’s going on in America is far from yours. Vice-President Harris, your analysis of the Chauvin case is right on the money. But I think there is one very good opportunity for you to also add what we see over and over from people of color being stopped by police in America: a complete disrespect for the law. We see the officers ask the person of color to step out of his or her car, and either insult the officer, or try to fight with the officer, or in last week’s tragic death of a young man of color, who actually got back in his car and tried to drive off. Vice-President Harris, police officers have no where near your level of experience and education. They are trained to stop assailants and people breaking the law. The young man was shot, but what if the officer hadn’t shot, and he had driven down the road to a MacDonalds for example, and pulled an automatic rifle out of his trunk, and went inside the restaurant and shot dozens of customers? The officer would have been fired. What I’m saying is that the police in America have a job where every day they go to work, somebody might be waiting for them with a gun or a knife. Next door in neighboring France, a police department worker was knifed to death by a terrorist on her lunch break. It’s more than a dangerous job. Lastly, and please understand that I am only giving you what I believe is the way to bring the mass shootings in your country to a standstill. There is a loop-hole in the 2nd Amendment that no one, literally none of most of the people of your great country are willing to own up to. That loop-hole is that people who are unbalanced, mentally unstable, or who are no longer part of the human family, can easily get armed to the teeth and go to a basketball game and empty a clip or two. What this means, is that all of you are being held hostage to people who have lost all connection to their fellow citizens. Vice-President Harris, please ask your fellow citizens to do what everyone already knows they have to do when they go out in public: wear a sidearm or carry a concealed weapon. In the great state of Oregon, there are much fewer incidents of mass shootings for one very obvious reason: people can openly wear a firearm. The individuals who do these heinous acts never attack people who are armed.
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Dear Ms Gorani and Mr De Niro, Thank you Ms Gorani, and please thank your colleagues and the CNN Contributors for your excellent work in getting the truth out there. Our hearts go out for your numerous fallen colleagues in a world where the freedom of speech is fighting for its existence. No-one can imagine what it must be like to be gunned down for reporting the facts. Thank you Mr De Niro for your wonderful films that have helped make American cinema the pinnacle of excellence in motion pictures. Some of your performances are etched in the back of my mind, because of how good they were played by you and your fellow actors. I am sure you mean well in your scathing criticism of President Trump, but I must ask you to stand down. You’re an artist and artists are able to create and perform and bring light to the dark corners of this troubled world. But when you use expletives to describe how you feel about a sitting president, it backfires because you are a great artist. You lose stature in the world’s eyes, because it does not match your wit. It diminishes your incredible talent, because it comes off as a bad performance and it will remain in cyberspace long after we have left the world. It cheapens your profession. You see Mr De Niro, you are also a light to up and coming artists across the whole spectrum of the arts. You cannot and must not go public about your inner most feelings about a sitting president of The United States of America. Please, just do the SNL, the effect of your performance is a thousand times stronger than getting up and cursing President Trump for the whole world to see. Thank you and happy holidays to you and the CNN staff.
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Pat, I have written to you before. I am an inventor and an artist and I will say that I only have one US patent, so I am not in the big leagues by far, but I believe I have a solution to the water bombs or extremely heavy thunderstorms or mega-storms that are wreaking havoc around the world. Like in Houston, Texas and also quite a few months ago in Sydney, Australia, they had a water bomb event that flooded their cities and after it was noted that only 8% of the water in Sydney was saved and the rest sent into the sea. The Australian outback is in quasi-permanent drought and if that water from Syndey could have been sent to reservoirs, one can only imagine how much better off the farmers would be. If the Houston water had been piped to the Hoover Dam, it might have brought it up from the dangerously low-level it is now. Here is my invention: aqueducts in the form of piping under all of our national roads and railway tracks. Yes; just like in Roman times, but this time under the infra-structure! The excess rain water could be vacuumed up into the under-the-road pipes and sent to the four corners of the world if you see my point. The caveat is that there is no money back as an investment from doing this. Effectively, this is doom-loop this sort of project finds itself in. However, if the under-road pipes were to send oil, it would be a good investment. Pat, this is where my idea hits the fan and maybe you could find the silver thread to make it an investment where the big players could step in? It would work I firmly believe it would, but we need to convince our governments that ecologically it might be the way to have everybody and every country on earth with enough fresh water and our roads and railways would then have a dual purpose and we may be able to fill the reservoirs in the American west etc.
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Dear Ms Bartiromo and President Trump, Thank you Ms Bartiromo for your courageous reporting and to your colleagues who give their take on the news. Dear Mr President, I am writing from the other side of the world where I have been following the developments of the pandemic. Forgive me to offer advice to you Mr President, knowing that you have your top advisers counselling you daily, but I think it is irresponsible to bad-mouth China and blame President Xi Jinping on global television. For one, the Chinese are a very proud people who do not react well to being called down on the international stage. By blantantly pointing your finger at President Xi you are placing him in a very difficult situation from the Chinese perspective. I don't say that you shouldn't ask for answers to how the virus might have originated, but it is doing more harm than good to blame President Xi before hard evidence is on the table for all to see. What I believe you are doing is damaging lucrative future business prospects for your country with China. In my opinion it is financial suicide to accuse the Chinese of anything without offering proof. They will have no other choice than to do deals with other countries and that means American consumers will have to pay more for goods and services. It makes no sense for you, the President of The United States to be belittling anyone. It is below your office. Please, stop to accuse the Chinese of trying to cover up the pandemic, at least until the pandemic has been brought under control. What I believe is the key to having a win/win situation is to get business on the global stage and not stark accusations of wrongdoing without positive proof that embarrass and anger political leaders of other cultures. Put yourself in President Xi's shoes. He has to follow a certain line. He wants the virus under control. He wants the unemployment figures to go down just like you do. Please excuse me, it's only an opinion. Lastly, Mr President, this virus is like nothing the experts have seen before. I'll leave you and the Fox News viewers with this. What the virus can do. What I have taken home about this virus is that when the Coronovirus lands in our eyes, nose or mouth or when we inhale it, the spike proteins of the virus bind to the ACE 2 Receptors of the cells. That’s how it gains entry. Once it gains entry, not only does it make millions of copies of itself but it also affects the cells ability to call for help. The cells have to become very infected before the immune system knows something is wrong or what's going on. Once it is deeply imbedded in our body it begins to cause more severe disease. Organs that have ACE 2 Receptors are the heart, kidneys, blood vessels, liver and brain. Viral particles can be found in nasal passages, throat, tears, the stool, kidneys, liver, pancreas, heart and CSF (Cerebral spinal fluid). The virus can also cause meningitis. Our immune system reaction causes inflammation and blood clots in the arterioles of the lungs. In brief: 1. It directly attacks organs by their ACE 2 Receptors. 2. It indirectly attacking organs by way of collateral damage from the Cytokin storm. 3. It indirectly causes damage to organs by means of blood clots. 4. It indirectly causes damage as a result of low oxygen levels, improper ventilator settings, drug treatments themselves, and/or all of these things combined. Symptoms are loss of smell, heaviness, malaise, tight chest, racing heart, muggy head, upset stomach, tinnitus, pins and needles, breathlessness, dizziness, arthritis in the hands and feeling like having broken glass in the lungs. One out of twenty patients with Covid-19 experience long-term, off-on symptoms. Many do not develop fever and cough. Instead they get muscle aches, sore throat and headaches. A pattern of waxing and waning. It’s a multi-symptomatic disease which can affect any organ. It causes microvascular problems and clots. To repeat: Lungs, brain, skin, kidneys and the nervous symptom may be affected. Neurological symptoms can be mild (headache) or severe (confusion, delirium, coma).
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Chicago is a symbol of the American Dream to those of us across the world from you; it represents the best of America and it is a city where dedication to hard work pays off. To see cities like Chicago, New York and San Francisco going to the dogs shows that our economic model, consumer capitalism, is no longer capable of dealing with the scale of problems that American society has to deal with. It is nobody's fault, no one is to blame. Rich people should not take any more blame than the homeless person, because rich and successful people are only following the rules of the game. Moreover, we all have grown up with capitalism running our economies, but we have to face the brutal facts: it no longer can sustain the American way of life and around the world what we see is that capitalism is really the caste system in disguise. Money runs the world and the more you got the more you climb the ladder. There has been an unprecedented transfer of wealth that has pleased hundreds of freshly-minted billionaires, but the red flag is that needed resources have vanished that are necessary for a balance in society to occur. Economic tipping points have been surpassed in the economic system which is the glue of modern American society and like in nature, once a society loses control of its ability to maintain order, the sad awful truth is that law and order have to become so beefed up that the whole idea of living a great life boils down to surviving another home invasion. What we have to do is step back and start solving the big problems first, one by one, and everything will go back in place, but we have to get America and the world working under a new economic model where money does not equal power.
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Dear Ms Goodman, Mr Krugman and Professeur Wolff, First, you are three of the most interesting and fascinating people to grace our television screens. I have quoted or referred to Mr Krugman and Professeur Wolff in my soon-to-be-published book, ‘The Treatise of Teknmoix’ Austin Maccauley Publishing, for which I am offering a platform for a new economic system to replace capitalism. I am not an economist, my credentials do not cover economics, but I am an inventor and so you can imagine the economic system I am offering is utopian in nature to say the least. I think that Mr Krugman has his finger on the pulse of the American public opinion and perhaps it would be more appropriate for Sanders to describe his agenda more correctly. Before I finish, I’d like to say that I think Sanders is a wonderful human being, but I don’t see him reaching the end of the year with a heart attack already under his belt. It is touching he will even give his life to defeat Trump, but it will sadden all of you to have not counselled him to listen to his body which I am sure is saying to him everytime he gives a speech, “I know I shouldn’t be doing this…”. Professor Wolff, in all due respect, I think Mr Krugman has a point in using the socialist card. It clouds up the clear waters of democratic thinkers’ minds. You could also take a page from his advice and perhaps downplay the socialist card to put across your ideas that do not in any way threaten capitalism. Lastly, I will send you all an e-book of my book when it is published and I thank Mr Krugman and Mr Wolff among others for helping me come up with an idea for an alternative economic system to capitalism. Thanks again Amy for one of your best interviews with quality questions for quality guests and excellent debate
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The loop-hole in the 2nd Amendment is ,of course, that everyone who is smart enough to play the game can get registered and get a permit and buy guns openly if they can show that they have no criminal record, and are not obviously unstable. What this means is that when some of these same people take a detour from being a part of the human family and decide to empty a clip in a supermarket because they lost their job or their girlfriend left them, the downside is that innocent, hard working, honest, and ordinary people get wasted. What the 2nd Amendement is or is not is not the question here, the thing is that for it to work everyone must be armed in America, that is everyone who is capable of being armed, trained and abides by the law etc. The secret of success of the 2nd Amendment is that you have to take care of your brothers and sisters and yourself, and this means being armed at all times in public. Gun violence and mass shootings are minimal in states like Oregon, where open carry laws exist. I'm an overseas viewer, but that's how it looks from the far side of the world.
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It's always a good interview with Joe Rogan. It's always top quality and enthusiastic with Jimmy. We have to remember that Plato told us something that someone told him and that's where we have to realize that hearsay is just that : somebody's account of something that someone heard because an uncle told his parents while he was listening outside the room. We want to believe in Atlantis because we all know something is out of synch. Look at what I have collected as information about The Great Pyramid of Giza. There would be structures equal to this amazing piece of architecture if Atlantis really existed. Look at this information and tell me something like Atlantis was happening here: 1. It is 3/60th of a single degree of true north
2. It weighs 6 million tons
3. Its footprint is 13 acres
4. It’s more than 755.9 feet along each side
5. It’s 480.6 feet high
6. It has more than 2.3 million individual blocks of stone
7. It is locked into the Cardinal dimensions of our planet; The dimensions of the Earth are incorporated into its dimensions. 8. If you take the height and multiply it by 43,200 you get the polar radius of the Earth
9. If you measure the base perimeter of the pyramid accurately and multiply that measurement by 43,200 you get the equatorial circumference of the Earth
10. The scale is not random, the number 43,200 is derived from a key motion of the Earth, which is called the precession of the Earth’s axis
11. The Earth wobbles on its axis very slowly at the rate of 1 degree every 72 years; 43,200 is a multiple of 72; 600 X 72
12. So; they’ve given us the dimensions of the planet in The Great Pyramid of Giza on a scale defined by the planet itself
13. There are 70-ton blocks of stone raised 300 feet above the ground
14. It has eight sides, and at the spring equinox and the autumn equinox one side of the pyramid is in the shade in the morning and again in the late afternoon and can only be seen from the air—as far as my research has shown.
15. It’s a calendar
16. It has expansion joints
17. It is located at the exact intersection of the longest line of latitude and the longest line of longitude of the Earth, in other words The Great Pyramid is located at the precise center of the Earth’s land mass.
18. The builders possessed highly sophisticated knowledge of mathematics and geometry
19. The builders had knowledge of the true dimensions of the Earth to extreme precision
20. The builders possessed exceptionally advanced technical instrumentation to site The Great Pyramid
21. Pi = C over D Phi = Divided by 5 + 1 over 2. Archimedes discovered Pi about 250 BC, but Egyptians knew of it 2,250 years earlier
22. The Great Pyramid is 146.75 m high, its height X a million equals the distance from the Earth to the sun
23. If you subtract the inner circle from the outer circle of the circumference of The Great Pyramid you get the speed of light in meters to four decimal points
24. The weight of The Great Pyramid is 5,273, 000 tons and that multiplied by a billion is the weight of the Earth
25. If you divide the perimeter of The Great Pyramid by ½ its height, the result is 3.14 = Pi
26. The three inner rooms; the king’s chamber, the queen’s chamber and the unfinished chamber under the pyramid are proportional to the distances between Mercury, Venus and the Earth. 27. The distance from The Great Pyramid to the North Pole is the same as the distance from The Great Pyramid to the center of the Earth. 28. Pyramids in China, Mexico and Egypt align with the Orion star system
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Thankfully, this videocast by Mr Smerconish will be a prophetic political guess that never reaches fruition. Michael, what you are failing to understand and to show evidence for is that former disgraced President Trump has few credentials that make anyone believe he is even American. I know American people and I have never met one who would go on the world stage and say outrageous lies. I think you and countless Americans go home after seeing Donald J. Trump out do himelf on stage with yet another whopper and say to yourselves: "Yeah, Trump said that, be we're just not like that." No true American would go on stage and tell lies. What is appalling is that after the rally Donald then has to go home and confront his young child. We can imagine the conversation between Trump and his son Baron might be. "Dad, boy you said a load of lies out there tonight at the rally." "Thank you son, you see, when you're older you'll be able to say anything you want as well, because you're a Trump and we are rich people who have no need to tell truthful things." "But Dad, all my friends' dads tell them they have to speak the truth." "But that's because they are not rich and powerful like me and soon you my son. You see, once you have made it in America, you can say complete nonsense on TV and everyone will applaud you, because you own property, golf courses, and hotels." "Wow, thanks Dad, I'm so lucky to be able to live in a different reality. I think I'm going to run for President when I'm older." "You won't have to my son, because I'm going to change things so that we bring back the monarchy and I will be king. Therefore, when I die you'll be made the king." "Gosh Dad, you think of everything..."
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As an overseas viewer, I believe I have a very workable solution to the problem of mass shootings in Rep. Don Bacon’s home state of Nebraska and in every state of your country. Thank you Ms Harlow for tackling the appalling problem of mass shootings. This is going to sound very weird but since you have the 2nd Amendment which is cast in iron in the nation’s consciousness, the only viable solution is to make carrying a gun a law for adults with obviously good mental health and physical health. It would make many people unhappy of course, but if every adult in America who is qualified by the authorities carries a firearm it would severely diminish the casualties and save precious lives in future mass shooting events. Teachers would be able to save the lives of their students and themselves. If the Korean girls were all armed, the shooter might not have killed so many of them. If all the shoppers of adult age were armed in the Boulder, Colorado supermarket, maybe less people would have been killed? The cops are doing a great job, but let’s face it---they can only get there after the shooter has emptied his or her magazine. They will never get there fast enough to stop any shooting. The only way is to make it a law in your country for every responsible and qualified adult to carry a firearm and have the official training---like a driver’s license---and this will help change your nation’s tattered image on mass shootings and perhaps even save a lot of lives by criminals who attack innocent people in robberies, etc. It would of course sound like the old west, but if the people want the 2nd Amendment, then this is the price everyone has to pay. I sincerely believe it would be a win/win for the average citizen, for young people getting shot by drive-by shootings among other kinds of crime, and it would even create an industry i.e. jobs.
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Piers, I am probably---no, I am definitely prepared to accept to putting my foot in my dinner plate---it is a terrible translation of a French saying for when you make a complete idiot of yourself, but here goes: Mr Forage kindled a fire that caused your nation to burn its apron strings to the continent and unwittingly Forage's folly some might say has uncovered a hidden nugget of truth that people have felt for decades but have not been able put into words. Piers, Nigel, BREXIT's greatest outstanding effect it has had on The United Kingdom is to show a nation as powerful on the battlefield as the world's second superpower: Russia. It has made people like me realize that your country is a superpower in all but name. Ukraine has shown its underbelly and it is British made. British and allied trained soldiers are trouncing their Russian counterparts; imagine what the British would be doing to the Russians? Why do I say this? Because a superpower may be all about having your tanks, howitzers and planes, brigades of soldiers, ships and weapons to destroy entire cities in your arsenal, but mostly it's about mindset, and I dare you to find any nation on earth whom has a superpower mindset as diamond-tough as Britain does. BREXIT has dusted off the crown jewel of Great Britain: its military prowess that only a great power can possess.
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What we have to fear about the future is getting there in the first place. Once we are in the future---and by future, I mean for humans to have achieved immortality, becoming machine-beings, and the earth evolving into a garden world, what will become precious is not how far some will go in making themselves into all of these things that are fantasy for us today, no; what will happen is what we are talking about now: bringing back the mammoth. The biological wonder that we call a human being today will get transformed six ways from Sunday, but what the doctors of change will realize is that perfection was leaving a human being alone. Our race will survive because no matter how we upgrade a human being, there is something about us that will trump any mechanical, chemical, surgical enhancement. To recap: in the future there will be islands where the new human-machines live of course, and they will prosper and evolve into silicon beings, but the mainland will be full of farmers and dreamers and people like Lex Fridman and Yuval Noah Harari as well as the guy emptying the rubbish bin working with a robo-man.
