Hudson Jones

Canadians are numb to the direction we're heading towards. Wages are staying low, cost of living is going up, cost of gas is going up, the gap between the rich and poor is getting larger, but we're numb to it, and we're afraid to challenge the comfort bubble we've created around ourselves... Oh look! a new cactus club with crap food but hot waitresses opened up! Let's go for some crap food and $9 martinis and take photos and post them on facebook, pretending that our lives have meaning and we're happy! The trigger will be when 1 out of 3 people find that they can no longer live under the current system. When their credit cards have reached their limit and they have to pick between buying food or paying for utility.

i buy some things that are made in china because of their price as well. it has nothing to do with how i feel about their government.

The unsustainable system is crumbling. It will hit us and our comfort bubble in time.

It's not my opinion. It's reality. Reality that you need to deal with. It's not a loan, so Israel is not giving the money back and there is certainly no interest given on top of it (eh Rue - fantasy boy). It's money given to a foreign nation to buy arms from private companies. The only benefit gained is the profit of private arms companies and the ugly colonialist zionist movement.

The absurdity continues on with Bush Cheney. It's not a loan. Israel does not pay this money back, especially not with interest like Rue, the resident fantasy writer likes to claim. It doesn't matter how many posts you write and how many twists and turns you make, the $3 billion a year is a welfare cheque given to Israel. This has been going on for decades. That's over $80 billion of U.S. taxpayers' money, the U.S. has given to this nation, which has helped it to continue it's brutal occupation and land theft.

That is not "paying back with interest" as you are trying to sell to people. That is spending the U.S. taxpayers' money to buy weapons from private arms companies that will be used in continuing the colonialism and destruction. Paying back would mean that the $3 billion + was a loan, that they paid back to the American people, where the money would be spent on the American people. Stop thinking others are fools with your shameless and pathetic description of what paying back means. You need to stop spreading misinformation and lies.

Obama wanted a debate, here it is:

So they are listening to phone calls. NSA spying flap extends to contents of U.S. phone calls National Security Agency discloses in secret Capitol Hill briefing that thousands of analysts can listen to domestic phone calls. That authorization appears to extend to e-mail and text messages too. Link Edit: GostHacked already posted about this.

I have a lot of interests. It just happens on this board, I like to dedicate the little time I have to fight for justice in the Middle East, as there seems to be a lot of Zionist propaganda trying to skew the truth. I find the Zionist/Colonialist agenda in the middle east to be one of the biggest injustices in the world and it's directly fans the flames of extremism. The worst part of it is that our governments support this big injustice that has been going on for over 65 years. Our governments should not be supporting any state that is engaging in such a behaviour.

Buddy. You can't stop lying and you keep digging holes for yourself with your make belief world. The American taxpayer gives $3 billion to Israel to buy weapons. Contrary to what you said, Israel does NOT "pay this back with interest." It's like claiming that a welfare recipient is actually paying back the money given to him by buying burgers from a fast food restaurant. Your unconditional support for Zionism has turned you into a liar.

First you say Benny Morris is not a historian and then you say Israel pays back the welfare cheque it receives every year. You are unable to post anything without lying and spreading misinformation.

Guess what? Too bad for them, Israel exists and there is no turning back the clock. It's nice of you to worry about the existence of a country that already exists, and also quite telling of you to always avoid saying that the Palestinians need their own real and just state. This is how the sneaky Zionists work. I have condemned any illegal attacks made by any group on the Palestinian side. I just don't see the point of repeating my condemnation since the majority, including my government agrees that those illegal acts, are illegal and should be condemned. The problem is that, for some reason, the biggest culprits of this conflict, the Zionist colonialists are not being condemned by my government and there are people like you who try to apologize for them. Don't expect me to play the stupid game of pretending that the reason that this conflict continues on is because of 'both sides' not engaging. Israel is the aggressor. They're the colonialists who continue to steal land as we speak and prevent a Palestinian state from being created. The truth is that it's Israel who counts on the ongoing conflict in order to steal more land. They want the status quo to continue so a Palestinian State becomes out of reach. The Arab League proposal is a fair and a just proposal. Israel wants nothing to do with it. You can't pretend and say you want dialogue when you dismiss these proposals, continue to break international law and steal land and treat the Palestinians the way they're being treated. Any intelligent person who has looked at what Israel has done knows that the time to try to engage the sneaky, lying, racist Zionist ideology will not go anywhere. Just like it hasn't in the past 45+ years. Time to give the Zionist regime the Apartheid South Africa treatment.

