Very scary stuff. Why is Obama so scared of Trump ? Meanwhile they try to distract the world with allegations of gropings ??

That youtube isn’t biased at all

@Crimson: the journal totally biased as usual. par for the course here.

@Karen Ryan: Biased CNN are owned by the Time Warner company, who are one of Hillary Clintons campaign donors.

One of the strangest aspects of this whole election campaign is that there are people who think Trump is going to win,a deluded minority mind you. I heard they hacked Trump’s emails too but the WikiLeaks team couldn’t translate them from due to the bigly number of grammar mistakes.

@Crimson: It amazes me how Wikileaks was the champion of the lefties when it exposed Bush’s warmongering, but now that it is exposing the Clintons corruption, to them now it is somehow ‘Russian hackers’ at work.

Little slip up there switching accounts Crimson,lol! Pretty desperate when you have to use multiple accounts to pretend your outlandish views are common!

I’ve read the speech transcripts.. What exactly is so significant about them? She comes across as pretty balanced, nothing much to see here really.

@Tariq ibn Ziyad: Go away Tariq, or should I say Petr, Jester… LIAM EGAN…you are a pathetic troll.

@Tariq ibn Ziyad: allah u chocloate achbar !

Will we see her correspondence with the Saudi’s soon ? That $22billion arms deal must have left a tidy few emails on her private server . Unless Huma deleted them….

There’s no slip up .. it’s the new feature on the journal .. you don’t need to type the person’s name anymore. .

Crimson that is embarrassing. Getting into an argument with others on line is sad, staging a full blown conversation with yourself is beyond the pale.

@Crimson: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cu20R4pUAAAoL2O.jpg

@mr magoo: Perhaps this speech has something to do with it :

Election Donald Trump: “A moment of reckoning.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFQcZMGe4p0&feature=youtu.be

@Zx5vZulB: Reply to your own comment and see how stupid you will feel after what you just posted.

I enjoyed that

@Crimson. . You’re wasting your time .. some don’t like being proven wrong …

@TIZ, hows things in Syria these days ?

@Suzie Sunshine: For sure.

You messed up bro,schoolboy error,take your medicine and quit ranting.

@Pat O’Dwyer:
Oh dear, oh dear Pat. You must really stop believing everything you read online. If you look hard enough and long enough online, you will find some crackpot literature which will endorse your world view.
What a way to round up his presidency. By “pressing the switch on the way out”, I think probably refers more to turning off the light in the Oval Office, rather than launching a nuclear strike at Putin.
Fearmongering at its most transparent. I am not a Clintonite, I think both candidates are flawed, but it appears to me that the only way you can undermine her bid now is by undermining the support around her by quoting as many spurious articles as possible.
Bile, man, sheer bile.

Tariq ..you’re wrong .. it depends on the device you’re using ..

From the quote alone in this article she suggests that the only reason she wants more regulation is to appease the voters and is nearly apologising for it to them. She also mentions in one of her speeches that the best people to regulate wall Street are the bankers that know it best. This revolving door system has led to the deregulation that caused the financial crash.

@Pat O’Dwyer: You obviously have bought the MSM hype…. They rarely report the news it’s glossy gossip you have embraced UN peace council have admitted the Syrian war is stemmed from warmongering from NATO , USA, Europe, and middleeast …. The news is propaganda stop reading the gossip and go find the truth… 16 October 2016 13:39
What You Are Not Being Told About the Afghanistan War : The Corbett Report
corbettreport.com
https://www.corbettreport.com/what-you-are-not-being-told-about-the-afghanistan-war/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CorbettReportRSS+%28The+Corbett+Report%29 October 7, 2016 marks the 15th anniversary of the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan by US-led NATO forces.

15 years since the bombs began raining down on the country. 15 years of drone strikes and civilian massacres, detainees and prison torture, insurgency and bombings, warlords and druglords and CIA kickbacks.

15 years of death. 15 years of destruction.

And still, like a decades-long nightmare, it continues.

The world was told that the invasion, launched after the invocation of NATO’s self-defense treaty, was a response to the false flag events of September 11, 2001.

But this explanation, like the official narrative of the events of 9/11 itself, was a carefully constructed lie. As Professor Michel Chossudovsky of the Centre for Research on Globalization explains, the US government’s demands for Osama Bin Laden’s extradition were proven disingenuous when they repeatedly denied the Taliban’s offers to extradite him, and the invasion itself, a major theatre operation, was launched impossibly quickly.

That the invasion of Afghanistan had been planned well before 9/11 was first revealed by Niaz Naik, the former Foreign Secretary of Pakistan, who told BBC News that he “was told by senior American officials in mid-July [of 2001] that military action against Afghanistan would go ahead by the middle of October.”

