Dan Kaszeta, who planned a number of protective advances and protection missions for the United States Secret Service, explores the challenges of USSS protection
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I can’t believe you’ve never heard this album before. Dal Snagwood is one of the foundational comedians of the 1970s. He was so smart and incisive—almost more like a philosopher. Every comic from the ’90s says that this is the one that inspired them to try it, and those guys are usually right about everything. I’ll put it on right now.
This first track is my favorite. It’s so good. Now, to understand it, it helps to know that Chumpy Chuckers was a candy bar from the ’70s, because he’s going to be talking about them for the next ten minutes or so.
No, they stopped making them sometime around 1982 or 1983, so I don’t think that anyone has ever eaten one in my lifetime. I remember a school teacher sang the jingle once when I was in the third grade, but otherwise, I have never heard of it.
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Each week The UnOz will wade through the crap that is Australia’s opinion columnists and present the best worst takes of the week, with the winner being awarded the weekly flush. Our inaugural winner is Miranda Devine. Miranda is best... Read More ›
I am travelling to Europe and the UK today so will not have the time necessary to write anything here. I will be at the UK MMT Conference – at Leeds on Tuesday and Wednesday for some of the time and I might see a few people there. I am only away a few days…
The streets are lined with camera crewsEverywhere he goes is newsToday is differentToday is not the sameToday, I’ll make the actionTake snapshot into the lightSnapshot into the lightI’m shooting into the light – from “Family Snapshot”, by Peter Gabriel In the wake of the horrific 2016 Orlando nightclub massacre, I wrote: “Now is not the time to talk about [insert gun-violence related meme here] .” We’ve heard that before; predictably, we’re hearing it again. But there is something about this mass shooting that screams “Last call for sane discourse and positive action!” on multiple fronts.
Americans have taken to social media in the millions to loudly yell that the assassination attempt on former President turned convicted felon, Donald Trump, was a conspiracy. Despite the Nation still having no idea whether the last successful Presidential assassination... Read More ›
Yes, they aren’t explicitly killing their opponents. But I think we all understand what kind of cos play this really is. We don’t know why this gun nut kid tried to kill Donald Trump yesterday. They literally can find nothing that explains his motive, at least so far. So he could just as easily be hearing voices or trying to impress Taylor Swift. We really have no clue. So all the remonstrating over the left allegedly violent tone is premature, at the very least. And if this was some kind of political act, let’s just say that kid who was obsessed with guns was likely more influenced by that garbage above than anything the “woke” trans hippies are doing.
In 1979, I made the first of what would turn out to be decades of periodic visits to Israel and the West Bank. I traveled there for the New York alternative publication The Village Voice to investigate Israel’s growing settler movement, Gush Emunim (or the Bloc of the Faithful). The English-language Israeli newspaper, The Jerusalem Post, then reported that settlers from Kiryat Arba, a Jewish West Bank outpost, had murdered two Palestinian teenagers from the village of Halhoul. There, in one of the earliest West Bank settlements established by Gush Emunim, a distant cousin of my husband had two acquaintances. Under cover of being a Jew in search of enlightenment, I spent several days and nights with them. Gush Emunim:... Read more Source: Settled appeared first on TomDispatch.com. Months before the assassination attempt, Pennsylvania lawmakers tabled legislation to outlaw the kind of rifle allegedly used in the attack.
The editor of the New Yorker wishes that someone would step forward and express the nation’s despair as eloquently as Robert F. Kennedy did after the assassination of Martin Luther King. I don’t know. After all, it was just a few months later that the assassin’s bullet found him. These threats are not quelled with poetic words and I don’t know if our society is even capable of hearing such things right now. I think it’s more important not to forget what brought us here. As Remnick writes: What must be said, contrary to the rhetoric of Vance, Scott, and Abbott, is that Trump has, to say the least, done little to calm or to unify the country he once led and is campaigning to lead again. Unfortunately, it is hard to recall a public voice in living memory who has done more to arouse the lowest passions that so often percolate within individuals and the greater society. Even as one expresses genuine relief that Trump escaped a worse fate on Saturday (and sympathy for the family of the spectator at the rally who was killed), it is legitimate to describe what Trump and his rhetoric have meant to the country.
Can the United States avoid a descent into political violence? Of the 52 cases where countries reached the levels of polarisation which now exist in the US, half had their status as democracies downgraded. The US is the only Western democracy to have sustained such intense polarisation over such an extended period. It really is Continue reading »
Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 14 2024 by Tony Wikrent The Trump Shooting: The Most Shocking Act of a Shockingly Violent Age Michael Tomasky, July 14, 2024 [The New Republic]
The Trump rally shooting reveals a bipartisan consensus about what constitutes political violence — and who should wield it. The post The Only Kind of “Political Violence” All U.S. Politicians Oppose appeared first on The Intercept. As the Biden campaign implodes, corporations are swooping in to pick up the pieces, and more news from The Lever this week.
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