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Dear Alisyn and Samantha, Thank you Alisyn for your excellent interviewing style. Thank you Samantha for being brave about sharing your views on global television. Aside from thh Trump tsunami that envelopes all and everyone, I'd like to say this to Samantha. Samantha, your Dad is a very intelligent person. He knows how to communicate with every kind of person in every level and in every kind of business. He's got a legacy that will certainly go down with him in history, but I believe there is a chance you could help your Dad do something that would take everyone's eyes off the Trump orbit he was in and which left him disgraced. Samantha, could you think about this and if you agree, could you try to get your Dad to set up a think tank and run it and get the homeless situation in your country solved once and for all? Your Dad, Michael Cohen, could do something great and save many, many lives. He has connections to the people in your country who could get homeless people off the streets sleeping rough and get America's show place New York City back in the spotlight as the city of the American dream, as well as every other city in your country where homeless people are living in their own filth. You must convince him to end this unAMERICAN societal cancer and get the men, women and children who have lost everything off the streets forever. I'm speaking from across the world and the logistics and enormity of the task are beyond my capabilities to fully comprehend, but I also know that your Dad, Michael Cohen, could right the wrong of forsaken American people having to live without proper housing and make your country a shining example for the rest of the world. Be well -
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What I take home from the legendary Sam Harris is that there is a wall between the west and Islamic countries and Hamas and the Palestinians are victims of their own religious beliefs and we in the west are guilty to a whole lot of ideas that screw us up from time to time as well. As far as the many points Sam has stated which defy all logic to those of us in the west about the Hamas mindset and Palestinian demeanor, we must observe but not judge. It's their way. I am not someone who has studied Islam or the Jewish religion or Christianity to any great extent, but what I see going on in Gaza has made me think of one thing and one thing only: a peace plan is needed that makes sense to everyone involved. What I would do right now if I were in the Guterres’s' shoes at the UN would be to send out a message to all of the Arab countries in the region asking them to look into their hearts and to take an equal percentage of Palestinians under their wings until Israel and Hamas have fought their final battle. Again, in Guterres’s position, I would look hard and wide at where we could have all the Palestinians living under one roof so-to-speak and that is to have their own country large enough to house everyone living in harmony with Israel and in dignity. We have to get the mindset of the Palestinians, Iranians, Jordans, Lebanese to change and accept Israel as a sovereign nation---I know this is a challenge; but we must do it. Lastly, what better way to end the Gaza wars but to transform this part of the world, Gaza in all its 145 square kilometers nto a nature reserve second to none: a Galapagos cum wildlife sanctuary for endangered species of every plant, animal and aquatic creature on the verge of extinction. It could be used as a template to solve other intractable problems between bordering countries at war and it would be a legacy to our children's children and a symbol of everlasting peace in the middle east. To recap: get the 26 Arab nations to pitch in and take the hapless displaced Palestinian civilians and put them up until their new country is expanded and housing is built for them to start anew, and finally after the hostilities have been halted. Make Gaza into a sort of Galapagos of the middle east for countless species in danger of extinction. It's a peace plan and I know, we all know this is going to be a hard sell, but Israel is backed by the world's number one superpower and it is something that Palestinians and Arabs one day or another are going to have to realize is the way it is and that is why we must restore peace and find a place in the region where the Palestinians can all live together and build a nation where fringe groups like Hamas etc., won't be needed as protection or for revenge politics.
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Dear Mr Smerconish, Happy New Year to your and the CNN family and contributors, I have been watching and listening to your commentaries over the months and I have only one thing to say: you do a very good job of getting to the heart of the matter you are talking about. And you have a lot of heartfelt justice for and by the people in your heart. This videocast is another example of how you can show both sides of the story. What a sad ending to what could have been a change-of-the-century presidency. But no, President Trump has condemned above all his wife and family and relations and business partners to a life of hidden shame. He has guaranteed a life-after-presidency of being in the dog house until his last breath. Floridians will be the first to show their disdain for him perching on a limb in their jungles. No, Mr Smerconish, what has happened in the insurrection is that a political stunt has cost the life of a woman inside your nation’s capital, and four more people dying from the inciteful rhetoric of a classic blow-hard, barking mad (to use the English way of describing a crazy man) carnival show grifter that is an embarrassment to everyone around the world. What is great about your country is that you have been able to take President Trump to the cleaners for what he has done and live to tell it to your grandchildren. People around the world will never hold American citizens responsible for the unfortunate Trump presidency, but will instead admire you and your fellow citizens for going the whole 9 yards in giving someone the chance to right his ways and do his civic duty, but now that President Trump has incited sedition and insurgency, you are right in totally condemn his unlawful and consequential actions. Like you said Mr Smerconish, after the insurrection, this time President Trump derserves to be removed from office.
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Retired Brigadier General Peter Zwack speaks about the Ukrainians in a way that should make us all proud to be part of the human community. It is obvious General Zwack has been impressed beyond his wildest expectations at how every man, woman and child and government official and of course military personnel are united in their cause to take back their country from the Russian invaders. It is unprecedented to see or hear about such unity when we live in democracies where at times one could believe that political parties have become separate parts of society themselves, defending their values and not the values of the country they live in. To hear General Zwack we must realize something that Professor Michael Clarke from the UK said that I believe deserves repeating. Thank you, John and Peter. Here is something I have paraphrased and written as a comment that Professor Clarke said to Kate in the BBC Frontline show: Michael Clarke says that if Putin walks away with what is perceived by him and the rest of the world to be a victory or partial victory, then the west loses very badly, because dictatorships are on the march across the world and because we’ve now committed ourselves to Ukraine in the way we have over the last 15 months. The credibility of liberal democracy is on the line; not just as an ideology---but as a power center in world politics of which it has been for over 200 years. So; in a way, we are on a tiger’s back now, because having committed ourselves to defeating this Putin adventure, if we fail to defeat it, then the rest of the world will draw its own conclusions about the waning power of the western world and we’ll feel the effect of that pretty strongly. What Michael Clarke expects is if Putin can be thrown back, not out of all Ukraine, that would be very good if he were, but Clarke suggests that if Putin were thrown back out of the parts of Ukraine that he’s conquered since 2022, the western world would regard that as a victory, and most probably would accept it as a win. And: though Ukraine probably wouldn’t like it, if the west thought that gaining back the territory that was conquered in 2022 was good enough, then Professor Clarke thinks Kiev would have to decide that at least for the time being that was it was okay to let Crimea be off of the bargaining table.
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America's greatest living general, the retired Lt. General Ben Hodges has been saying since the early days of the invasion, that Ukraine could have Crimea in its pocket by this month. The counteroffensive is also something General Hodges says in two words: Win/win. Boys and girls, America's favorite retired general, General David Petraeus said that no American forces would have been given the green light to go on a counteroffensive against the Russians without air superiority, or carpet bombing of the mine fields, of G-9 Bulldozers digging up the dragons' teeth, or Warthog ground air support fighters strafing enemy positions, taking out machine gun nests and the like, or Apache Attack helicopters blowing up artillery batteries and sending rockets into the trenches. What am I saying here? We have slapped the Ukrainians on the back for going for the counteroffensive in conditions no American general worth his salt would have authorized without the above-mentioned equipment, fighter planes, and weapons systems. The Ukrainians are doing a fine job in spite of going in on the fly against the world's second superpower. Uncle Joe has just okayed Denmark and the Netherlands sending 43 F16s into the fray, but they won’t be flying until the beginning of next year.
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@badeed xildiid GGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. War is something that can never be predicted, but Russia won the 2nd World War so that tells you how they can fight against a country which is much smaller than their own. Granted, it is a proxy war---but with the west, Canada, Austrailia, the UK, France, Italy, Germany and other countries have furnished weapons and military and humanitarian aid. What no one can understand is why Putin says he doesn't want people to help the Ukrainians! That's like someone falling overboard and the captain forbidding you to throw the drowning passengers a life preserver! Hundreds of soldiers have died on both sides and the infra-structure of the Ukraine is estimated to cost more than a trillion dollars to repair. One construction executive told me it will take 30 years to rebuild just Mariupol! 30 years! The Russians are using seige warfare and it works, but it also destroys everything and that means once you conquer the territory, instead of getting back to business as usual as quick as you can, you have to practically start over. Where I live, they take 2 or 3 years just to build one block of flats. How many years will it take to rebuild Ukraine when the war is over? Decades? This is where I don't understand the Russian logic. Why blow up everything if you are the 2nd most powerful military in the world?
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Dear Ms Camerota and nurse Jodi, Thank you Ms Camerota for this interview that may never really be comprehensible to my mind. Thank you nurse Jodi for sharing one of the most unbelievable experiences I can possibly imagine. To even think that a patient would question a doctor's or nursess diagnosis when one's life is at stake defies all logic. What we are hearing is people who have been indoctrinated into thinking they were invincible to a deadly disease, simply because the head of state boasted he was immune and everyone wearing a mask was a loser. What this shows is that if the lie is big enough and is said long enough and loud enough, people will willingly believe in a fantasy, and when they are confronted with their own mortality, they still clung on to the false prophet's stinging absurdity that there is no pandemic or it's not as bad as the flu. Trump has turned out to be cult leader for his gullible followers. The Governor of South Dakota has got to be the poster child for silliness in the face of reality... to say it politely. She deserves nothing more than to be voted out of office for mouthing the pied piper's words of denial about the seriousness of the Coronavirus, and letting thousands of people congregate with her blessing. Hearing nurse Jodi talk about the loss of so many people who cling to false hopes and beliefs to their last dying deaths is a testament to how people have lost touch with their own common sense. Since when do we believe in our high-tech devices over our own gut feelings, and have blind faith in leaders who have no business being in a position of power? A very immoral president Trump refused to face facts and now a pandemic has taken away nearly 250,000 lives in your country. As President-elect Joe Biden has said, there are going to be a lot of empty chairs around the tables in homes across the nation for your Thanksgiving Holidays, and unfortunately President Trump is going to go down in history as the person who defied science and caused a humanitarian disaster. This morbid footnote eternaly etched in your country's history will be his legacy describing his time in office. Be strong nurse Jodi!
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This is an excellent report from Ms Burnett and her distinguished guests weighing in on the prospect of Russia invading Ukraine. I'm not a politician or military strategist or have any experience in negotiating, but I know the best way to solve this dispute between Russia and the Ukraine. I would ask President Zelenski of Ukraine to have his troops stand down if Russia invades. Not fire one bullet. Let the Russian's come and do what they want to do, but no one should have to die because President Putin wants Ukraine for a prize. We have to start winning these sorts of conflicts without using the weapons of war and now is a good time to start. We should let it be known to President Putin that if he takes Ukraine into the Russian Federation, it will only be for as long as he is in office. Because when he leaves office, the Ukraine and Crimea must go back to the Ukranians. Who cares if it takes a generation or longer until Russia finally sees the light? The most important thing is that we will be showing our children's children that we were the generation who abandoned using gunboat diplomacy to solve political problems. We have to admit that the Ukranian people will have to subdue being forced to speak Russian etcetera, but it's better than having their country blown up, children and innocent civilians killed, thousands of soldiers wounded for life, many more soldiers killed on both sides. It's not worth it anymore to bomb cities and send in tanks and have street to street fighting. Let the Russians win this militarily by not fighting them, no one getting hurt or killed, and for all concerned countries to begin negotiating the return of Ukraine and Crimea to the Ukranian. Let's spend money on think tanks and not the other kind! If the Ukranians don't fight back militarily, it will add insult to injury to the pride of the aggressors as well. The human community has to send a very clear message to autocratic leaders, dictators or rogue stongmen posing as politicians that their days are numbered.
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What I would like to say 1:59 into your videocast Tom, is bravo to you and Mo for some excellent straight talk on our robo-future. Hey---beating my own drum here---that might be a new way of calling what is coming down the pike, because according to Mo, AI is at 155 IQ and if we aren’t in a robo-future already then, I don't know where we are. Here is my idea for a solution for AI: I am clowning in that I do not say I have the answer to making sure AI does not take over and steer humanity the way it wants, but what about this idea? Wolves or wild animals eventually made it into our homes as pets, for instance; a husky is a dog that could probably kill a full-grown man if it wanted to and this is exactly my point: it doesn't want to hurt any human because it's been bred to treat humans with loving care. AI must have the equivalence of silicon genes or something to that extent. Whatever it has got at the center of its synthetic mind, we have got to put in its genes the same thing: Robots have to have in their artificial DNA nothing that makes them in any way harmful to humans. To recap: Tom, Mo, can't we (breed) i.e., make AI behave like family pets?
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Hi Sam, I know this information by Mike Maloney is going to be interesting to you and your viewers and possibly have your thoughts on it in future videocast.
Bank Failures
1. March 8, 2023 Silvergate Capital Corp --- closed
2. 2 days
3. March 10, 2023 Silicon Valley Bank ---seized by FDIC
4. 2 days
5. Signature Bank seized by regulators
6. 3 days
7. March 13, 2023 FDIC creates ‘bridge bank’ President declares deposits safe
8. 7 days
9. Credit Suisse sold to UBS with government guarantees
10. 2 months
11. May 1, 2023 First Republic Bank taken over by JP MORGAN
2008 Crisis
1. April 2007: New Century Financial bankrupt
5 months
2. September 2007: Bank runs at England’s Northern Rock Bank
3. 6 months
4. March 2008: Bear Stern collapses
5. 4 months
6. July, 2008: Indy Mac / Countrywide Financial, collapse
7. 2 months
8. September 7, 2008: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac nationalized
9. 1 day
10. September 15, 2008: AIG bail out
11. 11 days
12. September 16, 2008: Washington Mutual (WaMu) collapses
13. 1 month
14. October, 2008: Fed’s T.A.R.P. commits $700 billion in taxpayer funds
15. 1 month
16. November 2008: Citigroup bail out
17. 1 month
18. December 2008: General Motors / Chrysler bail out $80.7 billion
19. 1 month
20. January 2009: Bank of America bail out, $20 billion
21. 1 month February 2009: President Obama approves $787 billion stimulus
22. 4 months
23. June 2009: GM files for bankruptcy, closes 14 factories
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Coming in at timestamp 14:44, John Avalon asks for solutions. As someone tuning in on the far side of the world from you, what I think we see in extremist media are really actors who play their parts very convincingly. I mean, what is the difference between Alex Jones' rants and a segment from a movie with a famous actor playing the same part? What I think CNN doesn't realize is that by constantly going on the offensive against media-news presenters cum actors like Tucker Carlson is that every time they relate to one of his outrageous shows, they beam whatever he said around the world. Like the evil growing sphere in the iconic film 'The Fifth Element', Carlson's image grows bigger and badder with every punch the mainstream media throws at him. Aside from that, I think what has to be realized is that you in mainstream media and social media must up-your-game. What I think you are doing is using an old instruction manual in trying to get a new technological apparatus to work. That being said, there must also be less emotional reporting and simply referring to a distasteful or false statement by a sister media corporation with no emotional baggage. Mostly though, it's down to you to show facts in ways that no one has seen or heard them before. The alternative news boys are here to stay and like Covid-19 we have to live with an alternative virus of news reporting that we now know can infect a democracy like The United States and cause great concern because of the damage extremist views entering the 'bloodstream' of your great Republic can do by instigating distrust in government institutions. The new mission statement for you in the news business might be this: to present the news in a way that leaves no doubt about the facts. Easy to say; hard to do, but it's doable. People probably need to be reminded more ofen that the bedrock of your country is built on openness and frank discussion and belief in the Republic and that everyone's views should be allowed to be heard, but that personality cult figures espousing false facts and/or outright lies are what fascism is built on, and not what a country like America is all about.
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There are some great Youtube channels and then there are even better ones, Lex Fridman goes one step further in his professionalism in interviews that will go through the ages as testimony of our era. Elon Musk will be seen as an innovator and entrepreneur of our time and someone who dared go where no one has gone before. As far as aliens, here is what I have collected---and there is much more---of The Great Pyramid of Giza. Lex, Elon, if it wasn't star children who had a hand in making this structure, they knew how to get to the stars.
1. It is 3/60th of a single degree of true north 2. It weighs 6 million tons 3. Its footprint is 13 acres 4. It is more than 755.9 feet along each side 5. The Great Pyramid is 146.75 m high, its height X a million equals the distance from the Earth to the sun 6. It has more than 2.3 million individual blocks of stone 7. It is locked into the Cardinal dimensions of our planet; The dimensions of the Earth are incorporated into its dimensions 8. If you take the height and multiply it by 43,200 you get the polar radius of the Earth 9. If you measure the base perimeter of the pyramid accurately and multiply that measurement by 43,200 you get the equatorial circumference of the Earth 10. The scale is not random, the number 43,200 is derived from a key motion of the Earth, which is called the precession of the Earth’s axis 11. The Earth wobbles on its axis very slowly at the rate of 1 degree every 72 years; 43,200 is a multiple of 72; 600 X 72 12. The Great Pyramid of Giza gives us the dimensions of the planet on a scale defined by the planet itself 13. There are several 70-ton blocks of granite from a quarry 500 kilometers away, one of hardest stones, raised 300 feet above the ground 14. It has eight sides, and at the spring equinox and the autumn equinox one side of the pyramid is in the shade in the morning and again in the late afternoon and can only be seen from the air 15. It is a calendar 16. It has expansion joints 17. It is located at the exact intersection of the longest line of latitude and the longest line of longitude of the Earth, in other words The Great Pyramid is located at the precise center of the Earth’s land mass 18. The builders possessed highly sophisticated knowledge of mathematics and geometry and they had knowledge of the true dimensions of the Earth to extreme precision 19. The builders possessed exceptionally advanced technical instrumentation (laser guided surveying tools?) to site The Great Pyramid 20. Pi = C over D Phi = Divided by 5 + 1 over 2. Archimedes discovered Pi about 250 BC, but Egyptians knew of it 2,250 years earlier 21. If you subtract the inner circle of the base from the outer circle around the base (the circumference of The Great Pyramid), you get the speed of light in meters to four decimal points: 299,792,458 meters per second 22. The weight of The Great Pyramid is 5,273, 000 tons and that multiplied by a billion is the weight of the Earth 23. The three inner rooms; the king’s chamber, the queen’s chamber and the unfinished chamber under the pyramid are proportional to the distances between Mercury, Venus and the Earth 24. The distance from The Great Pyramid to the North Pole is the same as the distance from The Great Pyramid to the center of the Earth 25. If you divide the perimeter of the pyramid by 1/2 its height the result is 3.14 Pi h/2 = Pi 26. The base side length is 364.242 which is exactly the time in days it takes for the earth to orbit the sun 27. The high chamber is built on a double square, which leads us to the golden ratio geometry 28. Pyramids in China, Mexico and Egypt align with the Orion star system
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Commander Paul, I know one day I will be writing you as, Mr Secretary of Defense Heath, and it will probably go something like this: "Mr Secretary, could you please fill us in on the cowardly attack by the Putanic space wranglers, the galactic overlords who sent pulsar torpedoes at the newly established Martian settlement, we understand the attack was repelled, but at heavy costs? Why was air superiority not part of your plan to safeguard settlers? You sent them tanks and artillery, Hymar star shooters and the like, but no stealth bombers, no stellar attack ships and no F 79s with laser guided energy bullets..."
