This is a basic run down of Volodya's year end press conference.
An excerpt:
In what was perhaps the most anticipated edition of his annual press conference yet, Russian president Vladimir Putin certainly delivered. His increasingly colloquial speech brought several quotable moments as he tackled questions on Russia’s collapsing economy, Crimea, the West, and his love life in the annual yearend press conference. But how much can we extract from the three-hour event that may provide insight on global energy markets in 2015? Quite a lot in fact.
“What is happening with the economy is not the price paid for Crimea”
The weakened economy was brought up early and often and the ruble’s up and down volatility was evident throughout Wednesday’s conference – intraday swings peaked at plus 2 and minus 5 percent against the dollar. Delving very little into specifics Putin largely passed the buck, citing a lethargic central bank and ‘illegitimate and illegal’ Western sanctions as the root causes for the economic downturn. In a moment of frankness, he affirmed the woes are here to stay – two years by his estimation.
“Our economy will get diversified and oil prices will go back up”
Putin still remains confident in his country’s energy industry as a vehicle for change. As such, his renewed pledge for economic diversification fell on tired ears. It’s clear his plan consists of little more than a waiting game and – though likely slip ups in Libya and Venezuela may grant it some validation – it will be a difficult wait. Putin dodged insinuations of corruption and instead commended his pal, and Rosneft head, Igor Sechin for his efficient management of the world’s largest oil company. For what it’s worth, ongoing projects are soldiering on and Russian oil output is projected to remain unchanged into 2015.
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Well, as we learned in Israel, any concession to Tranzies lead to immediate new demands. On the other hand, observing their interactions with Muslims...
The presentation doesn't mention it but the author John Palchak is director of the local Catholic Charities entity.
In 2014, there are people in America who hate their brown-, black-, red- and olive-skinned neighbors. There probably are. There aren't as many as the author assumes there are. There are more blacks participating in the "black experience" than whites. Most of us don't spend much mental effort on race until somebody comments "white girl bleed a lot."
This bigotry becomes racism and permeates the status quo if it is institutionalized. "Microaggressions" are aggressions so tiny they can't be seen with the naked eye. Often the "aggressors" aren't even aware that they're doing it. The "knockout game" I suppose would be a "macroaggression" if it's not simply an aggression. I survived one once before it became all the rage, in a Washington Metro station. I was probably unconsciously microaggressing.
Racism is found in public schools and the criminal justice system, for example. It creates two separate and unequal societies — one white that works and one black that suffers. Blacks make up 13.2 percent of the population and are responsible for 52 percent of violent crime. Whites (77 percent of the population) receive 72 percent of bachelors' degrees, 56 percent of them to women. Blacks have 10.3 percent, about 2/3 (65.8 percent) women. That gives black males about three percent of basic education. Nationwide, black students graduated at a rate of 69 percent; whites graduated at a rate of 86 percent, and Hispanics graduated at 73 percent many of them using English as a second language. Cause, meet effect. ...one white that works and one black that suffers has its hand out. FIFY
People talk about changes the events in Ferguson may bring. I was indignant when the first reports came out. Then I saw the video and the "gentle giant" story went "poof!" as we saw him roughing up the clerk. Then we saw the shot pattern. Then Al Sharpton showed up.
The governor appoints a commission to study the issues. Articles appear every day from journalists, educators and politicians decrying the inequality and calling for one school system, a public review board for police, a higher minimum wage for fast-food and entry-level workers and greater access to college education without the unfair burden of enormous student loans. The "unfair burden" applies to everyone and the actual education is actually paid for at a disproportionate rate by Pell grants and similar programs. We have "one school system." It's administered by local school boards, usually at the county level, which should be most familiar with the problems, and usually paid for by property taxes. In most cases school boards are elected officials or they're appointed by elected officials. You get what you pay for.
While these are valid suggestions for change, they will not affect institutionalized racism in the United States. Such changes would carry forth the racism bound to them. That statement probably makes sense in the original Gibberish.
Changing racism requires a different perspective about the people who are stigmatized. Observation and empirical evidence doesn't count.
A perspective change means understanding racism is part of the status quo, finding it unacceptable and creating a new worldview. The problem, Johnny, is that charges of racism have been forced down the collective throats of conservatives for six solid years, along with attacks on the one ideology which if permitted to work, could severely alter the racial dynamic in the nation... The Civil Rights Act was passed in the 1960s. That was 50 years ago. Surely something's changed since then?
