a PSA: chile is exploding with protestors!

Submitted by wendy davis on Sat, 10/26/2019 - 12:40pm

in fact, ruptly tv on twitter is showing mass protests in lebanon, iraq, barcelona...

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Submitted by apenultimate on Sat, 10/26/2019 - 2:51pm

At first I though Chile was exploding with prostate-specific antigens. But then I understood . . .

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Submitted by wendy davis on Sat, 10/26/2019 - 5:40pm
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@apenultimate

got a bit o' prostatitis on yer mind? by the by: what's an apenultimate (she wonders)?

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Submitted by apenultimate on Sat, 10/26/2019 - 11:50pm

@wendy davis

It's really a shortened version of "antepenultimate", which means "the one before the one before the last." Unfortunately, when I tried to claim that name on other websites, it was taken! But, "apenultimate" wasn't, so I went with that.

The term is sometimes used in linguistics. For example, let's say you have the word "Vladimir". The ultimate syllable would be "mir". The penultimate syllable would be the middle "i" (or maybe the "di"--not sure). The antepenultimate syllable would be "Vlad". The one before the one before the last.

I am the one before the one before the last. A very prestigious position if I do say so myself . . .

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Submitted by wendy davis on Sun, 10/27/2019 - 8:38am
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@apenultimate

ta for the explanation; wish i thought it would stick in my cranium. ; )

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Submitted by Alligator Ed on Tue, 10/29/2019 - 12:01am
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@wendy davis We at the Department of Medicine at the swamp-renowned Alligator University have announced phase 1 trials for "brain glue".

Take a drop or two,
and thoughts will stick to you.

F'rinstance, try our product and your brain will be saturated by "Orange Man Bad", to the exclusion of everything else. Oooops. maybe that's not a good selling-point.

However, this offer does remain open should you choose to get, shall we say, sticky.

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Submitted by wendy davis on Tue, 10/29/2019 - 7:39am
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@Alligator Ed

gimme dat thing, gimme dat thing...Orange Man the Worstest!

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEEy615Jzg4]

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Submitted by wendy davis on Sat, 10/26/2019 - 5:52pm
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(given that IMF moreno will likely restate the fuel taxes the indigenous fought so hard to get him to rescind):

and the Western Hegemon is gunnin' for socialist morales as they still are maduro.

sudan uprising, but i'm totally ignorant on that fight...

US and clients divide sudan into two, all the oil is in the north, isn't it? what could possibly go wrong? where's george clooney when they don't need him?

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Submitted by Granma on Sat, 10/26/2019 - 7:53pm
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And wonderful.

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Submitted by wendy davis on Sat, 10/26/2019 - 10:07pm
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@Granma

at such great costs: given the killed and wounded numbers. USians are so different, and it might be for several reasons, one being it's such a huge nation, and we've just been conditioned to accept our collective fates. i'm sure there are others as well. oh: save for #pink pussyhats resistances.

thanks for reading, caring, and commenting, granma.

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Submitted by on the cusp on Sat, 10/26/2019 - 8:08pm

The people are friendly. They are also very special, having had to live through and come to terms with Pinochet.
I hope none of them come to harm, even if they got out in the streets and were willing to be harmed.
Brave, righteous, go, Chileans!

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Submitted by wendy davis on Sat, 10/26/2019 - 10:15pm
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@on the cusp

having said how widely you've traveled, amiga, so i trust that you know whereof you speak. many of them have come to harm, and yet they resist; now ain't that grand? come to think of it, whitney webb mint press news lives in chile. she's busy on the twit machine w/ many other issues, but said this on oct. 23:

thanks, on the cusp (of what? an astrological sign?)

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Submitted by on the cusp on Sat, 10/26/2019 - 10:31pm

@wendy davis on the cusp.
Point man. Leading the charge.
First to push new ideas, try new things.

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Submitted by wendy davis on Sun, 10/27/2019 - 8:51am
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@on the cusp

for some reason i'd thunk of you as more of a Point Woman in that metaphor. but gender is hard to tell on the boards, isn't it?

well, chilean and catalonian independence protests are still going strong this a.m., as are so many others:

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Submitted by on the cusp on Sun, 10/27/2019 - 9:21am

@wendy davis "point woman", but it would fit me.
Any updates on Ecuador? I can't find anything more recent than 4 days ago.

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Submitted by wendy davis on Sun, 10/27/2019 - 9:34am
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@on the cusp

but with these two old firefoxes that support easy copy i need for cross-posting, ad block's been discontinued, and my machine is jumpin' and hiccupin' to beat the band. copy paste is even hard at telsur english and other 'foreign' sites.

i'll shut down, reboot later, and see what i can find. have you ever tried the Brave Brower that the duran recommends? i might try it; Opera sure sucks, and i'll delete it.

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Submitted by on the cusp on Sun, 10/27/2019 - 10:20am

@wendy davis I have the email address of my tour director, might just try to get an update from him.

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Submitted by wendy davis on Sun, 10/27/2019 - 11:14am
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@on the cusp

talk about Old Dogs/New Tricks. so far, so weird. but it ain't hoppin' about, and type strokes are 'taking'.

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Submitted by on the cusp on Sat, 10/26/2019 - 10:36pm

I have been to Chile.

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Submitted by wendy davis on Sun, 10/27/2019 - 8:58am
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(a brief compilation)

Uruguay, Colombia and Argentina have started the electoral prohibition period as voters are preparing for the elections of new leaders on Sunday.

