Comments by "Xyz Same" (@xyzsame4081) on "TalkTV" channel.

  1. Larry Wilkerson * on TheReal News: Bibi Netanyahu wants to fight Iran (and Syria) till the last drop of blood - of U.S. soldiers. * he appears often - highly recommended. And KSA is equally fierce in their hostility towards Iran - and could not get it done on their own either.
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  2. 1:58:00 but the Republicans were all in favor of coming down like a ton of bricks on minorities. Bill Clinton used that sentiment for the "welfare reform" and "prison reform" - that was the dogwhistle to get the white people to vote for him. The Republicans were leading in those harsh efforts and the sell-out corporate Democrats were glad to assist. The Nixon admin perceived black people and hippies to be enemies. A former high ranking staff member of that admin admitted that the war on drugs was used to go after those people. (We could not make it illegal to be against the war or to be black, but we could hit their communities). The hippies used weed, and black used crack (artificial cocain). That is why cocain (a drug of wealthy people) results in much lower sentences than artificial cocain. the ratio was 100 : 1 (possession of the drug) - the Supreme court has reduced that but still allows some disparity. Allegedly the distribution and the criminals involved make crack worse than cocain. Classcism at its best. That is why Marijuana is a schedule 1 drug (the only other one is heroin, no medical value, almost impossible to do research, highly addictive, dangerous - and it "justifies" long sentences). Of course NO Republican president challenged that. I will give Jimmy Carter a pass, he may never have used weed - but Bill Clinton and Barack Obama did. So they knew FULL WELL that it was not THAT dangerous (and the president does not need (Judges appointed during the time of a Republican president give a black person on average a longer sentence than a white person AND they are more lenient towards woman). Judges appointed during a democratic presidency ALSO dish out harsher punishments to black people but the disparity is les obvious. It is the mindset: unless one of their children or people LIKE THEM are hit hard by minimum sentencing they are unable or not willing to extend their empathy or even understanding (as in grasping the situation) to someone OUTSIDE the TRIBE. They do not care or are even pleasedthat "those others" are dealt a blow. The opiod crisis gets completely different coverage in the media than other drug epidemics. Then it were those despicable brown or black people. Serves them right. Now it is people like us. (White often low-income people). Now it is appropriate to dig deeper and ask WHY are they doing that and who else gets harmed.
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  3. No, the equal right of mother and child to life * was IN PRACTICE NOT GUARANTEED, never mind what the LAW SAID, not even when it was medically clear that the fetus could not survive. The doctors in charge (cowardly I would say) did not fulfill the wish of the mother (and her husband) to abort the already doomed fetus - because it still had a heartbeat. The mother begging for an abortion and being in pain, the husband being desperate - it all meant nothing. I am sure they a) were either bigots who put their own opinion - not the law - over the opinion and the rights of the mother or b ) they were cowards who could not stand up for professional standards when that was necessary Plus the nurses: we do not do that her dear we are not in India ... Not that the nurses could have performed the abortion. * the case of the woman they let die, she was in the process of having a miscarriage (a couple joyfully expecting until it got terribly wrong), in the UK she would have gotten the needed help, would have mourned for the lost opportunity - and likely have another child by now. I am almost sure those bigots were never held criminally or professionally accountable.
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  4. excellent piece in The Independent - from a doctor and mother who was in a comparable situation - defending the decision of the court regarding Alfie. "As an intensive care doctor and a mother whose own baby son was critically ill, the Alfie Evans case makes me angry. www(dot)independent(dot)co(dot)uk/voices/alfie-evans-doctor-intensive-care-life-support-parents-nhs-a8321226.html
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  5. BBC documentary : Labour: The summer that changed everything. Go to 30 :00 and watch the reaction of 4 Labour MPs (no Corbyn fans) at 10.00 pm when the first positive results were announced on TV. ONE was pleasantly surprised and broke into a wide smile. youtube.com/watch?v=sWnIpHAHaaE&t=1877s Steven Kinnock could not even fake positive excitement, he WANTED a bitter defeat ! Lucy WhatsHerName switched into loud surprise and busy calculation mode (how many seats, hung parliament, speculation about May stepping down).
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  6. see the comments above (thread garykeenan31 - it seems Wikipedia is monitored by Israelie/ Zionist troll farms - and +Strong Exorcist seems to belong to such a troll farm
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  7. As for Sarah Huckabee: a) it is a ROAST b) her boss - Trump - decided not to come - so she had to stand in for him. That is her accepted role and c) on this occasion - yes she got hit hard TOO - but then she chose to SERVE that administration and not too well either. -It might have appeared to be about her appearance - at the first listen - one could indeed mistake that joke - Michelle cleared that up the next day, again when you read it or listen to it again and know the U.S. scene - no this was not about her looks (and her "smokey eye" this was related to "burning through FACTS". I could almost - almost - have sympathies for Sarah H. - it is the "help the underdog reflex". Well she can be a little uncomfortable for one evening, with ohters. She does not have that much power in the admin, there are much worse stooges out there, true. Michelle called her a Uncle Tom for women. And Kellyann was not spared either. - imagine being a women working a minimum wage job, in need of healthcare or not being able to afford a baby - or the doctor's visit to get the prescription for birth control or the spiral. Planned Parenthoos defunded, closed down. Abortions are only a tiny part of the servicePP, they do cancer screening, birth control, fertility. Also men's health ! and of course all female health issues. These people deserve our empathy - Sarah H. was a little uncomfortable - she is going to be fine. Well that is the price you pay for serving where you should not be (Wolf forgot Nikki Hailey). But then -this admin gladly would have thrown ten of thousands of people of their healthcare - I am not even talking about foreigners. Now they glady undermine the healthcare system indirectly by defunding it.
