radiochaser

I think you take this stuff much too seriously. It isn't that important in the general scheme of life. (wow, this turned out to be more of an essay than a comment response) I participate in some of these threads for the mental stimulation, for the fun of it, and the occasional education aspects that the debates provide. If there are errors, mistakes, etc, they do no harm to life! If these debates were vastly important in my life, then there would be a very great number more posts from me. If you look at my profile you will see that I have been a member since November of 2009, 13 years. Divide the number of posts I have, 1041 by those years and you can see that my yearly average number of posts are, 80. You however have only been a member for about 2 years. You have an average post count of 140, per week. That is why I think that you take this much too serious. You seem to devote much too much time to posting comments. I wonder if you have anything else in your life that you can do, besides these ASEAN NOW forums. To give you some perspective of me and what my life has been, that influences how I react to some of these threads. I went to Vietnam in late 1970 and was involved in the Vietnam war for about 27 months. I was in the Army Security Agency, had a TOP SECRET Clearance equivalent to todays TOP SECRET Clearance with SCI access (TS-SCI). I had access to classified material from Confidential up to Top Secret. This was required so that I could perform in the MOS that I was trained in. That training started in October 1969 and ended August of 1970. This was 8 hour a day, 5 days a week, with some of it requiring studying classified class notes only in a secured facility (breaks for some holidays). The study of classified class notes had to be done on free time, meaning after class, not during class time! There were times when my MOS affected life, either harming the life of people or killing them, but not directly. People were injured and killed and there were a lot of them. Those were not injury or death reports submitted by U.S. Military personnel, those were from reports of field troops back to Hanoi via radio communications. I once made a mistake and that lead to the death of Allied personnel, namely Army of the Republic of Vietnam. That was a little over 50 years ago, about 50 ARVN died and I still have guilt about it today. Years after Vietnam, I was hired by the U.S. Government. Some of the work was very similar to what I was trained to do in the Army Security Agency. I had to undergo 1 year of training for that job consisting of 10 months of 8 hour a day of OJT with 2 months of classroom training. I also had to have a SECRET level clearance, with access to cryptologic materials. That clearance took 18 months to complete (before 9/11/01 occurred) and as I did for the TOP SECRET Clearance, I had to provide information going back to when and where I was born! At the end of the 1 year training with the U.S. Government, I was considered qualified to to function on my own, unsupervised, as a Federal Agent. I also had a break in that service which lead to my clearance being revoked, as I no longer needed it, not being in the Enforcement Bureau of the agency I worked for. Then later, I was reassigned back to the Enforcement Bureau, in December 2001. The subsequent security clearance was much more demanding. Partly because because of 9/11 and by then, I had married a Thai national who later became a U.S. citizen. I was given the same clearance, SECRET level, with access to cryptologic materials. That part of having access to cryptologic materials is important. It requires additional back ground investigation. Fail that part and there is no clearance given! The second back ground investigation for my third clearance lasted 2 years and 9 months! I investigated issues involving violations of Federal laws, Regulations, and Rules. The punitive results of my investigations of individual people and businesses violations ranged from, please don't do that again, to I am issuing you this written violation, to you are being fined, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of dollars, or being imprisoned in a Federal Penitentiary. The shortest sentence in a penitentiary was 1 year, the longest was 7 years. When I did investigations, I was the principle person that had to do the work. I neither depended on anyone else to do the research, nor could I make demands of anyone to do the research. It was almost entirely on me. There were times I could ask someone else, hey, if you have the time, can you look this up for me? But otherwise, I did the investigations. Apparently I was good at it. I solved several cases that had already been under investigation for more than a year, to one that was over 2 years old. That latter case was solved in 2 or 3 months after I was transferred back to the Enforcement Bureau, which was also being investigated by multiple law enforcement agencies in New Jersey and by the U.S. Coast Guard. So, I ask that you excuse me if I seem to be reticent in responding to demands that prove what I say is true/real/accurate/etc, when it can be found by just a little bit of internet research, such as one I did today, which actually took me less than 1 minute to complete. If I question what someone else writes, then I do the internet search myself. I have years of experience having to do that and ended up being a senior agent at a pay grade of GS-13, Step 6! Really, it isn't that hard to do. Aaaaaannnddd a link providing some information about TS-SCI! https://thesubtimes.com/2022/08/21/so-what-does-sci-really-mean/

The most active European nation in the trans-Atlantic slave trade was Portugal, which used the forced labor of Africans in their Latin American colonies in present-day Brazil. Almost 3.9 million enslaved Africans were forced to embark on Portuguese ships. Present-day Brazil received around 3.2 of them, making it the country in the Americas where most enslaved people arrived during the period. British ships also carried upwards of 3 million Africans forcefully removed from the continent, mostly to the Caribbean, the United States and the Guyanas. French ships carried 1.3 million enslaved Africans. https://www.statista.com/chart/22057/countries-most-active-trans-atlantic-slave-trade/

What did I claim was a fact. I don't remember writing anywhere that, "this is a fact"! Please be more specific than to make a general statement. If there was no instance of my claiming something I wrote was a fact, I will throw back to you, "at least have the decency" to not make a statement that is not true!

