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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Trotskyite Kommies condemn Evergreen Kommies
Dunno whether to laugh or cry...

Via The People's Cube

Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington has become the site of a reactionary, racialist campaign against biology professor Bret Weinstein, after he spoke out against a college-sponsored event that called for all white students and faculty to leave the school grounds for a day.
[ ... ]
There is nothing “left” or progressive in the actions of the students protesting Weinstein. Their racialist outlook expresses the interests of privileged sections of the upper middle class, and complements the racism of the far-right. Their claim that the campus is seething with racial tensions is not supported by any concrete evidence. There have been no reports of openly racist events or groups on campus.
Posted by: badanov || 07/30/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Their claim that the campus is seething with racial tensions is not supported by any concrete evidence. There have been no reports of openly racist events or groups on campus.

Yaabut, on the other side of the coin, racial tensions appear to run rampant. Jack LaLanne would've said that anything you say or write about such a strange place is really unhealthy.
Posted by: Fairbanks || 07/30/2017 1:44 Comments || Top||

#2  1) There have been no reports of openly racist events or groups on campus.
2) a college-sponsored event that called for all white students and faculty to leave the school grounds for a day.

Self-Unawareness Level: 100 MilliKohns
Posted by: Frank G || 07/30/2017 8:24 Comments || Top||

#3  These people at Evergreen have gone full-blown crazy. Raze the campus and start over. The only good thing is that factions of the left are eating their own--the end result of universities embracing phony diversity programs.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/30/2017 9:38 Comments || Top||

#4  Translation: "They're a bunch of little bitches, and when we start opening labor camps, they will figure prominently in dig-your-own-hole events."
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/30/2017 9:53 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Flees As Cops, Messenger of Court Raid MDC-T Office
[All Africa] MDC-T President Morgan Tsvangirai on Friday fled his party's Harvest House head offices after a contingent of armed police and the deputy sheriff from the messenger of court raided the building.

The deputy sheriff who emptied over five offices at the Harvest House taking all the furniture for auctioning , was acting under the instruction of the courts which ruled in favour of 117 former and current MDC-T employees, whom the party owes their dues.

Mid-morning Friday, MDC-T leadership which includes Tsvangirai and his deputy Nelson Chamisa, abandoned the meeting they were presiding over and fled the building as a result of the fracas.

Sesil Zvidzai, the party's Presidential affairs secretary, told news hounds that they had to adjourn a national standing committee meeting which the movement was conducting.

"The national standing committee wanted to deliberate on election preparedness and we suddenly saw a whole army, of armed police coming through for the purposes that we do not understand.

"We also saw the furniture being taken out by the deputy sheriff .We see this a harassment as we go to the elections which we are going to beat Zanu PF and they want the whole country to believe that we are not organized," said Zvidzai as he also shifted the blame to their political rival Zanu PF .

"We had started the meeting and we were then disturbed, but the meeting is carrying on .This is our headquarters, this is our home, this is where all plans for transformation take place, so the President is always here to work for the people of Zim-bob-we, but unfortunately there are detractors who do not want to see a progressive Zim-bob-we," he said.

Posted by: Fred || 07/30/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Progressively worse by the minute.
Posted by: newc || 07/30/2017 0:28 Comments || Top||

#2  I see what you did there newc.

Posted by: AlanC || 07/30/2017 8:10 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Venezuelan protesters take to streets to defy Maduro
[AA.TR] Protesters on Friday blocked streets in Caracas and other Venezuelan cities in more marches against a controversial vote Sunday that could forma an assembly to rewrite the Constitution.

Opposition parties occupied the streets despite a protest ban by the government that extends through Tuesday. Violators could receive prison sentences of five to 10 years, according to the government.

Venezuelans rushed to stores and banks early Friday after most businesses were closed during a two-day national strike called by the opposition that began Wednesday.

Violent festivities with the government have killed 113 since April, according to the Venezuelan Attorney General’s Office, as the country faces economic and political crises with falling crude oil prices that funds most of the government’s socialist agenda. The crisis has forced thousands of citizens to flee during in recent months.

Several countries and global organizations, including the U.S. and EU, have condemned the vote for Sunday.

The United Nations
...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly...
asked the government of President Nicolas Maduro to allow citizens to protest peacefully.

