Chinese tech? A patriotic Chinese-American just got busted by the FBI for spying for his people. He was responsible for the CIA's network of spies in China being rolled up and executed for treason. How does it follow if Chinese tech is installed, the Americans get it? They have no sources in China, no leverage.
Nope! I see you're not very internationally aware. It's OK, a lot of you Americans are ignorant and never travel. English is easy-peasy and easily picked up. The cultural products are second to none, so it's actually fun to learn by watching HBO series and movies. Who cares about the grammar rules and spelling when native speakers can't even get them right? Hell, English is readable even when you remove all the vowels. F U CN RD THS, U CN GT A GD JB TCHNG NGLSH.
You assholes can try to revolt if you want, but the last time you traitors tried it, we kicked your racist asses and burnt Georgia down doing it. If we have to do it again, but burn Southern California and New York down, then so be it. Fuck you rebel scum, there is only one America, indivisible. Mess with us and we Americans will fuck your shit up, you dirty traitors.
Think of this victory as a victory of some little people. You like supporting the little guy, don't you? You like supporting people who are powerless, don't you? The people who won have little power. They have little voice in anything. They are mostly invisible.
In spite of the enormous power of the media, in spite of polls I thought were inaccurate, in spite of debates that were controlled by our opponents, in spite of what were probably lots of people voting who didn't have the right to vote, in spite of professors indoctrinating young people, in spite of lots of shallow name-calling from liberals and leftists, in spite of the fact that even a lot of prominent Republicans insisted they wouldn't vote for the Republican candidate, those of us here in flyover land turned Donald Trump into the winner. (Take a look at all that red in the middle of the country on any election results map to see what I mean.) Go ahead and call us patriarchal, racist, and whatever else you like. That isn't what's going on, but if it makes you happy to believe it, go ahead and say it out loud because I suspect most of us stopped paying attention to you ages ago.
I believe these false alerts are deliberate, and are being used to see what happens when people think there's an attack. These false alerts also act to discredit the real alerts, if God forbid one ever comes. The whole thing is deeply disconcerting, and I hope a patriotic leaker comes forward with the real story to Wikileaks.
Everyone knows the story - the US government deliberately caused smallpox epidemics by distributing contaminated blankets. There's one problem: it isn't true. It was neither an act of terrorism nor an attempted genocide because it didn't happen. The entire story is a fraud, perpetrated by a former "ethnic studies" professor named Ward Churchill.
The High Plains Smallpox Epidemic of 1837 was caused by personal contact with infected passengers from the riverboat St. Peter's, owned by a fur trading company. The epidemic on the High Plains centered around Fort Clark which, despite the name, was not a military installation. It was a privately owned fur trading post. The boss of Fort Clark was Francis Chardon, a fur trader. His personal diary survived to this day, one of numerous eyewitness accounts preserved from the time.
Not only were infected blankets not distributed, but correspondence from Joshua Pilcher, the Indian Bureau's sub-agent to the Sioux, Cheyenne, and Ponca at Fort Kiowa, just south of Fort Clark, to Mr. Chardon describes one particular problem interfering with attempts to contain the epidemic that is curiously relevant to today. A smallpox vaccine existed in 1837, but Mr. Pilcher noted "it is a verry delicate experiment among those wild Indians, because death from any other cause, while under the influence of Vaccination would be attributed to that + no other cause[.]"
In 2006, Ward Churchill was found guilty of seven counts of research misconduct by the University of Colorado Ethics Committee. He was fired in 2007. He promptly filed suit, and won a jury trial for wrongful dismissal. The jury followed the instructions to the letter in coming to their conclusion, but recognized Churchill for the lying shitheel he was and awarded him precisely $1.00. (One juror denied any such motivation in a public interview.) A judge vacated the jury verdict on the grounds that the (state) university enjoys quasi-judicial immunity. The Colorado Court of Appeals upheld that decision. The Colorado Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal and in 2013 agreed with both the first judge and the Court of Appeals that the university was immune to suit in these circumstances. The US Supreme Court declined to get involved.
