Blackwater doesn't officially exist as a business anymore. They closed down several years ago, probably to avoid any lawsuits resulting from the awful **** they perpetrated in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Unrelated:
The GOP propaganda machine makes it easy for people who don't actually consider themselves racist to still support the Republican party.
One of their favorites is old "Bootstraps" myth. "Black people don't get anywhere because they don't work hard enough." This can also be twisted into, "The Democrats want to give welfare to black people which makes them dependent on the government". Another spin-off is "Democrats are the real racists because they respect black people enough to make them work harder to get ahead."
There are several more ways to spin that narrative, but you get the idea. Honestly, Joseph Goebbels would be very impressed with the Republican party.
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"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." - Sinclair Lewis
“It’s your party and you can cry if you want to.” - Captain Europe
Yeah, the fact that all this is occurring during a Corona pandemic makes everything 100 times worse.
The victims of the looters were all probably already in financial peril due to the lockdown. And everyone from the protesters to the police to the first responders are putting themselves at risk with exposure. On top of everything else that's happening, hundreds will probably die from the virus because of all of this.
Between the riots and the pandemic and the threat of the military, it's like 3 horror movies all rolled up in one.
Intresting. Given the situation with the Tribune trying to keep itself straight with the new owners, I would be happy to see WGN America do this. Locally I trust them more than other sources.
Ha, we've had that already on our radio shows and they're clicked off the air fast. Correct on Human error, but WGN has been pretty much independent for years, it's partly why the Sinclair deal didnt go though. We're way to independent than most stations. Let them try.
Exactly, which is why journalists need protection to be as honest as possible. We cant go back to yellow journalism and muckraking.
You mean the Democrats that want to make changes but can't because of the people who they serve are idiots and they have to do what their constituents want. They have been trying for years. People do not change easily. You can thank Cromwell and the Protestans for that. And in some cases you have to make compromise to get what you want.
So are you going to address the same issues happening in other countries as well for the indigenous communities and non whites who also have been murder by cops internationally ? This is not just that. It's also a long ass history of other factors as well coming into play here. Race is only a portion of it, it's also issues Of police unions. Well we'd be happy to pull out of the EU, are they willing to foot the bill?This is a consequence of slavery. This is a consequence of Jim Crow, and Segregation and assassinating Martin Luther King. This is a consequence not acting upon every time a black American was murdered by a cop. This is a consequence of underfunding public services and overfunding the military, the police and the spy agencies. This is a consequence of not paying reparations. This is a consequence of not treating your brothers and sisters as full human beings with dignity and respect. This is a consequence of treating them as three-fifths of a human being.
This is a consequence of not listening to the unheard. I’ll bet you hear them now.[/QUOTE]
We've heard them for a long time, and those of use that try to do good and help tend to get ignored.
Damn it to hell. KKK going to get up in here too aren't they. That's all we need.
Same as Japan and it's covering up of WWII and their past history on the civil war there. The reason for all of it is to make the South seem like less of aggressors. And let's be real here the Southern strategy worked well because of the fact that the Union did not help out to reform changes, and on that Grant and other Presidents did not follow up.
A lot of the Right wing machines is owned by very wealthy people who have more money to buy up media and are able to sell these ideas. See the south and its whole idea of southern culture.
1. A **** ton of work and years and years of people who did change and see though what was happening and diversity happening in Congress. 2. Same thing there. 3. Younger generations growing up in a diverse world and voting for the person they believed could fix some of the issues.If this century-old conspiracy was so powerful then how did the Civil Rights Act pass? The Voting Rights Act? How did Barack Obama get elected?
No white people were culpable for years and people saw it though local news. And people have been calling it out, it's the issue of getting into a position that you can do something about it.Let’s not pretend that racism has only been killing people in the 21st century. I mean, Fox News has only been around for 23 years. Is it only then that white people became culpable for black disenfranchisement?
Theres more to it than that. No one has just been sittings on their heels, the issue is the courts and the congress. You have to get things fixed where theres not suppression.If it makes you feel better blaming the nefarious, shadowy GOP then go right ahead.
Complicity. Consequences.
And now, profiles in courage from the GOP!
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., on the president’s photo op at St. John’s last night: “Didn’t really see it.”Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., doesn’t stop at cameras here on the Hill. Told reporters he’s already “said too much,” per @LACaldwellDCSen. Steve Daines, R-Mont.: “I was grateful for the president’s leadership.” Says George Floyd was murdered but looting is not acceptable.Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, when asked if what we saw at the White House last night was an abuse of power: “By the protestors, yes.”Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La.: “I didn’t follow, I’m sorry.”
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My big article on Mariko Tamaki's Hulk & She-Hulk runs, discussing the good, bad, and its creation.
My second big article on She-Hulk, discussing Jason Aaron's focus on her in Avengers #20.
That happens here where I live, too. It's just developers looking to tear down buildings and put up six condos in its place. For what it's worth, I live in the poorer part of pretty well to do white neighborhood and we get these from time to time. Including the google maps photos of the property on the card.
Trump's man of the year award in Michigan he likes to lie about appears to be real now.
Guess where it came from?
A KKK group.
"Always listen to the crazy scientist with a weird van or armful of blueprints and diagrams." -- Vibranium
Police shot directly at a German journalist with Deutsche Welle with rubber bullets during a live broadcast, but missed.
The German government is asking US authorities for an explanation.
Deutsche Welle is a government-funded public broadcaster, so this was basically an attack on a foreign government entity.
Here is video of the Foreign Minister Maas speaking, with English subtitles:
https://twitter.com/marceldirsus/sta...01355764326400
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I get calls and postcards.
Heck I get calls from groups begging for money. Blocked thier calls and one agreed to put the num ber on the do not call list. They still call.
One could not get off the phone fast enough when I start telling them off about all the harrassing call.
'Trying to stay alive': 70 protesters sheltered in stranger's home during D.C.'s curfew
https://twitter.com/ABC7News/status/...546907137?s=20A D.C. man says he sheltered about 70 protesters who were allegedly corralled and pepper-sprayed by police on Monday night in Northwest. The curfew in the District ended at 6 a.m., and the protesters left his home safely and peacefully.
Taylor, who was sheltering in Rahul Dubey's home all night, describes the moments leading up to entering his home. She says she felt like she was going to die.
This was really heartwarming really in a sea of bad news and awfulness. I hope they all stay safe
One political consideration right now is that sending in the military is quite popular with the public.
The polls by the Morning Consult are generally considered reliable."Calling in the U.S. military to supplement city police forces":
Support 58%
Oppose 30%
@MorningConsult National Poll
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Anyway, why exactly is it that many systems out there, including police departments, have systemically grown to opposed and attack black people on sight more and more as if akin to a sponge soaking up liquid poison over time? There have been prior discussions on here that perhaps Nixon’s War in Drugs was partially responsible in noticeably increasing persecution to black people in America in the last 50 years, on the basis and false assumption of many black people being thugs in drug dealing gangs, but what other factors should be considered, as well as who aside from Trump should be held more responsible for fueling/fanning the flames of racism, antagonism, and targeting more?
If the looting contineus, I find that stance believable. As afraid as I am of the proverbial genie being let out of the bottle I do think the rioting needs to stop one way or the other. If the police and National Guard can't do it, the military is basically your last option.
But HOPEFULLY things just quite down on their own. No one benefits from things escalating.