Hudson Jones
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On 6/26/2018 at 3:10 AM, betsy said:
China has more than 70 million people living in poverty. No regime is safe with that many people suffering.
Any idea what the number of people in poverty in the U.S. is? It's over 40 million people. Is Trump's regime not safe either?
Edit: I see that Marcus has already mentioned this. My guess is that betsy will deflect and will not respond to this.
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1 hour ago, bush_cheney2004 said:
Israel First...
U.S. Second.
You are one of those.
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38 minutes ago, bush_cheney2004 said:
Sure...looked how well it has worked out for First Nations in Canada !
Heh.
Talk to me on the day when the First Nations are put into an open air prison, not allowed freedom of movement and shot in the back by snipers for simply protesting their conditions.
Until then, continue your support for a terrorist state through texts on a Canadian political forum and your taxes.
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8 minutes ago, bush_cheney2004 said:
Sure I am....must have learned it from the PLO during the 1972 Olympic Games.
Bring a lawsuit....fight for justice !!!
Through the kangaroo courts?
Here is a howler:
JNF threatens to sue Hamas in international courts for kite arson damage
Nonprofit, which owns much of the land near the Strip that has been ravaged by fires, accuses Palestinian group of 'environmental terrorism'
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8 minutes ago, bush_cheney2004 said:
Stop with the charade....If one messes with the bull...expect to get the horns.
"Canadian doctor"....so what ?
You are promoting war crimes and a terrorist state.
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22 hours ago, bush_cheney2004 said:
If he wants to be....
What kind of an answer is this? Why are you butchering the meaning of words? This ridiculousness needs to stop.
Majority of the people shot and killed by the Israeli snipers are civilians or first responders with no weapons.
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10 minutes ago, bush_cheney2004 said:
Death to the Israeli army elements ? Well, that certainly boils down things to the basics.
Q: What is harder to get than sympathy for PLO terrorists ?
A: Nothing
The medic is a PLO terrorist? So is the Canadian doctor who was shot and the thousands of other civilians who have been shot?
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Israel continues to target civilians and first responders. Israel continues to commit war crimes with its actions in the Gaza strip.
A wounded Palestinian protester is evacuated during demonstrations east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on 25 May. The woman medic in the photo is Razan al-Najjar, who was shot in the back and killed by an Israeli army sniper on 1 June.
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These Israeli cowards are shooting children, doctors and paramedics. Including this Canadian doctor - The paramedic who helped him didn't survive the sniper shot:
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12 minutes ago, bush_cheney2004 said:
That's what happens when they export terrorism, suicide bombings, stabbings, kidnapping, etc.
Always the first to excuse bloodshed and crimes against humanity! Way to go buddy!
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27 minutes ago, CITIZEN_2015 said:
It is two sided because there is always a two side to everything. You say Palestinians are surroounded by a military which in my view has little or no respect for the lives of civilians but also you ignore the fact that Israel is also surrounded by a very fierce enemy who if they get their way much more than 60 civilians will be massacred. I condemn the actions of Israelis and at the same time recognize the situation that Israel is, though it does not justify killing unarmed but very angry/violent civilians by a country who claims to be a democracy and civilize.
That said My post you quoted was supposed to be informative based on what has been reported in the news media. I was surprised that after such bloodshed and going on for a while not a single poster on this forum condemned or even commented about that.
When I say "two-sided", I mean the narrative created is that it's 50/50. Tit for tat. This is not the situation.
Israel is surrounded by people who hate them. Some of this hate can be seen as justified, considering what the Israeli government has been doing to the Palestinians. However, the countries surrounding Israel are not a threat to Israel. Perhaps many decades ago, but this is not the case. There is coordination between most of the countries surrounding them. Hamas is a product of the decades long occupation. They came to be in the early 90's. A group like Hamas would either not exist or it would be non-relevant if Israel did not treat the Palestinians the way it does.
When the Jews were imprisoned in Auschwitz and other ghettos, there were groups who rose against the Nazis. Hamas and other groups are no different.
Between 1941 and 1943, underground resistance movements developed in approximately 100 ghettos in Nazi-occupied eastern Europe (about one-fourth of all ghettos), especially in Poland, Lithuania, Belorussia, and the Ukraine. Their main goals were to organize uprisings, break out of the ghettos, and join partisan units in the fight against the Germans.