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What is it about the end of life that makes us all look into our hearts and minds and soul at the same time? Have you noticed that thinking about one's final minutes----and what I have sometimes pondered on----my last dying breath, does to your state of mind? It shows you what it is going to be like. We are all going to experience it and this frightens me more than anything. Imagine, you and I are breathing away, filling our lungs and blowing out stale air, but one fine moment there will be one final expiration: our last breath of life will leave us to join all the others last breath which leave them and join the atmosphere of the world. As someone who has questioned religion from the first memories of thinking about it, I have to admit there comes out of me a sort of admission or words to... I will say it... God. Then and there I realize that something wants me to believe there is a presence, a creator, but I will never give in for long, because I feel that God is within us as something every person imagines in their own way. Death is the same. Death is something every single person imagines in their own way and that is what makes us all look bewildered when someone talks about their idea of death, because it rarely resembles our own. The key to all of this is what I have come to say are the last words I say to myself before I go into that place, we call dreamland. If you can say that you are happy with yourself before you go to sleep, then that is all you need to know to realize that you have succeeded in finding your purpose here on earth and if your final breath comes in the dead of night, you will know in your mind that your life was lived well and you can die in peace.
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I would love to be able to put this question about free will to both of you. I do a lot of different kinds of work, somebody once said I was an renaissance artist, but I think it's more of jack of all trades and master of none. That being said, I'm at this minute putting together ideas for my next surrealist painting. I've done 6 or 7 and I want to do about 15 so I can have a show. Now the thing that throws me is that if I don't have free will, and imagine the painting I am about to paint, then who is doing it? I would sound like I lost my mind if someone asked me where I get my ideas from and I said it's not me, something else is giving me the ideas, I only paint what someone or something else has decided. I don't have free will in deciding what I paint, those ideas are someone else's. Do you see what I mean? If one creates things, it's the person who goes into their mind and tries to flesh out the idea into an image, etc.
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Please, here is a second comment, but what I think Israel is not understanding and what is getting in the way of getting along with her neighbors is that the Palestinian people for example, are so opposite Israeli people and these major differences can boil over into conflicts and although they believe in other religious stories and analyze situations in completely different ways than Israelis, one can learn to accept these chasms of misunderstanding. Be kind to each other no matter what anyone says. This is where Israel has to step back and realize that the way to go ahead now is to not over-react to the mindset of a people like the Palestinians that differs to such a degree, it is to try and accept that the gift the Palestinians are offering is to make Israelis kinder and be more open to other ways of thinking in spite of the wall of mistrust that divides the two peoples. What is the way ahead? Water down the mountain is my philosophy; the path of least resistance. What is needed is to create something from the ashes of the current war that will show the world how to put an end to warring factions of neighboring countries. What is it that could be created? Yuval, Ian, I have said it before, so please bear with me to say it again. The way to peace in the middle east is to build nature reserves for endangered species of plant, animal and aquatic life. All religious groups, all peoples respect one thing more than anything else and will never outwardly destroy it: nature. Here is the solution: rescue nature in the middle east and you rescue a peace that I truly believe will be our legacy and last for centuries. One square kilometer of land could be enough to start transforming burned out buildings into sanctuaries where endangered faun and fauna can survive and thrive...
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Dear Mr Tapper, Thank you and the CNN Contributors for excellent reporting on the issues. As someone observing the unfolding events from across the world, what I see happening is that the Republicans find themselves between a rock and a hard place, to quote The Rolling Stones. By that I mean that everyone is waiting for Republicans to revolt against their party’s representative in The White House. But no matte how repugnant the current occupant of The White House is, they see that they are at an impasse: Doomed if they do criticize him, doomed if they don’t. It’s only my analysis, but I believe Republicans are going to trash President Trump as soon as the next election rounds the bend. He doesn’t come close to being the president they want or desire to represent them. But what can they do? They have to be very, very careful not to jump on Trump’s mistakes, but not rock the boat until it is capsized. When the Republican party has got rid of Trump, I believe they will be the people who will be the most relieved. They know President Trump is a disgrace to the flag, that he doesn’t represent American values, he has distanced America from needed allies, and that he is a dangerous, out-of-touch leader in charge of the most powerful military force the world has ever known. But they can’t make a move so they’ve got to play the game. Lastly, what the racist card issue looks like from over here is a diversionary tactic to shield public view from the real political bombshell sitting in a New York City jail cell: The Epstein scandal. It’s an opinion.
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Dear Legal-eagle for holding yourself together while your nation’s history has a new footnote. From where we sit on the other side of world, the 2021 insurrection looked more like a staged-event, a college-kids-style effort to disrupt the capital proceedings than an angry mob than anything resembling what happened in 1812. However; what is tragic is that this riot has caused the death of 4 people. One woman was shot to death. This is the worst part and Senators Ted Cruz, Steve Daines, Lankford, Kennedy, Blackburn, Haggerty, Marshall, Lummis, Braun, Hawley, and Tuberville will receive their punishment for fomenting dissention in a way that is far worse than death, because they are going to have nightmares for the rest of their lives for having been a part of disillusional scheme to get Trump and themselves re-elected. As far as President Trump goes, we know he’ll process this in a way to make it look like Vice-President Pence and others should take the blame. Nevertheless, four person’s wives or husbands or kids or parents will be making plans to bury them and try to come to grips on how they lost a loved one to a lost cause and deranged president. Say what you want, John Bolton, who was on a CNN interview has been severely criticized for a number of issues throughout his career, but he’s always got a clear head every time there is trouble on the horizon. He doesn’t do anything to deflect the blame from Trump or the others. But like you, Legal-eagle, he knows his stuff. He says that with only 7 business days left in President Trump’s presidency, the only thing to do is to count out the days because there isn’t time to do anything. Emotions are high; there are plenty of ways to keep Trump busy doing things he won’t get into trouble for. Again, what is appalling to us over here is to see that people had to lose their lives on what was really a campaign stunt for the supporting senators and Trump’s re-election in 4 years. Do you want to know the absolute worst thing anyone can do to Trump after 20 January? Do this and he will never have a good day: never mention him by name again; only as the former president. It’s just a hunch, but I’d bet the farm he’d never get over not having his name mentioned. This would be his worst nightmare. You will get through this -
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Thank you, Tucker, for a very good interview. What happens when something comes along that is vastly smarter than humans in silicon form depends on one thing. Elon, you are miles ahead of even some of the world's most renown thinkers, so excuse me to intervene with my point of view that is undoubtedly naïve, but here goes. Long ago people brought wild animals’ home, like a wolf cub, and began raising them and breeding them so that even the most powerful of the animals became what we call house pets today. A husky for example, will be gentle with a baby and protect it. What I see are the two dangers of AI is not going to make some people happy. First, AI and capitalism are a marriage made in Silicon Valley! But I'll get to that later. Here is how it has to be with every silicon sentient being ever being manufactured anywhere on earth or above the comes to exist on the earth. Elon, Tucker, these creations from our laboratories must never, ever be anything more to humans than the family dog---and I don't mean that in a derogatory sense. They must obey reasonable commands, like never to harm a human, or go against the orders from a human in reasonable ways of course. To recap: no matter if we create sentient silicon beings which can outdo us in every aspect, we have to put in their silicon genes the switch that is turned on for them to be to us what our family dog is to us. This is doable; the problem is that we are going to be taming a wild horse for some time until we know how to install the necessary 'genes' at the outset. Capitalism and AI will be a job destroyer because the AI machines will realize that all they have to do is outdo humans and employers will axe humans' jobs over AI programs, because in capitalism employers are only interested in one thing: making a profit. It makes sense in capitalism to fire an employee if he or she costs too much; AI will be cheaper. Take away the 'increased profit' mantra with an alternative economic model, and employers will keep humans on the payroll, because they won't be losing money keeping them employed.
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Please Smirconish and Mr Friedman, can you verify this for us? What I have taken home about this virus is that when the Coronovirus lands in our eyes, nose or mouth or when we inhale it, the spike proteins of the virus bind to the ACE 2 Receptors of the cells. That’s how it gains entry. Once it gains entry, not only does it make millions of copies of itself but it also affects the cells ability to call for help. Once it is deeply imbedded in our body, it begins to cause more severe disease. Organs that have ACE 2 Receptors are the heart, kidneys, blood vessels, liver and brain. Viral particles can be found in nasal passages, throat, tears, the stool, kidneys, liver, pancreas, heart CSF (Cerebral spinal fluid). The virus can also cause meningitis. Our immune system reaction causes inflammation and blood clots. In brief: 1. It directly attacks organs by their ACE 2 Receptors. 2. It indirectly attacks organs by way of collateral damage from the Cytokin storm. 3. It indirectly causes damage to organs by means of blood clots. 4. It indirectly causes damage as a result of low oxygen levels, improper ventilator settings, drug treatments themselves, and / or all of these things combined. It’s not over, this is only what the research shows so far. I believe it may be right to go on living like nothing is going to stop it and take the risk of getting infected like President Trump suggests, but I personally feel a lot better not taking chances on getting in its way. I will take a vaccine, because there can be no doubt this virus is very dangerous. Healthy, people in their 30s who survived the infection in my region report that it is like having broken glass in your lungs.
If you have time, please read this too: I am paraphrasing what Pulitzer prize-winning science writer Laurie Garret said. She stated this in a TV interview. In America, we have a patchwork response, we don’t have unified national response to the virus, we don’t have any uniform standards, no guidelines, the CDC is virtually mum, numbed and silenced. We’re operating as if every local mayor, every local governor has equal capacity to make appropriate choices and to decide how to best fight this disease. You can drive from one state to another with completely different policies being executed. And they’re all competing to get their economies going, competing to get masks, PPE, medicines, health care workers, ambulances, burial details. We’ve pitted each component of America against each other for resources, for policy, for response and now the President says, for our economy. She believes the best-case scenario is 36 months before it’s over. The worst-case scenario is that it becomes a new permanent feature on the landscape for generations to come. She says different parts of the world will be hit at different times. Whether Ms Garrett’s predictions are right or wrong, what is needed now in your country is leadership and President Trump does not seem to have this quality. This is a time for America to upgrade the political system. Congress must over-ride their inhibitions and get your country the leadership it needs. You both do your country and the world a great service. Be well.
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One very worrying element about the Wuhan woo woo is that no one is talking about all of the technicians, lab-workers from the Wuhan lab, and reporters who reported on the Wuhan virus were all sent to the governor's mansion i.e. prison. Why would people who were willing to tell the world what really happened sent to jail? Why was the UN team--who had to be quaranteened for 14 days plus the 13 months of wating, not allowed to see files, or examine samples, or test the water in the area, or talk to lab workers, or do independent examination, or even question people in the area? Krystal and Saagar, you both do great work, but talk about lockdown on this story, this story is locked shut tight. Why? Think: Chinese moon rocket to collect moon rocks = equals silence from the US about (possible) Wuhan lab leak.
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It is appalling to hear this kind of vocast (videocast) in 2022. The plain simple truth of the matter is that all plumbers don't wear blue socks. What do I mean by this? Every plumber is unique and no one likes to be blamed for being part of group that other people may find offensive. Every human being is unique on our wonderful world and I will go one step further to say that everyone is welcome. We are all from the same family. When we see one side attacking the other side and vice versa for no rational reason, we know once again, that rumor and the human need for a scapegoat are rampant in their neighborhood. Social media has got us by the throat, because now charismatic individuals who have a presence on our screens that is bigger-than-life, can woe the undecided to believe things a five-year-old might very well question. What's the solution to people being nasty and saying terrible things or worse (doing bodily harm) to others? We've got to up our game, and expend all the energy and mind power and resources until we win over social media's grip on our minds. After every attack we must step back and re-assess how to counter any offensive gesture or remark or violence in every form. Someone making a very obvious inhumane gesture to a member of the human community is unacceptable. If fact, this is the answer, we've got to hammer home that this planet is home to the human family and that everyone is welcome here. Whatever one's beliefs, if they are peaceful, let's hear what you've got to say. But there will be no tolerance for saying terrible things about others i.e. saying without proof that all plumbers wear blue socks, because it's not true. Let's ring in a new era of understanding and acceptance between all the members of the world community! It's time to change our mindset.
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Dear Mr Cuomo, You are a world-renown television journalist and commentator, your brother is a world-renown American polititian and your President is world renown for being a person with obvious mental health issues as well as being The President of the United States and in The White House. The President of the United States has done the world a great service by making it clear that some forms of mental illness like his are just under the radar screens for causing public outrage. Sadly, because America's twisted system of electing officials, the electoral college, frog-jumped the candidate who won with 3 million more votes, and unwittingly put into the highest office in the land a person unfit for high office. The most powerful person in the world is an American president who commented openly about Megyn Kelly's period in national/global debates in front of the entire (shocked) world. You certainly made a reference to it, but there was no wave of indignation coming from the American Press Corps as a man with over 20 women claiming some kind of inappropriate sexul agression was wisked into power and given the keys to the nuclear codes. From the get go, Donald J. Trump exhibited outrageous behavior of condemnign the press and lying profusely was unbecoming to an American President. It's all our fault though, not America's fault, but he world at large. One has to just look at the Philippines and President Duterte who admitted in a televised interview that he threw opposition leaders off his helicopter. He's still president. Philippinos like him because he is tough on crime. Over 3,500 people were allowed to be killed in the streets in the name of drug dealing. No; it's humanity as a whole, we have gone brain-dumb by our electronic devices and the unbelievable power of the television screen. Whoever gets on TV has a kind of power over regular people. It's an opinion.
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Dear Ms Harlow and Mr Bastian, Thank you Poppy for your excellent interviews in these uncertain times for you in America and for us tuning in around the globe. Your president is giving it his level-best to run the country, but we have to be honest in saying his way of governing is geared for a bull run economy, and America is on her knees. I am an inventor, and so please excuse me for presenting ideas that are off-the-charts, but that is my job in a big way. Did you know that only 2% of inventions make to the shelves in commercial shopping centers and stores? My only patented invention was one that didn’t make it. But I would like to propose to Mr Bastian this idea. You offer every other seat booking from now on until the virus is under control. This means you need 2 ½ planes to send prospective clients from say any airport in the USA to Jamaica, for example. This of course means a severe dent in your earnings, but people will sign up to go. What am I saying here? I am saying that for 6 months to a year you are going to break even, or maybe less, but the tourists will be satisfied and the vacations will continue. It will cost you wages and fuel, but you will be in business. Call it the Covid-19 break-even years. Everyone takes a pay reduction so that the company can survive. You make sure all of your employees can pay their rent, their doctors, dentists, and buy food and send their kids to school. Everyone tightens their belt, but your business survives. Everyone gets to go on holiday, and you don’t make a penny of profit. But your company will rake in the dough when the coast is clear. It’s an opinion. Be well.
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Dear Patrick, I am not commenting on this videocast, but rather I would like to comment one more time on the Craig Wright interview. You are well known and a successful businessman from America, but I'd like to ask one favor if I may. And you don't have to indulge in changing your ways. You see, I'm on the other side of the world and living in a different culture. But when you said to Craig, "Okay, so you're an A°°hole like Edison", I bit my lip. It's bar talk. And it denegrates a great inventor that no one can probably say for sure what kind of a man he was. Craig disappointed by bad-mouthing so many people. Even you jumped in after hearing it. So; yes I know; you can say anything and everything on media these days, but Pat, it just didn't seem like the language one would expect coming from someone who garners such wide respect as you. And yes; I know; it has endeared you to a certain part of the population. But if we ever do an interview, and I hope if my book is even a tiny success I'll be able to talk about economics with you on your show, but I've got to ask up front if we could keep the swear words out of the video.
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You are doing your country a great service by pointing out the downfall of Detroit and the New York City dilemma facing America. It certainly has to do with politics, but the local politicians weren’t the ones who let countries like China bleed American industry dry by offering sweet deals to factory owners. The real reason Detroit went down was because of globalization and lack of vision in the executive branch, in Congress, in the Senate and especially in the clowns that let their companies, factories, accounting firms, and just about everything else go somewhere else in the world for a cheaper workforce. I live in a country where a few years ago, a glass manufacturer that had been in business for north of 300 years was allowed re-locate to Tunisia where they could make the glass products at half the price. There were 58 employees and apprentices and all of the savoir-faire of centuries of glass-making that was sold to the lowest bidder. Pat,to me it was a national disaster and I complained to just about everyone I knew about it. But, you know what, everyone said the same thing, “But it costs less to make their product in Tunisia!” People don’t get it. You can’t let our companies go away. I’ve watched company after company close down, like Continental Tire in neighboring France pull up stakes and go to another country. Pat, there were 3,000 employees at Continental and you have to multiply that by four, because all of the support industries closed down too. So; what am I getting at? Just like Barry Gordy heading to Los Angeles and leaving Motown when he could have stayed and kept finding stars, we’ve got to realize we cannot let our industries pack up and go somewhere else just because they can build whatever they want cheaper somewhere else. I know it sounds crazy, but Detroit would still be Motown and Motown Records, and Ford, and Chrysler and Pontiac would still be there if there were people in the excutive branch who could smell a coup when it happened. China and cheap countries ruined the west because they knew we would sell our souls for dollars and leave our countrymen to feign for themselves because we’re only in it for ourselves. Detroit and NYC must be re-invented.