It has. Bigotry has in that time become unfashionable among whites. I read a rather charming western while waiting for planes a couple days ago: The Ranch at the Wolverine, by B.M. Bower, published in 1914. At one point the hero compliments his lady love by telling her that she's "working like a nigger in a cotton field." Conditioned as I've become over the years, the phrase threw me off. I've become used to seeing "n-----" or "the N word," or something similarly fastidious. It made the hero's use of the word "d---" amusing. There weren't any "people of color" in the book, except for a couple "half breeds"--Indians rather than blacks. One of them a stolidly dependable good guy and his wife working on the lady love's ranch, the other one of the rustlers.
I like westerns and I like old books. They reflect the writer's world view, the culture he's living in. Read The Virginian again and look at his 1902 culture preserved in literary amber. Linger over Judge Henry's talk with Miss Wood about vigilante justice after Steve is strung up.
"I want you to be just as willing to be put right by me as I am to be put right by you. And so when you use such a word as principle, you must help me to answer by saying what principle you mean. For in all sincerity I see no likeness in principle whatever between burning Southern negroes in public and hanging Wyoming horse-thieves in private. I consider the burning a proof that the South is semi-barbarous, and the hanging a proof that Wyoming is determined to become civilized. We do not torture our criminals when we lynch them. We do not invite spectators to enjoy their death agony. We put no such hideous disgrace upon the United States. We execute our criminals by the swiftest means, and in the quietest way..."
It's probably a microaggression to quote the judge's sympathy with the victims in the "semi-barbarous" south. The judge probably harbored the same assumptions about race as most other people of his age and class, but they didn't cloud his mind or ruin his objectivity.
Some people spend too much time picking at scabs. Doing that will make them leave scars. That makes them ugly. We've had fifty years and spent trillions on a "war on poverty" that made race relations worse than they were when there were separate white and colored drinking fountains. If no improvement is ever good enough there's no incentive for any improvement at all.
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In a single year, the current occupant of the White House nets over twice the author's suggested compensatory award. All of that money does not appear to have done a thing to belay his racism and hate.
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From a Cost–benefit analysis (CBA) aspect, the author's single, one-time buy out scheme is actuarially unsound. The rolling entitlement and welfare programmes currently in place provide a much greater long-term return. Statistic show that large, single payment options tend to simply be squandered. Besides, pissing it all away in small increments is much less painful.
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IMO the fundamental problem in modern Western societies is that where are too many white collar jobs. And every moron who doesn't work with his/her hands considers him/her self an intellectual.
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Reparations -- Danegeld -- would make it worse. It would be an admission that blacks simply aren't as capable, that they're children who need to be carried.
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In2014, there are people in America who hate their brown-, black-, red- and olive-skinned neighbors.
Notice the absence of 'yellow'. That's right. Asians the new "Whites". That embarrassing color in the Left's rainbow of selling racism. People actively discriminated against for nearly a hundred years (can you say Chinatown, internment), that today are denied equal opportunity in those hot beds of progressivism, academia. Too many successful gifted and over qualified who are turned away for unqualified members of the special interest oligarchy (aka diversity in Newspeak).
One of the first lessons taught in my Econ 101 course was that if you gave everyone in the city the same amount of money, by the end of the week some would be rich and some would be broke.
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Perhaps the reparations could be credited against the Great Society trillions wasted? When will that balance due get paid?
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My great great grand pappy came over on a boat, after the CW-1 mess was settled. Weren't none of our business.
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A question I've long had about reparations: who should be eligible? For example, Obama's father is from Kenya. His ancestors were never slaves of Americans. Should he be eligible? How about someone who immigrated to the US any time after 1865?
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I also noticed there are no racists that hate whites. HMMM, the struggle to destroy the this nation continues...
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#13 My great great grand pappy came over on a boat, after the CW-1 mess was settled. Weren't none of our business.
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You came to the promised land entirely build by highly skilled cotton pickers and brick makers, you still gotta pay.
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I'd be happy to pay reparations and even throw in a one way air ticket in exchange for the passport and birth certificate.
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On a Bumper Sticker seen in the Western part of Maryland, far from the PC center:
: "If I'd have known it was going to be this much trouble, I'd have picked the cotton myself!"
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The Founding Fathers knew the cultural gulf was too wide, hence the creation of Liberia and the hope of return. Cheap labor is never cheap, and it's not just cotton, it's gold, diamonds, farming and domestic help as well.
