. . . if Mr. Suvorov's facts are correct, some of these potential attackers have already been visiting target areas at the West's invitation, since they are among the most accomplished athletes in the Soviet Union. . . .
In a war, Mr. Suvorov writes, the Russians would have 41 Special Forces companies, one with each army, and 16 brigades attached to each front, or army group. There also would be four naval brigades, he says, one with each Soviet fleet, and 20 intelligence units. . . .
Because its wartime duties and peacetime training are so rigorous, Mr. Suvorov says, the organization attracts athletes. In return, the athletes receive special privileges.
Consequently, the defector adds, there is competition between the G.R.U. and the K.G.B. for athletes.
Ecuador has a very close relationship with Spain in matters of both trade and diplomacy and wants to remain in their good graces. Moreno isn’t quite as fearful of ticking off the governments of the United States or Great Britain as he would be of getting under the skin of Madrid. But he’s also said to be more amenable to working with western governments than his predecessor. After Assange started publicly criticizing Spain’s handling of the Catalan independence movement, he went from being an inconvenience to a serious diplomatic problem.
Ecuador has a very close relationship with Spain in matters of both trade and diplomacy and wants to remain in their good graces. Moreno isn’t quite as fearful of ticking off the governments of the United States or Great Britain as he would be of getting under the skin of Madrid. But he’s also said to be more amenable to working with western governments than his predecessor. After Assange started publicly criticizing Spain’s handling of the Catalan independence movement, he went from being an inconvenience to a serious diplomatic problem.
They revealed massive corruption and election rigging at the DNC. . . . Her own campaign staff saw Uranium One as a huge liability for her, so they engaged in an epic bout of Swiftboating and projected Clinton's corruption with Russia and election meddling onto Trump.
I am happy to agree with you regarding this portion of your statement. Salud!
The guards at Abu Ghraib that abused the prisoners violated the US Unified Code of Military Justice. A number of them were prosecuted and sent to prison.
On the other hand, members of Al Qaida used electric drills and blow torches to torture people. Al Qaida encouraged them. Saddam's regime rewarded and promoted people for similar behavior.
Aren't you glad that Saddam is no longer in power? Or Saddam's sons, who were so evil that Saddam had to restrain them?
Massive civilian casualties
That would almost entirely be the work of Al Qaida, sectarian militias, and various criminal groups. The Iraqi government and Coalition Forces worked to end that and bring peace of Iraq. By 2011 or so they had basically succeeded.
Do you weep for Saddam's infliction of "massive civilian casualties" on his own people? It is hard to count the mass graves filled by Saddam's regime, not to mention the bodies.
Or do you weep that Saddam, his family, and the Baathist regime are no longer in power to inflict death and misery on the Iraqi people?
Apache helo pilots gunning for INSURGENTS CARRYING RPG ANT-TANK WEAPONS AND MACHINE GUNS and probably violating curfew
FTFY
lying that they encountered a battle on the ground.
The afore mentioned insurgent group was in the vicinity of recent battles with troops on the ground. That isn't hard to come by.
The crew of the attack helicopter that engaged and killed the insurgent group, which was in the vicinity of recent active combat, was defending the government and people of Iraq just as they would have defended the governments and people of the NATO countries if war had broken out with the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact nations. There were primarily four types of armed groups that were subject to being shot up: Al Qaida terrorists and their associates, Saddam's regime "dead enders," extremist militias fighting against the Iraqi government for sectarian power, and criminal gangs. Which of those do you think was justified to fight against the democratically elected government of Iraq?
Iraq had and used Weapons of Mass Destruction in its war against Iran. It retained those weapons afterward, including some after the 1991 Gulf War.
Claiming the war in Iraq was driven by profit is nonsense. At some point for some people it did become a war about prophet. You're good with that?
If you want to claim it was about oil, you're missing the mark. There were some European oil companies that tried to get into the oil fields between 2003 - 2009, but US oil companies? Not so much.
