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[Strategic Culture Foundation] What the Pentagon pulled out of its hat was the Islamic State in the Sahel, conveniently abbreviated as "ISIS." With the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, the original ISIS, on the run in the Middle East, the Pentagon saw an opportunity to give the terrorist group a rebirth in West Africa, while also blaming it for the deaths of the US servicemen. But the actual reason for the obfuscation from the Oval Office was to avoid having one of the Pentagon’s most fraudulent and discredited programs making it back on to the front pages of the newspapers.
There is every indication that what transpired near the village of Tongo Tongo in Niger was the result of a decision by the Trump administration to bolster the costly and dubious Pentagon program called the Human Terrain System (HTS).
Using anthropologists, sociologists, and linguists possessing higher degrees, the Pentagon created HTS to conduct ethnographic surveys of conflict zones in order to take advantage of inter-tribal conflicts to achieve quick military dominance over a targeted region. HTS has been charged with exacerbating tensions between various indigenous groups and tribes to create intelligence "opportunities" for the US military. In 2012, the Pentagon announced that HTS would be extended from South Asia, Chicago, Southern California and the Middle East to Latin America and Africa.
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HTS has been charged with exacerbating tensions between various indigenous groups and tribes to create intelligence "opportunities" for the US military.
The "opportunity" to gather intelligence (by constantly stirring shi* up) is simply an intermediate objective. The long-term goal is political regime change. But of course the ownership of regime change resides not with the Army, but elsewhere.
Evil Russian hackers and political election interlopers, they're everywhere I tell you.
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anthropologists, sociologists, and linguists possessing higher degrees
As a member, I would say this community fails in good science by maintaining the false hope of 'What they are is what they do.' Not so from this soapbox. The many incursions into Eastern and Western Asia and now Africa continue to demonstrate cultures of differentiated behavior and decision making processes. Local normality is not Global rationality, no matter how much we should want to make it so. Tough to blame on the Oval Office when these facts have been ignored for hundreds of years.
[Free Beacon] MSNBC host Joy Reid on Saturday said rural Americans pose a "core threat to our democracy" because 70 percent of the population is expected to live in the 15 largest states in 2040.
Her comment came in response to a column in the Wall Street Journal in which author Gerald Seib discussed American government and various global threats confronting democracy. Seib used projected population change to argue that many urban Americans will be underrepresented in the Senate in the coming decades.
"Because of the way the Electoral College works, two of the past three presidents first won office while losing the popular vote. And David Birdsell, dean of the school of public and international affairs at Baruch College, notes that by 2040, about 70% of Americans are expected to live in the 15 largest states. They will have only 30 senators representing them, while the remaining 30% of Americans will have 70 senators representing them," Seib wrote.
Reid quoted MSNBC producer Kyle Griffin's tweet, which cited the figures from the Wall Street Journal, and said the rural minority's level of representation constitutes are a "core threat to our democracy." She said rural Americans will continue to "have disproportionate power over the urban majority."
Colin Kaepernick be damned and an enthusiastic hat tip to Ms. Reid. She clearly and unmistakenly validates the existence of the 'Culture War.'
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Crime ridden, government dependent urban tumors and multicultural 'sanctuary cities' really are the key to the development of modern society. You'll see.
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Without the Electoral College, the small states would not have join the new union under the Constitution. There wouldn't be a 'United States' and therefore no need to fight a civil war where over 250,000 mostly white farm boys from the north would never have to 'give their full measure of devotion' to put the 13th Amendment into the document. Rural Americans are the reason you have a form of classical democracy, not to be confused the Ms. Reid's "Peoples Democratic Republic of" soviet authoritarian style government.
Thomas Jefferson’s agrarian observations are scattered throughout his letters and other documents. “Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. . . .” he declaims in Query XIX of Notes on the State of Virginia (1781–82). “Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example.” Jefferson and the other Anti-Federalists believed that yeoman farming nurtured a spirit of self- reliance that made economic—and therefore genuine political—independence possible. In that fact lay farming’s principle value.
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Univ. of Toronto Psychology Professor Jordan B. Peterson tweets "Those who have accomplished something as individuals have no need to be proud of their race." (not in reference to this story but as a general comment).
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Being an imbecile Joy-Joy kept referring to the Senate instead of the HoR in her remarks. Population effects HoR whereas number of states effects Senate. She's a dummy!
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Back at you Joy. We feel much the same way about you.
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Probably thinks farms should be nationalized. And farmers should be employees of the government. So government can control them - and also the food supply. If it's not about money, it's abot control.
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