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What do you expect on Wednesday?

Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.
- 5 (45.5%)
A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.
- 5 (45.5%)
A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.
- 0 (0%)
More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.
- 0 (0%)
A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.
- 1 (9.1%)
More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.
- 0 (0%)
DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.
- 0 (0%)
Huge disruption to the day.
- 0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM


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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #11415 on: March 17, 2019, 12:37:13 AM »

This is a nice breakdown of how Bambu’s culture has completely fucked his poor fragile head.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/17/australians-are-asking-how-did-we-get-here-well-islamophobia-is-practically-enshrined-as-public-policy

Oh dear. [At least he's put his name to it]

A nice breakdown...at least it's written in plain English.

Islamophobia is not "practically enshrined as public policy"...nothing could be further from the truth.
The direct opposite is true.



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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #11416 on: March 17, 2019, 01:12:17 AM »

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/17/australians-are-asking-how-did-we-get-here-well-islamophobia-is-practically-enshrined-as-public-policy

The silver fern symbol of New Zealand is projected on to the sails of the Sydney Opera House on Saturday. Australia has indulged in a ‘decades-long drumbeat of xenophobia and Muslim-hate, which has issued from some of the most powerful institutions in the country’. Photograph: Paul Braven/AP

In the period of the country’s enthusiastic participation in the War on Terror, Islam and Muslims have frequently been treated as public enemies, and hate speech against them has inexorably been normalised.


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Try "reluctant but necessary participation in the War on Terror".

In NYC 9/11, Aussie PM Howard, seeing and smelling first-hand the attacks on America, invoked the ANZUS Alliance, and as such Australia joined the Coalition Of the Willing.

The Head of State of Australia is Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom.
After 9/11, Americans were in London as their homeland was burning.
She had her band play their national anthem at the palace gates.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwrX-LN9-L0

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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #11417 on: March 17, 2019, 02:25:50 AM »

Second, the 9/11 attacks drew Australia into the War on Terror in support of its closest ally, and geopolitical sponsor, the United States.

Australian troops spent long periods in Afghanistan and Iraq, fighting and killing Muslims in their own countries. The consequences of this endless war have included the targeting of Australians in Jihadi terror attacks and plots, both at home and abroad.


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'Jihadi'?
That's like...like, er 'Muslims'?

Yes, true, attacks and plots at home seem to be never-ending...with a conga line of Muslims convicted and jailed.
Hardly conducive to making 'Muslims' tops in the popularity stakes.

On 2 October 2015, Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar, a 15-year-old boy, shot and killed Curtis Cheng, an unarmed police civilian finance worker, outside the New South Wales Police Force headquarters in Parramatta, Australia. Jabar was subsequently shot and killed by special constables who were protecting the headquarters.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-19/curtis-cheng-accused-guilty-plea-terrorist-act/8542490

A 19-year-old man who planned a plot that led to the 2015 death of Sydney police accountant Curtis Cheng pleads guilty to committing a terrorist act.
Mr Cheng, 59, was shot at close range in the back of the head as he was leaving work at the NSW Police Headquarters in Parramatta on October 2 that year.

Raban Alou is one of four men accused of helping radicalised 15-year-old Farhad Mohammad carry out the fatal attack.
Alou has now admitted to allegations that he planned the shooting, recruited Farhad and supplied him with the .38 Smith and Wesson revolver used to kill Mr Cheng.

'Their blood is halal,' Alou allegedly told undercover police

A committal hearing in Sydney was earlier shown a transcript of a conversation, in which Alou allegedly justified Mr Cheng's death, after the shooting.
"It's permissible, allowed," he allegedly told the undercover officer.

"Their blood is halal [permissible]."






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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #11418 on: March 17, 2019, 02:51:56 AM »

This is a nice breakdown of how Bambu’s culture has completely fucked his poor fragile head.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/17/australians-are-asking-how-did-we-get-here-well-islamophobia-is-practically-enshrined-as-public-policy

This is the environment in which Muslims, refugees and immigrants have come to be understood as enemies of Australia. It may be an environment that has nurtured white supremacist terror.

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And it might not be.

Australia resettles more refugees via the UN per capita besides Canada than any other country.

Legal immigrants?  they make their own choices...do good, get to stay. Do bad, it could be bye bye. 
Don't like the place?...free to leave anytime.
Not many seem to go back home, so it can't be too bad.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #11419 on: March 17, 2019, 04:29:15 AM »

I like how you broke segments out of the ariticle and then fully demonstrated how each element the author raised plays out pathologically in your own head.
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« Reply #11421 on: March 17, 2019, 05:34:12 AM »

I like how you broke segments out of the ariticle and then fully demonstrated how each element the author raised plays out pathologically in your own head.

Further...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-17/fraser-anning-egging-tackled-teenager-speaks-victoria-police/10909552

Teenager who egged Fraser Anning speaks of being 'tackled by 30 bogans'

The teenager who smashed an egg on the head of Queensland senator Fraser Anning has spoken of being "tackled by 30 bogans" as Victoria Police says it is investigating the actions of the senator and his supporters as well as those of the teenager.

Senator Anning struck the 17-year-old twice after the teenager broke an egg on his head while he spoke to media at a political meeting in Moorabbin, in Melbourne's south-east yesterday.

Footage of the incident shows several supporters of Senator Anning tackling the teenager to the ground and restraining him in a chokehold.
Video circulating on social media shows a man holding the teenager in a headlock while a man can be heard telling him: "You are nothing but a weak human f--king being, you prick."