Saddam's regime was based on mass murder, torture, secret police, violence, theft from the Iraqi people, war against its neighbors, attacks against innocent nations, and all manner of criminal behavior, including crimes against humanity. Why are you defending them? Because they are "socialist," or third world? Because you hate the US? You might be going off the deep end on this.
If Assange is pushed out of the embassy tomorrow he'll probably be in British prison for a long haul by the evening. He is a fugitive from British justice for jumping bail.
American assistance to the government of the Republic of Viet Name to repel the war of aggression waged by the brutal communist regime in the North and their puppets in the South was completely justified. The vile Viet Cong were heartless murderers oppressing the people using terrorism and mass murder as a deliberate strategy.
After the lying, murderous communist hegemons of the North violated the peace treaty, invaded and conquered the South, tens or hundreds of thousands of people fled the vicious treatment of the North.
Viet Nam, like China, is prospering today largely because they are moving away from Marxist economics.
Iraq is far better off without Saddam in power. Saddam's dead enders and Jihadis are responsible for the vast majority of people killed in Iraq.
Your understanding of both recent events and history is terribly distorted.
Inciting Violence. I'm going to be completely blunt. The reason the right wing (I refuse to call people in favor of radical change "Conservative") get more bans is there's a lot of them hinting at violence. There's a good example right here. Jones backpedaled as best he could but the meaning was clear. It's so common there's a name for it: Dog Whistling
Alex Jones?? Alex Jones is your "example" of a "conservative"? Alex Jones is a nutter fringe conspiracy theorist. Trying to portray him as somehow representing conservatives in general is reasonably taken as one or more of: uninformed, blinded by ideology, dishonest, incompetent, membership in the nutter fringe at a another point.
The radical right has a lot of unhinged people than even the extreme left. There have been no cases of left wing terrorism since the 70s.
By that do you mean none that you are willing to mention? Like this mass political assassination attempt from last year?
Stephen Joseph Scalise (/sklis/; born October 6, 1965) is the current United States House of Representatives Majority Whip and representative for Louisiana's 1st congressional district . . . . . On June 14, 2017, Scalise was shot by a far left-wing activist[4][5] at a practice session for the congressional baseball team in Virginia, and was taken to the hospital in critical condition.
. . . a Bernie Bro named James T. Hodgkinson shoots at a bunch of congressmen for the explicit reason that he hates Republicans and wants them dead? How do we fit that into the preferred narrative?
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You're entitled to your opinion right up until it becomes incitement to violence.
The cop murders in Dallas were carried out on July 7 by an African-American ex-Army reservist who’d expressed his hatred of Caucasians, particularly Jews. He shot to death five white police officers and injured seven others and two civilians before being blown to bits by a police bomb-squad robot.
Ten days later in Baton Rouge, a Marine Corps veteran, described by an official as a “black separatist,” shot to death one black and two white law enforcement officers and injured three others as revenge for the shooting death of a black man by police, before being gunned down by cops.
Is that more of that "right wing violence" you're warning about?
and ask the black and LGBTQ communities about how they're treated down south some time.
It's surprising how much nuance can inject itself into that question.
STOP THE PRESSES: Lupe Valdez, an LGBT Latina woman formerly Sheriff of Dallas just secured the Democratic nomination for Governor in Texas. Y’ALL. - 7:44 PM - 22 May 2018
LOL . . . right . . . "exceptions" . . . . I suppose if you want to call them "exceptions" it should be noted that many of them are seminal figures in the history of math an science. Seminal figures tend to be "exceptions." And contrary to the your nonsense claim it is easily seen that Christians have played key roles in the development of math and science in the West. If you want to deny that you are moving into the realm of parody. You might as well put on a John Cleese voice and ask, "What have Christians ever done for math and science?" That could get to be a long and embarrassing list.
If you go down that road I might have to ask: are you from the Canadian Atheist's Front, or the Atheist Front of Canada? Militant, but not mindful of history.
Where the fuck do you get "Christian" from? White male, yes (in the US and Europe), but the vast majority of computer scientists I've met are atheist—particularly the white, male ones. Obviously the field attracts people who tend to be very analytical and rational. Of course you get the occasional religious freak, but it's rare.