This story was confirmed by Donald Rumsfeld, who told the September 11th Commission Hearings in March of 2004, that the first major national security directive of the Bush administration was a plan to combat the Taliban in Afghanistan. Although it was not officially signed until October 25, 2001, nearly three weeks after the invasion began, it was in fact drafted in June of that year and was sitting on the president’s desk waiting to be signed on September 4, 2001, one full week before 9/11.

“Dr. Rice has stated that she asked the National Security Council staff in her first week in office for a new presidential initiative on al Qaeda. In early March, the staff was directed to craft a more aggressive strategy aimed at eliminating the al Qaeda threat. The first draft of that approach, in the form of a presidential directive, was circulated by the NSC staff in June of 2001, and a number of meetings were held that summer at the deputy secretary level to address the policy questions involved, such as relating an aggressive strategy against Taliban to U.S.-Pakistan relations.

“By the first week of September, the process had arrived at a strategy that was presented to principals and later became NSPD-9, the President’s first major substantive national security decision directive. It was presented for a decision by principals on September 4th, 2001, seven days before the 11th, and later signed by the President, with minor changes and a preamble to reflect the events of September 11th, in October.”

SOURCE: RUMSFELD 9/11 COMMISSION TESTIMONY MARCH 23, 2004

So if the plan to invade Afghanistan was not about 9/11, then why were the neocons so eager to take over the country?

Like any major military operation, there are multiple strategic objectives to be achieved.

Securing a key transportation corridor from rich Caspian Sea oil and gas reserves has always been one important objective of the Afghanistan war.

But this was by no means the only objective of the invasion.

From the monetary perspective there is as much as a trillion dollars of untapped mineral wealth in the country that could make it one of the world’s leading mining centres in the coming years, a mineral wealth that has been known about for decades.

And there is also the fact that the world’s lucrative multi-billion dollar heroin trade sources almost entirely from the country, with up to 90% of the world’s opium coming from the record crops that are being diligently protected by US troops.

The oil and gas pipelines. The mineral extraction. The opium. All of these are factors in the ongoing occupation of Afghanistan years after any pretence of an excuse for NATO’s presence evaporated. But there is one factor that has made Afghanistan the target of would-be world rulers for centuries: its location.

In 1904, Sir Halford John Mackinder PC, the Director of the London School of Economics, published an essay in The Geographical Journal titled “The Geographical Pivot of History.” In that essay, Mackinder laid out the “Heartland Theory,” a theory that would come to dominate foreign policy and geostrategic thought.

The Heartland Theory holds that the earth’s surface can be divided into a “world island,” the “offshore islands” and the “outlying islands.” The “Heartland” lay at the center of the “world island” and the Eurasian landmass, and its importance was summarized in Mackinder’s famous dictum:

“Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland;

Who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island;

Who rules the World-Island commands the World.”

This is why control of the Central Asian region, and Afghanistan in particular, has been prized by empire since the 19th century, when Britain and Russia engaged in diplomatic struggle, intelligence operations, military conflicts and subterfuge for control over Afghanistan in what was called “The Great Game.” And this is why former National Security Advisor and perennial Washington insider Zbigniew Brzezinski was able to predict in his 1997 magnum opus, “The Grand Chessboard,” that the first major war of the 21st century would take place in Afghanistan.

Brzezniski had no crystal ball. He did not know that the neocons would be in office in 2001. He had not seen NSPD-9. He did not know how 9/11 would be used as the fig leaf to cover the naked ambition of NATO’s land grab. But he did understand the geostrategic imperatives of world empires, and he knew that control over Central Asia was crucial to control over the world. Without NATO’s Afghanistan toehold, the US hegemon would have no chance of countering China and Russia in the New Great Game of the 21st century.

This is what Afghanistan was, is and always will be about: empire. The naked ambition of would-be world rulers. As long as that ambition remains unchecked, NATO will continue to keep its forces in the region at any cost. And as Russia and China continue to exert their own influence in the region, that deployment brings us one step closer to direct military confrontation.

And the people of Afghanistan, once again, are crushed underfoot, mere pawns in the game for world empire.

Enjoyed that no wonder they grasping at straws.

“my view is I want to defend natural gas. I want to defend repairing and building the pipelines we need to fuel our economy. I want to defend fracking under the right circumstances.” Clinton at a closed doors meeting with Union chiefs. Of course she has a different line when talking to greens.

@LITTLEONE:

Have you read this one. They are worried about her attacking Bernie Sanders
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11580

Also this is interesting about securing the Black vote
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6546

@mr magoo: A media willing to take on serial litigants with deep pockets, instead of working for them, will need to be paid a salary and pension by the non-billionaire public that will allow them to do that. And their legal fees.