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Do NOT mistake "Catholic Charities" yoyo's like these for the Catholic Church. These are usually Social Justice Warriors who wrap themselves in the appearance of Catholicism without taking any of the substance (faith, sin, forgiveness, the Trinity, transubstantiation, the 7 Sacraments, strict Pro-Life, no gay "marriage" etc). Mention any of those and the official stance of the Catholic Church and they run screaming.
This guy is no more likely a genuine faithful practicing Catholic than is any random Berkeley protestor or ISIS footsoldier.
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2 branches of my family. One got off the boat and bled while liberating the slaves, the other came here leaving everything except family behind, to escape the Nazis in Budapest just prior to WW2. And every generation of us on both sides has served in the military since we got off our respective boats.
I figure I owe them nothing. Lets see them justify that.
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I already pay reparations: FICA, FED taxes, State and local, Property, Sales, Utility.... and I owe part of 18 trillion that went to others. If you are trying to bring people together the notion of having one person pay (who did not enslave anyone) to another (who was not enslaved) is the worst possible idea ever. Does anyone think John Roberts understand this concept?
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I read somewhere that less than two percent of families in the south owned one or more slaves, according to a "slave census" conducted back in the 1800s.
We've had three generations of this sort of exchange whereby taxes collected are transferred from one sector of society to another. Back when it started, I don't know the reasoning for it, but now it is said it is because of "historical racism". And that on top of admonitions about using the wrong words with reference to other races, constant admonitions, were issued to whites, but not to non-whites. 60 years and no resolution in sight.
You'd think after such a long time it would dawn on both those paying and those receiving that transfers such as this are more punitive than remedial, and serve only to encase in stone whatever hateful sentiments that continue to justify it. Now, those transfers are an expression of the hostility of the state towards its citizens.
[DAWN] THE lifting of the moratorium on the death penalty in response to the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. carnage has triggered a serious threat: terrorist attacks to avenge the executions by the state.
Already, intelligence agencies are issuing all manner of warnings to possible targets, especially state institutions and security installations across the country, and many educational institutes, including in the federal capital, have closed their campuses indefinitely ahead of the scheduled winter break.
Pakistain is bracing for a backlash. This is the moment in which the performance and capabilities of the intelligence and law-enforcement apparatus across the country will be assessed. Failure could have catastrophic consequences, not just in terms of lives lost and individuals injured but also in terms of the state's very ability to fight terrorism and militancy in all its manifestations.
For, a wave of successful attacks in response to state execution of forces of Evil could leave the resolve to fight terrorism in tatters, especially if the forces on the frontline are left exposed and vulnerable.
To be sure, in this long fight against militancy, there will be more suffering inflicted on the country. Given the willingness of the forces of Evil to attack virtually any target, hard or soft, and the reality that forces of Evil are embedded across the country, the possibility of more terrorist attacks is high.
But there is, or ought to be at least, a difference between the unexpected attack, the one that slipped through the cracks in the system, and attacks in major cities at a time when the country's security apparatus is in a state of high alert and mobilised essentially on a war footing.
Yesterday, Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan gave his frankest assessment yet of the scale and size of the militancy problem in the country. But it is not enough to call on the citizenry to act as eyes and ears on the ground against militancy.
What is the government doing about the Lion of Islam supporters and sympathisers within the state machinery? Time and again, the infiltration by Lion of Islam groups into law-enforcement agencies and even the intelligence apparatus briefly emerges as a topic of debate at the national level before being quietly pushed into the background again. Beyond that, where is the public investigation into lapses that have made Lion of Islam attacks possible and where is the accountability of those who are found to have failed in their jobs?
No system anywhere can improve if there is no transparency and accountability. In essence, it is about disrupting the Lion of Islams' tactics and plans. Studying past attacks and disseminating knowledge within the security apparatus about how attacks are carried out help prevent future attacks -- but only if the state is willing to adapt and learn itself.
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So, if you do nothing the Brave Lions of Islam will attack your markets, schools, and civilians; and if you do something to protect yourself the the Brave Lions of Islam will attack your markets, schools, and civilians.
It's almost as if Islam is the problem?
Naaaaaahhhhhh
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[DAWN] The standing of a nation is determined by how they react to a tragedy. All nations face tragedies. Sadly, Pakistain faces them more often than most, but the events of Tuesday are unprecedented in history.
For a time, it seemed, the tragedy will unite the nation. Everyone was in a state of mourning.
