Police are clearly targeting journalists everywhere
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sat, 06/06/2020 - 9:27pmThis has got to be a new low for our police state.
Marijuana is a weapon for the Fascists
Submitted by bondibox on Sat, 06/06/2020 - 5:55pmIn 2017, an 18 year old girl and 2 friends were at a Coney Island park in Brooklyn. A police search revealed marijuana and klonopin. The driver was arrested, taken away, raped by the two officers then released. The cops got 5 years probation.
Police officers should be educated professionals
Submitted by ScienceTeacher on Sat, 06/06/2020 - 3:18pmIt is ridiculous to give guns to people who are not required to have professional education in their field. Teachers are not allowed to rough up students, and certainly not to shoot the kids. (Anyway teaching attracts people who want to protect the kids.) Law enforcement types who are given guns and allowed to used violence should have at least as much training as teachers.
Today's Jam: 06/06/2020
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Sat, 06/06/2020 - 1:30pm
The white Queen infamously told Alice "The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday – but never jam to-day."
So here's a Jam from yestidday.
Welcome to Saturday ...
Submitted by smiley7 on Sat, 06/06/2020 - 6:29am
“The function of freedom is to free someone else.” ~ Toni Morrison
Since it's Friday evening
Submitted by QMS on Fri, 06/05/2020 - 7:54pmHave any pictures to share?
Whitewashing the Civil Rights Movement
Submitted by gjohnsit on Fri, 06/05/2020 - 4:35pmVery gradually the history of the Civil Rights Movement has been Disneyfied, stripped of its rough edges.
The new retelling of the Civil Rights Movement has the blacks politely asking for their rights, and eventually wearing down white America through moral persistence. Any and all violence that happened at the time is viewed outside of the Civil Rights Movement and was detrimental to it.
This is all bull.
The Evening Blues - 6-5-20
Submitted by joe shikspack on Fri, 06/05/2020 - 4:01pm
The official unemployment rate is a lie. Again!
Submitted by gjohnsit on Fri, 06/05/2020 - 1:51pmThe markets are soaring and Trump is crowing, all because of an employment report that the Bureau of Labor Statistics openly admits in the report that it's hopelessly flawed.
Open Thread Friday 6-5-2020
Submitted by studentofearth on Fri, 06/05/2020 - 5:44amA Look at China Part Seven
My intent in the series was to provide basic knowledge to start understanding China and our ongoing relationship with Chinese governments and its people. The story did not begin with the opening of China by Nixon and will not end in our times. Military leaders, policy makers and intelligence services have deep sources of knowledge on China. Most politicians appear to have the same misconceptions as the general public about mysterious China and try to describe China in sound bites.
Maochun Yu, historian teaching at Annapolis provides the best description I have read or heard on Chinese Studies in the United States during a 2015 panel discussion.
(full video 100 min. section on China Studies 38.07 to 40.55)
[video:https://youtu.be/8HA1MPaqPSs?t=2287]
