Iran is bombing IS. Iran is Shia and Syria's predominantly Shia.
Meanwhile, Saudis are bombing the rebels in Yemen. Saudis are Sunni and Yemen is predominantly Sunni.
Extremists in both camps murder and hate Kurds, Yazidis, ...
Also remember the Bolsheviks hated the Mencheviks, Catholics hated Protestants, the Nazi SS wiped out the Nazi SD, ... Why anyone wants to play this silly game's beyond me, but it doesn't appear to be slowing down appreciably.
you know what's a hate crime? cutting someone's head off for drawing cartoons.
I was thinking about that the other day when I looked at a photograph of two Muslim women in full head to toe black dress, both holding up pics of their fearless leader. I've seen the same sort of thing in demonstrations in Pakistan where men were showing placards to the camera containg pics of their clerics.
I thought Islam thought pictures of people were proscribed by Mohammad. What gives? Is this inconsistency, a difference between Shia and Sunni, or is modernity sneaking in despite the Koran & etc?
Stop funding terrorists, stop encouraging radicalization, and then the media will no longer portray you as supporting terrorists and radicalization.
I agree, but at the same time perhaps we could stop electing leaders who see Saddam Hussein allied with al Quaida, smelling WMDs in Iraq ginning up wars of liberation, yada, yada.
There's a lot of "Which came first, chicken or egg?" stuff going on here, we have to admit.
As for positive portrayals of Muslims in movies, Robin Hood's Muslim sidekick came off pretty well, even if the movie was almost universally panned.
Re: How about portraying the target demographic as different?
Add in the fact that a lot of what goes on in Hollywood is thinly concealed propaganda in collusion with The Establishment. "Argo" and "The Kingdom" were both partnerships involving Hollywood and the CIA. I really enjoyed TK, but it's pretty annoying to discover what was really going on.
Well, it's our job as humanity (which includes everyone including those you disagree with) in guiding one another towards prosperity as our very existence may depend on it.
Oh look, Victoria Newland's here (see ConsortiumNews). "Responsibility to protect" ("R2P") is one of the latest tools of the Neocons to justify involving ourselves in others' business, whether they want us to or not.
No. Leave them alone. Help and support the escapees and refugees and worry about expansionists who rise up and threaten us, but it's not our job to drag anyone into the 21st Century unwilling. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink, and the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
I don't disagree with what you say, but that's the shallow view of it. What you write is the Israeli hardliner attitude and policies. I don't believe for a second that average moderate Israelis nor Jews outside Israel believe in that. The squeaky wheel gets the grease though, so the hardliners in the Knesset and Mossad drive Israeli policy, just as the minority Neocons in the US get away with driving US policy.
I fail at handling this dichotomy often myself blaming those who can't be bothered to fix this crap with apathy. They're not really apathetic though. They just prefer to get on with their lives and can't see any real point in banging their heads on a wall that shows no inclination to fall over any time soon.
It would be very nice if the moderates everywhere would at least stop shoveling money towards the hardliners, at least. However, that would require them to take the time to question the hardliners' propagandistic fear-mongering, when they'd prefer to focus on the Kardashians.
My bad. I should have qualified "ambulance chasers." I never mean to suggest there are no good lawyers; far from it. Some of my favorite people (ie. EFF) are lawyers mostly. There used to be a good one on Slashdot who called himself NYCountyLawyer (or something like that), though I've not bothered with /. in a while. Of course, there's Popehat as well who does admirable work.
I wish those ones could get the rest disbarred (or jailed), but that'd be like trying to count all the grains of sand on a beach.
... the Cuban Missile Crisis, which didn't end well for Russia.
Actually, it did. We just weren't told about it. The missiles in Turkey were quietly withdrawn shortly after the Soviets shipped their missiles back from Cuba.
Now that I think about it, this's SOP for ambulance chasers. Lawyer takes the case on a contingency basis with nothing up front. If they get anything from their threat, he takes X%. If the threatened refuses and chooses to fight it, they withdraw the claim and fold. "Oopsie. Next!" Fighting back is expensive and time consuming even if you're right, so many will pay/settle just to make it go away.