However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... our reactions after the immediate mourning have ranged from slightly off bad to downright horrible. Every time I log into any social media platform, I am shocked by what I read.
1. Justifying/rationalising the attacks Let's get one thing straight: there is no religion in the world that would call for a savagery like the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. attack. It is bad enough that you are so shorn of humanity that you will find the Peshawar massacre justifiable, but it's made even worse by finding its justification in religion. You've got religious parties. Precisely that sort of massacre is exactly what most of them peddle.
The historical context also does not justify the attacks. Children have died in drone strikes and military operations but that does not make walking into a school and shooting young children any less indefensible. It is not less unjustifiable because they were army kids, it is also not worse because they were army kids; they were kids, period.
If that does not make your heart break, get medical (read mental) help.
2. Bomb their villages/Kill their families
It is our humaneness which makes us better than them. If we lose that, we are simply giving in to what they want. You can also be wishy-washy and tolerant of savagery and dislocate your shoulder patting yourself on the back for your "humaneness."It's so much easier to do nothing and pretend it's something.
The need for vengeance is understandable. The attack left the entire nation fuming with rage, but we should not burn ourselves in that fire. It makes sense to demand that members of myrmidon organizations and adherents of myrmidon ideology are hunted down, killed or captured, but this does not call for activities risking the lives of innocent people. There is always collateral damage in war, but taking the collateral for granted will make the war pointless.
We have to be better than them, always remember that.
3. Hang them in the streets
I am torn on the issue of death penalty, I am not completely against the idea since Pakistain has a history of bully boyz breaking out of jails, and these criminals should suffer for their crimes against humanity, but it is something that needs to be done, not something we should enjoy doing. Precisely why should the neck stretching not be publicized?
There is no reason to make a public spectacle of it and then share pictures all over social media. Using dead bodies to make a public statement is a very dangerous precedent to say the least. You're not required to enjoy it, but you've got a duty to do it,especially given the frequency of jailbreaks in Pakistain and that fact that utterly horrible "inmates" seem to live comfortable lives "in jug" and continue running their operations from durance vile. 4. Nuke India
Most of Pakistain appreciated the support and sympathy extended by India to Pakistain in the wake of the tragedy. Many Bollywood superstars came out with condolences and condemnations. Anupam Kher even penned an open letter. #IndiaWithPakistain was trending on Twitter. It was heartening to see the people of the two countries set aside their differences to come together for humanity.
However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... some segments of the media fuelled the anti-India narrative in Pakistain. They didn't lose a second in blaming RAW for the attack, despite the fact that TTP had already accepted it. The ensuing situation led to many anti-India comments on social media, the worst of which was the suggestion of a nuclear war. The same people utter the same charges against RAW every atrocity. As far as I'm aware of, none' ever proved out. On the other hand, even outsiders like us can usually call whodunnit to the TTP or al-Qaeda faction without much effort and with a fair degree of accuract. If you want to really fine tune it, glance at Bill Roggio's Long War Journal.
Often, both India and Pakistain are seen mentioning the nuclear option with frightening casualness. The governments and the media on both sides of the border should take a lot more caution; we will not only lose our children but also our unborn children if, god forbid, nukes ever come into play.
5. XYZ did it
Conspiracy theories rang on. Despite the TTP accepting responsibility for the attack, all kinds of theories were prevalent, ranging from Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight... orchestrating the attack to find a face-saving way to end the dharna to Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... being the criminal mastermind of the attack to get Imran Khan to end his dharna.
Could we not have forgotten about the dharnas for a few days, at least?
One popular anchor even put a clearly photoshopped picture on his Facebook account linking one of the dead gunnies to Malala. When Malala was shot, a lot of people claimed Taliaban could not do it since she was a school-going child. The Peshawar massacre should have brought these people to their senses, but surprisingly, some people became even more vehemently anti-Malala after the tragedy. Malala, if I remember correctly, is fifteen or sixteen years old. Precocious little girl, ain't she? 6. Kill the liberal dogs/Kill the mullahs
As the divides between the camps kept growing every day, the unified front put up by the country was soon in tatters. Many used the #AskGHQ trend on Twitter to viciously attack liberals; blaming liberals for causing the attacks because of their "anti-army" sentiments.
