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A radical leftist disillusioned by leftist culture. I’m overjoyed that I only catch glimpses of this subculture online and never encounter its members offline. They sound like people I’d hate.

Stalin’s last victims. Not to be confused with victims of Stalinism that still abound in a country that’s in thrall to him. 

A black blogger explains why black voters prefer Hillary to Bernie.

Does personality cause politics?

“There are a lot of things that could be said about Trump’s supporters, but the fact is that we have to share a country with them, and mocking them will not fix this.” Hear, hear!

A Republican realizes that Obama saved his life.

“The typical Trump supporter is likely to live in a place with higher-than-normal mortality for whites, lower-than-usual rates of university education, higher-than-normal rates of unemployment, where manufacturing jobs have vanished due to offshoring.”

The migrants of Calais. Long but very much worth the time.

“Dead Wrong” has been taken from behind the pay wall! A must read.

26 responses to “Tuesday Link Encyclopedia”

  1. Dreidel Avatar
    Dreidel

    “The typical Trump supporter is likely to live in a place with higher-than-normal mortality for whites, lower-than-usual rates of university education, higher-than-normal rates of unemployment, where manufacturing jobs have vanished due to offshoring.”

    The author of that article took a rather long-winded approach to saying that many Trump voters come from economically depressed areas. (Obviously people in such areas have a higher-than-average mortality — no surprise there.)

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    \ “Dead Wrong” has been taken from behind the pay wall! A must read.

    Only the first part. 😦 I don’t understand how “Glen Assoun was likely wrongfully convicted” when he admitted murdering her to several people. Were they lying?

    Is it a must read since

    \ the investigation sheds light on the desperation and violence that characterize life for those on the margins of society, and shows how indifference to the fate of murdered women and girls is the ultimate injustice, leading to still more death.

    ?

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    Суфражетки – 1

    Одним далеко не прекрасным ноябрьским утром 1913 года, в знаменитом Стеклянном Доме Александра-парк (Манчестер) прогремел взрыв. Прибывшая на место происшествия полиция быстро обнаружила в эпицентре конструкцию из исковерканных взрывом трубок и расплавившегося стекла. Это был, несомненно, теракт, и в том, кто за ним стоит, не могло быть сомнений – «бешеные суфражетки», воинствующее крыло организации WSPU (Woman’s Social and Political Union).
    http://mirrinminttu.livejournal.com/219581.html

    Суфражетки-2
    http://mirrinminttu.livejournal.com/219676.html

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    During Biden’s visit:

    American tourist dead, 11 wounded in Jaffa terror attack
    Terrorist runs along Jaffa boardwalk, stabbing passersby as he goes; two policemen shot, seriously wounded near Herod’s Gate at Jerusalem’s Old City; one Haredi man moderately wounded after being stabbed in market in Petah Tikva.
    http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4775753,00.html

    Interesting findings in the new extensive survey:
    http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4775861,00.html

    Saw this:

    \ Another finding was that the children of immigrants from the former USSR are more religious than their parents: 70 percent of second-generation immigrants say they believe in God, higher than the 55 percent of first-generation immigrants from the former USSR.

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    What I did learn from the first part of “Dead Wrong” was that giving testimony to police is a bad idea since it seemingly led to Robin’s swift death.

    Also, I don’t understand how arresting women for prostitution helps anybody and still don’t understand how it works in practice. The article says:

    “In return for Robin’s testimony, prosecutors dismissed one prostitution-related charge against her and withdrew a second.”

    But police have known she was a prostitute for years! Looks as if they do nothing about it for years, tolerate and ignore and then suddenly decide to arrest a few women for short periods of time for some reason.

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      I agree completely that prostitution charges against prostitutes are ridiculous. Swedes got it a lot more right: they prosecute clients, not prostitutes.

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    I saw this post by another black blogger:

    http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/3/1492931/-Why-black-voters-vote-the-way-they-do-and-advice-on-how-to-win-them

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      Clarissa

      A very good article. Thank you!

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    J. Otto Pohl

    Here is what I was doing on 8 March 2016.

    http://nevzlin.huji.ac.il/news/36

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    RE Russian literature – true or not?

    http://qebedo.livejournal.com/492584.html

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      It’s true that there was no Russian literature until the XVIII century. In the 18th and 19th centuries, Russian literature was all about imitating the British and the French. The course of development of the Russian literature was interrupted in 1935, and since then it doesn’t exist.

      As for the Baroque, some cultures embrace it more than others. Latin Americans, for instance, embraced it passionately and still can’t let it go. Everybody else did let it go back in the 17th century.

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    Have you heard about this fascinating research by Diego Gambetta? In short:

    Against The Grain: Why do men engineer a way into terrorism?
    Diego Gambetta, Professor of Sociology at the University of Oxford, explains why engineers are more likely to become terrorists.
    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/higher/against-the-grain-why-do-men-engineer-a-way-into-terrorism-798143.html?r=RSS

    I found the entire pdf paper online for free here:

    Engineers of Jihad1
    Diego Gambetta, Nuffield College
    Steffen Hertog, University of Durham

    Click to access 2007-10.pdf

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    Another fascinating research – this time by Professor Luigi Pascali, an economist at the University of Warwick and Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona:

    Kicking Medieval Jews out of Europe damaged the economy…and the effects are still seen TODAY: Regions that expelled them have lower GDP than those that didn’t

    Jewish communities were expelled from cities in the south of Italy in 1503

    A leading economist argues the impacts of this are still visible today

    Jews provided a flow of credit in northern cities leading to the first banks

    This has led to a 10 per cent income gap between north and south Italy

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3484434/Kicking-Medieval-Jews-Europe-damaged-economy-effects-seen-TODAY-Regions-expelled-lower-GDP-didn-t.html

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      Clarissa

      The expelled Jews went to the Low Countries and took their revenge by bankrupting the Spanish Empire. The Spanish kings turned to Jewish bankers for loans to pay for their religious wars and the Jewish bankers bled them dry. Spain couldn’t recover economically until the twentieth century.

