I'm listening to NPR. Why am I hearing a totally false fabricated story about Ukraine?

bobwjr comments on Nov 13, 2019:

Good question,though most news isn't bad,excluding Fox, but npr is good

William_Mary replies on Nov 13, 2019:

No, it isn't. NPR is a mouth piece for the establishment 90% of the time. Fox even helps to fund them. As do, if not all, most of the 6 own news corporations who manage the perception and narratives of the fake news we get from them.

I'm listening to NPR. Why am I hearing a totally false fabricated story about Ukraine?

Piece2YourPuzzle comments on Nov 13, 2019:

What story was that?

William_Mary replies on Nov 13, 2019:

Russians invaded Ukraine. Russians invaded Crimea. Russians shot down an airliner. Russians interfered with the 2016 elections. None of those have been proven to the absolute, and each have had better oppositional questions raised to them through alternative sources with more likely outcomes with investigative means and science through technology.

I'm listening to NPR. Why am I hearing a totally false fabricated story about Ukraine?

Cutiebeauty comments on Nov 13, 2019:

What's false about the Ukrainian story?

William_Mary replies on Nov 13, 2019:

Russians invaded Ukraine. Russians invaded Crimea. Russians shot down an airliner. Russians interfered with the 2016 elections. None of those have been proven to the absolute, and each have had better oppositional questions raised to them through alternative sources with more likely outcomes with investigative means and science through technology. I've covered each and everyone of these issues along with a few others here who have come to the same conclusion.

Democratic Socialists of America “International Committee” denounces “reckless” withdrawal ...

SiouxcitySue comments on Nov 11, 2019:

How is change in the democratic party a bad thing? Or in the republican party for that matter?

William_Mary replies on Nov 12, 2019:

@SiouxcitySue it depends on what exactly you're willing to except as change. For 5 decades now we have heard about change in the democrat party. It's changed! Moving to the right so much now it is the right. Blue Dog democrats have turned everyone and anyone in that party into republicans. Least a handful of self described progressives who I personally find to be a facade. Half of them aligned with the DSA. Another facade. What isn't going on in that party today, making news daily like it was. For weeks and weeks they were daily propped up and stood forth like the good puppets they are. The Squad! Crickets! They don't measure up to a peep today. Now and then AOC gets a tough question acknowledges in the media in hearings. Another facade that's going to go nowhere. If you're a republican supporter, just be happy! You've won! You now own both parties! Maybe this will help The Democratic Socialists of America Convention: A marketing gimmick for the Democratic Party https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/30/dsac-a30.html

Corbyn’s right to ‘take on the billionaires’.

altschmerz comments on Nov 11, 2019:

A friend of mine, who is/was a CEO in multiple companies and has lived all over the world, posted this on Facebook: [poem]There’s only one reason Boris Johnson will remain in power, it’s Jeremy Corbyn! For the US, please substitute the names to Donald Trump and Elizabeth Warren / Bernie ...

William_Mary replies on Nov 12, 2019:

@altschmerz there's still a part of me that wants to believe in him :-( But the pain from 2016 still feels like the knife is in my back. The only thing to remove it is if he speaks 2016 and takes responsibility for his actions and words since. But I know he's never going to unleash the tongue lashing the establishment deserves.

US Congressional Panel Plots Next Phase of Dirty War on Syria: Occupy Oil Fields & Block ...

Piece2YourPuzzle comments on Nov 11, 2019:

I like how there are so many terrorists and we need to be shitting in our pants, but there was 1 major "terrorist" attack in the last 20 years in America. I guess they forgot how to get here. The next time there is a terrorist attack in America I'm sure it will only be when it supports American ...

William_Mary replies on Nov 12, 2019:

If I may? We have plenty of terrorist attacks. They just don't come from another country today. They come from within from a certain type of non color people. Can I get a "Heil"?

Corbyn’s right to ‘take on the billionaires’.

altschmerz comments on Nov 11, 2019:

A friend of mine, who is/was a CEO in multiple companies and has lived all over the world, posted this on Facebook: [poem]There’s only one reason Boris Johnson will remain in power, it’s Jeremy Corbyn! For the US, please substitute the names to Donald Trump and Elizabeth Warren / Bernie ...

William_Mary replies on Nov 12, 2019:

I nearly unfriended him. 🤣 Warren is iffy. Sanders I think could pull it off. I believe it's just a matter if time before Warren shows her true colors. She's going to go to the suits eventually. I'm just waiting now for the curtain to be drawn that exposes she's getting pac money through the back door now somehow like AOC was. Why? Because all those who were writing off big donors were having their campaigns blacklisted and denied vendors. Why isn't her campaign being blacklisted? I imagine it would create a major stir if they did that to her and Sanders, but if all reports are true about her and the Clinton tie it's just a matter of time for her to sell out. And she'll have a Clinton response for doing so that sounds plausible to her supporters. I really hope Sanders pulls it off. Because he'll end up showing himself to be just another Obama. And then there's no other way for people not to start seeing the truth other than simply being compliant with more bullshit excuses. With only 1 year left to go it's obvious there's still not enough people awake to the corrupt country we live in to actually be brave enough to want and fight for change like we see going on around the globe around us. We'd rather allow this ruling class and their capitalism to slowly kill us and the next couple of generations off while more people are forced into poverty and the streets. And dammed if it even means our own families.

Democratic Socialists of America “International Committee” denounces “reckless” withdrawal ...

GreenAtheist comments on Nov 11, 2019:

I am glad Dr Assad has preserved what is left of his father's country militarily.....defeating USA bankster zionist polluter oil war crime profiteering is a rare victory against fascism. ....Vietnam is still soaked with Agent Orange unexploded bombs and land mines....but finally they are free of ...

William_Mary replies on Nov 12, 2019:

I was leaning Hawkins until he started spouting off about Russia propaganda. Directly attacking RT America. Yet he appeared on On Contact a while back with Chris Hedges and never mentioned a word about this. It would have been interesting to see the response from Hedges had Hawkins done so. I watch RT quite often and never get a sense of propaganda leaning towards any favor ability to be directed into a perception of Russia over America in any means of right or wrong. What I do get though is a diverse set of programs of American journalist and reporters who provide a staunchly more factual report and coverage of events. The Rick Sanchez Show actually has investigative journalist who travel the world to provide information for his nightly reports. Covering different issues you don't see on MSM. Unlike all other MSM outlets who's desk reporters typically rely on the work of other journalist who all use repetitive narrative each night covering the same crap each night for days to weeks. You can spend 4 to 5 hours a night on MSNBC, for example, and all 4 to 5 hourly shows are repeating the same perception management with the same agenda narrative management. The difference between Sanchez and MSNBC is like night and day. Sanchez providing the light within the rabbit hole MSNBC pulls its watchers into. RT's daily news covers events around the world to the likes of which you'll never get from our MSM without a mention of American news. They also have a weekend news that repeats every few hours and special documentary type like hours of quite import going on's of various people world wide that I've never seen our news programs do in my life time. It's essentially like the history channel without the narrative and perception management. Raw footage without an agenda. The only sense of propaganda one could come out with from the shows from RT are from the actual people doing the shows that admittedly describe to the viewers their content isn't like the other news you get from MSM. Rick Sanchez's moto is actually, "lets do news again". They've all gotten together and did a small advertising skit to that narrative denouncing the fake news we get from MSM that plays between shows. It has nothing to do with Russia. In the video when talking about elections he doesn't bring up purging!?! Which Greg Palast has exposed by the republicans. Or what happened in 2016 by the DNC and Clinton's campaign!?! Or how the NSA has the ability to catch all this other interference of the countries he mentioned, but don't. Or provide the proof when they claim they do. This is scary to me and gives me great pause. I have to give him a lot more thought now! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xZZTlzThTo

Cable News in Glare of Its Own Russiagate Gaslight James Howard Kunstler wonders if there is any ...

DenoPenno comments on Nov 3, 2019:

I'm sure there is a major shift coming up and those in power on both sides do not want to deal with it. Obama and Hillary are not brought up because neither of them are in power right now. Bringing them up is distraction and disinformation. Apples and oranges that Trump hopes you will be concerned ...

William_Mary replies on Nov 10, 2019:

@DenoPenno {You seem to be falling for the same distraction and disinformation as everyone else.} No, I want Biden to pay for what he helped to do to that country along with all the rest that collaborated in the murders and genocides. I want Obama to especially be held accountable! I want the truth of Russia involvement to be publicly acknowledged over the fake media using them as a fear factor. I want it to lead back to the 2016 primary where the DNC and Clinton got away with totally destroying what was left of democracy. I want Seth Rich's murderer and those in that conspiracy to be held accountable. I want Julian Assange freed over the false narrative he's in prison for before they kill him. Preferably before he loses his mind and ability to become healthy again. If you were to take the time to watch the video I post today of Aaron Mate's discussion with his father Gabor Mate, Mr. Mate explains how fear is used against us through propaganda. That discussion is a tool towards enlightenment on a few aspects.

On Contact: Resistance & the left with Paul Street Journalist Chris Hedges talks to author and ...

altschmerz comments on Nov 10, 2019:

Not quite the same level of discourse here, but cartoonist Ted Rall says something similar: https://rall.com/2019/11/07/for-progressives-capturing-the-democratic-party-is-more-important-than-beating-donald-trump I sent it via PM to a Facebook friend. Not going to bother to post it on Facebook ...

William_Mary replies on Nov 10, 2019:

{Progressives account for 72% of Democratic voters.} I'm curious to whether that number is figuring in Independent voters in the general election. In 2016 the numbers were 26R 26D 48I. Many states with different laws oppressing Independents from participating in their primaries. But that's roughly 74% of voters who share basically, closely, the same political ideology that can be worked on together. That's enough of the population to carry a 3rd party behind a united front against the ruling class parties.

Cable News in Glare of Its Own Russiagate Gaslight James Howard Kunstler wonders if there is any ...

DenoPenno comments on Nov 3, 2019:

I'm sure there is a major shift coming up and those in power on both sides do not want to deal with it. Obama and Hillary are not brought up because neither of them are in power right now. Bringing them up is distraction and disinformation. Apples and oranges that Trump hopes you will be concerned ...

William_Mary replies on Nov 10, 2019:

@DenoPenno well the Ukraine shit is all bullshit. I can think of reasons each president should have been hauled out of the white house since Reagan. Which leads right back to the Ukraine bullshit. They have all broken the law, ethical conduct rules of governing, committed crimes against society, and lied their way through all of it while congresses and senates have played out numerous facades in investigative hearings. We have no real sense of a government working for the people in any aspect! And your stuck on Trump. Their mission as far as direction has been accomplished. It's not about the LBGTQ society being large enough to secure an election. Or gun people of either side. It's about society as a whole who find common interest in how they want their society. As I stated in my last reply, the LBGTQ society vastly leans to the left supporting democrats. The problem with that is that there is no left, left anymore. The left started leaving during the Nixon era. By the time Bill Clinton was done the left was gone. The democratic party has retreated back to the days of their racist times joining the republican party against working class people also for the benefit of corporations and the ruling class. They don't care if they lose to Trump!!! I've been saying this since the 2016 primary when I realized Sanders was a con artist.

Cable News in Glare of Its Own Russiagate Gaslight James Howard Kunstler wonders if there is any ...

WayneDalton comments on Nov 3, 2019:

That is for a nonsense post😑

William_Mary replies on Nov 9, 2019:

That helps us understand so much. Thank you for that wonderful insight.

Cable News in Glare of Its Own Russiagate Gaslight James Howard Kunstler wonders if there is any ...