I personally see no problem in asking for accountability, but people asking for every mosque to be shut down in Pakistain and every mullah to be hanged are too far removed from the ground reality. The extreme opinions on both sides of the divide simply make the chasm bigger. It has come to a point where death threats are being thrown around casually for anyone's liking on Twitter. There's probably no need to hang every mullah, but occasionally hanging one as an example to the others would seem an effective policy. There's a difference between Maulana Sami and Maulana Fazl: Fazl's way more corpulent than Sami, and he's more subtle. Hang Mullah Sandwich and keep an eye on Mullah Diesel.
Then there are people criticising the holding of vigils for being un-Islamic. It only hurts the feelings of those who are taking some semblance of comfort in these shows of solidarity. These vigils bring prayers and compassion with them. Our religion is a religion of compassion. Yeah. And "mercy." And we all know it's the "religion of peace."
Lets all learn to show some for each other.
7. Impose military coup
One of the oldest and quite venerable television anchors has appeared on television multiple times claiming that martial law has been imposed in the country, all but in name.
While it is true that the nation is in a state of emergency, and many of the decisions being taken without the legal process taking its due course, it isn't like the civilian government has lost all authority.
To use the tragedy to further your political beliefs, or to call for a change of regime or spread false chaos is utterly unacceptable. This is the time for the nation to stand united under the leadership despite having disagreements with them. You can question their decisions and call for accountability or transparency, but to call for an overthrow of the government at this time is treasonous.
8. Sharing all the images Despite all the pleas, including by psychiatrists, to not share the images of dead bodies; warning people of the potential psychological damage, especially to children who see them; the images continue to be shared rampantly all over social media.
A mother told a story of how her little daughter told her she would not go to school anymore because she saw on TV that kids get beat up so much at school that they start bleeding. And that is so despite the fact that the poor soul did not even understand the extent of the tragedy.
This disrespect to the parents, family members and friends of the dear departed children absolutely must stop. Next time you consider posting an image, take a moment to think, how would the parents feel, watching pictures of their dead child on Facebook?
9. Interviewing kids in the hospital Taking cue from popular anchors, many citizens have started going to hospitals and the houses of the victims to interview them. These poor children are forced to relive the worst moments of their lives. Unless you are a qualified psychiatrist, there is a high risk that whatever you say to the child may make the trauma worse.
The children are also being encouraged to take up militancy against the terrorists. While it is completely acceptable for these children to grow up wanting to join the police or army, using these interviews to encourage militancy may make some of the people watching them take up the law in their own hands. ...which is precisely what the TTP is doing. Their neighbors and their kin know who they are but they never do anything about them.
The last thing Pakistain wants is more myrmidons.
10. What if it was your child? It may seem like a completely innocuous thing to say, but it is tangibly offensive to the victims and their mourners. It is perfectly innocuous. Given Pakistain's record it's also likely.
What are you telling them, that one needs it to be their child to have empathy? That we must feel sadder because the kid was from a certain country, certain religion or certain ethnicity is against the idea of humanity. The world has been unanimous in their support and sympathy; we should do the same the next time there is a tragedy anywhere in the world.
Implying that someone would not feel the pain unless they imagined the victim to be their child is wrong and goes against the humanistic ideals we should be promoting in Pakistain. You should not have to imagine it a certain way; you should learn to feel for everyone's children.
Think about what you are saying the next time you share your opinion publicly. Sometimes even the best of intentions go astray with a few bad choices of words. We are all in this together; we cannot lose our humanity in the face of the worst tragedy that we have faced. It is the pain what makes us human, not the anger.
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A few of these sounded like pretty good ways of reacting to me. This sounds like some shower your enemy with love bullshit to me.
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Sometimes, when people get emotional while discussing radical Islam, they tend to paint Muslims with far too broad a brush. There are millions of decent, hard working, patriotic Muslims in this country which explains why, as late as 2000, they were voting 78% Republican.
I'd appreciate it if they'd speak up a tad and discipline their nutty cousins just a little...
Unfortunately, we hear from those people far too seldom while the terrorists, radical Islamist shills at CAIR, and the dirtbag building the Ground Zero Mosque seem to grab all the headlines. That makes it easy to forget that there are American Muslims out there loudly and forcefully speaking out against terrorism.
The first Western journalist in the world to be allowed extensive access to Isis territories in Syria and Iraq has returned from the region with a warning: the group is “much stronger and much more dangerous” than anyone in the West realises.
Jürgen Todenhöfer, 74, is a renowned German journalist and publicist who travelled through Turkey to Mosul, the largest city occupied by Isis, after months of negotiations with the group’s leaders. ...