And if we want journalists willing to criticize islam we’ll also need to pay, as taxpayers or otherwise, for security for them and their families, probably for the rest of their lives.

Old fashioned newspapers paid for by subscription could do it, if the reading public will put their money where their mouths are. Information, and freedom of speech, have to be paid for. If we don’t do it we’ll end up with a media like that of the US.

The only one on any radio that TRIES to ask a few awkward questions of BOTH is George Hook

George Hook at least tries!!

@Marlowemallow: the thing is … that the kind of manufacturing that had “good jobs” have gone away because of technology not because of illegals
By far, the majority of the work taken by illegals is the kind of work Americans don’t want to do
Manufacturing got weird with Labour Unions and people were being paid unsustainable wages
which made outsourcing unskilled jobs attractive, that’s just a fact
They don’t have carriage repair shops anymore, they don’t really employ horse shoe repair lads as an occupation (there is one kind but it’s minuscule)
There ARE good paying jobs out there, but they require math/science type degrees

Hope that this helps :)

@West Cork Lad: No. The work done by legal and illegal immigrants everywhere is work that was previously done by… other people. It’s not a newly invented category of unpalatable work. They’re simply willing to do it for less pay and worse terms and conditions. That’s why business lobbies like open borders. It’s supply and demand.

Automation certainly did away with many manufacturing jobs. Others, however, were simply outsourced because labour was cheaper elsewhere. Much of that manufacturing is now done by hand in third world sweatshops, not by any kind of advanced technology, because that’s cheaper.

Yes, labour unions made labour uncompetitive with the third world. Living in anything more than third world conditions will make you uncompetitive with the third world, as a rule, so competing with them is probably unwise unless you’d like to live a third world lifestyle.

Of course there are good paying jobs out there. That’s why the middle classes don’t give much of a shit about the destruction of a once prosperous wage earning class. We collectively threw them under the bus in the 1980′s. And the turn of the middle class is coming. Middle management, IT functions etc. can all be outsourced too. That’s when the howls of protest tend to start.

That situation is unsustainable in the long term as the US is demonstrating. Societies which fail to provide useful work for their unskilled, semi-skilled and skilled wage earning class, well, they fail in the long run. Always.

The only question is how violent that failure will be – we’re following the US model so give us 20-30 years and we’ll be due the same civil unrest and demagoguery that they’ve earned for themselves.

That’s where political economy should come into it. The affluent classes including the upper middle class could, in theory, get a grip, agree to pay a little more for your next Ipod and your cheap manicure so that your unskilled fellow citizens can earn a decent wage, so your kids don’t end up living in a gated community hoping that the growing ranks of Les Deplorables don’t vote in a Trump.

@Marlowemallow:

“No. The work done by legal and illegal immigrants everywhere is work that was previously done by… other people. It’s not a newly invented category of unpalatable work.”

Nice try but no cigar. You are making an assumption that work is static. It is not. Labour needs change over time. There are also contributory factors that impact the labour pool. For example, one of the largest employers of undocumented workers is restaurants. The number of restaurants and the number of Americans eating out x quantity of meals has exploded in the past 20 years. Concurrently,, the prison industrial complex has also exploded, sending large percentages of black males (proportional percentage to non/blacks significantly higher) into incarceration. In some areas, half of the eligible black males are incarcerated. Historically, black males have occupied the role of unskilled labourer. Nature abhors a vacuum and so does labour markets. The US labour market has shifted to low pay, unskilled, service jobs at the same time the blacks are being locked up by the millions, creates the demand for undocumented to fill those positions.

Hope that this helps :)

@Tom Kelly: while the Looney right like to blame the victims

The alt-right posters here are 99% early school leavers who hate anything different,victim blaming is right. As pointed out by D.A. above,they reside in a platform vacuum,empty vessels springs to mind.

@D.A. Molony:
I love to know how much effort you would put into exercising your freedom of speech, if you knew your whole way of life was in peril, and that of your family and friends. People who do not understand history are doomed to repeat it.

Neither Hillary nor Trump are the end stage of anything. Late 19th century America was a small state, free market experiment and produced no Trump. Eisenhower’s US was far more statist and interventionist than today’s US and produced no Hillary. Whoever gets elected, politics will go on.

Then how about the fact that they said they have stuff on Trump but haven’t released anything? Interfering in an election for their own ends. I’d like to have the freedom to access their donor information

@Dave O Keeffe: And if they are hypocrites with an agenda, that makes the information they’ve released on Hillary no more or less true. Talking about their bias is just a way of avoiding talking about Hillary.

@Marlowemallow:

Just emerged…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SSa9tTa0-k&feature=youtu.be