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  8. the mood has turned against Jeremy Corbyn - what else is new. - They were forced to shut up after the snap election. But now they feel safe to start the witchhunt again.
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  9. Meritocracy ?? The stated ! intent of our economic system and its elites is to have competent leaderhship. Allegedly nothing else matters. That is not true of course, political connections, being from the right family, club, ivy league, ... matter a lot. The corporate leadership selection is sold to us as meritocracy - not quite. On the level of small companies you often have the family being employed - and then there is the circus Big Biz, and their management. They allegedly can walk on water, which is why they are getting paid 300 - 360 times more than the average employee in their company. Interestingly that ratio used to be 30 : 1 in the time when the economies were BUILT after WW2. In both systems OFTEN MEDIORCE people can/could be in positions of leadership. In private capitalism the COMPLETE FAILURES are weeded out over time. In the Soviet Union there was a chance that they could keep their job if they had the political backup. At the same time very good people did not have a chance to take the reigns if they were not playing nice with the political class - or other people just had the better connections. That happens in the Western system as well - but in the S.U. they did not even have the chance to jumpstart their own thing. Elon Musk got the boot in one very successful start-up (by the investors). Well, he adanced to new horizons.
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  10. Andrew O'Hagan intentionally ignores: The moment the fire started spreading accross the facade of Grenfell Tower the building was a lost cause. The firebrigade came there to put out the fire in an apartment, routine. Little did they know that a perfectly safe house had been turned into a tinderbox. - the moment the flames ignited the facade there was maybe a window of opportunity of 5 - 10 minutes to put the fire on the facade out. And around that time they also could have made the decision for a SAFE EVACUATION. But of course that would have required advance knowledge that such a task would even be necessary. Fires had been put out in Grenfell before and the old concrete facade and the metal windows did not promote facade fires. It is like a wildfire, either you catch it right in the beginning - or it will spread uncontrollably. An architect that lives nearby said he was completely shocked about how rapidly the fire spread. Well THAT is not new: such insulation or cladding fires have happened in recent years, fire brigades in other countries had voiced their concerns before. But these events always had a luckier ending. A lot of property damage but little if any loss of live. A piece of cladding was tested in a laboratory a few days later: under sustained heat and flames, the core of the cladding pieces melted inside the thin aluminium skin. The insulation material, which burns well - ? plastics - became liquid, seeped through the aluminium skin. It provided the fuel for the fire, and of course the liquid fuel helped with spreading the fire. Increasing heat accelerated the process. Bursting windows allowed the fire to enter the building from the outside - far away from the initial start of the aparment fire. The testing was not sophisticated or expensive to do btw. The morons in charge could have easily detected the SYSTEMIC risk that kind of cheap cladding posed. And the cladding was changed after the first bid. The very active Grenfell community likely would have noticed that change BUT the freedom of information act did not apply, the information was withheld from them. Another example of SYSTEMIC failure on all levels - and yes very likely caused by class, financial interest in gentrification. What else would explain the stonewalling of the "authorities" and the "management" when they dealt with a grassroots group with very active, educated, articulate and involved renters. The burning fridge caused a routine apparment fire, the flames leaking out at the (maybe open, maybe burst window) ignited the facade. The fire brigade was of course INSDE and dealt with the fire in the aparment. They put it out and did not even know that the catastrophe had started outside on the facade. If they had realized in the NEXT 5, 10, 15 minutes after the facade had caught fire, that the building already was a lost cause they could have ordered to evacuate. (It is like in the film Titanic, as soon as the Iceberg hit they were lost, even though it was not immediately obvious - except in the film to the engineer who informs the captain) There is a video of such a facade fire on a French high-rise - the balcony (1st floor or half floor = LOW) was burning. The flames reached out, after approx 5 minutes into the the video, the flames set the facade on fire - _then it was over _ no chance to restrain the fire. Around that time one could see the fire brigade arriving (or visible in the video). They had an advantage (starting point LOW), the highrise was not THAT high, their ladders were high enough. It was during day. The set-up of the facade obviously included SOME barriers for the spreading of fire. One could see it in the way the fire spread, in distinct columns. And I think the corners seemed to have some reinforcement STILL the French fire brigades COULD not prevent the fire from spreading ALL OVER and to the full height of the facade (on one side only if I remember correctly). The full blaze was reached in LESS THAN 1 hour. It was during the day, the building had MORE THAN ONE narrow staircase - the damage was high, but they had only one casualty (and that may have been due to the original fire in the apartment.and not because of the wildfire on the facade). Not even the French under much better conditions could contain that facade fire. But they had definitely much better conditions to EVACTUATE. That is the insanity with Grenfell Tower: A building that was already a hazard due to the way it was built (one narrow staircase only). And then systemic failure was heaped upon systemic failure. Deviate from the "stay put" standard procedure and EVACUATE After the short window of time in the beginning (which was bound to escape the notice of the firefighters anyway) it became increasingly dangerous - smoke in the staricase. Plus: this would have meant to act contrary to the drill and the routines that USUALLY guarantee safety - unless unbeknowst to the fire brigade some morons have turned a house that always had been safe into a tinder box. "Stay