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Tue, 20/06/2023 - 22:29

The prominent role of Banderite Neo-Nazis in Ukraine's government propaganda operations suggests that Nazi apologism has spread into the core institutions of its government – perhaps more than the dominant Western view is able to admit.

The post How US and UK Government Propaganda Specialists Collaborated with Nazis in Ukraine appeared first on MintPress News.

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Tue, 20/06/2023 - 22:00

1. All four humors are out of whack.

2. May be experiencing menstruation and, as such, advised against standing.

3. In the event a man impregnates me, I will likely be dead by then.

4. Simply can’t find my good tooth.

5. The apparition of a tubercular boy whose soul is bound to mine makes it impossible to obtain a visa.

6. After inquiring about local politics, I was diagnosed by the family doctor with an overactive mind and prescribed a rest cure until the foreseeable future.

7. Sea salt air is harsh on acidic bones.

8. Father says temperament isn’t well-suited to “too balmy of climates.”

9. Every evening I stare beyond the cliff’s edge, waiting for my long-lost brother to return from sea. I fear the one weekend I am gone for your wedding will be when he returns.

10. The restless Caribbean waves beating against the shore suggest a more profound truth of how trapped I am in a life of domesticity dictated by societal norms that I neither help define nor benefit from.

11. Hotel is not cemetery-adjacent for daily sojourns.

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Tue, 20/06/2023 - 21:08

Since the 2019 general election, there have been three Conservative Party leaders and prime ministers. While each professed to represent a clean break from their predecessors — whether on the economy, defence, or crime — there has been one alarming consistency in the respective policy prescriptions: the assault on civil liberties. The proposed ‘Anti-Boycott Bill’ embodies precisely […]

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Tue, 20/06/2023 - 17:56
The Duty Of The Good Is To Be Powerful

There is no more important line in all of the humanities and the social sciences than this one from the Melian dialogue:

the strong do as they wish, while the weak suffer as they must

We have a system which requires those who wish to be powerful to perform evil acts. It is difficult to become powerful without having been vetted, without having “made ones bones.” To be sure, if you want power in a corporation or as a politician or in an organization like the World Bank or IMF, your killing and your torture of people is sanitized and done at arm’s length, but that doesn’t make it any less real.

You must prove you can make the “tough” decisions, which apparently means hurting other people while paying yourself very very well.

So tough.

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Tue, 20/06/2023 - 16:42
Hela den här våren har jag väntat på att Magdalena Andersson ska gå från att göra en ”Hillary Clinton” till att göra en ”Joe Biden”. Från att fastna i identitetspolitik, vara kompetent och motståndare till SD – och förlora. Till att kombinera en svidande kritik av hotet mot demokratin med en ekonomisk investeringspolitik som Joe Biden gjort […]
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Tue, 20/06/2023 - 11:48

This food timeline started as a way to explore the revolution in Australian food that has occurred during the baby-boomers’ lifetime, but has since expanded to include more about the previous decades (and century) as well. Also included are overseas events and trends that had an impact here. The entries are brief, but there are lots of links if you want more information.

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Tue, 20/06/2023 - 09:30
They always have a supposedly reasonable rationale but the truth is they assume that the people receiving these people will be horrified because of course they are just as racist as they are. But they’re horrified because of the cruelty inflicted on those who are being used a pawns in their ugly game. This is sick, ugly stuff. But they can’t seem to help themselves, apparently convinced that most of the country thinks these stunts are hilarious and/or justified. It’s not. This Reuters poll from last fall found: Following a highly-publicized drive by Republican governors to bus or fly thousands of migrants to Democratic areas in recent months, 53% of Republican respondents in the poll said they supported the practice. Twenty-nine percent opposed it. Sixteen percent of Democrats supported the practice and 55% were opposed. Overall, 29% of Americans supported the practice and 40% opposed. Forty-five percent of respondents in the Reuters/Ipsos poll – including 63% of Democrats and 31% of Republicans – said state leaders transporting migrants were committing illegal migrant trafficking.