The Cosa Nostra calls it a shakedown. We call it extortion. Lawyers call it business as usual. Imaginary Property; what a racket.
Re: If we don't give up our liberty, the hyperboles will win!
My latest favorite? "If we allow homosexuals and other gender confused individuals on the 'You can get married' bus, it'll cause ten thousand more abortions a day!"
Ah ha, hahaha, haha, ha! Ten thousand fewer ignorant, credulous, apathetic morons like that a day would be a great start.
On the one side, we have Ukrainians, who were manipulated into a NATO backed coup unseating yet another democratically elected govt, even aligning themselves with domestic Neonazis, because the US was insensed that Russia didn't want to become just yet another minor province within the NeoCon-AIPAC Empire.
On the other side, we have Putin's Russia who insist on believing national sovereignty is still a real thing, and who do not believe a World govt. run by Apartheid Ubermenchen in Tel Aviv is good for anybody.
Just wait until the Leningrad-Shanghai trade axis really gets going, and Russia aligned with China convince Europe to abandon the US and Israel's hegemonic plans.
I question your use of the word "journalist" here. They're sports writers, who very seldom (if ever) report on the sport aspect. They're head cheerleaders for their local sports franchise. If the local team wins, they cheer on their team with pride of ownership. If they lose, it's a tragedy and they go looking for culprits; the other team got lucky, or their team had bad luck, or the coach is incompetent, etc.
The same is true of play by play announcers and color commentators, though the latter often being former players themselves are less professional (read "more objective") about it.
Don't lawyers have some sort of obligation to inform their clients when the latter's understanding of the law contradicts what the law actually says or allows?
How does the Radix lawyer get away with defrauding his client like this?
I think you're very likely to be a kiddie fiddler, a terrorist, and a copyright infringer. Good thing I won't have to testify or prove any of this at your trial.
There've been many conspiracy theorists over the years suggesting that the point of all these machinations is pointing to population reduction "back to manageable levels." I've never managed to bring myself to believe anyone could be that vicious. That's a level of mass murder even Hitler never aspired to.
If that's the sort of thinking going on in billionaires' minds, then they're far worse than the worst disease epidemics we've ever experienced.
As a small "l" libertarian myself, I must say your form of it is a perversion of it. Creators of any sort, from individuals through multi-national corporations do not exist in a vacuum. They/we all benefit from the societal structures within which we co-exist. Police, the courts, and national defense are (in theory) good things from which we all benefit and would not exist without the cooperation of the vast majority with whom we share our existence, including now dead past generations to whom we owe thanks for helping that to happen. Assuming the right to rapacious profit just because you've a monopoly on something is not "just compensation." It's plundering the collective efforts and achievements of fellow citizens.
It's been long accepted that having risen above the jungle's tooth and claw is an overall good thing. We shouldn't be pining to go back to it.
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Re: When they start bombing Isis...
Iran is bombing IS. Iran is Shia and Syria's predominantly Shia.
Meanwhile, Saudis are bombing the rebels in Yemen. Saudis are Sunni and Yemen is predominantly Sunni.
Extremists in both camps murder and hate Kurds, Yazidis, ...
Also remember the Bolsheviks hated the Mencheviks, Catholics hated Protestants, the Nazi SS wiped out the Nazi SD, ... Why anyone wants to play this silly game's beyond me, but it doesn't appear to be slowing down appreciably.
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Re: speech is not a hate crime
I was thinking about that the other day when I looked at a photograph of two Muslim women in full head to toe black dress, both holding up pics of their fearless leader. I've seen the same sort of thing in demonstrations in Pakistan where men were showing placards to the camera containg pics of their clerics.
I thought Islam thought pictures of people were proscribed by Mohammad. What gives? Is this inconsistency, a difference between Shia and Sunni, or is modernity sneaking in despite the Koran & etc?
