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ehBeth
 
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Fri 16 Feb, 2018 12:51 pm
@hightor,
the indictment itself

https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=4380489-Justice-Department-s-Internet-Research-Agency
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izzythepush
 
  1  
Fri 16 Feb, 2018 12:57 pm
@blatham,
You don't say.
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ehBeth
 
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Fri 16 Feb, 2018 01:02 pm
@blatham,
Definitely a problem for Canada. A particular problem in parts of Saskatchewan and Manitoba based on what I hear from friends there.
camlok
 
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Fri 16 Feb, 2018 01:06 pm
@izzythepush,
MJ:
Quote:
Those photos won't be seen unless the Trump administration releases them, though, because the White House is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act.


Quote:
He said that despite there being an overall majority in favour of gun control all legislation was blocked. The insidious tentacles of the NRA are buried very deeply in the legislature. They've been organising and lobbying for the past thirty years whereas the gun control movement only really started after Sandy Hook.

If nothing else it's an affront to democracy and shows what happens when you allow business interests and lobby groups to ride roughshod over the will of the people.


It isn't an affront to democracy because the USA has never been a democracy.

"The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd. And it's the responsible men who have to make decisions and to protect society from the trampling and rage of the bewildered herd. Now since it's a democracy they - the herd, that is - are permitted occasionally to lend their weight to one or another member of the responsible class. That's called an election." -- Noam Chomsky
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camlok
 
  1  
Fri 16 Feb, 2018 01:08 pm
Why are y'all voting down oralloy's posts? I thought you all loved US propaganda. Lord knows you sure do spout it.
camlok
 
  2  
Fri 16 Feb, 2018 01:14 pm
@blatham,
Are you leading the charge against Canada's genocide in BC, Bernie? Are you pointing out that the USA's genocide against Native Americans is at least as bad, likely much worse.
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camlok
 
  0  
Fri 16 Feb, 2018 01:22 pm
@blatham,
Quote:
Whether we call this a project or a dynamic, we can trace this back to the early seventies or even further, to the Goldwater run.


Long before that.

Quote:

http://www.merchantsofdoubt.org/

The troubling story of how a cadre of influential scientists have clouded public understanding of scientific facts to advance a political and economic agenda.

The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on public health, environmental science, and other issues affecting the quality of life. Our scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming. But at the same time, a small yet potent subset of this community leads the world in vehement denial of these dangers.

In their new book, Merchants of Doubt, historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway explain how a loose–knit group of high-level scientists, with extensive political connections, ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades. In seven compelling chapters addressing tobacco, acid rain, the ozone hole, global warming, and DDT, Oreskes and Conway roll back the rug on this dark corner of the American scientific community, showing how the ideology of free market fundamentalism, aided by a too-compliant media, has skewed public understanding of some of the most pressing issues of our era.

“A well-documented, pulls-no-punches account of how science works and how political motives can hijack the process by which scientific information is disseminated to the public.”—Kirkus Reviews


“Anyone concerned about the state of democracy in America should read this book.”—Former Vice President Al Gore, author of An Inconvenient Truth
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camlok
 
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Fri 16 Feb, 2018 01:26 pm
@ehBeth,
Quote:
Definitely a problem for Canada. A particular problem in parts of Saskatchewan and Manitoba based on what I hear from friends there.


It is and has been a problem in every part of Canada. There is no part of Canada that didn't participate in the genocide.

O Canada, a land of genocide
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wmwcjr
 
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Fri 16 Feb, 2018 04:37 pm
@Walter Hinteler,
Walter Hinteler wrote:
Mentally ill people can sometimes be a danger to themselves, less often to others.


The current state of my country's politics is close to causing me to be mentally ill. https://www.democraticunderground.com/emoticons/crazy.gif
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blatham
 
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Fri 16 Feb, 2018 07:18 pm
@glitterbag,
Thanks. I'll go looking for it.
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