It is impossible to comprehend what is now considered as news!
Submitted by humphrey on Tue, 02/15/2022 - 2:47amGet a load of this (being kind here) load of malarkey.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/15/ukraine-russia-nato-puti...
Diaries
Something Ain't Right
Submitted by Pluto's Republic on Mon, 02/14/2022 - 4:35pmPresident Biden Receives a Letter from Congress
Expressing Concerns about his Mental State and Urging him to Undergo a Medical Evaluation as Soon as Possible
After months of media and opposition accusations suggesting that former President Donald Trump was mentally unfit to hold the office of President of the United States, President Trump finally agreed to submit to a cognitive test. In 2018, the White House Physician
administered the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA) to President Trump. He handily passed the test.
Now, the same demands are being made of President Joe Biden. in a letter written by Texas Rep. Dr. Ronny Jackson, and signed by 37 of his Republican colleagues in Congress, Jackson warns that, "President Biden's mental decline and forgetfulness have become more apparent over the past two years." He urges the 79-year-old President to take a cognitive aptitude test (just as former President Trump did).
The good and bad from Latin America's recent shift towards the left
Submitted by gjohnsit on Mon, 02/14/2022 - 3:57pmLeft of Center candidates have scored huge victories in the past year, but things haven't changed very much so far. Keep in mind that many of these governments are very new, so they haven't been given much of a chance yet.
OTOH, there is a lot of work to do and little of that work has been done so far.
The Evening Blues - 2-14-22
Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 02/14/2022 - 2:54pm
I'm against both sides
Submitted by Cassiodorus on Mon, 02/14/2022 - 10:44amWhatever source you might have for political media, that source is probably asking you to "take one side or the other" in a current controversy. I'm against both sides of most of these controversies.
What both sides are implicitly saying is:
1) We can't have Medicare for All but we should promote (name your health policy).
The Dose 02-14-22
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 02/14/2022 - 5:00am
02/14 - Frederick Douglass Day
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 02/14/2022 - 5:00am
~~ Frederick Douglass
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It's time we faced this: The Crocodile of Wall Street
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sun, 02/13/2022 - 10:54pmThis is going to be painful, but it can no longer be ignored. So I suggest doing it fast, like ripping a bandage off.
I'm going to apologize in advance for some of the worst rap music ever created.
Israel finally got spanked
Submitted by snoopydawg on Sun, 02/13/2022 - 9:22pm“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum — even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.”
- Noam Chomsky
An interesting example of Google Bombing
Submitted by zed2 on Sun, 02/13/2022 - 8:34pmAs many know, 15-20 September 1986 was the week that a bunch of delegates convened in Punta Del Este, Uruguay, to kick off the Uruguay Round negotiation leading up to the creation of the WTO. This meeting concluded in a document called The Punta Del Este Declaration (which was actually the second Punte Del Este Declaration, I now know) on 20 September 1986.