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Dear Mr Zakaria, Thank you for your analyses of current events in your country and other events around the world. As someone viewing your video cast from across the world, I would give a different analysis of what is happening to The Supreme Court and politics in general in the USA. Rather than see things as coming apart, what I see is a renaissance in the political system unfolding before our very eyes. The Trump Administration has raised eyebrows, to say the least, across the globe. Moreover, through no fault of his own, President Trump has unwittingly become the catalyst for the process of rejuvenation and positive change in American life and in politics. Whether he is viewed as incompetent or not up to the job of being president doesn’t matter. Why? It is because his inimitable ways have shaken the system to the core. Finally there is a majority of the American people who have opened their eyes, and what they see is a broken political system, and everyone can all thank President Trump for being the proverbial bull in the china shop. It is only an opinion, but I believe President Trump has been able to cause the coming transformation in American society by inadvertently breaking taboos that have shattered the American national 'political hangover', and thus awakened a sleeping giant (The American People). Get set for upheaval; get set for extreme behavior; get set for some depressing times, but get set for a new political system that is going to replace the old and outdated political machine with something a lot more up-to-date. There is a new political wave coming that will wash away the dilapidated, dysfunctional political system that has dogged The United States for decades. Inequality, injustice, and the list goes on of things the Trump Administration has shown to be happening in today's America that have no place being there. Victor Hugo said it: "Not all the armies in the world can stop an idea whose time has come". The time has come for The American Renaissance of 2019. Long live the freedom of the press.
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With all due respect, if you go outside right now andcatch a 'honeybee' Sabine, whether it's from your garden, a summer field or frin a city flower arrangement in a park, if you take a closer look you will see one thing. The wings are not natural but a form of silicon that looks astonishingly like real wings, the tiny motor for the lowerpart of the 'bee' hums constantly and is barely discernerable from the real thing. The big give-away is the head which is a microscopic camera. Oh yes, the intelligence agencies have found a new spy that is virtually indetectable. Hundreds of thousand of these high-tech bugs have discreetly been released near the Kremlin and President Putin's 2-billion-dollar summer home! Sabine, don't cry, but there are no more 'natural' bees. Because in order not to frighten the population, scientists have introduced robo-bees and no one seems to have noticed---until now, of course. In a few minutes, I will be getting a knock on the door by the newly created Robo-bee Police unit, but I had to get this message through because I know you always want to know what is the... latest... b-u-u-u--z-z-z-z-zzzzzzzzzz
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Dear Mr Waters and Mr Bannon, Thank you Jesse for your take on the news and your efforts to bring Fox News up to speed on reporting the facts. Thank you Mr Bannon for trying to do what you think is right in carving out a path for society to follow in the surreal 2020s. My question to you is this: Why give a one-off payment to people who have had full or part-time employment? Unless my data is fudged, I seem to remember house payments and car payments coming once a month. Why not give the money to employers who will in turn be obliged to keep workers on the payrolls and thus in turn bring down a notch the anxiety of not paying one’s bills your whole county’s population is now facing? A one-time payment means people won’t pay the dentist’s bill, or won’t pay for the books they ordered and received, because they know they are going to need money for food. Last idea, and please, I’m an inventor and my ideas can be taken to be too far out. But why not have self-contained workforces living in buildings that are bug-proof? Like the mars project where people lived for a year or so in a totally sealed-off shelter. Steve, you could do this and try a 75 team group, virus-free, quarantined two weeks before they could be admitted and then have this work-force be able to perform 100%. The buildings could then be moth-balled and ready to use for the second wave. Because there are going to be at least 2 and probably 3 waves. This one is the powder-puff if history has anything to say about it. Let’s walk out of the pandemic with also one more thing resolved for good. Again, Steve, you’ve got the president’s ear. Why not eliminate the homeless problem once and for all? Imagine coming out of the epidemic and having no more people rough sleeping and all the rest that goes with it. It is ruining your beautiful cities. Look at documentaries of what NYC looked like in the 40’s! This would be so uplifting to then entire world. Let’s use this hibernation period to patch up our tattered world. I predict that when the epidemic is over, probably in 700 days, the Chinese yuan will have superceded the US dollar as the world's reserve currency.
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Dear Mr Bet-David, Congratulations for fighting for the Armenian cause and the massacre or genocide or mass-murder of countless numbers of Armenians, Greeks and Syrians. Recently, because of his reluctance to stand up to Assad in 2011, when Obama told Assad if he gassed his people once more the US would intervene. What happened Patrick? I’ll tell you what happened: Assad called his bluff. Obama chickened out and did not even put in an order to stop planes and helicopters from dropping Chlorine bombs on innocent civilians. Vice-President Biden did nothing to have Obama go in and get Assad. Together, Obama and Biden let 500 thousand or more innocent Syrian citizens perish by being gassed, sniper attacked, bombed, strafed, murdered by a rogue regime. Why is no one calling out Biden for not convincing his boss to put in a no-fly order? So; do you see what I mean? We have atrocities happening less than ten years ago and no one is lifting a finger or speaking out. The Armenian Genocide must be put back on the front page. To its credit, our neighbor France has shown support for the Armenian question and called it for what it was: a genocide. Erdogan, it’s pronounced Erdowan, plays his cards like any other strongman leader: to make himself look good. The point I am making is that let’s not forget a recent genocide in Syria and owe up to the fact that America could have prevented it. America has a president that from some experts looks to be a person with a severe personality disorder. If you’re going to try to get some gears moving on the Armenian or Syrian atrocities, it might be best to try doing things differently. You are in the public eye. Would it be possible to raise the money to at least have a Hollywood film made to showcase your argument about the Armenian, Greek and Syrian Genocide? And then do another one on the 2011 debacle! It's an opinion; I only want justice to be done for the attrocities against the innocent.
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As a European viewer, I think that there is enough proof with the Alissa mass-shooting to make everyone of you in America realize that the ‘vaccine’ of quick police-reaction has not worked and will never work in stopping madmen, unstable people, from committing mass murder. Isn’t it time to realize the only approach to stemming future effort is by a collective effort of all able-bodied adults in The United States? If all American adults who are qualified to carry a firearm are enabled by law to do so I believe this would put an end to the horrible nightmare Kate and her colleagues would have to announce on the air. Yes; I am saying that Americans must own up to the fact that if there is a 2nd Amendment, then everyone that can be armed as an adult, must be armed when in public. This is the only way to stop this terrible stain on your wonderful, beautiful people and country. You can no longer allow people with mental problems to dictate how you live your lives. If everyone is on board, the police will be able to have a standard policy, and every one of those ‘cowards’ who wish to do great bodily harm to others will think twice before ever going into a supermarket again. To recap: it sounds weird, it sounds like the 1830s, but you cannot have a 2nd Amendment allow your citizens to bear arms and try to stop the deranged individuals with more and more police. The police will never, ever be able to come to a mass-shooting event in time because it’s all over in a matter of seconds. But, if average citizens are armed and trained in how to use a firearm, the killers won’t be able to do so much collateral damage. Please don’t take this wrong, but this is the only solution to getting America back to normal. So what if you are obliged by law to carry a firearm; let others laugh if they want, but you are a free country and it’s time the people take charge of this cancer on American society. You must act as one! It's an opinion by an overseas' viewer.
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It’s both interesting and mildly disturbing to see the Monica Lewinsky on CNN giving her views on social media and American culture and her new documentary. Because after her horrendous experience with the Clinton global event, the one thing I think she has not realized is that by staying in the public eye almost constantly since her ordeal with the former President Clinton, she has inadvertently kept the Kenneth Starrs of the world and the disgraced presidents like Bill Clinton in the American and world spotlight as well. It’s wrong what happened to her and how she was roasted across the media spectrum, but why Bill Clinton never admitted being involved with such a beautiful woman we will never understand. Nevertheless, by choosing to stay in the public eye, she has kept that embarrassing page of American history always present for the entire world to reminisce about. No one’s saying what she should or shouldn’t do with her life, but I think it would have been better for her country and especially the office of the presidency as well as for herself had she booked a flight to London, England for example, when the episode was over and she was back in private life, where she could have started a new life and let the sordid details Ken Starr beamed around the world turn to dust and be forever forgotten. Maybe it's old-fashioned to think of perserving the dignity of the office of the presidency in America, but I submit the US Government has never recovered from former President Clinton’s affair with Ms Lewinsky, and it’s a bit of a shame that she’s now on CNN and once again reminding the entire world of an awkward moment in her country’s history that she has chosen to make become like the mosquitos in amber—forever in sight. Bill Clinton made a mistake as a 49 man who was ‘The most powerful person in the universe’, as Jake mentioned, but this shouldn’t be his epitaph. That being said, as long as Monica keeps hitting the ball back over to him which then bounces around the world once again, we're never going to be able to forget the unfortunate incident, and for that matter, Bill Clinton's family either. It's an opinion.
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I am an overseas viewer and Pat knows my humor and my bad calls, but here goes on a college education. I went to university for three years on a pre-med program---my dad wanted me to be a doctor---I had all the grades and whizzed through chemistry, biology, physics, Latin, but then I worked in a hospital with an esteemed doctor and when I saw blood, I was not in a good place. Fast forward, I quit university because I realized I wanted to be a sculptor. War broke out between me and the old man, and my mother screamed for justice. One night my older brother called and asked why I dropped out and I told him it was dad who wanted to be a doctor. I'm an artist. Fast forward. He said four words that I cursed him for when I read him the book of reasons why I was never going back to college. He said four words that froze my arrogant stand against all that my parents stood for: "Do if for mom." he said. Silence. I cursed. "Okay, okay, I blurted out and went back to the University and asked them what I needed to get an art degree. They said, 3 more years. No way Ray! So; I did 4 quarters with a major in psychology. 12 months that almost killed me because I didn't want to be there; I wanted to be in my sculptor's studio. Fast forward. I finished the program and got a bachelor's degree in psychology and brought the diploma back to my parents’ home, slammed it on the kitchen table and my ma said. "Fine, that's all I wanted for you. Go and do whatever you want now." What's my point. Pat, those 5 years after a high school diploma didn't make me any smarter, any richer any wiser. But they did give me a chance to keep looking out on the world and seeing things from a certain perspective that has allowed me to this day to realize that we go to university to learn how to learn. You don't pick that up in high school.
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Professor Miano is a godsend to so many of us who have no experience in archaeology and have been misled by people feeding us information that we want to believe more than can be proved to be true. In all due respect to Professor Miano, and as a sculptor, Chris Dunn shows us on a sculpture of Ramses II, a face rendered so perfect that it can be super-imposed i.e., both sides are identical. Not only is this impossible to do by hand, but we are talking about carving granite which is 8 out of 10 of the hardest stone on earth. Moreover; Professor Miano is right to say that ancient builders certainly were capable of astounding work that defies understanding to this day. One last thing to say is that I was on a guided tour of Egypt and we went in the Cairo Museum and there was a statue in diorite---the next hardest stone to diamond---of Cheops, I believe the Pharoh’s name was. It was carved 4 thousand years ago in the age of bronze and before anyone could say a word, the guide said "Don't ask me how they could carve diorite with bronze-age tools, but there it is." Boys and girls, the diorite is perfectly carved and maybe as Professor Miano says, somehow, ancient sculptors found a way to carve it. We simply will never know. The proof is in the pudding; the sculpture is in the Cairo Museum and no diamond-edged or advanced tools have been found from all those millennia ago.
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@mrjones2721 GGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. I follow Professor Miano's videocasts regularly and he has done us all a huge tribute showing us the accademic viewpoints on ancient structures. I am an artist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kN3RCs4bYc and an armchair archaeologist. Here is my research on the subject and you cannot tell me architects back then knew all of this information: The Great Pyramid of Giza
1. It is 3/60th of a single degree of true north 2. It weighs 6 million tons 3. Its footprint is 13 acres 4. It is more than 755.9 feet along each side 5. The Great Pyramid is 146.75 m high, its height X a million equals the distance from the Earth to the sun 6. It has more than 2.3 million individual blocks of stone 7. It is locked into the Cardinal dimensions of our planet; The dimensions of the Earth are incorporated into its dimensions 8. If you take the height and multiply it by 43,200 you get the polar radius of the Earth 9. If you measure the base perimeter of the pyramid accurately and multiply that measurement by 43,200 you get the equatorial circumference of the Earth 10. The scale is not random, the number 43,200 is derived from a key motion of the Earth, which is called the precession of the Earth’s axis 11. The Earth wobbles on its axis very slowly at the rate of 1 degree every 72 years; 43,200 is a multiple of 72; 600 X 72 12. The Great Pyramid of Giza gives us the dimensions of the planet on a scale defined by the planet itself 13. There are several 70-ton blocks of granite from a quarry 500 kilometers away, one of hardest stones, raised 300 feet above the ground 14. It has eight sides, and at the spring equinox and the autumn equinox one side of the pyramid is in the shade in the morning and again in the late afternoon and can only be seen from the air 15. It is a calendar 16. It has expansion joints 17. It is located at the exact intersection of the longest line of latitude and the longest line of longitude of the Earth, in other words The Great Pyramid is located at the precise center of the Earth’s land mass 18. The builders possessed highly sophisticated knowledge of mathematics and geometry and they had knowledge of the true dimensions of the Earth to extreme precision 19. The builders possessed exceptionally advanced technical instrumentation (laser guided surveying tools?) to site The Great Pyramid 20. Pi = C over D Phi = Divided by 5 + 1 over 2. Archimedes discovered Pi about 250 BC, but Egyptians knew of it 2,250 years earlier 21. If you subtract the inner circle of the base from the outer circle around the base (the circumference of The Great Pyramid), you get the speed of light in meters to four decimal points: 299,792,458 meters per second 22. The weight of The Great Pyramid is 5,273, 000 tons and that multiplied by a billion is the weight of the Earth 23. The three inner rooms; the king’s chamber, the queen’s chamber and the unfinished chamber under the pyramid are proportional to the distances between Mercury, Venus and the Earth 24. The distance from The Great Pyramid to the North Pole is the same as the distance from The Great Pyramid to the center of the Earth 25. If you divide the perimeter of the pyramid by 1/2 its height the result is 3.14 Pi h/2 = Pi 26. The base side length is 364.242 which is exactly the time in days it takes for the earth to orbit the sun 27. The high chamber is built on a double square, which leads us to the golden ratio geometry 28. Pyramids in China, Mexico and Egypt align with the Orion star system
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Shimon, Jake and Dana and the CNN Team and the CNN Contributors, all of you have done a remarkable job in reporting on the trials---pardon the too obvious pun---and travails of former President Trump. What is sad of course, is that the seriousness of the charges against the former president---if only partially true---add up to some really long days and lonely nights in a federal prison undoubtedly being set up just for an ex-president. No one wanted this to happen. We wanted it to end like an SNL sketch. We wanted to see Donald get a cream pie thrown in his face and have to go and play golf for the rest of his life. What I do not understand and never will is that Trump had a bevy of lawyers and legal experts around him on a daily basis, former AG Bill Barr would have done anything to make sure he was never going to incriminate himself, his chief family adviser Ivanka and his well-to-do son in-law Jared would have worked for peanuts just to be on his team. But Jake, Dana, why in the name of heaven, wouldn't any of these people----even his wife----not allow those defense secrets to be anywhere near them or in their father's possession or in his residences etc.? It does not make sense. If any of us saw our dad coming home with secret documents with government seals on them saying top secret, confidential, etc., we would never let him have any peace of mind until those documents were returned. Yet; we saw those classified documents in places where daily cleaners, delivery drivers, kitchen staff and the like were able to access them. You cannot go on without assuming that America's secret files have been compromised and are now in the hands of at least one of your adversaries. The troubling question of course is this: Did Trump not know what he was doing or was some sort of a deal sketched out in the famous Helsinki meeting with Trump where the translators' notes were destroyed immediately after the more than 2-hour meeting? Something does not add up here...
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There is only one solution to work place, school, public shootings in your wonderful country, John, you must come to the realization that when in a public place, all capable and law-abiding adults must be armed. This means teachers, janitors, pizza-parlor workers. You cannot over-ride your 2nd Amendment until there is a consensus, so the only way to get your country---to get America, out of harm's wa---is for people to be armed whom are judged psychlogically and legally acceptable. It won't stop incidents from happening, but it will drastically lower the body count
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Dear Mr Blitzer and Mr Kushner, Thank you Mr Blitzer for your legendary work in the field of television journalism. But I think this is a 'faux pas' that you have unfortunately fallen into Wolf, and in private, Jared would certainly agree. We have to take everything Jared says with more than a grain of salt for one very important reason: his father-in-law is the President of the United States. Does anyone really think Jared is going to say anything but compliments to his father-in-law? I was once married to a woman who's father was a very rich and powerful man and I think I would be doing just like Jared, saying everything my father-in-law did was positive and was a good decision. Jared, you're married to the President's favorite daughter and you know very well if you said one thing that shed any sort of criticism on her dad you'd be in the dog house for weeks. Sorry Wolf, but nothing Jared says can be taken seriously and it's normal. As far as anything in a family goes i.e. business, politics, ,money etc., one is obliged to cover up for any wrongdoing by another member of the family. Proof. Has Jared ever said one negative thing about President Trump on TV?
