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McGentrix
 
  0  
Sun 17 Mar, 2019 06:56 pm
@oralloy,
oralloy wrote:

blatham wrote:
And then he again attacks a deceased Senator who actually went to war and was captured and tortured by the enemy.
Quote:
Donald J. Trump
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@realDonaldTrump....to the people that got you there. Keep fighting for Tucker, and fight hard for @JudgeJeanine. Your competitors are jealous - they all want what you’ve got - NUMBER ONE. Don’t hand it to them on a silver platter. They can’t beat you, you can only beat yourselves!
6:44 AM - 17 Mar 2019

How is this an attack against that surrendering coward McCain?


Not defending the enemy, but looks like an erroneous cut and paste. Obviously, in his haste to demean and discredit the President, he merely made himself a bad editor.
Walter Hinteler
 
  2  
Mon 18 Mar, 2019 12:16 am
@oralloy,
The Lex Saxonum only mentions nobiles, liberi and liti - 'litus' was the Frankish influence, since it is mentioned e.g. in the Lex Frisionum as well.

The Frankish influence changed the status of Saxon tribes.
One example is the grave of the "Prince of Beckum",from around 600 AD [actually I've been in the muesum there yesterday] .
Germanic people in this period thought of themselves as belonging to ethnicities and tribes, it is no longer be possible to decide whether or not these men thought of themselves as either Frankish, Saxon, “Westfalaos” or even Thuringian.
However, the prince from Beckum remains a fascinating example of a military leader endowed with at least one heirloom, a sword, signalling a connection with the Frankish world, but buried in a traditional pagan way in the locality, where he grew up, signifying a close connection between the man and the land in which he lived.
Another example would be my family name (ancestors lived 12 km east of those burial sites), which is of Saxon origin and wasn't changed to "Frankish".


oralloy
 
  -3  
Mon 18 Mar, 2019 12:32 am
@Walter Hinteler,
Walter Hinteler wrote:
actually I've been in the muesum there yesterday
I spent yesterday at a museum too.

The Field Museum in Chicago in my case. I got to see what Sue looks like in person.
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Walter Hinteler
 
  2  
Mon 18 Mar, 2019 12:36 am
@oralloy,
In Old Saxon (that is, in the 8th until 10th century) būwen only meant living, building and thus included farming.
Even today "Bau" means building, the "Bauer", however, is the farmer (or peasant, as you prefer to say).
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izzythepush
 
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Mon 18 Mar, 2019 03:26 am
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Israel's Supreme Court has disqualified the leader of the far-right Jewish Power party, Michael Ben-Ari, from next month's elections.

In doing so, it overturned an earlier decision by the electoral committee.

Mr Ben-Ari has faced criticism over his comments about Israeli Arabs. Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit has said they amount to "incitement to racism".

The court also reinstated Israeli Arab parties previously banned from contesting the 9 April poll.

Wonder Woman star wades into Netanyahu row over Israeli Arabs
They had been barred from standing for their critical remarks about the state of Israel and the Israel Defense Forces.

Ahead of the elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had forged an alliance with several far-right parties to try to shore up support.

His right-wing Likud party is seen as a strong contender despite an investigation into corruption allegations against him.

All governments in Israel are coalitions because the country's system of proportional representation makes it unlikely for single parties to be able to govern alone.

The court backed an appeal from left-wing politicians who argued that Mr Ben-Ari had made racist remarks.

The Times of Israel website reports that the appeal cited Mr Ben-Ari from August 2018, saying: "We have to change the equation regarding anyone who dares to speak against a Jew.

"[Such a person] is a dead man. He must not come out alive. No expelling him, no stripping him of his citizenship. He does not live! A firing squad takes him out as the Arabs understand [best]."

Mr Ben-Ari has claimed that he was referring to Hamas leadership - not all Arabs.

And responding to Sunday's court ruling, he said: "There is a judicial junta here which wants to take over our lives.

"They tell you there is a democracy here. It's not a democracy, there is a judicial junta here, unfortunately, which took power into its hands."

