MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
The OPCW has opened the door to ridicule, when the simple truth would have been enough
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For anyone interested in the details go here. There is much more in the archive, including this which is worth 15 minutes, IMO.
by A Guy Called LULU on Fri, 05/22/2020 - 5:24pm
https://al-bab.com/blog/2020/01/douma-chemical-weapons-investigation-and...
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/mena/2020/01/17/the-opcw-douma-leaks-par...
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 05/22/2020 - 6:02pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvoh5jZJshk
by A Guy Called LULU on Fri, 05/22/2020 - 7:06pm
I admit I didn't watch more than the intro. to the video. But curious about your recommendation--I know I don't usually like to waste time on what you recommend, I'll fully admit to that unashamedly after wasting too much time over the years with what you recommend an arguing about it to no good effect except debate games--but this one was new. So I saw the name "Bellingcat". I had a window open on NYTimes, I typed it in there and got this recent fairly lengthy article on Bellingcat and their rep and their work, mostly quite positive and even complimentary, including this excerpt late in the article on Douma:
from These Reporters Rely on Public Data, Rather Than Secret Sources by Marc Tracey, Dec. 1, 2019
by artappraiser on Fri, 05/22/2020 - 7:34pm
p.s. the underlined are all embedded links in the NYTimes article. With the NYT, they no longer automatically paste as live links on Dag. I often spend the time for others who don't have subscriptions pasting them in, but this time I decided to to pass on that. Because in context of everything going on in the world right now, I really honestly don't care. I have a subscription, you can too. Or not.
by artappraiser on Fri, 05/22/2020 - 7:44pm
Give me an example of a link that doesn't turn into url and I'll debug.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 05/23/2020 - 1:06am
It's virtually ALL pastes from NYT articles now, ALL embedded links virtually NEVER transfer whenever I paste from them. This has been going on for many months, they changed their code or whatever, it's no longer simpatico with pasting here.
I don't think you can fix without spending as much time as I do.
When you see me paste an excerpt from NYT and it has embedded links in it here that work, it's only because I've manually re-entered them. (By right click on the NYT page to get their embedded link url and then highlighting the dead pasted link here and using the link icon here to edit the link back in.)
Is time consuming and I didn't feel like doing it this time because I didn't want to be dragged into an umpeenth discussion about what I consider ancient history anyways.
Doesn't happen with others like WaPo or CNN etc. nearly everyone else, the embedded links still transfer with a paste. NYTimes changed something so that doesn't work here any longer. Used to but no longer, they paste dead.
by artappraiser on Sat, 05/23/2020 - 1:48am
NYT Sample, cut-and-paste on Windows:
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At issue is an April 7, 2018, attack on Douma, Syria. Bellingcat reported, based on an analysis of six open-source videos, that it was “highly likely” that Douma civilians had died because of chemical weapons. In March, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons reported that there were “reasonable grounds” to say that chemical weapons had been used in the attack.
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with Android, when I go to paste, there are 2 options, one that preserves html/links, the other that's "Paste as Text" which obviously removes embedded links.
How are you handling this? (we can take this to email)
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 05/23/2020 - 2:54am
p.s. to my previous comment to PP. Every link in the above quoted text is dead because I just pasted it direct from NYTimes without editing the links back in that correspond to the underlined phrases. Every underlined phrase above is a live link on the NYTimes page I copied it from.
by artappraiser on Sat, 05/23/2020 - 1:52am