put" also means that people stay in safety while the the firebrigades can MOVE with their HEAVY and LARGE equipment up the staircases ! And that they can concentrate on taking control of the fire and are not busy rescuing people with smoke inhalation problems. Deviating from well rehearsed procedures is something the firefighters and their command are trained NOT to do. In a fire the elevators cannot be used, Grenfell Tower had ONE staircase which was not wide at all. The firefighters need it free so they can go up - which is especially important for the upper levels which are out of reach of the ladders. So even if they received better equipment - I think the technical maximum is 13 floors (or 15). In any case not enough to reach the upper levels of Grenfell Tower - not for control of the fire, and not for rescuing. Some people panicked and ran out in the earlier stages (sometimes warned by phone calls from outsiders). Which usually is a mistake, they can perish due to smoke inhalation in the staircase. But when they were fleeing early enough OR they had the good fortune to come across a firefighter when they were about to collapse or could not find their way - that saved them in THIS scenario. (I saw several videos where meeting a firefithter saved someone, including the family from the 16th floor that had stayed put for several hours and then ran down. They managed to stay together, they almost failed but met a firefighter when they were about to collapse.) If ALL people had been ordered out, more people would have been running DOWN (if they were fit enough) on the smoke filled staircase, in darkness. Likely some trying to take stuff with them. In the early stage it was not as obvious how desperate the situation was especially when you were IN the house and did not see the whole facade and the rapid spread of the fire on it. While the firefighters in full gear and with equipment try to go UP. They were fearful of a "traffic jam" and people dying on the staircase. I can see how that was not an option for fire brigade and their command. It was a choice between pest and cholera - and they did not even know which one was which.
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  11. 9:30 the digital marketplace should not come under control of private companies, who can censor. And Corbyn plans to have public British offer for such as space - well naturally Silicon Valley will not like that.
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  12. Lawrence Wilkerson former chief of staff to colin Powell: Truman gave the Zionist their own colony * - the fringe idea had become popular with mainstream US Jewish voters. And Truman WANTED their vote (and likely their donations. Which was his flippant answer, when the pentagon and also General Marshall had severe warnings (will put off the Arab nations in the region, we get our oil from there). Especially Secretary of State Marshall (famous for his plan) was very upset about the decision. * some colony - throughout the history of the Zionist movement many destinations were discussed, not only Palestinge but Uganda, Panama, ... I think even Madagaskar were discussed. Shows you the colonial mindset, really.
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  13. The Mossad has a lot of professional reputation, I think, they can do more than the U.S. letter agencies, the Arab states willing to do torture are conveniently near (no use of allied airspace or facilities necessary. it is well known that Jordan, in former days Syria, likely Iraq and Egypt, and before 1979 Iran helped with kidnapping and torture). When the Reagan admin secretely sold The Ayatollahs weapons - israel was helpful. Their M.I.C. aligns nicely with the U.S. M.I.C. That said: the really important U.S. bases in the region are NOT in Israel but in Qatar, I think also Dubai.
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  14. Give them enough rope to hang themselves ! I suggest Corbyn and the people within the Labour party that want to WORK for ALL people in the country give the "but he is - or they are - anti-semitic" crowd the opportunity to parade their foolishness before the British public. They can discuss that in their bubble 24/7. J.C. and team have plenty of work to do to get the information about the policies out that would make life better for the citizens. AND it would make a nice contrast - and the citizens would notice - at least those where he has a chance to win their vote. He does not need them all. Just enough. Does anyone really think one can win elections on that ? Did they learn NOTHING from Brexit or from the Trump win ? (The "elites" and war mongerers and Russia opponents are running scared - corbyn would have much more rational, fair and peace promoting policies - can't have that). Some decent hints that this is a deflection because they can't get him on policies will not hurt either. And it will make a nice contrast between their "worried" discussion and the people that want to actually do something.
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  15. It is pointless - even damaging - to dignify that fabricated outrage with a debate a) it puts J.C. in the position of defense and weakness * b) at this point it is a waste of time - people have made up their mind, Jews are a minority and many of them are not Labour voters anyway. The public in general (as opposed to the lamestream media) will not get too upset, considering that the Jewish minority is not really under any threat. c) and it let's the enemies of Labour frame what is discussed - and what not. ** No need to assist them in the deflection effort ** Deflection from the issues that really matter to the voters (and where the government is really, really looking bad). * he should 1) refer decisively to the found agreement ("...regret that some people are not happy with our stance, voters know our position which was carefully discussed, the public will have to make up their mind" - a polite version of "take it or leave it." 2) call the media out on their deflection - scolding them for not talking about [insert real issue] . And then firing off a few well rehearsed sentence about a REAL issue that DESERVES attention. He did that during a press converence about the NHS or welfare where they insisted on posing questions about "traingate". Brexit, NHS, welfare, heat wave .....- but allegedly "anti-semitism, the 157th" is on the mind of the people ??
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  16. Philip Cross edits the Wikipedia site of Ruth Smeeth (a pro Isreal, anti Corbyn Labour MP) - this time editing out the reference to the leaked cable where she is quoted as having special CIA protection.
