en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/983759 Comments by rosross http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57486.htm#IDComment1118790651 Americans would do better if they dealt in realities and not their own mythical fantasies. The US has never been as great as it claims to be. It has been at war since it was invented, rampaging increasingly around the globe after creating misery and destruction in the Americas. As a place to live it has never offered the best quality of life on average to its citizens and has always been a deeply divided society. Politically it has always been more corrupt than most other Western nations and while it has long talked the talk it has not walked the walk. Actions speak louder than words and unless one is a Third World desperate most are just grateful to have not been born American. Thu, 20 Apr 2023 02:58:14 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57486.htm#IDComment1118790651 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57246.htm#IDComment1116719101 Yes but that is not the fault of the monarchy. That is the fault of US hegemony and the fact weaker nations often have little choice. Sun, 18 Sep 2022 03:25:43 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57246.htm#IDComment1116719101 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57246.htm#IDComment1116719096 All systems of power have done harm. Do you reject the American political system because the country has been at war virtually nonstop since it invented itself and because it has been responsible for millions of deaths and the destruction of numerous countries in its historically recent warmongering? Probably not. So perhaps apply perspective to monarchical systems which were, after all, whether chief or King, simply governmental ordering systems from the past. Sun, 18 Sep 2022 03:25:01 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57246.htm#IDComment1116719096 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57246.htm#IDComment1116695931 You clearly have zero knowledge of history or reality. Fri, 16 Sep 2022 05:19:43 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57246.htm#IDComment1116695931 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57246.htm#IDComment1116695930 The problem is that a system of monarchy combined with democracy, in this case the Westminster system, works far better than anything else. The Americans present the world with a case for monarchy when the deep flaws in their system as a constitutional republic, where, in essence, they elect a King - no Queens yet - every four years, are apparent to everyone but Americans. Fri, 16 Sep 2022 05:19:26 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57246.htm#IDComment1116695930 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57178.htm#IDComment1116289974 The figure of 6 million European Jews dying if the Zionists were not supported in their plan to colonise Palestine was first stated in the 1890's. Were the Zionists psychic? Sun, 14 Aug 2022 06:08:55 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57178.htm#IDComment1116289974 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29364.htm#IDComment1113335147 Why do you refer to Jews and Arabs? Jew is a religion, Arab is a culture. Either talk about the European Jews and the Palestinian Christians and Muslims but do not compare Arab with Jew. Thu, 19 May 2022 04:12:04 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29364.htm#IDComment1113335147 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52501-c.htm#IDComment1083248515 Let the point also be made that Palestinians do not suffer because they are Palestinian but because they are non-Jews. Israel gave immediate citizenship to Jewish Palestinians when it imposed its State on Palestine so discrimination has nothing to do with being Palestinian but is purely based on religion. Fri, 8 Nov 2019 03:29:41 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52501-c.htm#IDComment1083248515 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52501-c.htm#IDComment1083248411 While this comment is made not to blame but to understand the context of movements against some followers of Judaism, when will the policy of separatism and elitism, practised by many Jews, be taken into context when seeking to understand reactions? For example, the Nazi paranoia about Jews was not particular to Nazis, but common in Europe following the Bolshevik Revolution and its horrors, created and dominated by followers of Judaism. Nothing happens in a vacuum. When this is not dealt with it is hardly surprising that fascist Jews in Israel and Occupied Palestine have done and do what they do. Fri, 8 Nov 2019 03:26:08 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52501-c.htm#IDComment1083248411 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52501-c.htm#IDComment1083248363 Jews are not a people. They are a religion. If Jews have a right to their own state then so does every other religion in the world. That is and always was the key problem. Fri, 8 Nov 2019 03:23:16 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52501-c.htm#IDComment1083248363 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52497-c.htm#IDComment1083169005 Do not refer to the West Bank or the Palestinian West Bank which makes it sound like an Israeli suburb. The correct term is OCCUPIED PALESTINE. Everything beyond the UN Mandated borders of 1947, and that has not been tested in a court of law. is OCCUPIED PALESTINE. Wed, 6 Nov 2019 01:23:21 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52497-c.htm#IDComment1083169005 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52457-c.htm#IDComment1082907254 Arab is not a nationality, it is a cultural description, i.e. European, Arab, Asian etc. Jew is not a nationality, it is a religious description, i.e. Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu etc. Neither religions or cultures get self-determination and neither constitute a people. If Judaism had a right to self-determination, which it does not, then all religions would have the same right. Judaism, like many religions is sourced in bigotry and the belief that followers are superior. In technical terms, Jews have a soul and non-Jews do not and the latter are therefore subhuman. Such unpleasant and primitive aspects to religions have largely been removed, but not it seems in Judaism and Zionism has exploited that. Israel is a disgrace in a civilized world and it gives Jews and Judaism a bad name. Wed, 30 Oct 2019 00:39:04 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52457-c.htm#IDComment1082907254 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52330-c.htm#IDComment1081786193 Paranoia does not help. Killing most of the world's population is hardly going to contribute to healthy economies. Thu, 3 Oct 2019 08:43:03 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52330-c.htm#IDComment1081786193 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52330-c.htm#IDComment1081786143 None of that is true. We have adequate water and we have in many cities the capacity to turn sea water into fresh water. Australia has always been a land of drought and flood, and that has not changed. In terms of agriculture, yes, I agree, water-hungry crops like rice are not a good idea and neither is a lot of the irrigation we currently use. However, Australia is a world leader in dry-land farming and there are other options. As to land being owned by foreigners, this has always been the case. And no, produce is not automatically shipped overseas although all Australian agriculture is a big player in the Asian food market, regardless of who owns the land. The biggest foreign investor in Australia is the UK. Foreign ownership is 13.6pc or 52.1 million hectares of Australia's total agricultural land. Of these foreign-owned hectares, 9.4 million was freehold, 43.4 million hectares held as leasehold. I do agree we need to manage carefully our immigration but that has more to do with enabling very different cultures to assimilate, as opposed to numbers. However, the smaller numbers the easier it is to integrate people into the general population. Thu, 3 Oct 2019 08:41:50 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52330-c.htm#IDComment1081786143 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52330-c.htm#IDComment1081770719 She is a child and should be at home in school. Beyond which, her hysterical fear-mongering is untrue. The earth does not catapult into inevitable destruction in 11 years as she claims. Hysterical child mouthing propaganda for the Renewables industry. Fact: the climate changes it always has done. Fact: we do not know if carbon emissions play a part. Fact: we do not know reducing carbon emissions will do anything. Fact: when children start dictating to adults we are in bad shape. Fact: when decisions are made hastily sourced in fear, hysteria and misinformation we are in even worse shape. Fact: neither solar nor wind power can provide base load energy. Until they can we need to maintain reliable energy sources. Fact: the greatest threats to this planet are not imagined climate changes but the poison delivered into human bodies and the environment from the medical industry, along with the use of plastic. Both drugs and plastic can be readily addressed with the will to do so. Even children can help with that. The adults encouraging this child are betraying not just her but all children. Yes, we need to be environmentally aware and responsible but we also need to make considered, informed and cautious decisions. The reality is the cleanest most reliable energy source is nuclear but the fanatics get hysterical about that. Thu, 3 Oct 2019 01:06:00 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52330-c.htm#IDComment1081770719 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52297-c.htm#IDComment1081040099 Israel was founded on many delusions but the worst was the fantasy that Jews, magically, unlike other religions, are a people! They are not. They never were. Thousands of years ago they were various tribes, many of them forced into coverting to Judaism. Today Jews comprise all races and hundreds of nationalities - shock, horror, like other religions. How could those magical, fantastical, special, superior people called Jews be just ordinary religious followers like other humans? Good question. But they are and like all humans, just as flawed, stupid and bigoted as the worst of them. Israel was founded on Palestine in the name of paranoia, fear, rage, bigotry and hatred. It was always doomed for those reasons. Sat, 21 Sep 2019 01:54:22 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52297-c.htm#IDComment1081040099 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52297-c.htm#IDComment1081040083 Israel was founded on many delusions but the worst was the fantasy that Jews, magically, unlike other religions, are a people! They are not. They never were. Thousands of years ago they were various tribes, many of them forced into coverting to Judaism. Today Jews comprise all races and hundreds of nationalities - shock, horror, like other religions. How could those magical, fantastical, special, superior people called Jews be just ordinary religious followers like other humans? Good question. But they are and like all humans, just as flawed, stupid and bigoted as the worst of them. Israel was founded on Palestine in the name of paranoia, fear, rage, bigotry and hated. It was always doomed for those reasons. Sat, 21 Sep 2019 01:53:26 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52297-c.htm#IDComment1081040083 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52281-c.htm#IDComment1080919563 When will people stop pretending this has anything to do with these people being Palestinian or Arab? The only reason that nearly six million Palestinians are denied human and civil rights is because they are non-Jews. Zionist Israel believes non-Jews are subhuman. It is as simple and as awful as that. Wed, 18 Sep 2019 06:13:09 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52281-c.htm#IDComment1080919563 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52267-c.htm#IDComment1080878008 And Muslims must also register an article of faith to be a member of the religion. Tue, 17 Sep 2019 04:10:43 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52267-c.htm#IDComment1080878008 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52267-c.htm#IDComment1080877239 Not true. One must be baptised to be a Christian. Judaism is a poorly evolved religion, in other words, backward, and still follows matrilineal guidelines, i.e. mother is Jewish and so is child. However, Judaism also converts and always has done. Being born to a Christian or Muslim parent does not make you Christian or Muslim. Tue, 17 Sep 2019 03:22:10 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52267-c.htm#IDComment1080877239