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    Egypt drafts bill to ban face veil for women, says it’s Jewish tradition

    Yes, that’s why you see so many Jewish women wearing face veils. But labeling something “Jewish” in Egypt is likely to get more people to oppose it; that could be Amna Nosseir’s strategy.
    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/03/egypt-drafts-bill-to-ban-face-veil-for-women-says-its-jewish-tradition

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    Two 10-year-old schoolgirls molested and a woman’s trousers ripped off: Inside the sleepy Swedish town rocked by EIGHT sex attacks in three weeks by migrant men
    …
    Girls as young as 10 have reported being groped and threatened, while others have fought off would-be rapists
    Police have warned women they are no longer safe walking alone at night, turning the city into an empty ghost town
    Local women spoken to by MailOnline have said they are ‘terrified’ and that the situation in the town is ‘out of hand’

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3485473/The-small-Swedish-town-terrorized-string-sex-attacks-eight-assaults-past-three-weeks-leaves-women-terrified-walk-dark.html

    But some local women were/are(?) still optimistic:

    \ Jennifer Edin (left), 24, believed the perpetrators would not attack a woman with a baby.

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    Uri about BDS:
    http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1457710016/

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    Regarding

    \ Egypt drafts bill to ban face veil for women, says it’s Jewish tradition

    I saw last year article, also from Egypt, and thought about niquab student in your classroom:

    CAIRO: Cairo University has banned its academic staff from wearing niqab (face veils that cover all but one’s eyes) inside classrooms, Youm7 reported Tuesday.

    “It is not permissible for female members of the teaching staff and their assistants in all university colleges and institutes to give theoretical or practical lectures or attend laboratory or practical training while wearing the niqab,” according to a Tuesday decision issued by Cairo University Chairperson Gaber Gad.

    The decision, which was put into effect Tuesday, came “in order to facilitate communicating with students and to provide appropriate educational process.”
    http://thecairopost.youm7.com/news/169412/news/cairo-university-bans-professors-from-wearing-niqab-in-classroom

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    Terry Eagleton reviews a book on (the subject of) Evil by Stephen Cherry:
    http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/17/the-dark-side-of-the-soul-an-insiders-guide-to-the-web-of-sin-stephen-cherry-review

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    This map compares each state to a country with a similar education level, offends the entire world.
    http://www.someecards.com/life/school/map-states-education/

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    At least 32 people were killed and 75 injured in what appeared to be a suicide car bombing in the Turkish capital Ankara on Sunday.
    …
    The explosion came just three weeks after a suicide car bombing in the capital targeted buses carrying military personnel, killing 28 people. A Kurdish militant group which is an offshoot of the outlawed Kurdish rebel group, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, claimed responsibility for that attack.
    …
    Ivory Coast Attacks
    Meanwhile, 20 people – including 6 attackers – were killed in Grand-Bassam, a southeastern Ivory Coast beach town Sunday, in what is the third major attack on a tourism center in a West African country since November.
    http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4777964,00.html

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    School Deregulation Bill Passes In Oklahoma Senate
    …
    The bill numbered SB1187, or the School District Empowerment Act, removes 12 state standards that public schools have to follow. Those standards include having certified teachers, and paying teachers the state minimum salary. The bill also allows schools to loosen some restrictions on background checks.
    http://www.news9.com/story/31450361/school-deregulation-bill-passes-in-oklahoma-senate

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      God. Like the state wasn’t hopelessly backwards as it is.

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    (In Russian) Why Putin is returning Russian soldiers from Syria:
    http://mike67.livejournal.com/481506.html

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    Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel Yitzhak Yosef has called for religious Jews to distance their children from secular or merely traditionally Jewish family members, and even to prevent their children from meeting them.
    …
    Yosef further recounted a story: “When our teacher (his father) was elected chief rabbi, a man in military uniform—an Air Force pilot—knocked on his door. He had brought us flowers. I thought that he was the delivery man from the store. I wondered, ‘What’s this, a ranking delivery man?’ I was about to close the door so that he would leave, as I had taken the flowers. He looked at me: ‘Don’t you recognize me?’ I said, ‘no.’ (He said,) ‘Cousin.’ (I said,) ‘Cousin? Okay, please, come in and see the rabbi.’ We didn’t recognize him.”
    http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4777471,00.html

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    TIME fails to mention Palestinian killed by Israel murdered three

    Five months later and despite repeated requests to correct the factual error that appeared in an article mentioning a ‘Palestinian graphic design’ killed by Israel, the magazine has yet to mention that the man, Baha Aliyan, was killed while committing a terror attack.
    http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4779913,00.html

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