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  17. A lot of people realized that the case for the Iraq war was shady. - If only for the extreme pressure that was put on people who came up with contrary information. A concerned government does not act like that - they do not oust CIA agents because the husband - a former ambassador who got medals for his work by Bush 1 - wrote an OpEd that contradicted a claim the US war mongerers had made (What I did not find in Africa). And the massive pressure put on the weapons inspectors of the UN. Any insider worth their money and being in the "news" business (having time and resources to keep up to date) would have known that they were not telling the truth. Everyday people knew better.
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  18. 9:00 Andrew o'Hagan Grenfell - that shill took it upon himself to exonerate the Council, Jon Snow stoked a class discussion, the council did nufin 'rong, really, and the FIREFIGHTERS (or the department) made mistakes.
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  19. soulmate7 - So what Labour POLICIES do you disagree with ?? - you are aware of the fact of that most UK citizens care first and foremost for THEIR LIFE and THEIR COUNTRY. - The Jewish population in UK has been treated very fairly and polling shows that from all minorities they suffer the least negative bias (that poll was recently quoted by the Times of Israel). 6 % holds anti semitic views (let's assume they are really anti semitic) - more of them in the far right, and the rest evenly spread out over the political spectrum - so no Labour does not have an anti-semitism problem, and it is not abundant with the Tories either. So - luckily - Jewish people are not suffering harassment - the internet does not count, lots of unhinged people - but in real life, the work place, education, housing, in daily life they are doing well and they looneys do not dare to target them. I think - and hope - the constant "crying wolf" - will backfire. It is getting a little bit too obvious. And of course the Daily Mail manipulated the photos to create the impression Corbyn had laid down the wreath for a terrorist. No he didn't. It is very telling that both shills - they must know about the intentional misrepresentation meanwhile - would not clarify that, but go on as IF they believed Corbyn had honoured terrorists. Mossad targeted PLO, civilians died, Corbyn joined the ceremony for THOSE civilian victims. And did not remember that right away - go figure after four very busy years. Now, if you disagree with the policies of Corbyn as alleged Labour voter - that is fine. Plenty of other parties out there for you. Labour has enough appeal with a reservoir of people who did not vote before to compensate for those who turn to other parties.
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  20. Labour leads in the polls by 5 % ...3...2...1 .... Labour is antisemitic !
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  21. If access to abortion is " too easy" it creates a "culture". And it would be abortion on demand . 10:00 "No, I am not engaged in making contraception easier available. ... more "education" for women needed... contraception creates a "culture" ..." Start a conversation with anti-abortion folks - and it will most of the time turn out that they are anti-sex In the line of: do not have sex if you do want to get pregnant, etc. etc. - if they are polite. Or the unsolicited advice for married women: you have to accept every pregnancy that manifests ... Many times it was portrayed that immature teenagers sleeping around waltz into a doctors office asking for an abortion because they are too lazy to take care of contraception. Sheer cleverness should have told the anti-abortion crowd that this was not a smart strategy - what the bigotry cannot be suppressed forever. That might have helped with the referendum. Many, even conservative Irish (who are more against abortion than for it) KNOW at least one person/couple that struggled with that decision - and they were not carelessly waltzing anywhere. Might have pissed off a few too who never dared to tell anyone about an abortion decades ago. Coathangers if they were unlucky.
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  22. "Philip Cross" (? Mossad ? CIA) deletes the awards of John Pilger on the Wikipedia site - I never thought of going there to check him out. Saw him on RT (!!!!) on goingunderground (which I can recommend) - and was impressed and sold on to Pilger ever since. The irony !! that we know depend on Russian financed TV for news, reasonable people on TV and "the other side of the story". I can recommend RT btw - they have their bias in the name, but they employ good people (usually progressives that would be or were kicked out by the establishment media, interesting guests, and they usually do not interrupt people).
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  23. The Times of Israel has recently published an article Anti-semitism is rare in the UK (6 % the lowest for any minority) and it shows up equally in ever politcial group. No one in their right mind would assume that Corbyn is racist in any form incl. being anti Jewish. Or other leaders - so WHERE is this earth shattering problem. It is a witch hunt and a distraction. - and another attempt by the Red Tories to have pretext to split the party.
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  24. The bombing of Serbia (not Kosovo !! let's be precise with the wording and facts) was NOT MEANT as humanitarian intervention !! - it was sold as such and many people believed it then. One or two years after the BOMBING OF SERBIA (ONE of the parties in a nasty civil war - nasty on ALL sides) it came out the the PRETEXT of the war (concentrations camps run by Serbs, planned genocide etc. was all made up. It was a WMD story). The US for some reason wanted war, they NEEDED Germany (almost a neighbour to YU, they needed to fly from there, Germany has lots of cultural connections with YU). There was a NEW German governement in charge, a coalition between the Social Democrats (like Labour in the UK) and the Green Party. The latter had absorbed the peace movement. (I assume the US had something on Schroeder and Fischer the party leaders, and also maybe Scharping the war minister and liar in chief). In Germany "Never Again" (meaning Germany never again taking part in a war of aggression) is proverbial anyway. So nothing but the worst accusations against the Serbians would do to sell the war to the public and to the base of the Green Party (which was furious anyway, then they were not the bourgeoise, trans-atlantic sell-outs they are today). So Never Again became Never Again Auschwitz, the Serbians THEN were accused of the worst atrocities and the the bombing started (and that was not a UN sanctioned mission). THAT pulled the rug from under the feet of any moderate or level-headed people on the Serbian side. Later there were atrocities - on all sides (the most published however were the Serbian atrocities). Let's not forget that the US also had jihadists infiltrating the country to stir up even more trouble. (Yugoslavia also had Muslim). The jihadists had run out of a job after the Soviets left Afghanistan, so the U.S. with the help of Saudi Arabia recruited them to make trouble in the heart of Europe. The German public did not suspect anything wrong - after all Yugoslavia did not have oil. Surely the US had no greedy motif to PUSH FOR WAR in THAT country ? (There are other motifs - ask Chile, ask Afghanistan, or Grenada).
