And the internet in general. The downside of the internet's ability to allow people everywhere to communicate with each other is the tendency to congregate in groups with identical viewpoints and create echo chambers at the expense of seeking out opposing viewpoints and learning from them.
That is, in fact, the death of journalism: opinion news. No longer reporting on things that happened, instead reporting what they hope will happen. Mike Wallace is gator-rolling in his grave right now. Remember in-the-field investigative reporting and interviews? Jesus not that long ago CNN once reported INSIDE a war zone for the first time ever. We watched the bombs drop live in hostile territory. That has been reduced to Anderson Cooper in a rain pancho standing ten fucking feet from some perfectly good shelter. "Let's go to our hologram reporter on why all toothpaste will kill you!"
Word. Unlimited options, too. No longer did we get our news and discussion sources from the same places. Now you can choose the news/media site that massages your balls the most tenderly. And now people are trying to echo this "safe space" shit in real life. Did some speaker with a differing opinion that you do not like come within a thousand feet of you on campus? Come cry in this room with the rest of us! Imagine if the "Greatest Generation" was around to witness this. Back when you got a beating at 11 years old for forgetting to dust the inside of the lampshades from your father who killed eight people overseas.
Doesn't make national headlines. We all know why. Thankfully, this individual was there to help. Separately, I haven't seen this event mentioned here yet: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/chilling-picture-smiling-istanbul-airport-8315730 This is really scary and an event that many security experts predicted would happen. This is essentially proof-of-concept to would be terrorists around the world. The attacks have moved from the planes to the terminal. Now there will be security screening to enter the terminal; it will be interesting to see how this shakes out. I don't look forward to standing on the curb outside of the airport waiting to pass security in the Florida summers
And if we do that, terrorists will simply move to softer targets, such as malls, markets, and so forth. I really hope we don't end up with terminal security screening; I'm sick of the constant encroachment of surveillance and security.
Interesting. Just a couple of days after Bill Clinton met with AG Lynch, the state department has asked for an additional 27 months to release Clinton Foundation e-mails. Lynch herself is set to announce today that she will defer to non-appointees as to whether or not to indict Hillary over the e-mail server issue. I'm calling Shenanigans.
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/crime-law/man-concealed-carry-shoots-gunman-sc-nightclub/nrqr3/ So do we want to have the discussion again about how it's impossible to shoot an attacker in a crowded nightclub with all the commotion going on? How all the innocent bystanders will be hit instead of the attacker?
Of course it's shenanigans. Are you fucking kidding me? They aren't even avoiding the appearance of impropriety.
TSA beats the crap out of partially deaf and blind, paralyzed cancer patient. My favorite part is where the TSA officials say you can call ahead to warn them not to club your paralyzed teen. What if a terrorist called ahead? "Don't mind us, white devil, we are uhhh paralyzed. That's the ticket."
I'm not a hater, and I'm definitely not a Republican fanboy, but Mrs. Clinton's latest game of semantics over "classified" vs. "marked as classified" is pathetic. Whether it's specifically marked or not, she had a duty to protect classified information (she signed a form). And maybe someone in the know can help, but it's my understanding that it's not marked "classified", it's marked as "confidential," "secret," or "top secret." So while she's technically correct in saying it wasn't marked "classified," it might have been marked with one of three classifications, and wouldn't have even had to be marked in order for her to have a duty to protect it. There is no lie she would not tell in an attempt to gain or remain in power.
Remember the president-elect of the Philippines who said for folks to go ahead and just shoot drug dealers and addicts? He was sworn in as president 2 days ago. Days 1 and 2: 12 drug suspects die, 700 surrender http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2016/07/02/1598751/days-1-and-2-12-drug-suspects-die-700-surrender
I work in the environment. Semantics are involved. My assumption is she's using Part 1 Section 1.3 of Executive Order 13536 to justify her argument by saying she as Secretary of State was the classifying authority so therefore the information wasn't yet classified at all. That still doesn't relieve her of the responsibility to protect the information. I'd like to think someone at that level has working knowledge whether or not raw information would or will be classified or not.
Toronto Gay Pride Parade learns who not to invite to their party. I swear to God I think BLM actually wants people to be racist , why else would they keep fucking up everyone else's events? They can't be so unaware and thick headed to think people hate them because they're black, people hate anyone who tries to make everything about themselves. Also...does Canada have a history of Mounties shooting blacks?
#BLM is at its core a good thing. Because we have not personally seen what these people are protesting, does not mean it does not exist or it is exaggerated, overblown. None of us have lived those lives. To offhandedly dismiss it proves their point completely. The disparate groups going around f'ing up everyone's good time are utterly ridiculous. 100% counter-productive. Why didn't they go to that Nazi march and try to shut *that* down? What is gained by shutting down a parade for the group who has seen more government intrusion and social violence in the past couple decades than black communities? I stopped having a horse in the protest race when some silly college age kids had the temerity to interrupt Bernie Sanders during a speech. Really? I mean, REALLY? This might be the one white guy in Washington who genuinely has the black community's interests at heart; let alone in his actual legislation plans.
The RCMP get shot at by people a lot more than they shoot AT people. I'm pretty sure that there are Native groups up here thinking the BLM Pride protestors acting like whiney pussies, because they are. BLM have entered the same frame as OWS where they are a walking joke now. What once was a great cause and idea at its core has been bastardized by another faction that, like OWS, lacked any real leadership so EVERYBODY decided they were a leader, that they "spoke" for the movement meanwhile like most involved, they cared more about people paying attention to them then the message. Their "leader" is Deray, a fucking mouthy loser ex-school administrator who teaches a class at Yale called "In Defence Of Looting". Fact. And that's what BLM is now: a bunch of fucking fakes willing to create fake news stories, call in fake threats and bully people in public not because they care, but because it gets them on TV and feeds their attention addiction.
Looks like the chickens are starting to really come home to roost. https://www.yahoo.com/news/multiple-suicide-blasts-hit-saudi-arabia-191235559.html When this is a part of who you are, amongst other abhorrent behaviors, you get what's coming to you: http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/05/beat-wife-aired-saudi-national-television-video/ It's way past time to cut the Royals loose, unfortunately, as everyone well knows; when you cut loose a dictatorship, there is no telling what will pop up in it's place. I worry about what a world will look like with KSA completely destabilized. They rule with an iron fist and there are a lot of people crazier than the Royals running around that country who are kept in check by absolute authority over them. In my opinion, based on observations while living there, in the absence of strong leadership, KSA could become the next Afghanistan.
Yes, I'm sure the BLM feels the same way about people who won't take their movement seriously. This started off as a real issue. Then, it moved outside of cops and they just started looking for reasons to protest anything involving race, like with at Yale and Mizzou. Then, because it's a problem that disproportionately affects blacks, nobody else was allowed into the movement. Police shootings on whites and Hispanics? All lives matter? Fuck off and sign our demands! Now, because they feel like they don't get enough attention they're hijacking other events, no matter how unrelated. A worthy cause does not necessarily make a good movement. Not to mention the case this whole thing started with was the Michael Brown shooting. I remember how BLM said that went down, and what it actually looked like.