Posted by: Fred || 07/30/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Civil War
Posted by: Frank G || 07/30/2017 11:52 Comments || Top||

#2  NYT said may be end of democracy. When did they have democracy?.
Posted by: Dale || 07/30/2017 12:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Who is getting killed in Venezuela? Contrast that with Chicago. No comparison. Some of the Chavistas interviewed expressed that they would like the U.S. to intervene (Just what we need, another entanglement, eh?
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/30/2017 17:10 Comments || Top||


#5  Yes John QC. Hey jackass has been spreading the word for quite a long time.
Posted by: newc || 07/30/2017 18:26 Comments || Top||


Economy
U.S. economy accelerated during first full Trump quarter
[MONEY.CNN]

Democrats see chance to win back working class whites
Posted by: Fred || 07/30/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Dems "chance" is to change their message to suit the voters they lost. Can they keep their old base?

I guess their "message" boils down to re-election = power.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/30/2017 9:14 Comments || Top||

#2  a fraud fake health care system

Best way to correct this is to take away Congresscritters health care and put them on ObamaCare.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/30/2017 9:26 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Khadija stabbing case: primary suspect Shah Husain sentenced to 7 years in prison
[DAWN] A judicial magistrate in Lahore on Saturday sentenced the primary suspect in Khadija Siddiqui stabbing case to seven years in prison.

Magistrate Mubashir Awan at Cantonment Courts announced the verdict after finding suspect Shah Husain guilty of attempted murder. The court ordered police to immediately arrest Husain.

Khadija, a law student, was attacked by her class fellow, Shah Husain, on May 3, 2016, near Shimla Hill where she along with her driver had gone to pick her younger sister from school.

Both sisters were about to get into their car when the helmet-wearing suspect attacked Khadija with a knife and stabbed her 23 times leaving her critically injured.

Civil Lines police had started the paperwork but haven't done much else against Husain on charges of attempted murder. Police had also recovered the cycle of violence and knife he used in the attack.

The convict happens to be son of a lawyer, Tanvir Hashmi.

Talking to news hounds after the verdict was announced, Khadija thanked TV anchors and lawyers for supporting her throughout the case proceedings.

Khadija's fight for justice
Khadija, who attends a private law college, has been fighting a legal battle to seek justice in her case for over a year.

After a sessions court granted Husain bail after he had spent two months behind the bars, Khadija's had suspected that the attacker was released because he belonged to an influential family.

"The judges get scared, the lawyers have so much influence the judges are forced to give an incorrect verdict," she had said on Geo TV's 'Aaj Shahzaib Khanzada Kay Saath'.

In May this year, Khadija sat an examination under the police protection as Husain also was in the same centre.

"Sitting the examination in such circumstances was nothing short of an ordeal and I kept praying and trying to remember the course material," she said at the time.

Lahore High Court Chief Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah had on May 23 taken an administrative notice of the delay in the trial and directed the court to conclude it within 30 days by holding a day-to-day hearing.

Magistrate Awan seized with the trial took over two months to wind up the proceedings.

During the trial proceedings, the prosecution presented 11 witnesses to establish the accused guilty of having attempted murder. The defence had requested the court to delete the offence of attempted murder from the FIR, however, its plea was turned down by the judge.

Posted by: Fred || 07/30/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Home Front: Culture Wars
California Allows Secession Ballot Initiative To Proceed--CA to Pursue Independence
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/30/2017 10:37 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Do people in fly-over land get to vote? What's the downside if this initiative goes through?
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/30/2017 10:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Needs a Constitutional Amendment. A state applies and 3/4 of the other states concurring, then its permitted. And...the opportunity of expulsion of a state, with 3/4 of the other states concurring.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/30/2017 10:53 Comments || Top||

#3  So Nevada, Arizona and Oregon get to keep their water for themselves?

Electricity too?

Pendleton, Twentynine Palms, Edwards, Ft. Irwin, Travis, Miramar and Coronado (plus a few more) would have to relocate somewhere.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/30/2017 11:10 Comments || Top||

#4  Promises, promises.
Posted by: Iblis || 07/30/2017 11:34 Comments || Top||

#5  Maybe they should do it by county. I hear the majority of counties would rather get rid of the liberal ones.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 07/30/2017 11:41 Comments || Top||

#6  Have the northern part stay and let the other part go.
Posted by: Dale || 07/30/2017 11:53 Comments || Top||

#7  Trump would assist the northern part also I do believe.
Posted by: Dale || 07/30/2017 11:54 Comments || Top||

#8  Silicon valley barons want their own country?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/30/2017 12:07 Comments || Top||

#9  Yep.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/30/2017 12:53 Comments || Top||

#10  Without USA defending their interests - how long will they last?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/30/2017 13:07 Comments || Top||

#11  All those patents. No longer guaranteed by US power...
Posted by: Frank G || 07/30/2017 13:25 Comments || Top||

#12  We finally get rid of Pelosi and Maxine. I vote YES!
Posted by: Threatch Jeamp8135 || 07/30/2017 13:29 Comments || Top||

#13  Without USA defending their interests - how long will they last?

