Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop
Coming February 6, 2024 . . . MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
Great title for a long term thread, so I am stealing it with this first example:
Conspiracy theories are fun and magical! https://t.co/0jdAjmBgiW
— Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) April 6, 2019
The intra-Palestinian meeting in Moscow has precedent
— Hanna Notte (@HannaNotte) February 29, 2024
Russia's hosted such meetings in the past, most recently Feb 2019
Russia has long lamented the US' "monopolization" of the peace process & tried to carve out a niche for itself: mediating among the disunited Palestinians/2
Here's what I told them: https://halginsberg.com/vote-for-jill-stein-again/
Controversial Brazil law curbing Indigenous rights comes into force https://t.co/pCoDg05irX
— Gareth Harris (@garethharr) December 28, 2023
Location: U.S. Embassy and residential compounds
Events: Heavy gunfire is occuring around the area of the U.S. Embassy and residential compounds adjacent to the Trutier area of Tabarre. All Embassy personnel have been instructed to remain indoors and shelter-in-place until further notice. All others should avoid the area.
Actions to take:
- Avoid the area;
- Avoid demonstrations and any large gatherings of people;
- Do not attempt to drive through roadblocks; and
- If you encounter a roadblock, turn around and get to a safe area.
By The Editorial Board @ Bloomberg.com, December 8, 2023
A mass expulsion of Afghan migrants could destabilize the region and fuel radicalization. The West should pressure Islamabad to change course.
All eyes on #Chad right now
Chad has two internet trunks coming into the country: One from the Red Sea via Sudan; the other from Cameroon. Not possible for the totality of the country's internet network to be shut unless done centrally. A lot of rumors swirling; few facts. https://t.co/N6bDJZ2ixO
BREAKING: Three loss prevention employees in Macy’s across the street from Philadelphia City Hall stabbed, one of them has died from stab wounds, @PhillyPolice sources tell me. Police converged on the store as the three workers were rushed to Jefferson Hospital. pic.twitter.com/4U1eKycL4W
Former US Ambassador Arrested, Charged With Working As Secret Agent For Cuba https://t.co/LDwo4ZJI1K
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) December 4, 2023
[Chapter I news is HERE, Oct. 7 til today]
You don’t get it.
— George Deek (@GeorgeDeek) December 2, 2023
It’s not about an UNRWA teacher who held an Israeli kid hostage in his house.
It’s all about how for 75 years you have destroyed the future of generations of Palestinians, including my family.
My cousins in Arab countries are still not citizens - not even the… https://t.co/nv6anubGhc
Note 'Community Notes' attached to UNWRA's statement.
Imperialism for me but not for thee?
It's wild that Venezuela is now holding a vote on whether 2/3 of Guyana actually belongs to them! Analysts suggest that Modoru may want military action to pump up his sinking popularity.
Could we have a war in South America?!?
"The people who live in Essequibo are largely… pic.twitter.com/QvMEjkkgwy
The lack of a cohesive delegation has allowed attention-seeking lawmakers to act on their own.
McCarthy: “You have [Rep. Matt] Gaetz, who belongs in jail…”
Gaetz: “Tough words from a guy who sucker punches people in the back. The only assault I committed was against Kevin’s fragile ego.”https://t.co/LctPuz6Pcf
By Martinn Pengelly in Washington DC for TheGuardian.com, Nov. 30
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tells Ryan Grim life in Congress ‘completely transformed’ after Democratic leader stepped down
"Both the AU and the intl community place more weight on whether elections are held than whether they are free and fair. Sanctions/expulsions occur when there is a coup but not necessarily when elections are rigged or if an “institutional coup” occurs." https://t.co/m9dNimJP0D
— Cameron Hudson (@_hudsonc) November 28, 2023
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Comments
Wow. "these children are being tortured... murdered and eaten." The important question here is how are they cooked? I was hanging out with a couple of cannibals and one said, "I caught one of those black robed guys and he wasn't very tasty." "How did you cook him?" "I boiled him in a pot with some potatoes and vegetables." "Ah, that was your problem. He was a fry-er (friar)."
by ocean-kat on Sat, 04/06/2019 - 4:04pm
Quit asking so many questions. Forget the dead and eaten for now, we gotta save those still alive. If you would just sign the petition, the White House would get on it and the Marines forensics would figure it all out.
by artappraiser on Sat, 04/06/2019 - 6:52pm
How can people eat pizza in a time like this - no compassion for victims?