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5 minutes ago, bush_cheney2004 said:
What are you talking about ?
Israel does not pretend that Palestinians don't exist.
Israel actually has a much better record than Canada's present and past history of FN land theft, resource domination, subjugation, incarceration, residential schools, murders, scoop babies, pollution, etc.
Several of Canada's First Nations allied themselves with "oppressed" Palestinians decades ago....for obvious reasons.
Canada has a terrible record and history when it comes to their treatment of the First Nations.
That's in the past. Canada is trying to make amends and even though it's moving slowly, it is moving towards the right direction.
The simple problem with your argument is that the treatment of Palestinians today, by Israel, would never be accepted by Canadians if it were done to the First Nations.
Unless you have something new to add to your ridiculous argument, this case is closed.
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12 minutes ago, CITIZEN_2015 said:
Israeli soldiers kill 60 Palestinian civilians and injured hundreds more.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-44131466
Israel has been accused of showing no restraint. Europe called for independent investigations into what Palestinians called "crimes against humanity" by Israelis while the Israelis blames it on Hamas.
It's amazing to me how something so one-sided is pushed to be seen as two-sided.
Palestinians, especially the ones in Gaza are held in an open-aired prison. They have no control over their borders, air and the sea. They have no control over what goes in and out of their tiny piece of land. They are surrounded by a trigger happy military who is backed by a criminal government.
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On 5/8/2018 at 5:28 PM, bush_cheney2004 said:
Really ? Why is the very same scenario celebrated in the U.S. and Canada (i.e. First Nations) ?
Why is there a different standard for Israel ?
What are you talking about?
We don't pretend that the First Nations did not live here or don't exist.
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6 minutes ago, Bonam said:
Why would someone work for $38.46 CAD per hour in Vancouver when they can drive 2.5 hours south and get paid $60 USD ($77.70 CAD) per hour in Seattle? Double the salary, lower taxes on that higher salary, AND lower housing prices (though probably not for much longer). Canadian software engineers can easily get a TN visa to work in the US.
It's not taxes that are driving some workers down south. It's the free market that determines salary.
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Translation: People who have lived there for centuries and who had their land stolen from them are just a myth and don't deserve to have a state there, but European settlers who moved to that land, are magically the eternal owners of the land and deserve to have a state of their own.
The chutzpah to suggest such a narrative is beyond ridiculous.
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On 4/28/2018 at 3:15 PM, Rue said:
This law of return ironically is no different than that of over 140 different nations that provide the same law of return for their identified nationals, i.e., China, Italy, Eire, Belgium, Germany, Japan, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Estonia, Russia, South Korea.
You are spreading misinformation again.
The law of return in Israel only requires that the person is Jewish. Whereas these other countries, like Japan, require that you are the child of a Japanese citizen.
Meaning that a person who has no family ties to Israel, can gain citizenship in Israel, only because they are Jewish.
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Here is some good news:
Natalie Portman has publicly refused to travel to Israel for the Genesis award, leading the entire ceremony to be canceled. In a statement she said "[r]ecent events in Israel have been extremely distressing to her and she does not feel comfortable participating in any public events in Israel” and that “she cannot in good conscience move forward with the ceremony." Israel's brand has become so toxic that even well-known Israeli-American cultural figures, like Natalie Portman, now refuse to blatantly whitewash, or art-wash, Israeli crimes and apartheid policies.
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On 3/29/2018 at 6:15 AM, LonJowett said:
Let me also chime in and blame the media for reporting on the president having a nondisclosure agreement with a porn star with whom he had an affair. How is a president being compromised in this way even news? Would the right wing have violated Bill Clinton's privacy in this way if he did something like this? It's a clear case of MSM bias!
They impeached Clinton?
I agree though, the MSM loves to pretend it's above tabloids, but it's the same shit.
I'm more interested in Trump's business deals with foreign actors and how that influences his decision making. This is similar to the Clintons and the Clinton foundation, but at a much bigger scale.
I bet if we were in the Clinton years right now, Betsy would be all over the Monica Lewinsky story and asking for Clinton's head.
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Iran does need regime change. But what kind of regime change? Through the same type of regime change that U.S. has initiated in the past (ie: Afghanistan/Iraq/Libya) or is there another way?
