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Yeah. That's part of the secret fucking swamp draining plan. What a joke. At some point all these billionaires and jack-offs are going to whip off their masks and reveal their true identities as swamp draining super heros.
Yeah. That's part of the secret fucking swamp draining plan. What a joke. At some point all these billionaires and jack-offs are going to whip off their masks and reveal their true identities as swamp draining super heros.
Awesome post Chuck :)Yeah. That's part of the secret fucking swamp draining plan. What a joke. At some point all these billionaires and jack-offs are going to whip off their masks and reveal their true identities as swamp draining super heros.
An unproductive uninformative response.
I think everything that is written or spoken has some bias. To say flatly that the NYT or other MSM lie and distort is to undermine the reality that there are many hard working honest people in the media who are utterly committed to uncovering the truth. Just like saying all politicians are crooked. It just doesn't work. There are honest people in gov't who want nothing more than to advance the quality of life for humanity.
Yeah. That's part of the secret fucking swamp draining plan. What a joke. At some point all these billionaires and jack-offs are going to whip off their masks and reveal their true identities as swamp draining super heros.
Regarding the Sweden issue, this is a series of tweets from Jake Hanrahan, a freelance journalist and filmmaker who has worked for VICE News and HBO:
"Thread: Both left and right are talking a lot of nonsense about the situation in #Malmo. I was there four weeks ago, reporting on the fatal shooting of 16-year-old Ahmed Obaid, an Iraqi-Swede immigrant with a bright future ahead of him. Here’s some actual info for anyone not interested in the shrieking leftist eye covering or racist right wing exaggeration that is surrounding #Malmo atm. Ahmed (police, family & gang members all agree he was innocent & not affiliated with gangs) was one of three murders in Malmo in Jan 2017. In that month, there were 13 shootings, a small IED explosion and a hand grenade thrown into the lobby of a police station. Statistically this was a sharp increase in violence. People pretending there's no problem with gang violence in #Malmo need to get real.
"The problems in #Malmo stem from many things. One big issue is how the Swedish government seems to have pushed its large migrant population in #Malmo into a corner and tried to forget about them. This, coupled with the lack of employment and easy access to weapons across from Denmark and from the Balkans, has of course created a problem. The unemployment rate for foreign-born men between 16 and 64 in #Malmo is 30%. That compares with 8% nationally. High unemployment means more chaos, as is pretty much the case universally. This, of course, is not exclusive to migrant communities (despite what the Trump lot with their half mast Pepe hard-ons and Wotsit fingers might claim). A lack of skilled work, discrimination, housing issues, failed assimilation and ridiculously lenient laws toward violence (sorry lefties) all plays a role in the very real problems Malmo is facing. There’s also a huge lack of support for the police in #Malmo from the Swedish government. They don’t have enough officers, are under resourced & with Sweden's laws their power to lock up criminals they do catch, is diminished. Police in #Malmo seized ~600 weapons in 2016. Some semi-auto rifles & hand grenades. From ’16 there’re also 13 currently unsolved murders.
"Whilst reporting in #Malmo, I spoke to the family of Ahmed Obaid, a gangster parading around the streets in a bullet proof vest, and with a policeman about all of this. They all agreed, that yes, there IS a big problem in #Malmo and it is being largely ignored. Unfortunately it’s now blown up (excuse the pun) in a way that isn’t currently shedding light on anything of substance. You have the right wing pretending there are no go zones (there aren’t, that’s bullshit), non-stop rape and daily explosions, and you have the left who’re pretending it’s all milk, honey and racist propaganda. Ignoring the situation in #Malmo doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist, and exaggerating why doesn’t make it so. Tl;dr - #Malmo has a problem with gang related violence, but this cannot be blamed entirely on immigrants, it also cannot be ignored."
As suspected, the truth is somewhere between the extremes.
Didn't see this coming...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...mily-may-see-united-states-join-commonwealth/
But as Ellison’s momentum built, the Obama White House worked to recruit Perez to run against Ellison. They succeeded, and Perez announced his candidacy on December 15 – a full month after Ellison announced. Why did the White House work to recruit someone to sink Ellison? If Perez and Ellison are so ideologically indistinguishable, why was it so important to the Obama circle – and the Clinton circle – to find someone capable of preventing Ellison’s election? What’s the rationale? None has ever been provided.
