And now Turkey tariffs

Trump Orders Expanded Mental Health Services to Curb Veteran Suicides

https://www.military.com/daily-news/...-suicides.html

Originally Posted by hobo finds

My fear is if no one will buy our steel, then all of the steel jobs that this was supposed to get us will not matter. Turkeys retaliation is only symbolic as we don't have much trade. I normally pick one fight at a time, but it seems we are out to piss every nation off at the same time.

US Steel planning to add more than 800 jobs this year

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/11/us-s...this-year.html

HAPPENING NOW: Trump Officially Outsmarted China, They’re Now Waving the ‘White Flag’

https://truthfeednews.com/happening-...medium=twitter

Originally Posted by msmoorad

[...] Trump is NOT the Great White Hope
he is just another puppet of the Zionist banking cartel [...] Trump is a racist bigot [...] and has lots of Zionist advisers around him, who know how to manipulate him [...]

You call someone a 'racist' while using racial slurs and stereotypes yourself.
How does that work ?

Originally Posted by msmoorad

i will say something: Trump is NOT the Great White Hope
he is just another puppet of the Zionist banking cartel thats been controlling the US for very long.
just like Obama, Clinton, Bush etc
their names, races & faces may be different but the puppetmasters remain the same.

Trump is a racist bigot and seems to attract similar supporters.
he is also very impulsive and has lots of Zionist advisers around him, who know how to manipulate him so that the masses think these "bright" decisions he makes, like imposing/increasing tariffs on others, is something he came up with all by himself. They dont realise hes being instructed what to do by very sly & cunning people.
his main handler is his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

they are using these puppet leaders to destroy the US step by step....Make America Great isnt on their agenda.

Zionism is a European settler colonial movement to establish and expand a settler state in Palestine and turn it into Israel. It's main effect is the dispossession of the Palestinian people to facilitate this colonization. It is in every way analogous to what groups of Europeans have done to natives in the Americas or Australia, what Indonesians did to the Timorese, what Han Chinese are currently doing to Tibetans and so on. Most Zionists are Christian (tens of millions of Americans and Australians are Christian Zionists, many times more than the entire global Jewish population whether Zionist, anti-Zionist or azionist). When you're writing "Zionist" what you mean is "Jew" and the Jew writing this comment would very much appreciate honesty on your part instead of trying to obfuscate your anti-semitism. Zionism is tremendously harmful but mostly to Palestinians. There is no such thing as a "Zionist banking cartel". The phrase doesn't even make sense because Zionism doesn't fit that context. It's like saying "Zionist chain of laundromats" or "Zionist ice cream conglomerate". And it's lazy analysis to say harmful US policies aren't because of the tremendous political power large corporations and the rich hold and that this power is codified into US law with things like corporate personhood, unlimited legal bribery called "campaign donations" and such but instead because of a secret cabal of Jews (who would exercise and enforce policy how by the way? How do these shadowy cabals supposedly make things happen? Tiny secret groups can only have so much collective expertise and organizing capacity so how does it supposedly function?). Like all anti-semitic canards it has no basis in fact. Instead it's a myth easy to wrap one's head around that takes the place of more complex systemic analysis which takes dedicated study. It's way simpler to say it's "the Rothschilds" instead of "the entire system of big business and government" which is a way bigger and harder target and one that keeps (mal?)functioning no matter the individuals involved.

As example, by most accounts your supervillain Jared Kushner has the brains of a box of rocks and is as "sly and cunning" as a sheet of drywall. Every policy plan he's put forth has been hamfisted (and given that both our people don't eat pork that's an even bigger problem than the phrasing seems!) and to the degree any of them have been successful it's because of competent technocrats in government and the government's massive resources, not him. What he is is a dude born into a rich family and, like usual, married someone another rich family. And this wild amount of resources available to him allows for the illusion of competency and thus people take him vaguely seriously despite being as qualified to be taken seriously as a high school freshman essay on gender.

I'm not the person who neg repped you but will after posting this. Because anti-semitism is gross and anti-semitic conspiracy theories are tired and boring. I write this not as a Trump supporter because I am not, but instead as for nearly two decades since getting out of the military being an anti-apartheid activist who ran an Israeli anti-apartheid organization and who, in my scholarly and activist work, presented on Zionism as a form of racism and colonialism at the Durban Review Conference in Geneva (the UN conference on racism that followed the first Durban conference that took place in your hometown in 2001). If you're gonna use the term "Zionist" make it have something to do with actual Zionism. If you're just being anti-semitic then own it and just say "Jew". That way you can just sound bigoted instead of bigoted and silly.

Originally Posted by billygoat

The first two sentences in your post have two errors. One is definitional and the other is historical. The following is a non-political and non-religious reply.

Definitional problem
1) Zionism means the movement for the return of the Jewish people to their homeland and for Jewish sovereignty in Eretz Israel.
2) Palestine has never been the name of a nation or state. It is a geographical term that derives from the Greek translation of Israel, which means wrestle or struggle in English. (It was Yasser Arafat who came up with the idea of claiming the term Palestine as the name of a nation, shortly after the formation of the PLO in 1964 in Egypt.)