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 04/06/2019 - 11:19pm
Well if it's a traditional pizza it's probably ok. But then you'd have to only use the meat from Italian children.
by ocean-kat on Sun, 04/07/2019 - 12:21am
But Italy's down to <2 children per family - it's not like the old days when 1 or 2 wouldn't be missed - prosciutto in short supply.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 04/07/2019 - 1:09am
Conspiracy theorists keep their Ginsburg death claims alive
By Jacqueline Thomsen @ TheHill.com, April 6
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/07/2019 - 12:48am
It's so ridiculous. I found this picture of Ginsberg at work in her office. Alive and well.
by ocean-kat on Sun, 04/07/2019 - 1:26am
you so bad.
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/07/2019 - 1:30am
That's not fair - I found an old picture of her and she's aged pretty well:
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 04/07/2019 - 2:27am
by artappraiser on Sun, 05/05/2019 - 5:19pm
Last I heard she's on maternity leave - think she gets 3 months, though if like Europe, could get up to 2 years for 1st child.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 05/05/2019 - 5:40pm
this fits your theory: she has scheduled to shuffle off to Buffalo in August. Of course that could also all be part of the ruse.
Edit to add: whatever they are hiding, the Swedish minister of foreign affairs appears to be in on it.
by artappraiser on Sun, 05/05/2019 - 7:11pm
That's it - they're deciding where to extradite Assange first, Sweden or US.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 05/06/2019 - 3:17am
Meanwhile under the White House (which is not real but a hologram for Area 51) there are Japanese dogs, cats and baboons cooking rice....
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/07/2019 - 12:54am
American Chronicles: What’s New About Conspiracy Theories?
Outsiders have always had a weakness for paranoid fantasies. Now our leaders are conspiracists, too.
By Elizabeth Kolbert @ NewYorker.com, April 15
the piece continues at length including reviews and summaries of several other books on topic.
by artappraiser on Fri, 04/19/2019 - 4:37am
by artappraiser on Sun, 05/05/2019 - 5:12pm
This is actually a very interesting piece not just on an inspirational white supremacy wingnut conspiracy, but also the commonalities of "magical thinking" between recent anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim nut cases:
by artappraiser on Wed, 05/15/2019 - 1:52pm
Not sure what makes this a "wingnut conspiracy theory" - US liberals have been touting that magical moment when minorities replace obsolete white folk for 20 something years now, curiously equating "diverse" with "overwhelmingly Mexican", though that's extended to "plus Central American" the last few years. Never has been quite plain where blacks will come out in this equation, though Asians have largely fit in as "acceptable, but too smart", probably requiring some adjustment of school admissions. White women have a bit of an edge over white men, but there's a fair bit of "white bitches know what's going on and enable white men", kind of a woozy hugely extrapolated "Hillary dissed Bill's sluts" reasoning, but after all, we're talking conspiracy and unhinged thought.
So oops, white peeps didn't just roll into their graves/meander off into space/hand over the keys, and as the movie line goes, "I'm still here!" though when you try to kill a poltergeist and fail, things turn really ugly.
(white pipple also wonder about the logic that darker skinned immigrants will help America grow based on the skills they developed in Haiti, Venezuela, yes Somalia and other famed "shithole countries" if let in in large enough quantities. For those of us with some math and science training, "saturation", "diminishing returns", "overload" or the common phrase "killing the goose that lays the golden eggs" all come to mind. Never ever ever will you hear someone refer to "maximum carrying capacity" even as we ask white pipple to have fewer kids (which in case anyone's oblivious to it, we started several decades ago, leading to collapsing European population and a greatly diminishing US white population, while other societies watch the slow turn of the still growing bubble they caused 20 years ago (and parts of Africa still pumping it up), but I'm sure we can go kill ourselves if the pace isn't satisfactory).