Exactly. It wouldn't be long before an independent Calipr0nia was absorbed by Mexico and the Silicon Valley barons will be begging Trump to let them back into the USA. You people really want that? You want Mexico to be in possession of all those military bases along with San Diego Bay, San Pedro and Oakland/Alameda? I don't think so.

When it comes to blows don't shoot me. I'll be the old guy in a Hawaiian shirt waving a white flag. Give me a gun and I'll help you shoot them down.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/30/2017 14:19 Comments || Top||

#14  The state’s attorney general, Xavier Becerra, issued an official ballot measure title on Tuesday allowing CalExit supporters to start gathering the 585,000 signatures needed to place the matter before California voters in 2018, the Associated Press reported.

You see that AG's name? Uh huh. Where do you think this bullshit is coming from? Mexico City, that's where. Trump needs to put the kibosh on it tout suite.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/30/2017 14:23 Comments || Top||

#15  “If California illegal votes were taken away, Trump won the popular election,” said Evans.

Fixed it for ya, asshole.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/30/2017 14:30 Comments || Top||

#16  The Californians that want to secede can go. The territory stays.
Posted by: Thaviger Barnsmell2150 || 07/30/2017 14:41 Comments || Top||

#17  What can I do to help?
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 07/30/2017 15:21 Comments || Top||

#18  Let them. Then declare war and exterminate them. Game over. We get the land back minus the crazies. Win win.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 07/30/2017 15:23 Comments || Top||

#19  *ahem*
Posted by: Frank G || 07/30/2017 15:42 Comments || Top||

#20  I would be interested in the dollar analysis:
How much does America get for the federal land, post offices...
How much does America save on social security, welfare, Medicare, Medicaid...
How much do we charge for travel to the states and tariffs on movies, energy, water...
Posted by: Airandee || 07/30/2017 15:57 Comments || Top||

#21  When reality hits.

North Korea Tests a Ballistic Missile That Experts Say Could Hit California

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/28/world/asia/north-korea-ballistic-missile.html
Posted by: jpal || 07/30/2017 17:23 Comments || Top||

#22  All those pretty bridges and wonderful infrastructure you built, Frank.

To be controlled by a (more) socialist state.

Weeps...
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/30/2017 18:35 Comments || Top||

#23  we tried this once here in the south. it did not end well.
Posted by: N guard || 07/30/2017 19:32 Comments || Top||

#24  Just virtue signalling.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/30/2017 19:53 Comments || Top||

#25  If CA goes so does OR and WA.
China's investment in MX will pay off.
Buy Death Valley futures.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/30/2017 23:40 Comments || Top||



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  Four arrested in plot to bomb plane over Sydney
Sat 2017-07-29
  IS cuts ears of 23 elements who fled battles in Western Nineveh
Fri 2017-07-28
  Pakistan's prime minister removed amid corruption probe
Thu 2017-07-27
  Deadly truck bombing foiled in Kabul city
Wed 2017-07-26
  Wasserman Schultz’s IT Aide Arrested At Airport After Transferring $300k To Pakistan From House Office
Tue 2017-07-25
  Governor dismissed over AQAP ties
Mon 2017-07-24
  Suicide car bombing kills 24, wounds 42 in Afghan capital
Sun 2017-07-23
  Azhar opens fatwa kiosks in Cairo metro station to counter extremism
Sat 2017-07-22
  Rebel ambush kills 28 pro-govt fighters near Damascus
Fri 2017-07-21
  Ruthless Henchman® of top Abu Sayyaf leader falls
Thu 2017-07-20
  ISIS militants refuse to surrender in Marawi as Philippine Army unleashes final assault
Wed 2017-07-19
  Kenyan police foil Al-Shabaab attack in Lamu
Tue 2017-07-18
  Deadly blast hits mosque in Nigeria's Maiduguri
Mon 2017-07-17
  Leader Of ISIS In Afghanistan Killed By US Forces 3 Months After Assuming Command
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  400 rebels killed by the Syrian Army during east Damascus offensive


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