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  25. Have Jewish people been shot recently, or stabbed in the streets ? - Oh, there have been nasty comments on social media. (That might lead in some cases to very nasty or harmful actions, but perspective please). May pokes the Russian Bear like that is a game, the NHS goes down the drain, Brexit is a mess - and THAT is the main issue. Really ? The Holocaust is long over folks, get a grip.
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  26. QE For The People - MMT Stephanie Kelton interview with Democracy@Work. - or positivemoney(dot).org
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  27. Rwanda was a (late) humanitarian interventions, there the empire (USA) and the aspiring empires (UK France) had little interest. Which is why the massacres were allowed to happen (the French had intelligence about brewing troubles). . No one could be bothered then until there was an international outcry. So I guess they figured out if they wanted to have "humanitarian intervention" as pretext for future wars ** they needed to do something (late - but something). This was an UN mission AND it was not that hard to do, the murders were done with machetes, the groups did not have access to modern firearms. So that was a "cheap" victory considering it created a precedent for a "humanitarian interventions"** that would be useful to influence public mood (remember the incubator lie, "testimony" of the daugther of the Kuwaiti ambassador, who claimed that she had worked in a hospital then. Actually she was in a school in Canada at that time. That changed the mood in the US to pro war in the first war of the US against Iraq in the 1990s. ** Because the pictures and stories of Rwanda were so ugly and had been widely reported on. Not every civilian tragedy "deserves" that attention, the people of Yemen being bombed * and at the brink of starvation is gladly ignored by the faux-outrage-media. * Larry Wilkerson: the Saudi army is poorly trained, their airforce drops the bombs from high up, they are afraid to be shot down from the ground. So they just drop bombs from high altitude, meaning they of course kill even more civilians than would be normal in such airstrikes. No targeting whatsoever.
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  28. The OPCW was about to TAKE UP their work LAST weekend, the weekend the US / NATO absolutely "needed" to bomb. - Hint: Syria will be there in 2 weeks or 3 months if you MUST bomb them (killing more people, to "punish" Assad who is doing just fine - can somone explain me the logic behind that). - but facts and investigations are overrated. And May needed to get the bombing done quickly. On Monday Parliament was coming back from Easter break. There was NO WAY anybody (and that includes the spy agencies) could know what was going on. If the spy agencies have mules or double agents - these people can be deceptive towards the Western side as well (and they are not going to have many mules there , it is very dangerous. The rebels also do not let the citizens travel freely, they are not allowe to flee from an area, when the government army attacks the rebels. They are forced to stay in the area. (In Eastern Aleppeo the rebels would rather amputate than allow civilians to go to the other side of the city where the government was in charge and there was better medical care possible. . So it was not so easy to place a mule in an area that was held by the Islamists. (I think now the Islamists are are pretty much done, they have to give up, which I think drives the neocons and the Israeli lobby crazy). Video evidence can be manipulated, or it is from another event (country, time), same is true for photos, let alone tweets. The people, especially "first responders", alledged or real medical staff - circulating the photos might have an agenda. They are for sure friendly with / obedient to the jihadists or they could not have lived in the area. That is also true for the White Helmets.It is no coincidence that they ONLY operate in areas held by the Islamists. And whatever might be the stance of a man (no woman in these groups) they are either complicit with the agenda of the jihadists or at the very minimum they shut up. (Can you imagine what would happen to a person - or their family - if their mobile phone is confiscated for some reason and they detect messages that are against their interest of the Islamists. I mean they lash women for not covering up or wearing nail polish. There is a good reason no Western journalist OR any independent NGO (Red Cross, Red Crescent; Doctors w/o borders is there). If the Red Cross for instance would confirm things that would be another matter. And these poisoning events (or alleged events) have a nasty habit of coming up WHEN the rebels are losing, and /or peace talks are around the corner. Especially !!! when the Trump admin or Trump himself panic the war mongers by announcing that the US will disengage from Syria (was the case in April 2017 and again in 2018). Boom. Another social media storm "confirming" use of chemical weapons. And claiming "done by the Syrian government". (Peter Ford former British ambassador to Syria said last year (paraphrased): Not convinced at all, we need to have a proper investigation, and we need to WAIT for the results. Assad had nothing to gain but a lot to lose by using chemicals weapons. The rebels on the other hand could only win, and the grandstanding US / NATO states are not going to hold them accountable. How could they if - IF - they had the intention? These militant groups form, break up, regroup under other names, people desert, take government amnesties. Then he said: Mark my word, that attitude of the West * makes such attacks more likely. You heard me say it here: We have just given the jihadists 1000 reasons to commit such crimes. ( * to immediately and w/o investigation go after the Syrian government and take the CLAIMS of the rebels at face value and then shortly after respond with airstrikes) And how stupid does anyone think Assad is ? Never mind he owes the Russians - big time. And would bring THEM into troubles as well. BTW: Chinese navy joined the Russian navy in the region. Just for a demonstration that they are on Russia's side. It is almost as if the West is not really