DenoPenno comments on Nov 3, 2019:

I'm sure there is a major shift coming up and those in power on both sides do not want to deal with it. Obama and Hillary are not brought up because neither of them are in power right now. Bringing them up is distraction and disinformation. Apples and oranges that Trump hopes you will be concerned ...

William_Mary replies on Nov 9, 2019:

@DenoPenno Trump isn't suppose to be the President today. All indications were that Hillary was going to win if you had listened to media and polls. But he miraculously managed to win the electoral collage, pulling it off at the end of the night, to everyone's unsuspected surprise. So at any given point the rules or party conduct can be changed, as we seen with the DNC, the delegates and collage can determine who wins within a blink of an eye. Why? Because it's all a scam. Why? Because you and I don't matter and don't get a count. Why? Because between the republican party and democratic party enough people are purged from the system to make it easier to take the obvious out of the equation. 2016 was the largest example of how both parties managed to chose their primary candidates against all odds to show every American that the voting system we have is simply one major joke. It now has neon lights all around it that spell out suckers. I don't understand where you're trying to go with the LGBTQ statement. As stated it makes no sense. All I can give you is that the majority tend to vote democrat. Are you attempting to claim they are changing for some reason or leading to making that a point? Sames as with guns. Guns are a party issue, what is it you're attempting to say to me. The only issue with guns is within the democratic party supporters. Those that want guns take away and those that request better background checks. I think its safe to say most republicans support the false narrative of the 2nd amendment and conditioned NRA agenda. I don't put much thought into the talk on what's going towards the predicted future by the media or even my own sources I trust knowing it's all conjecture until the bottom line has a period. Think for yourself using the information provided. Everyone has a projection towards conjecture. It's a lot more interesting when yours comes out being right or close to being right, than having discovered you been duped again by the perception management squad.

McConnell Brags He and Trump Are 'Changing the Federal Courts Forever' With Extreme Right-Wing ...

Haemish1 comments on Nov 6, 2019:

This is mostly Mitch McConnell’s doing. Ted Kennedy died early on in the Obama presidency and the Senate became controlled by the Republicans. Throughout that time McConnell opposed every judge that Obama put up for consideration.

William_Mary replies on Nov 8, 2019:

The first 2 years of the Obama administration he held the benefit of a 3 house democratic control. A lot can be done in those 2 years. Trump and McConnell have filled roughly 3/4 of those 260 some seats in a short time. Have you heard of any hearings on the appointments? Why not!

Cable News in Glare of Its Own Russiagate Gaslight James Howard Kunstler wonders if there is any ...

DenoPenno comments on Nov 3, 2019:

I'm sure there is a major shift coming up and those in power on both sides do not want to deal with it. Obama and Hillary are not brought up because neither of them are in power right now. Bringing them up is distraction and disinformation. Apples and oranges that Trump hopes you will be concerned ...

William_Mary replies on Nov 4, 2019:

@SiouxcitySue you just proved his point. Because I posted an article that doesn't favor your views doesn't mean I support Trump, or watch "faux" news. What it seems to mean though is that you're unwilling to explore or examine other evidence of foul play that goes against you views. Which in this group my goal here is to provide evidence on how both establishment parties work against us all with the help of main stream media. AND, seriously? Nancy Pelosi!?! One of the largest billionaires in DC, the war hawk who manages to keep us suppressed at all cost in aspects of social commitments while fawning over wall street. She's one of the biggest actors in DC, you put your trust in her?

the empire files_ From inside history's biggest empire: Files logged by Abby Martin recording a ...

DenoPenno comments on Nov 2, 2019:

If I support my 3rd party it means I vote Libertarian. This means I vote for exactly what Charles Koch and others want at this very time. Years ago the Libertarians were wanting to be known as Radical Republicans. Tactfully thy changed their name. Today they are the Radical Republicans that we have ...

William_Mary replies on Nov 3, 2019:

@DenoPenno that's where you lose in my opinion. It's the past politics that lead to today's policies. You're unable to recognize the relevance of both parties policies that lead to Trump. That's exactly why you're trapped in the rhetoric of getting rid of Trump rather than getting rid of the policies that created him. While you accuse me of me of losing talking points, you seem to be trapped in the same rhetoric of talking points provided by the other side of the media and establishment. While I instead recognize both sides and view the entire spectrum as a facade. Getting rid of Trump helps to do nothing to change policies that have been working to the benefit of the ruling class moving the country to the right since the Reagan era. If you can't recognize the relevance you're in the rabbit hole. Book are written by people who also have the same agenda as the main stream media. To manage perceptions, control narrative, condition the population. As with news it depends who's books you're reading. Although Jane Mayer may be a good resource, if you refuse to use her knowledge to connect the republican party to the Koch bothers, their past actions, what good does reading her book do for you. So which are you doing?

the empire files_ From inside history's biggest empire: Files logged by Abby Martin recording a ...

DenoPenno comments on Nov 2, 2019:

If I support my 3rd party it means I vote Libertarian. This means I vote for exactly what Charles Koch and others want at this very time. Years ago the Libertarians were wanting to be known as Radical Republicans. Tactfully thy changed their name. Today they are the Radical Republicans that we have ...

William_Mary replies on Nov 3, 2019:

@DenoPenno I personally wouldn't vote for a libertarian. Just another tea party under a different name that serves rhetoric lips service on a few issues they know will draw in certain types of voters. My response was geared more towards 3rd parties in general. I look towards the green and socialist equality parties when I vote. Democrats talk of LGBTQ are geared towards understanding that American's have changed towards being more acceptable to their rights to have the same rights within a more diverse society. But it's a facade just as with their talk towards the African American community. If you watched the 2nd video you would find that the Bill Clinton era was nothing of the sort in diversity, but attack. Let's not forget as I have pointed out in the past, the Clinton's not only by legislature brought a great deal of question to their African American relations in the 90's, but also played a role in the crack epidemic of the 80's. As a large amount of cocaine Oliver North was transporting to the US at one time came to Arkansas when he was governor. And as the beginning of this present primary was unfolding, Biden is the old dog of that era and was called out. Just as Hillary was in 2016, and on minimum wage. Who was against $15 an hour before she was for it. You might recall her sudden change of heart in a debate where she let that cat out of the hat from nowhere. Can I get a "lip service". As far as guns, until recently the most call from Americans has been for better background checks. I'm one of them. I own guns and have a CCW for within my state. But there are far way to many people out there with guns who should not be around them. The gun issue in government is being used to divide us though. Not for a means of common sense. And as it's used a amount of false narratives are used over common sense to prevent addressing the issue properly. And those most likely to commit a crime with a gun are those using the false narratives to keep representatives from being able to legislate properly. Falsely using the 2nd amendment, distorting it, for one, falsely claiming left leaning people have committed more mass shootings than their own right leaning supporters. Which is drastically disproved by statistics. Which is why Mary and I went and got our CCWs. I didn't get mine for another false narrative (terrorist) but because of them and the mentally challenged that shouldn't be allowed to own a gun, of any type. Then there's the entire NRA narrative which has changed from their original established founding decades ago. The other war on our representatives that only benefits the gun manufacturers. I say that loosely being I'm certain our representatives probably don't give a rats ass if we kill each other off. It actually benefits them and continues...

the empire files_ From inside history's biggest empire: Files logged by Abby Martin recording a ...

DenoPenno comments on Nov 2, 2019:

If I support my 3rd party it means I vote Libertarian. This means I vote for exactly what Charles Koch and others want at this very time. Years ago the Libertarians were wanting to be known as Radical Republicans. Tactfully thy changed their name. Today they are the Radical Republicans that we have ...

William_Mary replies on Nov 2, 2019:

It is an option. The only option.

Another Gift' to Big Business as Trump Treasury Moves to Eliminate Rules Against Corporate Tax ...

OldGoat43 comments on Nov 1, 2019:

So many loopholes to plug up after eliminating Tweety.

William_Mary replies on Nov 2, 2019:

That's the problem. Most will go on unresolved. That's why Trump was installed. Republicans have been winning state seats and governorship's nationwide. 2018 had virtually no impact on that. Of somewhere around 240 unfilled judicial seats left open by Obama, McConnell and Trump have been filling them at record pace turning our courts to the far right. The right wing facade of disdain towards Trump has lead to Trump campaigning nationwide for these runs for governor and seats in which most have won. Despite his total betrayal to his supporters most are still behind him. The democrat party and media have been totally silent on the major jump to the right this country has been undergoing the past 3 years. The MSM has drastically failed to inform the population and hold our government responsible in any means of this. This is because people have been duped in the distraction of the MSM of blaming Trump for everything while the whole shit lot of them, state and national, have been turning the country upside down in compliance. I have been attempting for those 3 years to get everyone in this group to understand this and spread this to your families and friends. I'll repeat this again. Trump is a symptom of the problem that started 5 decades ago. He is a test on the population which we have failed. The establishment now knows they can do practically anything they want and we'll go silently into compliance to it. You haven't seen anything yet. Joe Biden is getting away with a much more horrific crime than Trump committed, and supporters in that party are in compliance to it all for, beat Trump at all cost. That's just one example. Who else? I'd almost think Obama was dead.

I updated the Welcome page last weekend.

Cutiebeauty comments on Oct 29, 2019:

I see you have one pinned post as your welcome page... You could make another pinned post to continue or expand your welcome page.. Also, you can add quite a bit on the group description page.. I see it's very short... Just a suggestion, 😊

William_Mary replies on Oct 29, 2019:

Thank you. Didn't think of that. I simply unpinned the other, so its probably back at the beginning. I do want to change the description page also.

The murder of Baghdadi and Washington’s crisis in the Middle East [wsws.

OldGoat43 comments on Oct 29, 2019:

If you think about it in the long term. The powers that have the resources want wars for spending money so their graft kickback payments can come back around to their own pockets. None of them want to end the wars, so they pretend to let the warlords loose long enough to make a problem again, then ...

William_Mary replies on Oct 29, 2019:

Never ending cycle. Hitler loved it. I wonder how long he managed to live in South America on the cash and gold he extorted from us and the UK.

How Far Will We Let Them Take It?

silverotter11 comments on Oct 28, 2019:

We are so far down the rabbit hole I wonder if there is any way out. GOOD read, too bad most will pay no attention or even think about this. I am NOT enjoying the popcorn during the show. While I really want trump gone from the WH the circus is there for one reason and one reason only, to ...

William_Mary replies on Oct 28, 2019:

I was reading an article today on how Germany and Hitler were funded by the Fed, US, and UK banks. It's like a comparison to today's events. I'll post it soon. Scarily mindful of how we work with terrorist and authoritarian rulers. What are they planning for us now? This plan was worked out over about 2 decades. Have I mentioned how these people are always several years ahead of us? Playing chess while they have us playing checkers. People tell me I'm crazy when I speak of a world cabal!?!

How to Pay For Medicare for All Without Raising Taxes: Cut the Pentagon’s Budget With a ...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 26, 2019:

If we went with Medicare for all right now we could save a little money. Big pharma has their foot in the door on this and spreads rumors that it would cost us 91 to 92 trillion dollars.

