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   >>> herbivores – confronting aggression, or will he side with America’s   
   >>> traditional enemies – the carnivores?   
   >>>   
   >>> World leaders issue warning to Trump on trade, but not by name   
   >>> The US is increasingly an unpredictable and unreliable protector.   
   >>> While the CRINKs moved earlier to take advantage, the herbivores   
   >>> finally have got the message. In the past few years, US allies have   
   >>> started to sharpen their claws and bare their fangs. In Macron’s   
   >>> metaphor, he wants the herbivores of Europe to, at the very least,   
   >>> become omnivores, he said.   
   >>>   
   >>> US allies have stepped up their defence budgets and increasingly   
   >>> started to herd together for protection. Australia’s Northern   
   >>> Territory showcased the latest development in this trend at the   
   >>> weekend when Japanese troops joined US forces for the annual US Marine   
   >>> rotation. This is set to be an annual event.   
   >>>   
   >>> The meat-eaters are hunting in a pack. The eagle is no longer a   
   >>> reliable protector. The age of carnivores is upon us."   
   >>   
   >> ### - it's basically as i said/suggested; an article one could   
   >> predictably   
   >> read just about anywhere out there currently via western media, the   
   >> emphasis on predator/carnivore being only the latest twist on the   
   >> good/evil paradigm everyone is otherwise jaded with hearing, all of it,   
   >> however, persistently emphasising the exact same picture of an 'evil   
   >> empire' and/or 'axis' of evil' aimed at a particular racial target in   
   >> people's minds, such is the very nature of propaganda and how it's   
   >> designed to work + keep that shit up for 70+ years and people grow up   
   >> believing it all!   
   >>   
   >> i.e., thus the smh should change its name to 'the daily brainwash' for   
   >> all   
   >> the objective news it's actually reporting, it being exactly the same   
   >> here   
   >> of course; the bbc making a really big deal out of objective, unbiased   
   >> reporting, whole shows dedicated to it being so, literally, and yet   
   >> still   
   >> droning-on in the same old tone of the 'evil' russians + reinforcing   
   >> such   
   >> ideas with examples of the damage they've reputedly done, only ukraine's   
   >> side of things reported (perforce all negative) and verified by the bbc   
   >> to   
   >> have occurred, meanwhile all/any russian media or accounts of the matter   
   >> is totally banned here haha... don't you get it yet?   
   >>   
   >> this is why reversals often work to clarify matters, not everything and   
   >> not always, but propaganda is one subject wherein it nearly always works   
   >> to reveal more than we're being told/instructed to think/believe... all   
   >> of   
   >> it simplified to the battle between good & evil, right & wrong, with us   
   >> or   
   >> against us, those with god on their side and those on the side of the   
   >> devil: the disney version of life, the universe & everything, which, for   
   >> most people - let's face it - it is!   
   >>   
   >> outsiders, however (and have always considered you to be one), providing   
   >> they don't just go nuts that is (coz sadly many do), remain objective...   
   >> first by insisting on always hearing 'both' sides of any argument, and   
   >> then by realising that both sides are ultimately exactly the same in   
   >> believing their own narratives, even if/when those narratives lead to   
   >> war...   
   >>   
   >> unfortunately, the world is owned/run by wealthy gangsters, all   
   >> determined   
   >> to maintain & increase that wealth before anything else and woa betide   
   >> anyone/anything that gets in their way, which then sets the pace for   
   >> everything else that happens...   
   >   
   > What entitled bloody hogwash.   
      
   ### - not at all, everything above is still/remains in-context...   
      
   it's you that's throwing the context away here, you're changing the subject   
      
      
   > Who do you think you are?   
      
   ### - just another outsider like yourself, one who arrived here by a   
   different route than your own, and one who didn't just go nuts like many   
   sadly do :)   
      
      
      
      
   > The news is -   
      
   ### - the news is... and then it's filtered, censored, spun, twisted,   
   mis-told, distorted, sound-bited & propagada-ised to suit various purposes   
   and occasions...   
      
   i.e., they're SUPPOSED to have reporting standards they all agree to that   
   the public can then trust to be 'reliable' information; 'accurate'   
   reporting, 'unbiased' reporting - objective reporting!   
      
   that's never how it works out, however... right-wing papers push their own   
   right-wing agendas as do the left-wing papers push left-wing ideas, each   
   frowning on the opposition... iow: totally biased in-favour of their own   
   ideas & beliefs!   
      
   perforce this extends to international levels too with enemy-nations   
   running each other down, calling each other names, and even dropping bombs   
   on each other! each side justifying their actions while a baying crowd/mob   
   of supporters on either side wave their flags and shake their fists at   
   each other...   
      
   thus in such a world it would be foolish to just believe everything one   
   reads without applying an element of suspicion as to its content ;)   
      
      
      
      
      
   > you're nothing special mate,   
   > just run of the mill.   
      
   ### - trying to be 'objective' doesn't make one special, but it might make   
   one more wise ;)   
      
      
      
   > At least develop a reality-based response, or viewpoint, or indivudual   
   > Weltanschauung.  Stop the nonsense, if you'll excuse me for saying.   
      
   ### - there really wasn't any nonsense + i know what went awry here: you   
   just totally dropped the ball/context is all, and then in thinking i was   
   changing the subject (which i wasn't and haven't) you got snippy and   
   started lashing-out...   
      
   i didn't however change the subject at all or make any attempt to do so...   
   if anything i only attempted to expand the debate some by way of trying   
   explain something, but it was still in context...   
      
   and if you doubt any of that, then please pick-up exactly where you   
   think/feel i was changing it and i'll try to explain how & why it wasn't a   
   change at all, ok?   
      
   can't be fairer than that...   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)