Monday Link Encyclopedia

I wonder what this woman’s damage is for her to allow some piece of trash guy to piss on her like that. Also, try to imagine what impression this story would make on people from Iowa or anywhere where people are not entirely brain-dead. Who wants to be on the same side with this detritus?

And honestly, who wants to be on the same side with this either?

Funny from Kellyanne Conway.

Starbucks is going sous-vide. But not for the coffee, at least.

No, lady. Your grandma wasn’t strong. She was a pathetic weakling who abused children to compensate for selling her nasty ass to a freak.

I can never figure out if people are trying to be funny in such posts.

“Philistines settled in Palestine in the 12th century BCE, which confirms that Palestine had long been a nation.” I have settled in Illinois 8 years ago, which confirms that the US has been a nation for those 8 years.

The millennial spokesman is old enough to be my father.

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31 responses to “Monday Link Encyclopedia ”

Dreidel

January 9, 2017

Why didn’t you link to the article about the mythical lost Neverland called “Palestine”?

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Clarissa

January 9, 2017

The author is a nice person and I feel bad for her.

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Stringer Bell

January 9, 2017

That brutereason person used to post on this blog, remember? She was always full of shit. I’m proud that I sussed her out way before you did. But then, as the creator of this blog, I imagine you need to be a little more patient with your commenters. I, of course, am unencumbered with those constraints. 😀

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Shakti

January 10, 2017

You may be thinking of someone else, Stringer.

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Clarissa

January 10, 2017

I give a chance to everybody, even the Boycott American Women freak. But when I discovered that Miriam – who has been suffering from clinical depression for years – is now treating patients with psychological problems, that was it for me. It’s like a heroin addict offering addiction counseling or a life-long convict working as a life coach.

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January 10, 2017

Have you written the following sentence or another blogger (to whom you did not link):

“I have settled in Illinois 8 years ago, which confirms that the US has been a nation for those 8 years. ”

\ “Philistines settled in Palestine in the 12th century BCE, which confirms that Palestine had long been a nation.”

I did find this sentence very funny. There is zero connection between those Philistines and Palestinians. Palestinian leaders have even acknowledged themselves that there was no such people – Palestinians – before the Jews came.

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Clarissa

January 10, 2017
“I have settled in Illinois 8 years ago, which confirms that the US has been a nation for those 8 years. ”
- That’s me, making fun. Living somebody for any amount of time doesn’t create “a nation.” Nations were invented in the 18th century. And not BCE.
“There is zero connection between those Philistines and Palestinians. Palestinian leaders have even acknowledged themselves that there was no such people – Palestinians – before the Jews came.”
- There were no such people as Americans before 1776, so what? Every nation is invented. And every nation believes that it has roots in eternity.
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January 10, 2017

I think I found that post. The following is simply crazy:

\ Israel can no longer settle beyond borders not allotted Israel in 1948. If it does, it will endanger its own safety as well as the safety of the United States.

Nobody talks about 1948 borders. Nobody even seriously talks about 1967 borders.

1948 borders were not functional. I think Ben-Gurion and other Israeli leaders would have a war, even if Arabs accepted them. Look at the picture:

I hope we won’t return the Golan Heights either, considering Syria’s self-destruction as a state. Israel thinks about which parts of the West Bank we will have (at least, major settlements), if a Palestinian nation state is ever created. She talks about 1948 (!) borders!

I truly think Israel would use nuclear weapons before doing such a thing. Wouldn’t America do the same, if put in real danger of losing great part of its territory?

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January 10, 2017

Haifa University political scientist Dan Schueftan is described as somebody deserving “credit for leading even the Israeli right into philosophical acceptance of the two-state solution.” I found his paper – “ISRAEL’S NATIONAL SECURITY:
Challenges and Assets” (2015) – interesting and explaining a few things about Israeli society which are often misunderstood, including by most readers of this blog.

The entire paper is here and since it’s 21 pages I wanted to say which bits are most interesting:

Click to access Israelisecurity.pdf

First of all, I was very glad to read (page 5) that “estrangement [from Europe] is painful to mainstream Israelis,” that it is also culturally painful, not only because of economic and political interests. I thought I was a rare person to feel so, probably because of being born abroad, but turns out that not.

What moved me to link the pdf file was the following: I remember how I was accused of cruelty and probably extremism, when I was against stopping the latest Israeli operation in Gaza just yet. People often talk of Israeli disproportionate response to Palestinian violence. Dr Schueftan explained the logic better than I could on the sixth page, under the subtitle “The Legitimate Use of Force.”