Maybe your social circle is limited, or maybe you aren't widely read.
Bacon, Bayes, Euler, Galileo, Leibniz, Maxwell, Newton, Pascal, Riemann . . . I could go on. I doubt you will illuminate STEM in the way they did, and they believed in God. It seems atheism is not a requirement for rational thinking, let along science and mathematics. That is a conceit that seems to be popular on Slashdot, but there is little to it.
Yes, indeed, lets not muddy the waters. If any law only shifts murder from one instrumentality to another it is largely pointless. Dead is dead. Or do you think that being killed by a gun uniquely effects ones afterlife?
If you've ever been to a gun show, you've seen them. As a lifelong gun owner,, I've actually purchased guns from these characters.
So you're the one you've been warning us about for years? Huh
And you didn't turn in either the ones you thought were illegally dealing guns, or yourself? Huh.
So your years of complaints and invective on the matter boil down to, "Our system is soooo f-----d! Why the hell isn't anyone arresting me for what I did?"
It seems we've found something that you and the NRA agree on.
I have never attributed the election of Donald Trump to malice.
You should, at least partially. The Democrats and mainstream media* (minus Fox) thought that Trump was the perfect candidate for Hillary to beat. They did what they could to support Trump initially because they thought they would screw the Republicans with a weak candidate. How ironic.
The so called, "Gun Show loop hole" is a myth. The legal requirements on sellers and buyers are the same as they would be at other times and places.
The 2nd, like the 1st and other Amendments to the US Constitution protects RIGHTs, not suggestions. And I think it is HILARIOUS that you reference " Bureaucracy®" as if it doesn't exist, or that it can't act in ways contrary to the law, regulation, or rights of citizens. (Do the recent years of abuses by the IRS ring a bell? How about #Resist?)
Do you have anything to back up that "claim" regarding "it's just a big 'ole loop hole to let anyone have a gun or a concealed carry permit"?
There is only one person I know who changed behavior because of Snowden. In October of last year, I traveled to Kenya to meet members of al Shabaab, an al Qaeda linked group that had pulled off a spectacular attack on an upscale mall in Nairobi a month earlier. One of the members, a man named Abdul, changed the SIM card on his mobile repeatedly. When I asked him why, he gave me a one-word answer:
There’s nothing much funny about white supremacists. But reading along as a left-wing Nation correspondent hangs out with white supremacists and realizes she shares some political beliefs with them? Well, this should be entertaining.
Writer Donna Minkowitz describes a secret meeting organized by alt-right figure Richard Spencer that she crashed in mid-November at an organic winery in Maryland. Upon arrival, Minkowitz writes that she was surprised to find that the discussion centered not only on the usual brown-shirt Jew-hating you might expect from neo-Nazis, but also on what she says is a “new emphasis on economic issues” that she found “seductive.”
Why seductive? Because the white supremacists’ views on economic issues sound a lot like, well, like views espoused by the Nation and Democratic party progressives. In what could pass for Bernie Sanders campaign literature, she quotes Spencer saying “I support national health care” and railing against “the trillions spent in insane wars.” Minkowitz also quotes Spencer blasting the GOP tax plan as “stupid... Reaganite nostalgia” and supporting a universal basic income. Another speaker decried that everything is seemingly becoming “corporatized and capitalized.” Wait—is this a white supremacist conference or a New York Times editorial board meeting?
Back to the future & "big tent" progressivism. That bunch was never on the "Right" in the US. And now that anti-Semitism is becoming "respectable" again on the Left (even if wearing the beard of "anti-Zionism") . . .
"Lenin is the greatest man, second only to Hitler, and that the difference between Communism and the Hitler faith is very slight. " -- Joseph Goebbels, as quoted in the New York Times, Nov. 27, 1925
"Do not believe, even for a moment, that by stripping me of my membership card you do the same to my Socialist beliefs, nor that you would restrain me of continuing to work in favor of Socialism and of the Revolution." -- Benito Mussolini, Nov. 25, 1914
Millennia of human experience, not to mention science, tells us that some patterns of human behavior turn out better over the long term than others. You seem to disregard that.
