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Malala is getting younger by the year. Gratin' Greta "great daring happy" thoo-n-iceberg is Malala v 2.0UlanBatori wrote:American version of Greta thurberg?
Gone are the days of Descartes and Poincare. Liberal arts study is now about political correctness and not about logic, the space for true philosophy has been ceded for at least a generation now. Pisskology for humans is about as accurate and relevant as animal pisskology.Cain Marko wrote:Hainji? You wan't to just throw out all them pscyhologist types into the deep sea eh?Mort Walker wrote: The one thing you can't quantitatively evaluate is human behavior.
Be that as it may, Laagical thinking is naat wonlee mathematical. Neither inductive nor deductive reasoning is necessarily math dependent. In my personal experience I have often seen engineering types being rigid and dogmatic about issues that they might want to relegate to the "Non real", quite illogical. I think there is definitely space for the liberal arts and philosophy in a civlized world.
She is doing to Sweden what Nazi Germany failed to do.Brazil's Bolsonaro calls activist Greta Thunberg a "brat"
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has called young Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg a “brat” after she expressed concern about the slayings of indigenous Brazilians in the Amazon
So how is this not religious discrimination? How is it any different from CAB which they are crying about?kit wrote:https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/01/27/poli ... ssion=true
President Donald Trump said in a new interview Friday that persecuted Christians will be given priority over other refugees seeking to enter the United States, saying they have been "horribly treated."
Speaking with the Christian Broadcasting Network, Trump said that it had been "impossible, or at least very tough" for Syrian Christians to enter the United States.
"If you were a Muslim you could come in, but if you were a Christian, it was almost impossible and the reason that was so unfair -- everybody was persecuted, in all fairness -- but they were chopping off the heads of everybody but more so the Christians. And I thought it was very, very unfair. So we are going to help them."
because it is convenient for them, we just need to remind them, that's all, if not tell them to shut up and mind their own business!Cain Marko wrote:So how is this not religious discrimination? How is it any different from CAB which they are crying about?kit wrote:https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/01/27/poli ... ssion=true
President Donald Trump said in a new interview Friday that persecuted Christians will be given priority over other refugees seeking to enter the United States, saying they have been "horribly treated."
Speaking with the Christian Broadcasting Network, Trump said that it had been "impossible, or at least very tough" for Syrian Christians to enter the United States.
"If you were a Muslim you could come in, but if you were a Christian, it was almost impossible and the reason that was so unfair -- everybody was persecuted, in all fairness -- but they were chopping off the heads of everybody but more so the Christians. And I thought it was very, very unfair. So we are going to help them."
Wow. Harsh Salve did an amazing job.vijayk wrote:https://twitter.com/iMac_too/status/1204585735585579008
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MPs who will speak in Rajyasabha on #CAB should be made to listen this 10 min clip
Arent any twitterati doing this?kit wrote:because it is convenient for them, we just need to remind them, that's all, if not tell them to shut up and mind their own business!Cain Marko wrote: So how is this not religious discrimination? How is it any different from CAB which they are crying about?
People like me.
I was among the tiny minority of journalists and commentators who opposed the Afghanistan war from the very beginning. Nine days after 9/11, I published the first of my cartoons pointing out that Al Qaeda was in Pakistan, not Afghanistan, so there was no moral or legal justification for invading. As the war dragged on I pointed out that the men and women in charge of the war didn’t have a clue about Afghanistan or the Afghan people. According to “The Afghanistan Papers,” those men and women knew they were screwing up, wouldn’t admit their ignorance and refused to bring in experts.
I went to Afghanistan to check things out for myself. It was obvious the U.S. didn’t stand a chance there. “The principal goal of this adventure in imperialistic vengeance, it seems obvious, should be to install a friendly government in Kabul. But we’re winning neither hearts nor minds among either the commoners or the leadership of the current regime apparent,” I wrote from Afghanistan on December 11, 2001. “And so we’ve lost this war, not because they’re good or we’re not, but because of who we are. The American Empire can’t spend the bodies or the time or the cash to fix this crazyass place, because in the final analysis, election-year W. was right—we’re not nation builders…we ought to tally our dead, write up our losses, and count ourselves lucky to still be called a superpower.” My piece, for The Village Voice, was titled “How We Lost Afghanistan.”
It was published eighteen years ago. But not in the Post. They didn’t want to hear what lefties like me had to say.
They still don’t.
https://www.villagevoice.com/2001/12/11 ... ghanistan/Afghanistan was not a passing fancy for me. I wrote hundreds of essays and drew hundreds of cartoons urging an end to the madness. It was lonely. Even Democrats liked the Afghan war; they called it the right war while Iraq was the dumb one.
I went back to the country, traveling independently as an unembedded reporter, several times. I wrote the first book about the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, the only book about oil pipeline politics in that country, a book placing Afghanistan in the context of Central Asia, and yet another book comparing the state of Afghanistan when Obama said we were pulling out—another lie—with how it was at the start of the war.