It took 19 years from when Churchill first published his fraudulent bullshit in 1994 to the time when the judicial system finished with the case. It could easily take four or five generations for his lie to finally exit the public consciousness. This despite the fact that humanity currently has the fastest, most ubiquitous communications systems in the history of the species.
Would you like to address the charge that you "invented history" when you accused the U.S. Army of deliberately infecting Indians with smallpox in 1837? There's that, and the allegation that you did the same thing when you claimed that the U.S. imposed a racial definition of their identity upon Indians in the 1887 General Allotment Act.
Ward Churchill: I've never really stopped to spell out why I was saying what I was saying, or to flesh out the annotation, partly because I mentioned them in the context of developing broader arguments, and partly because I considered what I was saying to be more or less self-evidently true. So, I glad-handed things a bit. Mea culpa.
States rights is racist as hell. The only people who ever advocate it are racists. There's a long history of it and it didn't start yesterday. I learned about it in school which was a long time ago. Look, your side tried the whole states rights thing and we kicked your racist asses and burned down Georgia doing it. Mess with us and we'll do it again.
The SR-71 was developed (like all military programs) to serve a specific need: the Communist nations were closed off to the world and their secret police did an enthusiastic and effective job catching traitors. America was simply cut off from intelligence on the ground. Hence, the super-fast spy plane was developed, capable of violating borders guaranteed by international law, racing in to take photos, and racing back out again before the outraged victim country could defend itself. Moreover this was when the space program was in its infancy, satellite photography was unreliable and took a long time from photo to print. There's simply no need today for a spy plane like this.
The Communists never developed a similar plane because if they wanted intelligence, they just sent out a man from their embassy with a camera and a pencil. There was also no shortage of Americans who either believed in Communism or who were easily bought off. At one point, the head of the FBI's counterintelligence agency was a foreign spy.
Look, just stop trying to revive discredited racist ideologies best left in the past, OK? We fought a civil war over this, your side lost, now STFU. I realize Trump is horrible and wrong, but that's no excuse to be horrible and wrong yourselves. Two wrongs don't make a right.
The airline checked my travel documents to make sure they were in order before they let me on the plane. This was a few weeks ago. They're fully capable of it.
So, do we realize that the people inside the quarantine area are expected to die? Because that's what a quarantine area is. This is why quarantines are always enforced at gunpoint. It can't be any other way.
The evidence shows clearly that that states rights concept is an outdated racist idea that belongs on the ash heap of history. By resurrecting this fossilized notion, the cause of racism is advanced while the role of the federal government to wisely choose the best course of action is denigrated. Let's keep power in the federal government where it belongs, 22 attorneys general are just going to make a mess of regulations in 22 different states.
You'd figure Democrats of all people would be aware of the racist nature of the states rights argument and would avoid using it. Either they're aware and they don't care, or they don't know and they're too ignorant to be in public office. Either way, it is highly derogatory towards the office they hold and the civil rights reputation of the Democratic Party. Another toxic effect of Trump's America.
Oh, for the love of - yes states rights is utterly racist to the core. Anyone who uses states rights is a racist using a codeword to reach a racist audience. It's better that we have the smart people in our federal government making rules than 50 different state governments, staffed by people from State U who are permanently bitter because they couldn't get into the Ivy League.
States rights is absolutely racist and has been used as a codeword by racists for a long time. I'm just shocked that the idea is making a comeback, progressives know quite well the racist past of this ugly concept. Can you name a supporter of states rights who supported civil rights for black people at the state level? They don't exist.
I am shocked and appalled that the long discredited idea of states rights is making a comeback under Trump. It has long been on the ash heap of history, as we all know that the federal government has better and smarter people who are capable of making the hard decisions. Decisions that may be controversial, but are nonetheless good for us (otherwise they wouldn't have made them). States rights is also racist. Why are all these good progressives suddenly in favor of small governments and devolving power to the clueless masses? Power is best kept in the federal government where the smart people can use it to benefit all of society, not just what the mob has been told it wants this month.