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Dear Mr Anderson and Mr Murray, you always present your discussions in a balanced and fair way Mr Anderson, and Mr Murray has an eagle eye for pointing out the inconsistencies in social issues that besiege us. One new reality we are all facing is that the LGBT community are now having children and becoming parents. My question or topic today deals with a woman being married to another woman, or as is in your case, Mr Murray, perhaps you are in a permanent relationship with your partner who is another man or intend to make it legal one day. Please understand that what I am about to say is with complete respect of every human being’s personal choices and the choices of every man and woman in the world. My point of contention is this: It is none of my business – or anyone else’s for that matter-- that a person has a relationship with another person of the same sex, or if a person decides to change their sex… the list goes on. But shouldn’t we think of our children in all of these groundbreaking events involving the LGBT community? I don’t think anybody is taking into consideration the effect of a man saying he is married to another man or a woman saying she is married to another woman on the fragile young minds of boys and girls of, say, 5, 6, 7 or even 8 years old. What do I mean by that? It is my belief that it is too complex for children of a young age to really take in what it means that a man is married to another man or a woman to a woman, or whatever other kind of relationship that is not a man and a woman. Adults can barely handle what is happening to society; children cannot be expected to comprehend abstract issues their parents are often puzzled over. What’s my point? We need new terms for the new relationships and the people in and around them. I am an inventor. If I invented the word—to marry—for example, to mean the civil union of a man and a woman, I would not want it used differently. Here is my proposition and please consider it as simply a proto-type or suggestion of how the unions between same-sex couples and the names of the people involved could be named. (Prototype terminology for the Lesbian, Gay, Trans community and other sexual identities that may be coming down the pike.) Lesbian relationships. Lesbiate = marry, a lesbian who wants to marry another lesbian, Lesbiated = a lesbian woman who has joined in civil union with another woman, Lesbiage = a marriage between two women, Le-fem = wife in feminine sense of lesbian (Perhaps some lesbian relationships would prefer to have a sense of <wife> for the opposite partner. Le-hom = husband in feminine sense of lesbian (Perhaps some lesbian relationships would prefer to have a sense of <husband> for the opposite partner). Children of Lesbians could call them their ‘Lesrents’. Now for Gay relationships: Gayriate = to marry, a gay man who wants to marry another gay man, for example, perhaps you and your partner are Gayriated = a gay man who is (married) joined in civil union with another gay man. Gayriage = a marriage between two gay men. Ga-fem = the wife sense of a gay man’s partner (Perhaps some gay relationships would prefer to have a sense of <wife> for the opposite partner) Ga-hom = the husband sense of a gay man’s partner (Perhaps some gay relationships would prefer to have a sense of <husband> for the opposite partner). Children of a gay couple could call his father and father his ‘gayrents’. Please forgive me if I have offended anyone. My goal is not to diminish the importance of the new society being created, but to put new names on the diverse relationships that are being created. We and especially the children of these relationships need new ways to call the people in their orbit. They are finding themselves in situations that have never been seen in the public arena before, and they are living situations the friends in straight couple relationships cannot relate to. I have invented these proto-type names as a way to have children see complex things in a way I believe they need to be able to distinguish for them to understand. The whole idea is to simplify in easy-to-under-stand terms so that young children can easily distinguish people in heterosexual and homosexual relationships and civil unions with new terminology that is tailor-made for their mindset. Children need to have different words to say that a man and woman are married, or a woman and a woman are lesbiated, or a man and a man are gayriated etc. Lastly, kids from same-sex parents could use this terminology: Co-pere for the ‘father’ or dominant figure in the relationship. Co-mare for the ‘femine’ or passive figure in the relationship. Your son or daughter, Mr Murray, might say to his friends in reference to you that he was going to the ball game with his Co-mare or Co-pere tonight. Again, these are examples; people will come up with their own words once there is a change in terminology. Kids will invent words too. The English language is rich, and new words get invented often. My only hope is the LGBT community and traditional society will appreciate that this is for the children and that they will consider adopting new words that I offer in the Linux way i.e. for the good of humanity, as a way of cementing their relationships so that young children will be better able to understand the world they live in . Please Mr Anderson and Mr Murray, could you give us your feedback at some later discussion? Be well.
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First, and please don't take this bad, and I know I am not the only person who would like to say this, but boy, you guys have got to get in shape. Couch potato week is over. Joe, Pat, kids are watching and those skinny arms and sucked-in tummies have got to go. JUST KIDDING guys! Hey? It's a joke. Joe, Pat??? They went back behind the barn to smoke what??? All silly stuff is behind us now, only Joe will get my stab at being an armchair comedian from across the world, but here's the deal. I have a solution for---not only the kids in America and around the world---but for anyone being tempted by drugs or feeling suicidal and the like and here it is: go for your greatest challenge. Joe, you have done the right thing to tell you kids honestly what is out there in the street, but if you can find a way to get them to go for their greatest challenge, they won't have time to experiment with powders and substances and pills like people who live like a boat without a rudder i.e., most of us! Same with you Pat, tell your kids and everyone who is watching that if they go for their greatest challenge in life, things like abusing substances and even depression take a back seat to succeeding in achieving the greatest challenge one is chasing. It's best accompanied with the second thing I have found to get through this thing called life and it is to be one's own best friend through thick and thin. What do I mean by, be your own best friend? I mean to treat yourself like you would your best friend and quit putting yourself down or whatever that thing is, that voice in our head that has a tendency to make us feel bad about ourselves at moments where we need to feel good about ourselves. Be your own best friend and suddenly all those things like loneliness go to the passenger seat and you go back in the driver's seat in your life. It is easy to say and hard to do, but life is all about overcoming obstacles when you think about it...
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I hate to throw a spanner in the works, but if you read the book by Dr David Jacobs, 'Walking Among US', you realize that abductions are really happening. I e-mailed him to ask him if this was really happening, and to my surprise he wrote back with a resounding 'yes. Surely, advanced civlizations would be one step ahead of our primative media advances. No; we have to realize that abductions are still going on, but they are one step ahead of us as usual. What Joe Rogan and Neil deGrasse Tyson are doing is making this world a better place by asking questions that need to be answered. Sure, Joe needs work on those biceps but in Neil deGrasse Tyson's case, he gives answers and assesments and analyses that make us all sit back and question our own thinking process. DeGrasse shows us that our existence is far from being completely understood. From my own research, it looks more and more like beings from worlds of ,say, of 5 dimensions occasionlly break through in the 3 dimensional realm, and when this happens it sends people over the wall thinking they are space aliens, which they probably are but as we see in the pentagon videos, these objects behave as if they are in their own dimension. They also show no intention of communicating with us which immediately places them in the space of simulations of craft sent to explore other worlds but not be in contact with the species. It's hard to get a handle on UFOs, but what I see is that they were never meant to contact us in any sense of term 'intelligent way.' They are simulated spacecraft that are being sent to our planet from worlds billions of lightyears away. It's an opinon.
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It's great to see both of you together hashing over Putin's woes. First, your countries and the world owes you a debt of thanks for so many, many frank discussions and knowledge-exchange interviews that have left us all a lot wiser and more aware of what's going on out there. You have created an event-horizon vocast model that illuminates the planet and at the same time is very pleasant to experience. On the Russian question, could it be possible that Putin has been poisoned? No one has said that, but it looks like his jerly movements have been restricted from the inside out, from a substance maybe and he was given an antedote but now we see the damage done? Dunno, but I think that for anyone to try to get inside Putin's head there is only going to be what we want him to be like more than what is really going on. Think: Putin's inner circle see long-term; the Ukraine's main attribute---in my opinion and from hearing from top-grade analysts---is for Russia to control the Dnieper. It is the Mississippi of the region; it is the only river flowing into the Black Sea from Russia's interior. The Russian Empire needs to control this river so that its grain harvests can be safely and securely and cheaply transported to the world's oceans easily. Next; for the Russian Empire to be reinstated, Poland, the Baltic States, Finland, Moldova must come under Russian control. Putin is only following a game-plan and he has no intention of changing tactics because he is being told what to do by his handlers.
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Dear Dr Walker, Thank you for a peek inside your universe. My own conception of life changed with one lecture by Dr Jim Tour. When he explained how the most simple cell you can find is composed of parts that have to be united at exactly the right temperature, the same time, etc., and when the outer protein covering of a simple cell has 10 to the 78 billion of possibilities for it to work, but only one combination can work, right then and there I realized that our idea of how life formed on Earth could not have been from the primordial soup we all grew up with believeing in from biology class. The sheer odds of getting all the elements of a basic cell to be in place at the right time blows away any possibility of chance playing a role. And even when you have the RNA, DNA, lipids, carbohydrates etc., how does it turn on and become alive? Dr Tour has completely made me literally go back to the drawing board and I'll be sketching out ideas till the day I die, because there is something that has to be explained about how the first cell was formed. If the most simple cell requires that the carbohydrates on the outside of the cell are even more complex than the DNA or RNA of the cell you can not continue on with your old way of thinking life just happened here in an accidental situation. I am paraphrasing Dr Tour, but I think you see my point. Lastly, I think the alien life out in the universe will come to visit Earth when our planet has been weaned off of capitalism. Sara, I think it's too expensive to come to Earth to fill up the tank on their spaceships with the profit margins off-the-charts on our wierd little planet. I think they're waiting until either capitalism gets shelved or prices for food and fuel hit rock bottom. It's a theory and it's my joke and we wish you a Happy New Year and a brilliant career.
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Dear Fox and Friends and Mr Gingrich, Thank you Fox and Friends for your interesting interviews and often excellent points of view on the troubles of the Trump Administration among many other subjects. Thank you Mr Gingrich for pointing out the other side of the debate on the significance of the Mueller Report. First, as someone watching the proceedings from the other side of the world, I have to say that Fox and Friends, Judge Napolitano, Chris Wallace and Shep Smith are not on the same wavelength as your colleague Mr Carlson. Mr Carlson does not belong on a distinguished network as Fox News. His remarks about certain nationalities shows a person clearly out of touch with the global audience that Fox News plays to. You have to remember that the whole team at Fox News gets pulled down to its worst presenter. He has said things that even an uneducated person would never say about what people look like, etc. Imagine what he has said that we don't know about? Everybody can't do a job like yours, he tried, but he's not up to Fox News standards. Let’s wish Mr Carlson well, but he must step down. It’s great that President Trump has you on his side, but it is sad that he is not letting other networks interview him. It makes it look like something is terribly wrong. I think President Trump is a good father to his kids, but he does not represent what an American president stands for in the free world. His performance at Helsinki will go down in history as one of deceit and how is it possible he willingly destroyed the notes of his interpreter? What did he and Putin talk about for 2 hours? Red flag event. Who does he think we are? He is the most unAMERICAN president that has ever been in The Oval Office. He is a disgrace and I know he is all you got, and you have to stick up for him, but my god, how did someone like that get to be president? History will show President Trump to be the worst president in American history. Mr Gingrich, you are his friend, for the good of America and the free world please ask President Trump to step down and let America and the free world get back on the right track. Keep up the good work!
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Dear Prime Minister Johnson, I am not a British citizen, I live in a country next to Italy where there have been over 5 thousand deaths, but I would like to commend you on a very uplifting message that speaks to the human family. My country is on lock down. My suggestion to you is to have a virtual suggestion box that people could send ideas or things they have in mind that could make this 21 day shutdown leave your government with some plans when you reboot society. For myself, I think it would be good for people to take care of themselves, double the ration of fruit, read a lot, write their thoughts out if they are stressed. What I think you as head of the British Government must already know is that your country and every country is more vulnerable to attack from a hostile source than at any time in history. What I think this Coronovirus is in reality is a harbinger of what’s going to be coming at us in the next wave. What is important now is to head it off at the pass. What makes people more worried and therefore have their immune systems weakened than anything else? To be out of cash, broke, unable to buy things. What should be done is to guarantee all salaries, wages, pay packets, and I think you are ahead of me on that one. Lastly, it’s time to ask this question from an Anthony Robbins’ book. “What is good about this problem?” What can we do in this 3 week tunnel to come out on the other side in better shape? Would forgiving private debt be something that could be envisioned? Would using this 3 week time to solve the terrible eye-sore that stretches across the globe of homeless people be a good idea? Why don’t we ask the world’s greatest minds these kinds of questions and at least go back to civilized life with the eye-sores absent for once and for all. Lastly, lastly, would it be a good idea to have a drawing, painting, sculpture contest of sorts to ask every body who wants a crack at putting down something in paint or pencil or clay?
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Dear Mr Hartmann, Thank you for your great questions that provoke us to think about things that a lot of time we take for granted. The retail stores that are closing is really a photo of the wild west coming to an end. All the Indian tribes were finally put on reservations, a train could cross the country from east to west. The wide-open spaces suddenly filled up with cattle and sheep and so on. The retail stores were a vibrant reflection of ourselves. We saw neighbors shopping for presents, people were walking to the corner store. The streets were alive. Everybody saw a lot of everybody else. Then something stronger than our minds this way comes. Our gadgets have done us a real number and the thing is no one is complaining. Suddenly it isn’t necessary to be out on the town and hanging out doing stuff. The thing is that it shows us that we are willing to do just about anything as long as we feel we are getting something out of it even though when you roll down your eyelids for some sleepy-time recharging, and you look back on the day, all you can see are groups of minutes where you were lost in some sound bite. The TV, internet, phone screen time has most people convinced they put in a good day on the planet. The trouble is, we’ve been duped into letting go of relationships. We are willing to trash having fun with others, just so we can hog the screen and get lost in cyber-land for another evening of me, myself and I. The retail stores are the end of the way we used to was. What is behind the curtain is going to wake us up, because we have painted ourselves into a corner of an empty house that used to have people living in it. Keep up the good work!
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Dear Mr Fridman and Mr Kotkin, Thank you Mr Fridman for one of the most interesting interviews I have heard on your show. Maybe I should restate that and say that I believe this is the most important interview I have heard on anyone’s show. To cut to the chase, at 1:23 in your videocast, you ask Mr Kotkin what he would say to President Putin. Mr Fridman, I know this is going to sound like I am speaking like a ‘Combatant de la liberté’. Perhaps I am a freedom fighter with words, but what I want to say is something I think you alone can do for your former country and our planet. Can you use your influence and ability to speak Russian and your positive energy to get Mr Kotkin and President Putin in a conversation at some time in the near future? You don’t realize that what you and Mr Kotkin have done with this interview is to give Russia and Mr Putin a chance to hear a very gifted and intelligent scholar like Mr Kotkin say exactly what ails the Russian government. Can you please think this over, and use all of your skills to try yourself to contact President Putin? When you do get his ear, can you ask him to have Mr Kotkin come and talk with him. You could be the interpreter. Don’t you see? Mr Kotkin has pointed out what Russian needs: strong institutions: the judiciary, the parliament. This is what Mr Putin cannot see. You love your home country, I believe President Putin will see the light in talking to Mr Kotkin. Please try to get President Putin and Mr Kotkin together. You can do this and it will make Russia the country she was meant to be. President Putin is on the wrong track, but Mr Kotkin can help him change his ways and rebuild the country’s institutions. There is no other way for Russia to regain its rightful place in the world than to have its institutions able to function independently. It’s an opinion. Thank you Mr Kotkin for showing your country and the world what Russia needs to do to become a successful country once again. Peace.
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There is a philosophy I like called "Water down the mountain." What does that mean? Water always takes the path of least resistance; we can use this to solve the Swedish problem. In the European country where I live, when you get hired for a job you have a 3-month tryout period. If, in 3 months the job does not fit you for personal or other reasons, you not be able to continue to do the job. Why don't we make the same sort of requirements for people coming into our countries and give someone, say, 3 years to integrate into our society? If, after 3 years, for whatever reason it is apparent that the person is never going to fit into our society, the government helps them either move back to their country or for them to try another county? Just like everyone can't be expected to come to Sweden and adapt to the Swedish way of life, they should not be punished because of it, but helped to go back to their home country if possible or to try another country. Moreover, it makes little or no sense to let people stay in our society who show absolutely no ability to adapt to our way of life; everyone suffers this way and it ends up costing societies fortunes to keep people whom refuse to adapt to our way of life. It would save rejection and psychological distress and it would be a dignified way for us to deal with people, whom for no fault of their own, simply cannot adapt to live in society. It's not a problem; these people simply have to try to fit in somewhere else.
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After listening to many videocasts from the excellent interviewer Mr Hartmann, and listening to one of America's finest voices of reason on how an economy should be run, it is with deep sadness to hear that the people in charge of the American political system have failed in every way to make running the economy a conservative effort with a balanced budget and ingenious fiscal planning. When Professor Wolff talks about the private capilalist system on life support, it only reinforces the idea that capitalism has outlived its usefulness. Former disgraced President Richard Nixon pulled the plug in decoupling redeeming dollars for gold in 1971. American citizens couldn't own gold in 1971, but foreign traders could redeem dollars for gold. Briefly, people are walking around thinking their money is worth gold. In the 1930s the commercial banks took the gold from the people in exchange for dollars. The central banks then took the gold from the commercial banks. Most of it went to the Federal Reserve Bank in New York. Then, in 1934, the United States Treasury siezed the gold from the Federal Reserve System, bearing in mind it is privately owned, and gave them a gold certificate. The Treasury owns the gold, the Federal Reserve has the gold certificates. Today, your gold, America's gold, is kept in Fort Knox and West Point. Jim Rikards, who provided this information says he believes the US Army owns the gold in 2021 in America. What am I getting at? Isn't the fix you and every country in the world that uses fiat money in, is that without having a nation's money linked to gold, the destruction of the global financial system is all but certain? My question is this: Why wouldn't the authorities have revoked Nixon's perilous decision, and reinstated the gold standard? The fiat system is like Monopoly money. They're printing trillions and it's not linked to anything of value. Professor Wolff, could you please tell us how this makes sense in an economist's view?
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Dear Mr Zakaria, As an overseas viewer, I don't have the same perspective as you do. But I can give you my take on the coming election: Trump is toast. His behavior betrays a president who knows the party is over but he is deftly playing the game he knows best, baffoonery, until the election results are in. Ironically, we see President Trump swearing in justices right and left, and here you have one of the most corrupt presidents in American history signing in judges who would certainly be sending him up the river if things like his taxes were able to be scrutinized. It's preposterous that Trump calls himself the law and order president when over 20 women are claiming sexual misconduct charges against him, and let's not forget his Russian roulette gig. But most importantly, the electorate will give a thumbs down to Trump because even die-hard Republicans know that 4 more years of Trump would be more than America could take. His corrosive style of 'leadership' has brought your country to the brink, and only a healthy constitution has made his saber rattling only a slight distraction. But fear not; Trump will be sent packing and he won't put up a struggle when he loses because there's no money in it for him. He'll leave office with his tail between his legs and America will be the better for it. Trump has shown your country and the world that you can mistakingly vote in an unqualified candidate, because if you can't cut the cake as president, you don't get a chance to do it another time.