Voters in Uruguay will decide whether to extend the center-left Broad Front party's popular presidential administrations to a fourth term or to turn power over to the conservative opposition.

The conservative opposition, the National Party, nominated Senator Luis Lacalle Pou as its presidential candidate. The Broad Front, led currently by incumbent President Tabaré Vázquez, inelegible to run again, nominated former Montevideo mayor Daniel Martinez.

Recent polls indicate the most likely outcome will see Martinez come in first place, but with a runoff on November 24 against Lacalle Pou expected.
In Argentina, the electoral prohibition period started on Friday at 8 p.m., local time, as announced by electoral authorities.

International and local media highlighted President Mauricio Macri's poor performance during the recent presidential debates.
Less than two weeks before the elections in Argentina, the presidential candidates held on Sunday the first public debate. This debate allowed citizens of Argentina to witness opposition candidate Alberto Fernandez's dominate performance against President Mauricio Macri.

ARGENTINA:
Capitalism Failed Argentina: Left-Wing Presidential Candidate
Both international and local media stressed that while leftist candidate Fernandez maintained clear positions on many issues, Macri tried to avoid defining his stance on sensitive policy issues.

According to the Spanish outlet El Pais, Fernandez "took a clear position on a matter as crucial and delicate as abortion, for he declared himself in favor of its legalization. Macri preferred not to pronounce himself."

Chile's most influential mainstream media El Mercurio stressed that Fernandez displayed how the current Argentinian president had failed the people, emphasizing that the middle class had been the most beaten during the last year in a country whose economy, unlike what the right-wing candidate holds, is not "about to start growing again."

colombian local and regional elections

The race has been marred by multiple setbacks, violent acts, attacks on political headquarters and murders of political leaders nominated for these public positions. Seven candidates were killed and more than 60 have been attacked in the lead up to the election.
Since the beginning of the electoral campaign on July 27 up until Sep. 16, political violence in Colombia has left 40 candidates threatened with death, two kidnapped candidates, five victims of attacks and seven candidates killed, according to the EOM, an independent platform of social organizations that promotes the exercise of civil and political rights.
The Ombudsman's Office warned that 36 percent of Colombian municipalities are at electoral risk because of the presence of illegal armed groups, which is why the country has decreed an early warning of ‘Electoral Risk’.

Following the violence, various political organizations and human rights defenders issued complaints and urged the Government of President Ivan Duque to work to protect and safeguard the physical and psychological integrity of the electoral candidates.

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Submitted by wendy davis on Sun, 10/27/2019 - 9:23am
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'He Never Burns Bridges': The Alberto-Cristina Recipe Challenging Macri's Neoliberalism, oct. 24


(Presidential candidate Alberto Fernandez and running mate Cristina Fernandez in Santa Rosa, Argentina Oct. 17, 2019)

"If you want, Macri is out" is the phrase that Argentineans shout and dance as they get ready to participate on the Oct. 27 elections.

Alberto Fernandez has the ability to “decide, organize, agree and seek the broadest possible government,” said Argentina's former president Cristina Fernandez-Kirchner (CFK) as she announced him as presidential candidate for the Front for All coalition.

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Submitted by pswaterspirit on Sun, 10/27/2019 - 4:32pm
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I am not sure if it's that or if it that we have no history of having to. Most countries have something in their past that has had to be overthrown from office, a brutal dictator, a nazi. They have stories of those times and of how their predecessors succeeded or failed. We have had protests about issues but never to the extent of blood flowing in the streets like many of these places. I always suggest taking a trip to Guanajuato, Mexico a ground zero for the Mexican revolution. Visit the armory and gaze at the giant meat hooks where the Mexican government hung the bodies of the heros of the resistance for a couple of months and imagine it happening here. We will be bushwacking a new trail should we collectively decide we need to go down this path. My experience in Mexico taught me that most people here are incredibly naive about the corruption in our government.

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Submitted by wendy davis on Sun, 10/27/2019 - 6:06pm
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@pswaterspirit

on the 'why nots' of it, my friend. but the answer i'd like to give would be an epistle, and i haven't the time (RL obligations, computer problems, etc.). as to this:

I am not sure if it's that or if it that we have no history of having to

i'd say rather the perception of not having to, but no, i hadn't meant that any of us who protested en masse would likely preconceive of the notion that blood would flow. but if one looks closely at the epic numbers of homeless i amerika, those with zero access to health care, even in emergencies, those killed by police with almost total impunity (esp. people of color), the epic numbers of us with zero wealth post-2008 meltdown w/no recovery for most, the actual jobless rates (3-part-time to make a barely living wage w/ no benefits whatsoever, the trillions of outstanding 'consumer' debt, and the all-but-disappeared social safety nets...the ever-burgeoning wealth inequality (gini co-efficient isn't quaintly called?), well the list could go on.

and yet, every four years the vast majority of amerikans takes part in the quadrennial electoral circus of a pretend democracy endeavor, knowing knowing knowing...that their chosen candidate for President will reverse it all. Hope and Change, it's what we collectively do, and things just go from bad to worse, and another meltdowns on the way.

while i do take your suggestion to heart:

I always suggest taking a trip to Guanajuato, Mexico a ground zero for the Mexican revolution

...not all insurrections lie in such dramatic underpinnings, imo. i'm not sure which or what sort of large issues protests in amerika you're pinging (XR?), but in general we are as complacent a people as i can imagine. gotta scoot, and thank you pswaterspirit; pleased to meet you.

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