The CP 2816 Empress steam locomotive, roving ambassador for Canadian Pacific Railways. I happened upon this train in Maple Ridge last December and didn't have my f**king camera with me. Not even my cell phone.

This warms my heart, perhaps there is hope for the human race after all. Also I find it kind of fitting that the best ambassador is a comedian.

Ambassador Wooooolsey....Towing the party-line of "Create the problem, provide the solution." Some people simply need to be kicked in the face with their own bullshit...

Fuck Morgan, he demands his guests answer his bullshit questions and recoils from the same courtesy in every interview he orchestrates. The only way to deal with a choad like this is to over-shout him and disrupt his program....Like Alex Jones does so well-Someone needs to shut this errand-boy's shit down-I know, how about everyone stop watching CNN (or all television altogether)...only way to kill this pieces of shit like this-IGNORE them with your time and money.

@Confucius

thank you so very much for taking the time to clarify your position.
but i think we are in a fundamental disagreement.
and here is why:

1.manning approached wikileaks.not the other way around.
2.is manning a traitor or patriot? i guess it depends on the perspective.
but manning was quite clear his reasons behind revealing those documents and none of those reasons were of being naive' or subverted by a third party.

when you consider the oath of military responsibility,an i oath i took over 25 years ago,the line that stands out is "to protect from enemies both foreign and domestic".
could those documents be seen as subverting the american people?
and if so,would that not make revealing those documents a patriotic act?

again,perspective and i guess we disagree.

conversely, if we use your premise then we would have to view this man:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg
as a traitor.
now the 70,000 plus documents HE revealed exposed the gulf of tonkin AND extremely sensitive data concerning the vietnam war.i would go as far to say that without this mans courage (yes..courage) to expose the lies of our government,vietnam may have lasted for a much longer time.ellisberg fascillitated the beginning of the end of the vietnam war

the documents manning revealed just left the american government red faced and embarrassed but nothing of strategic value.ellisberg on the other hand revealed much MUCH more.

traitor or patriot? by your definition:traitor and a far worse one than manning.

and on that we disagree.

what we agree on is that governments lie.
we are in unison on this point but we diverge on how to deal with the situation.

you suggest to work within the bounds of journalism or becoming a politician.
now who is being the naive one?
this implies that the 4th estate is in perfect functioning order and that politicians are informed on all matters.

i submit that neither is the case.
a corporate run new media which engages mainly in sensationalism and hyperbolic opinion rhetoric and a legislature that is mostly subserviant to their financial backers( basically wall street) are not the institutions to tackle and uncover government malfeasance and outright lies.

they have been corrupted.see:iraq war

so i find it disturbing when the government hi-jacks 200 ap reporters emails and phone records.

or when a low level private reveals low level ambassador documents.

or my government's justice department prosecutes SIX people under the espionage act but not ONE indictment concerning wall street.

the message is clear:we are the US government.fuck with us and we will fuck you up.citizen or non-citizen.
there will be no journalism.
there will be no leaking of anything.
sit down and shut up.

or we will ruin you.

government by the people for the people right?

Benghazi is a scandal because 1. no one approved any kind of rescue mission 2. Obama said Al-Qaeda was on it's heels and blamed it on a video because his election was imminent 3. an ambassador was killed 4. talking points were changed to make him look better


So Obama really was asleep when that 3am call came in, and stayed asleep...this makes the US look weak around the world, which encourages more terrorism

But since y'all love him so much...no big deal, 'death is a part of life'.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

I was thinking the same thing when watching this. Make these guys the US cultural ambassadors at large - just fantastic.

Kissinger: Ecevit can be very helpful. Art will see the Germans on the
way home and also see Haig to see about getting surplus parts out of
stocks. And [Ambassador David] Bruce was helpful.

Esenbel: The Europeans should find ways to meet quick needs; for
example, the Air Force needs spare parts. For other items that they
can't find in the stocks, maybe you could make a deal with the Dutch or
others to send it here.

Macomber: That is illegal.

Kissinger: Before the Freedom of Information Act, I used to say at
meetings, "The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a
little longer." [laughter] But since the Freedom of Information Act,
I'm afraid to say things like that.

We'll make a major effort.

Esenbel: Your Ambassador told me the opposite. In Germany they said
they delayed it one week so it looks like it happens after your visit.