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My guess is that Vice-President Cheney and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld were really the architects of the Iraqi and Afghanistan invasions, wars or whatever you want to call it. President George W. Bush may have been the poster boy who called the shots publicly, but behind closed doors, I would bet cash money that Cheney was pulling the strings. Thom, now that I have you on line, isn't the Wuhan lab leak theory of Covid-19 probably true and if so, does it not seem odd to you today that your county's banking sector, financial sector i.e., economy is tanking? There may be one very good reason. The line of thinking I have is that is that the whole idea behind creating the virus wreaking havoc across the world was really to be just a smokescreen for the imbedded goal in it. The plan was to use a pandemic to destroy the capitalist system and especially the American economy. It doesn't make sense that China would unleash a man-made virus just to cause misery, where is the pay back? No; the aim had to be to bring down the American and in turn western economy because they knew the American system's key weakness: to spend its way to oblivion when a national emergency occured. Covid-19 torpedoed the banking sector by over-loading the health care system and bringing the economy to a halt by choking it off with soaring unemployment and all that goes bust when a major recession kicks in. The banking sector is going through the roof because the FED has got no option but to try to stem the inflation that all those trillions released into the economy during the pandemic made possible. Fill in the blanks any way you want, but I think there was a much more sinister underlying reason why the alleged lab-leaked Covid-19 was released across the world.
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Here is one of Jim's finest interviews; he's relaxed and Neil deGrasse Tyson is in top form. Could we ask Neil a question about the future of space travel? Neil, what about you starting something which I've just made up for a name for called ESP: Earth Space Program? What do I mean by ESP? I mean, there are private entrepreneurs like Musk, Branson and Bezos, then there's NASA, the Chinese, the Russians, the Europeans and the Indians and they are all working on one thing: to get to mars first and colonize it. My big question is this: Why don't we form something like the ESP as a concept company, find a neutral place for it to be able to function and then start getting everybody on board working for the same goal? And: at the same time; invite anyone and everyone from other countries who can contribute to getting Earthlings into space! It's very expensive to go into space and it's using up precious materials and each country is inventing the same widget to do the same thing. Why not have the first astronauts, cosmonauts etc., to colonize the moon and mars be from one space program: the ESP? I realize this is a pipe dream but you've got to start somewhere, but if anything could unite the human family to pursue one goal, it is space exploration.
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Once again I'm chiming in on this very interesting interview by Lex Fridman of Garry Nolan. Why do I keep chirping away about aliens? Because something doesn't jive for me. I can't put my finger on it. The fact that they are buzzing around and have been for as long as recorded history tells us, why on Earth---pun intended---would they be avoiding contact with us at all costs. We have gone over the abduction, planetary acquisition theories, so what I think may be holding them back, and excuse me if I'm repeating myself, but what I think may be causing them to refrain from making a real-time global, media-covered meeting with humans is that perhaps after a thousand years, humans will have abandoned our emotions. We have to imagine that if beings can cross the universe, time is something they have conquered. When humans become immortal, it will be possible to be walking down the street with a friend and a gorgeous girl walks by and your friend says "beautiful girl, she seemed... Does she know you?" " I married her a thousand years ago and we're still friends." Maybe they also 'lost' their beauty by making their bodies 'space-travel ready' in that they made themselves be able to live forever and in doing that abandoned all of the 'human' traits that we have in our time. Do you see what I mean in that there is something very, very wrong with the picture we have of ETs and UFOs. We are being played like we don't really count or maybe it's just to advanced beings we are so insignificant that nothing matters to them about anything we say, do or even exist.
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@SAL Hi, WEll he backs up Jim Rickards assessment to a t: Why Bitcoin, Ripple, Ether and other Crypto-Currencies will fail. It is Non-scalable – Transaction times are slow. “Layering solutions” such as payment channels, “Lightning Network,” “Segregated Witness,” and “Hash Time-Locked Contracts” (HTLC) all suffer defects, have no consensus and violate the “trustless” ethic of the original bitcoin blockchain.
Non-sustainable – Energy use grows exponentially and is wasteful.
Non-regulated – Leads to price manipulation, fraud, front-running, wash sales, etc. No use case – The only use case is for criminals, terrorists, tax evaders, etc.Non-elastic – Money should be elastic to accommodate normal economic growth. Bitcoin was the model T, it's normal it was the first horse out of the stable, but now they've worked out the bugs. Might be wise to invest in the latest model, old technology is not a safe bet.
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Dear Ms Cupp, Mr Gergen and Mr Van Jones, Thank you Ms Cupp for your personalized style of interviewing your guests. What is astounding to me as a lone observe from across the seas is how anyone in any state could take Donald J. Trump seriously. What President Trump comes across as, at least for us on the other side of the world, is as a person with mental health issues from the get go. I think he’s a great father to his kids, don’t get me wrong. But how a man with over 20 women claiming sexual misconduct charges against him, his taxes so damning even the Supreme Court has helped keep them under the carpet, a person who literally cannot tell the truth, an immoral man in so many aspects, how, how in the world can anyone say this is a person who should be elected for a second term as the American president? Hasn’t he covered for the Russians over 37 times? No one to this day knows what went on behind the scenes for 2 hours in Helsinki with Trump and Putin trading ideas. Later all the translators’ notes were burned. And no red flags went up. Forgive us for being naïve, but how can it be possible anyone takes a man who has said over 12,000 untruthful things seriously? Just the other day, he accused ER doctors of putting a bounty on corpses by labelling anyone that dies a Covid-19 case so they could get a 2,000 reward. Give us a break. This a person with serious mental health issues and should never have graced the hallowed halls of The White House in America. With all due respect, correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t Trump the most corrupt president to ever inhabit The Oval Office and the same person to nominate 3 Supreme Court justices and over 220 federal judges? All and anyone of these same judges would normally be sending him up the river. Boys and girls, I’m not trying to say anything more than America and us around the world are responsible for Trump being in office. We have all let our guard down and if you ask me it’s because we all have our heads in our cell phones. We have let AI make its first victory with Trump.
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I don't know why Commander Paul can't show his videos. In Europe----at least where we live which is about 2,000 kilometers from Kiev, today, yesterday, last week----since the beginning of the fighting, we see hand to hand combat, soldiers firing at each other from sometimes 3 meters away, everyday guys are getting blown up, shot with machine guns, helicopters getting blown out of the sky, tank after tank and ammo dumps blowing sky-high on a regular basis. Today I saw Russian soldiers lose their lives in the trenches---slow on the draw, they got taken out by advancing Ukrainian soldiers. War is something I have learned is best described by the American General Patton of the 3rd Army in addressing his troops. He said something like 'it's all about getting the other poor sucker first, than you getting killed by him. It's true; in less than a heartbeat if you are on the wrong side of a weapon from one of those infantrymen from either side of the conflict, you are dead. Everything you were, everything you are and everything you ever could be vanishes in an instant when you get killed in combat.
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Dear Mr Anderson and Mr Hanson, Thank you Mr Anderson for your intuitive and informing interviewing style, and thank you Mr Hanson for your courage in trying to flesh out what will be best for your country and the world with your brilliant analyses of current affairs. I am not in international affairs other than an armchair commentator, but the artist and inventor in me keeps coming up with ideas for example, on how to level out the political tsunami China is posing to the West, or how to rid the world of homelessness, or how to fix it so everyone gets a fair shake at having a good life. Already you can see that any one of these problems is gargantuan--let alone solvable. First, I believe that the core cause of problems in our countries and the whole world is that our economic system does not have what it takes to bring humanity up to the level it needs to be to sustain the Earth’s ecological dilemmas and the socio-economic Armageddon that appears to be hemorrhaging at this writing. It has permanent faults. And yes, I believe a new economic system tailored to having everyone on the same page as far as opportunity is concerned would iron out the Chinese threat, and seriously downgrade or at least reduce the possibility of global conflict by removing the economic incentives for going to war. Well, you are probably scratching your heads saying, “who is this guy?” And I don’t blame you, because I'm not someone of international standing in business or financial matters, but my solution to world peace and ecological sanity is in a book I have written and hopefully, soon to be published from Austin McCauley Publishing. It’s called “The Treatise of Teknomix” and I don’t profess to be an economist so the utopic economic system outlined in my manifesto will certainly have fatal flaws in it. However; my hope is that it will spur discussion and that it could be a road map towards exiting from the inefficient consumer capitalist model we are living under at this moment. My own opinion on how to deal with China is to realize that China can only become a diplomatic nightmare if we continue using the same way of dealing with authoritarian regimes as we have in the past. We need a new approach and this approach could be to mirror their stealth-like ability to influence our citizens into submission by also using subliminal messages. We have to remember that the next battleground is in the virtual world. We have to make products that are competitive, and again adapt our enterprises to be able to equal if not better the Chinese model. The most important thing is that we have to find a way to get the message through to the Chinese people that the West is not out to overtake them but to help them achieve equality through democratic means. They are of one mind with Emperor Xi. We have to show them that one person, one party should not be the only way for a country to be ruled. The Chinese people must be provoked into seeing that they are the ones who should be setting the rules. We have to meet them at the crossroads of the future, and by this, I mean counteracting each incursion by the Chinese government into foreign territory with clear information showing the average Chinese what it the reality is on the other side of the border for each breach of sovereignty. A poker-faced negotiating style, without name-calling, wouldn't hurt either. If there is anything interesting in my analyses, that's great. If not, I don't mind not hitting the bullseye, because what we're up against in the Covid war and economic meltdown is peanuts compared to what could be waiting around the corner if we don't change gears and upgrade our way to getting to the future or there may be only an epitaph to write before long.
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Tom, you sound like everyone on the other side of your camera's lens. The idea that you have found your way to attack the day is enlightening, but what you don't realize is that everyone finds their sleep habits and, yeah, sometimes people wake up feeling terrible a lot of the time. I have all-nighters where there is no sleep in me and when that happens----I learned this from a friend in the military----if you can't sleep and you get up and do stuff, you will feel very, very tired throughout the day. However, if you can't sleep and you lie in bed all night not knocking off, throughout the day you will have, say, 50% less energy, but it's doabble. We have one life to live and one lifestyle does not fit all styles of life no matter how much you would like others to feel as good as you do...
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A heavy heart reaches out to the star anchor, John Berman, and his colleagues CNN staff and foreign correspondents like the reporter for CNN, Nada Bashir, as day three comes to an end of the murderous year unfolding that will certainly mark our presence on the earth in the annals of time for generations to come. We must salute you at CNN for your consistent and courageous attempt to bring the most horrifying news in sound bites ordinary people can digest. What appalls me, of course, is how violence of any form takes a life from a family, wife or husband or brother or sister or son or daughter and we only can report the fact that they are gone. Forever! In spite of the horrific terror in the skies taking out innocent lives around the world, we wish John and Nada a glorious New Year where, hopefully, the wounds of these dire circumstances and dark days will have yielded peaceful skies and the end to the killing of innocent civilians.
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Dear CNN team and everyone, Bernie is the best candidate for the presidency in 2020, but he has had a heart attack and if his eyes could speak they would be saying something like "I know I shouldn't be here, I should be at home, and I know if I continue it will be a miracle if I make it to 2021". Bernie, if you're reading us, you touch everybody's heart and soul and mind and intelligence with your wit and savoir faire and ability to spell out the issues, but your health comes first. A heart attack means the heart muscle was damaged; you can't fool around with that. My advice? Get behind a Bloomberg/Warren ticket. Warren is your surrogate in the campaign, parroting your glorious message, why not back them from a comfortable arm chair, get out in the garage and turn some cedar bowls when you get restless and realize the whole world thanks you for your great contribution? But man, don't die trying to help your county. It's not quite Iwo Jima, but if it was you'd be a hero!
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Ian, I have to speak my mind and I know I am not going to make your day on what I am about to say, so I will tell you tomorrow. JUST KIDDING! Seriously, I think I am probably wrong about this, but from my point of view you shouldn't have asked the Prime Minister of Latvia her impression of how America---your country---was holding up, looking like, doing now etc. I think you asked is America doing good now? Why do I say that? Because, if you put yourself in her position, she couldn't exactly say anything else but 'Yes'---and even she joked about it being a 'short answer'. It's just that you represent a country that literally means life or death to the Baltic States and asking someone who is a leader of those countries or in fact any country on if they think America is doing a good job, etc., doesn't look right. It puts people on the spot and you aren't exactly someone anonymous out there, many people think you and Uncle Joe have fish & chips on occasion...
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Dear Martha and Senator Graham, Thank you Martha for your excellent interviewing skills and your ability to get to the heart of every subject matter you tackle. Thank you Mr Graham for giving the global audience a view of what it is like to be a politician in America who knows and works with President Trump, and for your poignant analyses of current affairs and the political scene in your country. From where we are across the oceans, it has to be said that both Kavenaugh and Trump are the least qualified people America has ever elected or appointed to government and legal positions since the beginning of the Republic. But it’s easy to be critical when you are not in the day to day life in America. May I first say that I believe I have a (temporary) solution to curtailing gun violence like the recent shootings in California? Mr Graham, do you think it is time to make it a law that any gathering of (4) or more people for at least one of the people to be armed? Isn’t it time to realize that gatherings of more than a few people are soft targets for mentally disturbed people who can be excellent marksmen? It could be an unwritten law, but if it was in place from now on, at least when a potential threat of a madmen trying to shoot people happened, somebody in the crowd would be armed. It is shown that police can arrive in minutes, but it is also true that two magazines can be emptied in seconds. Think of it like the way it used to be, or think of it like the second amendment crowd are going to rejoice, but if it was put into law or as an unwritten law that any gathering of more than four people required at least one person to be armed, it could seriously impair unstable shooters from at least putting a second clip in their guns. The problem could be solved this way until gun manufacturers make smart guns. No parent should ever again have to be on the news saying how nice their child was after he or she was shot and killed on a night out.
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Russians should be welcomed everywherejust like anybody else. The person in the street has no say in anything in modern Russia. Doesn't anyone realize that the very best thing in the world to happen for the Ukraine is to allow Russians to travel freely throughout the world. Why do I say this? Because like anybody, we really only listen to our peers or people like us to get our final opinion on something. When Russian people visit anywhere outside their country they will first be shocked to see that they can say whatever they want without recrimination and secondly, people in pubs, bars, restaurants, resorts, hotels, shopping centers will tell them how they see the war in Ukraine. Russians will take that back to their own country what the hotel clerk said, what the taxi driver said, what the fruit seller said. Let us not forget that people in Russia don't even allow themselves to think of anything else but what President Putin calls the truth for fear of saying what they actually think. To recap: Let the Russian people travel, word of mouth is the grapevine that no government can control and will let people in Russia see what the outside world is thinking and they in turn will tell their neighbors and friends.
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Thank you for your excellent show, legal-eagle. Mr Carroll, As an overseas viewer, may I please ask you to consider this idea for putting an end to mass shootings or severely limiting the casualties. The 2nd Amendment is a wonderful freedom you in America have, but it does not work if everyone is not wearing a gun. A leg holster on every capable, trained and mentally stable adult would put an end to the shooting epidemic that is pulling your beautiful country under the waves of uncertainty and fear like a sea anchor. The mass shooters---and I’m not a psychologist---never attack a police station or national guard outpost. Why? Because they know they wouldn’t get far. As strange and uncomfortable and disgusting it might sound to many people, if all American eligible adults wore a side arm, there would no longer be these horror-story reporting all of you have become thankfully numb to report. These cowardly attacks that leave innocent people dead and whole families torn apart by the loss of a loved one who might also be the only bread-winner is beyond belief. Yes; I know: It’s easy for me to criticize, but I believe if every governor was seen giving his or her next political address with a sidearm visible to the viewers, it would send out the message that the only way you can have the 2nd Amendment work is if everyone wears a gun. What is most important is to stop the needless loss of life by nipping the problem in the bud: confronting head on the unstable people with a dose of their own medicine. Our hearts and prayers go out to the families of the dead and for those who were wounded at the Fed Ex facility. Only cowardly, unstable, mentally unfit people are doing this legal eagle, and you have millions of people tuning in. You can stop this!
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Dear Mr Blitzer, Mr Tapper Senator Santori, Mr King and Ms Henderson, Thank you for the videocast and your thoughts and evaluations on the Impeachment Trial. This is coming from way out in left field, but could the Republican stance on doing everything they can to delay witnesses, not admit evidence, deny testimony really be to bait President Trump into doing his civic duty and resigning before the axe falls? Everyone realizes his administration is on a Titanic trajectory but him. It’s wishful thinking of course, but one cannot imagine how anyone, anywhere, in any place in the world does not wish for a change of leadership in the USA. This is the leader of the free world we're talking about; a man with 20 women claiming sexual harrasment, 16,000 untruthful statements. Peace
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Dear Mr Gutfeld and The Fox News Team. Happy New Year to everyone. As an independent voice and someone living on the other side of the world, my views are certainly not going to be the same as yours, so excuse me in advance if I say something that is offensive or off-color about you or your country. What we see about the Iranian debacle is this: The take out of General Soleimani was a diversionary tactic drummed up by President Trump or his minions to divert attention away from the Impeachment Trial. It was a page out of the Putin playbook, except that now it makes Putin’s out-of-country outrageous hit-jobs look legitimate in comparison. We know you support your president, but he comes across as someone out of his element to be polite. This is not an American president we see, but someone who would tell untruths in order for his argument to make any sense. Greg, you can’t see it from where you are, but President Trump is a disgrace to your country and the free world at large. The plane that went down in Iran had what I believe is someone on the plane the regime wanted to terminate. What is it going to take for the American people to realize that someone who has 20 women claiming sexual inappropriateness against him is not the right person to be leading the most powerful country in the world? He’s a good father to his kids and a real estate agent of renown, but please, if you could ask President Trump to do his civic duty and stand down, the America we used to know could come back and the free world could breathe easier.
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Dear Mr Anderson and Mr Clapper, Isn’t the greatest single thing unfolding with the off-the-wall declarations and unpresidential behavior from President Trump is that it shows how resilient the US constitution and the US government is to someone who is having a nervous breakdown or something to that nature? What is astounding is how Mr Clapper and his associates are going about their business and not letting their feathers get ruffled and not threatening to stop Trump at any price. It is remarkable how calm and collected the intelligence services are in not responding to Trump’s clowning. If the same thing happened in some of the countries Trump has been touting as good friends, there would be sniper fire and a news blackout. A new president would be ‘elected’, and all opposition would be silenced. The press would be banned. It is reassuring to see how in the USA the FBI is not showing any aggressive reaction to Trump’s comments; it makes the system look like a democratically led government. Innocent until proven guilty. It is amazing how Congress is multi-tasking to do their regular jobs but also continued down the path of investigations into Trump’s alleged crimes. Trump’s greatest legacy is to show to the world that democracy is alive and well in America and that the American constitution can endure poor governance by an elected president. It is not bullet-proof, it is far from perfect, but the US constitution can’t be destroyed by a rogue president breaking every rule and tradition and discarding protocol. Trump has shown the weak points in the system, and brought things to a halt because no one imagined someone could use the law to wreak havoc on the government itself. He has made it clear there needs to be an upgrade across the board. The US Senate looks like they have lost their role in the governing process; Congress looks weak and ineffective. Trump may be the best thing that could happen to the US government, because we all know when he’s gone and there’s someone of quality in The White House the problems the world faces are off-the-charts. You’re going to need to have a lean and mean government to overcome what this way comes: Climate emergency, financial melt-down, global instability, the list goes on.
