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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.

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

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.

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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.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joins House Democrats in vote for Trump war budget [wsws.

Cutiebeauty comments on Jul 27, 2019:

Can you please tell me which political party you support in the United States and whether or not you are an actual American? This post seems all over the place... Very strange...

William_Mary replies on Jul 28, 2019:

@Cutiebeauty lets just call it water under the bridge. If we get to good wine flowing under the bridge then we have a problem :-) I'm more than happy to work with anyone who needs clarification or is interested in my understanding on post I make as I see the narrative direction. But I can't work with ( This post seems all over the place... Very strange...) Where the hell do I go with that? It can be seen as an insult to someone's time who injects their own side notes, and I don't have a clue whether you're actually confronting the article or my injected side notes of opinion. Or whether you're actually posing a legitimate question. If you want someone's clarification, mine in this example, please provide substance and direction to that which you're referring to. As far as AOC goes, it isn't to hard to look up the vote count. If you're on a phone and it's easier for me, I'll even do it for us. Then if you are to find the article is wrong, confront that so I know I need to reconsider the source before using it in the future. But I've never found this site to purposely mislead with its information. And BTW, this might be a hard fact for you to swallow if you're an AOC supporter, but this is far from the first time she has back legislature that favors Trump's agenda or the establishments agenda. I'm truly sorry she seems to have turned out to be another Sanders like politician, but she started giving those signs right out of the gate as she has time after time supported even those within her own party that are constantly belittling her proclaimed progressive agenda. Right out of the gate she stated she supported Clinton even after all we know about how that election went down. And today still spews the false fear the Russian narrative. You simply can't speak out against the party you're in and a number of its agendas then turn around and support it and those leading the agenda also. Her votes on military spending, support for regime change in Iran and Venezuela, Israel's right to defend itself illegally, flip flop on the budget bill that opened up fake border issues to go through, a corporate leaning green deal that was stolen and heavily diluted from the green party. Which the latter seems to be what all her supporters use as a support system from her, and I will argue she is using quite well as an illusion. I say this as a fair warning from someone that was a stanch Sanders supporter! Who overlooked some of the very same signs in him. Deeply disappointed in Nader and Hedges discussion of how they said he would eventually collapse and betray his followers at the convention, if not before. They called that scene almost to a tee. I spent about every waking moment advocating for him on the weekends and week night of my free time to be totally let ...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joins House Democrats in vote for Trump war budget [wsws.

silverotter11 comments on Jul 28, 2019:

I read the post - well fuck I got nothing to argue with. There is NO 2 party system, big corporate/wealth is our government and our elected officials dance on the end of their strings. I am not surprised and from all appearances trump will get a 2nd term. I was sort of hoping after they got their...

William_Mary replies on Jul 28, 2019:

I know, right. This goes well beyond cognitive dissidence! Stupidity?

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joins House Democrats in vote for Trump war budget [wsws.

Cutiebeauty comments on Jul 27, 2019:

Can you please tell me which political party you support in the United States and whether or not you are an actual American? This post seems all over the place... Very strange...

William_Mary replies on Jul 27, 2019:

@Cutiebeauty don't give yourself such credit. I've been dealing with your type longer than you've been out of diapers. You're to late to being able to get under my skin. You have left yourself open for me to point out your rudeness and quackery a number of times, I've just been to understanding to confront you until now as you attack me. Part of that quackery seems more about the persons ability to relate than it is the information making sense. From you post and comments it seems quite apparent to many people around you tend to be too understanding for you. It's quite sad one who has a tendency to recognize the faults of certain people and their characters, also practices the same without notice.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joins House Democrats in vote for Trump war budget [wsws.

Cutiebeauty comments on Jul 27, 2019:

Can you please tell me which political party you support in the United States and whether or not you are an actual American? This post seems all over the place... Very strange...

William_Mary replies on Jul 27, 2019:

@Cutiebeauty feel free to go find us a contradiction then Cutie. I'm open for debate and rebuttal of my post. Please provide the substance to participate in such. Insinuating I'm un-American and now this is a page right out of Trumps book. Seems to me you've either been well condition or you rude as fuck. Pick your poison right along with the other member above you.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joins House Democrats in vote for Trump war budget [wsws.

bobwjr comments on Jul 27, 2019:

WTF Bullshit

William_Mary replies on Jul 27, 2019:

That helps us understand a lot! Excellent observation and participation you have going there.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joins House Democrats in vote for Trump war budget [wsws.

Cutiebeauty comments on Jul 27, 2019:

Can you please tell me which political party you support in the United States and whether or not you are an actual American? This post seems all over the place... Very strange...

William_Mary replies on Jul 27, 2019:

I'm presently registered as a Green. Which I switched to, to vote in the last mid election cycle of 2018. Over the years I have been non affiliated, which in Ohio I have the right to chose which ever primary party I want to vote in. Before going Green I voted for Sanders in the primary which automatically switch me to a Democrat. Leaving me a choice to go back to non affiliated or Green. Which I did so (Green) once I went in to vote. Voting laws in Ohio are a little easier on voters in that way. Which is why so many problems exists in other states with independents and deadlines to register. I can switch parties as an independent or non affiliated the day I go in to vote. If I so chose to vote for any certain party members in a primary. Which I'm fairly certain at this point it time it will not be for a democrat or a republican any time soon.

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 27, 2019:

@callmedubious offering an opinion is a means to suggest a theory. In which the one it's offered to analyzes it with their own to coordinate a relative relationship towards, or declines it out of rebuttal, often resorting to further discussion either way. Therefore, an opinion can basically be the same thing as a suggestion in some cases. Maybe it's your presentation. You're always seemingly domineering on the boards when I interact with you. I see it towards others also, from you. Plus your lack of proper grammar makes it hard to understand your intent and content. When I have to read such short replies and comments made from you over and over it's quite frankly, insane for me to even attempt to communicate with you. And I personally hate grammar trolls for the most part, knowing mines not perfect, but in your case I see why they can become annoyed.

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Piece2YourPuzzle comments on Jul 26, 2019:

Not eligible. Don't know if I should be happy about that or not lol

William_Mary replies on Jul 27, 2019:

More on that today. It looks like it's pretty much a scam of sorts.

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

Cutiebeauty comments on Jul 26, 2019:

Some people can get up to 20 thousand dollars if they can prove financial loss...