The court's decision marks the first time that a single candidate - not an entire party - has been banned from running in elections since electoral law changes were adopted in 2002.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-47604361
blatham
 
  2  
Mon 18 Mar, 2019 06:42 am
@BillW,
Are you still in touch with Perry?
blatham
 
  2  
Mon 18 Mar, 2019 06:43 am
@McGentrix,
Correct. Sorry all.

An ps... I have no idea why anyone would give McG's post a thumbs down. That's undeserved.
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blatham
 
  1  
Mon 18 Mar, 2019 06:48 am
@izzythepush,
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Why are Central European populists attracted to Mr. Netanyahu’s Israel in the way that Western European leftists of the 1960s and ’70s were once mesmerized by Fidel Castro’s Cuba?

Undeniably, there is realpolitik here. Israel is a rational actor and like any rational actor, it wants allies. Mr. Netanyahu sees in the governments of Central Europe potential defenders within the European Union who could help dampen pressure from Brussels over Israel’s checkered human rights record. To that end, he has frequently visited the region. His efforts have been repaid: The Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania recently blocked a European Union statement criticizing the United States over its plan to move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
NYT
izzythepush
 
  1  
Mon 18 Mar, 2019 07:07 am
@blatham,
Netanyahu recently visited Hungary.

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Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has welcomed his Hungarian counterpart as a “true friend of Israel” at the start of a controversial two-day visit that has sparked widespread outcry over Viktor Orbán‘s praise of Nazi collaborators.

Politicians and party leaders had urged Mr Netanyahu to cancel the trip after the Hungarian leader last year drew criticism for praising Miklós Horthy, Hungary’s Second World War era ruler, who introduced antisemitic laws and collaborated with the Nazis.

Far-right populist Mr Orbán re-elected in April, also put Jewish-Hungarian philanthropist George Soros on an anti-immigration billboard campaign and appeared to evoke antisemitic language in denouncing the Budapest-born billionaire. The posters featured a grinning image of Mr Soros with the words: “Don’t let Soros have the last laugh.”


But speaking in Jerusalem on Thursday, Mr Netanyahu thanked Mr Orbán for “defending Israel”.


https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/netanyahu-orb-n-israel-welcome-hungary-prime-minister-antisemitism-a8454866.html<br />

No surprises there, Netanyahu is in Likud, the party that evolved from the Stern gang/Lehi. This was an organisation that tried to form an alliance with Nazi Germany to fight the British in the Middle East, long after the events of Kristallnacht. Later on Likud prime minister Yitzhak Shamir welcomed the Nazi supporting South African prime minister John Vorster on a state visit.

The fact that Vorster was interned during WW2 for expressing Nazi sympathies didn't stop Shamir from sharing nuclear technology with him.

The right wing in Israel has never had a problem with Nazis.
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revelette1
 
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Mon 18 Mar, 2019 09:01 am
@BillW,
At around 6 AM on Sunday Morning no less. I guess that was his way of wishing the country a Happy St. Patrick's Day.

In a flurry of angry St. Patrick's Day tweets, Trump bashes GM, John McCain, and SNL

Trump discredits himself, all we do is repeat what he says and does.
revelette1
 
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Mon 18 Mar, 2019 09:24 am
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Why an unbuilt Moscow Trump tower caught Mueller's attention

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An intriguing area of focus in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into the Kremlin's role in the 2016 U.S. election is a proposed Moscow real estate deal that Donald Trump pursued while running for president despite denying at the time any links to Russia.

The special counsel has revealed in court filings numerous details about the project, which never came to fruition. Further information has come from Michael Cohen, Trump's former personal lawyer who was instrumental in the negotiations, in congressional testimony and in his guilty plea to a charge of lying to Congress about the project.

Mueller's team said in a December 2018 court filing that "the Moscow Project was a lucrative business opportunity that sought, and likely required, the assistance of the Russian government. If the project was completed, the Company (the Trump Organization) could have received hundreds of millions of dollars from Russian sources in licensing fees and other revenues."

The project is significant because it shows Trump was chasing a lucrative business deal in Russia at the same time that President Vladimir Putin's government, according to U.S. intelligence agencies, was conducting a hacking and propaganda campaign to boost his candidacy. The project also coincided with Trump's positive comments as a candidate about Putin and his questioning of U.S. sanctions against Russia.

Mueller is preparing to submit to U.S. Attorney General William Barr the report on his investigation into whether Trump's campaign conspired with Russia and whether the Republican president has unlawfully tried to obstruct the probe. Trump has denied collusion and obstruction. Russia has denied election interference.

Here is an explanation of the Trump Moscow tower project and what the president has said about it.