You guys are so empty. It always amazes me watching people who try to put down a politician because they're on a different team and then comeback and unconditionally support another politician, despite many faults,

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Enough time has passed for people to know that the Zionist government, just like the Apartheid South African government is not interested in coming into a fair and just solution. It's time for international pressure on Israel and pressure on our Western governments to stop supporting the racist state. Once they lose the unconditional support, then perhaps Israel will finally admit that it has to stop the land theft, the humiliation of Palestinians and a real Palestinian state will be realized. It's only then will Israel will finally engage in real dialogue.

There is no need for me to condemn someone that myself and my government already condemn. My problem is the racist Israeli government not being condemned by our governments, who are heavily influenced by the Israeli and zionist lobbies. Our governments are useless in this matter and the only way to make a change is by acknowledging the truth and making sure our government knows that Israel is a racist state. Welcome back to the forum Bonam. No offense, but what a pathetic argument. How is it hypocritical? That happened hundreds of years ago and I was not born yet. What Canada did in the past would not be accepted now, under our moral and legal obligations. Why is it that whenever Israel's treatment of Palestinians is questioned, the zionist apologists either use some backwards country to compare Israel to or go back and compare it to the actions of a country from hundreds of years ago. "But sir! Having sex with boys is okay since the Greeks did this hundreds of years ago and I don't see you condemning THEM! Please do not be a hypocrite! But sir!" Touché Bonam. Touché. In your haste to jump in here to apologize for Israel, you didn't bother to think that Israel's racist law prevents Arab Israelis from bringing their spouses into the country. This makes the law racially discriminatory. No one is questioning Israel's advances in technology. I'm not sure you had a need to mention that. Their advances do not take away from the fact that U.S. gives more than $3 billion dollars of U.S. taxpayer's money to Israel every year. Why can't Israel stand on its own two feet if they're so advanced and economically sound? Why the need to receive welfare from the U.S.?

No kidding

Canada and U.S. do not support those racist government/groups but Canada and U.S. support the racist Israeli government. Is one racism okay and the other not? Why do you support the racist Israeli law?

Canada contributes to NATO and NORAD. They're the ones with 10 times the population. So what if they contribute more to NATO and NORAD. Your terrible comparison cannot equate to the $3 billion welfare cheque Israel receives every year. So how about that racist law in Israel? Are you okay with racist laws? Not sure if I read correctly, but aren't you black? If you are, I find it especially odd that a black person would support a racist law such as the racist immigration law in Israel. Don't get me started on how odd I find Jews, with their past, who support the racist ideology of Zionism.

Why deny the facts? Canada participated in the Iraq war in different ways. They were obligated to, since they are part of NATO.

The West used to have a strong ally in Africa. So what. A racist state is a racist state. Yep. The Israeli lobby is strong and powerful in Canada as well. The Harper government went against what the Canadians would prefer. More Canadians are in favour of a Palestinian State than oppose to it.

Trade benefits are mutual. It's a bad comparison. It's different than receiving over $3 billion + a year of chaching.

Canada is not a U.S. welfare state like Israel is. It doesn't receive billions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer money every year. By the way, make sure that you tell everyone not to boycott Israel, as the good prostitutes in your congress and senate made it illegal to do so.

For sure. One look at the political and financial support those prostitutes, who are called congressman/woman and senators, receive from Israeli lobbyists, it makes sense. I'm assuming that you also openly support Israel's racist law like American Woman and PIK.

She calls the girl working there a "sand nigger". If you don't think that's racism, then you need a lesson on what racism is.