This isn't a thread about news. From reading this thread, it appears to be mostly about personal opinions! "In factual areas such as news forums and current affairs topics member content that is claimed or portrayed as a fact should be supported by a link to a relevant reputable source."

The answer is just too easy to find. I do my own searches on the internet, daily, as a result of someone writing something or other. Why is that difficult for you to do? I think it was only about 1 minute to find this article. It is taking me longer to post a response than it did to find it! Top 10 Countries with the Highest Prevalence of Modern Slavery (by total number of slaves) - Global Slavery Index 2018: Top 10 Countries with the Highest Prevalence of Modern Slavery (by slaves per 1000 residents) - Global Slavery Index 2018: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries-that-still-have-slavery

You must not have seen the link. https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/thomas-sowell-on-slavery-and-this-fact-there-are-more-slaves-today-than-were-seized-from-africa-in-four-centuries/

You are projecting your thoughts and emotions onto me. None of your claims are valid in this case. https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/thomas-sowell-on-slavery-and-this-fact-there-are-more-slaves-today-than-were-seized-from-africa-in-four-centuries/

Slaves in the modern era? Not today, unless you believe that that muslims who own slaves are white/caucasians! I don't believe that all muslims are white/caucasian, they can be any ethnic race, and not all own slaves today! I would think that you mean during the years of southern slavery and I would agree with you. There is no "look over there" aspect of my post. It is what you want to call a, fact base, post, according to the history of what happened. One issue that seems to be evident is that too many people believe that America had the most slaves through out the world, or, as is in some cases, the only country that had slaves during that era. Did America have black slaves, yes, did America own the most slaves or was it the only slave owning country? No.

Yes I can. If you cannot I don't know why. I thought it might be due to you being in Thailand (I don't know where you are) and your IP address was blocked. I changed my VPN to Singapore and the link opened. As to paywalls... I run into that on occasion. What I find works more than 90% (a guess on my part) of the time is, using a search engine (not google, at least not currently) I look for the same story, quote, etc, and keep opening up links until I find one that works. Something I learned to do when I was working as a Federal Agent and was involved in investigations, beginning back in the the year 2002. Here is a brave search of the title: https://search.brave.com/search?q="The+Big+Lie%3A+Democrats+and+Republicans+Switched+Sides+on+Race"&source=web

I would like to believe, that I, when I called the talk line of the ray taliaferro's talk show out of San Francisco, one early morning after midnight, and invented the idea that Bush Sr. flew to Europe in the back seat of an SR71, and negotiated the hostage release from the Iranians, before Reagon was elected! ray taliaferro had never heard that claim before, but he immediately and completely accepted and believed it. I made that claim, hung up the phone, and continued to listen to other caller after another also accept the claim. There were some callers wanting to know what the SR71 was. I don't recall if ray taliaferro knew what it was or if I had to explain what that aircraft was. I had known about the SR71 was since 1972-1973. I could look at pictures taken on it's flight over Vietnam and China that were posted on a bulletin board in the OPs building at the 7th RRFS, outside of Udon Thani. If I recall correctly, the SR71 would fly at an altitude of 80,000 feet, up the east coast of Vietnam, make a U-turn over China, and fly back down the west boarder of Vietnam, all in about an hour or so, all the while with cameras taking pictures continuously during the north and south flight. Amazing black and white pictures, taken from an aircraft flying approximately 3000 miles an hour, at 80,000 feet. I think I was told that the negatives were 24 inches square! I remember pictures of a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun crew, where you could tell they had either sandals or boots on, you could see canteens on their belts, whether they carried an AK47 or an SKS rifle. Not just something that looked like it might have been those things, but you could see the detail of the objects. I sometimes wonder if I had heard this theory, that Bush sr. was flown in the SR71 and that memory was relegated to some deep dark place in my subconscious memory, and then I dug it up on that time. I don't know at this time so many years after the fact. Now there is a claim by a pilot that he flew Bush to Europe in the SR71. But there are also claims that a single pilot could not as he needed a navigator. I don't know which is true, I only know that people I have met, who worked with the SR71 program supports the claim that the SR71 could not have been flown with Bush Sr. in the back seat, because he was not a qualified navigator, and the pilot in the front seat, alone, could not navigate, and fly the SR71 by himself.