As history has shown, the Boltons will put Iran in a much more shittier position than they are now in.
Can Iran change without explosions and fireworks? I compare Iran now to what it was like in the past, and it seems like it is slowly moving towards the right direction - maybe? I am only going with what some of the Iranians I know are saying. But Iranians are very diverse, especially politically, and the perspectives are different.
I see a country like China and the changes we have seen in the past 20 years. Opening up to the world market forced China to change its culture. I can see Iran being able to do that as well. Especially with its highly educated population, who are already well connected to the Western world. I believe open economic channels can continue to make the mullahs irrelevant.
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5 hours ago, GostHacked said:
MEK sounds nothing more that terrorists. Any group that goes against the current government in any nation is in the government's view, a terrorist.
It's more than that with MEK. It wasn't that they went against just the government, they also killed innocent civilians through bombs and explosions and of course, the military they created in conjunction with Saddam.
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On 4/3/2018 at 3:58 PM, CITIZEN_2015 said:
I am certainly not Pro MEK. That said I don't know much about MEK except what I have been told and read that MEK was an Islamic Marxist terror organization who fought against the Shah and help the ayatolahs to power (so they are guilty in the suffering of the this nation now). Then they lost the power to them and started fighting for power and once they didn't get it then they joined Iran's enemy (Iraqi Saddam) who invaded Iran and killed many Iranians (so many iranians and rightly so consider them traitors).
Recently they claimed to have changed and appears to be bribing a few US politicians for support. However, US administration and US politicians including the President know well that MEK has no support among Iranian people as is not an alternative. So if they are seeking a regime change then MEK is not an alternative and they know it but rather another opposition who many tens of thousands of demonstrators and protesters were chanting his name recently in Iran, the son of the last King and former crown prince, Reza Pahlavi. Bolton may support MEK in theory however, in practice he must be fully aware that they have no chance in Iran.
MEK is to Iran as Chalabi was to Iraq.
Bolton is one of the architects and advocates of the Iraq war. He is also on the payroll by MEK and neo-con organizations.
I'm not sure why you're trying to shrug his history and association off and give him a pass. I understand your hate for the Iranian regime. I don't know anyone who doesn't have a hate for these mullahs, but I really hope that this hate does not blind you to what could happen to Iran if Bolton and the neo-cons get their way.
Here is an article that sheds light into who Bolton's association with the MEK.
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Israel's Rules of Engagement. Shoot unarmed protesters who are running away from your position.
This is what morally and ethically bankrupt cowards do:
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On 3/27/2018 at 5:36 PM, CITIZEN_2015 said:
Interesting article about The pro-Iranian regime lobby has gone into overdrive claiming that Bolton, a former is an ultra-hawkish warmonger who will not hesitate to attack Iran.
https://www.upi.com/John-Bolton-is-a-realist-on-Iran/3231522156093/
Iran is the most repressive country in the Middle East. It executes more people, per capita, than any other country in the world. Ninety percent of all executions throughout the Middle East take place in Iran, often in public. The regime tightly controls the media and education.
The recent uprisings in over 140 cities throughout Iran show that the people are sick to death with this theocratic dictatorship. They long for freedom, justice, democracy and the rule of law, but the IRGC and its cohorts have met their protests with the usual brutal crackdown. Around 8,000 mostly young protesters, many of them women, have been arrested. At least 14 have been tortured to death. These are atrocious crimes that Europe has chosen to ignore.
This is from your article:
QuoteBolton has identified Iran's "Islamic Republic" as the source of terror in the Middle East and worldwide. This is why he has been willing to stick his head above the parapet and show his open support for the main Iranian democratic opposition movement -- the People's Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI or MEK). Ambassador Bolton has addressed mass MEK rallies in Paris, which always attract over 100,000 ex-pat Iranians. He has advocated regime change in Tehran as the only way to restore peace and social justice to the 80 million Iranian citizens and to end conflict across the Middle East. He recognizes that years of appeasement under Obama did not prevent conflict in the zone; it encouraged it.
Are you pro MEK?
Iran needs some democracy
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This is a hilarious comment!
Are you blind?!
Do you not see what these countries, U.S. especially (on behalf of their donors) have done around the Middle East? Instability is the name of the game. With instability comes weaker opponents, prolonged conflict which creates a need to use and buy weapons. Which is a billion dollar industry.