BruceVC

Wait a second...didn't the Obsidian think tank determine that PRISM is useless and you have a better chance getting hit by a booger flicked by a Bigfoot than you do catching a mook with PRISM? Gfted1 are you prepared to share who you are voting for and if you dont want to I understand but how do you feel about the state of the US political arena at the moment ?

Wait a second...didn't the Obsidian think tank determine that PRISM is useless and you have a better chance getting hit by a booger flicked by a Bigfoot than you do catching a mook with PRISM? Indeed there was rejection of Prism because of the concern of private data being scanned ....and I assume people are worried normal law abiding citizens will get harrassed by the federal government. But I dont think the functionality or effectiveness was questioned ? As I mentioned last time this would be no issue for me because Prism would be used to track and find people who would be considered terrorists ...so the majority of Americans would never even know about Prism

Hilarious. Snowden actually commented and stated that if Russia were responsible, the US government would know and it wouldn't be "speculation," suggesting (big surprise) Russia isn't behind this. Trump believing the very media rigged in Hillary's favor is priceless though. An aside, but the faith in Snowden's anything is sort of funny. Please explain what reason anyone has to distrust anything said by Snowden. The man got in trouble because he showed integrity and transparency when the government did not. Snowden is like Assange but even worse because he actually worked for the NSA, he betrayed his country to reveal secretive programs like Prism. And conviniently ended up travelling through China and ended up in Russia and you can be guaranteed he shared everything he could with both those countries But I'm glad Prism is now revealed, it should be used to address domestic terrorist attacks from home grown terrorism

Oby how do you expect people to understand videos in Russian,....some of your videos I want to watch but its becomes pointless if I cant understand what people are saying? Do you can't use subtitles? You can try learn to Russian language also by same way as some descendant of Dutch colonists learnt Imperial language of conquerors for meeting with his English masters. From my side i can only assist to you by delivering of moar Russian videos. Vlog of some Caucasian native - diary of Hach (Russian analog of N*** word for Caucasian race). http://youtu.be/6iRVzIL-BpE P.S. You also tell ( in the past )some cool stories about your "Russian"strippers-friends, you can use their help for translate also. Oby people generally learn languages when they are exposed to them or need to learn them for business , there is very little Russian spoken in SA In fact this may sound weird but I dont think we even have a Russian community? I cant ask any Russian stripper to help me learn Russian because we dont have that type of personal relationship

Oby how do you expect people to understand videos in Russian,....some of your videos I want to watch but its becomes pointless if I cant understand what people are saying?

BBQ ...the great institution that everyone loves. In South Africa we call it a braai and its a very common and established part of our culture

So then these fakers should be booked into a mental asylum.....I imagine after a few months they would be " cured " Imagine not being depressed but people think you are so you are forced to accept treatment. It reminds me of the movie the Changeling with Angelina Jolie and how she was illegally sent to that psychiatric hospital. That story is based on a true story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Collins

The Mexican president has already said Mexico wont be paying for the wall.....so who is going to pay for it? http://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/07/10/mexican-president-enrique-pena-nieto-trump-wall-sot-gps.cnn

Hastur can you share where you live in the USA? As I mentioned I enjoy your posts and I'm sure you have had an interesting life. If someone asked you to summarize your life in a few bullet points how would you say " This is me and this is what has shaped my views " I'm not being nosy I'm just interested because of how diverse the views and perspectives of Americans can be

This seems like a rather reasonable assessment. Let me frame the question a different way " what is Julian Assange's reasons or motives around the USA " ? Imagine you want to buy a home in a nice neighborhood. It comes to your attention that the other prospective buyer is a pedophile and a sex offender. Your heart goes out to both the Real Estate Agent and the neighborhood, because whether the sex offender does any further crimes or no, there's already damage the moment he moves in in that investments and property values will drop, nevermind the horrors that would befall the neighborhood if he still partakes in criminal activity. You decide to inform the real estate agent of this and show her the police report about the other buyer, not so much in your own self-interest, but because you feel that she has a right to know. The Real Estate Agent then becomes highly suspicious and paranoid and asks "what are your motivations in showing me this? Why do you not want him to live in this neighborhood? Is there something you're not telling me...!?" The Real Estate Agent then - off of her wild suspicions alone and completely devoid of evidence - determines it's best to sell the home to the pedophile and not to you, out of fear that there's more to your story and your motivations. That's you. That's how crazy you sound. I'm not sure I understand your analogy Are you saying Assange is the person alerting the real estate agent about the USA? Is the USA suppose to be the pedophile? Can you not just answer the question simply " what do you think motivates Assange in his view of the USA " ? ... You are both failing to understand the analogy, and you are instead insisting to me that it is far better if I needlessly speculate without any evidence whatsoever about what Assange's motivations may be. Some people were dropped on their heads as children, then there's you. Dude your head must've been mistaken for a football and thrown to the ground during an enthusiastic touchdown celebration. Why are you now objecting to speculating, you happily speculate on other topics ? But your response was predictable. you cant answer my question and instead of admitting that you feel the need to make personal attacks on me...as usual.... And you think I debate in bad faith Ok Bruce, here you go, gonna drop a bombshell for you: Maybe Assange genuinely cares about the American people and feels we have a right to know when we're being cheated, because he believes in the principles of Democracy. Yknow, like all those people that are upset with Clinton for the exact same reason? Like Snowden's motivations for what he did? What do *you* think Assange's motivations are? Assange has a definite anti-USA agenda, the whole way he uses Wikileaks in an attempt to embarass and undermine the USA is patently obvious So he is very biased towards the USA which makes him biased towards what the West stands for This is not uncommon but lets not think he represents this paradigm of truth about what is best for the USA