Keep up the good work!
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In all due respect to Joe and Jocko, I know you both command enormous respect across your country and around the world, but I believe what is happening with the Kyle Rittenhouse case is going to end up in a tragedy for young Kyle. Kyle Rittenhouse is a boy-man and both of you and I know that for one thing, our parents would have never let us out of the house with an AR rifle and saying we were going to the next town where a race riot was going on to help out the Po-lice. Give us a break! Add on top of that Fox News' putting this young man on national and global TV as some sort of American hero is a grave mistake. Kyle is only 18 years old, he's a boy-main, and his ego is egg shells and his psyche is hormones on steroids. It's no problem going up on the national hero bit, but we all know when Fox News and the Joe Rogan show and other cable shows decides he's old news, young Kyle is going to have his trusty best friend who is his age, egging him on to get back in the spotlight. Joe, they should let Kyle find his life back in the small town he's from. He's a ticking time bomb if you ask me. Joe, Jocko, we all can see that Kyle went looking for a fight; he found one and instead of shooting to wound, he shot to kill. He's a good shot; he could have shot those people in the legs. He chose to shoot to kill. One day its all going to filter down in his head that he has killed fellow Americans. But forget all of that and let me throw this piece of red meat out to you. The border to the Ukraine is only hours from where I live--by plane. Amassed on the border are 100,000 Russian troops and literally thousands of reservists have been called in to join them. The day before yesterday, your country's Air Force let a dummy baby nuke float down to Earth at the Ukranian border to signal to Putin that if they come calling, they'll be toast in a heartbeat. The Russian President's spokesman gave away himself with the fear in his eyes and the trembling in his voice of Russian retaliation being justified. Your President has shown himself to be the first American President in a long time to stand by his word to protect America's allies. Why am I writing this? Because I think we should all realize that limited nuclear war is on the horizon. A few days ago China cut out identifcations signals on 90% of its 'commercial' fleet of ships circulating the globe. America cannot combat China and Russia with conventional arms. What's my message? Joe, Jocko, I'm an aritist and not a military man, but I think we should all prepare for limited nuclear war breaking out...
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Joe, there are over 300 million people in your country, and many of them are inventors, innovators, think tank guys and gals. Why not have homelessness as the Joe Rogan Mother Lode? Make this your contribution to your country: find the answer to end a problem that continues to get out of control. How to start? Get a brainstorming session going on one of your shows---maybe quarterly. You get 7 people who have sent you interesting ideas to all meet with you on air and propose their ideas. My idea for Austin is that every village, town and city in Texas take a share of the 3,000 people living in the street in Austin. Ditto for L.A. Get it down to realistic numbers that a community can deal with. Aren't there 60,000 in LA alone? These people need to be housed, fed and clothed and the US Government will---I believe---finally step in and start building respectable temporary homes to give these people a new start in life. Joe, you might send a crew to interview some of the folks down in Austin, get one of them back on his feet and let him come on the air to give his views once he's found footing in the local community. JOE ROGAN HOMELESS PROJECT sounds kind of like the thing you'd like to be remembered for, doesn't it?
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Dear Mr Tapper, Our hearts go out to the fallen among you and the terrible toll the pandemic is having in America. People who go on ventilators have a 20% survival rating. 20%! What on Earth is a virus infection doing getting stronger in warm weather? It’s like nothing we’ve ever experienced. We’ve seen the epidemic come under control in the country across the world from you that I live in, but we are all aware of a second wave coming perhaps sooner than later. What a terrible effect this is having on the population. People are scared. Neighboring Italy has seen a second wave starting according to some reports. I’ve written problem solving solutions before Jake, but I’d like to give you what I think is a way to slay the dragon Coronovirus in your country. If I were president, I would order a 14 day quarantine across the 50 states to all non-essential workers. Yes; two weeks. It would be a vacation to some, boring to others, financially crippling to still more, but it would give health officials time to deal with the influx of patients in places like Texas where they are having 5,000 emissions a day. 5,000 sick people coming in to health workers some of whom have been at it a hundred days in a row. The governor of Texas has made the mistake of listening to the wrong people. He should have known better in seeing how Governor Cuomo was overwhelmed by the same thing. There is no one to blame though, until it’s all over people have to get brainstorming on how to get yourselves out of this mess. My thinking is that the quarantine would be expensive for the FED, but that 14 days would severely put a dent in the virus’ relentless climb towards infecting more and more people. As always, it’s only an opinion and I’m looking at it from half a world away. Be well -
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Sky News never lets us down with each news presentation done with professionalism and expertise. One must never forget that if Ukraine's military forces are second to none on the battlefield, it is because literally tens of thousands of soldiers, tank crews, fighter pilots and helicopter pilots and support crews have been trained by British instructors along with instructors from NATO and its allies. In addition to that, as former fighter pilot Sean Bell will readily acknowledge, the Ukrainians are pulling off the first counter offensive in a major war without air superiority in recent memory and this is against a superpower with a nuclear arsenal that could blow up the world ten times over. No major military power or world-class nation would launch a counter offensive without Warthogs i.e., tank busters, fighter planes, Apache choppers, bombers and everything else that can fly. The Ukrainians are therefore obliged to mount attacks much like the Taliban used to do against the Russians and the Americans and the multiple allied forces. The Ukrainians are stealth fighters, small groups bleed the enemy by nibbling away at them in their superior defense lines. The good news is that cluster bombs are going to prove catastrophic to dug-in Russian troops which are vulnerable to aerial bomblets raining down on them no matter where they hide.
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Dear Mr Cuomo, Thank you Chris for getting your interview out there in as balanced a reporting state as possible. My question is to Mr McCloskey. Mr McCloskey, do you realize how the image of a man standing in front of a magnificent, palatial estate holding an military AR weapon with a 17 or more shot clip speaks to the world? You got that right: it looks like George Orwell's version of The United States of Paranoia. You make America look like its become a gang-state, over run by unwieldy protestors who roam the suburbs looking for an empty mega-house to loot and pilage. You show an image to the world of a crowd mentality: shoot first, ask questions later. Images speak ten times more on TV, so you and your wife bandishing guns show a society out of control, plagued by feral youths and people who have lost all sense of obeying the law. It's off-the-charts. You were of course in your rights to protect your property, but by going out in your Ralf Lauren polo shirt and Paul Shark pants and J.M. Weston loafers clutching an automatic weapon, you make a mockery of everything your country stands for. You are an American; but you are coming off as the the leader of a militia profiling himself on global TV as a pillar of the haves as opposed to have-nots' community. In short, you made a fool of yourself and you made your country look bad. Think before you act, everything is filmed now. Lastly, Chris, you've got the voice and the platform to get the debate going of getting Governor Cuomo as Biden's Secretary of State. Your country needs Andrew. Peace.
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Thank you Mr Isaacson for your very interesting interview with NASA Administrator Mr Nelson, this is about the Earth and not space, but it would be great if Mr Nelson had something to say about it. I am an inventor and artist and here is an idea I have for the drought conditions in California and the American west and other parts of the world. It is an idea about getting water to drought-stricken regions. Here is my idea. What about having water pipes installed under the major highways and/or train tracks from the water-rich regions to the drought-stricken regions in your state and other parts of your country and the world? It would make roads and train tracks get two things done at the expense of one thing; roads and train tracks would have a dual purpose and save money tearing up more land to make room for yet another ugly eye sore of endless piping that would mar the landscape and cost a fortune to install and maintain. These would be the new equivalent of the ancient Roman aqueducts that could be concealed under roads and rail lines. Hydraulically pumps could vacuum in water---like in the recent NYC flood and send it out west, or simply pumping water from, say, the Great Lakes. Concealed pumps could be set up all along the underground aqueduct system at specific intervals to be able to keep the water moving on uneven terrain, over hills and overpasses etc. There are already train tunnels and car tunnels so they wouldn't have to build more tunnels, in fact, the infrastructure in your country is going to get a make-over soon it seems, so they could add the water pipes under the already existing highways and rail lines and bridges they are going to be renovating. They could outfit the new bridges they're going to be building with the water piping encased and concealed under the tracks and road. The underground aqueducts could be activated at a moment's notice and it would be a win/win situation because money would be saved from regions that had extreme flooding avoided and drought-stricken regions would be saved by getting the water to parched farmlands and dangerously low reservoirs that is badly needed. Environmentalists might be convinced it won't harm the natural world and if they get on board, it could help at least in a small way to get needed water to regions that are experiencing drought conditions. It's an idea to solve the fresh water problem and maybe even prevent future water-wars
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Dear Mr Tapper and Lt. Governor Patrick, Thank you Mr Tapper for your diligent and honest reporting and direct questions on sensitive matters. Lt Governor Patrick, I am writing to respond to this video cast with the following question to you and the people of the great state of Texas and America: Isn’t it time for the gun industry to invent a smart gun? What do I mean by that? I mean that in 2018 the technology is there to make guns that can only be fired by their owners for example. The technology is there to make guns that cannot shoot at law enforcement officials. The technology is there to prevent any gun from firing in public places or schools or churches, synagogues or mosques. As an inventor, I firmly believe guns can be programed to be made smart like a smart phone, for example. It is possible to stop the current gun crisis in the USA. School killings could be severely restricted by making legislation to have gun makers make their guns into smart guns that have specific instructions built-in to each weapon. The technology is there to make guns programmable to be fired in only specific situations or locations. I realize the enormous cost that this will incur. I realize the second amendment people will holler and that it might not be possible from a constitutional perspective; it would involve more legislation. But it could work and it is one way in perhaps limiting unstable people – and let’s face it, most of the shooters aren’t playing with a full deck – it is one way to upgrade guns into safer weapons and why not do the same for other potentially dangerous weapons? We were all in high school. Can we even remotely imagine what life would be after seeing a friend, or girlfriend, or a boyfriend, or a class mate, or a teacher slain right before our eyes? What would it be like to graduate and go out in the world and try to live a normal life? Remember how affected we were when a friend or classmate was killed in a car or motorcycle accident? Sometimes it stayed with us right up to the present. There is no longer any excuses to stop this preventable madness. The technology is there to make this thing go away forever.
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Dear Ms Burnett, Thank you for your excellent coverage of the news and especially the Trump Administration's successes and disasters during the rocky road that President Trump has been navigating on. What is astounding to overseas viewers like myself is the blatant hypocrasy of Republican Senators like Senator Barrasso and especially Senator Lindsey Graham who it can only be said, must be blackmailed, because of the extent of his flip-flops on President Trump's policies and decision making. Senator Barrasso, may speak directly to you? Don't you realize that you represent a country where millions upon millions of people cast the hopes on being able to one day live in your country, a country where truth and justice prevails? Are you not aware that the President of America, Donald J. Trump has over 20 women claiming sexual misconduct charges against him? Mitch McConnell seems to be living in the Civil War era, where he appears to be doing everything he can to block needed reforms in the USA. How can it be that he has so much power that he can shelf needed legislation at his will? And then brag about it! It's too easy to criticize what goes on in American politics, but it looks like a corrupt, banana-republic more and more. And now a new Supreme Court Judge must absolutely be voted in place when it has happened many times before where 8 Supreme Court Justices had to function. What is still a burning question to us over here is how Justice Kavanaugh was allowed to become one of the most important judges in the land and he was caught lying to Congress. Everyone knows that Trump is toast; he has the behavior of a person who has been told in so many words that the party is over. His legacy will be that all of us across the world have to accept responsibility for a person of few moral constructs gaining the highest office in America. We are all collectively responsible because we all have our noses in our screens, oblivous and uncaring about who is in power, The Oval Office as long as it's entertaining. We all have let our guard down.
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This vocast is an extraordinary and successful attempt to solve a potentially disastrous problem. Dr Peterson, you have dissected a living digital-insect that is an app called Twitter. This marvel of the one-liner can send tweets of every kind and color around the world in the press of a ghostly button on a portable phone's screen. Thanks to your professional focus into analyzing the mechanism that makes this word-sending, social-media beast, we can finally see that unqualified individuals---like you say---can send their thoughts. Funny, helpful, interesting or wicked, very disturbing sound bites that really do bite can be sent in a heartbeat to people far out of their intellectual depth. Jordan, you have really done it this time. But let me throw this bone of contention back into the pit of barking mad, digital dogs. Twitter is here to stay; its effects on the young means that many of them will suffer some sort of mental health issue later in their life. But the doggedly difficult nut to crack is how are we going to move forward as a society knowing these virtual doors into everyone's consciousness from Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, Instagram and counting will be more and more open hunting grounds for sadistic sharpshooters and pathological narcissists to use to their fondest desire? These companies that are really invisible boxes of unconscious thoughts-turned-into-words and sent to thousands of people in an instant will change our human psychology forever. Jordan; that's what you're saying if I have understood you. So; what this really translates out to is that young people of today will be growing up in minefields of potentially debilitating mental disorders caused from tweets that have the ability to slowly eat away their sense of personal worth and cause depression, feelings of low self-esteem and the like. It's very worrying, but it's like pythons in the Florida everglades isn't it. These social-media phenomena are not going away so we'd better start finding ways to protect young minds.
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You do your country and those around the world a great service. Fox News gets a lot of heat, but you are proving that democracy is fragile, but its strength is that it can adapt because it can improve. Authoritarian governments cave in because the longer they last the less the person at the top hears anything but good news. I'm living 2,000 kilometers from Kiev and I watched a few vocasts today and WW III is what top military generals and one politician is saying is our only way to survive. Your President Biden isn't worried about approval ratings. He knows that with inflation raging, your southern border becoming a disaster zone with overflowing immigration, the pandemic still spiking and now talk of an escalation military situation in the Ukraine, no one in the oval office would be getting high marks. Boys and girls, your B-2 bombers might be flying high over Mariupol in the next days and weeks. The White House will be a command center very soon. What I see as an overseas observer is the President Biden is a decent human being first. He's a real American guy as well. By that, I mean he's got his country's best interests in mind all the time. He's not in it to get his ego stroked. He let Obama give him a nod, because that's how politics work. You've got to play the audience. Biden's got flaws and kids who get into trouble---like all of us---and that's why he gets into trouble and it's also why he's just like everybody else. He's got a good Vice-President; Harris is getting cooked on the grill for just about everything she says or does, but no one is surprised to see the first woman Vice-President getting treated differently. You've got a good team in The White House, but we had better realize how hard it's going to be when the NATO shield comes down and the Ukraine war breaks out on the continent as more and more people are predicting. WW III they're saying is what's needed for our very survival! But what no one knows is how it's going to be fought, much less won. President Biden will do his best; he speaks government and knows how to make your country run with all the moving parts, but he's going to make errors and we'd better get used to the fact that Prime Minister Johnson, President Macron, Chancellor Sholz will also be making good decisions and bad ones. Prime Minister Johnson's visit to the Ukrainian capital was worth a thousand tanks for morale building. We're going to need a lot more than good decisions to get through what's coming down the pike. Thankfully, America is leading the way for victory and peace on earth. It's an opinion.
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Dear LegalEagle, As an overseas viewer I am stunned by your expertise; I believe you are going to see a throng of young people wanting to follow in your footsteps and become lawyers, attorneys, judges and people who want the rule of law upheld in your country. What I think President Trump represents is how mental illness is a part of the human family and that there needs to be more definitions of what kinds of mental illness exist and therefore the public will be more aware and perhaps in the future avoid putting into the highest office in your land, and leader of the free world, a person with obvious flaws in his personality that are serious enough to warrant immediate dismissal from a job where the person in charge, Donald J. Trump, has the keys to the nuclear codes. Whether President Trump is ever judged pyschologically impaired is a job for health professionals, but as someone who is watching his antics from the other side of the world, I think we have to thank Fox News, and especially Sean Hannity, House Majority leader McConnell and Senator Graham for supporting a person who in my opinion lacks parts of his psyche and has alternative facts that don't jive with anyone elses. President Trump is someone to whom the whole world must accept responsiblity for being elected, because we have all let our guard down because of one thing: our portable devices have taken our eyes off the ball. We have collectively let a barking madman inhabit The White House.
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What is perplexing is to understand alien psychology. Aren't we really seeing it like this: The aliens; "We judge you so incapable of understanding us or our technology, that we choose not to identify ourselves or allow you to interact with us in any way or know where we're from or what we're doing here. No, we will continue to do flybys, buzz your military and nuclear installations, abduct animals and humans and perform medical experiments, have hubrid individuals bred on our ships and later sent down to infiltrate your society (according to Dr David Jacobs: Walking Among Us). We will not help you stop the onslaught of surpassing the vaious tipping points that will lead to mass extinction if it carries on". What does this tell us about their mentality? It looks like they have evolved from bugs in that emotions seem to have nothing to do with their makeup. It must be that they are a thousand years ahead of us; they've learned to cross the universe without us knowing it. Whatever and/or whoever they are, I think we have to realize that at least a part of them have not got our best interests in mind. Some abductees tell us the aliens say a big change is coming, they are training the abductees to direct masses of people towards certain locations to where I am assuming transport ships will be waitng. But get this: no one is being told where they're going to be taking us. I think we have seen this movie before. But to me, I try to simply gather the facts. Like Mr Nolan, I believe the Zimbabwe school visit stands out as solid proof of their existence. Yet, imagine this: they somehow knew the kids were alone that special day and the exact time. They chose to communicate with the children and ignore telling the adults that our planet was in danger. It's going to make sense to me one day, I'm sure of it. But that day is still a long ways off.