You're right that marriage protects kids. But "Marriage after conception" . . . better than not at all, but both backwards and suboptimal for producing good marriages that last.
Slashdot Mirror
Julian Assange was right to not to go to Sweden.
Much like any alleged rapist doesn't want to be brought into a courtroom. Nice though they are said to be, Swedish prison is still prison.
The "Rube Goldberg" conceptions about extraditing Assange from Sweden instead of the UK are bizarre fantasies.
For all you know this is just a troll to get Assange to continue imprisoning himself.
This has been known for a very long time.
ASSASSINS' SQUADS LINKED TO MOSCOW - MARCH 25, 1984
. . . if Mr. Suvorov's facts are correct, some of these potential attackers have already been visiting target areas at the West's invitation, since they are among the most accomplished athletes in the Soviet Union. . . .
In a war, Mr. Suvorov writes, the Russians would have 41 Special Forces companies, one with each army, and 16 brigades attached to each front, or army group. There also would be four naval brigades, he says, one with each Soviet fleet, and 20 intelligence units. . . .
Because its wartime duties and peacetime training are so rigorous, Mr. Suvorov says, the organization attracts athletes. In return, the athletes receive special privileges.
Consequently, the defector adds, there is competition between the G.R.U. and the K.G.B. for athletes.
..... and replaced him with a fruitcake.
No, that was America.
The selection of PM Zoolander is all on Canada. He's your "sweetmeat," and you're stuck with him, no regifting allowed.
It's the alcohol fueled serial rapist part that's the problem for Kavanaugh....
Ah, so it is an imaginary problem.
Seems that those sources "close to Assange" are getting it wrong. They should be looking at Spain.
Is this finally the end for Julian Assange?
Ecuador has a very close relationship with Spain in matters of both trade and diplomacy and wants to remain in their good graces. Moreno isn’t quite as fearful of ticking off the governments of the United States or Great Britain as he would be of getting under the skin of Madrid. But he’s also said to be more amenable to working with western governments than his predecessor. After Assange started publicly criticizing Spain’s handling of the Catalan independence movement, he went from being an inconvenience to a serious diplomatic problem.
To all those who say America isn't going to extradite him from the "Sweden Trap", why are they "piling on the pressure"?
It seems it isn't the US, but Spain
Ecuador has a very close relationship with Spain in matters of both trade and diplomacy and wants to remain in their good graces. Moreno isn’t quite as fearful of ticking off the governments of the United States or Great Britain as he would be of getting under the skin of Madrid. But he’s also said to be more amenable to working with western governments than his predecessor. After Assange started publicly criticizing Spain’s handling of the Catalan independence movement, he went from being an inconvenience to a serious diplomatic problem.
What do the judges say?
LOL, A fine petard hoisting! :D
They revealed massive corruption and election rigging at the DNC. . . . Her own campaign staff saw Uranium One as a huge liability for her, so they engaged in an epic bout of Swiftboating and projected Clinton's corruption with Russia and election meddling onto Trump.
I am happy to agree with you regarding this portion of your statement. Salud!
Abu Ghraib and other abuses of POWs...
The guards at Abu Ghraib that abused the prisoners violated the US Unified Code of Military Justice. A number of them were prosecuted and sent to prison.
On the other hand, members of Al Qaida used electric drills and blow torches to torture people. Al Qaida encouraged them. Saddam's regime rewarded and promoted people for similar behavior.
Aren't you glad that Saddam is no longer in power? Or Saddam's sons, who were so evil that Saddam had to restrain them?
Massive civilian casualties
That would almost entirely be the work of Al Qaida, sectarian militias, and various criminal groups. The Iraqi government and Coalition Forces worked to end that and bring peace of Iraq. By 2011 or so they had basically succeeded.
Do you weep for Saddam's infliction of "massive civilian casualties" on his own people? It is hard to count the mass graves filled by Saddam's regime, not to mention the bodies.