Historical problem
Prior to the conquest by the Israelites in the land, there were in existence several (what we would now call) city-states. After the Rehoboam-Jeroboam problem, the nation split in two: Judah and Israel. Eventually both were conquered, with only the tribes of Judah and Benjamin returning to the land and resuming their nation, while the other ten tribes remained in exodus. Israel eventually fell under the rule of the Roman Empire. Then came along several Islamic caliphates, and ultimately the Ottoman Empire for about four centuries. Right around when World War II ended, the British (with a little help) pushed the Ottoman Empire out of the land and eventually ceded the land to the Jewish peoples. That led to the 1948 declaration of the nation of Israel, and the Arab-Israeli War followed shortly after. Israel was successful in defending herself, but lost what is commonly called the West Bank to Jordan (then called the Emirate of Transjordan), who annexed the territory to its state, and the Gaza Strip to Egypt. (If you ever wondered why the West Bank is on the eastern side of Israel, now you know -- it's a Jordanian term.) Along came the 1967 Six Day War in which Israel regained control of what it calls Judea and Samaria but everyone else sticks to the term West Bank. it also regained the Gaza Strip and took control of the Golan Heights.

So there was never a nation or people called Palestine in the Middle East. Never, ever. There were groups of Judaists, Muslims, and Christians living in the land prior to 1948 but there was never a state called Palestine.

But since 1948, Israel had agreed to cede land to the folks who call themselves Palestinians no less than five times and all five times the PLO said no. What's peculiar is that from 1948 to 1967, Israel did not control the West Bank. The Palestinians could have demanded an independent state from the Jordanians. On the contrary, while Jordan was in control Arafat said there was no longer a claim since it was no longer part of "Palestine". Once it was back in Israeli hands it miraculously became disputed land again. That sums up the historical problem.

As for the rest of your post, I'm unable to reply without getting into politics and religion. So out of respect for the rules of this forum, I'll decline to comment.

A pack of lies.

Originally Posted by billygoat

The first two sentences in your post have two errors. One is definitional and the other is historical. The following is a non-political and non-religious reply.

There is nothing apolitical about your reply. It's deeply political and completely bizarre that you assert otherwise. You're making demonstrably false historical claims to justify the colonization of Palestine, claims no remotely accepted historical (no matter their political leanings) would accept. Meaning it's propaganda, not scholarship.

Originally Posted by billygoat

Definitional problem

Originally Posted by billygoat

1) Zionism means the movement for the return of the Jewish people to their homeland and for Jewish sovereignty in Eretz Israel.

This doesn't make sense. Eretz Israel is a new idea not an old one. Also, my religion includes a very diverse group of people. We are Ethiopians, Arabs, Kurds, Iberians, Turks, Slavs and more. To say we all stem from the same "homeland" only makes sense if you say all Christians too are from Palestine because that's the source of Christian theology as well. The idea of Jews as a national or ethnic grouping (which as anyone who knows the history knows the early Zionists used to exclude all non-European Jews from the colonizing project) comes from anti-semitism and eugenics.

Originally Posted by billygoat

2) Palestine has never been the name of a nation or state. It is a geographical term that derives from the Greek translation of Israel, which means wrestle or struggle in English. (It was Yasser Arafat who came up with the idea of claiming the term Palestine as the name of a nation, shortly after the formation of the PLO in 1964 in Egypt.)

No historian agrees with you about the Arafat malarkey. None. Not a single one. Not from any political spectrum. It's nonsense propaganda that started during the Meir years. David Ben Gurion himself referred to Palestinians as a national grouping decades before the date you bring up. Palestine does come from a Greek root, Παλαιστίνη which sounded out is....Palestine. Which has nothing to do with the Greek term for Israel which is...Israel [Ἰσρᾱήλ]. Dunno what being or not being a state has to do with anything. No state is a state before it's a state.

Originally Posted by billygoat

Historical problem

Originally Posted by billygoat

Prior to the conquest by the Israelites in the land, there were in existence several (what we would now call) city-states. After the Rehoboam-Jeroboam problem, the nation split in two: Judah and Israel. Eventually both were conquered, with only the tribes of Judah and Benjamin returning to the land and resuming their nation, while the other ten tribes remained in exodus. Israel eventually fell under the rule of the Roman Empire. Then came along several Islamic caliphates, and ultimately the Ottoman Empire for about four centuries. Right around when World War II ended, the British (with a little help) pushed the Ottoman Empire out of the land and eventually ceded the land to the Jewish peoples. That led to the 1948 declaration of the nation of Israel, and the Arab-Israeli War followed shortly after. Israel was successful in defending herself, but lost what is commonly called the West Bank to Jordan (then called the Emirate of Transjordan), who annexed the territory to its state, and the Gaza Strip to Egypt. (If you ever wondered why the West Bank is on the eastern side of Israel, now you know -- it's a Jordanian term.) Along came the 1967 Six Day War in which Israel regained control of what it calls Judea and Samaria but everyone else sticks to the term West Bank. it also regained the Gaza Strip and took control of the Golan Heights.

