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Marina Brown
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Tue Oct 24 07:56:38 PDT 2017
On 10/22/2017 09:31 PM, jim bell wrote:
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> *From:* juan <juan.g71 at gmail.com>
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> On Sun, 22 Oct 2017 17:39:31 +0000 (UTC)
> jim bell <jdb10987 at yahoo.com <mailto:jdb10987 at yahoo.com>> wrote:
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>> From: John Newman <jnn at synfin.org <mailto:jnn at synfin.org>>
>> > On Oct 21, 2017, at 6:03 PM, juan <juan.g71 at gmail.com
> <mailto:juan.g71 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> https://jimbellproject.org/press-release-hackers-congress-paralel-polis-oct-7-2017/
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>> >> " North Korea, Venezuela, Syria, and Zimbabwe"
>> >
>> >> "The leaders of these nations must be stopped immediately, by
>> >> any means necessary, before they kill more."
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>> >> Who are these 'leaders' killing, exactly?
>> >
>>> >> And why did you forget to mention that the number one guy in
>>> >> the death prediction market should be the US president, trump?
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>>> >To be fair, Jim did give the rest of the world a mention, directly
>> after the bit you quoted:
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>>> >“But this is only the beginning because most other nations are
>>> also grossly abusive of people's rights.”
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>>
>>> It is interesting that Juan was sufficiently dishonest that he would
>>> selectively quote my citation of four of the worst nations,
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>> LMAO!!! You keep parroting US military propaganda?
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> You are delusional. You mistake correlation for causation. There is
> another strong association between the nations of North Korea,
> Venezuela, Syria, and Zimbabwe: they are all quite prominent in the
> news, which is primarily a product of the MSM (news media). There are,
> of course, many problems with many nations around the world, see
> https://freedomhouse.org/ , but the large majority of them aren't
> very well publicized by the MSM, especially that of America. There
> might be a weak association between the most prominent of these
> freedom-challenged nation, and what you call "US military propaganda",
> but they are the same thing. I have a good reason to mention nations
> that Western audiences would recognize and understand.
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> Good reasons to mention these nations:
> 1. North Korea, has the hydrogen bomb, is developing ICBMS. No logical
> reason not to mention them.
> 2. Venezuela: Currently they are starving their population, despite
> sitting atop a lake of oil.
> 3. Syria: Poisoning their population with chemical warfare agents, a
> very prominent war, ISIS terrorists, Russian involvement.
> 4. Zimbabwe: Failed state, starving population.
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> I'd say the burden is on you to show why it would be somehow improper
> for me to list those nations. You are free to add more.
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>> Also, I provided a link to the source, so there isn't anything
> 'dishonest' about what I did. I simply highlighted your fascist
> propaganda which you tried to tone down with a qualfier. But the
> qualfier doesn't change, at all, the fact that you said :
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> My goal was an is to convince the public that there is very good reason
> to consider overthrowing numerous nations' governments. Merely adding
> to the list doesn't disprove my point. If anything, it proves it.
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>>> “The examples of nations such as North Korea, Venezuela, Syria,
> and Zimbabwe prove that some nations of are simply rogue"
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>> So which nations are NOT 'rogue' Jim?
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> That's hard to say. As an anarchist I am not 'friends' with any
> nation's government.
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>> And why mention Zimbabwe
>> and the USA?
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> I mention Zimbabwe because it is obviously a failed state.
> Hyperinflation, for example, and a government which tolerates theft of
> property from members of the public, as well as murder.
>
> Why mention the USA? My problems with the government of the US are well
> known, especially here.
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>
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>> Where's the evidence that the 4 countries, taken from the
> current list of the 'enemies' of the US nazis, are the 'worst
> nations'?
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>
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> Did I claim they are 'worst nations'? I don't recall that. They are,
> instead, very prominent and well-publicized examples of nations whose
> governments need to be rapidly removed. Their names and offenses are
> well known by the public.
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>
>
>>> while
>>> omitting the material you pointed out, and yet criticizing me as if I
>> had not mentioned it. In any case, Juan's criticism is foolish:
>> From the very beginning (1995) I repeatedly pointed out that one of
>> the big advantages of AP is that it won't have some sort of
>> centralized agenda:
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>> So why did you list as 'rogue' nations the countries that the
>> american nazis want to invade and destroy? Does your knowledge
>> of politics come from fauxnews and the washington post?
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> Are you implying that "the american nazis ONLY want to "invade and
> destroy" those specific four countries?!? THAT would really be an
> amazing coincidence. Ha ha! You set your own trap!!
>
> Rather, I named failed nations that are causing trouble, either for
> others or for their own people, or both. That they are also not
> popular with, say, the American government isn't necessarily a matter of
> causation, rather it is a matter of correlation. No doubt if there
> were 2 or 3 other highly prominent nations with internal or external
> problems, you'd claim that "the american nazis want to invade and
> destroy" them, too.
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>
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>>> Neither _I_ (nor anyone else) won't be the one
>>> to control it. HE may think that the main target should be "X",
>>> while I think the main target should be "Y", etc.
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>> Yes but the point at hand is the targets YOU mentioned.
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>
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> And I mentioned that there are many other problem nations. I don't
> think you are successfully faulting me for naming four quite-valid
> targets; YOU are the one who started by misrepresenting what I said,
> falsely suggesting that I was only referring to four specific nations.
> That's very dishonest argumentation. I could easily have listed a dozen
> more, but NOT mentioning those dozen more isn't a fatal flaw to my
> argument.
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>>> Neither needs to
>>> be "right", neither needs to be "wrong". Both targets get taken
>>> out if they are considered worthy by the public. (If people donate,
>>> a target will ultimately go.)I didn't mention over 7 billion people.
>>> Of what significance is that? Juan is obviously very self-centered.
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>> How am I self-centered when I am asking YOU about YOUR pick of
> targets?
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>
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> Because you are deliberately misrepresenting my characterization of
> those targets. Suggesting that I was indicating that they were
> exclusive, rather than inclusive of many others. (Had I listed every
> nation that I thought was actually a problem, I would have been listing
> over 190 nations. You cannot fault me for listing a few prominent ones,
> unless I stated or implied they were the only problems. Not only did I
> not do that, I specifically mentioned otherwise. )
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>
> Jim Bell
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Kind of surprised you listed Venezuela and not places like Myanmar,
Saudi Arabia or even Kazahkstan and Uzbekistan. VZ is a mess but as far
as human rights horrors it hardly even ranks near the ones i mentioned.
It is, however disliked by the US government for messing up the flow of
oil where Saudi Arabia is a great friend while torturing and killing
opponents of the corrupt regime.
--- Marina
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