Or do you weep that Saddam, his family, and the Baathist regime are no longer in power to inflict death and misery on the Iraqi people?
Apache helo pilots gunning for INSURGENTS CARRYING RPG ANT-TANK WEAPONS AND MACHINE GUNS and probably violating curfew
FTFY
lying that they encountered a battle on the ground.
The afore mentioned insurgent group was in the vicinity of recent battles with troops on the ground. That isn't hard to come by.
The crew of the attack helicopter that engaged and killed the insurgent group, which was in the vicinity of recent active combat, was defending the government and people of Iraq just as they would have defended the governments and people of the NATO countries if war had broken out with the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact nations. There were primarily four types of armed groups that were subject to being shot up: Al Qaida terrorists and their associates, Saddam's regime "dead enders," extremist militias fighting against the Iraqi government for sectarian power, and criminal gangs. Which of those do you think was justified to fight against the democratically elected government of Iraq?
Iraq had and used Weapons of Mass Destruction in its war against Iran. It retained those weapons afterward, including some after the 1991 Gulf War.
Claiming the war in Iraq was driven by profit is nonsense. At some point for some people it did become a war about prophet. You're good with that?
If you want to claim it was about oil, you're missing the mark. There were some European oil companies that tried to get into the oil fields between 2003 - 2009, but US oil companies? Not so much.
Saddam's regime was based on mass murder, torture, secret police, violence, theft from the Iraqi people, war against its neighbors, attacks against innocent nations, and all manner of criminal behavior, including crimes against humanity. Why are you defending them? Because they are "socialist," or third world? Because you hate the US? You might be going off the deep end on this.
If Assange is pushed out of the embassy tomorrow he'll probably be in British prison for a long haul by the evening. He is a fugitive from British justice for jumping bail.
American assistance to the government of the Republic of Viet Name to repel the war of aggression waged by the brutal communist regime in the North and their puppets in the South was completely justified. The vile Viet Cong were heartless murderers oppressing the people using terrorism and mass murder as a deliberate strategy.
Just the tip of the ice berg:
Mass graves discovered in Hue
The Viet Cong Committed Atrocities, Too (Dak Son)
After the lying, murderous communist hegemons of the North violated the peace treaty, invaded and conquered the South, tens or hundreds of thousands of people fled the vicious treatment of the North.
Viet Nam, like China, is prospering today largely because they are moving away from Marxist economics.
Iraq is far better off without Saddam in power. Saddam's dead enders and Jihadis are responsible for the vast majority of people killed in Iraq.
Your understanding of both recent events and history is terribly distorted.
Here is some bonus material that jumped out -
Lib Journalist: Conservatives Get Ready, We’re Sending Bombs Soon
Blatant Hate: Comedy Central Writer Wishes Justice Kennedy ‘Had Been Shot’
For the left, 'Year of the Woman' is all about blocking, assaulting, and attacking them
Inciting Violence. I'm going to be completely blunt. The reason the right wing (I refuse to call people in favor of radical change "Conservative") get more bans is there's a lot of them hinting at violence. There's a good example right here. Jones backpedaled as best he could but the meaning was clear. It's so common there's a name for it: Dog Whistling
Alex Jones?? Alex Jones is your "example" of a " conservative "? Alex Jones is a nutter fringe conspiracy theorist. Trying to portray him as somehow representing conservatives in general is reasonably taken as one or more of: uninformed, blinded by ideology, dishonest, incompetent, membership in the nutter fringe at a another point.
The radical right has a lot of unhinged people than even the extreme left. There have been no cases of left wing terrorism since the 70s.
By that do you mean none that you are willing to mention? Like this mass political assassination attempt from last year?
Steve Scalise
Stephen Joseph Scalise (/sklis/; born October 6, 1965) is the current United States House of Representatives Majority Whip and representative for Louisiana's 1st congressional district . . . . . On June 14, 2017, Scalise was shot by a far left-wing activist[4][5] at a practice session for the congressional baseball team in Virginia, and was taken to the hospital in critical condition.