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Re: Clever, very clever...
I agree, but at the same time perhaps we could stop electing leaders who see Saddam Hussein allied with al Quaida, smelling WMDs in Iraq ginning up wars of liberation, yada, yada.
There's a lot of "Which came first, chicken or egg?" stuff going on here, we have to admit.
As for positive portrayals of Muslims in movies, Robin Hood's Muslim sidekick came off pretty well, even if the movie was almost universally panned.
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Re: How about portraying the target demographic as different?
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Re: Re:
Oh look, Victoria Newland's here (see ConsortiumNews). "Responsibility to protect" ("R2P") is one of the latest tools of the Neocons to justify involving ourselves in others' business, whether they want us to or not.
No. Leave them alone. Help and support the escapees and refugees and worry about expansionists who rise up and threaten us, but it's not our job to drag anyone into the 21st Century unwilling. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink, and the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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Re: Re:
I fail at handling this dichotomy often myself blaming those who can't be bothered to fix this crap with apathy. They're not really apathetic though. They just prefer to get on with their lives and can't see any real point in banging their heads on a wall that shows no inclination to fall over any time soon.
It would be very nice if the moderates everywhere would at least stop shoveling money towards the hardliners, at least. However, that would require them to take the time to question the hardliners' propagandistic fear-mongering, when they'd prefer to focus on the Kardashians.
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Re: Re: Re: Lawyers.
I wish those ones could get the rest disbarred (or jailed), but that'd be like trying to count all the grains of sand on a beach.
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Actually, it did. We just weren't told about it. The missiles in Turkey were quietly withdrawn shortly after the Soviets shipped their missiles back from Cuba.
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Re: Re: Lawyers.
The Cosa Nostra calls it a shakedown. We call it extortion. Lawyers call it business as usual. Imaginary Property; what a racket.
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Re: If we don't give up our liberty, the hyperboles will win!
Ah ha, hahaha, haha, ha! Ten thousand fewer ignorant, credulous, apathetic morons like that a day would be a great start.
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Remember the Cuban Missile Crisis?
USA: "NO WAY!!?!?11" And, we wound up a hair's breadth away from Nuclear Winter (or worse).
Now, the US/NATO is pulling the same trick in Ukraine. Is the US sane enough to back away as the Soviets did? I'm not optimistic at this point.
Ukrainian expats dabbling with crowd-funded drones? How cute. Fools! This isn't about your puny, corrupted little traditional homeland.
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On the other side, we have Putin's Russia who insist on believing national sovereignty is still a real thing, and who do not believe a World govt. run by Apartheid Ubermenchen in Tel Aviv is good for anybody.
Just wait until the Leningrad-Shanghai trade axis really gets going, and Russia aligned with China convince Europe to abandon the US and Israel's hegemonic plans.
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The same is true of play by play announcers and color commentators, though the latter often being former players themselves are less professional (read "more objective") about it.
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Re: Re: "jointly liable" is not a slippery slope. Overt acts with sole purpose to infringe.
I'm confused. If I defend Hollywood, does that make me The Spanish Inquisition, Josef Stalin, or Pol Pot?
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Lawyers.
How does the Radix lawyer get away with defrauding his client like this?
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If that's the sort of thinking going on in billionaires' minds, then they're far worse than the worst disease epidemics we've ever experienced.
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Re: Re: Re: Exaggerating a little bit, ah?
It's been long accepted that having risen above the jungle's tooth and claw is an overall good thing. We shouldn't be pining to go back to it.
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Re: Re: Re: Check out the Sobieski room...
Yeah, Islamist extremists are right up there with domestic police forces. How about we compare them to the US military instead?
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Re: Re: The police are out of control
Of persons shot: 4% were Asian or Filipino, 19% African-American, 36% Latino, 1% Pacific Islander, 37% Anglo, and the race or ethnicity of 4% were unknown.
-- http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-shooting-report-20150221-story.html#
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