This seems like a rather reasonable assessment. Let me frame the question a different way " what is Julian Assange's reasons or motives around the USA " ? Imagine you want to buy a home in a nice neighborhood. It comes to your attention that the other prospective buyer is a pedophile and a sex offender. Your heart goes out to both the Real Estate Agent and the neighborhood, because whether the sex offender does any further crimes or no, there's already damage the moment he moves in in that investments and property values will drop, nevermind the horrors that would befall the neighborhood if he still partakes in criminal activity. You decide to inform the real estate agent of this and show her the police report about the other buyer, not so much in your own self-interest, but because you feel that she has a right to know. The Real Estate Agent then becomes highly suspicious and paranoid and asks "what are your motivations in showing me this? Why do you not want him to live in this neighborhood? Is there something you're not telling me...!?" The Real Estate Agent then - off of her wild suspicions alone and completely devoid of evidence - determines it's best to sell the home to the pedophile and not to you, out of fear that there's more to your story and your motivations. That's you. That's how crazy you sound. I'm not sure I understand your analogy Are you saying Assange is the person alerting the real estate agent about the USA? Is the USA suppose to be the pedophile? Can you not just answer the question simply " what do you think motivates Assange in his view of the USA " ? ... You are both failing to understand the analogy, and you are instead insisting to me that it is far better if I needlessly speculate without any evidence whatsoever about what Assange's motivations may be. Some people were dropped on their heads as children, then there's you. Dude your head must've been mistaken for a football and thrown to the ground during an enthusiastic touchdown celebration. Why are you now objecting to speculating, you happily speculate on other topics ? But your response was predictable. you cant answer my question and instead of admitting that you feel the need to make personal attacks on me...as usual.... And you think I debate in bad faith

So the average voter in the USA wont decide who to vote for based on the policies of the various political parties....somehow there vote is bought ?

This seems like a rather reasonable assessment. Let me frame the question a different way " what is Julian Assange's reasons or motives around the USA " ? Imagine you want to buy a home in a nice neighborhood. It comes to your attention that the other prospective buyer is a pedophile and a sex offender. Your heart goes out to both the Real Estate Agent and the neighborhood, because whether the sex offender does any further crimes or no, there's already damage the moment he moves in in that investments and property values will drop, nevermind the horrors that would befall the neighborhood if he still partakes in criminal activity. You decide to inform the real estate agent of this and show her the police report about the other buyer, not so much in your own self-interest, but because you feel that she has a right to know. The Real Estate Agent then becomes highly suspicious and paranoid and asks "what are your motivations in showing me this? Why do you not want him to live in this neighborhood? Is there something you're not telling me...!?" The Real Estate Agent then - off of her wild suspicions alone and completely devoid of evidence - determines it's best to sell the home to the pedophile and not to you, out of fear that there's more to your story and your motivations. That's you. That's how crazy you sound. I'm not sure I understand your analogy Are you saying Assange is the person alerting the real estate agent about the USA? Is the USA suppose to be the pedophile? Can you not just answer the question simply " what do you think motivates Assange in his view of the USA " ?