I have a lot more to fear from the NSA than some foreign government. The big bad dirty foreigners don't care about me, while the NSA cares deeply about what I do. Why else do they spy on me? They're worried about what I might do. Because if they were in our shoes, they'd be in the streets with torches and pitchforks.
You fucking kidding? I love the moment when the captain hits the throttle and you get pushed back in your seat. You're afraid of that? You poor unadventurous soul.
Why not? What have we got to fear? The NSA has a much larger chance of harming me than some distant foreign government. In fact I'd say the dirty foreigners' interest in me is about zero, while the NSA has a constant canker of anxiety about us American citizens, otherwise it wouldn't be spying on us illegally. I simply have less to fear from the foreigners and much to fear from the lawless NSA.
Controlling the means of production is precisely what socialism is. We're not going to get into that "it's not real socialism" argument, are we? That's so tiresome.
LOL - China does not give loans for starting businesses. Chinese banks detest small and medium size companies. They don't trust any business because they know for a fact all the paperwork is fake. Chinese banks like to do business with big business. Small companies can go get fucked.
The investigation was repeatedly stonewalled. How are you supposed to find evidence without the means to compel it? You're describing a successful cover-up.
Sssh, this is a promotion for a qz.com blog entry. qz.com, like wordpress.com and blogspot.com and forbes.com, is a blogging platform and people need clicks for their pieces. This obvious non-geek article is being promoted, so let's everyone pretend to go along with the premise of the article and discuss it.
When you have a quart of sewage and add a teaspoon of wine, you have a quart of sewage. When you have a quart of wine and you add a teaspoon of sewage, you have a quart of sewage. That's the problem.
The mainstream media, which you could argue is adversarial, but what we have is not adversarial. We have a partisan opposition press which works hand in glove with the Democrats. This totally threatens the First Amendment, because when people figure out, which they have, that they can not only tell you who you must vote for, but they can tell you what truth you're allowed to know or not to know, this is hugely damaging to our Republic. As we have seen in all of this other stuff with Russia, all of the stuff with the Clinton Foundation, all these things. The real question becomes why do we need a First Amendment if they're not going to do their job, which is to be the tribune of the people and instead become the partisans of a political movement.
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Spoiler alert: the US government didn't exist in 1764.
Chinese tech? A patriotic Chinese-American just got busted by the FBI for spying for his people. He was responsible for the CIA's network of spies in China being rolled up and executed for treason. How does it follow if Chinese tech is installed, the Americans get it? They have no sources in China, no leverage.
Nope! I see you're not very internationally aware. It's OK, a lot of you Americans are ignorant and never travel. English is easy-peasy and easily picked up. The cultural products are second to none, so it's actually fun to learn by watching HBO series and movies. Who cares about the grammar rules and spelling when native speakers can't even get them right? Hell, English is readable even when you remove all the vowels. F U CN RD THS, U CN GT A GD JB TCHNG NGLSH.
You assholes can try to revolt if you want, but the last time you traitors tried it, we kicked your racist asses and burnt Georgia down doing it. If we have to do it again, but burn Southern California and New York down, then so be it. Fuck you rebel scum, there is only one America, indivisible. Mess with us and we Americans will fuck your shit up, you dirty traitors.
Think of this victory as a victory of some little people. You like supporting the little guy, don't you? You like supporting people who are powerless, don't you? The people who won have little power. They have little voice in anything. They are mostly invisible.
In spite of the enormous power of the media, in spite of polls I thought were inaccurate, in spite of debates that were controlled by our opponents, in spite of what were probably lots of people voting who didn't have the right to vote, in spite of professors indoctrinating young people, in spite of lots of shallow name-calling from liberals and leftists, in spite of the fact that even a lot of prominent Republicans insisted they wouldn't vote for the Republican candidate, those of us here in flyover land turned Donald Trump into the winner. (Take a look at all that red in the middle of the country on any election results map to see what I mean.) Go ahead and call us patriarchal, racist, and whatever else you like. That isn't what's going on, but if it makes you happy to believe it, go ahead and say it out loud because I suspect most of us stopped paying attention to you ages ago.