interested WHAT happened and WHO REALLY did it (politicians AND media) As if they are just waiting for a pretext, ANY pretext to have (limited) airstrikes against Syria. They cannot topple Assad, nor will they leave the country alone. Perpetual state of war suits some special interest just fine (and that could inlcude Israel). And there is an agenda against the allies of Syria (Russia, but also Iran has been on the hit list for the longest time). And if Trump strays from the war agenda (Assad must go, or having a lot of tensions between Russia and Europe !! and also Russia and U.S. ) there is even more reason to make Trump fall in line. (He looked defeated when he announced the US would react militarily, also in his body language. After he talked about the "succes" of the mission he was much more upbeat. Either mood swings - of he feared the weekend bombing would escalate. - So feared other people. - Weird if Trump might be the only person reasonable enough to be fearful. - Well this time we did not sleepwalk into a major war. See Gen. Wesely Clark 7 countries in 5 years
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  29. + Steve Burns - the allegations said CHLORINE gas - which is a widely available chemical (in Syria they traditionally use it when they wash the bodies of dead people and prepare them for burial). How is an airstrike supposed to help with that - if we assume the government or army wanted to use poison gas. Only recently there are also claims about traces of Sarin ?, well on the flip side - no substance of the Novichok group ("of the the kind developed by Russia"). Never mind the jihadists had kidnapped Alawites from a village, thinking they would make excellent human shield. These people were kept in cages and rolled around the city in cages. Well to be fair we need to wait for independent verification of these claims as well. But it seems that only a minor part of the kindnapped people were found alive after the town was taken over.
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  30. Israel shot missiles to Syria several times and killed either Syirian Shia muslim or Iranian soldiers. Syria - you know a FOREIGN country where Russia and Iran on the invitation of the Syrian government fight against rebels and lots of foreign jihadists, incl. ISIS, alQaeda. We know of course that Israel is ONE of the nations that supports those jihadists covertly. But they also directely attack a foreign nation to stick it to Iran (and they did that some weeks ago and also very recently. There is talk that the Israeli used "stolen" US air identification and then flew some attacks in Syrian airspace (the example was: stealing a license plate, using it while committing crimes then giving it back w/o the rightful owner of the plate noticing). For attacking Syrian government soldiers, maybe even Russian soldiers. Which might in the future undermine the safety of U.S. troops operating there against the jihadists (basically in cooperation with Russia)
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  31. So Corbyn doesn't remember the details (and the newspaper - Daily Mail I think - manipulated the photos to conflate events and graves !) - well he has been busy in the last 4 years, hasn't he. Likely laid down more than one wreath. And the Jewish press and those councils are a) likely used by the state of Israeal to influence public opinion and b) they need to justify their existence. I mean there are not that many Jewish people in the UK.
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  32. (3) Internationally diversified ndustrial mass productition makes our current technology and multitude of products and Western standard of living possible - and it rose in tandem with Capitalism.
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  33. So ... membership has shot up .... glad to hear that. - I think most people are "selfish" - they are mostly interested in what is going on IN THEIR country. So they are going to shove the "wreath" event * and "anti semitism the 137th" aside and look at what REALLY impacts their life. Let: see Brexit, Brexit, Brexit, NHS and social services, heat wave indicating what is in store regarding climate change, zero hour contracts and exploding rents, no wage growth (adjusted for inflation) - but we are told that the economy is booming and unemployment is low (depends on how you define "employed"). * I mean it could be that in 2014 he thought (and trusted the Arabic speaking organizers) that this was going to be about the 1985 victims of the Israeli attack - and it likely was. he may wish now he had stayed in the hotel - lol. Anyway: compare that with being on the right side of the Iraq war. Or the ONLY official voice of reason regarding the Skripal affair. Remember early on when May, BoJo etc. all "knew" right away that it was the Russian government - burning AlL diplomatic bridges. Well the story fell apart after that , it got weirder by the day. (I heard a recent informal polling in Salisbury. people do not know WHAT happened. it MIGHT even have been the Russian government. One thing is sure: they do not believe the official version). The only politician that had the good sense that as PM even if you suspect that Russia (the government) "dune it" - you leave yourself some room to backpaddle without losing face if the upcoming !! investigation shows contradictory evidence. The NHS was one of the most cost-efficient systems in the world, certainly compared to all wealthy European nations. And THEN the tories started over the course of 10 years to cut the already lean budget, running it into the ground - so that they could sell privatization as "solution" to the voters. Their buddies would love that. And after all the banksters had been bailed out, austerity (only for the citizens !) and tax cuts for the rich had the debts and deficits exploding - there was a gap so they were "forced" to defund the NHS. While the Blairites could not be bothered to scream bloody murder. So who again was on the right side of the argument (recently the Tories came up with a plan for the NHS, too little too late - but even that is ONLY because of the pressure of Labour under corbyn). Compare having a functional PROPERLY FUNDED NHS to whether or not Corbyn had a gaffe in 2014 in Tunis when he was a backbencher.