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Well there you go.
And a lightning fast left jab/slap the first strike was too.

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A video of the teenager speaking after the incident has been posted to social media.

"Don't egg politicians," the teenager says in the video.
"You'll get tackled by 30 bogans at the same time. I learnt the hard way."


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It's called 'self-defence' and 'security'.
Here's an idea...don't egg anybody, you know...break the cycle of violence.
Doesn't look like that will happen though.

A fundraising page set up to collect donations to cover the teenager's legal fees and to buy "more eggs" had raised more than $25,000 by 4:00pm on Sunday.


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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #11422 on: March 17, 2019, 05:54:41 AM »

here's the video;

Try ...attacker with the egg was jumped on by 'two bogans' not 30.
Attacker hit the senator from behind.."coward's punch"...he should be charged with such a punch/hit under "coward punch" laws.
Senator was quite entitled to hit him back, self defence.
As attacker started to move forward again, the senator hit him again.
All good.
That's what you get when you go around assaulting people, they often hit you right back.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-16/fraser-anning-egged-in-melbourne-while-speaking-to-media/10908650

Fraser Anning punches teen after being egged while speaking to media in Melbourne





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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #11423 on: March 17, 2019, 08:42:28 AM »

https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg

Over a million kids. 2500 cities and towns.

"And we've only just begun."
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So, Bambi - consider this: what if the scientists (and the kids) are right about the threat posed by climate change?

Ah yes, 'what if'...I like 'what if', one of my favourites.

I assume you mean 'man-made climate change'...because any other kind we can do nothing about.

Yet, you manage to dodge even what you thought I meant.

So predictable.

But no, Bambi, whether man made or mostly natural, as your clueless radio host believes, we still need to respond to it.

Indeed, if it is all natural, then our responses to the circumstances have to be even more immediate and more extreme! It means that figuring out ways to save the hundreds of millions of lives right on the coasts has to happen even sooner.

But not to you - you can't even figure out that its being natural is a bigger problem.

You can tame thunderstorms?
We have 54,000 major bushfires [forest/scrub/grass] every year...look at all that fossil fuel burning. [which regrows and burns again in future fires].
Most started by lightning.
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No, jerk.

But you can make plans for the evacuation of those along the ocean shores, shore up and/or adjust dams so they are better prepared for previously unheard of or rare flooding, and set up better recovery systems for displaced persons. You can prepare more passive solar systems that are not dependent upon an electrical grid for areas that get cut off from power because of catastrophe that become more common, more powerful, or both. Lots of other intermediate steps to be taken to help humanity survive the increasing global temperatures and the attendant climate disruption - regardless of cause.

Or you can keep your head buried in the sand, like Bambu-ilk and his favorite radio-host, and pretend nothing can help with either global warming or other such things.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #11424 on: March 17, 2019, 08:43:24 AM »

This is a nice breakdown of how Bambu’s culture has completely fucked his poor fragile head.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/17/australians-are-asking-how-did-we-get-here-well-islamophobia-is-practically-enshrined-as-public-policy

Oh dear. [At least he's put his name to it]

A nice breakdown...at least it's written in plain English.

Islamophobia is not "practically enshrined as public policy"...nothing could be further from the truth.
The direct opposite is true.

Sez you.
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« Reply #11425 on: March 17, 2019, 08:46:37 AM »

This is a nice breakdown of how Bambu’s culture has completely fucked his poor fragile head.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/17/australians-are-asking-how-did-we-get-here-well-islamophobia-is-practically-enshrined-as-public-policy

This is the environment in which Muslims, refugees and immigrants have come to be understood as enemies of Australia. It may be an environment that has nurtured white supremacist terror.

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And it might not be.

Australia resettles more refugees via the UN per capita besides Canada than any other country.

I provided the stats on that already, Bambi.

You're full of shit.

Guess which country is not in the top 10.

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« Reply #11426 on: March 17, 2019, 09:56:04 AM »

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/03/16/703804493/egg-lovers-new-study-finds-eating-too-many-can-increase-risk-of-heart-disease

A propos of Bambi's egg attack news. 

This is weak science, since other correlations aren't carefully looked at.  e.g. did subjects mainly eat them fried?   Refined vegetable oils tend to oxidize with heat and that's also correlated with inflammatory diseases and vascular plaque formation.

There's good science behind Mel Brooks 2000 year old man saying he avoided fried foods! 
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #11427 on: March 17, 2019, 12:54:22 PM »

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« Reply #11428 on: March 17, 2019, 03:46:45 PM »

Earlier today the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES tweeted the following

“....must stay strong and fight back with vigor. Stop working soooo hard on being politically correct, which will only bring you down, and continue to fight for our Country. The losers all want what you have, don’t give it to them. Be strong & prosper, be weak & die! Stay true....”
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« Reply #11429 on: March 17, 2019, 04:50:48 PM »

In addition to eggs, crackers are also quite dangerous,

http://www.thedailybeast.com/new-zealand-shooting-its-time-to-attack-white-nationalism-for-the-terror-group-it-is?ref=home

And the very first step in that process is to quit making excuses or inventing euphemisms. The fight is not against conservatives, the right wing, the alt-right—it is against white nationalist terrorism and its apologists.

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Well that's nice to know, because it sure seems like it is.

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