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@Handre How does Steve Keens view on money and debt fit in with all this?

@BrianJBerletic Given your valuable take on US strategic vision concerning middle east and ukraine how do you see the vietnam war in the context?

@BrianJBerletic Many of the channels fail to interview and promote your channel. In my view this is not accidental. Mearsheimer and others should debate with you on your pisition. Merely act as if you dont exist. Not good!

@BrianJBerletic your latest video was quite interesting. However you dont seem to adhere to the view that capitalism is the inherent source of the problem. Capitalism develops into imperialism. But small capitalism is oppressive too. They can engage in brutal conflict too.

@TimBirchWild What meaning do their chattering calls bear. Is it a complex system of inter- communication. Surely they mean something!

Absolutely love our local Jackdaw roost in West Wales which is still going strong. Their chattering calls are something else. Just an amazing spectacle every evening. This is bioabundance for you!

@BrianJBerletic @WeaponMental There is some resemblance between your position and that of Paul Craig Roberts. Perhsps you ought to discuss his observations.

Ukrainians have Western politicians at the disadvantage - the unelected corporate financier interests use these proxies as much against their own population and politicians as it does against targeted nations abroad. Remember US and European politicians making their trips to Bucha and Kiev and hosting Zelensky and anyone not supporting the war especially when it began being called a "Russian asset?" Same thing - very obvious game if people can see the bigger picture. Israel doesn't exist without complete and constant US support, just like Ukraine. Anything either wants that the US doesn't is irrelevant.

I agree that Israel is used as a tool in the Middle East. Israel is geopolitically functionary. BUT Israeli and its entities also have American/Brit politicians by the balls. Lobby groups, blackmail, infiltrated ALL decision making and soft power sectors. They’re tied together.

@BrianJBerletic You are apparently one of the few promoting the standpoint you expound. If is one of the most accurate descriptions of the oppressive role of Washington in globalbpolitics. However I cannot understand why you promote the Duran as it does not share your vision.

@ProfSteveKeen What, in your opinion, is wrong with Peter Schiff's analysis of the US economy especially concerning gov. debt?

@MarburyBirds What about the boisterous continuous crowing of crows? Is it a form of communication. I feed crows. I cannot understand how they survive winters here in Ireland given the apparent shortage of feeding resources. What do they eat?

@Nathanbotom No. I only experience a very small part of their world. I am blessed to be able to do that but there is so much of their lives I dont see or understand.

Today’s Raven News: Just Chips again (but I did hear Gravy’s answering call.) Chips had 2 egg breakfasts, he then found some train kill, Pheasant I think. He cached & ate most of it. He later came for a chat. He didn’t want food as he was full of Pheasant, just came to say hello!

@Philip_Goff How, then, can we experience or know what it is like to be a bird or a bat? Qustionable as to whether science can successfully tackle this question.

I don't think science can explain consciousness but it's crucial for helping us to understand it.

@roarbro @RobLooseCannon Thanks! Interesting!

@Nathanbotom @RobLooseCannon Yes it did. They also had heavily taxed the importation of salt to protect British fishing by making preservation of fish near impossible for the Irish.