I believe these false alerts are deliberate, and are being used to see what happens when people think there's an attack. These false alerts also act to discredit the real alerts, if God forbid one ever comes. The whole thing is deeply disconcerting, and I hope a patriotic leaker comes forward with the real story to Wikileaks.
Everyone knows the story - the US government deliberately caused smallpox epidemics by distributing contaminated blankets. There's one problem: it isn't true. It was neither an act of terrorism nor an attempted genocide because it didn't happen. The entire story is a fraud, perpetrated by a former "ethnic studies" professor named Ward Churchill.
The High Plains Smallpox Epidemic of 1837 was caused by personal contact with infected passengers from the riverboat St. Peter's, owned by a fur trading company. The epidemic on the High Plains centered around Fort Clark which, despite the name, was not a military installation. It was a privately owned fur trading post. The boss of Fort Clark was Francis Chardon, a fur trader. His personal diary survived to this day, one of numerous eyewitness accounts preserved from the time.
Not only were infected blankets not distributed, but correspondence from Joshua Pilcher, the Indian Bureau's sub-agent to the Sioux, Cheyenne, and Ponca at Fort Kiowa, just south of Fort Clark, to Mr. Chardon describes one particular problem interfering with attempts to contain the epidemic that is curiously relevant to today. A smallpox vaccine existed in 1837, but Mr. Pilcher noted "it is a verry delicate experiment among those wild Indians, because death from any other cause, while under the influence of Vaccination would be attributed to that + no other cause[.]"
In 2006, Ward Churchill was found guilty of seven counts of research misconduct by the University of Colorado Ethics Committee. He was fired in 2007. He promptly filed suit, and won a jury trial for wrongful dismissal. The jury followed the instructions to the letter in coming to their conclusion, but recognized Churchill for the lying shitheel he was and awarded him precisely $1.00. (One juror denied any such motivation in a public interview.) A judge vacated the jury verdict on the grounds that the (state) university enjoys quasi-judicial immunity. The Colorado Court of Appeals upheld that decision. The Colorado Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal and in 2013 agreed with both the first judge and the Court of Appeals that the university was immune to suit in these circumstances. The US Supreme Court declined to get involved.
It took 19 years from when Churchill first published his fraudulent bullshit in 1994 to the time when the judicial system finished with the case. It could easily take four or five generations for his lie to finally exit the public consciousness. This despite the fact that humanity currently has the fastest, most ubiquitous communications systems in the history of the species.
States rights is racist as hell. The only people who ever advocate it are racists. There's a long history of it and it didn't start yesterday. I learned about it in school which was a long time ago. Look, your side tried the whole states rights thing and we kicked your racist asses and burned down Georgia doing it. Mess with us and we'll do it again.
The SR-71 was developed (like all military programs) to serve a specific need: the Communist nations were closed off to the world and their secret police did an enthusiastic and effective job catching traitors. America was simply cut off from intelligence on the ground. Hence, the super-fast spy plane was developed, capable of violating borders guaranteed by international law, racing in to take photos, and racing back out again before the outraged victim country could defend itself. Moreover this was when the space program was in its infancy, satellite photography was unreliable and took a long time from photo to print. There's simply no need today for a spy plane like this.
The Communists never developed a similar plane because if they wanted intelligence, they just sent out a man from their embassy with a camera and a pencil. There was also no shortage of Americans who either believed in Communism or who were easily bought off. At one point, the head of the FBI's counterintelligence agency was a foreign spy.
Look, just stop trying to revive discredited racist ideologies best left in the past, OK? We fought a civil war over this, your side lost, now STFU. I realize Trump is horrible and wrong, but that's no excuse to be horrible and wrong yourselves. Two wrongs don't make a right.
The airline checked my travel documents to make sure they were in order before they let me on the plane. This was a few weeks ago. They're fully capable of it.
