The Daily Blog Open Mic – Thursday 9th February 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Moderation rules are more lenient for this section, but try and play nicely.
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http://www.ae911truth.org/
It’s just not popular science and it takes away from victims. Ok so we know the Saudis have there money and people all over terrorist attacks globally, that we can prove, save the science for the courts. It’s never done public opinion any good
Martyn – your lengthy comment above and my response is, I feel, worthy of allowing them to remain for a few days instead of putting it into storage so quickly. I like the past when you left up the Open Mics for a few days instead of getting rid of them the next day. I appreciate your honesty though I, on occasion, do not agree with you.
how do you view previous days/weeks ‘Open Mics’?…there should be a button link
…lol…Blake…you could try ‘The Standard’…they have icky type comments on there sometimes
( personally i dont believe in Icke after having seen him on DVD… i think he should be a fantasy writer….would be good at magical realism or science fiction or a mix…certainly my feeling is that his statements degrade the importance/credibility of real issues and real debate and create red herrings )
What is the use of submitting a comment or link that you do not like or agree with as it will not get through ? Half my comments are denied.
I keep asking – ” where is my comment and why are you deleting ” ===>> no response.
I keep asking also for others to see a pattern that is clear to me.
I am surprised you have not blacklisted me to keep me silent and you unchallenged.
Watch this one quickly be deleted as well and this blog is supposed to be left wing and open minded ? Freedom of speech ?
Ok Blake – let’s have this out here then. We don’t ban anyone here at TDB, that’s not the sort of blog any of us wants. It’s tacky and needless, but we will stop a comment going through IF
-it’s defamatory.
-it’s just needlessly abusive.
-it’s a bit crazy.
You don’t make defamatory comments and you are never needlessly abusive, but were are times you link through to shit that’s just fucking crazy mate, and we don’t publish it so you aren’t embarrassed and so that it doesn’t embarrass us.
You are currently attempting to have TDB publish some links to David Icke yes? The same David Icke who was once telling the world that shape shifting lizard people have secretly infiltrated the leadership of the world.
That David Icke?
You see how allowing you to publish links through to him doesn’t help with your credibility or TDBs?
I appreciate it’s frustrating, but we just aren’t interested in platforming that.
I’m sorry if that angers you and makes us all freedom of speech hypocrites, but I’m pretty loose with most of what people say here and the moderators are incredibly relaxed with most things, but we collectively draw a line on shape shifting lizard people mate.
If that costs us some readers, I can live with that.
PS – I am not a shape shifting lizard person (although if I was, I would say that wouldn’t I?)
Ok Blake – let’s have this out here then. We don’t ban anyone here at TDB, that’s not the sort of blog any of us wants. It’s tacky and needless, but we will stop a comment going through IF
-it’s defamatory.
-it’s just needlessly abusive.
-it’s a bit crazy.
You don’t make defamatory comments and you are never needlessly abusive, but were are times you link through to shit that’s just fucking crazy mate, and we don’t publish it so you aren’t embarrassed and so that it doesn’t embarrass us.
You are currently attempting to have TDB publish some links to David Icke yes? The same David Icke who was once telling the world that shape shifting lizard people have secretly infiltrated the leadership of the world.
That David Icke?
You see how allowing you to publish links through to him doesn’t help with your credibility or TDBs?
I appreciate it’s frustrating, but we just aren’t interested in platforming that.
I’m sorry if that angers you and makes us all freedom of speech hypocrites, but I’m pretty loose with most of what people say here and the moderators are incredibly relaxed with most things, but we collectively draw a line on shape shifting lizard people mate.
If that costs us some readers, I can live with that.
PS – I am not a shape shifting lizard person (although if I was, I would say that wouldn’t I?)
An important discussion with some intelligent experienced men ( I say this as a woman and a feminist) This is an unfailingly good discussion/debate programme chaired by American born Professor Peter Lavelle:
‘Trump’s battles’
Published time: 8 Feb, 2017 07:00
https://www.rt.com/shows/crosstalk/376653-donald-trump-executive-orders/
“It was an unusual campaign and now Donald Trump’s style as president is equally unusual. Will he eventually be forced to govern through executive orders? Will the GOP get in line? And will he be allowed to recast American foreign policy?
CrossTalking with James Jatras, Ivan Eland, and Andrew Langer.”
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