Most concerning of all, he said, was Isis fighters’ belief that “all religions who agree with democracy have to die”.
1) they decided that the defining characteristic of the proletariat would be race or national origin rather than international solidarity, as the Bolsheviks proclaimed
2) they ran afoul of Joe Stalin's PR machine (Joe was pretty good at PR so it wasn't surprising). Joe had himself at the center of the old proper socialism, and everyone else was to the 'right'. The Comintern took up that definition and that's why, today, various academics, progressives and media lickspittles (but I repeat myself) proclaim the Nazis and Fascists to be 'far right'. They were, according to Uncle Joe.
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Repost From yesterday ...
* See TOPIX > [Jawa Report = CNN] ISIS WANTS TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD EVEN IFF IT MEANS KILLING 500.0MILYUHN PEOPLE.
Or Everyone-n-Anyone = Any-Each-n-All Non-Muslims.
* FYI SAME > "WE WILL ATTACK HINDUSTAN": VIDEO ON PAKISTAN TV CLAIMS AFTER PESHAWAR [army school] ATTACK.
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Meanwhile, NOT to be outdone by Radical Islam, + as per DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS Artics, looks like RADICAL HINDUS WANT A PERMANENT-N-LEGAL =
OFFICIALLY 100% HINDU INDIA BY 2020 OR 2021 ASAP AMAP ALAP.
Ostensibly in response to the alleged rising/escalating Islamic external, eventually to become internal, threat to India + South Asia???
Any-n-All Christians + Muslims must unconditionally CONVERT TO HINDUISM OR LEAVE INDIA BY LAW - in the alternate, iff lucky may end up paying a tax to the State [Muslim-style "Jizuya" but for Hindis???].
Becuz, ya know, an 80-85% majority Hindu-believing India is just NOT enuff.
* E.G. DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > DHARMA JAGRAN SAMITI LEADER VOWS TO CREATE HINDU "RASHTRA" BY 2021 - INDIA TODAY | NO CHRISTIANITY AND [andor] ISLAM IN INDIA BY 2021 - RAJESHWAR SINGH.
[Lest we fergit, RISE OF THE "RED STAR" TURBAN here].
[DAILYCALLER] Some other feminists are quite openly suggesting that we shouldn’t let facts get in the way. “So what if this instance was more fictional than fact and didn’t actually happen to Jackie? Do we actually want anyone to have gone through this? This story was a shock and awe campaign that forced even the most ardent of rape culture deniers to stand up in horror and demand action,” writes Katie Racine, the founder of the online women’s magazine Literally, Darling, in an essay reprinted in The Huffington Post. (A mostly fictional story is beneficial because it proved to “rape culture deniers” that rape culture exists? Literally, darling, this may be the dumbest thing anyone has said about the UVA story.) And in Politico, UVA student journalist Julia Horowitz opines that “to let fact checking define the narrative would be a huge mistake,” since Jackie’s likely fabrication points to a bigger truth. That is not journalism; it’s agitprop.
The significance of these responses should not be missed: They demonstrate very clearly that such cases are not aberrations, honest mistakes, mistaken identities, or overzealous journalism. They constitute a political agenda of professional zealots using criminal accusations against innocent people for political purposes. They are an open admission that patently false criminal accusations are an accepted weapon to advance a political cause.
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At the end of the day feminism, like all of modern "liberalism", is a nihilist movement.
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It's about power. Entitlement in lieu of being earned. Power executed without regards to consequence or accountability. In this case in the hand's of Alice's Queen of Hearts.
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Once upon a time feminism was about women getting the vote, a good thing I hope we all agree. Then it was equal pay for equal work, also a good thing. Then it started man-hating ("A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle," and similar nonsense). And finally it became the vile travesty we see today. But the first two stages were positive, it seems to me.
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Two tiered citizenship. Full franchise and vote for landowners, employers and veterans. If you meet all the requirements, you vote. But, no vote for anyone on public assistance.
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Oh, and must be 30 years old.
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And have 3 above average children and drive a Ford.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
They've nailed it with a single caricature ! 
The Founding Fathers knew the cultural gulf was too wide, hence the creation of Liberia and the hope of return. Cheap labor is never cheap, and it's not just cotton, it's gold, diamonds, farming and domestic help as well. 
Sometimes, when people get emotional while discussing radical Islam, they tend to paint Muslims with far too broad a brush. There are millions of decent, hard working, patriotic Muslims in this country which explains why, as late as 2000, they were voting 78% Republican. 