So, do we realize that the people inside the quarantine area are expected to die? Because that's what a quarantine area is. This is why quarantines are always enforced at gunpoint. It can't be any other way.
The evidence shows clearly that that states rights concept is an outdated racist idea that belongs on the ash heap of history. By resurrecting this fossilized notion, the cause of racism is advanced while the role of the federal government to wisely choose the best course of action is denigrated. Let's keep power in the federal government where it belongs, 22 attorneys general are just going to make a mess of regulations in 22 different states.
You'd figure Democrats of all people would be aware of the racist nature of the states rights argument and would avoid using it. Either they're aware and they don't care, or they don't know and they're too ignorant to be in public office. Either way, it is highly derogatory towards the office they hold and the civil rights reputation of the Democratic Party. Another toxic effect of Trump's America.
Oh, for the love of - yes states rights is utterly racist to the core. Anyone who uses states rights is a racist using a codeword to reach a racist audience. It's better that we have the smart people in our federal government making rules than 50 different state governments, staffed by people from State U who are permanently bitter because they couldn't get into the Ivy League.
States rights is absolutely racist and has been used as a codeword by racists for a long time. I'm just shocked that the idea is making a comeback, progressives know quite well the racist past of this ugly concept. Can you name a supporter of states rights who supported civil rights for black people at the state level? They don't exist.
I am shocked and appalled that the long discredited idea of states rights is making a comeback under Trump. It has long been on the ash heap of history, as we all know that the federal government has better and smarter people who are capable of making the hard decisions. Decisions that may be controversial, but are nonetheless good for us (otherwise they wouldn't have made them). States rights is also racist. Why are all these good progressives suddenly in favor of small governments and devolving power to the clueless masses? Power is best kept in the federal government where the smart people can use it to benefit all of society, not just what the mob has been told it wants this month.
I have a lot more to fear from the NSA than some foreign government. The big bad dirty foreigners don't care about me, while the NSA cares deeply about what I do. Why else do they spy on me? They're worried about what I might do. Because if they were in our shoes, they'd be in the streets with torches and pitchforks.
You fucking kidding? I love the moment when the captain hits the throttle and you get pushed back in your seat. You're afraid of that? You poor unadventurous soul.
Why not? What have we got to fear? The NSA has a much larger chance of harming me than some distant foreign government. In fact I'd say the dirty foreigners' interest in me is about zero, while the NSA has a constant canker of anxiety about us American citizens, otherwise it wouldn't be spying on us illegally. I simply have less to fear from the foreigners and much to fear from the lawless NSA.
Controlling the means of production is precisely what socialism is. We're not going to get into that "it's not real socialism" argument, are we? That's so tiresome.
LOL - China does not give loans for starting businesses. Chinese banks detest small and medium size companies. They don't trust any business because they know for a fact all the paperwork is fake. Chinese banks like to do business with big business. Small companies can go get fucked.
Finland does not have socialism. The government does not control the means of production. You are fake news.
The investigation was repeatedly stonewalled. How are you supposed to find evidence without the means to compel it? You're describing a successful cover-up.
Sssh, this is a promotion for a qz.com blog entry. qz.com, like wordpress.com and blogspot.com and forbes.com, is a blogging platform and people need clicks for their pieces. This obvious non-geek article is being promoted, so let's everyone pretend to go along with the premise of the article and discuss it.
When you have a quart of sewage and add a teaspoon of wine, you have a quart of sewage. When you have a quart of wine and you add a teaspoon of sewage, you have a quart of sewage. That's the problem.
The mainstream media, which you could argue is adversarial, but what we have is not adversarial. We have a partisan opposition press which works hand in glove with the Democrats. This totally threatens the First Amendment, because when people figure out, which they have, that they can not only tell you who you must vote for, but they can tell you what truth you're allowed to know or not to know, this is hugely damaging to our Republic. As we have seen in all of this other stuff with Russia, all of the stuff with the Clinton Foundation, all these things. The real question becomes why do we need a First Amendment if they're not going to do their job, which is to be the tribune of the people and instead become the partisans of a political movement.