I can’t recommend Chang’s analysis highly enough on one key aspect of what motivated the recruitment of Perez: to ensure that the Democratic establishment maintains its fatal grip on the party and, in particular, prevent Sanders followers from having any say in the party’s direction and identity...
As both Chang and Vox’s Jeff Stein have argued, the fact that DNC Chair is a largely functionary position, with little real power over party policy or messaging, is all the more reason to throw Sanders supporters a symbolic bone. If Democrats were smart, this would be the perfect opportunity to capture that energized left-wing movement without having to make any real concessions on what matters most to them: loyalty to their corporate donor base.
But it’s hard to conclude that a party that has navigated itself into such collapse, and which deliberately and knowingly chose the weakest candidate who managed to lose to Donald J. Trump, is one that is thinking wisely and strategically.
Oop, he's now banning certain media orgs from the next press briefing. Totally freedom loving. "If you cut out a man's tougne, you aren't silencing him, you fear what he has to say."
Sorry, that should have been "when you tear out a man's tongue you don't prove him a liar..."
To be fair, if my memory is correct Obama's combative attitude toward FOX News arguably opened the door for this.
Regarding the Sweden issue, this is a series of tweets from Jake Hanrahan, a freelance journalist and filmmaker who has worked for VICE News and HBO:
"Thread: Both left and right are talking a lot of nonsense about the situation in #Malmo. I was there four weeks ago, reporting on the fatal shooting of 16-year-old Ahmed Obaid, an Iraqi-Swede immigrant with a bright future ahead of him. Here’s some actual info for anyone not interested in the shrieking leftist eye covering or racist right wing exaggeration that is surrounding #Malmo atm. Ahmed (police, family & gang members all agree he was innocent & not affiliated with gangs) was one of three murders in Malmo in Jan 2017. In that month, there were 13 shootings, a small IED explosion and a hand grenade thrown into the lobby of a police station. Statistically this was a sharp increase in violence. People pretending there's no problem with gang violence in #Malmo need to get real.
"The problems in #Malmo stem from many things. One big issue is how the Swedish government seems to have pushed its large migrant population in #Malmo into a corner and tried to forget about them. This, coupled with the lack of employment and easy access to weapons across from Denmark and from the Balkans, has of course created a problem. The unemployment rate for foreign-born men between 16 and 64 in #Malmo is 30%. That compares with 8% nationally. High unemployment means more chaos, as is pretty much the case universally. This, of course, is not exclusive to migrant communities (despite what the Trump lot with their half mast Pepe hard-ons and Wotsit fingers might claim). A lack of skilled work, discrimination, housing issues, failed assimilation and ridiculously lenient laws toward violence (sorry lefties) all plays a role in the very real problems Malmo is facing. There’s also a huge lack of support for the police in #Malmo from the Swedish government. They don’t have enough officers, are under resourced & with Sweden's laws their power to lock up criminals they do catch, is diminished. Police in #Malmo seized ~600 weapons in 2016. Some semi-auto rifles & hand grenades. From ’16 there’re also 13 currently unsolved murders.
"Whilst reporting in #Malmo, I spoke to the family of Ahmed Obaid, a gangster parading around the streets in a bullet proof vest, and with a policeman about all of this. They all agreed, that yes, there IS a big problem in #Malmo and it is being largely ignored. Unfortunately it’s now blown up (excuse the pun) in a way that isn’t currently shedding light on anything of substance. You have the right wing pretending there are no go zones (there aren’t, that’s bullshit), non-stop rape and daily explosions, and you have the left who’re pretending it’s all milk, honey and racist propaganda. Ignoring the situation in #Malmo doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist, and exaggerating why doesn’t make it so. Tl;dr - #Malmo has a problem with gang related violence, but this cannot be blamed entirely on immigrants, it also cannot be ignored."
As suspected, the truth is somewhere between the extremes.
Being combative is different to banning certain media from a press briefing.