William_Mary replies on Oct 27, 2019:

They (big pharma) could be right. Or cost proportionally effective to a degree. My problem with M4A is that they and insurance companies are still relatively involved. There's a number of issues that can come out of actually moving to M4A. There's no guarantee that the government is actually going to be able to reduce cost. The end may, and I'm going with, most likely will, end with pharmaceutical companies raising prices to combat their loses. Same as insurance companies. How did ACA (Obamacare) work out? The first year of that program there was a 20% hike in premiums. A lot of people who needed insurance and the existing conditions stipulation got it. Good for them, I'm actually glad they got something. But it came at a cost to others. Employers across the country dissolved their employee healthcare programs leaving them paying 400% more for their premiums. Employers, as this capital system erodes, use the excuse that they need to downsize to make profits. Which also often leads to attacking employee healthcare. Which is exactly what happened in my case. And right now there are companies that have been falling through the cracks. One of the largest industries, the auto industry, is reporting falling sells. They even have a name for it now. Peak auto, or is it peak cars? Many of my co-workers couldn't afford the insurance, hell I couldn't but needed to, and paid the penalty. So these companies were using us to make up the cost for others to have insurance, some with existing conditions who couldn't get insurance otherwise. Those still on employer programs seen/see their premiums continue to rise to this day to continue paying for such also. Basically what we got from ACA was a shift in people without getting, and people getting either forced to go without or pay substantially more. I call that a manufactured inflation rate that really only benefited the pharmaceutical and insurance companies. Well, for those who didn't see it my way also seen it as god send in which Obama became over glorified within. See, this is where politicians manage to self propel themselves to star status. When the few blissfully revel in their win while others, just like them, are caught under the avalanche, we sell each other out. So Obama benefited also on another bad program while managing to con a vast majority of the country. While I explained this to people on facebook, for the better part of 2 years I was called a liar as I explained my situation. It took the better part of 4 years for people to start getting the word down from those around them to finally understand what ACA actually did. And today we still have some that will glorify this corrupt program as though it was the best deal for the country. A deal that came out completely void of its initial ...

Assange Displayed Signs of Torture in Courtroom Farce What we witnessed yesterday was a naked ...

St-Sinner comments on Oct 23, 2019:

If he was thinking he could take on world powers like the UK and the USA without making sure he could protect himself, he was the biggest idiot and now it is been proven he was. There are many people who want to expose states doing wrong with people. They are everywhere and many of them have ...

William_Mary replies on Oct 26, 2019:

@St-Sinner Unfortunately we are all enablers as we currently participate in a system forced upon us without choice. Here's where we are forced to pick our "hero's". While some of us see Assange as a journalist who exposes the truths of why we are such, seeking change, you view him as a law breaker. Meaning the degree of compliance we give is upon us to participate as little as we can in hope to change this in the future. Maybe you would like to share with us just how you believe he broke the law. There's no proof or evidence of such, or is it stated he did anything to break the law while engaged in his forth estate rights. And he's not a US citizen to even be charged here as such. He simply exposed evidence in our governments wrong doing in which the forth estate was designed for. Evidence that was provided to him from other sources. Not once has it been proven he's broken any laws in introducing his information to the public. Not once has he or WIkileaks had to retract what they have exposed. He pretty much has a spotless record compared to our MSM outlets, that by the way have used his information on numerous occasions. By all rights these entities should be facing the same charges then also, no?

Assange Displayed Signs of Torture in Courtroom Farce What we witnessed yesterday was a naked ...

St-Sinner comments on Oct 23, 2019:

If he was thinking he could take on world powers like the UK and the USA without making sure he could protect himself, he was the biggest idiot and now it is been proven he was. There are many people who want to expose states doing wrong with people. They are everywhere and many of them have ...

William_Mary replies on Oct 26, 2019:

@yvilletom I especially have concerns with "soldiers who go to wars and are prepared to do the ultimate sacrifice for the nation". Now, if he's referring to complying with the need of capitalism to remain and control the worlds monetary system by murder for resources, while spreading fascism, providing a means for the survival of the military complex, I can see his view of hero's in that regard. I on the other hand can not. For the sacrifices he sees as for the nation, I see as murder for the ruling class in which millions in other nations paid the sacrifice. There hasn't been a legitimate war in our part since WWII. And quite honestly, WWI and WWII can be arguably voiced to have been for advancement of the industrial age and military expansion for perpetual warring. Which by the way is also one of the ideologies I attempt to bring forth through the truth of propaganda which started as late as WWI by Edward Bernays. Propaganda & Engineering Consent for Empire with Mark Crispin Miller https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7HmFH-Wo1s Edward Bernays https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays

Hillary Clinton slanders Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, Green Party candidate Jill Stein as Russian ...

Cutiebeauty comments on Oct 21, 2019:

Hillary Clinton? Who's that?

William_Mary replies on Oct 24, 2019:

First off. Trump became president for many reasons dating back to what has expired from at least the Reagan era. This is quite relevant to the purposes of this group! Dating further back to our news arena being slowly taken over by corporations and the intelligence apparatuses, mainly the CIA. I use the word arena because it's a fucking shit show towards forming a delusional reality a vast majority of the population live in, believe in, actually thinking it works, can be trusted, and used to vote from. Spend enough time here, I and a handful of others can put the pieces of evidence together for you. While I do the majority of post here we have a few others that add rather good points and information to help me get this message out. Not all people in this group understand what we are attempting to communicate. Some of them will never understand, will not give it the time to understand, don't want to understand, or will take a considerable amount of time to understand. Please refrain from attacks on these people with name calling or other negative gestures in which such acts degrade the attempt to educate these people, which can lead to deterring them and others witnessing such to stay interested in our goals. Please show patience by not being the type of people we see in the arena of the establishment political scene! I truly understand some people make it difficult! Don't know who Jill Stein is!?! dam mit girl you need to spend a lot more time here! :-) There's this 3rd party called the Green Party. I suggest you learn about it! And suggest you vote for people in it. If that peaks an interest in you, I also suggest you look into another party. SEP (Socialist Equality Party). And vote for people in that party also. Which has strong ties to WSWS (World Socialist Web Site) a news site I post from here regularly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyR0CSDxjkY

Assange Displayed Signs of Torture in Courtroom Farce What we witnessed yesterday was a naked ...

St-Sinner comments on Oct 23, 2019:

If he was thinking he could take on world powers like the UK and the USA without making sure he could protect himself, he was the biggest idiot and now it is been proven he was. There are many people who want to expose states doing wrong with people. They are everywhere and many of them have ...

William_Mary replies on Oct 23, 2019:

@St-Sinner 1.I am speaking for myself of course (hoping to put some sense into ignorant dickheads) Over rides your # 2 When many of them, like myself, see Assange as he is. A journalist who put himself out there in harms way to deliver a message we all need to be aware of. Calling a vast number of people dick heads is surely a means to lose any validity to your argument and or opinion in the future. Quite frankly, that's a major reason we have the type of division in our country holding us from solving our real issues. That cavalier domineering approach to bring people together simply creates more strife and is a magnet for useless empty discourse. Although I come close to that line myself at times when attempting to get a point across, I always attempt to keep it from becoming so personal and towards a means to draw in useful debate to exchange opinions. If I referred to people as dick heads as I attempt to draw them to better news sources and the truth to what our government does I'd never get anywhere. I'll only ask once. Please keep it out of my group and directed at my members.

THE CONCEPT OF NOTHING.

William_Mary comments on Oct 20, 2019:

There's always something in the room. Light? Does the room you're looking in contain light? Darkness? Even darkness is something. Did you open the dark room from within a lighted area? You provided light to the area. Molecules that make up atoms, both are everywhere. Our body puts out light. There's...

William_Mary replies on Oct 21, 2019:

@Stephanie99 https://www.livescience.com/7799-strange-humans-glow-visible-light.html

Jill Stein Challenges Hillary Clinton to Debate After 'Russian Asset' Smear "It's past time to ...

WayneDalton comments on Oct 19, 2019:

Talk about 'fake news'! The deflection tactic of blaming Biden seems to be working.If Biden acted illegally, why was this not mentioned at the time by republicans,since they controlled the house and Senate at the time?

William_Mary replies on Oct 20, 2019:

One good reason would be that a republican senator, John McCain, was a major player in this also. Another reason would be that both parties are pushing the false narrative to fear Russia as being our enemy and involved in a conspiracy to interfere in our elections. Then there's the relationship of at least 2 or 3 of the top American weapons manufacturing companies that have highly initiated the war in Ukraine, lobbying politicians to sell arms to the government they overthrew worth billions to each of them. Deflection tactic? https://youtu.be/UXA--dj2-CY That's Biden bragging about his extortion in Ukraine to get a prosecutor fired. Like I said in the initial post, or leaning towards. I don't know about illegal, yet, but morally and politically wrong. Compared to Trump's actions, not so much unless it can be proven it's merely a political asset. If you want to go that route though, then you're telling me that a sitting president, the top law official in the country, is by law exempt from being able to request an investigation into wrong doing by the politicians and intelligence agencies around him who he's suppose to be able to rely on to run the country? I'm heavily leaning to what Biden did as being illegal though. If he didn't break any political ethnic rules or our laws though, he dam sure played a role in creating a humanitarian crisis, manufacturing of an unnecessary war by the overthrow of a democratically elected government. Which created a civil war leading to ethnic cleansing, the downing of a jet liner with innocent civilians on it which was falsely blamed on Russia. Raising tensions with another world power unnecessarily, again under false narratives in a number of regards involving Crimea and Eastern Ukraine. The entire Obama administration and European SOS Victoria Nuland's department should be investigated in this travesty of humanitarian and war crimes.

The New Yorker’s Partisan Attempt to Refute Its Claim of Partisan Disinformation on Biden and ...

Piece2YourPuzzle comments on Oct 12, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj-wNuKmBrY

William_Mary replies on Oct 12, 2019:

As I have mentioned occasionally, all our representatives have ties to Russian companies and politicians. It's not just a party or Trump issue. Lets not forget when Bill Clinton was president he and Yeltsin worked out a deal, involving funding to Yeltsin's campaign, that Putin was mentioned as a power coming in afterwards and viewed to be easily worked with. Which explains how Hillary would be welcomed into his circle. This is the very reason I hold a great deal of reserve to Russia being scapegoated as the enemy of our country. As I do with China. I strongly believe the deep state role of Russia in Syria was to suppress Assad more than to help. Not only on the war front but to control what information Assad could release about actions that took place as the war on terrorism began. Assad has a ton of dirt on the CIA and black opp sites that were ran there as the Iraq quagmire went on. Have no doubt about it, the deep state is a worldwide collaboration of all the ruling class. You don't move a vast amount of your manufacturing to China to make an enemy out of them! While depleting your job sources and destroying your middle class! In other words. As Dore exposes the conditioning our media uses against us, the establishment has created a catch 22 that can be used from cycle to cycle within the media to divide us as they teeter totter the criminal acts they are involved in. All along while they and the ruling class who own them greatly benefit in the wealth and power that come from it. While the vast majority of the public are caught in this rabbit hole of a delusional reality being forced on them by the MSM they are drawn from the reality of what is actually happening around the world. So when a distraction is needed they simply pull out a version to use as a facade to draw attention. The agenda is to keep us distracted so we never have time to actually seek real facts. And when the few like you and I present them, we are faced with establishment rhetoric because all they know are what MSM condition them to know. Evidence? All one needs to do is relate how each side always ends up with their hands in the pot. Neither being left out without benefiting. This can only = collaboration. As Dore exposes in both Russiagate and Ukrainegate aspects, you'll find this goes back decades from at least the Reagan era. The Warren scene greatly reminded me of Gabbard when the guy asked about the DNC rigged primary at a town hall meeting. The deer in headlights look with awkward smile, tongue tied, then the woman from the DNC coming up to take the mic away. The only thing left to expose for us who are awake is who the fuck is writing the script for these actors in DC. It's all show!

