Media fails to properly frame everything going on in the middle east, especially Syria. Here’s whats going on in Idlib
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Oh Sure. Russia Supports Sanders Now.
What percentage of American idiots are still buying this crap? This morning it was Trump again, now Sanders.
How much are the Russians paying me to not notice that Buttigieg is the one they are really afraid of?!
Judge Says Conditions at U.S. Border Holding Cells Violated the Constitution
A federal judge in Arizona has ruled that conditions at U.S. border holding cells operated by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency violated the Constitution.
In a case first launched in 2015 over conditions at Tucson sector holding facilities, U.S. District Judge David Bury said on Wednesday that the conditions migrants and asylum seekers have had to face under CBP custody have been “substantially worse than detainees face upon commitment to either a civil immigration detention facility or even a criminal detention facility, like a jail or prison.”
“The Court finds that the conditions of detention in CBP holding cells, especially those that preclude sleep over several nights, are presumptively punitive and violate the Constitution,” he said
The court, Bury noted, heard how plaintiffs complained of overcrowding, with cold, hard concrete floors and bench surfaces, cold temperatures, no blankets or mats and unsanitary cell conditions, precluding sleeping.
It also heard that cell conditions were unsanitary, with a lack of waste receptacles, “insufficient housekeeping,” a lack of personal hygiene products and shower facilities, as well as insufficient access to food and water.
Bury also said the court was concerned about the lack of a universal medical questionnaire designed by medical professionals, particularly since medical screenings were being “performed by agents without any medical training.”
No, see, but it’s the immigrants who are the barbarians.
The Brief Case Against Democratic Socialism – Deirdre McCloskey
Imagine saying, “You Ma’m have benefited from the achievements of the Catholic Church. Therefore, the Catholic Church has the right to force you to fund it, force your children to attend Sunday mass, and cage you for not following Church edicts. Without the Catholic Church there would be no Commandments, and without those we would have chaos and no idea what right and wrong are. Do you thing we should believe in nothing and ‘regulate’ ourselves?”
Understanding this analogy is critical to defeating the statist mindset.
Since Democratic socialism is a growing part of statism, I ask author Deirdre McCloskey what her elevator pitch is against democratic socialism.
BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/video/yZuYoNraLiK3/
Archive: https://archive.org/details/thebriefcaseagainstdemocraticsocialismdeirdremccloskey
MEK Cultists Escape, Describe Their Imprisonment to the NYT
These are the people that Howard Dean, Ed Rendell, Rudy Giuliani, John Bolton and so many other corrupt, bribed war mongers want to put in power in Tehran:
Dozens of former members now live independently in Albania. I met 10 of them, who each described being brainwashed into a life of celibacy.
Inside the group, they said romantic relationships and sexual thoughts were banned, contact with family highly restricted, and friendships discouraged.
All recounted being forced to participate in self-criticism rituals, whereby members would confess to their commanders any sexual or disloyal thoughts they had.
“Little by little, you are broken,” said Abdulrahman Mohammadian, 60, who joined the group in 1988 and left in 2016. “You forget yourself and you change your personality. You only obey rules. You are not yourself. You are just a machine.”
Travis County DA Margaret Moore is a Monster
She is the worst criminal in central Texas. Just like all her predecessors.
They don’t mind putting innocent young women in prison for fake crimes of which they are completely innocent. And they don’t mind doing whatever it takes to keep them there long after their innocence has been proved.
Why? It’s because Moore, like the rest of them, is a terrible, horrible, self-interested person. Kamala Harris and Amy Klobechar both made it to the U.S. Senate and a major party presidential campaign on the backs of those innocents they’ve convicted. It’s the sure path to more power and influence. What’s some lowly illegal immigrant’s life compared to the chance at more power? To Moore, nothing, obviously.
Cops Kill Man
“Call the police!” he cried. But it was the police. They were there to murder him. And so they did.
Neocon John Hannah: “Please Explain This Concept ‘Shame.’ I Do not Understand.”
Iraq Needs Regime Change Again
The United States faces an increasingly urgent set of first-order policy questions in Iraq. Spoiler alert: The answer is not Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi, Iraq’s newly designated prime minister. A popular uprising might be.
Allawi’s recent nomination to be Iraq’s next leader is a dead end, for Iraq and the United States alike. He has no chance of resolving the two fundamental crises now plaguing the country: first, the collapse of legitimacy of Iraq’s post-2003 political class, and second, Iraq’s ever-expanding subjugation by Iran and its local Shiite Islamist proxies. The United States would be well advised to keep its distance from Allawi’s candidacy and instead focus its energies on supporting the extraordinary protest movement that has upended Iraq’s politics since late last year, and whose demands for sovereignty, independence, and clean government represent the last best hope for salvaging not just Iraq, but the future of U.S.-Iraqi relations as well.
It is hard to overstate the importance of the mass demonstrations that erupted in Baghdad on Oct. 1, 2019, and rapidly spread to every major city in southern Iraq. Dominated by young people (close to 60 percent of Iraq’s population is now under 25), the protesters are overwhelmingly Shiites—Iraq’s largest religious sect. But from the beginning, they have called for a complete overhaul of the Shiite-dominated regime that has ruled them since the fall of Saddam Hussein, charging it with being irredeemably corrupt, incompetent, and fatally infected by sectarianism, Islamism, and Iranian penetration.
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