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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

[josh]

Order restored in Hong Kong

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/13/asia/hong-kong-violence-umbrella-intl-hnk/index.html

Temporarily.

As I was saying:
https://www.cnn.com/asia/live-news/hong-kong-protests-june-16-intl-hnk/index.html

Close to 2 million people descended on Hong Kong's streets on Sunday, Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF), the organizers of the protests, estimate.

According to CHRF, those numbers are unprecedented. Police estimated that the 338,000 people followed the protest's original route.

In a statement released by the group Sunday night, CHRF said demonstrations will continue until the government withdraws the extradition bill in its entirety, releases arrested protesters and withdraws all charges, retracts the characterization of the protests as a "riot" and forces Chief Executive Carrie Lam to resign.

"Should the government refuse to respond, only more Hong Kongers will strike tomorrow," CHRF said.

Just a bit of difference between those two numbers. Of course, neither group has a motive for causing the numbers to be higher or lower. But the photos are quite impressive.

[josh]

Wow! 55 million and more were without power. Five countries impacted.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/16/world/power-outage-argentina-uruguay-paraguay/index.html

[josh]

I think the Trump administration has it right on this one:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-06-13/the-u-s-is-purging-chinese-americans-from-top-cancer-research

[oilcan]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/oil-tanker-gulf-of-oman-iran-explosion-trump-administration_n_5d0415c3e4b0dc17ef09f629?utm_source=main_fb&utm_campaign=hp_fb_pages&utm_medium=facebook&ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063&section=politics&fbclid=IwAR0QGQ-8F0iPA1CB_8pGNOTgvtLEv5sbXlZCgqzlIGjERlcmi1kK4xmAMGY

Mine? What mine?

Not that missiles are not still a problem.

What does it tell us that the American public have yet to see one shred of credible evidence that Iran directed these latest attacks?   Pompeo and Bolt-head are enemies of truth and reason, like so many in the Washington cesspool.

In the words of Roman Senator and historian Tacitus:

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.   

[kiidcarter8]

Happy Father's Day, one and all.

Take time to breathe.

[kiidcarter8]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/oil-tanker-gulf-of-oman-iran-explosion-trump-administration_n_5d0415c3e4b0dc17ef09f629?utm_source=main_fb&utm_campaign=hp_fb_pages&utm_medium=facebook&ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063&section=politics&fbclid=IwAR0QGQ-8F0iPA1CB_8pGNOTgvtLEv5sbXlZCgqzlIGjERlcmi1kK4xmAMGY

Mine? What mine?

Not that missiles are not still a problem.

What does it tell us that the American public have yet to see one shred of credible evidence that Iran directed these latest attacks?   Pompeo and Bolt-head are enemies of truth and reason, like so many in the Washington cesspool.

In the words of Roman Senator and historian Tacitus:

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.   

Says that divulging evidence to the public is not high priority

Just a guess

[pfkawhiskeypriest]

What does PFKA stand for? 

Please French Kiss Anteaters?

Peruvians Fuck eat KeenwA.

Or Poster Formerly Known As. It seems Josh's jihad against spam bots has claimed an unintended vicitim.

[josh]

https://www.apnews.com/259d11069cbd4a34be9b4e7a187352da

US opens new mass facility in Texas for migrant children

“All the new facilities will be considered temporary emergency shelters, so they won’t be subject to state child welfare licensing requirements.”

What could possibly go wrong?

And why would anybody suspect them of ulterior motives not in the children's best interests?!

[barton]

Happy Father's Day, one and all.

Take time to breathe.

And shit.   Two words for you fellahs in "late middle age":   chia seeds.

As for keenwa, I wish it could have stayed in Peru.   I won't even say what a quinoa seed looks like after it's cooked.   (sideshow Bob shudder) 

[barton]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/oil-tanker-gulf-of-oman-iran-explosion-trump-administration_n_5d0415c3e4b0dc17ef09f629?utm_source=main_fb&utm_campaign=hp_fb_pages&utm_medium=facebook&ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063&section=politics&fbclid=IwAR0QGQ-8F0iPA1CB_8pGNOTgvtLEv5sbXlZCgqzlIGjERlcmi1kK4xmAMGY

Mine? What mine?

Not that missiles are not still a problem.

What does it tell us that the American public have yet to see one shred of credible evidence that Iran directed these latest attacks?   Pompeo and Bolt-head are enemies of truth and reason, like so many in the Washington cesspool.

In the words of Roman Senator and historian Tacitus:

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.   

Says that divulging evidence to the public is not high priority

Just a guess

Didn't Trump say something in a speech about "transparency"? 

Not that His Transparency has ever read Tacitus or could tell you who he was.

[josh]

https://www.facebook.com/NowThisPolitics/videos/334165350813577/

Colonel Larry Wilkerson discussing the Trumpian efforts to set Iran up for a war, using the same techniques he helped with for Iraq.

[barton]

Nice clear exposition of how history repeats itself.

United States of Amnesia, indeed.

[oilcan]

Sen. Cotton will be cheering the amnesiacs onward.

Post picks on Cotton....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/06/16/danger-tom-cotton/

BTW, kudos to Japan and Germany for maintenance of some skepticism regarding the grainy and ambiguous video purported to be Iranians removing a limpet mine.  Why are more officials not shouting the obvious question:  why do all the eyewitnesses on the tanker report a projectile attack, not a mine?? 

Cotton's "two strikes and we're done" idiocy makes even John Bolton look relatively sane.

[LarryBnDC]

I’m just gonna leave this right here...

https://www.wwnytv.com/2019/06/14/arrested-largest-welfare-fraud-sweep-st-lawrence-county-history/

MAGA

[barton]

I’m just gonna leave this right here...

https://www.wwnytv.com/2019/06/14/arrested-largest-welfare-fraud-sweep-st-lawrence-county-history/

MAGA

I'm just gonna leave this nearby....

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/readers/2016/05/26/how-much-does-welfare-cost-average-taxpayer/84917512/

n 2012, the average American taxpayer making $50,000 per year paid just $36 towards the food stamps program and about $6 per year for the rest of the social safety net programs. Republicans say this is too much — cut it!

Corporate welfare, however, costs the average American family a staggering $6,000 a year in subsidies to Republican-friendly big business. The bottom-line is that American families are paying $6,000 or more per year to subsidize giant transnational corporations that are already making billions in profit. In the past decade alone, corporations have doubled their profits on our buck.