Iraqi protesters gunned down as demonstrations and strikes spread across Middle East [wsws.

silverotter11 comments on Oct 7, 2019:

Nothing to argue against, I couldn't agree more. Does that make me unpatriotic? I just wish I was smart enough or connected enough to somehow fix the mess.

William_Mary replies on Oct 8, 2019:

I feel you. I feel hopeless.

Climate emergency with Extinction Rebellion----XR goes worldwide for a week beginning tomorrow.

AmmaRE007 comments on Oct 6, 2019:

Is anyone going to this? I would love to go.

William_Mary replies on Oct 6, 2019:

https://www.facebook.com/xrnyc/photos/a.1113277345521582/1304699476379367/?type=3

Climate emergency with Extinction Rebellion----XR goes worldwide for a week beginning tomorrow.

AmmaRE007 comments on Oct 6, 2019:

Is anyone going to this? I would love to go.

William_Mary replies on Oct 6, 2019:

I will suggest you post this within a wider audience on the political and general forums. There is also a facebook link for New York in which you might find someone close to you, maybe even someone you know. https://www.facebook.com/xrnyc/?eid=ARDbU8plvWZbdqSPsDA-1CE5aRpg4rDKenBTwkfyfNQgp87BytQkLS7LTrmk5jYPi_FA6M_sVery5qf4 I also would proceed with due caution if you didn't watch the video. Choose your preferred moments at this event carefully and wisely. Some moments at this protest can be of a disruptive manor in which arrest can or most likely will happen. Nonviolent none the less, but a part of their agenda is to push the narrative to be heard which resorts to blocking traffic and other types of public awareness at times. If you participate in such actions your arrest can happen. I went over the program fairly well and it looks like it's pretty well organized for you to pick pieces to avoid such. But with NY police you never know. They have a tendency to invade parks and start arresting people to quell public awareness before it gets much attention. Know when to get out quick. If you don't care, my hats off to you! I wish I could join you.

UK government to target “far left” in revised Counter Extremism Strategy [wsws.

Magister comments on Oct 5, 2019:

The UK has seen more right wing groups banned and proscribed, with none on the Left. Without doubt the Tories have introduced Acts that have infringed upon everyone's privacy, as have socialist governments, who seem to have been particularly keen to misuse powers against individuals. UK freedoms are...

William_Mary replies on Oct 6, 2019:

That's quite interesting. Now if you were talking about China, or maybe even North Korea, I would consider that to be a legitimate agenda with good reason. If I were Venezuela and a number of other Central American countries I would be one to consider that agenda. Being the agenda of the westernized world is to create false narratives to conger these places. While within their own countries they create a delusional reality to fool their populations into believing those agendas. Using acts that infringe on privacy to misinform their populations of the real reality and quell as much dissent to their agenda as possible.

God dammit I love a good fucking story! A couple of days ago, or so, I shared a story ...

SiouxcitySue comments on Oct 5, 2019:

In telling this story to a family member I was told it was an old story. My reply was it's not that old and it is a great example of how capitalism can be used to benefit many instead of 1%. Capitalism is, after all, an economic system not a political system.

William_Mary replies on Oct 5, 2019:

Capitalism is said to have been created in Europe, mainly the UK, as it had the largest grip on imperialism and world trade about 300 years ago as it transformed from Feudalism into the industrial age. The industrial age was basically creating a sense of understanding and exposure of evidence of inequality to all of societies. The previous systems mixed with growing world trade lead to power structure wars, unrest in societies. This essentially lead to a need to avoid a total collapse in world affairs. I'll again argue this leads back to the power structure from the grips of the City of London where its elite are sheltered from laws they enforce on us who control all world affairs. All matters of market and currency outside of this little power structure inside of a city, London, around the world merely being arms to that centuries old body. Which is a large reason I suspect the founding fathers of the US were merely a roost to a new nation being a good deal of them came from the very secret societies of Europe and conducted themselves with the greatest forms of hypocrisy within the very Constitution they developed. The 2nd amendment we so often misrepresent is a perfect example as to just who they truly believed should be controlling power. Today their intentions of the 2nd amendment are being orchestrated through the militarization of our police to stifle society from rightful protest. Our politicians now banning corporate targeted protest, even now labeling such as terrorist acts, and allowing private security firms to be hired to quell protest like we seen in the pipeline protest. Boycott Israel? While giving rights in with one breath, they take them away in another. Seriously, the hypocrisy is deafening. I often bring up the warnings we get from so many leaders over times towards corporations and the military complex, right out of the gate from Washington himself right through from Obama, Trump even. I must ask, warnings or conditioning? I find it to be rather more towards threatening! Conditioning all the same. Essentially warning that we have these fake rules and protocols for you to abide by. Take no mind to how we conduct ourselves for we are the rulers. We have the power to crush you otherwise. Any economic system can be used to benefit a society, or as a tool to abuse a society. Even socialism has been used to do such. No matter how you see your preferred system it is composed of all of them in a combined measure. It's simply what the ruling class at the moment in time want to call it and how they want to use it. http://www.solfed.org.uk/a-s-history/unit-1-the-origins-of-capitalism

An ongoing Australian shame caused by all political flavours - "Let me review.

William_Mary comments on Oct 5, 2019:

Again as I often say when it comes to Australia, this is a mirror image of our own country. This was exactly like reading a story on our own Native American people. Sex trafficking, missing women, mostly young women, drug abuse, gambling. All the money that is dumped into these issues and programs ...

William_Mary replies on Oct 5, 2019:

@FrayedBear Grrrr/Dislike comes out as angry. But there was a red faced one at time. I have no idea why they hide it under Grrrr/Dislike now. I also miss the green face one.

It's a game-changer': CEO surprises employees with $30,000 pay raises [wkyc.com]

SiouxcitySue comments on Oct 2, 2019:

This story left me speechless and grinning ear-to-ear. When management finally internalizes that the company does well when employees are treated well, it is a major win for everybody. And for the country. Why haven't I heard this story on any other media?

William_Mary replies on Oct 5, 2019:

@SiouxcitySue but each of those 3 sure pal up to corporations. Especially Biden! And what ever you think about Yang, he's a corporatist through and through.

It's a game-changer': CEO surprises employees with $30,000 pay raises [wkyc.com]

GreenAtheist comments on Oct 4, 2019:

This is the back half of pay equity....the CEO cut his salary to balance the books....THE FRONT HALF IS HOW THIS CREDIT CARD COMPANY MAKES THEIR MONEY....are the customers getting a fair deal or are they victims ?

William_Mary replies on Oct 5, 2019:

That is a good question that the article doesn't go into. But if you're going to break it down to semantics like this, we're all losers when it comes to credit. From one credit company to another we are all victims. This is the system we've been forced into and what our ruling class capitalist survive on. I personally fought against this system for many years until I was eventually forced into it. You might remember a time when you could go to any bank and cash your payroll check. Free of charge! Then banks began slowly charging, more, then more, until you then needed to have an account. I ran out of banks to cash my checks without handing over a religious requirement. Anyways, you lead me towards researching for answers. Seems this story is actually from 2015 in which this move became quite problematic for Mr. Dan Price. Although he made this change without adding more fees, he became a victim of backlash in other areas. It's quite a interesting story. My hats off to this guy! I'll bet there are very few people who come from a background like this that go on to make a move as such. A Company Copes With Backlash Against the Raise That Roared----also from 2015 https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/business/a-company-copes-with-backlash-against-the-raise-that-roared.html?_r=2 Other articles on this can be found>>>>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_Payments

CIA sets terms for Democrats’ impeachment inquiry into Trump’s crimes [wsws.

Piece2YourPuzzle comments on Sep 30, 2019:

At first I thought he might be going along with their foreign policy, but the extent of it is putting more troops in areas without actually engaging them.............from what I know or is reported. He also pulled out of agreements and put sanctions on other nations like Iran and Venezuela. I'm ...

William_Mary replies on Oct 2, 2019:

Playing this out like they did Iraq? Sanctions for several years killing off as many as possible and weakening citizen support. Only with Iran and Venezuela I don't think it will work. Iran isn't wrapped up in the holy Islam war like the other countries over there and have a decent hold against the types of groups that come with western interference. Much like Iraq did. So it will take another false narrative they believe they can get away with. I don't believe they can push enough ISIS and Al Qaeda into Iran like they did with Syria to break Iran down. Iran will not tolerate that. Lets not forget. Iran was kicking Iraq's ass in their war. It took secret involvement from the UK and US to get Iraq back into that war. And Syria's problem is being to close to Israel. By the time the Russians came in Assad had lost to much. To many fronts to contend on his own. The Venezuelan people know and feel the results of what Chavez did. They want that back! And those that migrated (in the millions) to Venezuela who reaped the rewards of Chavez's era will continue to stay faithful also. That's hard to fight against. With the vast jungle like country sides of Venezuela, you're looking at another Vietnam type of warfare. Leaving you 2 choices. Major losses of life in combat conditions, or nuclear use. Hit and skip in larger cities you might be able to take will lead to years of occupation like Afghanistan.

It's a game-changer': CEO surprises employees with $30,000 pay raises [wkyc.com]

SiouxcitySue comments on Oct 2, 2019:

This story left me speechless and grinning ear-to-ear. When management finally internalizes that the company does well when employees are treated well, it is a major win for everybody. And for the country. Why haven't I heard this story on any other media?

William_Mary replies on Oct 2, 2019:

Exactly! There are some good millionaires out there. Some good companies. Employee minded towards ownership, shares, and profits. A fairly large group of them want to actually pay more in taxes for a better society. These are not the one's Biden speaks of though! He speaks of the 500 companies that shore their base in his state to keep from paying taxes. This is common sense to a sense of equality towards a better society. Within our establishment and our media in which they own, common sense will not be tolerated and rarely heard of to this nature.

The other day I mentioned something about the fed pouring 75 billion a day into the banks.

Haemish1 comments on Sep 29, 2019:

NPR had a story this morning about all the money the fed is dumping into the economy.

William_Mary replies on Sep 29, 2019:

I listen to them regularly 5 days a week while driving and haven;t heard a word about this. That's quite interesting they finally cover something. Was it on this issue?

A far-right US soldier arrested by the FBI for plotting domestic bomb attacks sought to join ...

FrayedBear comments on Sep 24, 2019:

Creating hyper inflation? Devaluing the US dollar? The level of drugs in 75 x 5 billion old notes had become a health hazard? Funding more bank losses/ submitting to bank blackmail? Paying off American debt owed to China, Japan, African countries, European countries, South American drug ...

William_Mary replies on Sep 29, 2019:

This is actually about the repo operations where the banks loan each other money. See my upcoming post.

MSM Defends CIA’s “Whistleblower”, Ignores Actual Whistleblowers The word ...

Piece2YourPuzzle comments on Sep 28, 2019:

This agent should have never known about the information. It was a violation of protocol of the dissemination list. Ask yourself why a CIA "whistleblower" isn't in jail for this for not being a privileged person on a dissemination list while other actual whistleblowers are in jail. You aren't a ...

William_Mary replies on Sep 29, 2019:

I guess the CIA working within the US has become a norm now, rather than against the rule of thumb, being it's exposed on a regular basis now. But as your audio seems to confirm, with the possibility of this agent being loaned to the white house, he or she just backfired on your potential use of such expertise. So where does Trump's value of his intelligence agencies go from here? He spent his first days mocking them, then using them with a value of faith, to being bitten by them. It has to lead one to wonder, as I so do, that this is all a mascaraed ball.

Not a one of the 20 will actually support the needs of our reality, but the delusional reality that...