Replacement? Yeah, it's happening. Fortunately some of the replacements are taking on the culture that produces and innovates.
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 07/23/2019 - 5:12am
Ebola is always good to turn to when you're low on inspiration and Ruth Bader Ginsburg turns up in the flesh spouting her own conspiracy ideas:
by artappraiser on Tue, 06/11/2019 - 8:47pm
Or Lucifer is always a safe bet:
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/12/2019 - 1:43am
And Soros is just as good as Lucifer, especially when you need to cover up the fact that conservatives are taking over the Judiciary:
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/12/2019 - 8:09pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 07/04/2019 - 6:44pm
heh heh Bezos drives him nuts:
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/23/2019 - 4:25am
by artappraiser on Thu, 08/01/2019 - 3:59pm
all fun and magical until the FBI labels you a terror threat, that is:
by artappraiser on Thu, 08/01/2019 - 4:14pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 08/09/2019 - 8:23am
Whoa, the devil be tweaking on high-energy drinks!!!
Hope no one gives him* an assault rifle, not that he doesn't have the right to carry one.
*how come some rush to label God as she, but I've never seen a big hurry to make Satan a woman. Ok, Beelzebub doesn't sound very feminine in any language, but just sayin'...
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 08/09/2019 - 10:13am
I was raised in the church. Not fundamentalism, just main stream Luthern, but I know the bible. I studied it Sunday school and Confirmation classes and on my own I read the whole thing a few times. If I still believed in that bullshit I could easily make a very good case that Falwell, Pat Robertson, Trump, most of the leaders of the Christian movement are all tools of the anti-Christ. Just start with the end times prophecy Matthew 24:24.
For false messiahs and false prophets will rise up and perform great signs and wonders so as to deceive, if possible, even God’s chosen ones.
What I always find so amusing is when liberals choose a quote from the bible, even atheist liberals like me, it's almost always Matthew 25:31-46. When conservative Christians choose to quote is usually something from Leviticus. Something from the old testament instead of from the New Testament.
by ocean-kat on Fri, 08/09/2019 - 4:05pm
Something from the old testament instead of from the New Testament.
As in: not Christ-ian. Reading that shit too, you Lutherans were heretics, after all. None of your business looking at those old books without expert interpretation, especially as a kid, that's for priest and scholars. Jesus is the one you are sposed to be listening to.
by artappraiser on Fri, 08/09/2019 - 8:51pm
Yeah, but the purty durty pieces are all in the O.T.
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 08/09/2019 - 9:21pm
The conservative Christians justify their obsession with the Old Testament law and then, just the few Old Testament laws they picked to enforce, with one quote from the New Testament.
17“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. 19Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
by ocean-kat on Fri, 08/09/2019 - 9:39pm
going for the prize, Best in Epstein:
by artappraiser on Tue, 08/13/2019 - 12:19am
by artappraiser on Sun, 08/18/2019 - 4:32am
The everybody is eventually related to everybody method:
by artappraiser on Sun, 08/18/2019 - 4:41am
and this guy is waaay ahead of him:
by artappraiser on Sun, 08/18/2019 - 4:43am
At least not Henry Lee
https://www.thedailybeast.com/henry-lee-how-many-murder-cases-did-the-ce...
Or maybe equivalent? Baden office "extremely sloppy":
https://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/17/nyregion/morgenthau-testifies-in-tria...
https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/michael-brown-shooting/who-dr-michael-...
And then for some asphyxiation-related testimony:
https://vtdigger.org/2016/09/25/medical-examiner-recants-testimony-alleg...
And during the Derek Medina trial, Baden asserted that the wife victim was standing (presumably hitting her husband?) while being shot, whereas the prosecution had prevented graphic reconstruction showing the wife cowering/kneeling when her husband began shooting after which he posted photos of her rivited body to Facebook. Medina was convicted & life sentence upheld. Sorry, Michael.
I'm so sure some professional will put this Epstein confusion to rest.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 08/18/2019 - 7:27am
when even Trump rally planners don't want to be associated with you:
by artappraiser on Sun, 08/18/2019 - 7:46pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 12/12/2019 - 12:15am