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Bernard Bresslaw?

How about Simon Templar? (The Roger Moore version, obviously.)

Best wishes to both Pete and SBT. I'd send you some telepathic healing and good luck vibrations through the cosmic ether using the innate psychic powers of my mind, but I don't believe in all that bollocks so I'm afraid simple best wishes will have to do.

If the Americans had done nothing, the aid donated by the rest of the world would now be getting directly to the people instead of being tied up in US Military red tape. (Got to check all those pallets of water, rice, flour, medicine etc for bombs, you know. Got to make sure someone "trustworthy" is in charge of distribution.)

Nobody is saying that the US should not get involved, it's the nature of that involvement that's a worry. If people need ambulances and food, why send attack helicopters and M16s? The glib reason given is that if we just drop aid directly to those who need it, the Haitians are so backward and stupid and savage that they'll just tear one another to bits to get at it and you need Big Government to make sure people behave themselves. This is not just an insult to the people of Haiti, but to the human spirit in general. This is the kind of subliminal Fascist message that is becoming increasingly prevalent in our world: People are stupid and need to be controlled, which is why the rulers (who obviously know better than the rest of us because they earn more money and went to better schools) impose upon us smoking bans, force us to partake in a toxic system of rampant capitalism and curtail our freedoms.

If, God forbid, such a disaster happened in your neighbourhood, would Mr Smith from Number 72 suddenly produce a shotgun in order to hoard aid and supplies for himself, or would the vast majority of survivors pull together and help one another? Humans have been co-operating with each other for millions of years now (we are by our very nature social animals) and for governments to imply that we're all just a couple of days without food away from murdering one another is not only deeply insulting but incredibly irresponsible.

As to the US acting immediately; the marines, support staff, supplies and equipment at Guantanamo Bay are only a hop and a skip away but the Chinese managed to get their aid to Haiti before the US.

Debt slavery may be a way of life, but that is an awful argument to use to justify its continuation. One could very well say the same of AIDS, famine, drought, genocide and all the other terrible things we put up with because "that's just the way things are." We can fix all these things, but it would mean people like you and me giving up our gluttonous lifestyles and the ruling elite making lots less profit. That, of course, would never do and so it's much easier to just shrug, make sympathetic noises and do fuck all about it. I'm just as guilty as everyone else when it comes to this because I don't have the courage to stand up in the street to try and stop it.

It was a live stream, yes. I've seen this interview before on this channel, but I can't find it on YouTube or elsewhere. There's a DVD you can buy, but I couldn't possibly comment on that.

And it wasn't supposed to be like this any more!  Evil Yanks!!  Troop surge into Afghanistan, missile strikes into Pakistan, and, according to some on this forum, an insidious invasion into Haiti!  What happened, Mr President?  You're proving to be more of a warmonger than ole Georgie Boy!

Alternative view - the Americans are just doing their best to help the people of Haiti.

I'm just a naive old man, so I think I'll go with the latter.

"On Dec. 19, 2009, President Obama authorized a military budget plan for a record $663 billion to defend the United States, the highest since World War II -- higher, adjusted for inflation, even than during the Korean and Vietnam wars."
(  http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/01/13/defense-spending-700-billion-a-year-and-were-still-not-safe/  )

To put the level of U.S. Defense Spending in perspective:

• $30 billion is the annual shortfall to eliminate starvation and malnutrition globally.
• $12 billion is the annual shortfall to provide education for every kid on earth.
• $15 billion is the annual shortfall to provide access to water and sanitation.
• $23 billion is the annual shortfall to reverse the spread of AIDS and Malaria.

The World's Largest Military Spenders(Defense budgets in billions)

United States $522
China $63
Russia $62
United Kingdom $51
Japan $45
France $42
Germany $30
India $22
Saudi Arabia $21
South Korea $21
Italy $17
Australia $13
Brazil $13
Canada $11
Turkey $10
Israel $10
Netherlands $10
Spain $9
Taiwan $8
Indonesia $8
Mayanmar $7
Ukraine $6
Singapore $6
Sweden $6
North Korea $6
Poland $5
Norway $5
Greece $5
Iran $5
Kuwait $4
Colombia $4
Switzerland $4
Pakistan $4
Vietnam $4
Belgium $3
Denmark $3
Egypt $3
Portugal $2
Czech Republic $2
Romania $2
Argentina $2
Syria $2
Hungary $2
Cuba $1

( http://www.borgenproject.org/Defense_Spending.html )

Indeed. I obviously believe everything I hear.

Followed the link, saw the Edge TV logo and didn't really need go look any further. He must have completely and utterly lost it if he's appearing there.

Regards

Robin

There's nothing like an open mind.

And that's nothing like an open mind.

Watching the Democracy Now! news report tonight, I saw their reporter nosing around a Haitian airport that was crammed with pallet upon pallet of aid, but no trucks to take it away. When the reporter did finally happen upon a truck being loaded with bottled water, she inquired where it was going.

"The U.S. Embassy," came the reply.

Pat Mills is being interviewed on Sky Channel 200 RIGHT NOW

Also straming here:  http://www.justin.tv/edgemediatv#r=KyRP0YI

Another Firefox fan here.

Don't uninstall IE, though, as Windows uses bits of it for this and that. I also have Opera, Avant and Chrome installed just in case I need them (which I virtually never do). The Firefox people (Mozilla) also make Seamonkey, which is a browser and a html editor/web page maker. And don't forget Thunderbird, the Mozilla email client that's way better than MS Outlook.

There's nothing rushton about my willie.

Ha! You fell right into my trap...

Pinner.

All my best wishes to you and Kerrin Senior.

No, you don't need a webcam at all.

Can they really make the earth move and is it any wonder people are paranoid

"Nikola Tesla is primarily thought of as an electrical genius, but he also was responsible for a number of mechanical devices. One of the most notorious of these was his "Earthquake Machine" otherwise known as the Tesla Oscillator. The machine which Tesla tested was small, around seven inches long, and weighing only one or two pounds; something "you could put in your overcoat pocket". In 1898, Tesla's New York lab was nearly shaken to pieces with this ittle device, operated by only five pounds of air pressure acting against a special pneumatic piston device. The whole assembly was designed to be powered by steam pressure."

from:  http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/EclipseLab/Tesla/Oscillator.html