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  34. Don't you wish that Corbyn stepped down ! the Tories are a mess, Brexit is a mess. but keep going on, I think overusing the Holocaust and Antisemitism card annoys even people who are NOT fans of Labour or Corbyn.
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  35. Privatization in a Brexit damaged UK could be very lucrative. The City fears Corbyn, too. And he is critical of Israel. The Blairites, the Tories AND the media do not want to debate him / Labour on the issues. "He is unelectable and wears bad suits" has worn out - alleged treason and KGB collusion did not stick (even the BBC did not give them a pass on those unsubstantiated accusations = libel. The IRA contacts he had do not change people's opinion, they either reject him because of it or not - but it is settled. His enemies cannot make points with that. he did not cheat regarding his expenses (on the contrary he has among the lowest expenses). So no fodder for a smear campaign either. No sex scandals, no bribes. And he does well with young people, who do not react to IRA or KGB allegations. ...so "antisemitism" is the only thing left to hype up.
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  36. Harry Belafonte wrecks the Establishment youtube.com/watch?v=IorYytqdjLw - highly recommended to watch - 15 minutes. I knew him only as singer, didn't know Belafonte was a close cofidante of Dr. King. He was in good shape then in 2005 (still was last year given the old age), eloquent, good storyteller, VERY honest about the Democratic Party. And Senator Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on the stage seatd to the left and the right - it didn't help though they didn't listen. P.S. I do not think they invited him again the next year. It was a townhall on black poverty.
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  37. So Jimmy Wales is a pro Israel, neoliberal Blairite - and dismisses complaints about the shenanigans of operation "Philip Cross" - go figure.
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  38. I read that Mogg campaigned with his former nanny (going door to door). - Because she would know how to talk to the "commoners". And unfortunately he needed the votes of said commoners and had to give a "folksy" performance - with the help of nanny. Mogg has the same half baked economic ideas (harmful to the regular people) like all the tories plus the burden of his upbringing. He could be a harmless toff - ideally he would enjoy his riches and privileges and engage in some charity work, or be a gentleman academic. But no way someone of his mindset can represent The People. I mean FDR was also from a rich and well connected family, and HE did a lot for the little people in the U.S. - but Mogg is no FDR. FDR had a lot of resistance in the Democratic Party. But this campaign was during 1932, when the Great Depression had ravaged the U.S., 1 million people had joined the unions in 1932 (that had been beaten down - once more - in the 1920s), strikes and demonstrations everywhere. And the Russian Revolution was still present in public awareness, it had happened in 1917, that the Russian dictatorship was toppled, aristocrats and rich people had been dispossessed or feared that to happen. The fledgeling democracy was quickly taken over by the Bolshevics (which then killed the czar and his family which had been under house arrest). A civil war had been going on in Russia (needless to say the U.S., UK, France took sides, and Japan joined too - which indirectly might have helped the Bolshevics the most militant group among the revolutionaries and with talented if ruthless leaders). So enough Democratic representatives in the U.S. in 1933 (most of them wealthy and still doing fine) were scared enough of the pitchforks that could come for them too - and they went along. Plus FDR had the personality to make them fall in line. His unheard of programs: no austerity - in the middle of the crisis unemployment and retirement payments were INTRODUCED, the government created millions of jobs, and they paid for it with taxes on the wealthy and the rich).
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  39. The last scandal was that Corbyn went to an antisemitic Passover ! (for real, they were young Jews and many critical of Israel)
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  40. The Saudis violated a cultural taboo. If they so brazenly kill a well connected journalist (Washington Post - and the man was thick with the former Saudi elites and helped to send the foreign ! "freedom fighters" to Afghanistan to fight against the Soviets - for the jihad. One of one was of course Osama Bin Laden although I do not know if Khashoggie sent him, OBL was from a very rich Saudi family (friendly with the Bush family). In short Khashoggi likely also had in the past at least ties to the CIA or the U.S. military. and the Saudis butcher him up - almost like in broad daylight. If they are willing to be so brazen about it, people working IN Saudi Arabia (Westeners) are not safe, and they would likely be used as hostages if there was ever a crisis. Western companies will have a hard time finding people willing to work in the country (engineers, architects, doctors). They will at the minimum have to pay more. They Saudis not so long ago kidnapped a Lebanese politican - althoug I think he was released. No one batted an eye in the West. And MBS had other members of the Saudi upper class lured into a hotel, they were held for weeks, ? tortured, someone died in a helicopter accident maybe trying to flee the country. After some weeks they "agreed" to pay a lot of money.
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  41. 6:30 Michelle Wolf gave it to the so called liberal press and the "establishment" on both sides - you bet they are not going to hire her again. The jokes about Sarah were no highlight, but she was not vulgar - she took no prisoners that's for sure. - I misheard the "burning the faCtS" first (I took it initially as " burning the fat for the smokey eye" now that would have been really cheap, but on reading the transcript, no that is not what she said, her delivery was not good on that - well not really good in general. But big points for telling them like it is.