Oh, this explains it:
James T. Hodgkinson, Attempted Assassin Of Steve Scalise, Already Being Erased From History
. . . a Bernie Bro named James T. Hodgkinson shoots at a bunch of congressmen for the explicit reason that he hates Republicans and wants them dead? How do we fit that into the preferred narrative?
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You're entitled to your opinion right up until it becomes incitement to violence.
2016 was a deadly year for cops — and BLM may be to blame
The cop murders in Dallas were carried out on July 7 by an African-American ex-Army reservist who’d expressed his hatred of Caucasians, particularly Jews. He shot to death five white police officers and injured seven others and two civilians before being blown to bits by a police bomb-squad robot.
Ten days later in Baton Rouge, a Marine Corps veteran, described by an official as a “black separatist,” shot to death one black and two white law enforcement officers and injured three others as revenge for the shooting death of a black man by police, before being gunned down by cops.
Is that more of that "right wing violence" you're warning about?
and ask the black and LGBTQ communities about how they're treated down south some time.
It's surprising how much nuance can inject itself into that question.
Atima Omara
STOP THE PRESSES: Lupe Valdez, an LGBT Latina woman formerly Sheriff of Dallas just secured the Democratic nomination for Governor in Texas. Y’ALL. - 7:44 PM - 22 May 2018
Houston’s Annise Parker, a gay ma
So they've created disease resistant pigs? Meh. Let me know when they fly.
I don't think Google is above junk science when it suits their purpose.
LOL . . . right . . . "exceptions" . . . . I suppose if you want to call them "exceptions" it should be noted that many of them are seminal figures in the history of math an science. Seminal figures tend to be "exceptions." And contrary to the your nonsense claim it is easily seen that Christians have played key roles in the development of math and science in the West. If you want to deny that you are moving into the realm of parody. You might as well put on a John Cleese voice and ask, "What have Christians ever done for math and science?" That could get to be a long and embarrassing list.
If you go down that road I might have to ask: are you from the Canadian Atheist's Front, or the Atheist Front of Canada? Militant, but not mindful of history.
Where the fuck do you get "Christian" from? White male, yes (in the US and Europe), but the vast majority of computer scientists I've met are atheist—particularly the white, male ones. Obviously the field attracts people who tend to be very analytical and rational. Of course you get the occasional religious freak, but it's rare.
Maybe your social circle is limited, or maybe you aren't widely read.
Books in Print by Donald E. Knuth
- 3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated
- Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About
Bacon, Bayes, Euler, Galileo, Leibniz, Maxwell, Newton, Pascal, Riemann . . . I could go on. I doubt you will illuminate STEM in the way they did, and they believed in God. It seems atheism is not a requirement for rational thinking, let along science and mathematics. That is a conceit that seems to be popular on Slashdot, but there is little to it.
List of Christians in science and technology
Yes, indeed, lets not muddy the waters. If any law only shifts murder from one instrumentality to another it is largely pointless. Dead is dead. Or do you think that being killed by a gun uniquely effects ones afterlife?
The Sandy Hook shootings were in 2012.
Murders in Connecticut*:
2005 107
2014 100
2015 124
2016 88
Homicide Mortality by State
If you've ever been to a gun show, you've seen them. As a lifelong gun owner,, I've actually purchased guns from these characters.
So you're the one you've been warning us about for years? Huh
And you didn't turn in either the ones you thought were illegally dealing guns, or yourself? Huh.
So your years of complaints and invective on the matter boil down to, "Our system is soooo f-----d! Why the hell isn't anyone arresting me for what I did?"
It seems we've found something that you and the NRA agree on.
I have never attributed the election of Donald Trump to malice.
You should, at least partially. The Democrats and mainstream media* (minus Fox) thought that Trump was the perfect candidate for Hillary to beat. They did what they could to support Trump initially because they thought they would screw the Republicans with a weak candidate. How ironic.
. . . oft evil will shall evil mar . . .
*but I repeat myself
The so called, "Gun Show loop hole" is a myth. The legal requirements on sellers and buyers are the same as they would be at other times and places.
