skinster wrote:This is a really good discussion on Russiagate. jimjam & Godstud, let me know what you think.
this was a good one, thanks Skinster. I generally agree with all that Mr.Mate says. I don't think that Trump so much won as Clinton lost. Personally I think she is a corrupt two (or 3) faced bitch but her and her organization ran an inept and disillusioned campaign. I think Russia did interfere but they hardly were a deciding factor. I knew and have stated a number of times that the rap would not stick to Donald.
I particularly appreciated Mr. Mate's comments on the American Empire based upon war/death initiated by lies ….. a M.O. that has been repeated over and over and over. The Mexican American war? How many people today have studied this war let alone even know that it transpired. America actually
built a fortress
in Mexico to provoke a war where we gained California, New Mexico and Arizona. I have had personal experience with America's death machine. The Vietnam war was based upon the lie of the Gulf of Tonkin episode. The American death machine actually grabbed me and wanted to use me for cannon fodder. Sacrifice my life for expansion of the Empire and corporate profit. Let me just say ….. I am still here.
"Society in those days was a perfectly competent, perfectly complacent, ruthless machine." Virginia Woolf 1897