All a politician needs to do (in a situation such as the first point on that video regarding gay marriage) is put their hands up and say â I changed my mind as I was wrongâ I have listened to the people who disagreed with me and following an intellectual process have decided my view has changed. I am big enough to admit I was wrong. We want people in power who do not believe themselves to be infallible. Not indecisive I grant you , but also not afraid to say I cocked up.
Same goes for personal politics - it drives my dad mad that I am a floating voter. Over time I have voted for each of the major parties based on what was happening and the information I had at the time. I make no apologies for it. As soon as you say âI knowâ then you stop asking questions, and only by asking questions can you hope to arrive at anything close to the truth.
John Pilger has weighed in with an article on the US Presidency. Heâs not that happy with Sanders either.
It was Hillary Clinton who, as Secretary of State in 2010, elevated the competing territorial claims for rocks and reef in the South China Sea to an international issue; CNN and BBC hysteria followed; China was building airstrips on the disputed islands. In a mammoth war game in 2015, Operation Talisman Sabre, the US and Australia practiced âchokingâ the Straits of Malacca through which pass most of Chinaâs oil and trade. This was not news.
Clinton declared that America had a ânational interestâ in these Asian waters. The Philippines and Vietnam were encouraged and bribed to pursue their claims and old enmities against China. In America, people are being primed to see any Chinese defensive position as offensive, and so the ground is laid for rapid escalation. A similar strategy of provocation and propaganda is applied to Russia.
Clinton, the âwomenâs candidateâ, leaves a trail of bloody coups: in Honduras, in Libya (plus the murder of the Libyan president) and Ukraine. The latter is now a CIA theme park swarming with Nazis and the frontline of a beckoning war with Russia. It was through Ukraine - literally, borderland - that Hitlerâs Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, which lost 27 million people. This epic catastrophe remains a presence in Russia. Clintonâs presidential campaign has received money from all but one of the worldâs ten biggest arms companies. No other candidate comes close.
John Pilgerâs never happy though ⌠Itâs his job to be an angry anti establishment figure and use phrases like âswarming with Naziâsâ really? Hilary Clinton âleaves a trail of bloody coupsâ Itâs very evocative language and sells papers
âHitlerâs Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, which lost 27 million people. This epic catastrophe remains a presence in Russia. Clintonâs presidential campaign has received money from all but one of the worldâs ten biggest arms companies. No other candidate comes closeâ
John Pilgerâs never happy though ⌠Itâs his job to be an angry anti establishment figure and use phrases like âswarming with Naziâsâ really? Hilary Clinton âleaves a trail of bloody coupsâ Itâs very evocative language and sells papers
Really?
Much of Ukraine joined in with the actual Nazis back in the day. During the recent trouble, the parties that have emerged have been from the far right, and do things like hang around in militias, not a great deal different from the SA back in the day.
Thereâs also nowt wrong with what heâs saying about Hillary.
On the âsells papersâ bit, maybe, but aside from the Guardian (which doesnât seem to be running this article) I donât see his work as some sort of sensationalist commercial vehicle.
Journalists write well. If they didnât, they probably wouldnât be decent journalists. Independent journalists are always going to have a go at the establishment.
âHitlerâs Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, which lost 27 million people. This epic catastrophe remains a presence in Russia. Clintonâs presidential campaign has received money from all but one of the worldâs ten biggest arms companies. No other candidate comes closeâ
Really?
Help us out here. Which bit did you actually dispute, and whatâs the basis of your disagreement?
As we head to California for next Tuesdayâs primary, the state deals with an influx of new voter registrations.
I wonder if theyâre signing up for Hillary? The Indy seems to think theyâre Sanders supporters, and that she could lose the nomination on the basis of results here.
âHeâs honestâ or âSays how it isâ lines. He isnât, and he lies repeatedly. This isnât even hard to prove, and has shifted his stance on plenty loads (Iraq, being a big one).
The âheâs a great businessmanâ one is utter trash too. He was born into mega wealth, inherited it all - and by some estimates is now worse off than if he just left the money in the bank. Not to mention the number of bankruptcies he has been involved with.
How fucking idiotic to you have to be to fall for this bollocks? Like fuck is someone like Trump going to do anything that has even the slightest bit of a positive impact on the average American.
However, its a brilliant suggestion from Hillary. I am convinced that if he wasnât able to walk in to a shop and buy a firearm under her suggested rule, then he would certainly not have been able to obtain one in any other way.
The future is bright
Probably due to the flash from a fucking atom bomb.