SiouxcitySue comments on Sep 26, 2019:

Don't you think the same policies apply to the republicans?

William_Mary replies on Sep 28, 2019:

I'm sorry Sue. I have a bad tendency to just take it for granted that many understand that republicans are the more evil of the establishment. As that is often the conjecture of most of society outside that party's support system. So often my intentions are to show reasons that the democrats are just as bad and actually a partner with republicans towards certain agendas. Make no mistake about it with me here, I have the same discontent with both parties, local, state, and nationally. I personally believe the whole party line and other terms of division should be abolished. All they accomplish is a sense of division of the population. But that would promote a sense of peace, people, and planet with everyone on the same game plan. Which would abolish the means of deception used by people for self status towards the benefits of the few, the ruling class. It would also eliminate the need for them to use our media as a perception management tool in which so many believe in their delusional reality they've created. When the enemies they create for us can be exposed as us and they are seen as the real enemies.

Welcome to Out Of The Illusion.

LetzGetReal comments on Sep 24, 2019:

Catlin is great. Been following her for maybe 2 years. She has gotten pretty out there of late, which I enjoy in a person. :D

William_Mary replies on Sep 26, 2019:

She is good, but I have issues with her constant gripe on the US while ignoring her own country's mirrored history of ours and world involvement of empire building. Part of the worlds problem is that most people miss the fact that we are all in the same boat together hurling against the same type of storm. She never mentions her own country's contribution to the suppression of the working class or their native people. What is going on with Julian Assange, sexual assault in religion and politics, politician corruption, suppression and attacks on independent journalism, involvement in misconduct in Afghanistan by their war machine, and more. While she is quite sharp against the US she very rarely mentions any other country, especially hers, in relating them all as a whole societal issue for people in general. This tells me she has an agenda when I can relate most of what she writes to all westernized society governments today. Why does 95 + % of her work all target the US? When I can tie a vast amount of the ruling class war coming from the "City of London" which has been in control for centuries well before our country was even founded. The power structure of this small part within London that is essentially that of the Vatican has as much to do with world empire building as the US could have, yet few mention it on rare occasions and long between mentions. I will argue the structure power goes more like----The City of London-----Israel----then the US. The Brits put the Zionist in power well before we became the global power. We're simply being used for the backlash.

If the Facts Come Out, it Could Spell the End for Joe Biden The Establishment media is in a ...

GreatNani comments on Sep 22, 2019:

No Biden is not Trump. He is not a great candidate and I am not happy with him as a choice, but realistically, he is not Trump. Trump has mental illness and is unstable. We need to be realistic about that.

William_Mary replies on Sep 22, 2019:

@GreatNani My preferred parties haven't yet went through the process of electing a candidate. It will not be a democrat or a republican, that much I can say. Change will not come from the establishment and a lot of people need to start realizing this.

If the Facts Come Out, it Could Spell the End for Joe Biden The Establishment media is in a ...

GreatNani comments on Sep 22, 2019:

No Biden is not Trump. He is not a great candidate and I am not happy with him as a choice, but realistically, he is not Trump. Trump has mental illness and is unstable. We need to be realistic about that.

William_Mary replies on Sep 22, 2019:

@GreatNani Biden fed the hate at the border going on right now with his policies in Central America. In which neither him or the democrat party as a whole are doing anything about. Biden spread hate in Ukraine with the backing of an overthrow of a democratically elected government killing many and a downing of an airline. Did you even read the article? Or any in reference to my comments in the past. I have posted evidence of his hate via his policies. If you can't see the hate in his policies for his willingness to sacrifice innocent humans for the benefit of resources and corporations you're simply missing the big picture. His actions in the Ukraine are feeding hate right here in the US having backed a fascist entity who now help with spreading that movement here and around the globe. One is no better than the other. Picking what you see as a lesser evil to the evil is just as evil. That's the way they've managed it for us.

If the Facts Come Out, it Could Spell the End for Joe Biden The Establishment media is in a ...

GreatNani comments on Sep 22, 2019:

No Biden is not Trump. He is not a great candidate and I am not happy with him as a choice, but realistically, he is not Trump. Trump has mental illness and is unstable. We need to be realistic about that.

William_Mary replies on Sep 22, 2019:

And what might you call all of Biden's misstatements on time lines, misunderstanding of past collaborations with bad legislation, in which he first attempts to justify before he admits error, and wacky responses where he babbles on going off subject? Even the main stream media has a hard time not bringing these to light. He's not mentally sound either. And when it's all said and done, both are fulfilling the benefits of the ruling class. Not you or any of us. They are indeed the same when the day is over.

The Democratic presidential debate: A million miles from American social reality [wsws.

LetzGetReal comments on Sep 14, 2019:

I tried to watch some of the "debates" and took away, per usual in say the past 40 plus years your same conclusions. Not since Jimmy Carter's State of the Union have I been totally TRUSTING, hence impressed with the content of political rhetoric; and of course him telling the upcoming bleak ...

William_Mary replies on Sep 15, 2019:

@LetzGetReal I agree with all that and it seems you have many of the same questions I have and state here. But, as you say it's pure conjecture. If you watched the Hedges and Nader discussion before the 2016 primary you found they called Sanders actions almost to the exact movements that became its history. I myself found it disgusting and didn't watch the whole discussion my first time, being I was in the process of advocating for him. I was guilty of the same cognitive dissonance I was accusing Clinton supporters of. So I take it kind of personal when the Sanders issue comes up out of humility. It was quite the humbling moment when I went back and watched the entire discussion, which helps me understand others when I approach in discussion. That is as long as they remain civil and somewhat open minded. I often revisit that as I use it. I do however when I consider where our "founding fathers" came from, status, secret societies a number of them belonged to, the hypocrisies, etc, see a path to today's establishment.

Question - is this group basically just about sex?

William_Mary comments on Sep 15, 2019:

Well that's going to depend on the particular man you engage with. I would suggest you communicate your intentions with each as you do so to see what their intentions are.

William_Mary replies on Sep 15, 2019:

@Marcie1974 right! This is the internet though. Unfortunately, being a member of a couple of free bdsm and a amateur porn site that is set up like a dating site, this is a problem of wide scale. One, it gives many of us (males) a bad name and puts a large target on our backs as being _______ <<

The Democratic presidential debate: A million miles from American social reality [wsws.

LetzGetReal comments on Sep 14, 2019:

I tried to watch some of the "debates" and took away, per usual in say the past 40 plus years your same conclusions. Not since Jimmy Carter's State of the Union have I been totally TRUSTING, hence impressed with the content of political rhetoric; and of course him telling the upcoming bleak ...

William_Mary replies on Sep 15, 2019:

@LetzGetReal I'm a firm believer in the ancient alien theory that our missing link is due to the DNA manipulation by one or more superior race/s of beings.

The Democratic presidential debate: A million miles from American social reality [wsws.

LetzGetReal comments on Sep 14, 2019:

I tried to watch some of the "debates" and took away, per usual in say the past 40 plus years your same conclusions. Not since Jimmy Carter's State of the Union have I been totally TRUSTING, hence impressed with the content of political rhetoric; and of course him telling the upcoming bleak ...

William_Mary replies on Sep 15, 2019:

@LetzGetReal right. Carter may have become a victim of the ruling class and persuaded or manipulated towards middle east entanglement, But does he voice that as at times he buddies up with other past presidents on certain affairs? Or publicly when he has the opportunity? He always seems to be enjoying their presence in a sense of little concern to what they after him have progressed into a major world problem today. As one who use to use Carter myself to present a good example, I've learned over the years, especially since 2016 with Sanders betrayal, part of my own problem was not weighing in the slightness of people as such in their speak to their actual actions or lack of. In which the end game to such compliance keeps leading to more of the same and the progression of the ruling class agenda. In other words. I can no more be compliant to Carters actions and also speak out against the democratic party's actions without being a hypocrite. If he chooses to remain silent to the full scale of our problems he in turn is that of Sanders to me, making himself compliant to the agenda of the ruling class elite. Compliance to both manors is futile to addressing the problems.

Question - is this group basically just about sex?

William_Mary comments on Sep 15, 2019:

Well that's going to depend on the particular man you engage with. I would suggest you communicate your intentions with each as you do so to see what their intentions are.

William_Mary replies on Sep 15, 2019:

@Marcie1974 why can't it be both? Being it has such few members and post are so frequent you have the ability to make it pretty much what you want to. Rob is a fairly reasonable person which I doubt he would complain either way. The description with the group name suggest both to me.

The Democratic presidential debate: A million miles from American social reality [wsws.

LetzGetReal comments on Sep 14, 2019:

I tried to watch some of the "debates" and took away, per usual in say the past 40 plus years your same conclusions. Not since Jimmy Carter's State of the Union have I been totally TRUSTING, hence impressed with the content of political rhetoric; and of course him telling the upcoming bleak ...

William_Mary replies on Sep 15, 2019:

Unfortunately, Carter was the first to deal with the Afghan Mujahideen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone So what we are dealing with today out of that region is in large part due to him, his CIA, and Charlie Wilson's congressional support of this group. Over a power struggle with Russia who was initially only trying to support the recent power structure of a combined communist take over of the Taraki's extremist Khalq faction and the more moderate Parcham. A sort of hell broke loose with Pakistan lobbying for US help in the mid 70s. It's a really long story in which you have to use a series of Wikipedia profiles to put it all together. Basically, what we have ended up with is the same ole never ending story. Suppress Russia and any sense of communism or socialism. I'll give you that Carter was about as good as they come. But just as with JFK, who had his hands in Latin America and Cuba play, Carter has blood on his hand also. I'll throw FDR in that group also. No matter how you look at it, this global territorial pissing contest has no good players in it. We're still no better than our cave ancestors. The only difference to us now is that we have manipulated Alien DNA in us that didn't quite solve that issue. It might be time for them to hit the restart button again.

The Devolution of US-Russia Relations A retired Australian diplomat who served in Moscow dissects...

SiouxcitySue comments on Sep 14, 2019:

Thanx for this posting. Because I have always considered donald trump to be a disgusting piece of slime, his election to the presidency has caused me to re-evaluate everything I ever thought/believed about politics and the media. This article is one more step on my journey into cynicism.

William_Mary replies on Sep 14, 2019:

Just take to mind though, Trump is merely a symptom that came from decades of the politics/politicians, both sides, and the perception management media they use against us. Trump is just a narcissist with the ignorance to bellow out what all politicians, national, state, and many local, will not speak. Of any race from any nation they have been compliant to even turn on their own given enough time for the atmosphere in politics to change them. It all eventually came down to the power for each of them to want to keep that power and the wealth that eventually comes with it. It's an addiction to them like a drug. Whether they went in with good intentions or not. We will never change this course of reality within these 2 establishment parties.

Welcome to the insanity and fuchwittery of Australian feminazism: 'No one’s holding a gun to ...

William_Mary comments on Sep 13, 2019:

{“I think objectifying women and violence against women don’t come under the same category. I feel that using sport and women in sport is an excuse about violence against women.} I tend to tread lightly with this subject being one that relates sexuality with our natural given instincts and ...