OK, I give up. In context, what does it mean?

Sounds more like an opinion than it does a fact. I'm not sure what you mean by "paywalled". You can't open or see the link? I have no problem with it.

Perhaps, but it does appear that it is the first legal ownership of slavery in the Colonies. And that person was a black man (African descendent) who owned African slaves. When you hear or read the term ‘slavery’, the first thing that would readily pop into your mind is a black man being abused and used by white man. After all, this is the battle cry of the black community whenever they likened racism to slavery. While this may be true of most slave cases, do you know that the first legally recognized slaveholder in America was not a white but a black man? https://history101.com/first-legally-slaveholder-black-man/

Who is being delusional now? The Big Lie: Democrats and Republicans Switched Sides on Race Republican failure to refute Democrats’ "big lie" that their parties switched sides on race has allowed that falsehood to become widely accepted. https://lindasuegrimes.substack.com/p/the-big-lie-democrats-and-republicans

Yep, there were northerners (Yankees to those from the south) that held slaves. If I recall correctly, there was a black man that went to court to keep a man, another black man, as his slave, or something like that. The court ruled in his favor and he kept his slave. Also, the Lincoln Emancipation Proclamation, if I recall correctly, only freed slaves in the civil wars, southern states. Not in the northern states. Sort of hypocritical ya might think.

Then why was robert byrd hillary clintons mentor? " When faced with the sobering reality that Democrats supported slavery, started the Civil War when the abolitionist Republican Party won the Presidency, established the Ku Klux Klan to brutalize newly freed slaves and keep them from voting, opposed the Civil Rights Movement, modern-day liberals reflexively perpetuate rather pernicious myth--that the racist southern Democrats of the 1950s and 1960s became Republicans, leading to the so-called "switch" of the parties. This is as ridiculous as it is easily debunked. " https://newstalk1130.iheart.com/featured/common-sense-central/content/2018-05-01-the-myth-of-the-republican-democrat-switch/

I would not call slave owners good guys! I would not call people who hate someone merely because their skin is a different color than their own, good guys. One problem about that is, now days too many people believe that all southerners owned slaves, and that all southerners are racist. Only a small percentage of people in the south actually owned slaves and not all of the people in the south hated people whose skin was a different color. Both sides of my family were from the south. One Louisiana and the other Alabama. I lived in Louisiana for a good many years growing up. My grandmother hated the klan. I watched her one day come near killing one klan member with my grandfathers shotgun! I listened to klan members talk about their hatred of blacks and republicans. They spoke gleefully about how they would hang them if they could. Old hateful klan members. They infected some of the people I grew up with. Those old hateful klan members were democrat and continued to be democrat until they died. The people I grew up with that were infected with that hate were democrats. They still are democrats to this day. They still are bigoted, hateful racists to this day! Excuse me. A pet peeve of mine I guess. Not liking people who are full of hate!

I had covid vaccination after I had covid so I could go to Thailand with my wife and other family. From what little I know, I should get the pneumonia vaccinations as pneumonia, twice, has nearly killed me in my adult life. Whereas covid just made me moderately sick for a few weeks.

This is interesting. "Does fact checking matter to your opinions? 46 members have voted You do not have permission to vote in this poll, or see the poll results." Does anyone else, not have permission to vote in this poll or see the results? Or is it just me? ????

The picture isn't me, but I worked in the same hut in Vietnam and a fixed base in Thailand. 05D20, Special Identification Techniques Operator. Trained in the art of Radio Direction Finding (RDF) to locate high frequency (HF or shortwave) radio transmitters and Identifying individual radio transmitters using Radio Fingerprinting. A little over 2 years experience locating enemy transmitters (not just Vietnamese). I worked as a civilian for the government for 23 years, with duties that also included radio direction finding of HF transmitters, fixed base and mobile transmitters in the U.S. of A., including marine vessels on both Pacific and Atlantic oceans, aircraft, and other transmitters that might be in North, Central and South America as well as Europe, Africa, the Soviet Union, and all parts of Asia, if the signals could be heard. Government work included RDF of VHF and UHF signals using a mobile RDF vehicle. One duty of the work was traffic analysis, intelligence collection and analysis of the collected intelligence.

Or it could be unintentional jamming by an electronic device emitting spurious radio signals. I investigated that a couple of times when I was gainfully employed.

What?

I believe he is.

Oh! Darn it. My wife paid cash for her condo. Her cash, not mine.

Less than normal. Might be due to my Native American ancestry. Might also be why I can't handle alcoholic beverages. I can get drunk on 2 small glasses of wine. Too much and I get sick for days. Or I just might be allergic to alcohol!