SB and others, if you read, do take into account that this person is an academic who has been studying the region for years and that he is hardly an extremist: he rejects the ideology of Greater Israel and passionately advocates for “unilateral disengagement.”

From wiki:

In Schueftan’s view, Israel’s unilateral disengagement from Gaza is a first step in a wider historical process. He told The Jerusalem Report in September 2005 that: “I can even pin dates on it. In 2007 or 2008 we will have another major disengagement in the West Bank. And within a decade, we will unilaterally repartition Jerusalem along lines we will unilaterally select … What Israelis have understood — and this is the underlying feature of the disengagement — is that we need to leave Gaza and Nablus, not because it will bring peace, but because there will be perpetual terror. We need to leave Gaza and Nablus because Israel with them is weaker than Israel without them.”

“The Israeli public wants to be completely cut off from the Palestinians, and as a result nobody can be prime minister without going in this direction. It’s not even an option if they want to stay in power.”

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Clarissa

January 10, 2017
“The Israeli public wants to be completely cut off from the Palestinians”
- And since it’s not possible, they will pine for a fantasy while everything else goes to shit. Just like the American “Build that wall” folks.
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January 10, 2017

Another interesting bit is on pages 14-15 “The Constructive Imperative,” especially the last paragraph on page 15 regarding Israeli Jews’ approach towards partition of the land.

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Shakti

January 10, 2017

The link corrupt.af should take you to a website that updates with news stories on conflicts of interest involving Donald Trump and his associates.

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Shakti

January 10, 2017

https://twitter.com/MattOrtega/status/818516177924268032

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Stringer Bell

January 10, 2017

Nice article from Freddie. I think Clarissa made a similar point in her ‘Understanding’ post.

http://fredrikdeboer.com/2017/01/10/ok-lets-get-constructive/

Don’t play their game! Don’t accept their frame; insist on your own. Here’s what you say if you want to lose: “We’re not in the bubble, it’s the people in flyover country who are in the bubble. It’s not our job to educate them.” Even if that were a meaningful statement and were true, it wouldn’t matter. That’s hurting your own cause, and it’s an ugly, narrow-minded way to behave. Here’s what you say if you want to win: “It’s not about red state vs. blue state or rural vs. urban. It’s about building a country where everyone has their basic necessities, where everyone is free from poverty and despair. Yes to affordable housing and health care, yes to public education, yes to food for the hungry and warmth for the cold. No to poverty, no to racism and sexism, no to exploitation and greed. They stand with the comfortable and the rich, we stand with those who suffer and need. Everywhere. Because we’re all in this together.”

Liberals, please: politics is not therapy. Politics is about power. Right now you don’t have it. Not at the state level, not in Congress, and soon not in the White House. If you want to get it, you have to be smart. Stop giving Republicans the argument they want! Stop playing to their frame! It doesn’t matter if you’re right. That’s irrelevant. It doesn’t matter if they’re the ones in the bubble! The only thing that matters is what you can accomplish. Right now, that’s not much. Your opponents, meanwhile, are a single state legislature flip away from being able to pass constitutional amendments. So you better come up with a plan to convince the people who are able to be convinced. Including those who you think live in bubbles in the hinterland. Even if you think you shouldn’t have to convince them, you have to appeal to them if you want to win. Life’s not fair. Get to work, or keep doing what you’re doing and lose again.

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January 10, 2017

Heavy duty stuff on Russian – Trump connections coming out in the last two hours on multiple news sources.

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Clarissa

January 10, 2017

Until we see a recording of him getting recruited – which is likely to exist – it won’t be enough.

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January 11, 2017

Законопроект о декриминализации побоев и других насильственных действий в отношении близких лиц принят Госдумой в первом чтении 11 января. Документ предусматривает не уголовную, а административную ответственность за побои близких лиц, если насилие было применено впервые. Сенатор Елена Мизулина назвала существующее законодательство «актом ненависти по отношению к семьям с детьми». В то же время эксперты убеждены, что в случае принятия проекта в неизменном виде уровень домашнего насилия резко возрастет.

https://www.gazeta.ru/social/2017/01/11/10471265.shtml#page1

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Clarissa

January 11, 2017

Yes, they are seriously saying that beating your family members is not a crime. And this is the kind of people we let appoint us a president.

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Shakti

January 11, 2017

Video: Why Empathy is a Bad Thing
I’m actually interested in reading
Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion

Randomly:
I was watching the Golden Globes the other day and the first few lines of this commercial made me laugh for an entire two minutes.

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Clarissa

January 11, 2017

My sister read Against Empathy and loved it.