William_Mary replies on Sep 14, 2019:

@FrayedBear for me it's not about the women. It's about what the movement bought forth. I actually put women above men, and this issue is one of my reasons. I find women for the most sense to be more intelligent and understanding of natural needs and empathy towards man kind. But as with men, some women simply do not do their side of their gender justice when it comes to the norms of societies managed narrative on how to behave or conduct themselves. That's if your "you" was directed at me personally. But in a sense, if not, you're precisely right. Are you getting my point now? It's another divide and conquer strategy against the common public. Where we are now engaged in a sexual warfare to a sense, those who developed it often conduct themselves in a different reality that we are seemingly to beheld to. While they themselves have done little to change the reality to benefit women as a whole with us. This is a part of why I think the whole 2016 election cycle may have been meant to put Trump into power. Could it be that the ruling class wasn't ready to put a woman into the white house yet? I mean, lets be honest, the ruling class and its minions below them have all the power to put women in a higher stature of society if they so chose to allow it. Do they not? Do you really believe all us commoners are what are holding them suppressed in society? But yet when these issues goes public, who gets the biggest target on their backs? The media target us common men, only exposing the upper and ruling class when someone brings to light an issue. Then it's our workplace within corporations who put out notices and hold meetings for education, again putting the target on our backs. It's more likely to have a female file a complaint in our workplace of commoners than in many of the positions and industries above us. The fear range there is drastically more effective towards a career for women than it is for us mere men in the commoners workplace. We're much easier to be belittled and fired for mere flirting type of issues.

Is your carrier doing the right thing by you or ripping you off?

altschmerz comments on Sep 11, 2019:

What was that about Obama’s internet regulations? I thought he championed net neutrality.

William_Mary replies on Sep 13, 2019:

@altschmerz the truth is so hard for many to handle.

Is your carrier doing the right thing by you or ripping you off?

altschmerz comments on Sep 11, 2019:

What was that about Obama’s internet regulations? I thought he championed net neutrality.

William_Mary replies on Sep 13, 2019:

This was the prime example Caitlin Johnstone used in her (Dems And GOP Work Together Like A Boxer’s 1–2 Punch To Knock You Out) article. Which I have posted a number of times here. You can replace net neutrality with about any political issue and see the same results. https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2017/12/16/dems-and-gop-work-together-like-a-boxers-1-2-punch-to-knock-you-out/ It's a global issue within the westernized world.

Biden Invokes Dead Family Members Against Medicare for All and Corporate Media Plays Along ...

silverotter11 comments on Sep 10, 2019:

I am *really* hoping biden doesn't get the nomination. I'm pretty sure my hopes are in vain.

William_Mary replies on Sep 12, 2019:

@silverotter11 have we talked about conditioning yet? With all due respect, and I have a ton of it for you, this is a large part of the conditioning that keeps 3rd party candidates out of the electoral arena of all aspects. This theory started at the top of the food chain then spread out to all bellow by word of mouth. Some think tank developed it and the MSM poured gas on it to spread it like wild fire. It worked so well, the conditioning, that the MSM doesn't even have to mention it anymore. We do it for them now! All they have to do now is plant a seed like a picture, Jill Stein at a global conference, create a false narrative to the picture, and the voters run rabid with it ignorantly. Condition-narrative-managed perception-success-everything remains the same. Have we talked about Caitlin Johnstone's 1-2 Punch, how democrats work with republicans like a boxers 1-2 punch? No matter who might win in the democratic party will it matter to what Trump has done. He has set the tone for the future and a potential democrat will do very little, if anything, to roll back the damage. Everything making the news right now that Trump has a hand in, in fucking up will shortly there after become silent in the MSM. I give you for example, Obama and his immigration policies. In which he sent more immigrants out of the country than any other president before him. And they were not the criminal types either. I'll also give you his drone and warring record. In which he vastly expanded. While not so much on tax breaks, but there was enough of that also, but over 2 trillion in bailouts in which was done through closed door agreements with representatives we never learned about for a few years later. What we thought was a mere 800 billion turned somehow into over 2 trillion that went over seas to off shore accounts for billionaires. Yea, that kind of makes 800 billion seem like a mere. These were all issues Bush created that voters from the democratic support system were outraged over, yet Obama drastically expanded them within media silence. In which many of those supporters are still ignorant of, or compliant to, and love the guy for. Success-everything remained the same-until someone during that 8 years managed to put the whole picture together and exposed the truth. Independent journalism discovers we're further right-here comes Trump-his supporters were watching for 8 years-now the ignorance ball is in their court. And they took that power of conditioning and moved the country further right. Can I get a cycle from my groupies? I'm going to continue to speak out for 3rd parties to everyone. Here, home, workplace, family, votes, with hope to change someday for those I leave behind. That change is not going to come from either establishment party! Or the ...

Wolff on Bernie's Workplace Democracy Plan-----While he speaks on work place democracy, lets not ...

LetzGetReal comments on Sep 11, 2019:

I have been a huge fan of Mr. Wolff's for quite some time. He and Mr. Hedges make more sense to me than anyone currently running for Potus or most other news sources.

William_Mary replies on Sep 11, 2019:

@LetzGetReal Sanders allowed the treatment though. To me that is a big tell. And I'm all but certain Clinton and the DNC sold out the country to place Trump in the white house. Just look at all the western governments around the globe today. They are all on parr towards the same far right nationalism, monitoring civilians, controlling information, crushing anything within leftist movements and journalism that speaks out against them, etc. If Clinton were president now as this is going on it would end their facade of being the party for the people. The charade could no longer be imaginable as sincere. The way the last general election went down makes it all to obvious to those actually following the worlds course of direction that we are in a moment of a major power play of moving towards a global barbarianism within collaboration of all the westernized governments. At no point in time in modern history have so many countries all seemed to turn towards a fascist nature in such unison as we are seeing in these past few years, since 2016. This is not a coincidence!

Wolff on Bernie's Workplace Democracy Plan-----While he speaks on work place democracy, lets not ...

LetzGetReal comments on Sep 11, 2019:

I have been a huge fan of Mr. Wolff's for quite some time. He and Mr. Hedges make more sense to me than anyone currently running for Potus or most other news sources.

William_Mary replies on Sep 11, 2019:

Hedges most recent On Contact show is one of his best discussions I'll be posting when I get the time.

I'm down for a couple of days on posting.

Piece2YourPuzzle comments on Sep 7, 2019:

I save my bookmarks to a file and keep it on another hard drive. When I get on my laptop I can give you the name of the program to install in your browser.

William_Mary replies on Sep 8, 2019:

I think my virus program, Kaspersky, has something like that. I think it's a good time to actually use it for a change.

I'm down for a couple of days on posting.

LetzGetReal comments on Sep 7, 2019:

DuckDuckGo is supposed to be one non-tracking browser yet I found sources, limited. I truly think we are all tracked, regardless; I know it is far too late for me. ;)

William_Mary replies on Sep 8, 2019:

I feel that!

I'm down for a couple of days on posting.

altschmerz comments on Sep 7, 2019:

You'll probably find them all again, but here are the websites you've linked to in the past that I bookmarked. https://truthout.org/ https://thegrayzone.com https://consortiumnews.com https://readsludge.com http://www.wsws.org

William_Mary replies on Sep 7, 2019:

Thank you! I forgot about sludge!

Rogues’ Gallery: A Sober Look at the “Progressive” Democratic Presidential Candidates ...

EdEarl comments on Sep 5, 2019:

Biased towards the GOP.

William_Mary replies on Sep 7, 2019:

@EdEarl well the current direction of that social label would lead us to believe it is used for those who tend to lean further to the left. Somewhere between a bit left of center, somewhere, to being a socialist. So it really depends on just who proclaims to be a progressive. Personally for me it would be a matter of world unification in developing trade and job creation, equally towards given need. Which would cut cost, waste, and pollution in trans-global transportation. Which would also eliminate the need for tribal warring over resources and false narratives towards regime change and power structuring. Then the world could concentrate on real issues of terrorism and illicit drug trafficking rather than having them created falsely for the survival of capitalism and a fake world market system. But then I'm just one of the few socialistic minded people who want free stuff. The term progressive, sadly, is in the process of being distorted by those who set the narrative for labels of society today. Which is why when ask this question, ummm or well, is usually the first sound that comes from between the the lips of that who is asked now. Clinton gave us a good example of this. And Sanders can't even describe what a real democratic socialist is. Because he isn't one. Being he's a war mongering military complex regime change kind of guy. On a side note. I can't speak what the writer in the article means by progressive. As a reader I can only take it as I feel it adding my interpretation to it. Or as the proclaimed candidates interpret it. As with republicans see conservative and the democrats see democracy completely different than I do. Being what they do with these words is nothing to the means I understand the words. I'll throw the term "free market" in there for shits and giggles also.

Rogues’ Gallery: A Sober Look at the “Progressive” Democratic Presidential Candidates ...

EdEarl comments on Sep 5, 2019:

Biased towards the GOP.

William_Mary replies on Sep 7, 2019:

Well it is a review of the democratic candidates after all. But even yet, right there in part of the lead it states "Unless someone new enters the race or one of the existing candidates is stricken on the road to Damascus, there will be no genuinely progressive foreign policy offered by either of the two major political parties in the 2020 presidential election." so not so much. I think Trumps record pretty much speaks for itself. And if you want to throw in the new challenger of his, he has pretty much the same record.

The War on Loneliness, Brought to You by Big Brother [ghionjournal.

Donna_I comments on Sep 1, 2019:

So what glue do we use to create a new - effective! - social structure to battle loneliness?

William_Mary replies on Sep 3, 2019:

@Donna_I (Their was a point in the discussion where they claimed many available examples and failed to name any... frustrating. ) Right. I was disappointed myself they didn't even mention the mental effects it could have on society. That should have been a given! But as you question a means, we again find ourselves as we do in politics, searching for a way to awaken the masses from a slumber of a delusional reality. As we have very few politicians with a genuine want to better society, we seem to have few in the medical field providing better solutions for our health care in all aspects. The Matrix is indeed a bitch.

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell hits Russiagate Rock Bottom Aaron Maté slams MSNBC’s latest ...

BitFlipper comments on Sep 2, 2019:

The news item hasn't been proven false - it just hasn't been proven. It was STUPID of O'Donnell to carry that item on his show. He knows that Republicons have a full-time project dangling these kind of stories to trap progressive newscasters, just so they can claim "fake news" every day.

William_Mary replies on Sep 2, 2019:

He had been better off covering what effects Trump relationship with Deutsche Banks collapse might be.

The War on Loneliness, Brought to You by Big Brother [ghionjournal.

Donna_I comments on Sep 1, 2019:

So what glue do we use to create a new - effective! - social structure to battle loneliness?

William_Mary replies on Sep 2, 2019:

I personally argue that most social anxieties are due to societies inability to recognize a meaningful unification of purpose for the better of the entire collective. As I have pointed out in the PINNED post here in the group, as a collective, the entire westernized world has been enduring a systematic program of propaganda and engineering. Unfortunately that part of the post went to the bottom which few people make it to being I seem to have ran out of space on when I opened the group. My apologies! I've been meaning to edit that opening post but never seem to find the time to put into it properly. I actually ended up cutting a lot out after I realized I ran out of space on it. Anyways. The video that got lost in that post speaks on how we have been engineered as a society to be expected to manage our lives a certain way. Propaganda & Engineering Consent for Empire with Mark Crispin Miller With thousands of advertisements seen by Americans everyday, and a corporate media that reinforces the needs of Empire, propaganda in the U.S. is more pervasive and effective than ever before. The manipulation of public opinion through suggestion can be traced back to the father of modern propaganda, Edward Bernays, who discovered that preying on the subconscious mind was the best way to sell products people don't need, and wars people don't want. To get a deeper understanding of how propaganda functions in today's society, Abby Martin interviews Dr. Mark Crispin Miller, professor of Media Studies at New York University. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7HmFH-Wo1s=youtu.be While I understand we have a problem with chemical imbalances with some people, medicine can only do so much. Then add the stigma society puts on people, especially people who have no one or to few family to confide in, we confound the issues for them. Our health care system isn't one to actually provide a meaningful resource in many cases to help either. It's not profitable to actually find a group for these people to help in a meaningful manor, it's profitable though to keep them in a cycle of a psychiatrist and medicines. This system of propaganda goes well beyond just politics. If also effects us in many aspects of life. As Miller explains a number of aspects of how propaganda was released on the public, one must also vision what the mentality goes through as we weigh the perception management being thrown at us. He at one point refers to it as shifting the weather. Then he goes into how propaganda means more than what many people see it as. I don't make the claim that we live in a delusional reality that has been created for us without purpose. Most times I'm in a political state of mind when I make the claim here, but I have also occasionally suggested that it goes well ...