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  42. Maybe Gorbachev intended to profit financially (Jeltsin did) - maybe he really wanted to do right by his country. I assume enough of the less ideological leaderhsip in the Polit Bureau recognized 2 truths about capitalism. It can produce a multitude of things efficiently to (which CAN be used by a wise government to provide for the needs of a population) (3) and it makes a few people very rich. The elites in the S.U. were more equal than their fellow citizens but it was frowned upon to parade you wealth openly. And their privileges and riches were VERY limited compared to the ruling class in the West. So if they gave up on the ideology of the Soviet economic model the Stalinistic form of STATE CAPITALISM - they for sure could get very, very rich.
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  43. I am reading comments before listening - they changed the Finance Minister (Savona an old gentleman btw 84 years if memory serves) that the president did not like and chose someone else. So now they have a government. And Savona gets an advisory role or something. - If he is an EURO sceptic he is right on - to quote Heiner Flassbeck: "A currency should fit an economy like a taillored suit." A currency that is used by Germany, Greece and Italy cannot fit all of them. - It is more one-size-fits-no-one.
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  44. Corbyn just needs to STOP DEFENDING himself or Labour from the claim of anti-semitism. It is not possible to convince these people - they do not believe the claim in the first place. (and no one in their right mind thinks Anti-Semitism is a major problem in the UK or the Labour party - people are dying because of an underfunded NHS ! They become homeless, they die as soldiers - and they want to come up with Anti-Semitism ? ??? - If the Muslim community was complaining - they would have a point. Not that it would be THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE - but they have some grievances. Some Polish folks had do face some hostility (verbally).
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  45. (3) Capitalism is the method how to finance industrial mass production and WHO finances it - and benefits the most. (the relatively few who have capital or access to capital). Plus: In Capitalism a very small number of owners resp. their management make all relevant economic decisions (even if they have a major impact on workers AND the community) and reap most of the surplus. This hierachial top down approach does not only relate to daily business where it is necessary for pragmatic reasons, but to impactful decisions that deeply affect all the people that help to make the product or service: Like: Do we fire a lot of poeple, do we outsource, do we pollute in order to increase profits/surplus, dot we buy another company or open another site etc. The Soviet / Stalinistic economic system was Capitalistc too - STATE CAPITALISM (Lenin called it that and he was correct, Stalin glossed over that, he declared with what they had in the 1920s the goals of the revolution were achieved. The Marxian economy ideas allegedly were applied. They had to make some tweaks, but apart from that they were finished. And that system stayed in place until he 1990s.
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  46. FDR in 1933 (he reigned in the banksters and the rich and still profitable businesses had to pay much higher taxes *): I welcome their hatred.
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  47. 5:25 the bloke wants to become PM - maybe he though talking folksy like Boris Johnson would earn him some points ? - well it backfired.
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  48. Larry Wilkerson * on TheReal News: Bibi Netanyahu wants to fight Iran (and Syria) till the last drop of blood - of U.S. soldiers. * he appears often - highly recommended. But KSA is equally fierce - and could not get it done on their own either.
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  49. 2 years after the Yugoslavian war started there came a documentary on German publicly funded TV "It started with a lie". Germany was essential for the U.S. to get the bombing of Serbia through - and somehow the faux left-green coaltion (new in power) could be "convinced" to lie to a very, very sceptical German public. They had to make up the lie about Auschwitz style concentration camps, and while all sides committed transgressions and even atrocities - only those of Serbia were reported on (the other events that happened got a line below the fold). Germany should have pushed for diplomacy, real hard - Yugoslavia had economic troubles, that played into the agenda of right wing nationalists (in ALL groups). The regions that were doing somewhat better did not want to continue with a transfer to the poor regions. (Every nations has areas that are more rural, do not have tourism or attract big industries, or they do not have the topography or agriculture is harder - mountains, drier, etc.). In YU after the help of the Soviet Union vanished there was not enough left to spead out - THAT problem could have been solved with European solidarity - and cheaper than with war and following "peace keeping missions". After Serbian civilians were bombed and killed the crazies took over (on all sides) - then the atrocities became more common (some of it in retaliation) - as U.S. militaires had warned. With more vioence and outright war the moderates are sidelined and the most militant people get the megaphone. And the U.S. sending JIHADISTS from Afghanistan over to Yugoslavia did not help either.
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  50. Iraq and Afghanistan were and are a complete desaster for the countries. The war in Afghanistan was prepared in summer 2001 btw - 9/11 was just a convenient excuse. That is why that war could start so quickly. Afghani women do not have much more freedom than under the Taliban - if a country is poor, in combat all the time (or under threat) that does not promote the liberal, progressive and moderate forces of society. Bad times for the weak the females and the children. Iraq war was then sold to the U.S. voters for 1 years from 2002 on - with lies. The UN weapons inspectors hindered and bullied by the U.S. Iraq was poisoned with depleted Uranium ammunition. The "liberation" cost 500,000 people's life. And of course they still have crooks in charge - just other crooks. They could not even contain AlQaeda and its off-spin ISIS. The U.S. trained and equipped army fled when ISIS attacked them. They did not even try to fight them (a relatively small group of jihadists). Does that sound like a success story to you ? The terrorist could hold a part of the country occupied until recently when the U.S. levelled some cities into the ground - never mind the fate of the unfortunate civilians there.
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