Came across this on another site I read.. when I saw counterpunch I was gobsmacked. Anyways, looking forward to our Liberal and PC bootlickers brushing this under the carpet like everything else.
Tungsten, it's your god damn time to shine (except the Liberal and PC parties of Canada will be sure to bury this information as they did with the Panama Papers)
+ In one of the most explosive leaks since the Panama Papers, Barrett Brown and Emma Best have unloaded 85 gigabytes of leaked emails, phone calls, faxes, and other documents from a outfit called Formations House, where over 2K companies hid assets and money. Over the next few weeks, journalists from CounterPunch, and a few other carefully selected outlets, will be drilling through the strata of documents in search of the dirt that is surely buried there. Be sure to read Brown’s preview of this trove of corruption and villainy.
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Anyways, looking forward to our Liberal and PC bootlickers brushing this under the carpet like everything else.
With your talent for colourful hyperbole and misdirection maybe you can become a CounterPunch contributor. :-)
And for the record, there are tidbits of useful reporting on CP and CN, they just have a tendency to see conspiracy first, get back to journalism later. I would know, I have read more of their articles than anyone here other than Tungsten.
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Posted by: ReductiMat
Anyways, looking forward to our Liberal and PC bootlickers brushing this under the carpet like everything else.
With your talent for colourful hyperbole and misdirection maybe you can become a CounterPunch contributor. :-)
And for the record, there are tidbits of useful reporting on CP and CN, they just have a tendency to see conspiracy first, get back to journalism later. I would know, I have read more of their articles than anyone here other than Tungsten.
Colourful hyperbole is my middle name... however if you can point out where I was discussing in bad faith and using misdirection it'd be appreciated.
Posted by: ReductiMat
Posted by: chupacabra
Posted by: ReductiMat
Anyways, looking forward to our Liberal and PC bootlickers brushing this under the carpet like everything else.
With your talent for colourful hyperbole and misdirection maybe you can become a CounterPunch contributor. :-)
And for the record, there are tidbits of useful reporting on CP and CN, they just have a tendency to see conspiracy first, get back to journalism later. I would know, I have read more of their articles than anyone here other than Tungsten.
Colourful hyperbole is my middle name... however if you can point out where I was discussing in bad faith and using misdirection it'd be appreciated.
I will chalk your "bootlicking" description up to hyperbole, but I don't see how anyone here should be accused of sweeping anything under the rug. Quite the opposite in fact. Here you will find people willing to discuss virtually anything and most are fully accepting of the facts.
You tend to think that anything short of complete admonishment of the mainstream parties is the equivalent of supporting all their members and everything they do. I look at politics as a choice, not an endorsement.
Bill Moyers reads Counterpunch!
I’m reaching right now on my desk for a story I read just this morning in CounterPunch.
Freedom of contract. We sell them guns that kill them; they sell us drugs that kill us.
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Bill Moyers reads Counterpunch!
I’m reaching right now on my desk for a story I read just this morning in CounterPunch.
Do you really want to hitch your wagon to a guy that prints online news though? LOL
Tungsten is just happy that his passengers are loading & unloading via the back doors.
Nope, don't care no more. I massaged my AV and ain't working for teh next 4 wks. Hopefully curve will flatten out by then.
But all last wk, after some bimbo got right in my face (jfc!), I did a variation of below, but further back so it was directly above the very effective and fool proof company installed red duct tape you see on the floor there.
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That red tape means business.
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Nope, don't care no more. I massaged my AV and ain't working for teh next 4 wks. Hopefully curve will flatten out by then.
But all last wk, after some bimbo got right in my face (jfc!), I did a variation of below, but further back so it was directly above the very effective and fool proof company installed red duct tape you see on the floor there.
amateur
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Freedom of contract. We sell them guns that kill them; they sell us drugs that kill us.
The top three I have a lot of respect for, Noam especially so.
The bottom three are not known to me, at least off the top of my head.
I'll give it a go for a bit.
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I'll give it a go for a bit.
Careful, ; )
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For the record, I was always leery of CounterPunch because of how hard you fought for Russian and Chinese interests. I hope you are at fault for misrepresenting them.
I dislike the above as equally as I dislike our southern neighbors.
Warring nations should be shut down.
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