Kissinger: My understanding is that the aid is now in force. They
informed us.

Yavuzalp: The political decision is made, they say, but they're waiting
for "appropriate timing" for implementation of the political decision.

http://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/P860114-1573_MC_b.html#efmCS3CUB

We were running weapons to Libya, weren't we? to help depose Ghaddafi.
The ambassador was trying to get them back. He put himself in a vulnerable position and got killed.
So what have we done to fine those responsible?

AMC Ambassador - I used to drive one of those. A Big white one, we called it "The Titanic" - till I sunk it around a corner, into the ditch, into the air and then deep into a farmer's field! Only car accident I ever had - that was back when I only drove two speeds. Foot up or foot down, on the gas peddle. Learned a big lesson that day

The U.S. just had to bomb Germany 1 last time for WW2 as a sorta "..and one to grow on!"

hehe

I'd hate to be the Ambassador or President calling up Germany "Ahh! So that's where our bomb was... at a bar... figures."

Former ambassador Craig Murray commented on the threat of a raid at the embassy:

Not even the Chinese government tried to enter the US Embassy to arrest the Chinese dissident Chen Guangchen. Even during the decades of the Cold War, defectors or dissidents were never seized from each other’s embassies. Murder in Samarkand relates in detail my attempts in the British Embassy to help Uzbek dissidents. This terrible breach of international law will result in British Embassies being subject to raids and harassment worldwide.

The government’s calculation is that, unlike Ecuador, Britain is a strong enough power to deter such intrusions. This is yet another symptom of the “might is right” principle in international relations, in the era of the neo-conservative abandonment of the idea of the rule of international law.

The British Government bases its argument on domestic British legislation. But the domestic legislation of a country cannot counter its obligations in international law, unless it chooses to withdraw from them. If the government does not wish to follow the obligations imposed on it by the Vienna Convention, it has the right to resile from it – which would leave British diplomats with no protection worldwide.

>> ^A10anis:

>> ^dannym3141:
>> ^A10anis:
I hate to sound so cynical, ok, I am, but jeez, It's a multimillionaire footballer, that's all. Get a life.

If it was some fucking chump like john terry i could understand, but beckham deserves every penny and compliment he's ever earned and he's the only modern english footballer i'll say that for. He's less of a professional footballer nowadays than he is an ambassador for whatever good causes he has time to lend his name to.
Well in beckham, you're a source of british pride. Celebrity doesn't impress me but i'd have been well happy to see him pop his head round the corner.

It takes a big man to acknowledge that he was wrong. Luckily, I am a big man
I take my hat off to you Sir, you are quite right. Beckham Is a great ambassador, and doing what he did in this video was, at worst, harmless, and, at best, a moment these people will remember with a smile. My knee jerk comment was, I guess, just a response to the "instant fame" generation. Once again, I humbly accept your reproach.


Glad i see eye to eye with a big man!

>> ^dannym3141:

>> ^A10anis:
I hate to sound so cynical, ok, I am, but jeez, It's a multimillionaire footballer, that's all. Get a life.

If it was some fucking chump like john terry i could understand, but beckham deserves every penny and compliment he's ever earned and he's the only modern english footballer i'll say that for. He's less of a professional footballer nowadays than he is an ambassador for whatever good causes he has time to lend his name to.
Well in beckham, you're a source of british pride. Celebrity doesn't impress me but i'd have been well happy to see him pop his head round the corner.

It takes a big man to acknowledge that he was wrong. Luckily, I am a big man
I take my hat off to you Sir, you are quite right. Beckham Is a great ambassador, and doing what he did in this video was, at worst, harmless, and, at best, a moment these people will remember with a smile. My knee jerk comment was, I guess, just a response to the "instant fame" generation. Once again, I humbly accept your reproach.

>> ^A10anis:

I hate to sound so cynical, ok, I am, but jeez, It's a multimillionaire footballer, that's all. Get a life.


If it was some fucking chump like john terry i could understand, but beckham deserves every penny and compliment he's ever earned and he's the only modern english footballer i'll say that for. He's less of a professional footballer nowadays than he is an ambassador for whatever good causes he has time to lend his name to.

Well in beckham, you're a source of british pride. Celebrity doesn't impress me but i'd have been well happy to see him pop his head round the corner.