What was my reward for being right while everyone else was wrong? Hundreds of death threats. Getting fired by my client newspapers and magazines. It’s hard to believe now but back in 2004 George W. Bush was popular and being compared to Winston Churchill; that was the year that the “liberal” New York Times and Washington Post stopped running my work.
Major news outlets and book reviewers ignored my books. Editors refused to hire me. Producers wouldn’t book me. Anyone opposed to the Afghanistan war was censored from U.S. corporate media.
Americans, mostly of the right and the post-9-11 squishy left, want Afghanistan and its jihad boys out of their hair. For the most part, the barn door has long remained open—tens of thousands of jihad grads are everywhere from Alabama to Alberta, and camps remain operational in Pakistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and elsewhere. But even assuming that the locals are mistaken about Osama having packed up for a new cave on the Pakistani side of the Kashmiri Line of Control, closing the Taliban Club isn’t likely to put an end to Islamic extremism here. For one thing, the Northern Alliance itself remains a hotbed of Muslim fundamentalism—with few exceptions, women remain out of sight and out of work, Sharia law still enforces stoning as punishment, and America is still viewed as a blank-check endorser of Israeli war crimes and Saudi corruption. And for all of America’s talk of dropping as many yellow food packs—I haven’t seen a single one, by the way—as bombs, Bush Deux is already losing interest in this accursed buffer state just as his father did after the Soviet withdrawal in 1989.
“Next target: Saddam,” reads a handwritten sign on a derelict Soviet tank outside a “secret” American base south of the Uzbek border. “It would take billions of dollars to even begin rebuilding this country,” an American officer who refused to give his name noted while his driver worked on a flat tire. “Billions of dollars and many, many years. We don’t have that kind of attention span. Bombing Iraq will be a lot sexier than teaching Afghans how to read.”
https://www.villagevoice.com/2001/12/11 ... ghanistan/Losing this desolate international leftover inspired testy sepoys to rise up against their supposed betters, sparking a chain of events that ultimately led to Indian independence, decimated the empire, and reduced England to a European backwater offering neither steady employment nor edible food to its pasty citizenry.
And that should scare the hell out of us. US interference in the Indian subcontinent. Once assets are in place the current or future POTUS has stick to beat India with.anmol wrote:
https://eand.co/this-is-how-a-society-dies-35bdc3c0b854Nobody seems to have noticed: the only two rich societies in the world with falling life expectancies, incomes, savings, happiness, trust — every single social indicator you can imagine — are America and Britain.
What does the average Anglo-American aspire to be, do, have? To be rich, powerful, careless, selfish, and dumb, now, mostly. We don’t, as societies or cultures, value learning or knowledge or magnanimity or great and noble things, anymore. We shower millions on reality TV stars and billions on “investment bankers.” The average person has become a tiny microcosm of the aspirations and norms of elites — they’re not curious, empathetic, decent, humane, noble, kind, in pursuit of wisdom, truth, beauty, meaning, purpose. We’ve become cruel, indecent, obscene, comically shallow, and astonishingly foolish people.
A more technical, formal way to say that is: our societies have now become too poor to afford public goods and social systems. But public goods and social systems are what make a modern, rich society. What’s a society without decent healthcare, schools, universities, libraries, education, parks, transport, media — available to all, without life-crippling “debt”? It’s not a modern society at all. But more and more, it’s not America or Britain, either.
UBCN Anal-e-sys has now evaluated this report:kit wrote:Adding insult to a possible injury !
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/p ... 2019-12-12
so a wrist slap when you try to bomb another country ?
BoJo effect on "motion" in the stables? Some journos had already begun to smell the fear. Back in the 1990s/early 200s, several donkeys switched, e.g. "Zell" Miller, former Lt.Guv of Jawjah. Became Senaor b4 and/or after switch.vijayk wrote:https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking ... epublican/
BREAKING: Democrat Congressman Leaving Party Over Impeachment, Becoming Republican
UlanBatori wrote:UBCN Anal-e-sys has now evaluated this report:kit wrote:Adding insult to a possible injury !
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/p ... 2019-12-12
so a wrist slap when you try to bomb another country ?
In the State Department letter sent in August, Andrea Thompson "admonished Pakistan for having 'relocated, maintained and operated' the American-made F-16s and the AMRAAM missiles they use from forward operating bases not not approved under the original terms of the sale," the US News & World Report said.
But note that per the same farticle, Foreign Policy claimed to have done a COUNT of F-16s and certified that none was missing.
Let's mull that: So FoPo knew how to COUNT F-16s that were located at "unapproved bases" (read Skardu where they keep the F-16s with the bums-e-nook missing nukes). Enough to CERTIFY THAT ALL WERE PRESENT. Back in Feb/march within days of the shootdown.
(Unless of course FoPo also counted the pieces lying on the forest floor in POrK to certify "all accounted-for". )
But it is a SURPRISE to Fog-e-Bottom that they are stationed at these "unapproved forward bases" with the explicit purpose of nuking Indian cities? And you wonder at the Karma of DT using a broom to clean up the bottoms of Fog-e-Bottom?