MSNBC Host Lawrence O'Donnell Retracts False "Trump- Russiagate" Story [youtube.

silverotter11 comments on Aug 30, 2019:

I sure miss Walter Cronkite. trump's dirty and it does not take a rocket scientist to figure that out, it really is a matter of how dirty. Moral or ethically off or severely criminal? Since so many corporate and wealthy supporters of trump and the elected officials that were backed by them have ...

William_Mary replies on Sep 2, 2019:

@silverotter11 I know that all to well from my time spent on the 2016 primary races. No matter how much factual history people like me put out about Trump, or Clinton at that, none of their supporters were able to face the truth and consequences that came with them. As long as they seen themselves as being able to place themselves in a good place, for what ever reason, the results these types of people bring humanity as whole was acceptable. To hell with those who fell under the wrath of the personal agenda these 2 people served for.

Max Blumenthal on the US legacy in Honduras: migrant crisis, political murders, narco-President ...

altschmerz comments on Sep 1, 2019:

See, the "vote blue no matter who" crowd doesn't know this stuff. I don't say much out in the general boards because I'd get blocked by 100+ probably (a lot of people blocked me on Twitter, back when I had an account, because I trashed the Dems), but I'm NOT voting for Biden. The others aren't great...

William_Mary replies on Sep 1, 2019:

Which is a leading cause to why some leave this group. The truth is a hard pill to swallow for many. They refuse to understand they are actually harming their own desire towards change by supporting the other wing of the same bird.

MSNBC Host Lawrence O'Donnell Retracts False "Trump- Russiagate" Story [youtube.

silverotter11 comments on Aug 30, 2019:

I sure miss Walter Cronkite. trump's dirty and it does not take a rocket scientist to figure that out, it really is a matter of how dirty. Moral or ethically off or severely criminal? Since so many corporate and wealthy supporters of trump and the elected officials that were backed by them have ...

William_Mary replies on Aug 31, 2019:

I agree Trump is dirty! But when reporters do this type of reporting they actually give credence to him from his supporters. Why don't they report the things Trump has done that make him dirty? There's decades worth of these things! Which they didn't cover at all during 2016. Or what he's presently doing around the globe.

Top scientist denounces smears of Tulsi Gabbard on Syria Rep.

William_Mary comments on Aug 17, 2019:

Lets not forget none of these people had a problem with Assad when the CIA was running black sites ops torturing Muslims within Syria in the early years of the war in Iraq. Not until Assad realized his country was on the agenda did he become a brutal dictator. And I personally have an issue with ...

William_Mary replies on Aug 20, 2019:

@Krish55 feel free to join us at "Out Of The Illusion Group"

Does anyone see Looking4-Others posting any where in the site?

altschmerz comments on Aug 17, 2019:

I know he wouldn’t have blocked you. He just disappeared. I asked about him in “Progressives and Socialists.” EDIT: even if you’re blocked, anything he posts in THIS group is still visible to you because you’re the group owner.

William_Mary replies on Aug 17, 2019:

Ok, at a further look it was a reaction, not a comment. My bust! Now that that is settled. I'm disappointed he isn't here anymore and now want to know why!

Does anyone see Looking4-Others posting any where in the site?

GreatNani comments on Aug 17, 2019:

I must have missed your AOC post. :)

William_Mary replies on Aug 17, 2019:

https://agnostic.com/group/unempire/post/386745/bowing-to-house-democratic-leadership-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-purges-staff-https-www-wsws-org

Does anyone see Looking4-Others posting any where in the site?

glennlab comments on Aug 17, 2019:

His messages to me are off my message page, so it looks like he has either left or been been ejected, he lives just down the road from me but his number was in the messages so no way to contact him.

William_Mary replies on Aug 17, 2019:

Thank you!

Does anyone see Looking4-Others posting any where in the site?

Pralina1 comments on Aug 17, 2019:

Not me , he comes up as unavailable , and no reasons to block me . I think someone else the other day also asked same thing .

William_Mary replies on Aug 17, 2019:

Thank you Pralina for the information.

So you think that President Trump is going to let you continue to criticise through Agnostic.

OldGoat43 comments on Aug 11, 2019:

If one deranged president were to try to curtail our most cherished freedom of speech he might start dreading the quick arrangement of massive protests and armed revolution.

William_Mary replies on Aug 17, 2019:

Unfortunately, freedom of speech has been under attack well before Trump came along.

More Second Amendment Madness Robert Parry, founder of this site, exposed in this Jan.

Piece2YourPuzzle comments on Aug 10, 2019:

I support the 2nd amendment for general protection in rural areas and for hunting for food, but the notion that you can go up against the U.S. government in a battle is just downright delusional. I don't care how many guns someone has as they can only operate 2 at the same time at the most. thinking...

William_Mary replies on Aug 17, 2019:

@Piece2YourPuzzle China fears the world. With good reason. They have felt the wrath of betrayal from all sides on a number of occasions. I give them credit on one side though. They have not allowed themselves to be drawn into collapses like the Russians did in Afghanistan. A lesson I think they (the Russians) learned and now rebuilding to be a new type of world power such as the Chinese. While I know the China government has a ways to go towards its people are concerned, they are protected in a large sense from what we are trapped in. A delusional reality that has been created for us. The people there actually think we have a democracy here and freedom of information. And both of us know this isn't exactly true. And those who make it here, to go to school especially, quickly fall in line with the MSM illusion thinking it's better here in those aspects. They quickly forget our history or are ignorant of it to weigh it in with what they see here.

Not a one of the 20 will actually support the needs of our reality, but the delusional reality that...

silverotter11 comments on Aug 11, 2019:

Well aren't you a fucking ray of sunshine :). It is truly depressing if I think about it too hard. I guess the best we can hope for right now is to just get rid of trump. Not likely *he'll* commit suicide. Somehow the DNR has got to out airwaves trump. The media gave trump such a load of free...

William_Mary replies on Aug 13, 2019:

@silverotter11 this is all true. But history tells us that once we've moved right, with the help of democrats, it never goes back left. We've been moving right since the FDR era. Trump was merely a great test for a leap right. And no one seems to be seeing the big picture. Another democrat in power will be like another Obama. Just setting up another leap to the right while moving right.

More Second Amendment Madness Robert Parry, founder of this site, exposed in this Jan.

Piece2YourPuzzle comments on Aug 10, 2019:

I support the 2nd amendment for general protection in rural areas and for hunting for food, but the notion that you can go up against the U.S. government in a battle is just downright delusional. I don't care how many guns someone has as they can only operate 2 at the same time at the most. thinking...

William_Mary replies on Aug 12, 2019:

@Piece2YourPuzzle "If they think investment somewhere else is a better option for the long term then they don't give a damn about our well being." That started approximately during the Nixon administration.

Not a one of the 20 will actually support the needs of our reality, but the delusional reality that...

Haemish1 comments on Aug 11, 2019:

It’s the corporate mainstream media that benefits from those dollars. I’d like to see shorter campaign seasons, publicly funded elections (no paid for tv or radio commercials) and all presidential primaries held on the same day.

William_Mary replies on Aug 12, 2019:

Although there is a well of individuals related to the mainstream media that do benefit, its not the only entity that does so. It's much deeper than that, and not just about money.

Not a one of the 20 will actually support the needs of our reality, but the delusional reality that...

silverotter11 comments on Aug 11, 2019:

Well aren't you a fucking ray of sunshine :). It is truly depressing if I think about it too hard. I guess the best we can hope for right now is to just get rid of trump. Not likely *he'll* commit suicide. Somehow the DNR has got to out airwaves trump. The media gave trump such a load of free...

William_Mary replies on Aug 12, 2019:

If only it were that simple. One question blows that thought out of the water. What lead to Trump though? All other questions to be asked lead back to the answer of that one.

Trust your American EPA to protect you the people.

William_Mary comments on Aug 10, 2019:

A large part of the reason they get away with use in the US is much towards the same reasons we have no real sense of governing. Again this all falls back onto the media. The population is distracted from this issue with all the fake infortainment going on as it never gets proper coverage. Such as ...

William_Mary replies on Aug 11, 2019:

@FrayedBear at the bottom of your posted article is a link to the America's Lawyer show by Mike Papantonio, I watch his show a lot. Most of his discussions deal with corporate crimes and effects on the population. How they work around laws and how politicians work mainly for them over us. I highly suggest this show if you're into following these types of issues.

More Second Amendment Madness Robert Parry, founder of this site, exposed in this Jan.

Piece2YourPuzzle comments on Aug 10, 2019:

I support the 2nd amendment for general protection in rural areas and for hunting for food, but the notion that you can go up against the U.S. government in a battle is just downright delusional. I don't care how many guns someone has as they can only operate 2 at the same time at the most. thinking...

William_Mary replies on Aug 11, 2019:

You would have to persuade a good part of the military to take sides with you to accomplish a worthy fight. And this isn't any 3rd world country where that can happen today. Our military is owned by the world ruling class in which our generals have betrayed us all, right along with our politicians. I fear that even if we united under a series of 1 or more 3rd parties and began to build a working socialized country, that our military would answer the call of the world elite to take over the country. Then turning us into a 3rd world like country of military rule. We would then be at the mercy of Russia and China to help. Imagine us being Aleppo!

Bowing to House Democratic leadership, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez purges staff [wsws.

Looking4-Others comments on Aug 10, 2019:

AOC is just succumbing to her new lifestyle apparently. I'm very disappointed with her but of course I was taken in by her in 2018 in January when she came on Rebel HQ and I donated multiple times to her campaign. Someone told me that money and power changes a person's mentality I believe that more ...

William_Mary replies on Aug 11, 2019:

I had high hopes for her also. It was hard not to as she was first promoted with the poor girl video they created for her. And it worked very well for her, them. The sheep flocked to her with donations and support. But right out of the gate after her win she made a statement about supporting Clinton that became the first sign of disingenuous. Which sent me on a search at Wikipedia. And sure enough, her history spoke even louder. Now I see a woman being painted as a poor girl bartender from NY who has no money to run a campaign, yet Wikipedia is telling me she served under Ted Kennedy in his office, and spent most of her time in collage in the political field within different aspects. All matters left out of the story by her and main stream media to manage our perception of someone in which they knew of and left out on purpose. This my friend is what you call a domestic manchurian candidate. She already knew the power, and what could come with it. She might have even been financially supported through collage like many people who come here from other countries before they help the US to over thrown them. Venezuela is a prime example of this. I'm not convinced Joe was just let go by the democrats thinking they didn't need to support him. I'm fairly certain his loss was more a reward than a loss. He's now working towards greener pastures at becoming a lobbyist, and AOC was an intended plant all along. It's a win win for the party and the ruling class. Remember my words! These people are thinking years ahead of us! They know very well that reactions will come with their actions, and think tanks for them plan for a counteraction. From Wikipedia ----- During college, she served as an intern in the office of U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy, in his section on foreign affairs and immigration issues.[24] "I was the only Spanish speaker, and as a result, as basically a kid—a 19-, 20-year-old kid—whenever a frantic call would come into the office because someone is looking for their husband because they have been snatched off the street by ICE, I was the one that had to pick up that phone," Ocasio-Cortez said. "I was the one that had to help that person navigate that system."[24] So she knows full well what is going on now on the border and within the country. Now 9 years later as it's at its worse times, she stood down in a fight she knows needs to be voiced to the public but has chosen to say nothing to the experiences she's admitted to in that statement. This while so many children are being effected compared to 9 years ago! It's totally disgusting! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez

He was the man in 2016 and even more so in 2020!

