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Summary: Here are a few of today's big stories that have gotten too little attention. At the end are suggestions about places to find interesting or useful insights not found in the mainstream news.
https://fabiusmaximus.com/…/some-big-stories-undercovered-…/
Summary: With free speech under attack on many fronts by the Left, the ACLU stands almost alone on the Left defending one of the core precepts of a liberal social order. Here is a powerful essay by the ACLU's National Legal Director. "Why We Must Still Defend Free Speech" By David Cole The New York Review of Books… [ 2,627 more words ]
http://fabiusmaximus.com/…/aclu-defends-free-speech-from-a…/
Democrats focus on identity politics & the transgendered while cheering Antifa. Republicans win elections.
http://dailysignal.com/…/conservative-surge-puts-gop-contr…/
Washington is now run by the "Winningest President and the Losingest Generals" as the civilian members of Team Trump all crash & burn (except for his family, inexperienced & incompetent).
http://www.tomdispatch.com/…/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_the_…/
California's Senate addresses one of the State's key problem: voting to punish pronoun crime. Use the wrong pronoun for a protected class of people and you get time in jail (adding to CA's overflowing prisons).
http://dailysignal.com/…/california-lawmakers-want-force-d…/
SOP for US journalists: they conceal that North Korea is reacting to the massive simulated invasion of NK by US, Japan, & SK conducted nearby.
"Imagine if Russia engaged in a similar operation over the border in Mexico while the Russian fleet conducted “live fire” drills three miles outside of San Francisco Bay. What do you think Trump’s reaction would be?"
https://www.counterpunch.org/…/what-the-media-isnt-telling…/
Corporations are explicit about advocacy for open borders (& ample cheap labor):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/…/how-big-business-is-tryin…/
A wonderfully clear statement from a leader of the Left showing why they lose: loves tribalism, ignores economic class.
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/…/joy-reids-politics-tribal…
The World Turned Upside Down: mad US belligerence while Putin speaks sensible words urging a rational response.
“Russia condemns North Korea’s exercises, we consider that they are a provocation ... (But) ramping up military hysteria will lead to nothing good. It could lead to a global catastrophe. …There’s no other path apart from a peaceful one.”
http://www.reuters.com/…/putin-calls-tougher-north-korea-sa…
Almost forgotten wisdom: why Madison believed free speech was essential to the Republic's survival:
http://www.nationalreview.com/…/james-madison-free-speech-r…
See the giant improvement over past the past 4 days in Trump's approval/disapproval ratings. What caused this? The graph shows a 3 day moving average, with the past 2 points moving in his favor.
http://www.gallup.com/…/gallup-daily-trump-job-approval.aspx
The inflection point has passed for Antifa's violence. Even Berkeley's mayor condemns them.
CBS News 5 KPIX: "A large number of masked Antifa activists were seen jumping the barriers at a largely peaceful demonstration in Berkeley’s Martin Luther King Civic Center Park on Sunday. Some began attacking Trump supporters at the rally. …KPIX 5 news crews observed that most of the conservative demonstrators in the park were Trump supporters who repeatedly denounced Nazis and racist...s." …{Jesse Arreguin, Berkeley' mayor, spoke about} the black-clad activists who showed up in force and took over both the protests and the park." Mayor's remarks:
“I think we should classify them as a gang. They come dressed in uniforms. They have weapons, almost like a militia and I think we need to think about that in terms of our law enforcement approach. … I think we are going to have to think ‘big picture’ about what is the strategy for how we are going to deal with these violent elements on the left as well. …We also need to hold accountable and encourage people not to associate with these extremists because it empowers them and gives them cover.”
CBS also noted two other statements by the major that in effect supported Antifa's violence. "And while it didn’t look good, the mayor also praised Berkeley police for holding back and ceding the park to the anarchists when the group jumped the barriers. …the mayor also called on UC Berkeley to call off next month’s Free Speech Week featuring Milo Yiannopoulos."
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/…/berkeley-mayor-classify…/
The Intercept defends Antifa's violence with a classic "the victim deserved it" story, so common in rape cases. Political violence exposes people's true values and allegiances. So often, law isn't on the list.
https://theintercept.com/…/antifa-violence-gives-far-right…/
Summary: We regard a prosperous middle class as our just due. In fact generations of union activists played a larger role in creating it. It existed for only a few generations, and survived the crushing of unions by a few decades. On Labor Day let's remember the lost history of the union movement, and learn from it -- to do better in the future.
http://fabiusmaximus.com/…/remember-the-union-workers-who-…/
Now North Korea claims to have the dreaded EMP weapon. Let's debunk the hysteria about #EMP, again.
https://fabiusmaximus.com/…/05/emp-weapon-threat-fear-83908/
Summary: We have entered the "Crazy Years", as predicted long ago by science fiction author Robert Heinlein. Our lives are like scenes in Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451." These echoes from history help us break through the myopia of our daily routine to see how America has changed -- and see where we are going.
http://fabiusmaximus.com/…/we-are-living-dystopia-of-heinl…/
Today's history lesson in mission command: remembering 15 years of optimistic briefings about our war in Afghanistan.
Do we have a learning Army? Should this include in our endless victory parade our intervention ("Charlie Wilson's War) which replaced a secular regime with the a fundamentalist Islamic regime? Lots of material in this article, much of which we deal with by amnesia.
http://www.pogo.org/…/milita…/2017/afghanistan-and-eggs.html
State Capitalism at work: US government-funded research produces massive profits for big pharma & high prices for drugs.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/novartis-charge-475000-ca…/
