Comments by "Xyz Same" (@xyzsame4081) on "Daily Mail World" channel.

  1. +AntPDC I dug into the news and independent media in the last years - and CONTINUED to be shocked. To quote a commenter from former Eastern Germany: We at least knew that we were being lied to in the news(people from that region are skilled in reading between the lines, they did read the newspapers, they just did not believe everything). There will be bias, journalists do shoddy work, have to obey the interest of whoever owns the place. But sureley if they ALL sing the same tune, it must mean something ?? !! No - it is surprising and shocking and unsettling - NO it does not mean anything - the influence of the deep state is huge. And the politicians in the EU are spineless, or psychopathic, open for blackmail *, opportunistic or cluelees (you can freely combine those traits). Needless to say the media follows them. We get more useful political insights from comedians than from the news. * Remember when the Snowden leaks revealed that the NSA had hacked the private phone of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel. And spied within buildings of the EU. The German government LIED to the citizens regarding the Yugoslavian war in the 90s (imminent danger of genocide). We know NOW that was complete rubbish (intelligence from one actor - it was the test case for WMDs). I do not think the German government was deceived for one moment( so it begs the question if the US had something to make them fall in line). They just needed something in the files for plausible deniablilty. (We were stupid and completely unprofessional to accept such "intelligence" but we did not lie about war - that would bring them into prison). So Billl Clinton got his war too, the Serbians were bombed. And with that any moderate on any side in the Civil war and conflict was silenced and the crazies on all sides took over. (As an US general had warned would happen if the West would start bombing. THEN eventually the atrocities became widespread the West - allegedly - feared would happen). The CIA has been paying thousands of journalists over the decades - to influence public opinion. (The CIA and the media: Carl Bernstein). They pay now the Washington Post. When Dick Cheney, GWB and Tony Blair wanted their war there were few dissenters in the media (with a good platform). And they were sacked. Phil Donahue or Chris Hedges, also some higher ups in the BBC. That silenced the other few people who would be in a position to influence public opinion AND who have enough of a following AND who still have a conscience. Only 4 - 5 news agencies (AP, Reuters, AFP, ...) control the delivery of "facts" to the mainstream media (the gatekeepers of the gatekeepers). If I was the CIA I would undermine them. (This has to be done subtley but not covering something by them has enormous power) 5 - 6 large US media corps dominate the news market, they are for profit, they are pro rich people who have interests that usually do not align with the interests of the regular folks And - these rich people (and hardly any politicians) do not serve in the military. War is lucrative (ratings, and the owners are likely invested in the the military industrial complex). They get ads from the contractors - and even from the Pentagon. Their journalists doing Court reporting preserves their "access" to the high and mighty - it makes work easier (and cheaper). And politicians owe the owners of the newspapers favours. Not necessarily any specific quid pro quo - a general climate of mutual benevolence. It would be uncouth to oppose the other side. These people - the politicians and the media bosses (and higher managment and top journalists are also allowed if they behave nicely) - meet each other at the cocktail parties. Mark Blyth, economist (another recommendation) : the leaked DNC mails (Podesta emails) were searched for location that was mentioned the most: Martha's Vineyard, and I think the Hamptons. ....nuff said. I highly recommend to listen to Larry Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Colin Powell, he has regular appearances on The Real News. April 2017: Wilkerson: most of my sources ! do not think Assad ordered a poison gas attack. I haven't heard him yet on this incident (April 2018) - but no doubt he is not buying it now either. NOT without independent investigation. (His boss appeared before the UN and lied the country into a war (or was convinced/pressured into not opposing the war. If Colin Powell had opposed the war publicly - after resigning that could really have derailed the war agenda). Wilkerson was briefed by the CIA to inform Powell about the "fact" that Saddam Hussein had WMDs. - And later there were the torture cases (we have not seen and heard the worst - according to Wilkerson. Obama classified most of it). That catapulted him somewhat out of his loyaltiy to the military and the "system". And he is still pissed off. Which is extremely valuable because we can learn a lot from the perspective of an insider. Or listen to Ray McGovern, 30 years CIA, worked in the team that briefed presidents member of VIPS formed after the Iraq lies (Veteran intelligence P. for Sanity. I cannot recall what P stands for, the main thing is former spooks for SANITY). Ray is another one who is not buying the whole Syria narrative. Or the Russia/Ukraine narrative for that matter. (He speaks Russian, during the Vietnam war he was repsonsible for covering the Soviet Union aspect.
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  2. + AntPDC The UN investigators arrived on Thursday and Friday last week. On Saturday the West "absolutely needed" to bomb. On the very weekend the UN wanted to pick up work. Apart from the logic to bomb Syria and kill even more people (soldiers and civilians) to "punish" Assad (who is safe with his family). - Couldn't they have waited at least for EVIDENCE and INDEPENDENT ASSESSMENT. US / NATO do NOT want to prevent harm - it could not be more obvious. And they ALSO are not interested in facts. So what is this all about ? last year there was a claim that a bomb had been dropped by a plane (that is important because the rebels did not have planes). There was a piece of metal that allegedly was the evidence for that. Well, Theodore Postol of MIT did not agree. There is another "expert" (I think he does not even have the academic pedigree) who didsagreed with Postol - so HIS opinion was cited all over in mainstream medai - and not that of the MIT guy. Funny how that works.