Poaching in Ireland during the British occupation wasnt just about illegal hunting or fishing. It was about using hunger as a tool of colonial power. Now long before the Great Famine, the Irish countryside was already a contested landscape. Our rivers were teeming with salmon, and our luscious forrests and hedgerows were alive with hares and birds. But the poorest inhabitants, disenfranchised from their ancestral lands were legally barred from touching any of it. Under British rule, Ireland’s land was dominated by the Anglo-Irish landlord class, whose property rights extended far beyond soil. They "owned" the rivers and lakes and land on their estates and all the livestock, game and fish contained their. Freshwater fishing rights for salmon, trout, and eels were strictly private. Game laws reserved hares, pheasants, grouse, and deer for landlord sport. What had once been shared resources, governed by custom and necessity, were now enclosed by statute even amid the cycles of famines. The Night Poaching Act of 1828 was particularly feared. It made it a serious offence to hunt or fish after dark, precisely the time when the poor could act unseen. To be caught at night, armed, or in the company of three others transformed hunger into a criminal conspiracy. Punishments ranged from imprisonment with hard labour to transportation for seven years. A rabbit taken to feed a family could end with exile to Australia. Informers were despised, yet they were often forced in to it to save their own skins after being caught by the feared gamekeepers. Magistrates were heartless and distrusted. The civil law was really just an extension of landlord power, designed to protect sport for aristcrats rather than starvation. An Gorta Mór, the Great Famine of 1845 to 1849 shattered whatever fragile balance had existed between breaking poaching laws and desperation. When the potato failed, the grain, cattle, butter, and bacon continued to leave Irish ports in vast quantities, bound for Britain. When gobshites ask why people didnt "just fish" when the rivers still ran thick with salmon and the lakes teemed with trout and eels. Well fishing meant trespass on landlord property. Being caught meant being shot, prison or transportation or eviction. During the Famine eviction was effectively a death sentence for whole family. And dont forget that man jailed for stealing food could miss a relief distribution. A family evicted for poaching could be dead within weeks. So wild game like rabbits or hares or birds, anything that could be trapped or shot became food. The ecological impact of famine poaching was real. The desperate hunting of birds and animals during these years is believed to have contributed to the decline of native species such as the Irish Grey Partridge. Nature itself became another casualty of starvation and law. Contemporary accounts are full of people eating hedgehogs, crows, and rats. Even frying worms for protein. Turnip stealing from fields became widespread, another small crime punished harshly under the law. Please support the Dublin Time Machine Book ko-fi.com/buchanandublin…

@21WIRE watching the interesting interview of you on Free Cities. A perhaps trivial question: why the green T shirt?

@mtracey Calling Whitney a batshit is a scurrilous label and no substitute for rational argument. I have been reading Whitney's book. However have not currently formed an opinion of it.

Earnestly liking or appreciating Whitney Webb is a pass/fail IQ test at this point. She’s batshit

@mtracey Interesting! We need calm and rational discursive activity concerning the matter. Not witch hunting and abuse! No Salem witch trials! Perhaps you can enlighten me as to your take on Whitney Webb's book

Incredibly, the New Mexico legislature has just established a modern "Truth and Reconciliation" type commission to investigate alleged child sex crimes at Epstein's former Zorro Ranch. As though rampant pedo-trafficking and rape must have taken place there, which has yet gone un-investigated. The only known, concrete allegations of sexual abuse at Zorro Ranch are as follows: -- Annie Farmer alleged she was subjected to "hand-holding," which she characterized as "sexual abuse" in her submission to the Epstein Victims' Compensation Program, during a visit to the Zorro Ranch. She also alleged a non-sexual massage by Ghislaine Maxwell in which her upper chest was touched, and an instance of attempted cuddling by Epstein. She received millions in tax-free settlement money for these alleged abuses. Annie Farmer was subsequently found by the federal judge in the Maxwell trial to have endured no "illegal sexual activity" -- Nadia Bjorlin, also known as "Jane" in the trial of Maxwell, told the FBI in 2020 that she "did not recall specific abuse that may have occurred" at the New Mexico ranch. She was further asked "if there was ever a time when Epstein came into her room while in New Mexico," and responded "no." Nadia Bjorlin, an actress on "Days of Our Lives," subsequently sought and received $5 million from the Epstein Victims' Compensation Program, and started claiming abuse at the New Mexico property. So that's the principal evidentiary basis for the New Mexico legislature spending the next year feverishly investigating unreported mass child rape at the Zorro Ranch.

@Philip_Goff If what you argue is true then how does that extend to the avian community. It des not seem that we can know what corvid or a bat feels. If we cannot gdasp this then our undersranding or knowledge of "feeling" may be inherently limited philosophically and otherwise.

I think it's self-evident that: (A) a feeling is essentially defined by how it feels, just as a triangle is essentially by having 3 sides. (B) you know (more or less) how a feeling feels when you feel it. What do others think on this?

@SteveDavies365 Seems to be an interesting book. Somewhat covers Epstein/Maxwell qand figures surrounding them. Can be trying. Full of detail. Shall need to read the text itself. It does not depict a pretty picture of contemporary society. It has been said that she is a conspiracy theorist.

@Nathanbotom Not read it.

@SteveDavies365 What are your views, if any, on Whitney Webb's book One Nation Under Blackmail?