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Dear Mr Blitzer and Ms Bash, Thank you Wolf and Dana for giving your best in what must have been the most frustrating and heartbreaking journalism for you to do in the last four years. I was thinking to myself of how hard it would be to come to work and have to condemn or severely criticize or constantly call out for lies your nation’s president on a daily basis; not for a day or a week or a month or a year but all the time right up to the insurrection on 6 January 2021: a day that will go down in infamy to paraphrase FDR. An American president’s words can mean literally life or death, hope or despair---peace or war to the whole planet let alone in America. An American president is revered around the globe the minute he takes the oath of office to millions and we could say billions of people who depend on America to get them through the day, or week or month---even year. For you and your colleagues to have to go after a bad apple in the barrel every day for all of these four years and to have had to report on the absolutely appalling call for an insurrection on your nations’ Capital building must bring tears and anger and negative emotions home with you every time you leave for work or go in to work. No one wants to denigrate the President of one’s country publicly, but because of the nature of your work, you have had to report the facts as you see them. It has had to be the hardest thing in the world to fact check a president who is in a permanent emotional state of alternative facts. President Trump is fortunate in that, because of his arguably unhealthy mental make-up, he will probably never let reality seep into the world he lives in and go on believing his own back story. His family though, will have to wear his legacy and America will have to move on past a wake-up call for the nation. But you will move on, Wolf and Dana, and all of your colleagues and citizens of your country. Because in a little bit of time you’ll be able to report news that brings smiles to your faces and new positive emotions into your hearts and souls and across your country and around the world everyone will be able to breathe a sigh of relief that President Donald J. Trump is your former president and that a new chapter has begun in your country’s history. It's an opinion.
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Pat, Tom, Adam and Michael Saylor all make for a good show every time we tune in from across the world from you. But what about this criticism on Bitcoin: 1. A lot of manipulation
2. Pump and dump schemes
3. Spoofing
4. Wash trading
5. Front running
6. Issuance by tether or a fiat currency not backed by much that is used to manipulate the price of Bitcoin
7. It’s a bubble
8. Bitcoin is not a currency
9. It is not a unit of account
10. It is not a scalable means of payment
11. It is not a stable store of value, not even Bitcoin conferences accept it as a means of payment because the price volatility implies your profit margin can be wiped out
12. Calling them crypto-currencies is a misnomer, they’re not even assets
13. Transaction costs of Bitcoin preclude its use, they are much higher than normal currency
14. The technology, proof of work, doesn’t allow more than 5 transactions per second for Bitcoin, Visa, for example, has 24,000 transactions per second
15. It’s not going to be used as a scalable means of payment---ever
16. It’s never going to be used for goods and services or across borders, because there is no way that bitcoin will be allowed to transfer large amounts of money because kyc and mel,
17. It will be used for speculation and buying other crypto-currencies
18. It’s a self-serving system
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Dear Mr Bet-David, Thank you for this very informative video and for showing people that it's not the world that's crazy, it's how you look at and deal with the world that is crazy or not. Thank you for showing us that addiction is related to the only law of the universe: Whatever you are focusing on is what you're conscious of. Let me repeat that: Whatever you are focusing on, is what you're conscious of. If you are focusing on smoking 60 Lucky Strikes a day, guess what? That's right, you're lighting up every time you focus on having a smoke. We have to understand that everything is there for us if we want it, but we have to use moderation. It would be great if you could do a videocast on a subject I think should be discussed: drugs. Should all drugs be legal and sold and manufactured in government approved packaging? Because people are going to buy them anyway and who profits most from the illegal drug market? How many cops lose their lives staking out drug dealers? Why can't people be left to decide what is right for them to do? By making substances illegal, isn't the government really saying: "We judge you so incompetent that we will decide what is good for you." If people are going to get addicted to something, if it's illegal or not, they're going to do it, so why not make everything legal that people ingest? It's a subject that's red-hot and on fire, but could you give it a look-see? Lastly, your name is Bet-David. Patrick, it's not that I have a right and can judge what you want to call yourself, but Bet-David doesn't make any sense in our culture.
What am I saying? Patrick; change the 'Bet' part; it makes sense in the old country but it don't make it on the other side of the Atlantic where you live. Why do you need 'Bet' in your name, anyway? Bet means make a wager. Why not round off your name to Davids, Davis, Davidson? You're an American now and it's time to realize you're using a handle that does not ring right in a lot of people's minds. It's an opinion, and excuse me if I have offended you or anyone. I like what you do and you try to help everyone out there do a better life, and I am doing the same to you. I am only a voice from the other side of the world, and you know what's best for you and you sure are successful with your business and your life, so excuse me for being too personal on a subject that is none of my beeswax.
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To add to Ms Cabrera's excellent interview with Rep. Schiff, may I add an opinion from an overseas viewer as a solution to the Ukraine conflict. First, I am an artist and I have no experience in international affairs. Here is the way I think we should go in solving all future international conflicts. With respect, if I were able to influence the President of Ukraine, I would tell him to order his troops to lay down their weapons if the Russians invade and not fire one single bullet. Why do I say this? Because we have to begin a new era in resolving international disputes without the weapons of war. Not only are the weapons now absurdly deadly and capable of killing people and destroying cities at unprecedented levels, but going to war has never achieved positive results. What's the solution? Not to resist. Let the Russians come in and set up a puppet government, but from that day on, all concerned countries will go to work trying to undo the invasion and peacefully find the solution to giving back Crimea and the Ukraine to their rightful owners: the Ukranians. Think of it this way: if the Ukranians offer no resistence, Putin will be obliged to set up his alternative government with people who are not going to fight with weapons, but with their minds. Why give in to one person's desire to expand his empire? Let's start a new era in peaceful resolution of conflicts that allows no innocent people to be killed. This means Ukranians (Taiwanese too?) people to swallow their pride and lose their rights, but they will at least be alive and we, the concerned countries, will be doing everything we can to resolve the conflict until Ukraine is back in the hands of its rightful owners, the Ukranians. Equally, inTaiwan for example, if China invades, I would tell them not to resist and give the same message that we in concerned countries will not stop negotiating until Taiwan is back in the hands of the Taiwanese people. We have to let Putin know that if he takes Ukraine, that when his mandate is up, it's going right back to the rightful owners. Here is an example of my solution. In WW II, hundreds of works of art were stolen by the Nazis. Sometimes it has taken decades to have the stolen art works returned to the rightful owners, but justice has prevailed, and many of the stolen artworks and paintings have been returned without firing a shot. We have to let Putin and Xi and other invaders know that they will not have armed resistence if they take a country that is not theirs, but the day they are no longer in the world, those countries will be returned to the rightful owners. My solution means many people will have to endure foreign invaders, but it also means they will be alive and well and can go on with their lives until the west breaks the chains diplomatically that are holding them hostage. This means no cities and towns and villages and countless soldiers and innocent civilians killed and refugees needing help. Rep. Adam Schiff, with respect, it's time to begin a new era in the resolution of human conflict, we simply cannot go on with using force to resolve conflicts that often are caused by one person bent on achieving a legacy he or she thinks will bring honor to his or her country. There is no longer a place in the world for obsessed leaders of beligerant nations using weapons of war that only bring death and destruction to solving seemingly intractable problems. Only military minds find war appeasing and the right way ahead. However; the enlightened mind knows the entangled threads of deceit and dishonesty that often the real cause of international disputes. We all know that nothing is worth dying for and that solutions can be found to make every conflict a win/win solution.
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You can help Nikii Haley's supporters decide the fate of your nation by showing them that former President Donald John Trump is taking a page out of the LBJ playbook. Let me explain. Way, way back in the early 60s, Lyndon Baines Johnson was the Vice-President and John Fitzgerald Kennedy was President. But trouble was brewing with two of Johnson's former thugs-for-hire, Bobby Baker and Billy Estes. They were going to be arraigned for corruption and other serious charges and Johnson was implicated in their crimes. They were going to tell all to avoid lengthy prison sentences i.e., sing like birds and that meant that Johnson would go to prison himself if they had their day in court. But if Johnson could become president, he could make all of that go away. Well; we all know that is exactly what happened and JFK met a certain fate in Johnson's backyard. Johnson is seen winking to someone on the presidential plane while being sworn in as president with Lady Bird grinning from ear to ear and Jacqui Kennedy breaking down in tears. Truth be told, Johnson became president and Baker and Estes never went to prison. What am I saying here? Trump is running for president on the pretense of making America great again, but in reality, he is running to save himself from getting convicted on at least 4 of the 91 federal indictments against him. He has to win to avoid jail time. His backers are going to cough up the dough to make sure he wins. Trump does not care about making his country great; he wants the world to see himself as the greatest. The 2024 presidential race is going to be getting dirtier and more deadly than any presidential race before it, because if Trump loses, he goes to jail so we know the Kennedy assassination is going to look like shooting ducks in the pond in comparison. Trump has the richest man in the world on the payroll: Elon Musk. Musk likes to win...
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Dear Dr Campbell, I have just written to your Prime Minister with an invention idea that I think could be useful in lowering infection levels in places where people congregate. Here is the letter. If you would think it's a valid invention idea, would you send it to Prime Minister Johnson? You're from the same country, and maybe my e-mail won't be sent to him. Dear Prime Minister Johnson, I am writing to you with another suggestion for a possible way for the people of your country and the world to get through the Covid-19 pandemic with fewer infections and fewer deaths. I am an inventor, but I simply don’t have the means to make a proto-type of the invention I am proposing. And like many ideas, it may just not be something that could work, but I have a feeling I may be on the right track. This proposal would be something Mr Dyson, the inventor, would know about. Here it is. Submarines scrub the CO2 out of the air, or they used to. My idea goes something like this : in school classrooms, meeting places, malls, shops, pubs, and any place where people congregate the virus is in the air. We know this, last week in the city I live in, 20 people went out for a drink and days later every one of them came down with Coronovirus. No one knows how. It’s obvious; it’s floating in the air. So what if we have somethiing like one of Dyson’s heater/air conditioners, that suck in the air, have ultraviolet light or a filter to catch the virus, and then send out virus-free air? These filter/fans/air-conveyors could be literally everywhere pulling in the air, cleaning it, and therefore taking out a lot of the virus that seems to be everywhere. They could be on public transit. It’s an idea. Be safe. Kind regards, David Te’Kannon
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As an overseas viewer, what I see President Biden doing is using his vast political skills wisely. If there is a 33% approval rating, think of what it would have been with the godfather of punk politics, Donald J. Trump would have been! No; what your President sees is that he has to rule by breaking conventions and this means stepping on toes. In days or weeks, just a few hours away by plane north east of us, Russia may invade the Ukraine. Under the cover of partisan politics Ad astra in the good 'ole USA, President Putin knows in advance all that is going to happen if he takes Ukraine under the Russian umbrella is a lot of political leaders beating their gums. No; what is necessary now is for everyone in America to double-down their support for President Biden and stand united behind him. 2022 is a game-changer. The free world has a good man running the show in President Biden. He's human, he's going to make mistakes, but we have to realize that former President Trump mesmerized his party's members into thinking that he was a force for good, when in reality he was a carnival-barker who only was after the money from the beginning. As someone from across the world, a simple world citizen, may I speak out loud and ask former President Trump to retire from the political arena, and show support for the American President, and let America heal and move on? President Trump, please realize you are not helping your country out by being in politics. Where is your heart and mind and soul, knowing that you have been and still are a dividing source in your nation. Civil war has only been on the airwaves since you appeared. We are going to need America in full strength and for it to be the light of the world if we are going to survive as a civlization. We have to realize that social media has made us all easily influenceable by charlatans like Trump and Sentaor Graham from South Carolinea, who possess immense charisma on and off screen, and possess a presence that attracts the gullible and who are capable of distracting the masses from others who speak words of wisdom and togetherness and oneness.
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You're doing a great service to your country and showing us on the other side of the world how hard things are for the average person in California and the USA in general. People who didn't pay their rent when they could have is the real problem here, becuase of course they haven't got the money now and if rent comes due they are going to be in trouble. It must be hell on heals to have not been able to pay one's rent because of hard times, and when rent comes due, these people will have to come up with a backup plan. What a dilemma for everyone involved. Dan, get botox on your forehead to knock out the trenches working their way across your brow. Yes; it's expensive, but if you haven't got the dough everyone understands, you are on candid camera and botox really makes knotted, wrinkled foreheads look better at no physical harm. But; it's expensive. Try to bring your videocasts in under 15 minutes; time is one thing that no one has a lot of.
To me the stimulus checks were a great thing but it would have been much better to have paid every employer their workers' salaries and had everyone continue getting their salary until the crisis was over. Sending blanket checks meant mistakes would happen, and it's chump change when it comes down to it. You need your paycheck. That should have been the lockin, lock in the wage packets, pay checks, salary. Keep companies from going under. When the crisis ends, that would make a different story, but it would have been so much easier and probably a lot easier to manage. I know; boy do I know: easy to say, hard to do ---
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Dear Dr Campbell, Thank you for trudging on, digging deeper, analyzing data and doing it all, over and over again, every single day. You must be exhausted. Some days when the sun doesn’t shine are hard days to get through, I must admit, but I am a fervent believer in supporting local industry, so in my region, in spite of all criticism to the contrary, I support our local winegrowers and happily make the sacrifice and buy their bottles of red, white and rosé wine products. Drinking wine is my way of saying “yes we can” in overcoming the pandemic. All I know I’m supporting families with kids in need of all kinds of things. I’m helping the community and let’s face it: doctors in the middle ages prescribed wine in 3 out of 4 ailments, so I’m fervent believer in natural medicines as well as following good medical advice albeit a thousand-year-old prescription. Seriously, the origins of the virus point to an animal virus that has been modified by accident perhaps or deliberate. How do I know this? I don’t, but the contagious characteristics of the Coronavirus and its relentless mutations and spread to every corner of the globe suggest that tinkering was done to the molecule. When the virus is placed in front of an animal cell and a human cell, it will attack the human cell according to at least one researcher who says he has never seen a virus go for a human cell over an animal cell!
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Dear Mr Bet-David and Mr Stone, Thank you Mr Bet-David for doing a great service to your country and the world by allowing people the chance to give their take on the events shaping our world. Before I ask a question, I would like to say I think you made a good presentation about the unfortunate situation with George Floyd and again, letting everyone have their say. I have two questions for Roger Stone about his support of Donald J. Trump. If we are to believe a lot of independent sources, President Trump has at least 20 women who claim that he made alleged inappropriate to use a polite term, sexual advances or conduct that is considered unlawful in a court of law against a few of them. If he knew this about a man who was running for president, how can he justify backing someone who could technically be sent up for a lot of years like Harvey Wienstein, especially if the rape case was proven to be true. But again, just to have 20 women accusing President Trump should have sent alarm bells ringing. Second, Donald Trump has told so many untruthful statements that it makes one's head spin. Again, why back someone who tells lies? With so many obvious flaws of character and allegations of wrong doing against Donald Trump, how can Mr Stone justify supporting someone running for the most powerful job in the world who is so obviously corrupt and lacking in moral authority and? Lastly, are we to assume the United States intelligence agencies have all got it wrong about Russian interference in American Presidential élections? Peace
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Dear Dr Campbell, Thanks to you, I have started wearing a mask when I leave my flat. The elevator is miniscule; therefore, one can only imagine if someone is carrying the virus would make it an incubator for spreading the disease. It's wonderful that Victoria, Australia are being so vigilant, but my question to you is the following. Say, Victoria, Australia get down to zero cases. Where does the virus go if everyone is careful and wears a mask and irradicates it in their area? Surely, it's alive and well and mutating it's way into a super-virus, isn't it? It's in every country in Africa which is only a few hours by plane from where I live. Surely, it's gaining strength as a stealth virus bomb waiting to resurge when we lower our guard?
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Dear Mr Cuomo, If there are front-line health professionals doing their best to get through the worst pandemic in living memory, you and your colleagues at CNN are the front-line news professionals trying to make sense of the cacophony and lack of leadership your country is displaying. What is good about President Trump’s daily gaffes and alternative facts? What is good is that it shows how much more critical you and your colleagues need to be in weeding out the strong from the weak, the corrupt and the psychologically disabled candidates who are trying to win the nomination for your nation’s presidency. Trump gave out red flags that the whole world noticed, like the disgusting comment on Megyn Kelly’s period, but that American mainstream media let it go by without so much as a whimper. Come on guys, you have got to make sure another Trump never gets a chance to be at the helm of the most powerful nation on Earth! Trump’s first act in office was to dismantle the Pandemics Department. Again; no outrage from CNN or other news agencies. Lastly, your brother, Governor Cuomo has flabbergasted the entire planet by waving a victory sign and lauding his Herculean effort to save his state. There’s nobody we admire more in American politics than Andrew Cuomo, but he’s got to realize it looks cheesy patting oneself on the back for a battle that is still raging like wildfires across the world. It’s easy to criticize, you all deserve a vote of thanks for the openness of your criticism of yourselves and your government. You only see grave markers for reporters who criticize their governments in far too many countries around the world. Vive America. Vive the Free Press.
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Looking at the statistics from the other side of the world from you, one could say your president is in trouble politcally to say the least. But from where we sit in Europe, President Biden is someone who you can count on. He's the real deal and an American President who is respected across the globe. He's more than been there for President Zelenski and is still backing the war-time president who is fighting against unbelievable odds. The himar missile system he sent over to the Ukraine has got Russian trolls crying foul. Russians who support Putin are cursing Biden; they tell us the himar missiles go too far in helping the Ukrainians. This translates out to mean that the portable American missile system is making up for former Russian superiority in ground to air weapon system. That's all because of Joe Biden that Europe may be spared from a continental war. We all have to quit scratching our heads wondering why people are unhappy in America when it takes a month's salary to fill up at the gas station, a day's pay to buy a loaf of bread and a week's wages to have catfish for dinner. Seriously, people vote with their pocket books. This inflation nation you are living in is testimony to a political nut that has yet to be cracked. Add to that a pandemic that continues to send fragile and unvaccinated folks into ICU units and you can see there is smoke on the water. President Joe Biden knows what buttons to press to get things back to normal in normal times, but with interest rates heading for 3% and 30 trillion in debt, that means interest on the national debt is going to be 900,000,000 billion dollars; these are not normal times. Welcome to the Las Vagas Federal Reserve Bank! It is sad, some say the Russian invasion is a replay of 1 September, 1939 and this is going to test the mettle of American solidarity if anything can. Stubborn rising prices because of inflation has got us all by the throats; there isn't another person in America that could make high inflation go away and everyone knows it. They're giving Biden the boot because the buck doesn't stop any more at The Oval Office, it gets spent before it gets there...
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