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  3. AntPDC - RT has an agenda - but their reporting is better than that of the mainstream media. And sometimes they just SHOW clips (not an interview not their reproting). Like the nun from Argentine who did speeches about her time in Syria (it was on a Vatican fan youtube channel). That woman had no political agenda, and was not doing that for RT but likely in Argentine. But what she said backed up their narrative. I started reasearching after dissenting missionaries caught my attention. (What they said did not match at all what we heard in the news about Syria). RT has good people (a lot of folks that were weeded out from mainstream media for having integrity). I also came accross clips of Christians missionaries and nuns and monks from Europe, the UK or Argentine - who lived in the country, spoke Arab, had contact with locals. And these clips were only featured on RT. They support the story that the uprising in 2011 was immediately taken over by armed and violent men. or that member of their church were brutally murdered and found with signs (dirty Christian) when the protests started. Syria has many confessions incl. a well established Christian community. These things were unusual for Syria. And another nun, Mother Agnes Mariam (who is featured on RT but never elsewhere) said folks from her parish told her that strangers came ithe rural areas (also in those where the grisly murders happened). These men spoke another dialect so they could hear they were not from Syria. We do not hear those voices on the mainstream media. And since these are people from our culture they are not that much entangled in tribal loyalties (So a monk from the Netherlands, a nun from Poland or Argentine) might be more neutral than someone from Syria who could have prejudices against a part of the Syrian population or political class.
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  4. The Mogg will be the same if not worse. There is an interview of him when he was 11 or 12 years old. listen to it.
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  5. Last time I checked the UK was a DEMOCRACY - no one needs to "get rid" of Corbyn - your ilk just have to make the case to the regular people (and that includes small business owners) why YOUR leadership and your economic and foreign policy ideas are better. Unfortunately for you the unwashed masses have the vote ! And give me a break: the Tories AND the Blairites were all for Big Biz and for Big Finance, no care for the regular people, and no care for the small businesses either (ask British fishers). To the point that they looked the other way during the build up of the financial crisis (not only US financial institutions were reckless). Small businesses DO pay taxes. Big biz and Big finance ? Not so much. And WHO enabled them ? Small businesses in many cases serve consumers - more disposable consumer income will help them (more job security, , deal with high debt levels for education, less money goes to private landlords = more money to spend elsewhere). New ideas to make capital available for small biz. See Stephanie Kelton, Deficit Owl speech, also the interview which she gave to Democracy@Work - in that she also touches on QE for the People, I recommend that for people who do not know about Modern Monetary Theory - no need to get distracted by the terminology, she keeps it very understandable.
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  6. the Tories CUT the system with the LEANEST BUDGET in Europe. UK spends the least of all wealthy European countries per capita. (Germany 5,600, UK 3,900 , Norway 8000ish, U.S. 9,200 !! Switzerland 9,600, most are in the 5, - 6k range) Healthcare expenditures per capita in USD, World Bank 2014, I know those numbers by heart - you get the idea. "Wealthy" is important: living costs and wages influence the costs of healthcare. I also looks like the moment a system is private (CH, U.S.) or has even a 2 tier set-up it gets more expensive (paper shufflers, dysfunctional incentives, etc.) Australia has 6,000 for instance.
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  7. Labour: The summer that changed everything - go to 30 :00 - 4 MPs filmed when the spruprisingly good results in June 2017 were announced - ONE was pleasantly surprised. Especially Stephen Kinnock could not muster a smile if his lefe depneded on it. Lucy Powell resorted to exclamations of surprise - but no smile either, and then was busy calculating seats and speculating about May stepping down. youtube.com/watch?v=sWnIpHAHaaE&t=1877s
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  8. Pray what does "get rid off" mean ? Like they got rid of Dr. King (see his speech in the Riverside church in 1967 against the Vietnam war before that was popular, he also wanted to start an initiative, a War on poverty - poverty of ALL races. The FBI removed his protections, a few months later he was shot). Or like they got rid of Robert Kennedy ? Or JFK ? - or less bloody when the CIA helped Reagan (during the presidential race against president Carter) to convince the Ayatollahs or Iran to keep the U.S. embassy hostages longer - because their release would likely improve the chances of the sitting president Carter to get reelected ? And there are suggestions the CIA also interfered with the reelection of left PMs in the UK and Australia in the 1970s. I read also a comment about a very progressive NATO critical PM of NZ - the comment suggested he was "heart attacked" - I did not check that out - but if someone wants to follow that hint......
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  9. Healthcare is 8 -10 % of the GDP of wealthy nations (the private U.S. system 17 % = world record in inefficiency) - If that sector is heavily leaning towards NON-POFIT and for the common good - then the "landlord" and "rentier" class and the investors cannot make much profit from it. The NHS in former times was off limits for the "investors". As that exchange shows - an attempt to privatize is the driver behind all the "restructuring" There have been PFIs, partial privatizations, outsourcing, contracting etc. rammed through. They make things more complicated, expensive !! (but with profits for some) and inefficient. Internal "markets" cost more than they could ever provide in efficiency gains.
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  10. His one vote will not be missed - lol - and that really, really annoys him.
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  11. DA ignored evidence regarding Weinstein (an acress brought a recording), when that came out later Cuomo was "outraged" and promised an investigation. Which was dropped ... the law firm that had represented Weinstein had donated 25,000. - is that the first installment or is Cuomo really that cheap !
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