David George
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I’m not sure why you have an issue with my comment, it’s not an ad hominem attack. I was drawing attention to the fundamental flaw in your statement – no need to take it as a personnel attack.
You described a “thinking person” as someone that “reacts reflexively”. That doesn’t make any sense.
If the clearly nonsensical last two posts are an example of your “thinking” then a little disrespect is probably the least of your problems.
That’s more of an ad hominem.Seychelles, there’s a mistake in your post: “Thinking people reflexively react….”
Shouldn’t that be ”Unthinking people …..” or “Non thinking people….” or, perhaps more correctly, “Idiotic ideologues and conspiracy nut-jobs reflexively react…..”Caught a very interesting and wide ranging interview last night – with particular reference to trade and trust starting about 36 minutes in. It’s five or six years old and includes discussion of too big to fail and our response to environmental change – highly recommended.
I’ve no way of knowing how things are where you live but my most recent experience: I’ve just come back from town to buy some milk. I wasn’t raped or pillaged, a mutually beneficial free trade in fact.
Seriously; do you have to even ask?I’m not a troll or naive, I signed the petition against the original TPP because of it’s provisions that are a direct threat to New Zealand sovereignty. That doesn’t mean I support a lot of this anti free trade dogma since it tends to willfully ignore the huge benefits of trade. I certainly dispute that trade is equivalent to “rape and pillaging” and nothing subsequently presented by Patricia supports her original assertion. Thank you for your input V Arnold but childish name calling suggests no substance.
What sort of a response is that? We are talking about trade by mutual agreement and for mutual benefit.
I’m not denying that there has been (and still is) exploitation; the current Chinese takeover of resources in Africa comes to mind. You are attempting to distort reality to suit your agenda I suspect; not helpful.Patricia, been looking at history and can’t find anything to suggest that trade is synonymous with rape and pillaging. Quite the revers.
Trade appears to be an alternative to rape and pillaging and offers higher standards of living to the participants. Imagine that you lived in a rural community of 5,000 people and were only able to trade within that community. What standard and quantity of goods would you have access to. Fortunately we don’t have to imagine; there are plenty of real world examples. You can’t just make stuff up to suit your ideology.So that’s what this is about, a reasonable discussion about Turkish aggression is just an excuse for you to hijack the discussion to vent your idiotic antisemitic ravings.
I don’t believe the Jewish people will ever back down, surrounded as they are by people that have vowed to kill them for who they are. They only have to look at the terrified remnants of every other minority group in the Middle East to know what fate awaits them if they do.Nice bit of whataboutism but hardly relevant to the post yesterday re Turkish sabre rattling towards Greece, Nassim. Of course the whole things a “Zionist” conspiracy. Right!
Very sad to see Turkey going down the road to becoming yet another Islamic Tyranny and to think that, after the collapse of their empire they were determined to become and remain secular. This business with Greece is not entirely new from them but, carrying with it the additional stench of religious supremacy, is now a far bigger concern given the bloody history of Islam. They’ve already destroyed any chance of greater integration with Europe, with the vile attacks on the long suffering Kurds, their membership of NATO must be under question.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/stanley-weiss/its-time-to-kick-erdogans_b_9300670.htmlTurkey is clearly on the road to becoming yet another totalitarian Islamic hellhole. With the progressive, secular momentum of Ataturk in reverse how much longer can they really be considered a genuine ally to Western interests. The Greeks and long suffering Kurds must be deeply worried.
The Poles (and Eastern Europeans generally) know something that the rest of Europe is now hopefully waking up to; fundamentalist Islam is totally incompatible with Western liberal values. Their experience with the hideous Ottoman Empire is burned deeply into their collective historic memories and, no doubt, strengthens their resolve to never have anything further to do with whole outfit. They will take Christian refugees but Poles will not be bullied and it is looking increasingly obvious that neither will the Czechs, Slovacs , Hungarians et al. Even the Austrians are saying no thanks. Germany, France and Sweden appear committed to the suicide of their indigenous people and it’s culture. Fools!