The problem is that if he lost he was supposed to lose fair and square. The DNC giving Clinton an advantage nullifies any obligation he had to support Clinton. But irrespective of the favoritism shown towards Clinton from some in the DNC, Hilary still won the popular vote amongst Democrat supporters I'm not sure why this is ignored, the members of the DNC didnt tell or force Democrats to vote a certain way....we can see from the Trump victory if the political message resonates with people it doesnt matter what the established political institutions think This election was bought. There is no debate on this anymore. And to potentially add icing on the cake, wikileaks claims to have even more damning info coming. I recently saw an article interviewing Kim Dotcom back in May 2015 where Kim said Julian Assange was going to be Clinton's worst nightmare during the 2016 election. Realize that May 2015 is long before things like the email scandal came to light with the general public. Why would Kim Dotcom needlessly bluff on behalf of another person/organization regarding an issue that was not yet widespread? We have every reason to believe Wikileaks when they claim the worst is yet to come. But LK you cannot say with absolute certainty " the election was bought " ....this is your opinion. There are things about this election we can say with certainty but thats not one of them Also why do you still think Julian Assange is an objective observer when it comes to the USA? Let me frame the question a different way " what is Julian Assange's reasons or motives around the USA " ?

The problem is that if he lost he was supposed to lose fair and square. The DNC giving Clinton an advantage nullifies any obligation he had to support Clinton. But irrespective of the favoritism shown towards Clinton from some in the DNC, Hilary still won the popular vote amongst Democrat supporters I'm not sure why this is ignored, the members of the DNC didnt tell or force Democrats to vote a certain way....we can see from the Trump victory if the political message resonates with people it doesnt matter what the established political institutions think And there were a lot of people crying foul about either not being able to vote or having their votes not counted in the Dem primary. There were several posts about it in previous incarnations of this thread Yes I am aware of this Can I ask you a question, do you think Hilary won the popular vote because more people voted for her or do you think she won because the DNC cheated to make her win?

The problem is that if he lost he was supposed to lose fair and square. The DNC giving Clinton an advantage nullifies any obligation he had to support Clinton. But irrespective of the favoritism shown towards Clinton from some in the DNC, Hilary still won the popular vote amongst Democrat supporters I'm not sure why this is ignored, the members of the DNC didnt tell or force Democrats to vote a certain way....we can see from the Trump victory if the political message resonates with people it doesnt matter what the established political institutions think

I absolutely agree, I have always liked Sanders. He means well but as we have discussed before some of the things Bernie wanted to implement didnt really make economic sense But he believes what he says about a fair and more tolerant world and he would always be opposed to some of the more divisive rhetoric from the Trump campaign . Its not a betrayal for him to support Hilary

You right he did have very loyal almost fanatical supporters But many of supporters still believe in the Democratic party and will vote for Hilary ..and Sanders did give a glowing endorsement of Hilary so I dont think its fair to say he betrayed his supporters, yes he disappointed some people But Hilary did win the popular vote against Sanders so you do expect the Democratic party to unite behind the candidate who won?

Volo do you feel Sanders betrayed you?

I know Trump can be offensive at times but he also makes me laugh sometimes I just dont know if he realizes how some of the things he says come across or what the consequences of what he says are if he could implement them But he makes me laugh at times, for example his latest speech on Russia hacking the DNC he said something like " Russia...if you listening please find the 30 k emails Hilary deleted. The press will appreciate your efforts " .... Of course this is just another attack on Hilary, its politics, but its now been interpreted by some as " Trump is encouraging Russia to commit cyber espionage " ...people do love to vilify him and at times they do exaggerate what he says or read too much into his motives

Two days ago I finished the main story of W3....the game was better than I could have ever imagined. It was superlative The Witcher series has now become my favorite RPG of all time, W3 has surpassed my normal favorite RPG which is BG2: TOB What an amazing game and I loved the ending....I was very worried about what I thought might happen Anyway well done CDPR, you have loads to be proud about ...I'm now playing the W3 expansions

Thank you LK for finally acknowledging I'm not troll, I have been telling you that for ages

Except for me hey Hurlshot, I know how to look at a story critically...thats has to be something you have noticed about me

Mate... I sometimes wonder if we live in the same world? There is no such thing as "independent" media. Even the BBC which is probably less bad than most have a bias. The only thing I would trust them to report truthfully and objectively is she soccer results after the final whistly. You want to know the truth, you need to do your own digging for it. Don't ever trust "truths" served to you by others. It's just, most people don't care. It's easier to whinge about the state of things than taking responsibility for your own life. Gorhtie you being naughty, your post is defeatist talk...its reeeeeeeeeeks of archaic and anachronistic conspiracy theories But of course you make some good points, there will always be a degree a bias but is it biased or just reasonable views on certain global matters and events that the global media houses report on ...and these matters dont really have much leeway around what they mean, they not subjective. They happen for a real reason and other justifications for them are just a distraction. I can give you literally hundreds of examples ISIS is not a creation of the CIA, they are exactly who people say they are .. " Islamic Extremists with a reprehensible and barbaric view of how to implement political change around the world " The annexation of Crimea by Russia was illegal and was correctly condemned by The West

Michelle Obama's speech was truly inspirational....I was very impressed. Best speech for me so far