William_Mary comments on Aug 10, 2019:

"Don't mistake" that the DNC did nothing to protect your donations to him from a sharing system. In other words. Just like those of us who donated our money to him, it went to Clinton and the DNC and their rigged system. All the people donating money to ALL those democratic candidates do so for it ...

William_Mary replies on Aug 10, 2019:

@avron and yet Sanders has done nothing to combat this issue, and still silent towards the rigging. That's a pretty loud statement of no voice towards what his intended agenda may be. Like I said above. Good luck with all that.

Does anyone happen to have the tweet from the Gabbard town hall meeting where a guy asked her about ...

altschmerz comments on Aug 9, 2019:

Who tweeted it?

William_Mary replies on Aug 9, 2019:

I don't remember a name.

Traders are betting big on a sudden drop in stocks and it's starting to pay off [msn.

silverotter11 comments on Aug 4, 2019:

You post such great stuff!!! There is so much going on that this sort of discussion never happens so the vast majority do not get clued in until too late.

William_Mary replies on Aug 4, 2019:

aww thank you silverotter! I highly appreciate you saying that. It makes the time I put in this all worth it!

Mueller Time is over, Russia hate is here to stay [youtube.com]

William_Mary comments on Aug 4, 2019:

Ok, so Mate has finally landed solidly somewhere as a regular at Grayzone, it appears? What a great place for him. He and Ben Norton use to do their work at The Real News Network. Norton has a good staff there now also with Max Blumenthal! This to me would be the best combined news group and source ...

William_Mary replies on Aug 4, 2019:

@Looking4-Others----do you mean outside of going to the site? I don't think there is a whole lot of choices for independent journalist to do so. They provide exposure and saves cost for them to use those sites. You have to take to mind these types of journalist are working on very limited budgets of donations from their readers. They can't get the exposure MSM journalist get, or anywhere near the type of funding they get. MSM exists on adds from the very types of corporations independent journalist often target. Which is why MSM refuse to cover their opposition information. The only reason they get the exposure they do is because of people like us who share their work. These independent journalist even have a hard time on the video sites as they use algorithms to place them at the end of results, if at all. Short of going to RT would be the only other option they have. Which provides another type of stigma to deal with. At facebook I have to periodically go through my list to see which things I'm not getting and reset the options.

Video shows Dallas, Texas police joking as a 32-year-old man dies in their custody [wsws.

silverotter11 comments on Aug 3, 2019:

WOW! That is some kinda callous!! I wonder if there have been any recent (since trump was placed in the WH) on this sort of police behavior. I use to think cops by and large are the good guys and the bad apples taint all but today I am not so sure these bad apples *are* the exception.

William_Mary replies on Aug 4, 2019:

As Obama was on his way out with Trump coming in there was an uptick in police brutality. Then there was the Kaepernick thing which seemed to inflame tensions for months. That went on from one football season into the next. It was just barely starting to wind down as the next season began. And of course the media had to revive it. That season (as it went into the next) we seen a glorification of the military on the football field. For several weeks all the coaching staff were made to wear camouflage outfits, jackets,hats, etc, as the league set rules against kneeling during the anthem. I don't think we have a drastic issue with police, quite yet, but is relatively a greater concern in larger metropolitan areas where we have larger congregation of a minority populations. While I'll also suggest some larger economically challenged cities in certain areas tend to have issues. I got into a debate with an old childhood friend of mine back during the 2016 election cycle. I practically lived with his family when I went to grade school. He is now a cop in Kent where we/I lived. It's a smallish college town here in Ohio, I imagine you've heard of it being it made national news in the 70's often over protest against the Vietnam war. 4 dead in Ohio? But as I was advocating for Sanders one of my arguments was the rising violence against LGBTQ, minority people, and advocacy groups and rallies for them. He attempted to down play my concerns. Even after his first attempt as I then posted several articles backing up my claims in which I used just against the LGBTQ population. Which at the time there was a wide agenda against this section of our population going on presently for months. You might remember the restroom debate going on at the time which inflamed a lot of those attacks. Then you had the kneeling issue of above to go with it. My point is, maybe the news just isn't getting to the smaller towns of law enforcement yet, or he was attempting to lighten concerns for those following me. As he made a point to ask me if I remember what he does for a living. The sadist part of this is that his mom is like 3/4 Native American who when you see her it, really shows. And he of the 4 siblings is as dark as his mom. Marie comes in second. So I know for a fact as I went to school with these people he felt the racism that comes with the color. I imagine he dealt with it to some degree in the Navy also. We all know how the military can be. So I have a hard time believing as a cop and being of mixed race he doesn't understand what the reality and nature of the beast is. Or he's been so well conditioned and inseminated into his surrounding society he's blissfully ignorant of it, and or compliant to it.

Kamala Harris 2020: Chains You Can Believe In [ghionjournal.

Piece2YourPuzzle comments on Aug 1, 2019:

Democrats don't care. It was even mentioned in the debate, to reinforce the idea most likely, that Democrat voters should only focus on who can beat Trump and NOT the issues. If voters don't see the absolute horse crap that is, then it's never going to change. Even when voters seem to focus on the ...

William_Mary replies on Aug 2, 2019:

@Piece2YourPuzzle Booker is to young was another. A lot of what you just mentioned was on that show also. Conditioning!

Kamala Harris 2020: Chains You Can Believe In [ghionjournal.

Piece2YourPuzzle comments on Aug 1, 2019:

Democrats don't care. It was even mentioned in the debate, to reinforce the idea most likely, that Democrat voters should only focus on who can beat Trump and NOT the issues. If voters don't see the absolute horse crap that is, then it's never going to change. Even when voters seem to focus on the ...

William_Mary replies on Aug 1, 2019:

Exactly! As you probably have seen me state I listen to NPR all day. Today on 1 A they had some people on talking about the debates. 2 of them were commoners from 2 different states. I'm not sure who the other 2 or 3 were or from. But not a one of them brought up any past issues! I don't think a one of them had a fucking clue of anything these candidates have done in the past. All they were talking about was how they conducted themselves in the debates. So how do you have a forum on something so important while so seemingly ignorant. And of course the host didn't offer any insight to any of the candidates of substance either.

There is talk now that the GOP want to give another large tax break to the wealthy to combat the ...

Cutiebeauty comments on Jul 30, 2019:

How does a tax break decrease the deficit? I don't understand that...

William_Mary replies on Jul 31, 2019:

Their false manufactured theory is that those on the top will invest more in job growth providing more workers who's taxes will help to pay against the deficit and buy more. This has been used as a means to give them tax breaks sine the Reagan era. Only the deficit has been climbing ever since. In other words. It doesn't work. The wealthy always use this money to buy back their own stocks to manufacture a false indication that the market is doing good which goes to their top share holders.

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silverotter11 comments on Jul 29, 2019:

Do I need to repeat myself? Again for the cheap seats - there is no 2 party system. Our government is big corporate, replace all the stars on the flag with $. Uncle Sam wears an Armani suit, Louis Vuitton Manhattan Richelieu shoes and solid gold bling.

William_Mary replies on Jul 30, 2019:

replace all the stars on the flag with $ That is priceless!

I joined this group assuming independent sources meant unbiased.

CuriosityExtant comments on Jul 29, 2019:

The "establishment" does not want us to know the truth... Here's the roots of this complex problem, but even this is not "in a nut shell": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine#Opposition

William_Mary replies on Jul 29, 2019:

@adaptable1958 exactly. Along with Bill Clinton and our representatives creating legislature that set the tone for all media to be monopolized by 6 billionaires, and or companies, they now control the content of about 90% of the news you see and hear. TV, radio, and now newspapers. These corporate giants of our news rely on corporations adds and various other technologies and support to survive. It's very rare for them to attack these corporations as they rely on them for their survival. Same goes for politicians. As long as they promote the agenda for the establishment, all goes well. Which is why when a certain journalist goes against the grain, they get cut out, if they don't choose to leave on their own. You might find the story of Robert Parry of interest. IN MEMORIAM ROBERT PARRY (1949-2018) https://consortiumnews.com/2018/01/28/robert-parrys-legacy-and-the-future-of-consortiumnews/ He left main stream media and created the first internet news site in 1995. His plight and trials were 2 decades ahead of where we are at today. And we still can't get the American people to understand this :-(

RussiaGate as Organized Distraction Oliver Boyd-Barrett looks at who benefits from having the ...

WayneDalton comments on Jul 29, 2019:

I have been duped most of my life as I have vpted for dems in the foolish belief that they actually cared😠!

William_Mary replies on Jul 29, 2019:

You're not alone. Right up to and through 2 elections I made excuses for Obama. Then fell for Sanders after thinking he was the dream team for a decade. No more! Look at it this way. A good number of Americans are still living in the illusion under both the republican and democratic parties. As Chris Hedges says, squeaking we must. https://youtu.be/FyR0CSDxjkY

Time value of money disappears In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy discuss the ...

Piece2YourPuzzle comments on Jul 28, 2019:

This has always been the nature of our economic system. Whenever you have interest there is a certain point where the debt can't be paid off because of the interest. I think right now we're only able to pay off the interest. Anyone from the beginning of the system with half a brain could have ...

William_Mary replies on Jul 28, 2019:

Your last paragraph relates to my theory of the UK possibly still being the head of this state of being. Along with our "founding fathers" transformation to the new world, also came the capitalist system they left behind. As it was then breaking out of a merchant class type of system and transforming towards capitalism. http://www.solfed.org.uk/a-s-history/unit-1-the-origins-of-capitalism (ironically, after centuries of war, Britain finally lost her superpower economic status to a former colony and a close friend – the USA). One would play hard to convince me that, that friendship isn't strongly relative to today with the City of London's power still calling the shots in our own city of London, Wall Street.

______!!!!Equifax Might Owe You $125 for Its Massive Data Breach.

silverotter11 comments on Jul 28, 2019:

Well, I went ahead and opted for the credit monitoring, as it appears my info was breached. I'll be on the look out to see if anything untoward occurs now that I've given up my last six digits on the claim site. Damn someone's cooking breakfast and it's making me hungry, somethings are more ...

William_Mary replies on Jul 28, 2019:

Yea I said the same thing to Mary after I found out from the other article that we most likely will not see the $250.

The Great Reckoning From a vantage point in the not-too-distant future Andrew J.

callmedubious comments on Jul 25, 2019:

a british economist wrote a book called the "Great Reckoning" 30 yrs ago. according to him we would have had a financial collapse by now. as depressing as it is to think about it the powers that be could keep this corrupt financial, political system going for more decades.

William_Mary replies on Jul 28, 2019:

@callmedubious you've been heard again, in your domineering ways. Congratulations! My hats off to you! Now I must go before you drag me down to your level. I'd say it has been interesting, but sad is more appropriate. For you offer the world absolutely, nothing.