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January 12, 2017

‘Afro-Palestinians’ forge a unique identity in Israel
Coming as pilgrims and servants from Muslim African communities at the end of the Ottoman Era and during the British Mandate, these immigrants to Jerusalem claim to be ‘more Palestinian than the Palestinians.’

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4906568,00.html

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January 13, 2017

Uri does sound like a Megalomaniac in his latest column:

http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1484317394/

Interesting news (in Russian):

http://trim-c.livejournal.com/1525007.html

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January 13, 2017

Abigail Fielding-Smith has a good deep dive on Jaber al-Bakr, the Syrian refugee who became radicalized in Germany and was arrested last year for having constructed a powerful bomb

http://www.germanjoys.eu/2017/01/isolated-unable-to-communicate-easy-to-radicalize.html

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Shakti

January 13, 2017

I Grew Up in the Rust Belt But I’m Not in Any of the Stories About It

I want to read about outsiders among those supposed outsiders, about those who sit on the sidelines of the economic sidelines we now love to refer to. I want to hear from someone writing from the inside, but without the overlay of elegy or romanticism or nostalgia that almost always comes with it. Given my experiences, I don’t share those sentiments. It’s hard to be elegiac about a world that treated you with ambivalence at best.

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Shakti

January 13, 2017

How Putin Played the Far Left

In December 2015, the Kremlin feted Stein by inviting her to the gala celebrating the 10-year anniversary of Kremlin-funded propaganda network RT. Over a year later, it remains unclear who paid for Stein’s trip to Moscow and her accommodations there. Her campaign ignored multiple questions on this score. We do know, however, that Stein sat at the same table as both Putin and Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, Trump’s soon-to-be national security adviser. She further spoke at an RT-sponsored panel, using her presence to criticize the U.S.’s “disastrous militarism.” Afterward, straddling Moscow’s Red Square, Stein described the panel as “inspiring,” going on to claim that Putin, whom she painted as a political novice, told her he “agree[d]” with her “on many issues.”
Stein presents herself as a champion of the underclass and the environment, and an opponent of the surveillance state and corporate media, and yet she seemed to take pleasure in her marriage of true minds with a kleptocratic intelligence officer who levels forests and arrests or kills critical journalists and invades foreign countries. Their true commonality, of course, is that both Putin and Stein are dogged opponents of U.S. foreign policy.

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Clarissa

January 13, 2017

Wow, people are waking up. It’s kind of late to do that but whatever.

Thank you for the link!!!

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David Gendron

January 15, 2017

Oh, thank you Shakti for this!

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January 14, 2017

One such case and tolerance for refugees in Israel goes down significantly:

“A 26-year-old Sudanese citizen was arrested on suspicion of breaking into a Petah Tikva home and sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl. Police said the suspect fled the scene and was arrested after a manhunt.”

Just a few days ago saw:

A legal opinion issued two years ago stating that any former Darfur resident from a non-Arab tribe is automatically entitled to political asylum in Israel has allegedly been concealed from the courts by the Population and Immigration Authority. Now that the recommendation has been revealed, it can be used by thousands of Darfur refugees to try to gain legal recognition.
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According to the report, “The tools used by the Sudan government in Darfur, which are similar to the ones used by the Serbs in Kosovo—forcible uprooting, plunder, torching homes and entire villages, arrests, executions, rape and more—are clear tools of ethnic cleansing aimed at ‘cleaning’ the region of African natives who are not Arabs and of those perceived as a threat to the government.”

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4902465,00.html

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Clarissa

January 14, 2017

It’s interesting that nobody ever says “tolerance for men goes down significantly.”

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1. Dreidel
  
  January 14, 2017
  
  “nobody ever says ‘tolerance for men goes down significantly.’”
  
  Falling behind in your reading of gender-victim feminist websites?? 🙂
  
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January 17, 2017

“Golan is occupied, you are traitors”

Israeli Arab students interrupted Syrian exiles who participated in a conference at the Hebrew University “The Syrians are talking to the Israelis.” The students accused the participants, Syrian exiles who spoke about the situation in their country, that they are “traitors” of the Syrian people, and attacked the policy of the Israeli government. One of Syrians responded: “Shame, you live in a paradise compared to the Syrians.”

Truman Institute for Peace at the Hebrew University held a conference titled “Syrians are talking to the Israelis against Syria” in order to explain to the Israeli public what is happening in Syria. The conference was attended by two Syrian expatriates – Sirooan Kuji, a Kurdish journalist who lives in the United States and grew up in Qamishli in northern Syria, and Issam Zeitoun, a Syrian who lives in Germany and grew up in Jan southern Syria.

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