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By Judith Durbin via vocativ.com 5/20
Syrian rebels under siege in a strategic city on the Lebanese border are increasingly turning to social media to wage psychological warfare, according to Vocativ analysts monitoring the region.
The town of Al Qusayr has become ground zero in the war between rebel fighters on the one side and the joint forces of President Bashar Al Assad and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah on the other. Some of the most intense fighting has taken place there over the last few days. The New York Times reports both sides consider this battle a turning point in the larger civil war that has been raging for more than two years.
With so...
A collection of links and comments dealing with government spying and intimidation of journalists
By Juan Nagel, Transitions blog @ ForeignPolicy.com, May 16, 2013
[....] The consensus is that Venezuela needs high oil prices just to stay afloat. But if the fracking oil boom results in low oil prices, what does the future hold for the South American country?
Sadly, Venezuelans have nothing else to fall back on. Its private industry is a shambles, and the country is even importing toilet paper. Years of populism have left the state crippled and heavily in debt. The public deficit...
By Aidan Foster-Carter, ForeignPolicy.com Op-Ed, May 20, 2013
[....] Pyongyang's faux rage at Security Council Resolutions 2087 of Jan. 22, and 2095 of March 7, which condemned its rocket launch and nuclear test respectively, recycled similar ludicrous canards it hurled at similar resolutions in 2006 and 2009, calling the Security Council, a "marionette of the U.S." A U.S. plot, and puppet? Hardly: Every resolution has been unanimous. China and Russia water down the wording, but they're on board. It's North Korea versus the world.
And that's just the way they like it. Some believe that all their banging and shouting is just a...
Oh that was kind of fun.
I caught part of some libertarian debate on CSPAN recently.
They want to not just cut taxes but get rid of all taxes.
I assume just on the Federal level but I also assume they would back Governor Walker all the way!
I know this much. The alien did not get here on his own. So he must be employed by some corporate organization.
And corporations dictate all the rules to their employees without much protection under the Bill of Rights.
It's humorous, and definitely underscores a lot of confusion that people have about exactly what government does. However, it seems that there is an implied "solution" of eliminating government altogether. What the human doesn't adequately explain is that societies beyond a certain critical mass are incapable of not having a government, even if that government is chaotic. In fact, underneath our "regular" government, you often find secondary "governments" organized by gang leaders, mob bosses, CEOs, etc.