The 2nd, like the 1st and other Amendments to the US Constitution protects RIGHTs, not suggestions. And I think it is HILARIOUS that you reference " Bureaucracy®" as if it doesn't exist, or that it can't act in ways contrary to the law, regulation, or rights of citizens. (Do the recent years of abuses by the IRS ring a bell? How about #Resist?)
Do you have anything to back up that "claim" regarding "it's just a big 'ole loop hole to let anyone have a gun or a concealed carry permit"?
The So-Called Gun Show Loophole: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
7 Gun Control Myths That Just Won’t Die
Do you know any other tunes? It turns out what you're playing for is only the beginning of the story. Here is something from the middle.
Vicious truck attack kills 84 during France fireworks display
Berlin massacre reminiscent of deadly Nice attack (12 dead, 48 injured)
Barcelona attack as it happened: At least 13 dead and 100 injured after van hits crowd in act of terror
We don't know how it will end yet, but the portents aren't good.
German Intel Report Reveals Extent Of Islamist Infiltration In Germany
You can avert your eyes if you want to, or refuse to hear, but that will not stop the truck, bomb, knife, machinegun, . . .
How Edward Snowden Changed the Habits of a Terrorist
There is only one person I know who changed behavior because of Snowden. In October of last year, I traveled to Kenya to meet members of al Shabaab, an al Qaeda linked group that had pulled off a spectacular attack on an upscale mall in Nairobi a month earlier. One of the members, a man named Abdul, changed the SIM card on his mobile repeatedly. When I asked him why, he gave me a one-word answer:
“Snowden.”
It's all good, right?
Force of habit and Obana's continuing cult of personality.
Did Barack win re-election handily because of Obama Derangement Syndrome? It was epidemic throughout the Right & Reich wing of America for 8 years.
Uh, yeah. . . about that "Reich wing" . . .
The Nation and the Nazis
There’s nothing much funny about white supremacists. But reading along as a left-wing Nation correspondent hangs out with white supremacists and realizes she shares some political beliefs with them? Well, this should be entertaining.
Writer Donna Minkowitz describes a secret meeting organized by alt-right figure Richard Spencer that she crashed in mid-November at an organic winery in Maryland. Upon arrival, Minkowitz writes that she was surprised to find that the discussion centered not only on the usual brown-shirt Jew-hating you might expect from neo-Nazis, but also on what she says is a “new emphasis on economic issues” that she found “seductive.”
Why seductive? Because the white supremacists’ views on economic issues sound a lot like, well, like views espoused by the Nation and Democratic party progressives. In what could pass for Bernie Sanders campaign literature, she quotes Spencer saying “I support national health care” and railing against “the trillions spent in insane wars.” Minkowitz also quotes Spencer blasting the GOP tax plan as “stupid ... Reaganite nostalgia” and supporting a universal basic income. Another speaker decried that everything is seemingly becoming “corporatized and capitalized.” Wait—is this a white supremacist conference or a New York Times editorial board meeting?
Back to the future & "big tent" progressivism. That bunch was never on the "Right" in the US. And now that anti-Semitism is becoming "respectable" again on the Left (even if wearing the beard of "anti-Zionism") . . .
"Lenin is the greatest man, second only to Hitler, and that the difference between Communism and the Hitler faith is very slight. " -- Joseph Goebbels, as quoted in the New York Times, Nov. 27, 1925
"Do not believe, even for a moment, that by stripping me of my membership card you do the same to my Socialist beliefs, nor that you would restrain me of continuing to work in favor of Socialism and of the Revolution." -- Benito Mussolini, Nov. 25, 1914
Millennia of human experience, not to mention science, tells us that some patterns of human behavior turn out better over the long term than others. You seem to disregard that.
New Report: Majority of U.S. Teens Don’t Live in Intact Families
You're right that marriage protects kids. But "Marriage after conception" . . . better than not at all, but both backwards and suboptimal for producing good marriages that last.
Related: How shacking up leads to divorce