WHAT IS TRUMP'S HISTORY IN MOSCOW?

Trump, a wealthy New York real estate developer, had discussed expanding his business empire into Russia for more than three decades. In 2013, after visiting Russia and hosting his Miss Universe pageant there, he wrote on Twitter: "TRUMP TOWER-MOSCOW is next." The Trump Organization's longtime partner in the project was Felix Sater, a Russian-born, Brooklyn-raised real estate developer, according to company emails released to congressional investigators.

WHAT WAS THE TRUMP TOWER MOSCOW PROJECT?

Trump in October 2015 signed a non-binding letter of intent to move forward with a Moscow tower project with a Russian development firm. The firm, I.C. Expert Investment Co, agreed to construct the skyscraper, and the Trump Organization agreed to license its name and manage the building's operations. The letter of intent described a building in a Moscow business district with 250 luxury residential condominiums, at least 150 hotel rooms and a luxury spa.

Sater, who has served prison time in the United States for assault and later became an FBI informant on organized crime, assured Cohen in a November 2015 email he could get the Russian government to support a Trump property in Moscow.

"I know how to play it and we will get this done. Buddy our boy can become President of the USA and we can engineer it. I will get all of Putin's team to buy in on this," Sater told Cohen in that email.

Trump had announced his presidential candidacy in June 2015.

In testimony last month to the House of Representatives Oversight and Reform Committee, Cohen said Sater came up with a "marketing stunt" of offering Putin a free penthouse in the tower to drive up unit prices, "no different than in any condo where they start listing celebrities that live in the property."


Reuters
coldjoint
 
  -1  
Mon 18 Mar, 2019 10:28 am
@revelette1,
Quote:
Why an unbuilt Moscow Trump tower caught Mueller's attention

Because he has nothing on Trump and any business deals during his campaign were completely legal. So Mueller still has **** and shoved in it. A fantasy world.
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oralloy
 
  -1  
Mon 18 Mar, 2019 10:30 am
@blatham,
Quote:
Mr. Netanyahu sees in the governments of Central Europe potential defenders within the European Union who could help dampen pressure from Brussels over Israel’s checkered human rights record.

No such checkering.
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coldjoint
 
  -1  
Mon 18 Mar, 2019 10:51 am
@revelette1,
Quote:
Trump discredits himself, all we do is repeat what he says and does.

And people listen, then they think, and then they laugh at the sheer desperation of frustrated and hateful useful idiots everywhere.
coldjoint
 
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Mon 18 Mar, 2019 11:14 am
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Nigerian Muslims slaughter 120 Christians in three weeks, but the MSM refuses to cover it

Quote:
On Saturday it was reported that Fulani Muslims in Nigeria had massacred horrific numbers of Christians in just three weeks. And yet the only thing the media seems to care about is Muslims getting gunned down in mosques in New Zealand.

New Zealand was terrible. That man will never kill anyone else. The Fulani Muslims will. Why don't people want to do something about that? They just might want to if they ever heard about it.
https://therightscoop.com/nigerian-muslims-slaughter-120-christians-in-three-weeks-but-the-msm-refuses-to-cover-it/
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MontereyJack
 
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Mon 18 Mar, 2019 11:15 am
@coldjoint,
You mistake disgust for desperation. That disgust took the House from him. In a little over a year and a half if he is stilll a free man it will take the White House from him too.e
coldjoint
 
  -1  
Mon 18 Mar, 2019 11:20 am
@MontereyJack,
Quote:
In a little over a year and a half if he is stilll a free man it will take the White House from him too.e

When Trump wins his second term I will quote your post again. Then I will be laughing so loud you just might hear me.
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oralloy
 
  -1  
Mon 18 Mar, 2019 11:21 am
@MontereyJack,
Check back with me on election night 2032 and let's see if the Republicans have just won the White House for the fifth time in a row.
coldjoint
 
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Mon 18 Mar, 2019 11:26 am
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coldjoint
 
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Mon 18 Mar, 2019 11:35 am
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House Judiciary Committee Planning Hearing on the Rise of White Nationalism

Run by self hating white men and women. This is a distraction from Islamic supremacy and killing innocents around the world daily. That should be our concern. Before anyone quotes this article I only used it to point out what Congress is doing. The site itself is a Leftist rag.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/house-judiciary-committee-planning-hearing-on-the-rise-of-white-nationalism
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