The ancient history is flawed but unimportant for your points and it was at the end of WWI, not WWII that the British took Palestine from the Ottomans (the Ottoman Empire hadn't existed for two decades by the time WWII started). The British occupied Palestine from the end of WWI until 1948 and, allowed varying degrees of European Jewish colonization of the land and displacement of the native population (if you don't want to call them "Palestinians" fine, dunno how that would make it ok to carry out ethnic cleansing). Israel didn't "lose" the West Bank because it never had the West Bank. There were virtually no Zionist colonies in that area despite the West Bank being the actual locations of ancient Israelite and Judean settlements. Meaning if this was some "return" like you mentioned, the Zionists went to the wrong place and the Israelites and Judeans never lived by the sea which is where the overwhelming majority of colonizers lived both in 1948 and now. And in 1967 Israel didn't regain control of anything because it didn't have control in the first place. Ever. Not once.

Originally Posted by billygoat

So there was never a nation or people called Palestine in the Middle East. Never, ever. There were groups of Judaists, Muslims, and Christians living in the land prior to 1948 but there was never a state called Palestine.

There was never a state called Tsennacommacah either but that doesn't make it ethical that the British invaded the area and established Virginia in its place, driving out the Powhatan people.

Originally Posted by billygoat

But since 1948, Israel had agreed to cede land to the folks who call themselves Palestinians no less than five times and all five times the PLO said no. What's peculiar is that from 1948 to 1967, Israel did not control the West Bank. The Palestinians could have demanded an independent state from the Jordanians. On the contrary, while Jordan was in control Arafat said there was no longer a claim since it was no longer part of "Palestine". Once it was back in Israeli hands it miraculously became disputed land again. That sums up the historical problem.

Most of this this is ahistorical and the rest dishonest. It's a deviation from msmoorad's anti-semitic posts about Zionism and has nothing to do with the historical period previously discussed. If you want to spout these falsehoods start a new thread in off-topic and will sort you out point by point.

Spare me the drama.
I know the difference between Zionism and Judaism.
Most Jewish Zionists are NOT semites but they are the ones who concocted the term antisemitism and they are the ones who hide behind it and use it silence critics of Zionism or illegitimate Israel.

True Jews are real semites who follow the Torah and they have lived peacefully with arabs and Christians in Palestine until the Zionist parasites from Europe began infesting Palestine.

Zionist are those who have their roots in Khazaria(now Crimea/Armenia region) and they follow the teachings of the Talmud.

Originally Posted by msmoorad

Spare me the drama.
I know the difference between Zionism and Judaism.
Most Jewish Zionists are NOT semites but they are the ones who concocted the term antisemitism and they are the ones who hide behind it and use it silence critics of Zionism or illegitimate Israel.

True Jews are real semites who follow the Torah and they have lived peacefully with arabs and Christians in Palestine until the Zionist parasites from Europe began infesting Palestine.

Zionist are those who have their roots in Khazaria(now Crimea/Armenia region) and they follow the teachings of the Talmud.

No you don't. Judaism is a religion and "semitic" is an ethno-linguistic grouping. The linking of them starts with anti-semitism. The term was popularized by Wilhelm Marr, an anti-semite, in 1879 to assert that German Jews were not German, but a foreign element that was "semitic" and was coined in 1860 before Zionism even existed. Dunno what the thing you're saying about Talmud vs. Torah is about. It has nothing to do with Judaism. The torah is our religious text and guide. The talmud is a law book, not a holy text. Nobody, anywhere ever, worships it or follows it any more than people follow the US Supreme Court precedents and rulings as "teachings". It would be too long to serve as a holy or teaching text anyway at over 6000 pages long. Don't think I've ever met anyone who has even read it all but arcane religious scholarship is not my field. Anyway none of that has anything to do with your antisemitic conspiracy theories about Jews and Donald Trump.

Originally Posted by Patriot76

I have enjoyed your perspective on the scrap industry and you have provided some great information on the forum. I am confused why you dislike the group of people known to be the fathers of the scrap industry.

With that said I am going to take a guess here based on your numerous attacks on America, the Jewish faith, and our military - you were denied a visa to the United States and therefore missed the plane because you consider yourself a member of the Afrikaner Resistance Movement. Is this what you meant when you said the truth hurts?

I apologize to Hobofinds and have no intention to derail your thread, just trying to get clarification.

nope- ive spent over 13 months in total in the US
ive been to almost all the major cities from NY down to Miami and then west out to Dallas & Houston and then from there back to Atlanta.
ive met LOTS of good folks- of all races, colours. there were some nasty fellows but they werent all whites, some were Latinos & some were black.

i also dont like to get involved in politics here but since most of you are white Americans and many of you are military vets & i suspect Trump supporters, im using the opportunity to speak to you about whats going on.

it may be that you dont understand
or maybe u dont want to accept the truth and prefer to pat yourselves on the back about "serving your country".
lets face it: nobody likes to accept that what they believed most of their lives is a lie.

even worse is when u have made lots of sacrifices for what you believed was a noble & righteous cause ...then u later learn it was all LIES and YOU are the bad guys/aggressors.

my apologies to hobofinds also if ive derailed your thread but ive addressed the reason behind the tariffs .