UlanBatoriji,UlanBatori wrote:WTH is this? Now Jewish US citjens have to write "Israel" under "Nationality"? I am really confused on this one.
Under this, Xtians should be "Palestinian" or "Vaticanian" in nationality, hain? There must be more here than is in this report: the idea given is that this will allow the Dept of Education to withhold funding from universities/colleges that don't ban the right of free citjens to boycott companies that do bijnej with Israel. But....
So what should Democrats learn from the misery that befell the Labour Party last Thursday night? And more particularly can they afford to have Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren as their candidate and stand a chance of defeating Donald Trump in 2020 after the shellacking meted out to Jeremy Corbyn and his brand of radical, left-wing policies?
The problem is that the pragmatic, working-class people of Sedgefield - and any number of other constituencies across the industrial towns and cities of the UK - held their collective noses and said you must be joking. These are smart, savvy people. They know that you don't get something for nothing.
Electoral districts that all my life have been Labour - Blyth Valley, Bolsover, Rother Valley, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Dudley, Grimsby - are now held by the Conservatives. It is hard to overstate just how seismic this is. And remember social class in the UK has always been a bigger determinant of how people vote than it has been in the US. Just like the whole class system, frankly. Some of these constituencies have never, ever flirted with the right.
Ratifying something that's been long discussed. Being Left has become the hallmark of the young and restless, and not the working people- Labour is not representative of the working classes anymore.But among the radical/socialist/progressive/liberal (choose your epithet) wing of the Democratic Party there is an ambition, a hunger for earth-shaking pledges. The bold Green New Deal, Medicare for all (which to those of us who are European may not seem such a giant leap) - these are big ticket policy ambitions with even greater price tags attached.
I saw two sets of statistics that really struck me. In last Thursday's election, it seems 58% of 18-24 year-olds voted Labour. Only 16% of those over 60, it's estimated, voted Labour. Similarly, the percentage of Democrats under 30 and qualified to vote in the primaries who are backing either Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren is massive. Something like 70%. Everyone else in the field is an also ran. But look at any statistics on election turnout, and you will see it is those infuriating oldies who vote in the highest numbers.
Grasshoppers and cows
And to Democrats in the US who look at their Twitter feeds and see the "likes" and retweets mounting up as they advance this or that position, let the 2019 UK election be a warning to you.
For some Labour activists the result of the election seems to have come as a massive shock, because in the echo chamber world that we all now to a greater or lesser extent live in, you come away with the impression that everyone thinks like you. Twitter is not the real world. Nowhere near.
In the 1980s and 1990s when protestors would take to the streets of London over the Poll Tax or the siting of American cruise missiles at Greenham Common or more recently the Iraq War, and most recently the huge protest marches backing Remain, the participants would often claim that because so many people had come out onto the streets this was the view of the British people. But for the million who may have protested (still a huge number), there were 59 million who had stayed at home.
American Democrats need to be mindful of this. People like Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may be a social media genius (and she is), and she may have a massive number of followers (and she has), and be charismatic (and she has that by the bucketload) - but America is a big country with an awful lot of voters who are not signed up to all the "woke" things she and others might be advocating.
The best voice on this is from a pre-tweeting, pre-electronic media, pre-opinion poll age - and it is from the 18th century English philosopher, Edmund Burke. He wrote:
"Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field."
Labour in the UK lost the working class, but gained the woke. And that will give the party sleepless nights over the coming months and years. It was their worst defeat since 1935.
Actually Pakistan implemented 3rd Reich type final solution on Hindus and Sikhs. It is a perfect Fascist state along with countries which have similar laws.UlanBatori wrote:Third Reich is used a bit too much, it is long gone. Kashmir/ Punjab/Sindh/Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Rwanda, Sri Lanka and Syria genocides are far more recent. (and Xinjiang coming up..) The DTstani order is that people of a certain **religion*** are automatically considered to be of a foreign ****nationality***. Equivalent would be if, say One Commyoonitians in India were ordered to put down "Saudi Arabia" under "Nationality" on their Aadhar. Isn't it worse than requiring all (certain religion) citjens to wear yellow armband (also done under the gentle Fuhrer's dispensation) in 1940s Oirope?
But I am told that this is done to PLEASE these citjens.
I must have read this wrong, it makes absolutely no sense. Someone pls explain. Why are these powerful citjens not yelling?
P.S. How do u put the "umlaut" on the PeeArek keyboard, hain?
I don't think she's going to do it. After floating a few trial balloons in the last two months, I guess she would have been given the feeler, that it's not going to cut the mustard. Who would back her? Does she have the financial resources?Vikas wrote:Waiting for HRC to throw her hat in the ring one last time.
Run a poll. Don't go by our own bias.Mukesh.Kumar wrote:I don't think she's going to do it. After floating a few trial balloons in the last two months, I guess she would have been given the feeler, that it's not going to cut the mustard. Who would back her? Does she have the financial resources?Vikas wrote:Waiting for HRC to throw her hat in the ring one last time.
The Donkey campaign for WHOTUS seems to be like an impending train wreck. Drump is going to come back. This impeachment motion is also going to fizzle out.