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Gestapo in Queens, NYC

This is only a rumor:

REPORT: Kushner OK'd Khashoggi Arrest, Turkey Heard Call & Blackmailed Trump over Syrian Troops

Rendon will be fine as he ages. As long as his shoulder holds, he will be fine in the field. 3rd base is a flashy position but it doesn’t require that much range. It’s why ARod and Ripken played there late into their careers. (PEDs may have contributed to both also)

Mike Schmidt is another.

I would be way more worried about giving the money to Strasburg than Rendon but we have Scherzer as a good case.

Canelo is on PEDs

Anyone else goto Navy Yard after the game? Was amazing.

Also, after the Nats won last night if one of the thoughts that crossed your mind is how Bryce Harper feels you are a loser. Who effing cares. 

This is the first World Series game seven between two former Cy Young winners.

9 hours ago, Destino said:

I agree with you that ISIS was never an existential threat to the US or any western power.  Islamic terrorism has never been that.  The extent of Islamic terrorism's power has always been mass murder, but organized and planned mass murder isn't something that can be shrugged off.  Especially when they start grabbing land and threaten to create a nation that exists to further these goals along with genocide and state sanctioned slavery. 

 

As for the coverage, the media wrote thousands of stories and spoke about it on tv for thousands of hours.  I believe the vast majority of that was spent discussing what those fighting ISIS were doing wrong.  IMO that fails to paint an accurate picture.  Just ask yourself how many specific atrocities you remember covered in detail that were committed by ISIS.  How many news stories were dedicated to exhaustively examining their crimes and their leadership?  Any details of the bloody path they took to that ended with them being leaders among murders, rapists, and slavers? 

 

While this was all going on, ISIS was busy recruiting online.  Busy telling anyone that would listen that they were the real victims and that they were fighting the real bad guys.  A quick paragraph acknowledging that ISIS is bad in yet another story about how the fight against ISIS is putting civilians at risk, doesn't really do the job of countering that. 

 

 

 

you are asking the US Corporate media structure to do something they are not interested in pursuing. 

9 hours ago, Destino said:

The fact that the US public can’t name ISIS’s leader and knows nothing about him, is a failure of US media.  

Maybe

Although ISIS has never been the threat to the US the way our government has wanted to perceive them.

edit: to be clear for those that will be confused, the guy was a piece of poop and the world is better without him

Max will have a big game tonight which will lead to our bats jumping on Cole early. 

Trump will make this his Osama moment, but it isn’t.

The American public couldn’t tell you who the leader of ISIS is, and apparently dude off’d himself. Also ISIS posed no threat to the US, unlike the guy who masterminded several successful terror operations against the US.

14 minutes ago, Larry said:

Has it?  that's not the impression I get.  

I was thinking of actual welfare, which Clinton gave back to states after Reagan started a war against it. You are right, my B.

Social programs are actually high, although that money is being concentrated to help Trump voters.

The Guardian: Six killed as Iraq protests continue in Baghdad and Nasiriyah

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At least six more Iraqi protesters were killed on Saturday in clashes with security forces in Baghdad and the southern town of Nasiriyah, as thousands took part in nationwide anti-government protests, officials said.

 

Protesters were trying to reach Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, home to embassies and government offices.

 

Security forces fired teargas as protesters tried to remove blast walls from a main bridge leading to the government district. Three people were killed when they were struck by teargas canisters, security and medical officials said.

29 minutes ago, Larry said:

 

Actually recall two comments made about the social unrest of the 60s, by a social studies instructor in high school.  

 

For one thing, he asserted that the reason the violence of the 60s ended was the explosion of welfare.  His assertion was that welfare gave America an underclass that was peaceful, because people have to be starving, or near to it, before they will revolt.  And as long as everybody in the country had a barely-survivable standard of iving, they wouldn't risk losing what they had.  

 

And the other point he made was that freedom of speech makes for a more peaceful society.  His example was, go up to someone and try to prevent them from speaking.  They will become violent very quickly.  However, let them set up a soapbox in the public square and rant to a bunch of people who will ignore him, and almost all of them will be content with that.  

Freedom of speech was the first amendment in the bill of rights and it did not stop Americans from committing political violence and terrorism.

The same is true of welfare, which has gotten slashed the last 40 years too.

I am not a political theorist or philosopher, but imo we are a comfortable and docile nation. Everyone can afford an iphone, access the internet, and check out from their daily existence. 

5 minutes ago, Renegade7 said:

 

I feel like you jus ignored my points out of pessimism.  That's fine, I'm not here to change anyone's mind.  When I see majority of the country wants him impeached and removed from office and growing, I'll stay optimistic.

I ain’t want this thread to focus solely on America, but removing Trump doesn’t reverse what’s happened here for over 40 years.

6 minutes ago, Larry said:

I could believe in the magical power of the ballot box to restore balance to the Force, if I could see signs that the voters are well and truly fed up with what's going on.  But I'm not seeing it.  (And it's blatantly obvious, neither is one single Republican on capitol hill.)  

 

Americans are comfortable and docile. We have some how become proud of that.

41 minutes ago, Renegade7 said:

The New Deal doesnt count?

that’s fair, but the New Deal transpired after the collapse of western economics. On top of that, there was a wave of socialism around the world that was bubbling in America.

1 hour ago, Renegade7 said:

 

Depends on the election, as I've said before, our situation is different because we can wait for vote for systematic change in our government instead of having to die for it. For now.

The only time systemic change happened in this country is through violence (Civil War) or protest (Civil Rights movement).

Something is happening around the world. People are rising against government corruption, income inequality, etc. I am sharing stories from around the world

From earlier this month:

Business Insider - World on fire: 13 major protests happening around the globe right now

South China Post: Hong Kong, Chile, Lebanon: protests erupt around the world

Nations that had major protests the last month:

Argentina

Hong Kong

Hati
Indonesia
Netherlands

Ethiopia

Spain

Bolivia
France
Russia
Peru
Egypt
Lebanon
Syria
Iraq
Jerusalem
South Korea

Chile

Ecuador

In Chile, they are protesting over income inequality

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-50191746

18 civilians killed so far in Chile

Reuters: Catalonia's mayors call for self-determination before protest march

The Guardian: Protests against Ethiopia's Nobel peace prize PM turn deadly

67 killed in Ethiopia